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Game News Mass Effect felt more RPG than Alpha Protocol.

DarkUnderlord

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<a href="http://news.spong.com/article/19269/SEGA-Sony-Meeting-Leak-The-Details">SEGA uploads notes of meeting with Sony to webserver for ultimate win</a>:
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<blockquote>SCEA Meeting Aug 5th Notes
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Aug 6 2009 – DRAFT FOR COMMENTS
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Alpha Protocol
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Michael Foster, product evaluator, said AP felt barely RPG. Initial level too challenging for players. “Mass Effect felt more RPG.”
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Review notes sent to John Merlino a few weeks prior. After meeting Gerald mentioned AP is a high priority for his team.</blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=36612">You can read the fun here too</a>.
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Thanks <b>Satori</b>!
 

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Wait a second - existence of challenge in a game means it is not a RPG?

The fuck?
 
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Someone already said it in the other thread, but this "challenging" might not refer to the game's difficulty, but to shitty design decisions, like constantly respawning enemies (makes things hard, but is retarded). Or Orc Caves. Or simple things made complex for the sake of (bad) complexity.
 
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Codex should make a game, INTERNETSPACE: TORMENT, where The Anonymous One, who cannot be banned, follows a trail of hints leading to answering the question: "What is a computer role-playing game?".
 

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So you wake up in a place called Retardo Land with small pieces of paper stabled into your back, and a flying manstructiclops to guide you through.
 

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I don't see how you can infer anything from these statements. Maybe the game has too few dialogue trees, maybe it had too little customization, maybe the combat feels very actiony maybe, maybe there are too few leveling options, maybe he thinks Oblivion is the best RPG ever.
 

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Best case scenario: This means that Alpha Protocol might be better than I thought it would be.

Worst case scenario: By 'challenging' the guy meant that he ran into at least ten different game breaking bugs thinking that they were supposed to be a part of the game, and he had to restart every single time.
 
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racofer said:
So you wake up in a place called Retardo Land with small pieces of paper clipped into your back, and a flying Clippy to guide you through.

clippy.jpg
 

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Wyrmlord said:
Wait a second - existence of challenge in a game means it is not a RPG?

The fuck?
:smug:

Emotional Vampire said:
Codex should make a game, INTERNETSPACE: TORMENT, where The Anonymous One, who cannot be banned, follows a trail of hints leading to answering the question: "What is a computer role-playing game?".
racofer said:
So you wake up in a place called Retardo Land with small pieces of paper stabled into your back, and a flying manstructiclops to guide you through.
THIS THREAD IS LIKE APHATMC~'S. BOTH CARRY POTENTIAL IN THEIR POSTS. WHEN TEMPERED WITH BUTTHURT AND SCORN, THE POTENTIAL SURFACES.
 

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Like I said in the other thread, disliking AP while praising the new Sonic games in the same breath sounds more like a glowing positive for AP then anything else.
 

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Emotional Vampire said:
Codex should make a game, INTERNETSPACE: TORMENT, where The Anonymous One, who cannot be banned, follows a trail of hints leading to answering the question: "What is a computer role-playing game?".

No, the question should be "What can change the nature of a computer role-playing game?"
 

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Emotional Vampire said:
Codex should make a game, INTERNETSPACE: TORMENT, where The Anonymous One, who cannot be banned, follows a trail of hints leading to answering the question: "What is a computer role-playing game?".

No, the question should be "What can change the nature of a computer role-playing game?"
 

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Serus said:
I tought it already happened, crpg changed their nature to shitty action games with stats in last ~10 years. Find the guilty you will find the answer...
I am that which walks with all gameplay. My voice is a clikfest battle, a last move in the QTE, the clicking in a minigame.
 

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Clockwork Knight said:
Or Orc Caves.
Thousands of Commie spies in the first-level sewers.
Cast buffs then use machine gun to defeat.
Elzair said:
Emotional Vampire said:
Codex should make a game, INTERNETSPACE: TORMENT, where The Anonymous One, who cannot be banned, follows a trail of hints leading to answering the question: "What is a computer role-playing game?".

No, the question should be "What can change the nature of a computer role-playing game?"
Apparently inundating marketing targeting casual gamers.
 

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Emotional Vampire said:
Codex should make a game, INTERNETSPACE: TORMENT, where The Anonymous One, who cannot be banned, follows a trail of hints leading to answering the question: "What is a computer role-playing game?".

It would feature a Casual incarnation (good), Hardcore incarnation (practical), Weeaboo incarnation (paranoid).
 

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Lockkaliber said:
Emotional Vampire said:
Codex should make a game, INTERNETSPACE: TORMENT, where The Anonymous One, who cannot be banned, follows a trail of hints leading to answering the question: "What is a computer role-playing game?".

It would feature a Casual incarnation (good), Hardcore incarnation (practical), Weeaboo incarnation (paranoid).

And the very last encounter in the Fortress of Loadgames would be the main character's long lost identity - The Roguelike One.
 

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And the Lady of Penis would trap you in a Mansion plane with your followers, the tranling Amannda and tranar'ri Fall-From-Gender.
 

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Hory said:
And the Lady of Penis would trap you in a Mansion plane with your followers, the tranling Amannda and tranar'ri Fall-From-Gender.
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Would lol again.
 

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