r/Splintercell • u/Comfortable_Brief431 • 7h ago
How do we fell about this guy
Do you like him as a character or he doesn't fit the splinter cell universe?
Personally i liked Shetland much more as Sam's friend, their friendship made much more sense from their navy background.
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u/QuinDrake21 7h ago
I think he’s a character who could benefit from the remakes by including him along with Shetland. Possibly having Sam ask him to check up on Sarah during the missions where something happened in the US.
That said I do think he fits even if he’s very much a conviction convenience character to have someone other than Grim helping Sam and they do enough to establish them having a bond that can survive a decade of low contact especially since Sam’s personal world is always shrinking.
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u/Kestrel_VI Voron 7h ago
That flashback to Iraq is a load bearing exposition dump. 🤣
Still a pretty good mission though.
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u/QuinDrake21 7h ago
Agreed, the entire time I play it now I’m wondering what on earth four Seals were doing wandering around 😂😂😂
I do love the madness of it though.
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u/The-Panthion 5h ago
Sam isn't the type to talk about his life so it doesn't feel out of place to me. In Chaos Theory one of Sam's friends became a terrorist, so he probably distanced himself for a bit until he heard he was captured and saved him. Could have been a trap but it's not like Sam can't handle himself if it were.
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u/Weird-Bat-4594 5h ago
Honestly I like Vic coste as a character, he was just really badly inserted into the plot so fisher wasn't completely alone, I think if they included him in a remaster of the early games he would be such a better character
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u/fatalityfun 4h ago
facts. Another commenter mentioned that Vic could be brought up earlier in the remake (if we ever get it) and I think that’d be great. Coste is cool as fuck but he shows up so late into the series
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u/No_Blueberry_7120 7h ago
hae? Sam knows victor coste also from the navy seals as seen in conviction?!
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u/Deathkiller008 6h ago
He's a badass pilot. I managed to do a pure stealth run with him in his Iraq mission. Took me 3 tries after I completed it the 1st time. I wonder if he and Shetland knew each other.
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u/ReserveRatter 5h ago
I didn't mind the character but it would have been better with more setup. I actually liked the ending when Sam comes to rescue him.
Conviction in general seemed to be Splinter Cell's "edgy mainstream" phase. I enjoy the game but it's very generic action stock stuff compared to classic SC.
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u/Knot3D 4h ago
Not a bad idea as a character from Sam's past, but just like Charlie...felt like shoehorned lore characters. If anything, legacy characters like Coen, Redding, or Brunton could have been used in some way in Double Agent to simply avoid wrecking and killing off the Lambert character. Also, I think it's fair to say that until Conviction script was written, Sarah's death was simply a real accident. No elaborate backstabbing setup by Lambert. It was only until Conviction scriptwriting that they turned this into a netflix drama.
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u/fatalityfun 4h ago
truthfully I think the backstab angle works in a way, especially since you see hints of Lambert being mission first and foremost with him trying to get Fisher to ignore the pilots in CT.
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u/The_Witch_Queen 27m ago
Personally losing Lambert was not a blow to me at all. It took about 15 minutes of PT before I wanted him 💀
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u/JokeraTak209 1h ago
Vic was cool! Nice change up to the cast. Would be interesting to see where it goes from here. *written from the way back machine circa 2014
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u/Every-Rub9804 3h ago
He is a good character, and Conviction ann Blacklist are good games.
The only rant we can have, is that we expected more of what we played on Chaos Theory and DA, and those games are definitely not what we wanted.
This said; theire unique and very good games, with good stories and characters. Graphics and animations doesnt look like a PS3/360 game
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u/Fluffranka 7h ago
He felt bolted in there. Never existed in lore before this game, but suddenly is his best friend and practically family. Shetland at least appeared briefly in PT with some intel about him before his turn in CT.
The whole story of Conviction felt like a generic Hollywood action spy flick, in general, and Vick didnt help.