Comments on: RPS-ish At-ish E3: Day 3 – Sega

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:04:34 +0000

There are stealth mechanics in Mass Effect?

By: Pidesco

Pidesco — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:21:30 +0000

Also, I was under the impression that the quests in Mass Effect were of the “shoot everything, talk to one guy at the end” variety, instead of the multiple ways to solve quests that Alpha Protocol seems to be going for.

And I seriously hope Alpha Protocol’s dialogues aren’t in the monologue wall of text style.

By: Mr. President

Mr. President — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:09:42 +0000

And does Alpha Protocol have Mass Effect’s innovative dialogue system, with its groundbreaking “saying something entirely different from what you choose” technology?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:03:19 +0000

So, are the melee combat and the stealth mechanics in Alpha Protocol similar to those in Mass Effect?

By: mathew

mathew — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:31:37 +0000

Hello everyone,

Managing to post from E3. I want to apologize for getting this wrong. I know why I got it wrong though.

Because I saw Alpha Protocol, said to myself “these guys have obviously used Bioware’s version of the engine” and didn’t confirm it in case they got irritated that I felt their game was overtly similar to Mass Effect.

Of course, I then went and wrote what I did, expecting that while I was miles away from them, safe in my little room, their annoyance would be unable to touch me!

But it was a stupid mistake and actually arrogance on my part to say “I know what this game is based on”. So I apologize to you, our readers, and to Obsidian too.

However, they do look bloody similar. From the dialogues, to the main character, even the font they use (it’s the same!) are so closely aping Mass Effect that it’s striking.

I promise you that when you try it yourself you’ll be able to see why I made my mistake.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:45:40 +0000

Daniel: Yeah, just got confirmation back from our query to Obsidian. Fixed now.

By: Jochen Scheisse

Jochen Scheisse — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:35:31 +0000

Does anyone have a link to an online petition that Sega must change back to their old jingle? I mean, surely I’m not the first one to think that would be about the only useful thing you can use online petitions for?

Also, Chris “Fallout 1″ Avellone shaves his beard with Chuck Norris.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:21:55 +0000

J.E. Sawyer on Obsidian forum:

“Any modifications we’ve made to the engine have been done in-house.”

By: Pijama

Pijama — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:02:20 +0000

Empire Total War will be an excellent complement to Europa Universalis and Victoria, that is for sure. Sometimes I ache for a visualization of a WTFEPIC battle for the liberation of the Netherlands, or the British winning against what seem impossible odds… :D

By: Pidesco

Pidesco — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:43:32 +0000

What engine controversy? It’s just Unreal Engine 3.0.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:38:31 +0000

We retaliated, however, by marking up all their videogame prices so that even if the Canadian dollar is stronger than ours, they’re still paying more than us.

Games go for the same $60 for PS3/360 and $50 for PC here. It’s one of the few markets where there isn’t really any difference in prices.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:58:04 +0000

Re: Engine controversy: Just trying to get confirmation either way on it.