Yakoob on 10/6/2010 at 08:58
-Alpha Protocol - 6/10
-Borderlands - 8/10
-Lego Star Wars - 8/10
-Dungeon Siege 2 (Strangely it is still full price) - 7/10
-Sacred 2 - 4/10
I never played any of these games
Sulphur on 10/6/2010 at 09:03
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faetal on 10/6/2010 at 13:09
-Alpha Protocol
I'm not sold on it. I want to like it. Saying that, I'm not too far in and others seem to enjoy it.
-Borderlands
I loved this game and will play it again soon. Just really really good.
-Dungeon Siege 2 (Strangely it is still full price)
I like it, but never seem to be able to finish it.
-Sacred 2
Same as DS2
Try metacritic.com for game reviews as it pools industry and fan reviews and gives an overall score taking both into account.
mothra on 10/6/2010 at 14:05
Alpha Protocol is the best game I played since DX + VampireBloodlines, having that feel, being in that "vein" (and it stinks at the same time). I got it for 20 euros over retail and would have gladly paid full 50. it puts ME1+2 to shame in complexity and awesomely constructed relationships/conversations/choices. Don't play it as a shooter but an RPG where you need to put points into what you wanna do and don't expect crysis or ME2 graphics and you get one of the most entertaining, innovative and spirited games of 2010. A more focused design and less shooting, more RPG-ing (you can clearly see that they cut half of a characters story or some missions and the game was redesigned a few times) and it would have gotten awards left and right. This is a game I will look back, replay and and hold much higher than other polished, slick but ultimately "too tame" big budget productions ala DragonAge. ME2 is a behemoth and expertly done but I must say: AP knocks it out of the park. It had moments of concentrated epicness without any explosions, just a staring-contest,carefully chosen responses and witted oneliners made my day. Replaying it is even more fun. Just don't expect a spy aka bond game. this is alpha bloodshed. I finished the game with 1 kill only and it still wasn't a stealth game. only managed to ghost 3 missions out of 20 or more.
borderlands - boring crap
dungeon sige 2 - don't know
sacred 2 - sacred 1 was rather boring, didn't check this out
Demetros on 10/6/2010 at 15:29
I like how everyone is ignoring the AI and other technical problems of Alpha Protocol. The jumps in frame rate? The lag? The fact that you can just waltz in to the compound and the guards are completely oblivious to your existence? I'm going to talk about enemy AI again. They run into walls. They only care about you if you punch them in the face. They walk around in circles for no apparent reason. These guys are the kind of guys who'd shove pencils into their ears out of curiosity! The fact that these guys can aim and shoot is a miracle.
Look. I don't hate Alpha Protocol. I... I want to like it. I really do. I really, really do. The story is fun. Fleshing out your personality is fun. Getting into the intricacies of the whole thing is fun. Watching Thornton roundhouse kick clueless armed mantards in his tight black suit is REALLY FUN. Maybe I'm having too much fun watching him going around kicking people with that amorously athletic body of his. But you know, I really, really want to like this game. It's just... It's just...
I, I can ignore a lot of technical issues if I really want to like a game. But not retarded AI. Just. Not. AI. There's no adrenaline rush, no sense of immediacy. It's not fun being a spy if you're going against people who can't walk in a straight line on their own. Spy games are supposed to make you outsmart others, right? Sneak past them, take whatever it is you need, sneak out, and go "BOOYAH YOU GUYZ ARE IGNORANT MFS!" right?
steo on 10/6/2010 at 16:03
Frame rate was fine for me, though the game does like to use 90+% of my CPU even when minimized (3Ghz, dual core). Yes the AI is bollocks, but I think the biggest issue in the game is the lack of options. All the levels are extremely linear, you very rarely get a choice in the path you take through a level, and it's almost always easier to kill guards rather than sneak past them, because the level design is generally pretty atrocious as far as stealth is concerned but they balance it out by giving you an invisibility skill which lets you walk into a room full guards and knife them one by one without getting detected.
Phatose on 10/6/2010 at 16:32
The frame rate problems I've had are all the due to the damn background loading it does. Yes, that is really annoying, but I'm kind of expecting them to patch that out. If it makes it through a patch cycle without being addressed, then I start taking off points.
Did you guys buy and use the sound generator? That helped a lot when not abusing shadow agent.
Sulphur on 10/6/2010 at 16:33
I have zero frame rate issues, apart from those random mid-level loading jumps. Hell, the game loads levels in a matter of seconds (which makes all those pauses at the weapons houses rather annoying). The only other game that loads that fast for me is Just Cause 2.
The AI isn't great, yeah, and it's glitchy - I once climbed up a guard shelter and manned a turret, and one of the guards below ran up and climbed the ladder, ran up to me, then changed his mind at the last instant and ran back down. It was hi-larious. But I haven't seen 'em blunder and lumber into things like lobotomised drones yet.
Demetros on 10/6/2010 at 17:52
Seriously? You guys haven't had enemies run into walls or run around in circles or ignore you until you punch them in the face? I have the PS3 port... so like, you guys have the PC port instead, huh?
Shoot. I shoulda gone for the PC port then... but then 90%+ of my CPU...
Jason Moyer on 10/6/2010 at 18:32
Yeah, I really had no issues with the AI on any of my run throughs (2 using stealth, 1 going in guns blazing). Some of the standard stupidity you see in any other shooter, but nothing seriously broken. The streaming/mouse skip thing sucks, but other than that I thought it was excellent. Also the occasional "AI sees you clip through the wall" thing is irritating when you're playing stealth, although if you have any skill points invested in stealth you get a few moments to react before they see you. Anyway, I'd give it a 9 or a 9.5. It would be an easy 10 without the technical glitches.
I think the ratings for the other games depend on what you're into. I love first/third person RPG's, shooters, and humor, and Borderlands has all 3. I'm not so into grinding, so I'll dock it a point there, but it's still a 9 in my book. Shooting mechanics were great, gunporn was great, only real glitch I had was with Mordecai's special attack (dunno if that's been fixed or not), really enjoyed it overall.
Lego Star Wars...that depends on which one. Lego Star Wars II is basically a 10/10 if you like cooperative platformers and the original trilogy. Lego Star Wars is shit, but then again it's based on shit so what are you going to do. Lego Star Wars Complete is good, but if you have Lego Star Wars II there's no reason to get it since the only thing it adds is the original Lego Star Wars brought up to the standards of the second one (gameplay/engine wise, that is, the license it's based on is still rubbish).
Haven't played the others.
