SLEEPING DOGS

who is playing? is it good

http://www.abload.de/img/untitled-104-faster9ss4z.gif

Not playing, but intrigued. Weirdly mixed reviews.

Boosey & Hawkes:

The radio station for the more civilized undercover cop. Named after the world’s (arguably) largest classical music publisher, Boosey & Hawkes stimulates the organ between your ears with 15 classics from Mozart, Pachelbel, Bach, and more. Note: May also provide overwhelming comedic relief when juxtaposed over particular engagements, such as following a perp while in a chicken truck.

Bach – Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068: II. Air, “Air on a G String”
Debussy – Suite bergamasque: III. Clair de lune
Wagner – Die Walkure: Ride of the Valkyries
Khachaturian – Sabre Dance
Shostakovich – The Gadfly Suite / Five Days-Five Nights Suite – XII. Finale
Verdi – Rigoletto, Act III: La donne e mobile
Handel – Messiah (Choruses) – Hallelujah
Mozart – Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331: III. Rondo alla turca: Allegretto
Grieg – Orchestral Music, Vol. 5 – Peer Gynt
Rachmaninoff – Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14
Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker March
Brahms – Lullaby (Wiegenlied), Op. 49, No. 4
Offenbach – Orpheus in the Underworld, Act II: Can-Can
Beethoven – Bagatelle in A minor ‘Für Elise’
Pachelbel – Canon

Daptone Radio:

Turn to Daptone radio, courtesy of Brooklyn-based Daptone Records, and feel the old school American soul drip from your radio receiver. Caution: may lead to a wardrobe filled with bell bottoms and collared shirts and a tendency to carelessly fishtail heavy high-powered cars in and out of traffic.

The Budos Band – Ride Or Die
The Budos Band – Mas O Menos
The Budos Band – Scorpion
Charles Bradley – This Love Ain’t Big Enough for the Two of Us
Charles Bradley – The World (Is Going Up In Flames)
Lee Fields and Sugarman & Co. – Stand Up
Menahan Street Band – The Contender
Menahan Street Band – Make the Road by Walking
The Mighty Imperials – Thunder Chicken
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings – The Reason
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – Keep On Looking
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – Money
Sugarman Three – Promised Land (feat. Naomi Davis)
Sugarman Three & Co. – Take It As It Comes (feat. Charles Bradley)
Sugarman Three & Co. – Shot Down feat. Lee Fields

Kerrang! Radio:

Does all the mainstream music floating around inspire feelings of sonic oppression? Say yes. You’re an undercover cop (it makes sense in our heads). Kerrang! holds independent music that’s more accessible than the “art” resulting from your cousin banging two sticks against a garbage can, but since it’s on the cusp of widespread of widespread popularity, you won’t feel like puppet, unknowingly singing and dancing to the pulls and tugs of a maniacal puppeteer. Deep stuff, man.

The Big Pink – 13
Brakes – Hey Hey
Breton – Edward The Confessor
Eugene McGuinness – Lion
Gem and the Deadheads – Automatic Response
New Navy – Oceans
The Kooks – Mr. Nice Guy
White Rabbits – Temporary
Blood Red Shoes – Cold
Maps & Atlases – Israeli Caves
Animal Kingdom – Golden Pyramids
Kasabian – Re-Wired
Strange Talk – Climbing Walls
Miles Kane – Kaka Boom
Phenomenal Handclap Band – The Unknown Faces at Father James Park
Mount Washington – Silver Screen
Bombay Bicycle Club – Shuffle
The Maccabees – Unknow
The Drums – Book Of Revelation
Ladyhawke – Black White & Blue

Ninja Tune Radio:

Eclectic and independent, Ninja Tune Radio doesn’t feature music made by actual ninjas (or does it?), but it does mix hip hop, breakbeat, and various musical incarnations of a genre vaguely known as “electronic.”

Andreya Triana – Darker Than Blue
Anti Pop Consortium – Volcano (Four Tet Remix – Instrumental Version – Mastered)
Bonobo – Kiara
Bonobo – The Fever
The Cinematic Orchestra – Burn Out
The Cinematic Orchestra – Flite
Coldcut – Sound Mirrors (Beats mix)
Emika – Professional Loving
Emika – Drop the Other
Loka – Safe Self Tester
Hexstatic – East
Lorn – My Drum Machine
Lorn – Soft Room
Raffertie – One Track Mind
Stateless – Ariel – Instrumental
Two Fingers – Jewels and Gems
Two Fingers – Keman Rhythm
Daedelus – Tailor-Made (Floating Points Remix)
Stateless – Miles to Go (Instrumental)
Lotek Hi-Fi – What You See (Instrumental)

