I liked it as well, dude.

Just give it a few years. /v/ will be crying that it's an under appreciated classic.

It's probably one of the games with more choices (that actually matter) I've ever played, if not the one with the most, and it still manages to have a great story and don't feel too "modular".

>>80031710
>Actually it really felt like "what if Bloodlines had spies instead of vampires?"
Fuck. Now I want to play it. Bloodlines is one of my favorite games.

>>80032261
It's not really the same thing, Alpha Protocol hasn't hubs where you can go around freely, it's mission based, but the roleplaying, the feeling it gave me is very similar to what I felt when playing Bloodlines.

This game was 6/10, but would've easily been 8.5/10 if they had just fixed the bugs.

The bugs really killed it. That, and the horrifyingly stupid AI.

Aside from that, it was pretty fun. But the game ruining bugs totally destroyed what could've been a great game.

>>80031710
>what if Bloodlines had spies instead of vampires
Buying it now.
You better not be fucking with me.

>>80033803
It IS basically modern Bloodlines and it deserves to have the same cult following. It doesn't have it for some reason, though.

>>80033738
I haven't encountered a single bug in all the duration of the game.

>>80032557
technically you do have a hub, your office. you take missions from there and then go do them.

>dat taipei bike exit

i really enjoyed it, but i went; stealth, no shadow operative, pistols, hack. everyone that probably hated it went in as run and gun. game play was a bit lacking but the overall the dialog system worked. bonuses from play style is always good. if it was more splinter cell/ hitman it would be a fairly solid game.

>>80032068
Nothing beats the feeling when the very FIRST major choice you make affects end game mission(s).

>>80033848
I didn't feel it to be a modern Bloodlines. The C&C was more similar to Deus Ex. If the game had been a bit longer and explored more of the C&C it would've gone down with the classics. As it is now it's only a game that I enjoyed playing through.

It took the mess of a dialog circle system and actually made it good. Also choice and consequence is glorious in this game.

Too bad stealth is OP as fuck and combat in general is bad, AI is a joke. I still loved it because of the dialogues and the cliche spy story done good.
I love how you can even completely miss some huge wtf polt twists/reveals just because you took a different path.

Terrible gameplay, terrible and forgettable music, terrible voice acting, terrible facial animations, terrible story, terrible AI, ugly graphics... i can go on and on forever

I love that released a buggy, unfinished and shitty game for 60$ and then then not even having the decency to actually patch the game and then expect people to buy their next game for 60$.

Thank god i wasn't stupid enough to buy Fallout New Vegas from this shitty developer, unlike the rest of you shit eating cretins.

>>80034151
More C&C? I don't think you could fit more. Every choice you make matters in AP, from minor stuff like mission cache pickups to who lives and dies. Hell, you can join the bad guy at the end.

This is actually the most broken game I've ever played. It's verging on unplayability.

The ideas are nice though.

Alpha Protocol + MGS4 engine
You know you want it.

The game had MISSING animations. I mean, turn left or right and there's no animation you just warp 90 degrees. The acting was awful and sound generally low quality. Gameplay didn't quite work and was the reason for some rage inducing moments.

If it was actually well made it'd be a great game.

>>80034310
Oh god.

>>80034310
I was thinking that from the moment I started the tutorial.

>>80034270
The problem is that when you finally feel a bit of the C&C and when you get what the game's about the game abrubtly starts the end-game.

fuck you, deng. only boss who gave me hard time because KATANAH

>>80034256
all that plus awful "puzzles" for hacking

I pity the retards who jumped the "hurr durr its like bloodlines" vagon. Enjoy eating shit.

Shame it was such a clunky game. Ever worse shame that they canceled the sequel.
Imagine how Obsidian could've expanded on it, given their tendency to make sequels pretty good.

It's not like Bloodlines

AP had no gamebreaking bugs on release

>>80034276
Well vanilla Bloodlines was pretty broken too. I'm not saying this game is perfect, far from it, I just don't understand why Bloodlines has this huge cult (and I believe it deserves it) and AP not. My guess is many people were put off by the reviews and don't even take it into consideration (I did this as well), so I created this thread.

