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Vortex808 24 Jul 2015 19:03:37 15,593 posts
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T'was one of my favourite games last gen.

In all seriousness too. Broken, but brilliant.

LittleSparra 24 Jul 2015 19:17:21 7,926 posts
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I'd probably agree, actually. I played it through several times. Enjoyed every one.

Pistol/stealth was brokenly powerful, but so much fun.

beastmaster 24 Jul 2015 19:18:29 22,373 posts
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Someone bumps this thread only to say it's shit? Pah!

Jono62 24 Jul 2015 19:36:22 27,356 posts
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It was thanks to Duff I played this game and I'm glad he recommended it to me. Loved it, bugs and all.

Deleted user 24 July 2015 20:00:33

What other game allowed you to give your character a huge bushy beard? Great game.

LittleSparra 24 Jul 2015 20:07:58 7,926 posts
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And then bang (or rather, be banged by) a middle-aged Russian dominatrix?!

Deleted user 24 July 2015 20:23:40

Eh...wrong forum guys.

Oh-Bollox 25 Jul 2015 01:43:28 6,513 posts
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LittleSparra wrote:
And then bang (or rather, be banged by) a middle-aged Russian dominatrix?!

Darkest part of the whole game. So wrong.

Vortex808 25 Jul 2015 01:48:55 15,593 posts
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Oh, but oh so right.

;-)

LittleSparra 25 Jul 2015 11:12:03 7,926 posts
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Oh-Bollox wrote:

LittleSparra wrote:
And then bang (or rather, be banged by) a middle-aged Russian dominatrix?!
Darkest part of the whole game. So wrong.

It was hilarious

StarchildHypocrethes 25 Jul 2015 12:06:50 33,974 posts
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Mike and Sean. FUCK YEAH!!

Vortex808 25 Jul 2015 13:18:58 15,593 posts
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GloatingSwine 25 Jul 2015 23:12:42 3,916 posts
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Alpha Protocol was a massive sufferer of Review Lies. eg. loads of reviews, especially video reviews, loved to show off how "bad" the pistols were, which is basically a big red flag saying "I didn't do the tutorial and expected this game to be Gears of War".

Sure, it had hell of rough edges, but I have this suspicion that most people who reviewed it badly when it came out were just too thick to play it properly.

HelloNo 26 Jul 2015 00:48:27 2,283 posts
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Haha maybe, or they didn't have time to get used to it, the weapons WERE a bit weird. I think it was after the middle-east mission where everything 'clicked' for me and I really started to enjoy it. Until the insane cocaine-snorting guy, fuck him.

SIE was great! I've got a fondness for women like that : D

dsmx 26 Jul 2015 00:55:18 8,640 posts
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Reviewers reviewed it as a game and as a game it's riddled with faults, glitches and daft design decisions that can totally break the game such as it being possible to be completely invisible to everything, indefinitely which I ended up doing on my playthrough. I can't fault reviewers for marking down the games gameplay for that as that part of the game is at best serviceable and average, at worse it's broken and glitchy.

With that said that's not really why people should play the game because the reason to play it is the story, which there is no real right or wrong, good or bad, black or white decisions. There are only choices, which predominately play around in the morally grey areas of decision making and it's something that other games need to start doing more.

Gaming needs to grow up a bit in this regard and they need to start with ditching this good vs evil mentality that games seems to be fixated on, the real world isn't like that for the most part it's a series of choices that are almost never completely bad or good, they are just a choice and generally it's only later the consequences of that choice become apparent.

I do love alpha protocol, but I don't love it for it's gameplay and it's a shame we've not had a spy game since that dabbles in the morally grey areas that world inevitably creates.

Edited by dsmx at 00:56:42 26-07-2015

ozthegweat 27 Jul 2015 21:51:21 2,977 posts
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HelloNo wrote:
Until the insane cocaine-snorting guy, fuck him.

Brayko can go die a slow and painful death. Never have I clicked the "Execute" button faster than on this guy.

EDIT: I just realised I contradicted myself. See what this asshole does to me?

Edited by ozthegweat at 21:52:07 27-07-2015

ChiefGB 27 Jul 2015 23:47:09 13,815 posts
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I enjoyed this but didn't finish it. I had some great ideas (and some bad ones) but it was goofy fun.

GloatingSwine 28 Jul 2015 00:26:04 3,916 posts
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HelloNo wrote:
Until the insane cocaine-snorting guy, fuck him.

Use the skill that lets you fire a full pistol magazine into someone's head instantly, the skill that resets your cooldown, and then the pistol spam skill again.

Any boss in the game, including Brayko, basically dead 10-15 seconds.

But remember, all the video reviews told you pistols are "useless" not "game breakingly overpowered".

munki83 28 Jul 2015 06:32:11 1,853 posts
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@GloatingSwine

The pistols were so good I remember taking out a helicopter using just the pistol very quickly. Great game riddled with bugs and some other issues but still great

AlcohollicA 28 Jul 2015 08:45:23 2,377 posts
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I would love a sequel to this. Someone start a kickstarter. What are Obsidian doing now?

Mola_Ram 28 Jul 2015 08:47:11 26,187 posts
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Working on Pillars of Eternity expansions, I'd imagine.

ozthegweat 28 Jul 2015 10:29:43 2,977 posts
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The next South Park game?

LittleSparra 28 Jul 2015 10:35:11 7,926 posts
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They're also buggering around with that Skyforge MMO.

StarchildHypocrethes 28 Jul 2015 11:32:30 33,974 posts
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Dear Steven,

Please shut the fuck up.

Sincerely,

Michael Thornton

LittleSparra 28 Jul 2015 11:51:07 7,926 posts
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StarchildHypocrethes wrote:
Dear Steven,

Please shut the fuck up.

Sincerely,

Michael Thornton

Garfy 28 Jul 2015 13:02:46 1,558 posts
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Steven Heck, Nolan North's best role :-)

LittleSparra 28 Jul 2015 13:14:34 7,926 posts
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Edited by LittleSparra at 13:15:06 28-07-2015

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