"  all I meant was this is a cool news story and I consider Brad N, and the rest of the GB staff, bros "

In other news:  Alpha Protocol not keen on being a good game.

Surely the caption on the last image should read 'Fortunately for the other guy, Thorton's pistol skill was low'?

" @RE_Player92 said:

" Cool news story bro "

what the fuck is this supposed to mean? "

INTERNET 
 
SERIOUS BUSINESS

People just sulk and spit their dummies out when it isn't Brad, Jeff, Ryan or Vinny that post a story.  I come here for video game news, this post is video game news.  Happy days.

I really would've loved to see Obsidian do a sequel while fixing everything wrong with the first and improving upon what it did well. Underneath all the bugs and other issues, AP is a pretty great game that deserves better than what it got.

I'm kind of disappointed, the game deserves a sequel.  I viewed Alpha Protocol as sort of a Mass Effect 1 type game and Obsidian sure does have a history of making games with a 2 on the end of it.

 In our review, it was said, "There are brilliant moments in Alpha Protocol, but they're all but muted by poor gunplay and a list of unfortunate technical issues."    

Not entirely surprised.

I'd just like to see Obsidian just hand in the towel, all of the games that I've played which have been developed by the name have been terrible.

Was Alpha Protocol shipped before it was ready?  If so, wouldn't SEGA have something to do with that?

" Cool news story bro "

" @This Article said:

 In our review, it was said, "There are brilliant moments in Alpha Protocol, but they're all but muted by poor gunplay and a list of unfortunate technical issues."    

 I thought it was Jeff's review. "

Sweet

Don't you mean fortunately his gun skill was low?

I have never played this game but think that in general RPGs as a genre might be under-appreciated because people lack attention spans.  I could never play this type of game even in high school but now 10 years later I would probably enjoy this more then say, something like Red Dead Redemption. 

Y'know that's too bad, the game had a lot of good ideas, and even good execution in some spots. It was at least enough to get me to beat the game, and hope that there would have been a sequel to refine it. Because this game had kindof a neat Deus-Ex vibe to it, and a sequel could have done a lot to flesh out the world and ideas more.

" Don't you mean fortunately his gun skill was low? "

What technical issues? Other than the slowly loading textures I haven't noticed anything broken or bugged with the game.
 
Some weapons don't deal enough dmg, only really annoying thing for me in it. (shotgun sucks!)
Other than that the game is freaking awesome.

this was a game that could totally use a sequel to refine much of the gameplay mechanics. there was so much about alpha protocol that could've been amazing if they had fixed it.

" this was a game that could totally use a sequel to refine much of the gameplay mechanics. there was so much about alpha protocol that could've been amazing if they had fixed it. "

" People just sulk and spit their dummies out when it isn't Brad, Jeff, Ryan or Vinny that post a story.  I come here for video game news, this post is video game news.  Happy days. "

The jankeyness really killed this game for me but I was hoping they'd get a second chance. Ah Well.

god dammit

Still interested...just waiting for a price drop due to the wonkyness.

There's a lot of fan love for Obsidian.  I guess it's old PC RPGers who know the pedigree of the people who work there and embrace one of the few dedicated RPG dev teams that are out there.  But here's my take - dissolve the company.  Let their talent go somewhere where it can actually be channeled into finished games that aren't just "If only the publisher hadn't taken advantage of them."  Maybe that's how it all started with LucasArts, but at this point I don't see why any publisher would trust them with total creative freedom or a 'when it's done' timeline with their track record. 

The game had great ideas. But was clinkly pulled off. It could have been amazing. Just with a few tweeks 

"  Seen the results with Mass Effect 2, at the current state of things I'd prefer a lot more to play Alpha Protocol 2 than Mass Effect 3.   I don't care what others say about the bad control or old graphics, the story and the multiple choices are the bomb and AP succeded in that, ME 2 not.   Hell, how much does it cost to make a game nowadays? I'll finance Obsidian by miself if needed :\ "

Man, that's a real shame. I'm loving Alpha Protocol right now, and was hoping for more.

