Zero Punctuation Reviews "Alpha Protocol"

[Fat Dragon]

Note how ME2 "suddenly" became an inferior game when AP came out

Kinda like how your old favs NWN and Fahrenheit suddenly became shit to you when you discovered the Codex, eh?

 

[BLOBERT]

BRO NOT FARE THAT WAS A GENUINOIE CHANGE OF OPINION BECAUSE HE NEEDED TO BE ANTI MAIONSTREAM THAT DOESNT COUNT AS DOING WHAT EVERONE EOLSE SAYS

 

[MetalCraze]

Note how ME2 "suddenly" became an inferior game when AP came out

Kinda like how your old favs NWN and Fahrenheit suddenly became shit to you when you discovered the Codex, eh?

2 games over years is a bit different than changing views on every major game every month, don't you think?

 

[BLOBERT]

BRO WAY TO KEEP THE ONLINE PERSONA KEEP IT UP BRO

 

[Jim Cojones]

Note how ME2 "suddenly" became an inferior game when AP came out

Kinda like how your old favs NWN and Fahrenheit suddenly became shit to you when you discovered the Codex, eh?

2 games over years is a bit different than changing views on every major game every month, don't you think?

What about your record flip-flop after you heard from other Codexers that praising BG's combat isn't kool?

"Baldur's Gate is good as long as you expect some tactical dnd combat and outstanding art direction. and as long as you don't expect any roleplaying miracles from it."

"I hate all this "new-school" real-time combat, especially in the aurora-engine games where it's basically a twitch-gaming"

Time difference between the above quotes? 13 days...

 

[MetalCraze]

BG uses aurora engine? I didn't know.
What's more funnier is how you cut the part where I say that BG1/2 has OK combat from the very same sentence.

because seriously I hate all this "new-school" real-time combat, especially in the aurora-engine games where it's basically a twitch-gaming, combat in BG1/2 was bearable however

Where is the flip flop?

 

[gothfox]

 

[Der_Unbekannte]

ME2 > AP!

Eat it!

 

[Serious_Business]

retarded minigames - they always sucked. but now -in alphaturd - they're actually pretty cool.

Because liking Alpha Protocol is a cool thing at the Codex right now. And as there nothing good about it, stupid shit like minigames is getting praised. Pathetic isn't it?
Note how ME2 "suddenly" became an inferior game when AP came out

Heh, fuck that. You and your shitty obvious views are the cool thing on the codex. You should be proud of yourself. Unfortunately fads are always retarded, as you probably know already, but keep on the good work

 

[1eyedking]

Yahtzee lurks RPG Codex. I no longer have doubts about it.

Because it's that, or the Codex has become so stupid that even people outside of it can tell when a game has flavor C&C.

 

[Silellak]

You know, I think I figured skyway out. In the same way he views games as either "shit" or "not shit", he views the entire Codex as either "skyway" or "not skyway".

So, when anyone "not skyway" expresses a view like "ME2 is fun" or "I enjoyed AP", he views it as the entire Codex praising those games - which leads to his barely-contained rage at this vague "Codex" entity he despises so.

It's the best way to explain his avoidance the fact that the only poll related to AP on the Codex has the shit:not-shit ratio squarely at 50/50:

Now, obviously this poll is incredibly unscientific, and tainted by the use of the word "buy" vs. the word "play" in the title. Even accounting for that, it's still a better judge of the Codex's overall opinion of AP than skyway's tactic of "some people in various threads mentioned enjoying it, so THE ENTIRE CODEX IS NOW SUCKING OBSIDIAN'S COCK"

 

[Admiral jimbob]

uh no yes has one more vote therefore it is officially codex-approved despite being dumb popamole buggy shit not an rpg full of minigames banal shit boring sucking obsidian cock apologistcodex not like it was two years ago where we had interesting debates and intelligent people with good opinions now codex thinks there is no genre except console shooters add kids alternately loving da/fallout 3 and loving obsidian games even when they are like fo3 and da which they hate as it suits my purposes

 

[Nael]

What the fuck is a ponce? Is that like a putz?

 

[Shannow]

That was actually almost positive for a Yahtzee review.

This.


And I hope skyway is an attention whore and gets off to all those constantly whining about him.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

What the fuck is a ponce? Is that like a putz?

A ponce is an effeminate man.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Note how ME2 "suddenly" became an inferior game when AP came out

Yeah bro, I also don't understand how people can find out they like the more recent game better, instead of sticking to their previous opinion like a mule

 

[Mangoose]

Note how ME2 "suddenly" became an inferior game when AP came out

Huh? No. ME2 > AP in most aspects (writing, gameplay)

 

[SuicideBunny]

ME2 > AP in most aspects (writing, gameplay)

erh, no.
the only thing me2 holds over ap is custom character creation and more content. gameplay in ap is better and more varied, and as far as writing goes both have retarded stories but ap has the better characters and way better conversations.

 

[Mangoose]

ME2 > AP in most aspects (writing, gameplay)

erh, no.
the only thing me2 holds over ap is custom character creation and more content. gameplay in ap is better and more varied, and as far as writing goes both have retarded stories but ap has the better characters and way better conversations.

Apparently you didn't play any of the ME2 sidequests.

AP's gameplay had more potential and would be better had the AI been better, skills and difficulty more balanced, everything else more polished. But ME2's is better in end implementation.

 

[themadhatter114]

Sidequests in ME2 weren't really interesting, and the main plot was simply retarded, though.

It also didn't help that you couldn't really import your character. Why is Shepard the only hope for the universe if he's back to level 1?

Mass Effect has never really made sense with a low-level character. It was much more fun playing on insanity with a high level character. Starting all over in ME2 and not even getting to level 30 made me feel like Shepard was still a pussy and was somehow the savior of the universe regardless.

 

[Black]

[Apparently you didn't play any of the ME2 sidequests.

Care to elaborate?

 

[Mangoose]

[Apparently you didn't play any of the ME2 sidequests.

Care to elaborate?

Only that they were decently written (nothing spectacular, mind you), better than the main quest.

 

[Jaesun]

[Apparently you didn't play any of the ME2 sidequests.

Care to elaborate?

Only that they were decently written (nothing spectacular, mind you), better than the main quest.

WAT? Can you define what you are calling "Side Quest"? Are you including the companion ones or?

 

[treave]

Only good companion quests were the ones for Samara and Mordin anyway.

 

[Mangoose]

[Apparently you didn't play any of the ME2 sidequests.

Care to elaborate?

Only that they were decently written (nothing spectacular, mind you), better than the main quest.

WAT? Can you define what you are calling "Side Quest"? Are you including the companion ones or?

Hm. Yeah, that's what I meant. I actually didn't mean the retardo planet exploration ones, I forgot about those/never did them.

Mind you I'm also only talking about the writing, as most of the companion quests did have lots of stupid combat. Besides Samara and Mordin, the other decently written ones: Legion (I think his mission is where you find out there are two camps of Geth), Jacob, Jack (both Jacob and Jack have atmosphere lending some mystery).