There, second playthrough done. It was refreshing to be an ass to pretty much everyone after playing a sneak-and-please kind of guy the first playthrough. Mina's dialogue at the end when she was at -10 (Hatred) was hilarious. Fuck you too.
Time to pen a review. I enjoyed the shit out of this game but man, what a technical mess. The list of bugs, glitches and errors I encountered would make a book, and that's just on two playthroughs.
My favourites
[spoiler:01d9ce66ee]One that amused me every time is that sometimes, when you wind forward in dialogue, it'd play both the dialogue you skipped and the following lines simultaneously. And try to show the subtitles for both. Hilarity ensues.
Also Frith a lot of bosses just broke down. It's like they saw how awesome I am and just gave up. Last playthrough, nancy lil Clancy just stood next to his machinegun while I kept putting bullets in his head. Fight was over in five seconds. It also helps how enemy soldiers keep turning to shoot at each other or throw grenades at their own feet for no discernible reason.
But it's the obvious conflicts of choices that get me. They're expected and the game avoids them for the most part, but when you do get them, they're awetards. For instance, second playthrough I figured fuck it, side with Leland, hoping it'd change the ending area (it didn't, not really), but then I talked to Parker and convinced him the plan is dumb (why was that dialogue still a mission node, didn't I just side with Leland? Even given you can betray him later, that's a bit silly). So when I hit the Parker boss battle, Leland went on my comm whining about how Parker had turned on them and I needed to stop him, yet my mission was to "protect Parker", which I did (fight's the same regardless, other than turrets), and then used the computer to gather the info, making all fine, so I have no idea what Leland was nagging about.[/spoiler:01d9ce66ee]
As for the earlier ending stories
[spoiler:01d9ce66ee]First playthrough: let everyone live, tho I arrested both Nasri and - in the end - Westridge. And Brayko I guess.
Sexed up Madison, Mina and Scarlet (why not?). Stuck with G22 all the way, fuck SIE and her the oldie combat initiative.
Albatross was my handler, didn't talk to Parker, instead passing on data to Omen Deng. Didn't see Scarlet anywhere, but saved Mina.
Shot up the place in amusingly easy fights for a stealth character (just keep chainshotting bosses in the head, and keep one soldier alive so they don't send in a new batch, haw, what a noob design mistake). Shot Leland in the face. Went into the sunset with Mina.
Second playthrough: executed pretty much everyone, at least Shaheed, Brayko, Sis, Omen Deng and Westridge. Let Nasri live tho.
Saved Madison but she buggered off, I was kind of hoping to discover she was Parker's daughter but never did. Got along much better with Heck in this playthrough, and sided with SIE and the VCI instead of G22. The change in tactics to Brayko's mansion, bashing in through the front gate instead of sneaking in, is funny.
SIE was my handler and raped me in what I find to be a pretty disturbing, creepy scene. Even tho' Conrad despised me this playthrough I still got him out of the way by fast-talking on his dossier. Mina loathed me at the end, and after siding with Leland I paid her snobbery back with a bullet through the head. Got Parker on my side, executed Darcy and Westridge.Opted not to betray Leland in the end and we walked off as business partner, tho the game did another one of those "is he drawing a gun?!" fake-outs. But it was only a cigar! Phew
I never did figure out the nature of Sis. And what about Championchik, in what scenario do you actually see him more than once?[/spoiler:01d9ce66ee]
Time to pen a review. I enjoyed the shit out of this game but man, what a technical mess. The list of bugs, glitches and errors I encountered would make a book, and that's just on two playthroughs.
My favourites
[spoiler:01d9ce66ee]One that amused me every time is that sometimes, when you wind forward in dialogue, it'd play both the dialogue you skipped and the following lines simultaneously. And try to show the subtitles for both. Hilarity ensues.
Also Frith a lot of bosses just broke down. It's like they saw how awesome I am and just gave up. Last playthrough, nancy lil Clancy just stood next to his machinegun while I kept putting bullets in his head. Fight was over in five seconds. It also helps how enemy soldiers keep turning to shoot at each other or throw grenades at their own feet for no discernible reason.
But it's the obvious conflicts of choices that get me. They're expected and the game avoids them for the most part, but when you do get them, they're awetards. For instance, second playthrough I figured fuck it, side with Leland, hoping it'd change the ending area (it didn't, not really), but then I talked to Parker and convinced him the plan is dumb (why was that dialogue still a mission node, didn't I just side with Leland? Even given you can betray him later, that's a bit silly). So when I hit the Parker boss battle, Leland went on my comm whining about how Parker had turned on them and I needed to stop him, yet my mission was to "protect Parker", which I did (fight's the same regardless, other than turrets), and then used the computer to gather the info, making all fine, so I have no idea what Leland was nagging about.[/spoiler:01d9ce66ee]
As for the earlier ending stories
[spoiler:01d9ce66ee]First playthrough: let everyone live, tho I arrested both Nasri and - in the end - Westridge. And Brayko I guess.
Sexed up Madison, Mina and Scarlet (why not?). Stuck with G22 all the way, fuck SIE and her the oldie combat initiative.
Albatross was my handler, didn't talk to Parker, instead passing on data to Omen Deng. Didn't see Scarlet anywhere, but saved Mina.
Shot up the place in amusingly easy fights for a stealth character (just keep chainshotting bosses in the head, and keep one soldier alive so they don't send in a new batch, haw, what a noob design mistake). Shot Leland in the face. Went into the sunset with Mina.
Second playthrough: executed pretty much everyone, at least Shaheed, Brayko, Sis, Omen Deng and Westridge. Let Nasri live tho.
Saved Madison but she buggered off, I was kind of hoping to discover she was Parker's daughter but never did. Got along much better with Heck in this playthrough, and sided with SIE and the VCI instead of G22. The change in tactics to Brayko's mansion, bashing in through the front gate instead of sneaking in, is funny.
SIE was my handler and raped me in what I find to be a pretty disturbing, creepy scene. Even tho' Conrad despised me this playthrough I still got him out of the way by fast-talking on his dossier. Mina loathed me at the end, and after siding with Leland I paid her snobbery back with a bullet through the head. Got Parker on my side, executed Darcy and Westridge.Opted not to betray Leland in the end and we walked off as business partner, tho the game did another one of those "is he drawing a gun?!" fake-outs. But it was only a cigar! Phew
I never did figure out the nature of Sis. And what about Championchik, in what scenario do you actually see him more than once?[/spoiler:01d9ce66ee]
