Unskippable: Alpha Protocol
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Really, I find it moreso refreshing than most others I can think of. Heck, I like how it keeps you alert due to the time limit, that is seriously something I wish for in Bioware RPGs. Though I will agree with Yahtzee's asessment that the single-word descriptions are sometimes far too vague.canadamus_prime said:
It's the vague one-word descriptors that are messed up. How the hell am I supposed to navigate my way through a conversation when I'm not entirely sure what my character's going to say at any given time? The time limit just exasperates the issue.Loonerinoes said:
Uuuuurgh, Alpha Protocol.
Worst part: It's buggy as hell. At one point I was walking out of a room, and as I was standing in the doorway I realized I had forgotten to pick up some ammo the guards in the previous room had dropped. So I turned around and realized the game had decided that room was dumb and unnecessary, and had despawned the floor, leaving me to fall into white nothingness. Despite reloading the game, the room STILL had no floor when I looked.
Second worst part: All boss fights are REALLY REALLY TERRIBLE. I actually won one of them by making sure the boss got stuck in a staircase. At that point, I fired ~150 assault rifle bullets at his head. Fun thing, the bugginess saved my ass from this super-hard boss.
Third worst part: The voice actor for Thorton is a huge dick all the time, no matter what option you pick. I don't understand why everyone doesn't just punch him in the face every time he has a conversation.
Despite all these things, AP had potential. Potential enough for me to see it through to the end anyway.
Worst part: It's buggy as hell. At one point I was walking out of a room, and as I was standing in the doorway I realized I had forgotten to pick up some ammo the guards in the previous room had dropped. So I turned around and realized the game had decided that room was dumb and unnecessary, and had despawned the floor, leaving me to fall into white nothingness. Despite reloading the game, the room STILL had no floor when I looked.
Second worst part: All boss fights are REALLY REALLY TERRIBLE. I actually won one of them by making sure the boss got stuck in a staircase. At that point, I fired ~150 assault rifle bullets at his head. Fun thing, the bugginess saved my ass from this super-hard boss.
Third worst part: The voice actor for Thorton is a huge dick all the time, no matter what option you pick. I don't understand why everyone doesn't just punch him in the face every time he has a conversation.
Despite all these things, AP had potential. Potential enough for me to see it through to the end anyway.
And if the game didn't want me to pick the "kill everyone except Scarlet Lake because she's hot despite the terrible graphics"-option in the end, it shouldn't have squeezed in three absolutely frustrating bossfights in the end.
I really, really dislike that time limit. What usually happens:canadamus_prime said:
You'll get the options "bomb", "pants" and "walrus".
Then the NPC will ramble on for a long time about the nice pants he's wearing, something about a bomb, and in the last final nanoseconds before the timer runs out, he'll mention that if you talk about walruses, he will reward you with a million dollars, leaving you scrambling and failing to push the correct button.
A little breathing room would be nice, thank you.
And why do all HDTVs suffer from a bad case of interlacing? Makes no sense!SpecklePattern said:Yeah and like they say. Why on earth the video quality in every thing is in so bad quality? :-/ Like if you use webcam, spend more than 7USD to that!hawk533 said:
For some reason that looked... significantly uglier than I'm remembering those conversations[footnote]Only the beginning section is actually a cutscene, everything else they spliced together were parts of conversations from the intro level, minus the gameplay in between and dialog from Westridge over the monitors and PA systems.[/footnote] being when I played through them a month or so back. It's enough to make me wonder if the reason I never got why people complained that Alpha Protocol had "bad graphics" was because I played it on the PC, and not on a console - if that's what the graphics on the X-Box look like throughout the game, then I totally get those complaints now; Alpha Protocol is hardly breathtakingly gorgeous on the PC, but it's a far cry from ugly, and that was definitely ugly.
This. I also played on PC and the graphics were significantly better than that.Gildan Bladeborn said:
The game itself is awesome, and well worth playing -- as long as you remember that it's an RPG, not a shooter. (Just because *you* can aim doesn't mean your character can.)
Oh my god. Thornton is such a gigantic douchebag. Yahtzee was right, even when he's trying to be nice, he still sounds like a gigantic ponce.
i found the game worth playing. yes, it has some issues that range from the unforgivable in this day and age (e.g. some baffling control elements) to the bizarre (e.g. the quirky conversation mechanic), but none of the issues are truly game breaking. i enjoyed it enough that i recommend it to others provided they understand it's not perfect.ColdStorage said:
Nice one, I had a good laugh.
I love Alpha Protocol, I beat it 4 times. Even though the dialog system seems a bit rough at the beginning, it's really works great after you'll get used to it. No other game (well, maybe except Heavy Rain) made the 'you have a split second to make a decision' situations better than AP, and the choices that really do matter and change a lot, made it even better and not boring at all even after beating it 3 times before.
I hope that Fallout: NV will be equally great in terms of ideas and story while fixing up the graphics and bugs (the usual Obsidian weak spot).
I love Alpha Protocol, I beat it 4 times. Even though the dialog system seems a bit rough at the beginning, it's really works great after you'll get used to it. No other game (well, maybe except Heavy Rain) made the 'you have a split second to make a decision' situations better than AP, and the choices that really do matter and change a lot, made it even better and not boring at all even after beating it 3 times before.
I hope that Fallout: NV will be equally great in terms of ideas and story while fixing up the graphics and bugs (the usual Obsidian weak spot).
