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That was amazingly fun. Definitely worth the fiver. The best part for me, though, was that Wei somehow got a knife stuck in his head during the first (living) gang fight, and it stayed there the entire time. I guess he figured since all the dead people were up in HK now, he might as well just stick around too.
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Tell me about it, it's the greatest thing. I was having a devil of a time trying to fight off a bunch of 18k AND hopping corpses in a garage. No matter how many zombies I threw into engines or sawed the faces off, the last few would always get me. So screw it, it's a garage. Hopped in a car and started running ancient chinese undead down under my wheels. Then I started getting achievements for it.
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Oct 31, 2012 23:10
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This DLC is pretty great. In other news, it appears that Square-Enix threw Sleeping Dogs under the minibus: http://www.shacknews.com/article/76454/square-enix-projects-68-million-loss-cites-slow-sleeping-dogs 
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Oct 31, 2012 23:19
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Leb posted:This DLC is pretty great. In other news, it appears that Square-Enix threw Sleeping Dogs under the minibus: This is disappointing, though I'm not really surprised that they'd lay blame on a western title. Hopefully nothing bad happens to United Front. They seem like the type of developer that if given the right kind of support they will make a fun game.
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Oct 31, 2012 23:33
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gibbed posted:The DLC price got bumped up to $6.99 on Steam for some Man I should have jumped on it when it was $5 on Steam but I take it GMG will give me a Steam code anyway? Leb posted:This DLC is pretty great. In other news, it appears that Square-Enix threw Sleeping Dogs under the minibus: Oh yeah, I'm sure losses from their arcade subsidiary didn't contribute much 
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reason, it's still $4.99 on GMG and GamersGate, no idea how long that will last.
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movax posted:Man I should have jumped on it when it was $5 on Steam but I take it GMG will give me a Steam code anyway? Yeah GMG spits out a steam code.
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I finished everything(except finding the 10pots) in maybe 2 hours. I didn't like the DLC. It started out good with solid writing and then it ended up as throw ghosts into energy portal and then kill the rest, or kill ghosts to get meter up and kill the demon. I didn't enjoy either of those 2 things and they are like 90% of what you do. I loved the main game and finished everything in it. During the whole game I never thought "ugh, do I really have to do this/do this again?" but I did during the DLC. A real bummer. Not worth the 7 bucks for me(xbox price).
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Leb posted:This DLC is pretty great. In other news, it appears that Square-Enix threw Sleeping Dogs under the minibus: Haha yeah I'm sure it was Sleeping Dogs and not Square's endless train of other flops. There's something really vindictive about how Japanese publishers treat Western developers.
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Nov 1, 2012 00:52
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The straw hat in the Ghost Pig pack is that awesome "over the face" hat from Big Trouble in Little China.
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Nov 1, 2012 02:33
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The most disappointing part of the DLC was that Dogeyes' voice actor was replaced with someone generic. I really hope they don't do this with future DLCs.
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Caufman posted:The most disappointing part of the DLC was that Dogeyes' voice actor was replaced with someone generic. I really hope they don't do this with future DLCs. Was he? Sounded like him just with a ghostly reverb effect to me, though I haven't played the story in this game in a while, so my memory might be hazy. Enjoyed the DLC, definitely worth it for $5, but I did feel a bit of fatigue towards the end. The final fight could really have benefit from not having you do the same thing, in the same pattern, twice in a row. And the Yaoguai, while an interesting idea and never really a chore, I think had a bit too much health. If you could take them down in one burst of Tea Fists instead of two, without needing the Shaolin Master outfit to get the necessary bonus damage, I think it would have been better. On the other hand, more Salty is great, the ghost chasing missions were fun as 'riffs' on respective missions from the main story, Wei is still a total dick, and running down chinese vampires in my bumblebee coupe is magical. "That's how it goes; burn down there, burn up here." 
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If I'm totally objective, I did feel a bit of fatigue towards the end too, but on the other hand I was going for full completion (which took 5 hours) so I spent an hour or so going around looking for hell shrines and the random peach wood swords so that I could get the stat awards before the final confrontation. I think burning through the main story alone would keep that manic energy and momentum going until the last. Oh, and I was delighted that I was able to find all 10 of the shrines myself. They don't mark them on the map this time, so you have to find them the old-fashioned way. Normally I hate such things, but there are only 10 of them, they are highly visible, and confined to a small area of the overall world map. As such, it made for a fun new thing to do hunting them down. Even better, if you stop to think about how you played through the main game, it is possible to work out where they are likely to be placed, and in most cases my guesses were correct. Felt like I was a proper detective using logic and reasoning to work out where to look for them. Yeah, I felt about it, but that's a nice feeling.I think burning though this DLC pack will be my new Hallowe'en tradition. Load up, punch vampires, good times.
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Nov 1, 2012 13:35
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Nov 1, 2012 18:15
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Yeah, driving around with a Jiang Shi in the trunk is the only way to go. This Nightmare in North Point easter egg video was just posted by someone, and contains main story spoilers so only watch it if you have finished the main game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3jg7Jf01Ng&sns=em
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Nov 1, 2012 18:18
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I think this DLC would have been much improved if all the music was really cheesy synth-y 80's music ala John Carpenter, but then again I say that about literally every piece of media ever made, soooo....
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Parkingtigers posted:Yeah, driving around with a Jiang Shi in the trunk is the only way to go. 