Awesome rpg. Turns easy as fuck around 1/4 of the way in. Played stealth and it's ridiculous I could pop my skill and walk right up kill people without anyone seeing me.

Also feels very rushed release, lot of things aren't fleshed out. Eg. G22 + Sis. She literally had no purpose in the game. A random goon could have worked in her place.

>>80034626
Because everyone, reviewers especially, expected it to be ME3.
MY GOD, STEALTH IS SO BROKEN.... YOU'RE TELLING ME I ACTUALLY HAVE TO HIDE?! GAY!!11!

>>80034052
I had the most fun as a run and gun character. Using SMGs of course since accuracy doesn't matter.

>>80034686
Avellone said he actually added more to Sis than originally intended.

I agree OP, I really enjoyed it. I think most of /v/ never played it.

>>80034806
Wait so she actually got more screen time than originally intended? Because she has around 5 minutes right now.

The gameplay in this, assuming it were refined more, is what Mass Effect 2 should've been.

So a guy walks into a bar
>adviceheck
I shoot his kneecaps off

>>80034626
VTMB had fantastic music, ambiance, atmosphere, pacing, writing, graphics, physics and voice acting, though the latter had some unevenness in its quality.

Alpha Protocol has nothing, absolutely nothing, going for it.

This is how it is when your games are always borderline unplayable.

They really need to replace their programmers.

AP is a contender for the best RPG in years, if not even in this whole decade.
True, it's a game that's borderline unplayable and you really really have to squint to enjoy it from a gameplay POV, but it's a masterpiece as an RPG.

I really think one of the the biggest problems this game had was with confusion over the shooting mechanics. Everyone seemed to assume they worked vaguely like Deus Ex's or Bloodlines', when in reality the tightening reticule signalled nothing more than your chance to crit. Accuracy was always based on your stats regardless of the status of the reticule. When it first came out there were all kinds of complaints about this, despite the fact that it literally was not the problem people thought it was.
>>80033738
What game-breaking bugs? This was one of the few games Obsidian actually managed to get out without many serious issues. The only ones that really seem prevalent are the irritating engine glitches.

>>80034948
Pacing, writing, and voice acting. They used the same studio/voice director/many of the same actors from Bloodlines.

It is also the only game to do achievements well

WHAT'S THIS? GAMEPLAY BONUSES FOR ACHIEVEMENTS?

Also gentlemen perk master race

>>80034975
Obsidian can't learn from their mistakes so they will always create crappy and buggy games.

>>80035051
Actually, the tightened reticule does affect accuracy. I never missed.

>>80035032
>AP is a contender for the best RPG in years, if not even in this whole decade.
> if not even in this whole decade.

dont push it son

>>80034686
>She literally had no purpose in the game.

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>>80034906
This a fucking MILLION times over.

>>80035174

Sega shouldn't have made them start from scratch. HOnestly, I think had this gotten polish and SEQUELS this could have been one of gamings classics.

But alas it was not to be. I wish I could get a petition or something for a sequel. Maybe if enough people buy it in steam they'll reconsider.

>>80034686
>>80034806
Sis was supposed to be more important in AP2. Shame they gave it the finger.

>>80035089
Borderlands and Stalker Call of Pripryat did this too.

>>80034931
That's another thing about the game, it's can go goofy as fuck or pretty gritty depending on your choices. First playthrough I kept choosing SIE as my handler/back up etc. and laughed the whole way. Second playthrough, went with G22 and shit serioused the fuck up.
My personal GOTY and this is coming from a guy who played it on release.

Two questions /v/

Is the pc version of this game playable and great?
Can I use an Xbox controller to play it?

>>80035089
>my face when I got a perk for romancing every single possible female in one playthrough

>>80035320
I'd think so, though I can't think why you'd want to. There's a lot of active skills etc so it would mean a radial menu clusterfuck like in ME.

I really liked the RPG elements in it, and how they interacted with your character development. The achievements and other boosts were pretty neat.

However, the AI was so mind-bogglingly incompetent that it just didn't matter. After the second level, you were basically invincible.

