Alpha Protocol

[Roguey]

It's pathetic that a quality game like this should essentially become abandonware for one awful song included as an ironic joke.

The song is great and a fantastic moment. The problem is with Feargus for cheaping out and only spending money for a 10 year license.

 

[Sannom]

Really ? I would have thought that was Sega's call as the publisher and IP holder...

 

[Roguey]

Really ? I would have thought that was Sega's call as the publisher and IP holder...

Obsidian gets paid by the milestone, it's up to them to determine how to spend that money (and they wasted a lot on in-house mocap equipment). Avellone said Urquhart loves his cost padding but apparently that doesn't include setting aside money for a permanent license for a single song.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

one awful song

Nigga what are you some kind of rap lover

 

[Cpt. Dallas]

Not sure if serious. It was a one hit wonder from a shitty Def Leppard wannabee hair band that got airplay solely because it had the word 'radio' in it. Enough mediocre bands used that tactic for Monty Python to make a skit out of it. If it's played at all today it's in this game or at GenX high school reunions for fat ex-spandex wearers to drunk dance to. Glam was fucking cancer.
Yes, the moment was perfect, precisely because it was a bad song, along with all the over stylized 80's crap like the pastels, Nagel paintings and Miami Vice outfit on the coked out boss, and you had best paid up to taint his stash. I think I still spared his sorry ass.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

I thought it was just a bad game?

 

[Atlantico]

I thought it was just a bad game?

The first level is inexplicably bad, and doesn't fit with the rest of the game at all. That level plays as a boring Tom Clancy knock-off.

Then, things start to happen and the game takes shape. I think most people must have given up on the first level and never looked back. A mistake, but an understandable one.

It's a pretty good game.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

I thought it was just a bad game?

It was a great RPG but a lousy shooter.

I really hope they remaster it with a polished control scheme and rework that retarded hacking game.

 

[Zombra]

I really hope they remaster it with a polished control scheme and rework that retarded hacking game.

Don't put that idea in my head. A remake/remaster of Alpha Protocol would give me a reason to have faith in the future of gaming and I don't need that right now.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

the fact that they haven't bothered to remove the licensed music and relist it means they probably either lost the source or it's buried away somewhere and feargus is too lazy to locate it
remaster seems unlikely

 

[Roguey]

the fact that they haven't bothered to remove the licensed music and relist it means they probably either lost the source or it's buried away somewhere and feargus is too lazy to locate it
remaster seems unlikely

Or simply not worth the effort since it never made money. Also they'd have to replace the song with something appropriate.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

the fact that they haven't bothered to remove the licensed music and relist it means they probably either lost the source or it's buried away somewhere and feargus is too lazy to locate it
remaster seems unlikely

Or simply not worth the effort since it never made money. Also they'd have to replace the song with something appropriate.

It's a highly requested item.

Either they lost the source or Sega isn't cooperating.

 

[Roguey]

Either they lost the source or Sega isn't cooperating.

Of course Obsidian would be happy to spend more of someone else's money or get paid to to patch it and make a new 80s-sounding instrumental song. Sega can't be bothered though.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Either they lost the source or Sega isn't cooperating.

Of course Obsidian would be happy to spend more of someone else's money or get paid to to patch it and make a new 80s-sounding instrumental song. Sega can't be bothered though.

Replacing it with nothing and relisting it is better than abandoning it.

 

[c u in da ballpit ashren]

Is it true Chris wore a gimp suit for the mocap for this game?

 

[Irata]

I tried to pirate this game

The Steam release is DRM-free. There are two executables and the game exe (not the launcher) runs just fine without any client. So I'm surprised that there are issues with the pirated versions. I haven't kept up with the "scene" for almost twenty years though.

 

[Pound Meat]

Looking at my PS3 copy on the shelf and chortling.

I thought it was just a bad game?

It was a great RPG but a lousy shooter.

I really hope they remaster it with a polished control scheme and rework that retarded hacking game.

I just want to be able to save all the women and keep them as my personal harem.

 

[Roguey]

I tried to pirate this game

The Steam release is DRM-free. There are two executables and the game exe (not the launcher) runs just fine without any client. So I'm surprised that there are issues with the pirated versions. I haven't kept up with the "scene" for almost twenty years though.

Yeah, the one patch they released for it also removed the DRM from the disc version (both install limit and disc check).

 

[Atlantico]

I tried to pirate this game

The Steam release is DRM-free. There are two executables and the game exe (not the launcher) runs just fine without any client. So I'm surprised that there are issues with the pirated versions. I haven't kept up with the "scene" for almost twenty years though.

Yeah, the one patch they released for it also removed the DRM from the disc version (both install limit and disc check).

Precisely, it would be next level incompetent if some 1337 haxx00rz are sharing a broken version of the game that can literally be copy/pasted to install.

Personally, I bought it on CD almost ten years ago.

 

[Cpt. Dallas]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUydx57te9s

This was in the twitter feed Rusty posted above. Damn, but that looks like a fun run. I feel like a dope for playing the boy scout.

 

[Sannom]

The Steam release is DRM-free. There are two executables and the game exe (not the launcher) runs just fine without any client. So I'm surprised that there are issues with the pirated versions. I haven't kept up with the "scene" for almost twenty years though.

Same I think, last I played I installed it off images of my original discs and it worked fine.

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

I wouldn't be surprised if the issue everyone's having is related to that dll issue. IIRC, you need a specific version of PhysiX or something otherwise the game crashes when you start it.

 

[Lt Broccoli]

So what are everyone's most rewarding play-styles in AP? Rambo? Macgyver? Garrett? Mix?

 

[Zombra]

So what are everyone's most rewarding play-styles in AP? Rambo? Macgyver? Garrett? Mix?

Sloppy stealth where something goes wrong and it turns into a cacophonous bloodbath.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

So what are everyone's most rewarding play-styles in AP? Rambo? Macgyver? Garrett? Mix?

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