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I finished the main game yesterday. I don't have much to add about the game's strengths or flaws (everything that needs to be said probably has been...) but one issue I initially had with the game I enjoy a lot more in retrospect. Open world games in general are often criticised for a disconnect between the main character being a decent enough guy in cutscenes and the horrible behaviour a player commits as that character in gameplay. One issue in particular with Sleeping Dogs is that the cop skill tree is finished much, much earlier than the triad one, so while I was carefully avoiding civilians and property damage early in the game, by the end, I was mowing them down over the course of story missions to finish my goal quicker. What I realised is this isn't necessarily a design flaw; it makes sense in the context of the storyline. I, as a player cared less about my cop duties because Wei, as a character, cared less about them. He was more concerned with his fellow triads like Jackie and Winston, "becoming one of them" and working his way up for his own personal reasons; hence why getting a good 'Triad Score' was still important. I doubt this was intentional (although I don't see it as impossible) but either way, its an interesting match of storyline and gameplay mechanic.
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I dont know how I did it, but I managed to grab a demon during one of the portal fights. Usually at any other time, he'd vanish and I'd be unable to do anything to him. How did I do this?!
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Nov 2, 2012 06:35
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drat it Wei, I've had enough of your crap, I'm pulling you out.
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Hahah, that reminds me: Apparently combat is disabled in your apartment, but hostiles can still follow you in. So I just went and got drinks from the fridge, changed clothes, napped and tried to take a leak while a muttering, flaming demon was following me around in my apartment.
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Nov 2, 2012 06:59
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Ghost Pig?? It's Ghost Pig. It's free.
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Hate to double post but Nightmare in North Point is so goddamn dumb I love it. This is exactly how goofy seasonal DLC should be handled and I like that you can unlock outfits and vehicles by completing the little side fights. Also hilarious: trying to run down own of the big demons in your car. He teleports up onto the roof, opens the door, throws you out into the street and then runs away laughing maniacally. That's perfect.
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Yodzilla posted:Ghost Pig?? It's Ghost Pig. It's free.
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Yodzilla posted:Hate to double post but Nightmare in North Point is so goddamn dumb I love it. This is exactly how goofy seasonal DLC should be handled and I like that you can unlock outfits and vehicles by completing the little side fights. Haha yes this happened to me yesterday. I was barreling towards him thinking,"Welcome to the 21st century, bitch!" and then... welp!
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Nov 3, 2012 23:10
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I hit a random peach sword so hard whilst I was going around a corner that it spat me several hundred metres through the windscreen of my Blast. When I finally got back it was gone and apparently completed.
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Oh my God, the ending to Nightmare in North Point is the most amazingly, wonderfully cheesy thing I've seen from a game in a long time. I had a huge grin on my face at the end of it, what a fantastic little DLC 
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I know! In any other game I'd have gone 'THIS IS HORSESHIT!' but that ending is absolutely tone perfect. Also an easter egg: Head to the Golden Koi backroom when you dont have to go there.
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Leb posted:This DLC is pretty great. In other news, it appears that Square-Enix threw Sleeping Dogs under the minibus: This was probably the most entertaining and engaging game I played this year and definitely the most enjoyable Square-Enix one, not sure what they're on about
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terrorist ambulance posted:This was probably the most entertaining and engaging game I played this year and definitely the most enjoyable Square-Enix one, not sure what they're on about
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FronzelNeekburm posted:Given the lack of sales statistics, it's probably easier to blame the foreign developer's niche game than your giant, money-sucking pit of an MMO that you just rebuilt from the ground up because everyone hated it. Yea, I seriously doubt Sleeping Dogs did badly. It may not have sold as well as they wanted but it definitely isn't the cause of the money loss. FFXIV was and still is a mess and they're shutting down the servers to restart everything.
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Nov 4, 2012 20:09
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This game looked awesome but I opted against buying it because WoW sucked me in again at the last minute. Now that I've quit for the 4th and I'm hoping last time, I plan to pick this game up soon. Hopefully I can manage to wait for a Thanksgiving sale and save a little!
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It's worth the full price. Simply a fun, pretty, well-executed game that needs more love.
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isk posted:It's worth the full price. Simply a fun, pretty, well-executed game that needs more love. I spent around 22 hours on it to beat it, completing "most" of everything (I did all the drug busts and health shrines, didn't get all the lockboxes), and it was certainly fun and enjoyable. I did buy it on sale though, I don't think I would have spent the full $60 on this game, a little too short for my taste. I would have liked some more cop cases to be honest, that would have been an easy way to add a few more hours to the game, and could have been some good stories.
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I forget exactly how much I paid for it, but there was some kind of ridiculous sale shortly after it came out and I think it cost me about $30. It was fantastic value for that price, I've gotten 41 hours of gameplay out of it and there are still a couple of events/favors I haven't completed yet, and it's just a blast to run around getting into fights with thugs/going to the fight clubs. This certainly isn't the best game I've ever played (or even played this year) but it is a hell of a lot of fun that obviously had a lot of love poured into it. I really hope United Front don't get cast up as a sacrificial lamb for Square-Enix, who to their credit are the ones who saved this game from limbo in the first place.
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Megazver posted:It did 1.08 million on VGChartz and probably a decent chunk of sales on Steam. VGChartz is not a reputable source for sales figures unfortunately.
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I'm doing a mission with Old Salty Crab for the first time, he really does have the best loving lines in the game. "You're pretty AND smart!" "Huh?" "Heh I said uh..you're pretty smart." "Oh. Alright. You too Salty."
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Fuuuuuck! The straw hat? IT'S THIS HAT: But you cannot pair it with the Lightning warrior outfit to complete the look. Why would you do this United Front? WHY? 
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That was awesome, I wish more devs would give us short, cheap dlc that has some actual content and effort involved. This is like, the best type of dlc.
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