Here's an example of when I knew this game would not be very fun to keep playing: during the mission you have to invade that dude's mansion to take him down (at the disco!), I was sneaking through a hallway that had two guards flanking a door.

I walked right up to a guard, and he didn't become 'aware' of me right in front of him until I was about a foot away. I then was able to do a "silent takedown" maneuver on him while his friend shot at me, except you're invincible during the takedown maneuvers, so the shots didn't do anything. I then ran around behind the other guard while he was shooting, and did the same thing to him.

Silent takedown on a guard I walked up right up to in a well-lit hallway, and then doing it to his friend who is shooting at me? Thisfuckingshitaintlogical.jpg

So I start up Veteran playthrough and hallucinate that Mina's gelato man.

>>80035260
Though CoP did give bonuses (small gifts of items and access to upgrades), Borderlands only gave experience for achievements.

>>80035402
Just cause sometimes I like to hook up my games to my HD and sitting back on the couch with a controller is great. But I'm sure there's a way I can configure it as long as it's compatible. Although hearing that it's more in depth than Ass Effect 2 is nice.

>>80035440
What actually is the veteran history? THat's the one unlocked after beating right? What does it do? I did the Jamed Bondy one myself.

>>80035320
yes. you can play with an xbox controller, and it's pretty much necessary. The mouse keyboard controls are fucking terrible; it's clearly made with the console in mind.

>>80035260
I don't know about CoP, but Borderlands only gave XP from "achievements". Armored Princess on the other hand had good achievement based bonuses.

Obsidian couldn't do good gameplay if their lives depended on it.
They should just do the writing/brain storming and let someone else handle the gameplay realization and execution part.

>>80035559
Gives you a whole bunch of points to start with and a few veteran dialogue options here and there. Mina loves him, Darcy hates him, you can save Sie and get the data without having investing in technical aptitude.

I feel this game got shafted for the same reasons as Bloodlines true. People are rating based on the flaws and not the design which is like judging M.L.King speeches by the spelling, grammar and nothing else.
Still its not as good as bloodlines I think, just as close as we've come in recent years.

>>80035559
You start with higher skills all-around and get some special dialog options. It's essentially easy easy EASY modo.

Got it over the sales too, i like it. I didnt get it when it came out cos of the bad reviews and general consensus about it.

Kinda wish i did get it earlier, it aint perfect, but is certainly alot better then some of the other dross that been thrown out recently

Stealth is OP.
>Everyone is looking the wrong way?
>Silent running
>sprint
>break necks
>one turned around!
>no worries.
>evasion!
>Stealth
>continue neck breaking
>rinse repeat for every mission
until boss fights, especially for melee bosses.

Omen Deng was a cunt to fight with no points in any guns. Grenades are your friends against shooty bosses, like Sis. the firey ones more so.

I havent come across game breaking bugs yet, if you dont count ass-tarded AI for the guards.

>>80035597
The controls are fine once you disable mouse smoothing and get rid of the mid-level loading jitters.

>>80035559
- You start off with 120 skill points
- You can one-up people who had the drop on you before
- You'll do a lot more things yourself, such as decrypting Hong's drive

Makes shit really easy, but after Rookie on hard I deserve it.

Playing though it now, its pretty fun.

Not sure its worth more than £15, but for what I played for it I feel like I'll defiantly get my moneys worth.

But comparing it to Bloodlines is a bit weird, to be honest its a bit more Deus Ex mixed with Mass Effect.

played as rookie on the hardest setting.

Game is fun and the gameplay is very smart actually.
Unfortunately my HDD fucked up before finishing the game and I dont really feel like reinstalling it.

VtMB sure is overrated around here. The last 1/3 of the game was terrible and the warrens is quite possibly the worst level ever seen in an rpg

My friend got this game but I scoffed at him when he said it was fantastic and what ME2 should've played like.

Was he actually right?

>>80035782
I don't think anyone has ever claimed the last parts of the game didn't suck. Too bad this game sucked all the way from the begining to the end.

