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Ordinary troops are ell easy to take out stealthed. Bosses are trickier though.

I've been playing the game for nine hours straight now and I must say I am impressed

So I'm sitting here playing AP right now I'll return later with some kind of review-ish post...

Well, I'm not surprised Alpha Protocol got a **** review on Gamespot. Let's see if it gets a lower score on IGN. I don't think there's any site that is so consitent in rating good games low and bad games high. Honestly, it might even be worth it to look through their lowest rated RPGs in order to find some good games. But seriously, even though I can't possibly regret buying the game on release date, I'd be disappointed if the game was as buggy as NWN 2 on release. Why all the bugs? Isn't it possible to learn from previous failings? Enough is enough. I've had it with all these mother****ing bugs in all the mother****ing games.

It's more like a list of the 100 worst video game villains, with a few exceptions such as SHODAN and Bob the Killer Goldfish. And it also seems they are strangely obsessed with the MGS series

LOL if you let reviewers decide for you what game buy/avoid i feel pity for you. If you can read IGN with a straight face, I pity you. I would personally buy Alpha Protocol just for curiosity even if reviews said it was worse than FO:PoS and Lionheart, but honestly, if you feel you need someone else's opinion in order to buy a game I have no idea why anyone would choose IGN.

It looks promising. I was aware of Dark Forces XL, but I had not heard of this remake.

Because it was a lot more stable. instability breeds discontent, which creates terrorism and extremism. Crazy arab dictators attacking each other is nothing new, it existed before saddam and it will exist after him. A huge country without stable government or agenda is a perfect environment for growing terrorist cells. The US has little or no goodwill in the Middle East, for lots of reasons. Primarily because of the unconditional support for Israel but also because of the support for the dictatorial regime in Saudi Arabia. Now, the core issue today in the Middle East is a conflict between Western culture and economical interests, and their "indigenous" counterparts. One of the (quite sane, I think everybody here can agree on that) objectives of Western countries is to topple governments which support terrorism or are making war. Now once again, look at the root of the problem. Why are all these people in turbans so angry? We've got two things: (1) Awkward policy in Middle East matters by Western powers in the past and (2) A Muslim cultural inferiority complex. Now none of those issues have ever been seriously given resources by any Western nation. Who actually supports the extremist governments? We want to culturally assimilate those, and we want to end the Israel/ Palestine conflict (which, due to years of negligence from Western powers has become one hell of a problem) in order to resolve the differences. So, what do the Western governments actually do? They send soldiers down to countries like Iraq, inflicting directly and indirectly massive civilian casualties and increasing the resentment felt for Western countries in the Middle East. I mean, imagine the reception of American soldiers in countries like Iraq. When the people see the American flag they will be like "**** no, it's the ****tards who keep the imperialist Israeli government in place" or perhaps with a slight islamist touch "OMG, it's the cultural enemies of my religion. Out with the infidels!". Now these kinds of quarrels can never be solved by guns. How are you going to gain these people on your side? Shoot them? Are you ****ing serious? It's exactly the same with North Korea. A war would result in immense casualties. Any embargoes are not only harmful for the population, but harmful for the democratic process. I say, try to smuggle into the country as much Coca-cola, hamburgers, Western movies and culture that is possible. The North Koreans don't know what they're missing. Honestly, looking at their state media Americans could as well be some kind of evil aliens as far as they are concerned. Remember how the Soviet Union fell? That had nothing to do with military might, the Soviet Union fell because when it's populace saw the Western lifestyle they wanted their share of it as well. If the North Koreans realize they can have a working economy and fashionous clothes if they overthrow the government, Kim-Il Jong will have no power. If you want to avoid people hurting themselves, simply avoid violence yourself. It's so ****ing easy. Violence is for really, really ****ing stupid people.

I'd say North Korea is just about the smartest country in the world. Without any real economy to speak of, armed with outdated WWII era military hardware and despised by just about every nation on this planet, it managed to make the world greatest powers (U.S, China, Japan, Russia) dance to its crazy tune. Had any other country in human history been able to pull off such feat? Cuban missile crisis. Oh come on. That wasn't caused by Cuba, that was caused by the Soviet Union. Also, that only involved the USA on the opposing side. It's funny, North Korea's largest threat to its neighbours is its own collapse, causing mass starvation of its own population and a tidal wave of refugees in adjacent countries.

