Alpha Protocol's protagonist can be a real jerk sometimes

How dare you. GTFO!!

Sorry i am playing through Mass Effect 1 for the first time currently and NOTHING can compare to it. I guess i overreacted. You can stay.

Is that really a good thing? Any other better alternatives?

I'm ok with the voice acting, but why didn't any of the voice actors say, "Wait a minute, this isn't a recording studio... It's a large tin box! What's the deal here?!"

(I'm making fun of your sound engineers, Monolith. What are you going to do about it? Are you going to cry? Eh? Gonna cry a little?)

Nope Shadow Complex looked better....

No it didn't. While it was 3D, it's easier to render 2D left-to-right side-scrollers.

Whether it's easier to render or not, it still looked better.

I dunno, I think if I beat you up enough you would tell me the truth. Wanna get together and find out?

Wrong. It works.

No actually enhanced interrogation aka torture does not work. So say the most succesful interrogators. Reminds me of when folks from US military came to talk to the producers of 24 to discourage their false presentation of interrogation. You guys who think it works watch too much fantasy. Go read. It doesn't hurt. Getting your info about the real world from TV does.

'24' gets a lesson in torture from the experts
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/feb/13/entertainment/et-torture13

I don't trust anything out of that abomination of a newspaper. The only thing worse is the NY Times.

I highly doubt that torture/aggression NEVER works - there is presumably a reason people have been using it since the dawn of civilization - but I do agree that it is probably not as consistently effective (or morally defensible) as more subtle methods of interrogation. I remember reading somewhere that one of the most effective interrogators in World War II (and in modern history) was a Nazi who treated the subjects of his interrogation with utmost courtesy and used subtle psychological trickery to get them to spill information. Though who knows what he would have done if he didn't have weeks or months at a time to coax information out of each prisoner.

If you know anything outside of TV on this subject, you know that US military interrogators HAVE come out against this fantasy you hold to be true. There are MANY articles across news sources but of course you did not confirm this. Likely, you use your "feelings" to verify the validity of data.

Did you even bother to see the US MILITARY officials quoted in the article? A blanket statement against such newspaper without reading and critiquing the facts in the article demonstrates a lack of analytical skills. If you hate those papers then maybe you trust the NY Post or Fox News? Interesting thing about consumers of conservative news outlets is that they are the most misinformed. The most informed would be what are called "liberal."

Misperceptions, the Media and the Iraq War
http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/international_security_bt/102.php

Also turns out that when you expose conservatives to more news, they become more misinformed. The opposite with liberals. Page 20 (22 in the Reader) shows this.

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Yup torture is unreliable and unsophisticated that's why it is most commonly used by countries stuck in the middle ages. Even US interrogators don't think it works.

Forgot to say my last comment is for Dr 32X.
Also, the reasoned question to ask from this study is why are Fox viewers/conservatives so misinformed? Especially the more they watch it?
It is:
1. Fox News puts out misinformation
2. Viewers of Fox News cannot process too much information or they become MORE confused. = Comprehension and analytical skills are deficient.

I believe its a combination of both. I will say that this is a sad state of all major US media. But, conservative sources are far worse. Interesting how conservatives attack NPR/PBS and universities.

lol, because it's not like a conservative could ever know perfectly well what he's talking about and just disagree with you, amirite??

@ Dr. 32X


you think liberals crashed the economy? destroyed healthcare? crippled automakers?

Lol way to invalidate everything you ever said.

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When this this turn into f**king Bill O'Reilly's blog? Keep your political garbage to yourselves. If I want to read up or find out what the deal on real interrogation is, I'll go find out. But I'm here for video games.

I'm sorry, Mystile. I thought (and still think) it was a relevant comment to this particular piece of media, but yeah, this has spun way out of control...

This is also @joeboosauce. Have you guys watched Burn Notice? It's about a spy who is blacklisted. The main character and his friend (PLAYED BY BRUCE CAMPBELL) often have to interrogate people. They constantly refer to the fact that most people if you just beat them up will tell you anything to get you to stop. They often have to use other interrogation techniques. Just thought you two would appreciate it as I do. It has a nice level of 'faux-realism'.

Dunno, if Sam Fisher slammed your face through a urinal, you'd spill the beans.

Again, 32X, you need to refer to those things called books. For what you are trying to explain, you should refer to the category of books you seem to be unfamiliar with called "economics." Typically, the effects of economic policies can take 2-4 years to manifest. Now, am I assuming too much in that you can calculate what year it was (and who put forth policies) 2-4 years ago? Really, go read something scholarly. And no, Glen Beck does not count as scholarly.

Goddamnit, stop downvoting Dr. 32X! I just woke up and laughter helps get me going in the morning, and his comments and self-righteous ignorance are damned hilarious.

Ahh, too late... I guess I'll go watch a Louis CK special instead.

PS: Aerothorn, I'm sorry about your inbox.

Dr. 32x if you want to talk about crippling this nation perhaps you should mention the war in iraq that the bush administration started on a lie about WMDs. That war will cost the country at least 50 trillion dollars when it's all over with, if it's ever over with.

But I guess it's cool because, Halliburton got to build military compunds. and Cheney and Bush secured more oil and natural gas field in the middle east.

Did you know that when the war started Halliburton was charging the us military $99 to wash one load of laundry for each soldier? The taxes that you pay for your entire life will probably not even come close to the total halliburton overcharged for washing clothes.

Did you know that Clinton made it so american oil companies could not deal with foreign oil companies in countries that harbor terrorists, and that Bush and cheney reversed that bill...so that Halliburton could SELL NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY TO IRAN, and set up an office in tehran AND drill for natural gas IN IRAN? This is all fact, Halliburton does not deny it at all.

google that. it happened in 2005. that's your beloved republican party at work...selling nuclear technology to one of our "biggest nuclear threats." It's no wonder why dick cheney says iran is our biggest threat. HIS COMPANY SOLD THEM NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY!!!!!

it's amazing when clinton left office we had a 300 million dollar surplus. 8 years of the bush administration and the country is in it's two longest wars, we are trillions in debt. nuclear technology was sold to our enemy. and bush and cheney are super rich because of it....and it's all obama's fault.

holy shit guys. It's a fcking video game blog. Get over it

That was happening to me yesterday for the first time. I just reloaded the page a couple times and it went away. Must be chrome's cyborg army hard at work keeping us happy.

Fun Fact: Even with the butchered ending, KOTOR II is twice the game KOTOR is.

Not really, there are way too many things wrong with it. Plus with KOTOR II they were just using everything built by Bioware.

Let see, Kotor II had a better inventory system, better combat, better characters, improved alignment system....

Why is the first one better again?

Because it was finished. Out of all the things you listed only the alignment system and very very debatable the characters were better. Better combat system? They moved the attack button and special attacks into the same slot and added classes that gave a +1 or 2 to certain stats, big deal. Inventory? You could swap out weapons on the fly, woohoo.

2s biggest improvement was the influence system with your allies, the problem with that though and it's admittedly great character writing if not overall story amounts to nothing. What's the point of having a game all about choices and consequences if the ending is slapdashed together so it barely means anything. If KOTOR 2 had been completely finished let alone given time to be polished it would have surpassed KOTOR in every way, but it wasn't and it doesn't. Nothing in 2 came close to the Revan reveal anyway.

Probably the fact that it just looks like plain old poop.

Why did you replaced the "is" with a "but"?

How the hell do you even compare this to Heavy Rain? Is that the only "game" you've ever played (ie: watched)?