Real FM:

Diverse, but focused, Real FM spreads its arms to cover a wide range of music that may fall under the hip hop umbrella.
Banda Black Rio – Back To The Project (Feat. Flame Killer & God PT3)

Chali 2na – Step Yo Game Up
Ninjasonik – In And Out
Nneka – Camouflage
Terry Lynn – System
Tchaka Diallo – Shoot Yo Shot
JJ DOOM – Rhymin Slang (Dave Sitek remix)
Guilty Simpson – Dreads
DELS – Capsize (feat. Roots Manuva)
J Dilla – E=MC2 (feat. Common)
Ghostpoet – Finished I Ain’t
Felt – Protagonists
Ozomatli – Saturday Night
John Robinson – Channeling
Freddie Gibbs – Playa (Mexicans With Guns Edit)
Jadakiss – Kiss Of Death
Strong Arm Steady – Klack or Get Klacked

Roadrunner Records:

Turn to the legendary label’s station if you’re feeling in the mood for something heavy. Daisies, sunshine, and unicorns may not emerge from the radio deck while you’re listening, but if after walking away you find your arms raised in the air with your hands forming a horns gesture, don’t panic. All is well and normal. You’re just under the influence of metal.

Black Stone Cherry – Rain Wizard
DevilDriver – Bring the Fight (To the Floor)
DevilDriver – Dead To Rights
Opeth – The Devils Orchard
Opeth – The Grand Conjuration
Machine Head – Locust
Machine Head – Be Still And Know
Fear Factory – Edgecrusher
Black Stone Cherry – Change
Dream Theater – On the Backs of Angels
The Parlor Mob – Take What’s Mine
The Parlor Mob – After All
Soulfly – World Scum
Trivium – Anthem (We Are The Fire)
Killswitch Engage – My Curse

Sagittarius FM:

Don’t call it an “oldies” station. Saggittarius FM may include songs that were once high on boarded charts, but they’re still fresh in our eyes. And frankly, we’d like to think that immortal microscopic versions of these classic bands are in our radios, trading fashion tips as they queue to play center stage in our stolen minivan.

Duran Duran – Girls On Film (Night Version)
Martha and The Muffins – Echo Beach (2002 Digital Remaster)
XTC – Senses Working Overtime (2001 Digital Remaster)
Pilot – Magic
Deep Purple – Fireball
Thin Lizzy – Bad Reputation
Robert Palmer – Work To Make It Work
Tears For Fears – Pale Shelter
The Allman Brothers Band – Don’t Want You No More
The Jam – In The City
Queen – Dragon Attack
The Who – Eminence Front
Siouxsie & the Banshees – Hong Kong Garden
Climax Blues Band – Couldn’t Get it Right

Warp Radio:

Flying Lotus, Squarepusher, and Autechre. If you know what these names have in common, and/or the history of Warp Records, you know what you’re getting. To the others, consider electronic music class in session.

Autechre – Second Scepe
Rustie – After Light
Rustie – Surph
Clark – Alice (Unreleased)
!!! – The Hammer
Plaid – Sömnl
Plaid – Thank
Bibio – Anything New
Bibio – Dwrcan (Eskmo Remix)
Squarepusher – Beep St
Africa Hitech – Lash Out
Harmonic 313 – Dirtbox
LFO – Pysychodelik
Hudson Mohawke – FUSE
Battles – Future
Gonjasufi – Ancestors
The Hundred In The Hands – Dressed In Dresden (Various Remix)
Flying Lotus – GNG BNG
Flying Lotus – Parisian Goldfish

H-Klub Radio:

All Hong Kong Hip Hop, all the time, featuring Ghost Style, Phat, Kit, SIR JBS, Drunk & Dor Yuk, or the crew known as 24Herbs.

24Herbs – Do You Know Me
24Herbs – Hong Kong Kowloon
24Herbs – Turn It Up
24Herbs – Sin City
24Herbs – No Brothers

Extra Tracks:

They’re extras, too cool to participate at the punchbowl gatherings with local cliques. But we still love them like any mother would with over a hundred and fifty kids.

Billy Paul – East (Bei Bei & Shawn Lee cover version)
Bei Bei & Shawn Lee – The Blue Grotto
Bei Bei & Shawn Lee – Hot Thursday
Bei Bei & Shawn Lee – Into the Wind
Bei Bei & Shawn Lee – Little Sunrise
Che Chang – Gao Shan Ching (Celestial cover version)
Ge Xin Cheng & Yen Che Yang – Shanghai Nights (Celestial cover version)
Celestial – The Crossing

Karaoke Tracks:

If the track list put a song in your heart, head to the Bam Bam Club and sing your heart out with this selection of classics in the karaoke minigame.

