Anyone here playing Sleeping Dogs?

This game is amazing. I don't usually like GTA-type games but this one is so good :bowdown:

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M36-n0gSHoc[/url]

:lol At the comments.

I'm about 25% completed as far as all the side stuff and random stuff to find. I really, really enjoy it. I absolutely hated GTA4. This game is exactly what I wanted from open world crime. :cheers: I really like movies like Infernal Affairs, Bittersweet Life, and Old Boy and this definitely has the same mood with Hong Kong (although those are Korean), undercover cop in the criminal underground, the shootouts and the giant brawls. They did a great job replicating the Batman melee formula and it's a ton of fun. Some of these environment kills are brutal. I was in a fish market and threw dudes up on hanging hooks and impaled them on swordfish heads. The driving in this game is excellent and you can hijack vehicles from another vehicle. The story is pretty solid. Even some quality voice over work. Whoever voices Wei Shen is a bad ass. Lucy Lui, Emma Stone (although I haven't heard from her in a long time) and Tom Wilkinson do a great job. You can definitely relate to the way you interact with the characters that Wei Shen meets as he forms bonds with these guys. All around great game so far. This was the 1st game I pre-ordered all year and it's been worth my money so far.

Cant wait to get home and try it myself. Reviews are great and this game is definitely my type.

[QUOTE]. I absolutely hated GTA4. This game is exactly what I wanted from open world crime. [/QUOTE]

I haven't liked any GTA or GTA-clones till this game. The story, fighting and driving are amazing. So much fun

I was burned out on GTA back when San Andreas came out. I like Hong Kong shoot em up films like Hard Boiled and Tiger Cage. After I'm done with Arkham Asylum, I think I'm gonna get Sleeping Dogs to fill my time before Borderlands 2.

[QUOTE=glidedrxlr22]I was burned out on GTA back when San Andreas came out. [B]I like Hong Kong shoot em up films like Hard Boiled and Tiger Cage. [/B] After I'm done with Arkham Asylum, I think I'm gonna get Sleeping Dogs to fill my time before Borderlands 2.[/QUOTE]

So do i. You'll be in heaven.

This game has great voice acting and an actually compelling story. When your crew runs into a bad situation (great scene) you feel for the characters. I actually cared what happened. It wasn't like GTA where it's just a boring cut scene to show your motivation, i felt like taking action based on what happened.

It's a fantastic game.

Played for some time yesterday, and it was awesome! Great game. I liked it better than saints row, because of fighting and physics.

Wei is a great character. He drives two women around and is flirting with one of them and the other one says "Get a room you two" and he tells her " i don't think that's till later".

:lol Great voicework.

is it a completely open-world? or is it one of those "its an open world, but there is nothing to do but main quests" kinda games?

There are main quests, cop missions, face missions (helping people with stuff), races, drug busts, and a few dates you can go on. Also various fighting dojos to train.

[QUOTE=niko]So do i. You'll be in heaven.

This game has great voice acting and an actually compelling story. When your crew runs into a bad situation (great scene) you feel for the characters. I actually cared what happened. It wasn't like GTA where it's just a boring cut scene to show your motivation, i felt like taking action based on what happened.

It's a fantastic game.[/QUOTE]

I picked this up last night. I only saw the intro and played a bit cause the install took forever! I hope it definitely maintains it

[QUOTE=glidedrxlr22]I picked this up last night. I only saw the intro and played a bit cause the install took forever! I hope it definitely maintains it

I hadn't even heard of this until now. I'll stop and pick it up on my way home tonight. I haven't played anything in months. Pretty much since I burnt out on Skyrim I haven't played anything.

I've got pre-orders in for RE6, The Last of Us, and Assassin's Creed 3. But while I've been in Gamestop looking putting my orders in I never noticed anything I found intrigueing. I must've just walked by this.

GameInformer gave it a 7.75, but the user rating is 9.25, and it sounds like you guys are in the same boat.

