Darkeus

I was just coming to report this. I am getting achievements but I cannot check them in Steam nor does it show up in my recently played. It is like Steam recognizes the game to be in your library but nothing else.

How do you know GOG doesn't get that many people a day? I think a lot of people underestimate just how many gamers have permanently said "no more, never again" to any and all forms of DRM. Because that would be reported on ASAP. There is a reason GOG is making Galaxy so they can properly compete. Steam has been #1 for a long time. It would be huge news if GOG dethroned it.

I know. It saddens me....

I went Steam. No real preference really.

I love GOG but at its peak today, Steam had almost 9 million people logged in. GOG wishes it had that many people come to its site in a day. Steam is still the #1 platform to buy games. So yes, it is more significant that Steam is #1... Now that we are done with that trivial crap, This news is so awesome.

I haven't even thought about it. I made sure to have other things essential for playing the game.

I just got this on sale. I should check it out more.

I backed on day one but yeah, I can agree with this.

Depends on what you call old. I call 1st Edition Paranoia and 2nd edition AD&D old. I had all of the original D&D box sets. I have been playing Shadowrun for 20+ years now. I still play Shadowrun. In the process of finally reading the 5th edition rules I have had for a while.

It's one of those things that was amazing in its time and would impress so much that it became so unforgettable if you played it in its day.....nostalgia makes it amazing. But playing it now after so many years and with the industry having come so far....well....it's just not that good and its flaws are all the more glaring. I agree 100%. I own the game. Actually on disk and a GoG copy. Great game back in the day, really showed what could be done with cRPG games back at that time. But it is notoriously buggy. The unofficial patch fixes a lot of things but the combat is quite dated (Not a big deal to me but I can see the issues). But it shows it age, no doubts about it. But I love the old girl personally. At the same time, I do find it hard to play it over again. As much as it's desktop icon calls to me....

About the boss battles: it's a RPG, it's normal that bosses aren't whimps. It's not a shooter. The save Surkov mission is pretty easy, just use martial arts and don;t let htem to close to Surkov, first time I made it easy. Oh maybe don't play it on a laptop and change some things on the ini files to get a better framerate Hey I play on a laptop and AP rocks ass on my system! Then again, I am running a gig of dedicated memory on my GeForce 240 GT (A little old but still a workhorse). Four gigs on the laptop alone. AP runs pretty much at 60 FPS on my rig, with a little slowdown but that is more the game with the small hiccups it has at times. Yeah, I can't agree with the "play it on a desktop" guys in here. My laptop probably blows quite a few desktops out of the water.

Two reasons: Obsidian Liked it when I first saw it previewed in Game Informer That was enough for me.

Nver found hacking to be very hard at all. That is just me though. In fact, I don't find any of the hacking mini-games hard.

But... it's the exact same with the Stryker? I am not really getting it. What prevents you from tranquing guards during the chopper attack that was still possible in the Stryker battle? Although I just replayed that sequence and with the Stryker for some odd reason you do get the Binary Invisibility effect upon you from the tank, apparently it does act like a camera/auto-turret? But it isn't the same really. The Stryker fight is in the wide open and you just got done firing a missile at the damn thing. If they don't know your there, they have some serious problems or they are way too used to missiles blowing up their vehicles. It is more believable to say that the Stryker can see you and the battlefield you are on really doesn't give you too many places to hide. The copter fight is the exact opposite. Other than the fact that they know your on the way, they have no clue that you are actually there. You seem to be missing the point that if you go to that battle, wait for the checkpoint to save, reload the checkpoint and then just sit there; The chopper will still know exactly where you are. This ignores the fact that you are behind a cliff and that no one would be able to see you. Yet thirty seconds later, the missiles start firing. If I am behind a cliff and there is NO WAY for that chopper to know where I am at, why does not only the chopper, but EVERY enemy on the screen know exactly where I am at? I realize that the copter is eventually gonna see me when I attack it, but I should be able to get in a good position for a minute. The way the fight works, it is broken for a stealth character. The other boss fights give you a reason why they can see your character at first, and then you can hide while doing the fight. They are more believable. Eh, it is just a buggy and poorly done mini-boss fight.

