Alpha Protocol (Obsidian's new action-RPG)

[Flawless]

Re: Alpha Protocol (Obsidian's new action-RPG)

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[Pokes]

Re: Alpha Protocol (Obsidian's new action-RPG)

This is really all anyone needs to read:

No thanks. Still buying. I love how most of the reviews are for the most part positive, then one negative review comes out and everyone including people who haven't played the game act like its spot on.

[jmood88]

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No thanks. Still buying. I love how most of the reviews are for the most part positive, then one negative review comes out and everyone including people who haven't played the game act like its spot on.

No thanks what? I don't care if you're buying or not but that part of the review confirms my thoughts on the game based on what I've seen. As far as other reviews, I don't put too much stock in random foreign reviews from sites I've never heard of.

[Pokes]

Re: Alpha Protocol (Obsidian's new action-RPG)

No thanks what? I don't care if you're buying or not but that part of the review confirms my thoughts on the game based on what I've seen. As far as other reviews, I don't put too much stock in random foreign reviews from sites I've never heard of.

Fair enough.

[Pokes]

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[jfsolo]

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This is really all anyone needs to read:

You mean this is all YOU really need to read.

[NEOPARADIGM]

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I worked on this game (a fact of which I am not proud). I'm not here to defend it; I agree with all these reviews.

[...]

There was a ton of work put into this game. The problem is that is was a ton of undirected work, or work on things that were just stupid. The Executive Producer for the game, Chris Parker (also an owner of the company), seemed to think he was the world's greatest designer ever, and created all these absolutely ****ty systems and wouldn't listen to any of the real designers or devs about things that just didn't work. And you can't exactly argue with one of the owners of the company when he doesn't want to listen. He basically took over the game and dictated exactly how everything would work (or not work, as the case may be). The other producers realized this early on and just gave up, leaving Parker to micromanage all the designers and programmers directly.

Sega also was a factor, because they kept changing the design requirements (yes they had heavy influence there), which never gave the producers and designers time to actually decide on one set of features to make and polish. The blame is still mostly Obsidian's because the execution was absolutely terrible, and it was obvious 2 years ago that this game should have been scrapped. Instead, though, they focused on adding still more features and never fixed the ones they already had. That is a recipe for tons of bugs and no polish... as is obvious.

This game was just an absolute failure of production, and it's no wonder that so many of the developers left the company, even after the 40% staff layoffs. I am still happy about some of Obsidian's other current projects, New Vegas included, because they are going pretty well. Their big unannounced project is looking great and is already much better than AP ever was, and that may end up being the game that everyone was looking for with AP.

Sega should have canceled AP instead of Aliens...

http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/100/1003857/nhl-10-20090715111611321_640w.jpg

[Pokes]

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Disgruntled ex-Dev. Or someone playing a joke.

Anyway for people seriously considering this I found a stream that wasn't ridiculous for once.

Link.

[jmood88]

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You mean this is all YOU really need to read.

Nope, I meant if you're reading that review then that's all you need to read.

[Pokes]

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I think getting this on PC might be the way to go. This game has a decent graphics card and the visuals don't look bad at all.

Guess its like Dragon Age, beautiful game on PC but absolutely faded and bland on consoles.

[BlueNGold]

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http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/ar...11321_640w.jpg

Well that's telling....

[Pokes]

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Graphical Comparison:

PC:
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360:
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[bkfount]

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You can attach that sentence to pretty much anything Obsidian has ever made.

yeah, they have a line of rushed buggy games behind them. While stuff like KOTOR 2 and NWN2 was rushed by publishers, they had 4 years to work on this.

Hopefully New Vegas won't be a problem, as they're just using the same FO3 engine and all that, leaving them focusing on the story.

[Cyros]

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I want to know who ok'd that sneaking animation.

[Cusefan]

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I was really looking foward to this game, it really does look like crap though. I think I will probably buy it a year from now in the Bargain Bin.