NXT Gamer's Mike reviews Obsidian's latest RPG, Alpha Protocol.
"Obsidian Entertainment is renowned for creating sequels to innovative and successful RPG’s with Knights of the Old Republic II and Neverwinter Nights 2 behind them and Fallout: New Vegas on the way. However with Alpha Protocol, Obsidian has created the game from the ground up without any gameplay mechanics or plotlines to be maintained. For this reason, I was extremely interested to see what Obsidian could produce on their own. Much to my disappointment it seems it wasn’t worth the wait. There are some great ideas but the game is just too inconsistent and for each thing it gets right, it gets three things wrong."
Cultured Vultures: In the spirit of preserving some kind of history of this industry, we’ve decided to list some of the best games that you just simply can’t get hold of digitally at the minute.
I just started playing Spec op. I've had it for years on steam and forgot about it. Such a good game.
Yes great game spec ops! Since the time we’ve been asking sony to make one:/
Auto Modelista.. a PS2 capcom racer!! A blast to play and great graphics!
Maximo!
Rival Schools!
all the games in the above list are bang on. this is the only reason we need backwards compatibility and physical presense of games for the upcoming future, no matter what.
Honorable mention to the excellent Driveclub, one of the best racing games of all-time and one of my favourite games ever.
yes! incredible rain effects; so good to drive along in rain with your Spotify playlist blaring
I really wanted a MotorStorm using the same engine, Driveclub is easily one of the best looking games on PS4 and I'm surprised they didn't even give it a PS4 Pro patch.
I adored Driveclub and the Bike expansion. I also loved Motorstorm. Evolution shutting down was a crime
Outrun Online Arcade, Sega Rally Online Arcade, After Burner Climax... all good stuff. I keep my 360 hooked up to play these as well as the TMNT games that were also delisted.
wow...I have all of them except the Nintendo ones either in physical or digital version.
Also..Deadpool the Game is missing on that list.
Chris Avellone expands on his earlier claims that Fallout New Vegas dev Obsidian pitched Bethesda ideas for Elder Scrolls spinoffs.
Really Bethesda? Come on
We could have gotten to explore more of the regions or revisit old ones with another developer making them. Would have shortened the time between releases of the main games.
Just thinking about what could've been. Maybe they didn't wanna be showed up on their flagship title Ala new vegas compared to fallout 3 and 4
it's not that hard to show them up when they're like 20 years behind in terms of engine and development skills. If they had gotten the go ahead i guarantee it would have been better than anything they'd made recently.
The issue here was Bethesda was butthurt that obsidian managed to develop a better fallout game at the time (new vegas) than theirs (fo3) so they didn't allow it.
It's funny how they're both owned by Microsoft now. They should be able to work together now.
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Would've expected more from Obsidian tbh. Maybe they should stick to the sequels, or try and learn from this.
Hmm, this looks like something i'd like. Of course, it'd be as a rent though. Nice review.
Maybe worth adding to my gamefly queue, but I can't see spending $60 on this game. Consequently, I'm pretty sure Obsidian knew AP was flawed as of E3 last year - to the point where they delayed the game some seven months.
I was also hoping that obsidian would be able to prove themselves with there first non-sequel game, and its disappointing that the game has quite a few flaws. Maybe they should stick to the sequels that they seem to excel at making.
Floptastic!