The Alpha Protocol "I finished the game!" Thread!

[SuicideBunny]

was prolly too serious and got cut in the mass-effectization.
or they left it open for the sequel.

kinda makes me wonder what path through the game is the "official" one.

She isn't a child.

she's sixteen which makes her bodily and legally ripe, but mentally pretty much still a child.
although i meant albatross as a pedo through the age difference and possible abuse of power. it's not like the game really implies he rapes her, it's just one of the interpretations. the only thing that is sure is that she does not like him and the scene does not paint him in any kind of even the slightest bit of positive light, and as very possessive, as he clearly doesn't care about her well-being, yet doesn't want anyone to play with his toy.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

How do you know she is 16? The dossier says she is late teenage to early adulthood.

 

[SuicideBunny]

official info for, like, forever.

 

[hoochimama]

Don't ruin the fantasy.

 

[Dragula]

Eh, at 16 I sure as fuck could decide who to fuck. If she wants to do a 40 year old dude, then power to her, why the fuck should I care? Stupid ass anti-sex morons piss off fuck you.

 

[Hamster]

16 is quite enough, i want my sex scene, damn it!

 

[Ogg]

How does the codex manage to derail any possible thread into a perverted sex discussion. When it's not rape or trannies, it's "child porn vs ephebophilia, which is better and why?"

 

[Mangoose]

Re-railing.

I've been asking Sawyer questions through formspring. Here's my latest Q&A:

I'm on my second playthrough of AP, and t's obvious that you had to make compromises between stats and "twitch" skill. How did you decide on where the lines were drawn?

The only system I worked on was martial arts/CQC. I decided that martial arts should start good and get better. At low ranks, it's more of a close-quarters emergency method of dispatching enemies and a stealth kill aid. At higher ranks, it is a pretty viable method of dealing with most enemies as long as you can get close to them.

In some environments, martial arts can be used consistently through a whole level to take out enemies. In others, it has to be used in tandem with stealth or only when enemies rush Mike.

That didn't really answer my question, but it show how he did handle the MA skill.

 

[Ogg]

Good job, mangoose. We didn't talk much about the variety of combat in the game. Obsidian tried to diversify the enemies with different kind of behaviours. Preparing your missions and filling your dossiers seemed like a good idea. But overall, I always used quite the same strategy with every thug I met. Once again, good idea, poor execution.

In stealth mode, the game felt more like a puzzle game than anything else. Analysing the walk pattern did all the work. Reminded me of old school action games.

Anyway, my first playthrough was with a stealthA build. And I'm in the middle of another one with a brutal character: SMG and shotgun. And it's really getting too easy, and thus boring.

 

[Mangoose]

True, combat is easier when you try to kill everyone, but if you do care about the C&C then it does affect the different NPCs' opinions of you and thus some of teh faction choices you get.

 

[deshields538]

After reading this thread I'm pretty impressed with the game. Seems that things can play out a lot differentlyy

Albaross was the one getting tortured in my game and I left him to die. I got a choice to use him as a handler in the final mission but the choice was blocked out so I could only choose between SIE and Steven Heck. Went with Heck, turned Marberg and Parker away from the Dark Side, saved Mina but missed Scarlet. I had plus 10 with that bitch but she turned up at the end to fucking shoot me! WHAT THE FUCK?!?

Had the chance to give Heck a signal to kill her but didn't. Let her go and let her shoot leland. Brought down both alpha protocol and halbech and sailed off into the sunset cracking jokes with Heck (had him on trusted). I fucked mina as well as scarlet but i never saw her again after i saved her.

And how the fuck is Mike able to survive, let alone get up and talk, aftef getting shot through the chest with a sniper rifle at almost point blanck range? Granted, it's pretty awesome but it still made me go WTF!?!

 

[Dragula]

How does the codex manage to derail any possible thread into a perverted sex discussion. When it's not rape or trannies, it's "child porn vs ephebophilia, which is better and why?"

Ephebophilia is better because it does not involve child rape.

 

[Demnogonis Saastuttaja]

In stealth mode, the game felt more like a puzzle game than anything else. Analysing the walk pattern did all the work. Reminded me of old school action games.

How? You just run up to them while crouching and kill them, then run to the next guy and kill him.

 

[circ]

People are still drooling over this shit it's amazing. There is no C&C. You always have the same four fucking hubs. The game is over in no time. You always go to Alpha fucking Protocol facility and deal or don't deal with a boss. And then it's off to Leland and your fucking boat. OH FUN.

Nevermind that the mechanics and camera and everything is fucked up. It's shitty, WE SEE THROUGH YOUR RUSE FEARGUS, ALL YOU MAKE IS SHIT.

 

[Felix]

People still cry about others like a game they hate it's amazing.

 

[sportforredneck]

I beat the game a second time and accidentally skipped over the credits forgetting that you get an epilogue. Now I don't know what the epilogue was for those choices and have to do it all over again because I started a new game which removed that autosave.

I very much enjoy the game. Don't care if anyone else doesn't like it for one reason or another. I'm not even going to try to convince anyone to like it because it doesn't matter to me.

I just hope that enough people buy it and like it that there gets to be a sequel, and preferably since they've already worked with the engine now that they can fix a lot of the issues for a second game. Plus I want to know what happens to Michael Thorton after this. He's got new shit to get into, I mean there still could be a cold war and other issues based on the choices (and although because of how saving works you wouldn't be able to import a save), they could still have something where you decided how you acted in the first game or something.

 

[some guy whatever]

Well, after two or so playtrhough I gotta say that beeing an asshole to most of my contacts was a hole lot funnyer than trying to get laid.

 

[Darth Roxor]

And how the fuck is Mike able to survive, let alone get up and talk, aftef getting shot through the chest with a sniper rifle at almost point blanck range? Granted, it's pretty awesome but it still made me go WTF!?!

This, and why does Surkov manage to walk all fine and dandy the next day in his office after shooting his kneecap at the embassy?

 

[yaster]

This, and why does Surkov manage to walk all fine and dandy the next day in his office after shooting his kneecap at the embassy?

He invited you to his office after you shot him :shock:

Fuck, did I get nothing for my choices, no surkov mission, no unique shot animation, no meeting Valuev, no anything? Wasn't every choice in this shitty game supposed to be rewarded, and there supposed not to be bad choices? FFS skyway told me that! How could he lied to me!? That bastard, I no longer can believe in anything he says. It's over, he's over. There is no nostradamus of rpgs, just a tiny lying bitch...

 

[Dragula]

Every choice is rewarded, just because you missed up on some content does not mean you did not get other content. Moron.

 

[Darth Roxor]

This, and why does Surkov manage to walk all fine and dandy the next day in his office after shooting his kneecap at the embassy?

He invited you to his office after you shot him :shock:

Eh, I didn't mean the 'office' office (because he didn't invite me there), but the mission in Molo-Tek after Brayko's mansion.

 

[yaster]

I DID NOT get other content...

and not missed - denied. There is difference there.

 

[yaster]

Eh, I didn't mean the 'office' office (because he didn't invite me there), but the mission in Molo-Tek after Brayko's mansion.

Ohh, so it must be that I screwed Brayko talk then. And to think that I tried it 2 times... is professional stance the only way to do this?

Did you got Valuev without earlier introduction?

 

[Dragula]

Then you probably got some perks, which are also rewards, not just as fun ones.

 

[yaster]

Just checked it out to be sure. Not a single perk gain. Nada. I was robbed out of fun. For this outrageous transgression MCA should be hanged, then shot and stabbed to death. That would teach him.