I mean cheesy cringe worthy lines that are stupid as hell in every other conversation? Really obsidian?

>>80035890
Yes, if you can look over the bugs and some poorly implement ideas.

>>80035919
>I mean cheesy cringe worthy lines that are stupid as hell in every other conversation? Really obsidian?

>implying every suave line isn't leisure suit Larry worthy

>>80035890
ME2 is the better shooter, this is the better RPG.
>>80035919
That's Avellone. Full of snark and sarcasm, has to put it in everything he writes.

>>80035919
>cheesy cringe worthy lines that are stupid as hell
Sorry, couldn't hear you over your shirt.

http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/110/1104003p1.html

You may like it, but the poor sales mean they've ruled out making the intended sequels. It's a dead franchise before it even got started.

>>80035919
ME2 vs AP is kinda like some perverse case of inverted percentiles of genres in the mix.
ME2 is more TPS and less RPG, while AP is the opposite of that, with RPG part being the dominant one.

>>80036129
Poor sales? Hasn't it been out something like 3 months?

>>80035919
That's what the suave personality is

If you don't like it pick Professional or Agressive

>>80036129
Sega ruled it out, but Obsidian owns the property. They just need to find someone willing to fund it.

>>80036266
there has never been a property more FUND IT worthy than AP2

FUND IT, SOMEONE

>>80034465

No, fuck you Brayko and your cocaine sniffing habit.

I 'forgot' to do one mission (did if after the following and got a whole different ending (Where Heck guns down Scarlet)

>start Alpha Protocol thread on release
>ENJOY YOUR SHITTY MASS EFFECT CLONE OP AHAHAHAHAH SAGE

>See Alpha Protocol thread now
>Why did no one buy thiiiiis ;_;

I don't understand you sometimes OP

>Fuck Mina toward the end of the game
>Leave her in jail and escape with Steven
>TOTAL FUCKING BRO

>MY FACE AT THE ENDING

>>80036424
That bit was wierd

>Spare him, thinking I'm just not killing him in cold blood
>This somehow means that I'm actually just leaving him despite fucking up his whole mansion and all his men, and for some reason he is also my ally

what

I'd give it 7/10
$25 worth with a solid story and decent gameplay.

>>80036424
>cocaine sniffing habit

>For you see, I have a mission and you, my friend, ar the only person who in all the world can accomplish this feat of daring and skill: I need a giant supply of Peruvian cocaine laced with rat poison delivered to the mansion of a sociopathic Russian mob boss.

>>80036533
It depends on how you treat him, the first time I went through it, he was arrested.

>>80036070
But Mass Effect isn't meant to be a shooter.

>>80036513
>fuck all bitches
>kill your former boss
>get hired by the evil CEO
>share a cigar with him

BEST ENDING EVER

>>80036702
>fuck all bitches
>kill your former boss
>get hired by the evil CEO
>share a cigar with him
>murder him and usurp his role
BETTER ENDING EVER
Seriously though, I usually go moralfag ending, but on that playthrough I went full-on "what if?" mode and I feel all the better for it.

I was a bit disappointed after my recruit career (Second playthrough after a freelancer Sabotage/martial arts/tech/Pistolier, couldn't quite grasp stealth YET due to yellow arrow messing my flow) that you couldn't choose more of them "Hey, I'm a desk jockey, stop throwing shit at me" lines.

Veteran lines are hilarious. "STOP WASTING MY TIME OR I'LL THROW SHIT AT YOU."

Waifu rankings

1) Sie
2) Sis
3) Scarlett

99999999999) Mina

>>80036646

O_O You mean Steven Heck.. *starts in Taipei next playthrough*

>DUMP ALL POINTS INTO MELEE AND TOUGHNESS
>DON GRIZZLY BEARD, SUNGLASSES, AND BEANIE

BEAR THORTON REPORTING FOR DUTY

i hope this goes on sale again ;__;

>>80036686
too bad. because that is exactly what it is.

A corridor shooter

>>80036902
cuz reel spies are supa cool emo goths rite guize?

Well I'm intrigued. Getting it now, hope you're not all just trolling us here.

