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jojoinnit posted:I've played AP all the way through and I had no idea the scenarios changed depending on your responses, I thought it just changed what they'd say to you. Haha no this isn't yet another seasonal telltale game. But rather a gem of effort forged under the belly of sega.
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I didn't find out the truth about the sketchy Russian dude at the embassy until like my 3rd or 4th play through. That's a whole mission that I had never seen until after beating the game multiple times.
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WeaponGradeSadness posted:I didn't find out the truth about the sketchy Russian dude at the embassy until like my 3rd or 4th play through. That's a whole mission that I had never seen until after beating the game multiple times. "Your bodyguard is winning gold medal in dying" is one of the most amazing lines in that game.
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TomViolence posted:Alpha protocol is the reason I'm stoked as all gently caress for Tyranny coming out. Goddamn right bro, as much as I love NV and PoE, a shorter, tighter game that hopefully has a lot more reactivity and depth (but with enough time in the oven) is my jam.
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theshim posted:The best part is if you team up with his patsy instead of killing him. I gave him 6.4 on the dismount but he did not stick the landing
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And of course another one of the best things you could get in your spy house was the sound system that lets you play TURN UP THE RADIO when you want. I love that song because of Alpha Protocol, and I crank the volume up in my car whenever the dadrock station puts it on. Here. You're welcome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAJV2va9V9A
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That fight can be really hard and that song being fantastic goes a long way to alleviate the frustration.
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Lotish posted:That fight can be really hard and that song being fantastic goes a long way to alleviate the frustration. And to expand on the "can be", as I'm sure has been done in previous iterations of the thread, at one part of the game, you infiltrate a Russian gangster's mansion and take him on. The fight can be toughened by the gangster snorting cocaine and becoming super fast and damage resistant and such. Friggin' superdrugs. OR you can taint the cocaine and make him super vulnerable to attack when he tries it instead.
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Olaf The Stout posted:My favorite villian in my megabeard autistic swamphat James Bond-wanna-be playhrough was Conrad... something? The main dude in Rome. He by far was the most psychologically damaged by my relentless corny dad jokes. Conrad is a local leader of an international mega-evil corporate conspiracy blah blah blah. What's great about him is he is a robotic professional but has no empathy or understanding of people. He promotes the wrong people all the time because he can't read them and talks like dorky competent robot, but he is an amazing agent and field worker. Basically he got promoted above his competency level, which shows how good obsidian writers are. I don't think you bone Conrad's daughter. Conrad is probably gay, judging by some completely optional commentary when you infiltrate his mansion. That chick is someone else's daughter and if Conrad causes something bad to happen to her you can tell her father and he goes apeshit on Conrad, which leads to one of the few times Conrad's unflappable demeanor shatters. The other time being, of course, your example.
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poptart_fairy posted:This works in reverse too! If you're cool and level-headed, with a reputation as such, but get angry at him during the museum level he will be insufferably smug and taunt you for getting under your skin. Jim Cummings did an incredible job with the voice acting on that guy. Likewise, if you're a professional most of the time with others and just exclusively act like an rear end in a top hat clowning him, he gets incredibly annoyed with you rightly acting like he's some nobody mid-boss.
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The reason Alpha Protocol is so fun is because you get to you play as Sterling Archer before the show was even around.
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Polaron posted:I don't think you bone Conrad's daughter. Conrad is probably gay, judging by some completely optional commentary when you infiltrate his mansion. That chick is someone else's daughter and if Conrad causes something bad to happen to her you can tell her father and he goes apeshit on Conrad, which leads to one of the few times Conrad's unflappable demeanor shatters. The other time being, of course, your example. No I'm pretty sure it was conrads daughter because I am the best spy in the whole world. *swamphat and beard clip through motorcycle helmet* Also conrads house is multiple stories of nude athletic Greek men wrestling. Like it's also a videogame level but he owns about a chiseled cubic acre of homoerotic two story rippling muscle men that you at one point run through the legs of. Olaf The Stout has a new favorite as of 08:49 on Apr 2, 2016 |
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Steve Shultz posted:The first time I played I turned off the (ingame) TV that was giving me my first mission briefing the instant my boss started talking to me and went '....ok gently caress what do I do?' The dialogue you get if you do this is great though. Your character says something arrogantly about how he can handle things himself and your boss essentially goes "wait, what" before being cut off. Polaron posted:I don't think you bone Conrad's daughter. Conrad is probably gay, judging by some completely optional commentary when you infiltrate his mansion. That chick is someone else's daughter and if Conrad causes something bad to happen to her you can tell her father and he goes apeshit on Conrad, which leads to one of the few times Conrad's unflappable demeanor shatters. The other time being, of course, your example. It's the daughter of the intel guy at Alpha Protocol.
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The first time I beat AP I was so professional Conrad got super impressed and actually joined me for the final segment out of pure respect.
