Comments on: Safe As Houses: New Alpha Protocol Walkthrough

By: moshegy

moshegy — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:34:34 +0000

Meh no female protagonist, and I wonder why, didn’t seem to had a whole lot of extra work for the Mass Effect team and I doubt it would here.

By: Bursar

Bursar — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:16:23 +0000

It’s kind of reminding me of Deus Ex. Which is a good thing. If it plays like a modern update of Deus Ex then I will be a happy purchaser.

By: Pantsman

Pantsman — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:01:55 +0000

Damn, this is looking really good.

By: moyogo

moyogo — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:33:37 +0000

@Alex:
I guess my beef with mementos (almost wrote mentos) is you’re character’s a spy – he wouldn’t stack a room full of stuff that can be used to trace his past activities. He’d try to be in cognitus, as peter griffin would say.

By: Cowthief skank

Cowthief skank — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:55:42 +0000

If people don’t stop having an opinion on videos the internet thought police will tell them off.

By: feighnt

feighnt — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:22:59 +0000

to be fair, i *think* that the timed-dialogue-response thing (or something similar) was actually something they originally intended to put into Mass Effect, but for whatever reason didnt make it into the final product. which better explains why they made that extremely abbreviated response circle that they used in Mass Effect. my memory is hazy, but i vaguely recall that there were a number of promises they made about that game which, in the end, didnt make the cut.

By: Funky Badger

Funky Badger — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:30:02 +0000

Tariq: what’s to say the gender of the lead character effects the buying demographic? Did more women play Mass Effect than Splinter Cell?

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:26:47 +0000

I don’t see any problem with your safe house filling up with mementos as you progress through the game. Unless you’re also insulting Aquaria now? >:I

By: moyogo

moyogo — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:09:13 +0000

There’s enough there for something good to come out of it, but these previews convince me that marketing people are driving the development.

Trophies? “Shooting people in the kneecaps and KEWL STUFFS like that”? And the hulk thing w/ bullet time – hopefully this can all be avoided and the stealth/technician game play work and be compelling.

By: tmp

tmp — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:16:49 +0000

Also could the main character look any more generic?

It’s cg Jason Bourne, basically. Rather fitting for game about greenhorn special agent. And not unlike pretty much any other game that goes for semi-realistic rather than stylized graphics.

By: Serenegoose

Serenegoose — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:27:25 +0000

Yeaargh: Thumbs up for making 3 special agent game puns in one single joke. I’d have said something like alpha effect and completely missed out the untapped vein of splinter cell.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:11:42 +0000

Looks fun. Not deep, but fun. Nice touch with the email contact bit.

Yeah, the Fury bit is wank though.