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Tupperwarez posted:Then I played the other DLC. Year of the Snake was great for more loose cannon antics. I was the best worst cop. "Shen, we need you to subdue som-- OK, you can kill them all with a shotgun, that works too. *long, pained sigh*"  Or bashing heads in with a phone in the phonebooths  Here's your phonecall!Tupperwarez posted:Missions were a little repetitive, but Shen's super-finisher on the hopping vampires is baller.
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Croccers posted:Kneecapping people with the Tear-gas grenade launcher. I enjoyed having Wei tackle and handcuff people who were clearly out on dates. "DATE'S OVER!" Wei's an rear end in a top hat with a badge and a teargas launcher!
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Croccers posted:Kneecapping people with the Tear-gas grenade launcher. My favorite aspect of Year of the Snake is that the most effective way to use the tear-gas launcher wasn't to try and gas people, but to just nail them square in the chest with the grenade. Wei Shen, rear end in a top hat cop. Man, now I want to play Sleeping Dogs again. I miss busting heads while riding high on a speedball of tea and pork buns.
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RandallODim posted:My favorite aspect of Year of the Snake is that the most effective way to use the tear-gas launcher wasn't to try and gas people, but to just nail them square in the chest with the grenade. Wei Shen, rear end in a top hat cop. That's why I'm replaying it now Game is still just as much fun the second time around.
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Dec 24, 2013 07:03
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RandallODim posted:My favorite aspect of Year of the Snake is that the most effective way to use the tear-gas launcher wasn't to try and gas people, but to just nail them square in the chest with the grenade. Wei Shen, rear end in a top hat cop. Being able to carry around a shotgun without everyone freaking out was great too. Especially since you usually get enough ammo with the free squad car shotgun to clean out the entire mission.
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Dec 24, 2013 10:19
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My only issue with Sleeping Dogs is that there's no real resolution between Wei and the people running his triad gang by the conclusion. Other than that, drat. Wei Shen is a perfect protagonist - broody and properly dramatic, but also capable of lighthearted crazytown antics. Also also, to help people play the shooting sections - even if you're about to lose slow-mo, aim for the headshot. A single headshot will renew the timer - allowing to chain entire rooms of enemies with one extended round of Bullet Time. It also makes you feel like a badass.
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Dec 25, 2013 05:50
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Narcissus1916 posted:My only issue with Sleeping Dogs is that there's no real resolution between Wei and the people running his triad gang by the conclusion. There is also no shame is doing laps around a single piece of cover to keep restarting bullet time with yet another slide. In fact, if you aren't spending most of your fights leaping over cover, consider if maybe you should be anyway.
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Just finished my second play, and I forgot how  the ending of the game was once you find Jackie's body disemboweled on a meathook, end up tortured yourself including having someone use a drill press through your leg, fight your way through mooks barely alive, drive a machete through the chest of your torturer, and finally kill the big bad by throwing his body into an ice chipper. Oh and then give Pendrew a quick and painful death sentence.
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Yeah, this game's plot goes loving bananas in the last half hour or so, but it's still super awesome either way.
