Alpha Protocol

[Bah]

Because there's not another game set in the present day with such amazing C&C? Its the best there is in several niches.

While I agree it had good C&C a game can't only have one good aspect to be worth playing. The real-time shooter combat and stealth mechanics alone were enough to make me give up on it after 4 or so missions.

 

[IDtenT]

I think I finished this a couple of times. If I remember correctly a new difficulty unlocks when you play again. In any case, not a particularly difficult game.

 

[Ardun]

Because there's not another game set in the present day with such amazing C&C? Its the best there is in several niches.

While I agree it had good C&C a game can't only have one good aspect to be worth playing. The real-time shooter combat and stealth mechanics alone were enough to make me give up on it after 4 or so missions.

The game excels at the story aspect. Would you rather play a game with an average story and gameplay? Most great RPGs have aspects that are utterly retarded.

 

[Nano]

Mystery to me why it isn't already. 11 year old game, can't legally buy a new copy, would Sega really try to enforce a copyright on an old thing they don't even want to make money on anymore?

They're probably just scared. Latter half of the PS360 era still feels recent, and Sega is a big company.

 

[Sannom]

Its been a while since I installed it, but I'm pretty sure you can install it without issues, then use the latest official patch, which removes the DRM. Whatever they were using the authenticate it stopped working years before they stopped selling it on Steam.

I think I can vouch for this, I'm pretty sure the last time I played it I installed it through a copy of the disc that I had made on a hard drive and I didn't have to find a crack or anything.

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

Because there's not another game set in the present day with such amazing C&C? Its the best there is in several niches.

While I agree it had good C&C a game can't only have one good aspect to be worth playing. The real-time shooter combat and stealth mechanics alone were enough to make me give up on it after 4 or so missions.

Fair enough. Alpha Protocol's combat and stealth were average to me, not good, not bad. I've seen very few RPG/shooter hybrids that don't mess up one of those two genres, so merely being forgettable in one aspect while being amazing in another puts it very high for me.

I think I finished this a couple of times. If I remember correctly a new difficulty unlocks when you play again. In any case, not a particularly difficult game.

You also get a new starting option that gives you more skills at the start and some special dialog options.

 

[fantadomat]

I think I finished this a couple of times. If I remember correctly a new difficulty unlocks when you play again. In any case, not a particularly difficult game.

The most efficient thing i found was running around and kicking people in the face.

 

[Roguey]

I think I finished this a couple of times. If I remember correctly a new difficulty unlocks when you play again. In any case, not a particularly difficult game.

Veteran is an easier mode that's unlocked as a reward for playing as rookie which makes it harder by not giving you skill points at the beginning. Playing on Hard is pointless because it just makes everyone spongier and makes minigames nigh-impossible.

 

[Jvegi]

Any mods that make the broken stuff less shit?

Never played the game.

 

[Zombra]

Any mods that make the broken stuff less shit?

Nothing's broken. Plays fine vanilla if you can live with some non-AAA jank. Worth checking out.

 

[Ardun]

Any mods that make the broken stuff less shit?

Never played the game.

It's just that the gameplay is boring. The storyfag aspect of the game is superb tho. Just play the easiest difficulty.

 

[Lhynn]

I think I finished this a couple of times. If I remember correctly a new difficulty unlocks when you play again. In any case, not a particularly difficult game.

Veteran is an easier mode that's unlocked as a reward for playing as rookie which makes it harder by not giving you skill points at the beginning. Playing on Hard is pointless because it just makes everyone spongier and makes minigames nigh-impossible.

Hard is p. easy. If you have troubles with minigames git gud, or use items to bypass them, or dont do them, the rewards from them are pretty small usually.

 

[Roguey]

Hard is p. easy. If you have troubles with minigames git gud, or use items to bypass them, or dont do them, the rewards from them are pretty small usually.

AP's bosses are the most complained-about difficulty spike and making them spongier makes it worse. "Just upgrade chainshot until you can one-shot them" defeats the point of having character building options.

 

[Zombra]

Playing AP on hard to prove you're good at games is kind of like entering a 3-legged race at Daddy Daughter Day to prove you're good at sports.

 

[Lhynn]

defeats the point of having character building options.

"Having better options to tackle obstacles defeats the point of having options at all"
No.

 

[Roguey]

"Having better options to tackle obstacles defeats the point of having options at all"
No.

You're misunderstanding me. The bosses are hard enough as it is on normal, hard adds so much tedium on top of that that the only solution that doesn't involve figuratively banging your head against the wall is to spend all your points on the "skip boss" skill. I don't think a game's difficulty should make one particular skill mandatory.

 

[fantadomat]

The bosses are hard enough as it is on normal,

The fuck are you talking about?! Bosses are not hard,the worst one is the one that sits in a tower and you had to cheese him. The rest you could just slap around in melee.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

The rest you could just slap around in melee.

Pretty much, even the idiot on the tower will have kept a bunch of sniper rifles lying about.

 

[fantadomat]

The rest you could just slap around in melee.

Pretty much, even the idiot on the tower will have kept a bunch of sniper rifles lying about.

I was annoyed that he was the only one i can't kick in the face. I never had any difficulty with the bosses,don't know why rogue is saying that they are hard.

 

[Roguey]

I don't trust a well-known cheater's opinion on game difficulty. In my experience, melee can work, but you have to do the bosses in a certain specific order that you'd have to luck into since there's no way of discerning beforehand that the old man has the highest level of martial arts, the Asian guy has the lowest, and the cocaine-snorting Russian is in-between. Additionally, having to beat the bosses in this specific order defeats the point of being able to choose which hubs to visit first.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

beforehand that the old man has the highest level of martial arts, the Asian guy has the lowest, and the cocaine-snorting Russian is in-between

Nix, in my first run I beat Brayko first and Deng last.

 

[Mr. Magniloquent]

In my experience, melee can work, but you have to do the bosses in a certain specific order that you'd have to luck into since there's no way of discerning beforehand that the old man has the highest level of martial arts, the Asian guy has the lowest, and the cocaine-snorting Russian is in-between.

This was my only problem with the game. I believe I overcame it, but it took many attempts. I still enjoyed the game though. I bought this for <$3 USD, so my opinion may be skewed by that. Not the greatest game ever, but enjoyable. Many people gripe about the mini-games, but I thought they worked well. What was dumb was achieving maximum stealth, at which point you walk through the levels entirely invisible, taking down anyone but a boss without any trouble. It delivers the same experience as Mass Effect 2, but with a better plot and genuine C&C.

 

[Tigranes]

Having played this broken game 10+ times, melee is a very easy way to get through the game, arguably because the amount of jank in the enemy behaviour means you end up running through fatal situations half the time, and because you can get Stealth up so high as to sneak up on almost anything. I can imagine getting exposed to a couple of bosses depending on the run order.

 

[TripJack]

playing on hard just makes this already tedious turd even more tedious, you can't even change difficulty without starting the game over either because obsidian is SHIT AT MAKING VIDEOGAMES

 

[SlightlyRadioactive]

Stealth is OP, once you get the invisibility skill you can basically take down every common enemy without any issues, the game only became a bit difficult at the boss who is sniping at the tower just because I couldn't use stealth as an instant win button. To this day this is probably the only RPG that I've completed without killing anyone.