Air Supply – All Out of Love
Steely Dan – Reeling In The Years
Robert Palmer – Bad Case of Loving You
Cyndi Lauper – Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Pat Benatar – Hit Me With Your Best Shot
The Clash – I Fought the Law
Ah Ha – Take On Me
Flock of Seagulls – I Ran (So Far Away)

Sleeping Dogs Trailer Theme Song:

In case you were looking for the music that plays in the background of the Sleeping Dogs Trailer. That theme song is titled “Sleepwalking” by Photek featuring Linche.

i got this out of the redbox. it's really good at being an open-world crime game with arkham asylum combat. i guess i'm just kind of bored with the type of thing right now but if i weren't i'd be all over this.

I was thinking Redbox would be the way to try it.

also one of the giant bomb dudes called it "sleepy dogs" and yeah that's what it's called for me now.

those blurbs explaining those channels are uhhhh some of the most frustrating bits of copy ever

How's the writing? Is there any humor in it? Is the humor any better than your standard GTA/SR collection of shitty knob gags/dick jokes?

fine, sort of, no

and the humor in saints row 3 was pretty humorous! big stupid dildo aside, the game's tutorial has your gang robbing a bank disguised as themselves. also the professor genki intro video is a fucking masterpiece.

can I just get the radio stations and skip the game altogether

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPPDUTD2ESU

sorry this thread is about sleepy dogs. saints row 3 is better than sleepy dogs.

Fired up the demo and I can get the appeal of the sub-Batman combat - not bad at all. The shooting, however, ugh. And overall this feels like a game whose primary development was in 2008. Weirdly full of stuff and entirely lifeless.

Can't see myself picking it up, which is a shame. I need a new sandbox game to replace Just Cause 2. I thought Saints Row the Third was gonna do it but I was bored after a dozen hours.

You're right, the game feels dated, but I think that's part of the reason it's getting good reviews in some spots. 2008 nostalgia! Side missions! I find the combat really satisfying and I'm enjoying the story just fine. I'm a sucker for atmosphere and the Chinese thing is really working for me.

EZ have you tried Far Cry 2? It's super cheap

No I haven't. Don't know why - I was interested when it came out. I think I'll look for that next time I'm out shopping.

Thanks for the reminder!

get it digital, if ya can. it's like tree-fiddy on several sites right now, which is perfect.

Tbf far cry 2 although awesome is also hard as shit. Have you done the saboteur yet?

Also sorry y'all but this demo made me pretty sure this game sucks

Saboteur, yes. Kinda funny to see how Assassin's Creed 1 played into the game, but it was finished before AC2 showed up.

Kinda shitty that EA killed Pandemic Studios before they could do anything else with the game. It was a cool idea, and sitting in an ack-ack gun blasting everything in sight is just as good as it is in Just Cause 2, only you get to ice Nazis and various Wehrmacht vehicles.

For those not ready to blow $50-$60 on Sleepy Dogs, Just Cause 2, SR3, FC2, and the Saboteur are all great distractions easily available at less than twenty bucks american.

I'm pissed Red Dead Redemption was never ported to PC. I am going to buy a used 360 just to play that game. And Brutal Legend. And Scott Pilgrim.

This game also seems to have a bunch of progress bars, and so I suspect will make me happy (when I buy it for £10 in a year or two)

I barely remember Saboteur. I'll see what's cheapest on my next buying trip.

In related news of no import, I passed 140 hours of dicking around in Just Cause 2 last week. I have some shit to find on one of the big cities, and two or three oil derricks left. Otherwise, the world is a sea of check marks.

JC2 is my go-to relaxation console game these days; 30 hours in & I've barely cracked a quarter of it. It's so huge! & I'm playing it obsessively, like I played the Saboteur: take out every village & installation. sooooo satisfying. the island's gorgeous. even the actual missions are fun so far, too. obviously the plot's dopey but the gameplay is fun enough to make up for it.

the other night I ran through a massive radar installation & there was so much shit to blow up, & enough obstacles to make the gunplay not just an open field cavalcade of madness, that it felt like Pacman, in the best way.

I'm intrigued by something set in Hong Kong, I gotta say. w open world games I have to love the world (this is why I hated GTA4)

JC2 on pc has a bug that effs with framerate. I fixed it once, but it popped up again, so I moved on to Far Cry 2.

