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I'm not super PC or anything, but saying "some women are "'bat shit insane'" is kind of fucked up!
This is one of the reasons why a lot of people still maintain that "oh, you play video games... you must be a nerd" attitude--because sexuality in games feels like it's written by bitter losers.
Mass Effect treated relationships pretty well, but Alpha Protocol seems to be the middle-school version.

@wild homes loves you but chooses darkness!: It was If Looks Could Kill.

The Instructor

@Nirotu: It's kind of unfair to say that, as in James Bond created a whole new genre of fiction.

There's no difference between that and saying ME is a rip off of Star Wars.

DAMNIT! MUST STAY ON TOPIC!! This will be good if the sex is integrated in a tasteful manner, and not just an excuse to show tits.

Thorax

@DangrMaus: you would rather be constantly killing people no?

deathtastic

I dunno... that guy looks like the jerks that hang around in the marina bars in S.F.

Vergobret

YES! MORE POLYGONAL SEX CUT SCENES!!! YEEEESSSSS!!!

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no. Not really.

DARTH_TIGRIS

@Silent Predator:

Alas, only my middle name is Michael. Ladies just ask me to punch somebody for a kiss. Not nearly as cool.

Reverend_MoJo

So, once again, no male homosexuality? Now I do not feel as interested as I once was.

Gamescook

I am all for ripping off Mass Effect and James Bond. I don't see how that can possibly be an insult.

Kuciwalker

Alpha Protocol: Don't worry, PS3 Gamers. We're trying our damn best to be like Mass Effect!

karasu is my homeboy

Any blue nipples? No.

Count me out.

LevelHead

I'm still pissed that there's no male-Shep x Kaidan stuff in ME. If this game follows the same route, don't expect anything in terms of guy on guy.

branny

That guy in the picture is absolutely beautiful.

ottothecat2008

i hope this game going to be great :D

Crippen

So basically it's that's one Richard Greico movie? What was it called, Dressed To Kill, or something?

wild homes loves you but chooses darkness!

Hopefully it has the same full digital nudity and sex that leaves nothing to the imagination that Mass Effect had.

Seriously though, I doubt it will be anything to shake a torch at.

Though no doubt some will...

sir_carrot

Everyone loves hot moms.

Zero_Beat

@Scottyshonuff: Good point.

Nirotu

I hope it has the same massive amount of talking as Mass Effect did. Watching games is awesome.

DangrMaus

I'm not idea why this piece of news was so hilarious to me.

Well done

NeoXY

Let me check something...
Nope.
Still not interested in this game.

TheCleaningGuy is no longer (that) disappointed with DMC4

After seeing that pic above, I really, really hope they include a face editor in the game.

Why not go the Mass Effect route with every single aspect of the game?

SicariusIV

I loved Mass Effect, so I'll probably at least rent this. They are copying Bioware, but at least they're thorough.

vladovsky

This article deserves the "I LOVE HOT MOMS" tag.

A game with sexy spy sex achievements. Genius!

Arttemis

Everything about this game seems so uninspired, including the generic title. Not saying the lack of originality means the game will be bad, but it doesn't exactly get me excited either.

LittleBigPlaneteer

@ForAllThatEverWas: holy crap, that is totally believeable, cept for the prez part, well said.

icegoat

@Nirotu: ARE You kidding. James bond + mass effect = Total win.

deathtastic

I'm sure FOX news will blow this even more out of proportion. "in this sex/murder simulation, your reward for assassinating the president of the united states comes in the form of sexual favors!"

ForAllThatEverWas

Obsidian really are doomed to follow each and every single one of Bioware's steps until the day they die, huh?

Ashurahori

"We don't want to kill, but the ladies are so hot!"

As a fellow Michael, I can attest to this. I too am often faced with this decision.

Silent Predator

Achievements for having sex?

I see you never got the Pimp Hat in Fable then...

Krondonian

@Nirotu: Well....who are they NOT ripping off?

Scottyshonuff

GMilf achievement unlocked?

Torgen got his apology faceplate but not his fixed GH3 disc

Wow this is so totally not a James Bond ripoff.

Nirotu

"One may ask you to assassinate a high-level person," he added. "Maybe that's not something you want to do, but she's really hot. But there are obvious repercussions."

This is exactly like my life.

Touy

@icegoat: Better yet, clunky.

icegoat

I'm so looking forward to this game. It's looking like it's gonna be amazing.

Me? I'm gonna be a super-classy, smooth talking, suit-wearing spy. :D

Coquiton

"One may ask you to assassinate a high-level person" That's why my last girlfriend and I broke up.

HanSolomente

Mass Effect Spy style? I'm in!

Sexy girls have nothing to do with it.

gils0n

Character model, as seen above, looks chunky. In a bad way.

icegoat

Do they follow everything Bioware does? Creepy.

hagridore

@Thorax: Well, the game is meant to be heavily based on James Bond, so your character will be a manly man who shags women and leaves them. It's not really different from many Hollywood movies.

mcderek3000

After reading the preview I admit I'm a bit amped to try it out. It's not everyday you get to play an RPG in a modern setting and with a military twist.

Hmm maybe Obsidian wants Bioware to buy 'em out?

excaliburps

another game that i will have to play within my bedroom limits

LoganForge

@Thorax: Not even no gay sex for men, but not even heterosexual sex for women. And somehow we're supposed to convince people the medium isn't just pandering to adolescent boys (or men with the mentality of adolescent boys), when flag-bearing titles (and the ones that rip them off) perpetuate this myopic nonsense.

bakana

"One may ask you to assassinate a high-level person," he added. "Maybe that's not something you want to do, but she's really hot. But there are obvious repercussions."

...One month later:

"Oh my GOD! A peaceful world leader has been shot! Why would you do this?!?"

"I didn't want to I swear!"

"But you're a spy/assassin for our country? Was your brother kidnapped? Is your girlfriend being held hostage? Were you brainwashed and tortured until they could plant a post-hypnotic suggestion into your brain?"

"Ummm... Yes?"

Human Bomb

@icegoat: I know, because I totally love judging a game and its graphics 6 months before its release.

Jeebus people will bitch about anything.

On that note, Obsidian rocks and the stories in their games are consistently better than their Bioware originals (incompleteness of Kotor2 notwithstanding, based on what I know of what they cut, and what they left in, that game could have been very amazing).

So, high hopes for this game, as I loved Mass Effect

d1sergo

*sigh*

goddessakasha

Shaping up to be a winner, I see.

boopadoo