Alpha Protocol

[Loco]

...fuck this game.
Congratulations, you've come up with a fancy dialog system and consequences. Too bad everything else looks like it was pulled out of some whore's ass.

There is precisely zero point to playing a stealth operative if you're going to be put into boss fight after boss fight after boss fight, against bosses who make your already nigh-irrelevant skills a complete waste of time.

Fuck. This. Game.


They couldn't even polish a turd. It's bug-ridden as fuck, up to and including enemies randomly being able to shoot me through cover.
The skills couldn't get any more pointless. Chain shot? Worthless against anyone other than mooks. Shadow Operative? He and his thugs already know exactly where I am. Silent Running? Even more pointless. Fury? Not good enough, some 65-year-old faggot can still block all my strikes. Brilliance? Yes, standing to glow and take more bullets is totally worth skipping the cooldown. This game offends me through its mere existence.

I wholeheartedly concur.

[Penguin]

First, it's a pretty bad idea to make a roleplaying game with only 3-4 classes and somehow fail to balance the game in which all of them are useful. It's a terrible idea to make one where one class is completely useless. I mean, come on. Only 4 classes, it's not that hard.

How to play Alpha Protocol:

1.) Do not put any points into Stealth. At all.
2.) Do not waste money on stealthy armor. At all.
3.) Sell any silencers, subsonic rounds, etc you pick up.
4.) Spend all that money and experience on skills and armor that are actually useful.

Stealth would've been a lot more useful in this game if the game didn't arbitrarily throw it out the window every other mission. There's no point in hiding when the enemies are often alerted, and being alerted translates to "telepathically knowing where you are."

Stealth is also completely useless in a boss fight, where you'll be fighting tough characters that know where you are at all times, even if they bitch about you hiding like a coward. It's sadly amusing to see a dude say something along the lines of "Where are you hiding, you little shit?" while he's running pel-mel for the crate you're hiding behind, his laser sights trained on you through your cover.

This isn't a roleplaying game. It's not a stealth game. It's not a spy game. It's Modern Warfare 2 with a pause menu.

[Loco]

I ended up grabbing a trainer from Cheathappens for it and just blitzing through it simply so I could finish it and uninstall the pile of shite from my PC.