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Default Alpha Protocol - Retrospective @ Eurogamer

January 7th, 2013, 15:00
I didn't buy AP. But will I?
Originally Posted by DR490N View Post
I know why I hated it :
- timed dialogues
- no quicksaves
What a waste due to two stupid decisions.
I do understand english, but sorry, I don't understand it as fast as someone who works in Obsidian. Timed dialogues? You mean I have to read fast and think even faster? For god's sakes…
It's not something new, if not dialogue there are plenty of games with timed missions/quests, but you can't win the international market by putting that as a core ingame stuff.

No quicksaves? Does that mean you can't save anywhere? For saves anywhere and saves only on certain spots I've already said - I have frequent power outages where I live and I can't be arsed to replay the same thing over and over again just because I couldn't make a gamesave during the power surge. The #1 reason I don't have a console (nor will at least till they start to ship them with batteries) is the stupid savepoint system that only UPS producing companies adore.

AP can be a masterpiece game. But clearly, if I understood correctly, it's not a game I can love. And I'm not buying it. Sorry.
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