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Why do I get the feeling I'm going to go freelancer first playthrough....
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Just the natural talent of raw oner-awesome?
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You get the choices of clothes / armor as you go through. Whenever you're in the safehouse I believe you can swap and change... Different types of armor relate in things like being able to carry more tech gear or having more effective armor..but then you have a downside of less stealthy. If you go for stealthy armor, you can't carry as much guns n gear... Things like that. Also civilian wear is available, and you can choose it for the appropriate venue... As was mentioned wearing heavy duty armor in the wrong places will get it mentioned and possibly effect how people view you... Lets hear it for .. Choice & Consequence people
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Hm, well the 4 years of Deutsche I took at school about 15 years ago didn't stick.. since I understood bloody little of that.. But I have to say, that's the sharpest and crispest I've seen AP looking in any of the trailers/previews so far.. Really don't see why people have been having issues with those graphics..
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How many used exclamation marks in the titles? Or were they all saved for the reviews comments?
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Yeah, in the UK a period always marks the decimal point.. while the comma is used to highlight the 1,000 mark and large numbers beyond.. A single space between one integer and another always suggests seperate numbers...
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The return to Civ IV and Beyond the Sword... My, it's amazing how much time can suddenly get sucked away when you planned to just "pop on and do a couple of things...."
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Dang it.. the trailers and such for this really give me a jonesing for some serious Western action.. but I'm going to have to wait the extra year or two before they get around to releasing it for the PC... Ah well. c'est la vie.
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The DRM on AP barely gives you a glance over. From the sounds of it, it's simple, smooth, non-invasive, and easy to deal with if anything screws up. You can't really compare it to the horror show that some DRM is these days... Although that's always a worrying yardstick to use.... "it's not as bad as other things" .. but seriously, I don't really see why people would have any problems with it. Especially after the whole "in 18-24 months we should be putting out a patch to remove the DRM."
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how i plan to play alpha protocol
Raithe replied to smitty1984's topic in Alpha Protocol: General Discussion
Heh, I quite liked reading those "background descriptions" of Michael in the different "classes" (Field Operative, Soldier, Freelancer and the other one..). They definitely help push to try playing multiple different styles... -
I could see the humour it was aiming for.. did put a light smile on my face.. but the music was a bit jarring for it. Still, whets the appetite for the different groups you might encounter in a couple of weeks..
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Thats nothing compared to Belgium, bro. Belgium is ruled by the minority. Of course, don't you know according to current standards of political correctness and general soft-shell fuzzy thinking, the majority is always in the wrong. Because it's automatically prejudiced against any minority group. Really. Always. So the minority groups have to be the only unprejudiced group to make decisions. Honestly guv.
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I'm sure we'd think of a few things... and most of them would even be legal.
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Not Related to AP per say; Why does everyone hate DRM?
Raithe replied to ltolman's topic in Computer and Console
As so many people do say, DRM can really depend on the type of DRM a game uses, and what sort of DRM people are used to... I mean, back in the day (oh for my youth...) the only DRM was either a serial key you typed in during install, or having to keep the cd in the drive (or even both..) . Then again, back in my reaaally youth, you had games that would prompt you now and then (sometimes in part of an in-game mini-game) to actually look through the manual for a specific page and type in that word, or select an icon or some sort of jibber-jabber like that... The internet opened up a wonderful wide world of DRM's that can be really annoying. Personally I'd steered clear of most games that required me to put in some third companies software, and create an account just to log in and play a single-player game that I'd bought.. and then I picked up GTAIV... oy vey.. that was an experience. Then I found I had to install Rockstar's Social Club doohickey.. put on Games for Windows stuff.. there I was thinking I could spend a happy few hours on christmas afternoon playing the shiny new game.... And instead I had to spend a few hours getting those "extras" installed (the joys of something glitching with something on my pc) and then having a dodgy internet connection that kept fluxing out as I tried to register so I could just login... That kind of set a sour tone. Then every time I hit play I had to go through ten minutes of running the social club, running games for windows, then getting into the game..... It's DRM Jim, but not as we like it.... Now we have the Ubisoft DRM as the complete boogeyman at the moment... It requires you to have a constant internet connection - for a game thats 1> single-player and 2> has no frikkin need of the internet apart from their DRM designs. That being, Ubisoft keep your save games... on their central servers rather then letting you keep them on your computer. The game you buy, and they don't let you keep your own saves.... So if you want to put your fresh new single-player game on the laptop while you travel... you can't use it. (okay, if you find a wifi hotspot, or want to pay to modem connect via your cellphone or the like..) but even then, if your internet connection goes dodgy you get dumped out of the game... Now that's why there's a whole heap of hate for Ubisoft DRM. Not everyone can guarantee a clean, smooth running internet connection. So why would you want to buy a game that doesn't even let you play it when you want it? On the current side of the equation, we have Alpha Protocol's declared DRM.. Unilock. 5 activations. That you can put on any computers you want to. You just need the internet connection to activate them, then no more worry. If you put it on a 6th, there's a nice option that offers to remove one of your previous activations.. Even if your computer wipes itself out before you can de-activate it, you can go to the Uniloc website and do it from them to open it up... and there's the mention that in a specific time frame, a patch will be out that will remove the DRM from the game.... All in all, that seems like a fairly fresh, simple, and (drumroll please) non-invasive way of handling it... -
Of course, most of the trailers and teasers have shown Moscow (outside, covered in snow) or Saudi Arabia (weapons depot, lots of barren, desert style rock)... Lots of white background or that brownish-orange.... That's always going to throw perceptions out somewhat.. And personally, I've never really been bugged by the graphics in AP.. I'm just wanting to sit down and play the damn game after all this time
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Actually you read a lot of positive comments on Bioware's games compared to other 'hardcore' RPG forums, and it seems that the crowd is very fair-minded here, with the occasional 'banal, boring, ****' comment overexaggeration. The only comments against Bioware fans I've seen it's for the excessive focus on romances of the community. Well, that and it's turned into a general forum in-joke to poke fun at the bioware threads and Uber-Fans ...