The Striker was easy. I realized that I probably would not be able to hide from it since I had already blown stuff up and they were looking for me. I had damn good pistol skill for my stealth guy and I just ran back and forth between cover and took my shots. You could still hide from the guards around it shooting at you. That was one missing caveat that I failed to mention. You really can't stealth the guards in the Endgame chopper fight because EVERYBODY is alerted to you presence. For the Stryker, it makes sense. It is pretty obvious that it can see you. For that chopper fight, you can hide behind the small cliff where you get to the checkpoint and the chopper will still see you and every enemy will know where you are.

Not really thinking that it would help but even if someone wanted to make the excuse that it picked you up on its sensors.... Well you know.... Seriously though, it is not that I would think it would help, only that if it was a factor, it wasn't working. Yeah, that whole fight seems bugged from a stealth character viewpoint.

What's wrong? Dude, for some reason that fight was broken for me. If you do another playthrough, try this experiment. When you get to the checkpoint, don't move. Just sit there. No one else can see you but sure as hell in thirty seconds or so, you will hear a little lock-on beep and the chopper will start firing at you. If you try to use Shadow Operative, it will see you. Have teh ability that makes you invisible for a short time to turrets and cameras (Or delays them "seeing" you)? Too bad, the chopper will see you and start shooting missiles. Not the first copter battle but the on on the last mission. The first one was fine, the Endgame one is just cheap. The games suggest that you should be able to sneak around, kill all of the guards, and fight the chopper. This in fact is impossible to do as the chopper will always see you and start firing. It was so bad that I couldn't walk past the first enemy that walks behind the truck with out getting wasted immediately. It is no fun when the chopper is locked on to you AT ALL TIMES. Bull**** as a matter of fact. Other than that fight, I love this game....

Oh well, I'll just be an American who loves Alpha Protocol. Yeah, I haven't seen all of the crazy stuff either. The only bugs I have seen are some AI glitches and a certain copter fight during a certain Endgame where the copter develops the sight of God and can see you behind cliffs. Hell, the copter can see you if you don't move from the checkpoint start area. I must admit that I wanted to quit the game during that fight. The last mission is alright, except for that broken fight.

There is a crazy rift. I mean, I just can't wrap my head around the difference in opinions. It is almost like they received different games

That is about the score I would give it as well. I am not blind and the game has some faults but they ALL have some faults. AP is some of the most fun I have had in a while with a video game.

I am quickly gaining a dislike for video game reviewers all-around. Too much subjectivity and not enough objectivity. When you have almost every American reviewer playing the game like it was Gears of War then there seems to be a serious disconnect. I know that there have been some arguments on American vs. European reviewers but I mean come on. There is some proof there. Now Jim Sterling from Destructoid is British and he hated the game. Problem is, I don't know if old Mr. Sterling does serious reviews or not. This is the same guy that trashed Assassin's Creed 2 and Heavy Rain and gave Deadly Premonition a 10/10 (Even though I love the game personally). On the other hand, the guy at 1Up that gave the game a B+. Watch the video review, he is actually a British guy as well. Most of the good reviews for the game are from European sources. Eh, sorry for the small rant. Point is, reviewers are just bad these days....

Why are we mentioning FF13? I thought we were discussing RPG's! FF13 is nothing more than an interactive movie with JRPG elements, and not great ones either. It may be pretty but Graphics do not make a game great.

No achievements on PC.

I have the PC version but I really thinking about getting the 360 version (or at least renting it). What can I say, I love me some achievements too!

Well, I know this game is on the best sellers list at Gamestop. I don't know if that counts for much but I believe the game must be doing decent. I know it is being talked about alot, both the negatives and the positives. It has been consistently in teh top five of most active message board on Gamefaqs.