Review RPG Codex Review: Alpha Protocol

[Excidium]

Just dropping by to say I LIKE ALPHA PROTOCOL THIS MUCH

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Hammer & Sickle is probably more of an espionage game than Alpha Protocol, anyway.

They're on par in bugs though! :D

That's odd. Haven't encountered many bugs in H&S.

 

[Sceptic]

I LIKE ALPHA PROTOCOL THIS MUCH

 

[Darth Roxor]

I LIKE ALPHA PROTOCOL THIS MUCH

 

[Chaotic_Heretic]

I enjoyed Alpha Protocol but in the sense of , as a cinematic COYA with extremely shitty popamole combat and downright retarded stealth.

 

[Chaotic_Heretic]

tl;dr Obsidian simply cannot into satisfying gameplay. They might be great at writing, but writing alone does not make a game enjoyable. I'm quite sure they would greatly benefit from less ambitious presentation in their games (their continuous attempts at making AAA games is retarded), and using simpler game engines with simplified graphics and game mechanics. They suck at these things, plain and simple. I'm confident even a game made in RPG Maker would be good enough with their writing skills.

Fuck your slam dunks, Feargus. Your over ambitious delusions of grandeur are wasting the skills of a good rpg team into shitty triple A wannabe games.

I agree with you, Obsidian has shown its ineptitude time and again with its gameplay systems...No wonder they put a huge aspie like Josh in charge of P:E gameplay.

 

[Roguey]

I'm quite sure they would greatly benefit from less ambitious presentation in their games (their continuous attempts at making AAA games is retarded), and using simpler game engines with simplified graphics and game mechanics.

They'd still be terrible without a Josh Sawyer or a Nathaniel Chapman or a Someone Who Cares About Gameplay and Isn't Primarily Interested in Story and Being Clever.

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

Just dropping by to say I LIKE ALPHA PROTOCOL THIS MUCH

 

[Alex]

“HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE ALPHA PROTOCOL SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR OBSIDIAN'S ABORTION AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR AP. HATE. HATE.”

(actually, not really. But I wanted to drive this point home).

 

[Broseph]

Alpha Protocol in one GIF:

 

[Infinitron]

Alpha Protocol: Tactical Espionage Arsehole.

 

[Tigranes]

Alpha Protocol is Best Protocol

 

[J_C]

Alpha Protocol every console shooter in one GIF:

Fixed.

 

[J_C]

“HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE ALPHA PROTOCOL SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR OBSIDIAN'S ABORTION AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR AP. HATE. HATE.”

(actually, not really. But I wanted to drive this point home).

Oh really? Did I tell you that I LOVE ALPHA PROTOCOL THIS MUCH?!

 

[racofer]

 

[Tigranes]

Pfft. That minigame was trivially easy once you got uaed to it, usefully challenging adding to the atmoaphere before you did, and skills & items allowed easy bypass if you hated it.

The pc control lag was the real issue for it.

 

[Roguey]

All the crit path hacking is intentionally easy. All the optional stuff can be handled with EMPs or skipped entirely.