Interesting Alpha Protocol preview

[Clockwork Knight]

If my life would suck, wouldn't playing a play boy spy be perfect for me? You are wrong, sir.

what about a knight in shining armor? Or a mage that is admired for being extremely nerdy and antisocial, instead of despised?

Generic D&D style fantasy setting is far more lame.

OH SHI-

 

[Ghoulem]

IT IS POSSIBLE TO TOTALLY AVOID COMBAT IN ALPHA PROTOCOL

 

[entertainer]

THATS KIND OF AWESOME

 

[MetalCraze]

I believe that's a PR stunt - Obsidian has no talent to pull that off - or they simply talk about shooting enemies with non-lethal weapons which doesn't change anything (Therefore it is totally impossible to avoid combat in AP). This especially smells of bullshit considering that there are triggers that make enemies appear out of nowhere and attack you as evidenced by gameplay videos.

 

[Kingston]

I believe that's a PR stunt - Obsidian has no talent to pull that off - or they simply talk about shooting enemies with non-lethal weapons which doesn't change anything (Therefore it is totally impossible to avoid combat in AP). This especially smells of bullshit considering that there are triggers that make enemies appear out of nowhere and attack you as evidenced by gameplay videos.

Yea, you probably just use "non-lethal takedowns on enemies". But I'm sure that quote proves one thing - you can get through the game without killing any of the main plot characters. That's something at least.

 

[Ghoulem]

Almost like Oblivion.

 

[poocolator]

and some of the dialogue seems a little stuck between the rock of run-on exposition and the hard place of attempted James Bond camp.'

Yeah... because the developers can't decide if they want to please the console kiddies or people who can read.

 

[Dickweed]

I believe that's a PR stunt - Obsidian has no talent to pull that off - or they simply talk about shooting enemies with non-lethal weapons which doesn't change anything (Therefore it is totally impossible to avoid combat in AP). This especially smells of bullshit considering that there are triggers that make enemies appear out of nowhere and attack you as evidenced by gameplay videos.

It doesn't take talent to pull off when you consider that Alpha Protocol is a spy game and that means that it probably just involves going around enemies without them seeing you. You people seem to think it would involve actually writing good dialogue and sensible choices.

 

[MetalCraze]

It doesn't take talent to pull off when you consider that Alpha Protocol is a spy game and that means that it probably just involves going around enemies without them seeing you.

Except it does. All Obsidian games had nothing but MMO grind gameplay to this point. And judging by video AP's gameplay sucks really hard. You don't need a talent to make MMO grind, for everything else to be fun you do.

 

[Dickweed]

Except it does. All Obsidian games had nothing but MMO grind gameplay to this point. And judging by video AP's gameplay sucks really hard.

It takes talent to make all the enemies in a game look one way and make your character move around in the other direction?

 

[Emotional Vampire]

Skyway, you never played a MMO in your life.

 

[MetalCraze]

Yes it takes a talent to make enemies do something else than look for hours at the wall so you can walk past them. You confuse a crappy implementation with a really good stealth gameplay like in f.e. Thief.

Skyway, you never played a MMO in your life.

But of course - I don't play games, only bitch about them.
NWN2/KotOR2 gameplay is exactly like MMO grind - lots of boring enemies - click on them and watch your characters auto-attack them while you make him drink potions or cast spells if he is a mage. Storm of Zehir in fact had even more awful gameplay than some MMOs. In Lineage 2 f.e. dungeons weren't two rooms at least.

 

[Dickweed]

Yes it takes a talent to make enemies do something else than look for hours at the wall so you can walk past them. You confuse a crappy implementation with a really good stealth gameplay like in f.e. Thief.

You confuse me saying that Obsidian is going to make enemies look for hours at the wall with me saying that the game has really good stealth gameplay. I think you maybe caught a touch of the retarded I had going on a bit earlier.

 

[MetalCraze]

All right, I concur.

 

[Dickweed]

It doesn't take talent to make a spy game that doesn't force you to kill people when they'll probably just use stealth to do it.

Except it does.

No it doesn't, now I'm going to restate the exact same argument but imply that it means Alpha Protocol's a shit game at the same time.

I suddenly agree with you.

 

[Trithne]

It doesn't take talent to make a spy game that doesn't force you to kill people when they'll probably just use stealth to do it.

Except it does.

No it doesn't, now I'm going to restate the exact same argument but imply that it means Alpha Protocol's a shit game at the same time.

I suddenly agree with you.

Decline of skyway?

 

[GMonkey]

No one here knows whether Alpha Protocol will suck or not, but Skyway decided it sucked as soon as he knew it was done by Obsidian.

Now, maybe he's right, maybe he's wrong, but regardless, he's still a fundamentalist idiot who draws conclusions before having any info whatsoever to make a decision.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

But Skyway decided it sucked as soon as he knew it was done by someone

fixed. He's probably right anyway. :declineofhope:

 

[Darth Roxor]

But Skyway decided it sucked as soon as he knew it was done by someone

fixed. He's probably right anyway. :declineofhope:

It can't be worse than FO3 :wink wink nudge nudge:

 

[Clockwork Knight]

 

[poocolator]

I suddenly agree with you.

Decline of skyway?

More like :inclineofskyway: for dodging the troll.