[QUOTE=Thorpesaurous]I hadn't even heard of this until now. I'll stop and pick it up on my way home tonight. I haven't played anything in months. Pretty much since I burnt out on Skyrim I haven't played anything.

I've got pre-orders in for RE6, The Last of Us, and Assassin's Creed 3. But while I've been in Gamestop looking putting my orders in I never noticed anything I found intrigueing. I must've just walked by this.

GameInformer gave it a 7.75, but the user rating is 9.25, and it sounds like you guys are in the same boat.[/QUOTE]

It's just fun. the fighting is fun, the story is actually interesting (five times more so if you are into hong kong type movies or even if you really liked the departed), and the missions rarely every give you something you don't want to do. Games are supposed to be fun and this game is really fun.

^Agree. The fighting is pretty fun. When do guns come into play?

I'm playing the demo now. Pretty cool. I had to fight my way in this factory, then got into a shootout. Now I chased some asian dude whom I have to injure but not kill all the while bad guys are trying to stop me from escaping with him in grasp.

1. I've died a couple times fighting. Takes a minute to get the fighting down. I figured out all you have to do is wait and counter, similar to Assassins creed when you are surrounded by enemies

2. Died a few times trying to escape while holding dude engaging in shootouts. I've been pretty impatient just trying to rush thru the game but definately gonna take my time.

I hope there is more to do after I finish this mission. My only gripe with this game is no multiplayer. I'd like some sort of Free Mode atleast to d!ck around the enviroment like you could in GTA 4. Ah well.

[QUOTE=glidedrxlr22]^Agree. The fighting is pretty fun. When do guns come into play?[/QUOTE]
a few hours in. There are some epic shootouts, including one that made my Hard Boiled meter perk up.

[QUOTE=niko]a few hours in. There are some epic shootouts, including one that made my Hard Boiled meter perk up.[/QUOTE]
In white
[COLOR="White"]The Wedding?[/COLOR]

Just got it the other night but had some technical problems. My goddamned controllers aren't connecting. I have a wall outlet charger. Have had it forever and it's worked great. It does two controllers at once. I haven't played in months, but I did just buy a new white SixAxis dualshock controller. I had that charging, along with my regular black SixAxis dualshock.

Both appeared to be fully charged, because their lights blink when they're not, and I saw the white one blinking for a while, then I stopped. So I took it off, hit the PS button and it won't connect. I plugged it in with the USB, hit the PS button, and it flashes the red lights, but still won't connect. So I figured I'd try my old black one just to get the thing going, the lights won't go on at all. Even when I plug it in with the USB I get nothing. But when I plug into the charger it'll flash for a bit and recharge. But off the charger it shows no sign of life at all.

Anyway, I have a third controller, the original that came with my PS3, that's not a dualshock. I scooped that up and it connected straight away. I was at least able to get the game loaded and do all the updates I needed. But it's really frustrating.

I did play the first couple missions, just to get it going. The run away from the cops introduction. Then the fight training thing. And finally the salespeople shakedown in the market, which was pretty nice. I still haven't gotten a totally open world feel from it yet, but the fighting is really well done, and I'm definitely looking forward to getting into it.

[QUOTE=clipse026]In white
[COLOR="White"][/COLOR][/QUOTE]
[COLOR="White"]the hospital[/COLOR]

Ah right. Both of them were good. That one was pretty awesome. Can't believe it slipped my mind :lol

[QUOTE=clipse026]Ah right. Both of them were good. That one was pretty awesome. Can't believe it slipped my mind :lol[/QUOTE]

[COLOR="White"]The fact the popstars name is Vivian (Vivienne) and is singing a song that sounds like 90's cantopop i thought was hilarious too. ANd that it popped up on the radio when you were going to her house. And all the names are the "make an english name that sounds like the chinese names) that people used in the 90's, WInston, Vivienne, Rickey.[/COLOR]

I love the game. BTW, everything i put in white is so freaking minor spoilers but i am being careful.