I will say, I want that hookshot/grapple in every game.

thread needs cobo

Maybe this has already been mentioned on this thread, but Just Cause 2 is $3.49 on Steam today.

kingfish, don't pay more than $5 for Brutal Legend. it is a painful, painful game to get through. i think i made it about a third of the way. it's sad because it tries so hard to entertain! but yeah, there are plenty of xbox/console-exclusive games to make the purchase worth it

re: sleepy dawgs, like euler, i wanna play it just because of the HK thing

Oh I buy everything used, or at least massively discounted on download

Speaking of which, I bought JC1 on steam yesterday for less than the cost of a pint.

all of the display modes are locked to 4:3, which gives a weird experience. One would have figured that widescreen would have been a bigger thing in 2006

I finished SLEEPING DOGS yesterday. It was two weekends' worth of fun. The kung fu beat'em'up was really fun and the environment—although overall no prettier or more lifelike than GTA IV's NYC—was quite fun to be in. I wish it had been even MORE Chinese. I loved John Woo movies and other things when I was a teenager. Hong Kong seemed so impossible and so impossibly dense. This game reactivated that just enough.

I'm so glad they decided to make Shenmue III ^_^

It's not. I'm embarrassed to say that I've watched entire, complete playthrough video series for Shenmue I and II. Shenmue is about tedium, obscurity, and occasionally absurd difficulty spikes. This is just GTA: HK.

this game rules, y'all are crazeeeee

really enjoying this; must be a little over halfway through now. it's basically just GTA: HK but that's no bad thing

will def pick up SR3 once I'm done with this though

on sale this weekend for thirty bucks from Amazon

Wound up buying this tonight, and its downloading while I finish dinner at the pub. Got a 360 controller for my pc yesterday and wanted to try it on some games, so I finally beat the demo. That was fun enough, and the game was half-off online, so there we go.

Oh sweet, James Hong is in this

Man this game makes me hungry. I want humbao.

Seriously, this game is great. Y'all need to pick it up when it goes on sale next week.

it's going on sale? through steam?

Or Amazon or Gamersgate or Greenmangaming, probably, yeah. I got it half-off last weekend.

this game came with my new video card so i get to play it past my prior redbox experience, it's pretty excellent. definitely the best trad-style open world game of recent years (saints row 3 doesn't count).

Uncollected thoughts:

Beat this today, and it does suffer from the game design aspect where the front end is really loaded up but you skip along really fast once you get off the first quadrant.

Still buggy, where animations could quite cycle right and the math you'd get from exp points would be off. Lotsa little things that a proper copy editor would have caught, like fixing the subtitles to making sure that your voice-actors have correctly spelt names in the credits.

Great idea for a game and I'm looking forward to starting the Halloween/hopping-vampire dlc. Apparently it addresses one complaint I have that there's not enough Old Salty Crab.

I have problems with the "property damage" aspect, as I can understand why they'd want that mechanic, but there are parts of the game where it doesn't make sense and is in fact counter to what's happening narratively.

Soundtrack is cool. Wish they had a goofy John Carpenter score at times.

More QA: they never fixed the bug that will disable screensaver, so that when you wake up your desktop, it auto-switches to windowed-mode everytime and you have to go into options to switch it back.

I'm hoping the upcoming Drunken Fist dlc adds full-on drunken master shit to the game, because that'll definitely get me to play more.

The mechanic of getting buffs from dim sum stands and energy drinks is fucking great and I hope more games use this. Much like watching Kung fu flicks, this game makes you hungry.

Too many characters get introduced for like one mission and that's it. The girlfriends are there for like one or two missions apiece and then there you go. I did like where they tied in the girlfriends in with story missions.

Using your phone like the Mass Effect codex is a cute idea.

Yes this game is good. Effing BEAUTIFUL to look at. Really feels like a huge city, and it would be completely overwhelming wo the really good map interface. The UI for this game is pretty wonderful and simple. I'm still trying to figure out how to get good at fighting cos sometimes i will encounter a gang and destroy them and then sometimes (like in the top lounge of the club) i get my ass kicked. I'm assuming you run a few martial arts school sessions and it powers up your stats or something...?

$4.50 on Steam today

When it rains, this game is a next-level digital beauty.

This game reminds me how much I like GTA-type games that aren't made by Rockstar. Having a lot of fun & without the somehow unsettling writing of GTA.

got this for xmas but also got new vegas. looking forward to spending more than an hour on it once i'm done there (am guessing Easter at earliest). but i really enjoyed that first hour.