>>80036902
I think you meant Madison instead of Mina.

>>80036905
Heck's a total bro. No other man would kill someone by jamming communion wafers in their throat. No other man would do a drive-by on a subway car with a mounted machine gun. No other man would torture his assistant so he can find his keys. No other man would relate the price of strawberries to mind control.

>>80037046
I doubt anyone's trolling. Fucking tons of great games came out this year that got overlooked because they weren't hyped to fucking hell and back and spammed threads on /v/.

I just can't tell if I want to wait for the next steam sale to buy it or if i should just cough up the $30.

I liked how at the end the game likes to list all the stuff you did with that comm guy you met in the tutorial

NO ACTUALLY YOU WORKED IT OUT ALL WRONG BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T REALISE I DID: *events of the game*

And he's just like oh shit

>>80037046
It's really a great game. The problem is that reviewers and some very vocal assholes on /v/ are addicted to polish.

Polish is the finalizing aspect of games that push it from a nice game to an AAA game. They're that extra focus on animations, tightening graphics, tightening controls, eliminating bugs. It really doesn't matter what sort of substance a game has, if it's polished reviewers and the mass public eat it the fuck up.

This is why Halo, Mass Effect, Call of Duty, etc are all widely loved, not because they have any real depth or substance or uniqueness (which are the aspects many /v/irgins look for and love) but because they are average games with a far above average layer of polish to them, mostly due to the very substantial amount of funding the development teams get.

>>80036902
I knew Mina was the perfect waifu when she recognized the arcade by the sound of a game she used to play.

>>80037016
She's not a spy, she's a bodyguard/assassin.

I bought this on Steam last week when it was on sale for $7.50.

I've only played part of the tutorial level, but I've thoroughly enjoyed what I did play, and really really want to play the rest of it. I can't seem to get a smooth framerate though.

The first movie with the plane taking off stutters for about 5 seconds and then plays normally, and when I'm running around the screen jumps sporadically when I swing the camera around making looking, running, and aiming accurately almost impossible.

I even put everything on low and still no improvement at all, and my PC should be able to handle this game no problem. wtf :/

Maybe the sales on steam will convince them to give the sequel a second look

Maybe...

>>80037231
I'd argue with Halo, but you're right with ME and CoD (at least every entry aside from 1 and 4). A game doesn't need depth but they push incomplete and unrefined gameplay and hide it through copious amounts of polish. I love presentation in a game but what's underneath that is just as important.

>>80037251
God damn, I just remembered that. GOTYAY. I bought it on launch and I don't regret it for a moment. Still do a playthrough every now and then and get a slightly different story each time. I was so pissed at the time that I was apparently the only person in the world who liked this game.

>>80037264
I want to stab her character designer in the face.

Her fucking shoe is untied.

Steven Heck could take on Doomguy.

>>80037231
>>80037231
>>80037231
motherfucking best post on /v/ right now.

>Have been meaning to buy this game
>was out of town last week
>didn't know about the sale
FFFFFFFFFF-

In Gameinformer they implied that your choices don't matter in this like they do in Mass Effect.

lol'd.

>>80037354
Have a google around. You can fix this by fucking around with the .inis a bit. Sorry I can't be more precise than that.
It's Obsidian, so you'd expect a bit of shit like that, even if it is unfortunate.

>>80037354
That's the UE3's wonderful texture streaming at work. Because the platform they designed it for has less than 512 MB of RAM.

obsidian is one of the last good developers out there (that isnt indie as fuck).

So many great decisions in this game.
Loved the weapon system. Pistols, smgs, shotguns, rifles all usefull in their own way. The upgrades werent
>hurrdurrr +5
like in so many shitty games.
Choice and Consequence. Its everywhere in this game.

Loved the stealth skills as well. Very playable game with tons of different viable character builds.

Dialogue system was goldren, much much better than Mass Effect ever could hope to achieve.

The "minigames" were also great. Hacking and Lockpicking were actually little challenges and you couldnt expect to win everytime and open every lock (if you werent a pro lockpicker).