Because SE's unannounced project is shocking and looking kick-ass and sweet. It cannot be Obsidian's. The shocking announced game... ANNOUNCED. Well, IMO Obsidian's other unannounced project now becomes more interesting

Fallout 3 does have a lot of funny references and details and a good atmosphere (although different from the originals) though. When it first came out I was positively surprised. On a scale where 0 is Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing and 100 is Torment I'd give Fallout 3 a score somewhere between 50 and 60. Based on the reviews I've seen thus far, Alpha Protocol would get a score somewhere around 80 on the same scale. But since none of the reviews have emphasized what I think is important in the game, that might be a low estimate.

A sequel in the Chrono Trigger franchise would own. But I doubt it's anything like that, I think it's a new/ relatively unknown IP (like Valkyrie Profile) or a FF spinoff.

I find it very strange that I like the Thief games better than System Shock 2, even though I always tend to prefer RPGs over action games. I wonder if Chris Avellone has played the Thief games much.

I think the AI of the reviewers was worse . LOL

The problem is that democratic elections are not respected. Thailand is currently under a military dictatorship of a minority, oppressing the political majority of the country. If their leader was corrupt, let him be persecuted. But it's still no good reason to ban his politcal party.

From what we've seen in previews and trailers the last few months, I expect to see scores around those. I believe I will like the game a lot personally, though.

Unless he's some sort of biological heat pump (now that would be something worth studying), I don't think so. It would have to be one hell of a "biological transformation" for him to go from being Krebs cycle-powered to photovoltaic, involving changes as insignificant as growing electric motors and/or electrochemical reactors. Plus, he doesn't look green to me, so that kinda rules out photosynthesis. I wrote all of that from divine inspiration, I have never opened a science book in my life. True story. I did not include in my post as an option that he had become photovoltaic, and even if that was the case he would not have to be green. Chlorophyll is but one of many photosensitizers, it just happens to be that chlorophyll reflects photons with the wavelength that contain the least amount of energy. (Please note that "green" photons are not individually of low energy, but since the solar spectrum on earth contains so few green photons the net energy potentially gained from these is marginally small) But please note that I don't think it's true that he could survive significant portions of his life without food. I just made a remark that theoretically, a system does not need "chemical energy" to maintain energy balance. Although speculating about whether a human could have changed biologically to no longer rely on chemical energy intake or not is far out, as far as we know alien or engineered lifeforms may feed wholly or partially on energy gained in any form.

Now that's BS. You can definitely survive longer than that without either food or water. Do you have any sources for your claim? It would take an individual in extremely bad physical shape/ in extreme conditions to die in a day without water.

If we ignore the biological complications and look at it from a physicist's point of view, he could maintain energy balance simbly by absorbing heat from his environment, for example. The real reason he could not survive without food is the chemical compunds a human being needs to maintain the body. Even if he has "changed biologically" he can't synthethize heavier chemical elements from the ones abundant in air.

I'm not surprised you can live for 15 days without food. Now, living you entire life since childhood without food is just crazy...

Wait, I can't see Greece on that list!

Basically an example which reinforces the stance that names are not important. While I applaud your laudable attempt to deligitimise the conflict in Northern Ireland, I think you're being a bit lala land. It makes a big ****ing difference because the name is practically written in blood. But Macedonia? FFS that's LITERALLY ancient history? Let the bugger's have it, and move on. If it gives them a sense of purpose and gives them a boost then so much the better. It would be the cheapest diplomatic manoeuvre ever since Menelaus left Paris alone with his wife. What do reasonable people care about how much blood has been spilled to name a city one thing instead of something else? Think that over. It's like saying we should take Bin Laden seriously because he is responsible for the deaths of so many. Names are only meant to be informative, and have an agreed upon meaning. Everything else about them is irrelevant.

Stockholm, Sweden EDIT: http://www.miloop.com/film_view.aspx?mm=7&movie=19809

I'd say, the more mature country should let the other one take any name they want. Basically an example which reinforces the stance that names are not important.