I've tried to play Alpha Protocol twice because the dynamic story deal intrigues me (plus Obsidian), but the damned hacking game...I'm not stupid. I can normally pick things up rather quickly and understand them, but that mini-game is such a load of crap, and I get tired of setting off the alarm and having to deal with it. My only guess is to try it with a controller, and if that doesn't work than I guess the game used up its 3 tries with me.
I've tried Dishonored twice as well. I love Bioshock, Deus Ex, Half-Life/2, and every other game that supposedly gets its boots cleaned by Dishonored (though miraculously I've never played any Thief). I just...can't get into it. All the NPCs are dull as hell, there's no emotion to the delivery of the lines, and I feel so little context to the world and practically no desire to ruffle through things and read the books/notes about the world. My only guess here is that I'm not really a "fuck around with the systems and make the world my playground" kinda guy.
For a positive example, Skyrim. It took an amount of mods about 10 times larger than the game folder (including a fantastic one that adds 100s of fully voiced NPCs with really fun and interesting back stories). Finally, it clicked. For awhile the game was my "how far can I push my PC" game and means to experience the mod community, but now I enjoy it the way everyone else supposedly does. When the perks are all modified, and the guards say things that are contextual to what you're wearing and what you've accomplished, and the dragons are a dangerous and dynamic threat, and you can strike up random conversations that meet or exceed the Fallout 3 standards that actually preceded this game, it is absolutely fucking fantastic.
I've tried Dishonored twice as well. I love Bioshock, Deus Ex, Half-Life/2, and every other game that supposedly gets its boots cleaned by Dishonored (though miraculously I've never played any Thief). I just...can't get into it. All the NPCs are dull as hell, there's no emotion to the delivery of the lines, and I feel so little context to the world and practically no desire to ruffle through things and read the books/notes about the world. My only guess here is that I'm not really a "fuck around with the systems and make the world my playground" kinda guy.
For a positive example, Skyrim. It took an amount of mods about 10 times larger than the game folder (including a fantastic one that adds 100s of fully voiced NPCs with really fun and interesting back stories). Finally, it clicked. For awhile the game was my "how far can I push my PC" game and means to experience the mod community, but now I enjoy it the way everyone else supposedly does. When the perks are all modified, and the guards say things that are contextual to what you're wearing and what you've accomplished, and the dragons are a dangerous and dynamic threat, and you can strike up random conversations that meet or exceed the Fallout 3 standards that actually preceded this game, it is absolutely fucking fantastic.