Again in comparision to ME2 where hacking was just a waste of time since it was so easy that it had no point at all.

one of the few modern games that isnt casual as fuck

>>80037354
Look up how to disable mouse smoothing.

ALBATROSS IS THE ONLY ALLY YOU SHOULD HAVE HAD

ALL THE REST WERE MORALLY DUBIOUS FAGS

>room full of enemies
>stroll in
>chain shot
>six bodies hit the ground
>moonwalk to exit

>>80037523
Fucking amazing. I love Mass Effect and all, but Jesus Christ. An E-Mail in the sequel is a bigger deal than a story rewriting itself when you kill one of the main characters? Haha, oh wow

>>80037264
the absudity of that makes me glad this game flopped. i hope they are all fired too.

>>80037573
>Very playable game

Wow, i knew that /v/ was filled with pathetic shit eaters but this one really takes the cake!

>>80037573
Lockpicking and bypassing were effortless with a mouse. Hacking was awful, use your EMPs for hacking, never play that stupid game.

Same, haven't finished yet but really enjoying it a lot.
Stealth pistol spy feels better than SCC

I work at EB and I always tell my co-workers that this game is pretty good and they're like HAW HAW NO WAY.

>>80037678
Quite a few were laid off after it bombed. But Obsidian's in better shape now that New Vegas is a multi-million selling hit.

>>80037622
I had Albatross and Heck backing me up the whole way.

Holy fuck was that balance hard to maintain, you seriously have no idea.

So.

Steven Heck.

Bro, or broiest bro to ever bro?

>>80037573
I wouldn't jump ship with that post.

Obsidian has fantastic concepts but until they get more-than-competent programmers they're still down on the list. Not to mention they're slightly arrogant from what I've heard. they're not bad, they need to really refine their management and studio and programming to become great.

Also casual isn't a bad thing.... it's just terrible in certain aspects. Case in point is Mass Effect. What happened to AP gameplay is what should've been ME, albeit more refined, not scrapping literally EVERYTHING and just making the game a bare-bones shooter. Worse is that the story wound up suffering as well so there was literally no excuse for the streamlining.

>NOt a single comment about how OP martial arts are

On that mission where you have to bodyguard the russian guy my pistol wasn't killing them fast enough so I just ran right at them and knocked them all out

Took a few tries but it works

The conversation system is how Mass Effect should be, which is odd because reviewers said AP's choices had no effect. They actually had more of an impact on the story, as the outcomes weren't obvious "HURR YOU WILL BE HATED FOR RAPING THIS BABY" or "DURR YOU WILL BE LOVED FOR GIVING THIS BABY 200 CREDITS". The characters (except for Thorton) were brilliant, particularly Marburg and heck (bro4lyf). The gameplay itself was a mixed bag. I played a stealth/pistol character, so when I had to fight early on in the game (that Arab boss) I was fucked. But then I got the chain shot and the aim crits from cover ability and became a rape factory. The final level was full of surprises for me Scarlet was the assassin in Taipei, Mina sent the initial missle attack, that old intelligence guy is a bit of a dick, Bromen is still a cool guy. A very good game that was hailed as shit by /v/ kids because reviewers weren't paid off to ignore the lack of polish, but which will become the new God Hand in three years, with all of /v/ claiming to have loved it forever.

I recently got this, and pretty much went the JUSTICE KIND GUY path.

I let the arms dealer live, but he got arrested.
I killed the muslim dude shaheed or something.
I was pretty friendly with everyone after that, even that guy that killed madison.
I let everyone but the guy i thought was trying to assassinate the prime minister live, killed him outright for all the trouble he put me through.
I loved how G22 and that mob guy both helped me on the same mission
I WAS LIKE WTF WHEN SIS AND G22 ATTACKED ME since i did russia after taipei
Right now I'm on the last mission, took Sie as my handler and just let scarlet out of that room.

>>80037932
Profacts for you brother: Reviewers didn't think the choices mattered because they let one guy play through it once in two days and then scratch out a review on it before he left for his lunch break.

