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It's sold over a million units, pleasing THQ, the publisher and beating (at least some) analysts' expectations of ~500k-650k.

 

Even if that wasn't the case, RF:G had pretty much the best possible conditions to sell as much as it was going to. If it hadn't sold, you'd have to look at faults with the game itself or the marketing.

 

 

Fair enough. I have no real knowledge of the game in any way.

 

 

And a delay could just as easily be the end of them too.

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PC version of Alpha Protocol in September? Sweet. I'm getting it for PC then, but I won't promise not to crack the DRM if it's SecuROM or worse.

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"Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"

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Oh.

 

Damn ye.

"Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"

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Maybe Yahtzee will review it and like it. That would be incredible, and almost impossible.

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Maybe if AP has awesome characters enough, or has really good writing, it'll impress him.

 

Zero Punctuation is a powerful marketing tool.

"Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"

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I wouldn't count on Yahtzee to have good taste. Sometimes it occurs by chance, but as often as not it doesn't.

 

ZP is not about having taste, it's about being funny while truthfully bringing out the bad parts in games.

 

Exactly, which is why I wouldn't count on Yahtzee having taste.

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Obs should delay it until June/July 2010.

Unless you have some huge IP, those months are pretty much dead.

 

Which is why even a relatively unknown game like Red Faction: Guerrilla managed to exceed expectations and keep people talking about it for a whole month.

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I think the think is, with comedy , it is much easier to be funny by tearing something apart and pointing out its flaws, than it is to be funny describing how good something it is.

 

So naturally ZP's are mostly going to be negative.

 

That being said, I personally find myself agreeing with many of Croshaws / Yahtzee's points.

 

I think AP looks great and I'm looking forward to the game more than anything coming up -- but even still, I think Ben Croshaw would have a field day with AP. Just due to the fact of the cliche-ridden spy-theme going on (which I also like, but ya, the spy thriller genre is built on cliches that are easy to spoof; Austin Powers anyone?)

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Well AP has Kill Bill like characters, it's good enough for me!

 

 

 

Oh snap, you made me miss NOLF2 and I don't own this game anymore :) Cate Archer is like one of the best video game heroines next to Lara Croft and Jill Valentine.

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