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Tevery Best posted:The first time I beat AP I was so professional Conrad got super impressed and actually joined me for the final segment out of pure respect. playin it wrong
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Rigged Death Trap posted:playin it wrong The only way to play Alpha Protocol wrong is to only play it once though.
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Inzombiac posted:The reason Alpha Protocol is so fun is because you get to you play as Sterling Archer before the show was even around. I'll have you know Archer started in 2009.
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Lizard Wizard posted:I'll have you know Archer started in 2009. Huh, I thought the game was much older.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:playin it wrong Definitely
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Inzombiac posted:Huh, I thought the game was much older. I think you're just thinking that because it plays like a game from 1997. Alpha Protocol is tough because I love the writing and dialogue and reactivity as much as I actively hate the game part, and while I ended up deciding that it is not a good *game*, I've also put about 100 hours into it. timp posted:Oh, how perfect, I just beat Mass Effect for the first time ever last night. Not sure if someone already answered you, but I know there are tools out there to create a save for the import.
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If you played the super sociopath "aggressive" Alpha Protocol spy you could say/do some genuinely scary poo poo, one of my favorite lines of the game was one of the female characters saying "I'm starting to think you're as bad as Conrad is." To which your spy would stare her down and snarl out, "Well you're wrong, I'm worse." Which was objectively true by that point if you stopped and thought about it.
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Steve Shultz posted:You can kick open any door dramatically, and it seems to have no mechanical use. The F.E.A.R. 1 expansion packs let you open doors by kicking them, which is cool but pointless, or punching them, which is a bit silly.
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You can also slide-kick people, which is pretty hilarious for a game where everyone has guns and you can go into bullet time on command.
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Mierenneuker posted:You can also slide-kick people, which is pretty hilarious for a game where everyone has guns and you can go into bullet time on command. Don't forget the gun that literally nails people to the wall, and the one that just vaporizes soldiers in one shot, leaving a charred skeleton behind (my personal favourite  )
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Tonight I reinstalled natural selection 2 on a whim because a streamer I follow was playing it, which was surprising because I thought it had died out. Sure enough there were about 150 people online, including a surprising number of rookies, and the game is still the best. The game somehow went on for two hours and even though it was exhausting by the end, people were only leaving because they had to go to goddamn sleep. No matter how many times we thought "this is it, this has to be the turning point" the game somehow turned around again because the teams were communicating so well and countering each other's plans. I guess I'm just surprised at how much the game made that match actually fun when it should have been a two-hour stalemate and an utter slog. Even the matches where neither team can really break through for awhile can end up feeling really dynamic due to how differently the aliens and marines play.
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In Bloodborne, if you look into the gun's barrel you can see the quicksilver bullet in the chamber.
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In Rimworld, animals can get names when they nuzzle a colonist, and colonists get a mood boost when nuzzled. 
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I only started watching Archer because someone said it was a show where the main character was like the rear end in a top hat in Alpha Protocol. Had no idea Conrad would mock you if you were cool and break during his fight either. That's loving incredible.
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ChogsEnhour posted:I only started watching Archer because someone said it was a show where the main character was like the rear end in a top hat in Alpha Protocol. Honestly devs should just hire out Obsidian to make stories. Or just give obsidian a super competent dev and art team.
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Are there any AP references in Archer? One of the characters is also named Conrad 
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Swedish Horror posted:In Rimworld, animals can get names when they nuzzle a colonist, and colonists get a mood boost when nuzzled. Is this a new feature? I don't remember this happening in the colony where I bred Cobras.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Honestly devs should just hire out Obsidian to make stories. Or just give them the time needed to make games, because Pillars of Eternity is exceptional?
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Broken Cog posted:Is this a new feature? I don't remember this happening in the colony where I bred Cobras. I'm pretty sure it's been in since Alpha 12, but I only just started playing again since then.
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Mister Adequate posted:Or just give them the time needed to make games, because Pillars of Eternity is exceptional? Isn't that the game that was so buggy that double clicking on an item would permanently lower your stats?
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Guy Mann posted:Isn't that the game that was so buggy that double clicking on an item would permanently lower your stats? Large, intricate RPGs are always going to be buggy no matter who develops them, that bug in particular was so subtle that that not even players noticed it until after some time had passed.
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Guy Mann posted:Isn't that the game that was so buggy that double clicking on an item would permanently lower your stats?
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Guy Mann posted:Isn't that the game that was so buggy that double clicking on an item would permanently lower your stats? I'm not trying to say they were perfect or anything. There were some bugs in it, yes. They were not worse or more numerous than bugs in other games of equivalent scope. Obsidian gets treated like they make games of such impossible bugginess that 80% of players can't even reach the title screen, that's what bugs (  ) me.Lunchmeat Larry posted:it's also entirely mediocre in every conceivable way This ain't the unpopular opinion thread buddy.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Joke's on you, I don't see a popular opinion thread so you're not allowed to share yours anywhere I am undone 
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