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Although the nation is peaceful, we do tend to keep having troops sent out to help others in peace-keeping situations. There was something like only a single year of the entire 20th century where no British soldiers were killed somewhere in the world.. Most of the post-WW2 era was the mix of UN "peace-keeping" around the world and Irish troubles related..
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St. Trinians 2 - The Legend of Fritton's Gold... Call me old school for enjoying the Ealing comedy stuff, but I still have a warm spot for the new St Trinians.. Although I think overall the first one was better , this sequel has some very amusing moments. But then part of the fun is the amount of in-jokes they have between Colin Firth and Rupert Everett. David Tenant's supremely over the top woman-hating psychotic evil mastermind is fairly entertaining as well. Then throw in Gemma Arteton's return with a nod to her Bond-Girl escapade - "So what do you do now Kelly?" "You know MI5? MI6? That was MI7..." Not to mention such as Talulah Riley and Tamsin Egerton in the standard St Trinian's uniforms for the slight perv factor
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My take on it (from what I've seen and read) is that you can travel back and forth between the hubs as you will.. but the missions / side-missions are more one off events. As in, you pick up a mission (via email, from handlers, or contacts etc) and then go off to that mission map. You get to perform the mission in the style and manner of your choosing, with various routes (stealth, combat, different approaches to the map so it's not all the same "proceed down corridor x then take corner y") but once that mission is done, you probably won't get to go back to that specific map. Which makes sense to a certain degree, why go back to the "scene of the crime" so to speak. You've raided an embassy (whether with big noise or like a ghost) , but there'll still be some repurcussion from that.. why would you go back to said embassy at a later point... Unless some other follow-on side mission that opens up only because you did that first mission that requires you to go back... This isn't strictly speaking, an open sandbox, free-roaming game. The hubs, yes, you can go back and forth. You can choose to do them in a specific order, or go to one and do a couple of missions then go to another hub, do a mission, move back to the previous hub or move on to another..... But the hubs are basically your safehouse in each city.. And not all those "missions" will be maps that you casually wander around.. there was some mention as I recall that certain "missions" will be dialogue moments purely.... as in go to a bar to find a contact and the whole mission will be your conversation with the contact and how you try getting the info out of him. Charming them, being purely professional, a touch threatening.. or headslamming them against the bar top.. There will be missions that you choose to do purely to gain extra info on other missions, or npc's that will then provide other missions.. Throw in the whole aspect of "choice & consequences" that Obsidian have been touting, that missions will actually change depending on which order you do them in, what relationships you've formed, even relationships you happen to be unaware of.. (as in npc's will react to you on what they've heard about you - whether its true or not, but it will be based on how you've reacted in missions or to other npc's that they know...) So I'm fairly sure we'll all be happy with the variety and number of potentials there..
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how i plan to play alpha protocol
Raithe replied to smitty1984's topic in Alpha Protocol: General Discussion
Because damn it all, there are times I do want to play as a Magnificent Bastard in certain games, and frankly, AP looks like a game where it would be a perfect role... -
Iron Man 2 - Entertaining, a fair bit rides on Downy, Jr doing the fun "antics", and Sam Rockwell gets a few of his own in... The whole romance side seemed a touch forced through... and Nick Fury having scene time rather then just the 30 second cameo at the end of a Marvel movie... (but then of course, they've already started things going with both Thor and Captain America movies.... so that Avengers one won't be too long in coming)
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