A sequel might have improved on the many massive failings of this game, but I can understand their lack of interest in it. I was looking forward to the game, but found it so damn frustrating to conduct gun fights that after about thirty attempts to finish the guys in the room at the end of the desert level (pretty much the first one you do), I put the disc back in the box and put it back on the shelf. I haven't touched it since.

Shouldn't the caption on that picture read "Fortunatelyfor the other guy, Thornton's pistol skill was low." I mean you're implying that he's gonna miss at point blank, which is fortunate for the FBI dude, unless he has a death wish. 

Alpha protocol is a great game, it had a bunch of issues, but I'd be afraid they'd turn the sequel into what Jeff wanted: a third person shooter. It's not that it's an RPG, and a pretty great one with extremely great story branching and choice recognition. The issues I had were more performance and bugs and "editing" (a skill that didn't actually change upon upgrade is less a bug, and more something they just missed, like a typo in a paper). Also a sequel wouldn't really make sense story wise unless they made sure it wasn't Thorton in the driver's seat.

Good article.

I liked the game that is to bad if we won't get a sequel

Hey, Sega, you want your fricken game to sell really well?

Try making a decent fucking product, and not the broken crap you put out on the market.

If you're going to mention Metacritic, you should talk about how some sites try to break away from the hated, oh so hated 10 point scale or 100, but what's a few decimals among friends. Let's be hardcore and only do a five star scale. Hardcore means read the review, because our review scale is casual.
 
Needless to say, I've seen many games get so-called mediocre scores on Metacritic and still sale well. Probably just a bad game, maybe, word of mouth had more to do with it.

No surprise, really. That game turned out to be complete rubish. Total waste of my time. 
 
Well, it actually did have it's moments at the very beginning of the game, but it all got boring so quickly and I just quit the damn thing after about three hours in and never looked back.

Because this totally couldn't have been put in a thread, right? 
 
But a bummer regardless.

" @This Article said:

  In our review, it was said, "There are brilliant moments in Alpha Protocol, but they're all but muted by poor gunplay and a list of unfortunate technical issues."    

 I thought it was Jeff's review. "

Sega needs to learn to wait until after a game they produce has run it's commercial course before talking it down. First firing the studio that made Iron Man 2 before the game was released and now this? Do they understand the concept of public perception?

HAH..good..obsidian is a joke.  yes they've made some ok games...I actually liked NWN2..but it's a second-rate company that can't even come up with it's own solid IP.
 
they tried with this and it was nothing but a clunky and shit-filled modern mass effect with espionage.
 
some people should be losing their jobs.

" @Icil said:

" @This Article said:

  In our review, it was said, "There are brilliant moments in Alpha Protocol, but they're all but muted by poor gunplay and a list of unfortunate technical issues."    

 I thought it was Jeff's review. "

And Jeff is under the Giant Bomb banner?  Is that really a hard concept to grasp? "

that sucks. i was hoping for an ap sequel. if the mechanics of the first game were refined it could be a really great game and sell better

That's pretty fucking lame.  Blame poor sales and ratings.  The game had potential!  Instead of giving up on it, how about making A BETTER FUCKING GAME!  Sega really pisses me off with this shit.  Always putting they're most interesting franchises on the backburner, they can eat a dick.  

Disappointing, but not unexpected.  The game got pretty beat up in the review rounds, and came out in the same year as a superior product in Mass Effect 2. 
 
I enjoyed the hell out of Alpha Protocol, some of the most fun I had with a game this year.  Hopefully how they handed dialogue bleads into other titles of the genre.

Well with the games Sega as been making/publishing I can't blame them for not taking a risk. They've had a few good games this year but they always manage to mess something up, hardcore. If it's not the PS3 Version of Bayonetta or even the cut content from Yakuza 3. I'm losing faith in Sega as a company more and more and I am expecting less and less from them. 
 
Obsidian is a good company and it's shown from their past games. It's too bad SEGA is too shitty of a publisher to either see a good game or keep a good game good without any hicups.