I played the demo, seems like a rushed mash up of GTA and Yakuza with some elements of Max Payne and the Punisher. Nothing special in my opinion.

[QUOTE=dunksby]I played the demo, seems like a rushed mash up of GTA and Yakuza with some elements of Max Payne and the Punisher. Nothing special in my opinion.[/QUOTE]
Way better than GTA4. But everything with an open world like that gets compared.

[QUOTE=clipse026]Way better than GTA4. But everything with an open world like that gets compared.[/QUOTE]
It's a mediocre game you are trying too hard.

[QUOTE=dunksby]It's a mediocre game you are trying too hard.[/QUOTE]
I like it better than GTA4. The story is better, the combat is way better, the driving is better. GTA had a more structured world but it rarely let you do what i wanted to do in it. The only thing i can say 100% was better in GTA was the cops, and the feeling of danger when they chased you.

I never cared for one second what happend to Niko or anyone else in GTA4, but i do in Sleeping Dogs. And don't get me wrong, i REALLY like GTA, i played through 4 and both expansions. I just like Sleeping Dogs that much too.

No multiplayer though, so for those of you that like that a lot (like Gobb), im sure it's a problem.

[QUOTE=dunksby]It's a mediocre game you are trying too hard.[/QUOTE]
Not really, that game is grossly overrated. It got a 10 many places. That's ridiculous. I traded it in a few hours after buying it because it just wasn't anywhere near as good as the previous games in the series.

And you've played a demo so far yet you feel educated enough to dismiss the game as nothing but a clone.

I played it pretty obsessively over the weekend, and I really really like it.

It is truely a GTA knockoff however, even more than most. But I don't have a problem with that.

My main enjoyment of it is that they took the best things about GTA, the open map, the miscelleneous collectables, the dark noir story telling, and combined it with a superior combat system, particularly the fighting, but the shooting and cover system isn't bad either, that makes me want to stop and fight whenever an enemy pops up on my map.

I did what I usually do, scoured the map for side missions and extras. Collected a bunch of boxes. Then did some of the dating, which opened up the health on the map, which I then pathologically tracked down all of. Got the cameras on the map, and chased down some of them. And the melee upgrade statues, and hunted down all of them except three that seem inaccessable at the moment.

I like tracking down the drug busts on the cameras, doing any face missions that pop up, and I'm even doing some of the fighting competitions, although they don't seem like they're something that's finishable, so I may stop going on them.

And I am plugging away at the story missions a little. With only two to work with, they sort of forced my hand a little.

My gripes are few. Mainly it's that it seems a little small, both in terms of physical size, and so far in terms of branching out the main story missions. Right now it's just cops and the water street gang. Green and Blue. No other way to go at the moment at least. And the map I've been completely around so far, but I'm not sure that's a bad thing necessarily.

The driving is a little wonky. The cars handle almost too tightly, the bikes especially. And like said before, the police are sort of a non-entity. They're actually no easy to lose, but there doesn't seem like much chance they'll catch you either.

My sincerest thanks to the people in this thread that prompted me to pick up this game.

I can't see how a person likes GTA a lot and doesn't like this game. It's a clone, sure. With a great story, better (inarguably) combat and a ton of fun things to do. GTA came out a long long time ago and the next one isn't for a year. It fills a niche for me very nicely. I wanted Saints Row to fill that niche, but that game is just too stupid for me to care and it's not fun enough, its a game where people should drop easier and things should blow up easier.

I have a couple of mission questions.

1. There's an orange icon mission where you go to a dojo and wail on 4 different types of enemies....is this mission always open? It always seems to stay active even after I've beaten everybody up.

2. I'm doing a side mission where I have to take pictures of nature and landmarks for a t-shirt shop. I'm at the part where it asks for pictures of a sunset. I drive up to the spot and snap some pics but it never marks it as complete and I can't proceed to the next spot. Huh?