>>80037932
The Saudi boss is actually the easiest with a stealth build. Sneak up there and you take him out in a cutscene. It's actually very misleading since you get the option to respec after that mission and you're not yet aware that the other bosses can't be skipped like that.

>>80038095
You also get a special golden weapon for killing him with the stealth route

>>80038095
Hmm I should have tried that. I ended up using grenades on him. Marburg was hard too, as I fought him before getting crit from cover. Russian man was a bit of a bitch at first, but I learned to chain headshots, run, wait for chain to recharge, and repeat. Omen was pretty easy, but I killed Leland the fastest because I killed him with 5 chained headshots and then a few random shots as soon as the battle started.

>>80038196
I think you always get that regardless whenever you kill a boss. Except Sis, no twin revolvers for you.

>>80037932
>>80038054

Its proof why you should NEVER read reviews.

>>80038308
>he killed sis
bastard

GIVE IT UP DENG
no
>50 punches to the face later
HAHA I STOPPED YOU
anyone who never put anything into martial arts is an iidot

Got it during the sale as well. There are some things I'm not happy with, like the mouse controls during a hacking segment, but I love it, for the most part. Playing through as kind of a jackass. Willing to do whatever it takes to get it done, though that has, so far, rarely extended to finishing somebody off, since they're more use to me alive in most cases. Love fighting with a pistol and silencer, with Chain Shot, the rape train comes to goddamn town. Also using martial arts, which can dish out some pretty nice pain, but holy shit was the Brayko fight a bitch until I started spamming Chain Shot.

>>80037932
>A very good game that was hailed as shit by /v/ kids because reviewers weren't paid off to ignore the lack of polish, but which will become the new God Hand in three years, with all of /v/ claiming to have loved it forever.
Fucking this. It kind of pisses me off because when me and the like 10 other guys who bought it on release tried to talk about it, our threads got trolled to Oblivion. I guess /v/ really does hate good vidya.
>>80038295
You know you can take him out with one punch, right?

>>80038662
>spare Deng
>he was trying to prevent the assassination
>the president gets shot as we speak
>he survives as he was wearing a vest like I told him to
>everything went better than expected

I like AP because it tends to hide its linearity when you replay it. Unless you make the EXACT same choices the chances are that the game will throw you a curve ball and change something depending on your current choices so it won't be exactly the same game except it's HURR GOOD or DURR EVIL run. Like, certain individuals will die, others will live, you'll get different backups and intel depending on who you're friendly with, etc.

>>80038662
I figured out how necessary it was after Marburg's mansion. Needing to run in circles for half an hour and throwing occasional and frequently blocked punches was a bitch.

>>80038712
I was the 11th guy.

I didn't buy it on release, but somebody decided to stream it one day and he even reloaded the game to show the different outcomes. I enjoyed it and wanted to buy it, but didnt have the money at the time.

So, outside of sneaking up on the Saudi boss, who would you say is easiest? I'm giving it to Championchik. His punches are weaker than Brayko's knife, and you can outrun him. Plus he doesn't seem to fight at range. Pistol+Chain Shot takes him down in no time.

>>80038712
I was one of those 10. I was home alone the weekend of release, so spent the whole time playing AP, eating pizza, drinking beer, and masturbating. Weekend of the year.

>>80038786
You get the better end if you let him die, the riots are far more damaging. The same is true for all the hubs, "failing" your mission ends up with better results.

I have to say that I enjoyed Alpha Protocol more than New Vegas at the very least.

>>80038929
You can also one-shot him with Brayko.

>>80038929
Oh fuck I forgot about Championchik. I was shitting myself when I saw I had to fight him, then I realised he has fists, and I had guns. I just ran and headshotted him like I was playing CoD.

>dat yacht level

I was like a fist of the motherfucking north star, stealth edition.

>>80038959
Let who die? Deng or President?

Heck was an annoying LOLRANDUM fag and Michael himself is the most wooden main character I've played in recent memory.
He deadpans well enough sometimes, but I wish Mike didn't sound so bored in all of his lines.

>>80039123
The President. Leaving Deng alive leaves you a connection to use against Parker.