Sleeping Dogs

[LeoRaph]

Anyone here played Sleeping Dogs? I downloaded the demo the other day as I liked the sound of the story in the description and the visuals looked really cool and liked it so much I ended up downloading the full game.

I'm late in the game playing this as it's from 2012 but I needed something after finishing all Arkham games and Danger of the ooze and WHOA I'm blown away by how freakin good this is it's like GTA but with Honour

The fighting is also hella fun very arkhamish love the counter button, I'm only a few missions in but I'm hooked. This is going to keep me very busy this holiday season. Oh and the Voice acting is awesome so many good Asian American Actors in this.

[Venom]

Played it a couple years back on 360 and bought the DLC. It's a fantastic game, very similar to GTA but with a focus on melee combat.

The current gen ports look stunning, as they are essentially the PC version!

[Cure]

Yeah, Sleepy Dawgz is pretty great. Too bad the remake for this generation is poor from what I hear.

[Prowler]

Played it in early 2013. Pretty fun game. It sure made me want to visit Hong Kong someday. Then again, I'm a fan of Asian culture and fiction works set in East Asia.

As for the story, it started out promising, but it got a bit boring near the end, and I found the final mission kinda anti-climatic. Also, I didn't like how pretty much every mission involved shooting from midway on. Not to mention they just went on, and on, AND ON, AND ON!. Hand to hand combat was a lot more fun. Hell, better than in any GTA game I've played.

Good game, but not great. Will probably get the sequel as well.

I played the PC version, btw.

Also: A MAN WHO NEVER EATS PORK BUN IS NEVER A WHOLE MAN!

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by Cure

Yeah, Sleepy Dawgz is pretty great. Too bad the remake for this generation is poor from what I hear.

Aw, really? D: I had never actually played it and was contemplating making that one of my purchases if and when I jump to the next level.

[Cure]

Originally Posted by Ninjinister

Aw, really? D: I had never actually played it and was contemplating making that one of my purchases if and when I jump to the next level.

Peanut would be able to tell you more, but I think it was just poorly optimized. Who knows, maybe they patched it by now.

[Peanut]

Yeah, I heard a lot of b*tching about it, but never experienced it first hand. I don't know if they fixed it up or what. I loooooved Sleeping Dogs, though. Game was ace.

[Venom]

Hadn't heard about the Definitive Ed being poorly optimized; that sucks, the PC version on its settings is still one of the most visually striking games to behold!

[LeoRaph]

Cheers guys, good to see this game still gets the love it deserves

I've just finished the mission Bad Luck, got my face to level 8, my Cop level is almost 9 and a half and I've found almost every collectible save the one's in the shooting drug busts but my Triad points are just under 6 at the moment. Maaaaaaaaan it's hard getting a full 3 Triangles every mission...

I'll definitely download the extras missions and such after I've 'fully completed' the game. Only thing standing in my way are those Triad points...

Anyway, I've had to start going back replaying missions, starting with the first 2. I gotta redo mission 1 again as I keep finishing just under a full 3 triangles and mission 2 I managed to get 3 full ones last night but yeah gotta do the rest....long way still. Gonna have to get REAL creative with the shooting ones...at least now only needing half a cop meter to get to level 10 with several triad missions left and drug busts I don't need to really worry about bad driving costing my cop points

[LeoRaph]

Alright, I'm sure you guys know about this but to anyone else who's also New to Sleeping Dogs a word of CAUTION.

"Do Not ReDo The Missions Unless You have a Separate Up to Date Save File!"

I was redoing Mission 1 last night to get the 3 Full Triangles which I did...after the 'incident'....but before I got it I was just under the 3 triangles near the end of the mission with no one else to fight so I decided to cancel the mission....BIG MISTAKE...Instead of resetting the mission...I got 'The Black Screen of Death' also known as the "NG+ Glitch" where the screen went black for a minute where there was a save icon in the right corner and it continued to stay black. Naturally I hit the reset expecting everything to be fine and went back to redo mission 1 which I finally did successfully, so I then tried to redo more missions but I suddenly found I couldn't. There was no A button from the 3rd mission. Hmm that's weird. So I thought screw it, I'll just do the next mission which was 'Conflicted Loyalties' but to my absolute shock I could ONLY start from the 3rd Mission and all other missions had been reset including drug busts and face missions. The funny thing was I had ALL my collectables, cars, clothes, triad, face, cop levels and unlocked abilities.

Luckily, I had a 'saved file' up to 'Initiation' where I'd lose about 4 missions of progress and a full face level as well as a full cop level but it seemed better than starting from Mission 3 even if I had the majority of upgrades. I really considered trying to play the game from mission 3 redoing everything with my 'advantage' but it just seemed like a 'cheat' and I prefer to earn everything before I do cheats.

So I decided to sacrifice my face and cop levels and lose a few missions rather than ALL my missions progress with an advantage. Needless to say I update my save file in the 'separate save files' with every mission now.

If/When I redo missions I'll be ready for the 'Black Screen of Death' should it happen again...