Stolen Pixels #206: Whose Side Am I on, Anyway?
- Thread starter Shamus Young
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I want M.C.Escher pretzels.
Plot line:
Two dudes find time travel > shit happens > they go their separate ways.
Simples ^_^
Primer is an excellent film!AvsJoe said:
Plot line:
Two dudes find time travel > shit happens > they go their separate ways.
Simples ^_^
so its like reading a book one page at a time. but skipping the next page and burning the one you read so you cant go back because only wimps that are idiots do that. If the police come over seeing you burn the books then you tell them that its for science and that you heard a gun shot over at your neighbor's house and before telling the police this you put fake blood on their walls. while doing this though you noticed you needed to do something better with your life so you start reading books...
is that how the plots like?
is that how the plots like?
that actually made alot of sense and amazingly sounds like half of the fantasy games except for the nuke part.nondescript said:
I still don't get why people think Alpha Protocol's plot is so damn confusing. Now... trying to sort through all of the middle-english in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales... now THAT'S confusing.
The Canterbury Tales is generally pretty easy to understand if you read it aloud, remembering it was written before the Great Vowel Shift. And the plot isn't exactly complex either - most of these tales would fit neatly into an episode of Seinfeld.TheDoctor455 said:
Primer, on the other hand, is awesome. You have no idea what's going on, but if you sit down afterward and think about it, you can figure it out.
Would have thought one of his thingamajigs would record all that.
Well I doubt it's romantic, but close enough.Jaredin said:
Still can't decide on this game!
One question to those that have played it; how exactly are missions broken up? Are they, for example, similar to ME2 where you'll walk through an area with conversations then sent to another section (on that same planet) with combat (and some conversations thrown in)?
The hub system they go on about has confused me a little on that.
One question to those that have played it; how exactly are missions broken up? Are they, for example, similar to ME2 where you'll walk through an area with conversations then sent to another section (on that same planet) with combat (and some conversations thrown in)?
The hub system they go on about has confused me a little on that.
You go to your door and select what mission to play. Basically, hubs are where your armor locker(Your inventory managment), EMail(Messages), and Clearing House(Shop) are.Woodsey said:
To be completely fair, he just said that management and the politics of Alpha Protocol's development was borked by management stuff. He just said the final product(Glitches,texture issues all that tech stuff) was not good, but he never bashed the game itself. The development of AP was borked, but the dev never said the game was bad. It's just that ALMOST EVERYONE(Regardless of who played it, because people think they can join the trash train without a ticket!) is shitting on this game, despite the fact that Alpha Protocol's doing stuff that actually puts stuff like Dragon Age and Mass Effect to shame, and no one seems to give a shit because it looks a bit messed up.Straying Bullet said:
If you approach the game expecting an FPS (or Mass Effect 2, since that's almost an FPS), I can understand some disappointment.
It's not an FPS. It's an RPG. Your skill selections actually matter. Taking your time and strategising works (especially if you're playing a stealthy character, as you'd expect). And the game is fecking awesome.
(And the plot made perfect sense to me -- but then I did play it in a few marathon sessions.)
It's not an FPS. It's an RPG. Your skill selections actually matter. Taking your time and strategising works (especially if you're playing a stealthy character, as you'd expect). And the game is fecking awesome.
(And the plot made perfect sense to me -- but then I did play it in a few marathon sessions.)
I agree that spy stories need conspiracies (what would be the point otherwise?), but I think it's pretty clear that the plot in AP has holes where cut content was supposed to go.
Just take the overall premise:
. That's dumb and obviously should have been an eventual discovery as you go through the missions.
I didn't really have a hard time keeping track of the characters' motivations (as in the ones they'd actually told you about), but because of how the game is structured a lot of the time Mike will know stuff you haven't been told when he's talking to certain characters. Him talking to Albatross is the easiest example (he says "You again" even if you've never talked to him).
Just take the overall premise:
Parker, who has years upon years of experience of calculating political repercussions, fails to figure out that the plan he made will cause a real war rather than a cold war. Mina pulls a program out of her ass that apparently proves this.
I didn't really have a hard time keeping track of the characters' motivations (as in the ones they'd actually told you about), but because of how the game is structured a lot of the time Mike will know stuff you haven't been told when he's talking to certain characters. Him talking to Albatross is the easiest example (he says "You again" even if you've never talked to him).