Just downloaded it last night and I'll give it a shot this evening when I get home.

[QUOTE=glidedrxlr22]I have a couple of mission questions.

1. There's an orange icon mission where you go to a dojo and wail on 4 different types of enemies....is this mission always open? It always seems to stay active even after I've beaten everybody up.

2. I'm doing a side mission where I have to take pictures of nature and landmarks for a t-shirt shop. I'm at the part where it asks for pictures of a sunset. I drive up to the spot and snap some pics but it never marks it as complete and I can't proceed to the next spot. Huh?[/QUOTE]


Those orange fighting missions are like fighting pits where you really just fight to win money I think. I don't think they're gonna go away. I've done a couple and they're not going anywhere, and the other orange stuff also marks things that appear to be going anywhere that I think are there to earn money, they're the Cockfighting thing, which was horribly boring, and there are a couple of Gambling Dens out on the water, which I've been unable to access at this point, but I have been out to one of them. So I think that's why they're color coded that way.
I will say I haven't seen one in a dojo yet though. There is one right next to a dojo however, and I wonder if you went into the dojo instead of the fight pit. The first fight pit I did had 6 levels where they just kept throwing more guys at you. I beat that, then lost one, and then beat a third one so far.

I did that picture mission. Make sure you're standing in the spot marked by light is the only thing I can think of. There were only two spots that I can recall. The temple first, then the sunset. Maybe you're parked on the light shaft where you should be standing?

just grabbed it, will post impressions later

just started. so far so good.

was trying to chase down this nice car and I think i held A and back on the joystick (on a motorcycle) and a prompt came up to press Y, dude jumps OFF THE BIKE and ON TO THE OTHER CAR. insane.

fighting is a bit clunky, reminds me of arkham city fighting but you have to be careful not to get into any long combos or it's impossible to counter other attackers

not much else to say right now, will update later

[QUOTE=glidedrxlr22]I have a couple of mission questions.

1. There's an orange icon mission where you go to a dojo and wail on 4 different types of enemies....is this mission always open? It always seems to stay active even after I've beaten everybody up.

2. I'm doing a side mission where I have to take pictures of nature and landmarks for a t-shirt shop. I'm at the part where it asks for pictures of a sunset. I drive up to the spot and snap some pics but it never marks it as complete and I can't proceed to the next spot. Huh?[/QUOTE]


1 - Orange items are events (fight club, racing, stealing cars, jacking armored trucks). They are always open but I think you get a costume from each of the 4 and an achievement/trophy when you clear them all. You can always go back though.

2 - That mission was pretty straightforward to me so I dunno

PS: I am this close to getting face lvl 6 and I can finally rock that nice white suit :pimp:

[QUOTE=glidedrxlr22]I have a couple of mission questions.

1. There's an orange icon mission where you go to a dojo and wail on 4 different types of enemies....is this mission always open? It always seems to stay active even after I've beaten everybody up.

2. I'm doing a side mission where I have to take pictures of nature and landmarks for a t-shirt shop. I'm at the part where it asks for pictures of a sunset. I drive up to the spot and snap some pics but it never marks it as complete and I can't proceed to the next spot. Huh?[/QUOTE]

i'll try go back and do that mission but im pretty sure you take a pic of the sunset and then some drunk guy poses and you have to beat him up so you can get a good pic. after that you take the pic and go back to the woman

Beat it yesterday. It's a really good game, even though it's a blatant GTA clone, some aspects were actually better. Good thrilling story, well-balanced gameplay, great fighting system, easy and fun driving handles. This is like the missing link between GTA and Saints Row (SR is way more over the top, and although it's fun, it's just such a fugly game overall). Wouldn't mind seeing a sequel.

I think it's MUCH better than GTA. Wei is a much better main character and the basic game mechanics are actually FUN :eek:

I like it better than GTA because it presents a fresh environment. That