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I bought the bundle with all the DLCs from Steam so after I finished the first mission I was given a ton of XP and all kinds of crazy equipment. I'm guessing this is because of the DLCs. I want to play the game, but this feels like cheating. Can I disable the DLCs so I can learn the game without all this gear tempting me? \/\/\/ Thanks a ton! Not_Rainbow_Horse fucked around with this message at 15:04 on Dec 25, 2013 |
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Not_Rainbow_Horse posted:I bought the bundle with all the DLCs from Steam so after I finished the first mission I was given a ton of XP and all kinds of crazy equipment. I'm guessing this is because of the DLCs. I want to play the game, but this feels like cheating. Can I disable the DLCs so I can learn the game without all this gear tempting me? Sadly the OP doesn't cover it (there was a writeup deep in the thread) but there's a select few DLC that don't add much substance to the game. The Red Envelope, Top Dog Gold+Silver and to some extent the High Roller DLCs all give you a headstart in a game that isn't very grindy or badly paced. Apparently you can remove their effects by taking out certain .dat files in the Sleeping Dogs folder inside steamapps. They shouldn't return unless you have to verify files. The link has the complete list if it's too much clutter for your liking. http://steamcommunity.com/app/202170/discussions/0/846945955286761354/ posted:1E6323E1.dat Top Dog Gold Pack # pure cheat
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CJacobs posted:Yeah, this game's plot goes loving bananas in the last half hour or so, but it's still super awesome either way. Oh I'm not complaining, the ending is terrific, it's just intense as hell. I hope we see Wei again, I love the character. Not_Rainbow_Horse posted:I bought the bundle with all the DLCs from Steam so after I finished the first mission I was given a ton of XP and all kinds of crazy equipment. I'm guessing this is because of the DLCs. I want to play the game, but this feels like cheating. Can I disable the DLCs so I can learn the game without all this gear tempting me? Yeah, remove the XP stuff. The equipment/costumes can either be useful - getting extra Triad/Cop XP - or fun if you want to ride around looking like Bruce Lee or Adam Jensen. Have fun, enjoy yourself, this is one of the best games I've played in quite some time. I may do a third run, which is something I never do for non-RPGs.
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If you have an XBox gold account Sleeping Dogs is free right now.
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Jonny Retro posted:If you have an XBox gold account Sleeping Dogs is free right now. So good  I'm really enjoying this so far. I will probably end up buying the PC version later, because this game is already way prettier than it has any business being on the 360. I really enjoy chucking dudes off of balconies and overpasses as an improvised environmental finisher.
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deadly_pudding posted:So good The better story DLCs are on sale too (Year of the Snake/Nightmare in North Point), if you are enjoying the game you may as well get them because they are pretty fun. Also the Dragon Master DLC is on sale which I like as well - it gives you a few replayable missions and I think cars/outfits. The other lesser story DLCs (Wheels of Fury and Zodiac Tournament) aren't on sale right now, but they tend to be pretty short anyway - WoF is a series of car missions, Zodiac Tournament is basically "Enter the Dragon."
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My favourite thing about Sleeping Dogs is how casually good at karaoke the voice actor is. And I don't know if it's been in any other open world games, but it's a better side-quest than anything GTA, Saints Row, rear end Creed etc have to offer.
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deadly_pudding posted:So good I had fun for literally hours (okay 2 hours) throwing people off those raised sidewalks into traffic.
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Year of the Snake has the best and most logical after game continuation, "Nice job killing every single suspect Wei, enjoy being a traffic cop you loving psycho."
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Jonny Retro posted:If you have an XBox gold account Sleeping Dogs is free right now. Jumped on this after months of anticipation. Anything I need to know? Anything game breaking or unable to change if I pick stupidly? Played about an hour and loved it instantly.
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TraderStav posted:Jumped on this after months of anticipation. Anything I need to know? Anything game breaking or unable to change if I pick stupidly? Played about an hour and loved it instantly. Not really, just eat your pork buns. No joke, always have buffs on.
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SirDan3k posted:Year of the Snake has the best and most logical after game continuation, "Nice job killing every single suspect Wei, enjoy being a traffic cop you loving psycho." "It's faster than writing out a ticket."
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There's not really any bad choices to make when levelling up, I think the only experience tree you can't complete both branches of with points to spare is the Triad tree, unless you buy some of the DLCs. Even then you end up like 2 abilities short.
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Croccers posted:Kneecapping people with the Tear-gas grenade launcher. Phone call and court appointed chest compression! 
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GreenNight posted:Not really, just eat your pork buns.
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So far I'm struggling with counters. I'm not timing them right and then stand there like a goof for five seconds unable to move. I'm sure I'll get it. Thanks!
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TraderStav posted:So far I'm struggling with counters. I'm not timing them right and then stand there like a goof for five seconds unable to move. I'm sure I'll get it. Thanks! The trick to counters is to only press the button once. Spamming it results in that "Wei stand around waiting to get punched in the face" thing. The window is pretty generous once you get the hang of it, and you can counter at any point in an attack animation. It's also not direction sensitive, so for fights where you're getting ganged up on if any enemy flashes red hit the counter button and Wei will do his kung fu magic. Some of the DLC outfits make the counter window last longer too, if you have some of those.