Really enjoying this so far, possibly because HK is a more compelling city for me than NY / LA.

Can't help but like a game where tackling a platoon of drug dealers in intense hand to hand combat and mowing them down with a mini-van are both legit strategies.

I've just finished it, and enjoyed it very much, though it's very linear it's always fun to play. It does look gorgeous too. I now have enough face to run around enforcing dressed in a bright yellow skin-tight lycra jumpsuit.

LOL hell yes. Combat is so much fun, and the world is utterly gorgeous. Jump-hijacking cars is one of the coolest things ever.

I really like all the Hong Kong action homage stuff as well, though I probably would have preferred more John Woo silliness than the self-consciously tortured Infernal Affairs stuff.

Amazon has this for TEN BUCKS this week on PC. get it!

Kingfish do you have a golden source for these deals or do you just happen upon them?

Both. I check Amazon's download deals page fairly frequently. Cheapassgamer and dealzon are your friends.

I hate this goddamn game. Combat is complete horrible garbage.

No! It just takes getting used to. It's all about timing. It's really tough at first but so much better when you have practice. Make sure you are loaded up on noodles, tea and dragon kick before fighting.

fighting is okay in this, it just pales in comparison to the awesome fighting in the latest Batman game.

Yeah who has time for practice-to-progress these days? I mean maybe for a situation where that's the whole game, like a racer or an online fps (or the batman games). But an open world sandbox that limits your ability to explore until you put in the hours learning its combo system? Nah.

I hate driving in this game

Make sure you are loaded up on noodles, tea and dragon kick before fighting.

life advice imo

This game's currently free on PS+ and all the DLC is 50% off - tempting

lol that's why so many of us are suddenly playing it

like all the other PS+ games this year so far it will get relegated to my infinite backlog

but, the DLC is on sale for a couple weeks i think

just got to the shooting tutorial, which A) was the coolest shooting tutorial I've ever seen, and B) probably signals the beginning of the end of my engagement if this game if shooting suddenly becomes a core game mechanic

oh btw I spend all my time switching back and forth between Warp and Ninja Tune radio

if i didnt have a 500GB hard drive i would have erased this by now. i really really hate it. stuck in that stupid nightclub where you have to fight a bunch of goons and the save point stays at some dumb button mashy thing at the beginning and in order to do well i have to smash an aquarium and beat dudes down with a fish, which is presented with absolutely no comedy and really fuck this fucking terrible game.

huh I got past that on the first try with no issues; didn't even smash the aquarium until only one dude was standing

the part that was fucking me up was trying to escape the cops at the first drug bust and missing the button press to flip the cop and put the handcuffs on him

The club bit is really easy if you just keep vaulting over the bar to kick them and vaulting back.

I threw a dude off the balcony

really enjoying this, finally (after it fell to $5). mechanic timing is well suited to my reaction time/execution (and I'm a bit out of practice) and I suspect would be even easier to master for someone who games on a regular basis.

I'm playing with the sound off. The game meshes really well with a bunch of different genres of music.

Needless to say this is a very close reading of GTA. If you enjoyed those games, this is very similar. You do have to learn to drive on the other side of the street, though.

Free with Games for Gold on 360 this month. Played an hour and enjoyed it, like GTA but with more emphasis on hand to hand combat than guns.

this game is really fun; have no interest in NYC or LA as environments so I don't play those games, but HK is terrific, and the combat is great (nb haven't played an arkham game yet)

the "meet the new boss" mission was hilariously fun; love how the missions seem so BIG in this game, not just dumb fetch quests or "go shoot a lot of people and escape". that stuff is PART of a mission, but it's mixed with car chases, rail shooting, hand to hand combat. are the GTA 5 missions this batshit? hated GTA 4 for mission blandness but maybe they figured this out?

Come to think of it, I can't wait for SL2, as the first game is bad-ass, in that it eschews firearms in exchange for power-ups in the form of dim sum and energy drinks, and supporting characters like Uncle Salty

― Who is DANKEY KANG? (kingfish), Friday, January 24, 2014 12:04 PM Bookmark Flag Post

yeah every time I pass by a guy selling pork buns, I'm like, yes, I would like a pork bun

have loved this game, but it's going by so quickly. guessing I'll be mostly through it in 30 hours. spent like 120+ hrs in JC2.

are the GTA 5 missions this batshit?

Some of the missions are pretty elaborate compared to IV, especially the heists.

anyone have first hand experience on PS3 vs. 360 for this one, now that it's been released for free on both machines?

I actually spent time on this game after finishing the main story, which virtually never happens.