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Getting back into this after playing when the game originally came out. I got a bunch of DLCs, and while Year of the Snake and Nightmare in North point are in the menu, Zodiac Tournament isn't, although I think I saw the new island while beating up some zombies. Is the ZT activated it in-game somehow?
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mobby_6kl posted:Getting back into this after playing when the game originally came out. I got a bunch of DLCs, and while Year of the Snake and Nightmare in North point are in the menu, Zodiac Tournament isn't, although I think I saw the new island while beating up some zombies. Is the ZT activated it in-game somehow? To start ZT, there's a new mission waypoint on a dock in the main Sleeping Dogs game, you start it just like any other regular mission.
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Make sure you are ready for the tournament too, it's pretty tough. You'll want to be about halfway through the main story, with plenty of unlocked moves. I've always maintained it makes a perfect mid-point intermission to go off and spend an hour having a retro adventure.
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Ok, I've been reading this last couple of pages. I picked this up on Jan 1st when it was free for XBox Live Gold members and I'm loving it so far. I've gotten 60 or 70 percent into the game with no DLC, but I really want to buy some now since I've gotten so much enjoyment out of it so far for nothing. So, I should get: Year of the Snake, Nightmare in North and Zodiac Tournament? What about some of those other "dress up my doll" DLCs any of those any good? Should I wait until I finish the game, or buy them now?
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beerinator posted:Ok, I've been reading this last couple of pages. I picked this up on Jan 1st when it was free for XBox Live Gold members and I'm loving it so far. I've gotten 60 or 70 percent into the game with no DLC, but I really want to buy some now since I've gotten so much enjoyment out of it so far for nothing. The Wheels of Fury DLC gives you a couple of missions too, plus the car's fun to use. When it comes to costumes its mostly up to you. Triad Enforcer gives you arenas that allow you to grind Triad points. I personally like the Monkey King outfit. When it comes down to it Year of the Snake is the one you should really get just for the taser and tear gas launcher.
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This is a Steam daily deal now. Should I buy it?
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Yes because it is the best game.
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Great, now I can stop playing Banished and hoping and praying for the Stone merchants to arrive.
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warning, don't buy all of the dlc if you are. the extra content ones are great fun, (year of the snake, nightmare in north st, wheels of fury and whatever the fight club one is), the costumes are fine if you're into those, but there are also a bunch of shortcut dlc that just give you a bunch of money and xp at the start of the game and ruin the progression. I do recommend the triad enforcer pack or whatever it is as well, because triad xp is hardest to get and it's an easy and fun way to add bit more to it if you want to max out the tree (or grid it out early I suppose, since I don't think it has a limit on it). The game's a bit short but lots of fun.
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If you haven't tried the drunken master Wei Shen at least once, you haven't really played as Wei Shen. Also brutal taser cop Wei Shen. Aie me, this game. It is way too short, it should have been roughly two hundred times longer.
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Short games are best games. I've hit 100% on this game twice over, and have a third run in progress that I dip into now and again. Compare that with GTA V, which was really good but which just dragged on forever if you go for 100%. For me, the measure of the greatness of an open world game is how willing I would be to replay it, on the stipulation that a replay would require a full completion. I'd gladly find all the gangs, lockboxes, and cameras a dozen times over. I'd wipe the map clean in The Saboteur a second time (and I will as soon as I find a PS3 copy). No force on earth could make me endure the kifflom stuff in GTA V again, and I say that as someone that rates that game five stars.
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Yeah, I think I might actually enjoy the game more the second time around once the characters have all already grown on me. The character work in this game was way better than in GTA V. There were so many Triad guys I couldn't stand that I grew to really like, and that made me care way, way more about what happened to them and really made the end of the game feel like a revenge flick.
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I just wish they'd decide if they were going to make a sequel to this...
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Shooting Blanks posted:I just wish they'd decide if they were going to make a sequel to this... Have they ever come out and said exactly what Triad Wars is?
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