I can't quite decide if it feels like cheating or not and its easliy the strangest way I've ever won minigames before...

Why do people find hacking difficult?
Just look normally and look for no movement.
All the mini games get more difficult after Saudi Arabia and more difficult the further you get in the game. If you rely on it for money etc, make sure you put some points in it or into armor modifications.

heh. nah. ill try it tough. somehow just learned how to pick not moving faster. I guess i manage to scan with eyes faster than more efficient than before.
and lol. it is a strange method.
So they get difficult. by reducing time? :( that's annoying more difficult.
I am putting points in martial arts, stealth and health. not anything else :)

Usually I hate mini-games, but the way these worked felt quite good in the context of the game.
My fastest hacking was in the last part, and was 3.63 seconds (mentions it in your stats after each mission, think it includes lockpicking). After a while I got very good at them.

Holy crap, Yahtzee didn't hate it
Much

Heheh, the comments section is pretty fun to read.
It pretty much consists of "My god, the messiah Yahtzee didn't completely rip a game to shreds. And this specific game was ripped to shreds by other reviewers that are normally much less vicious than Yahtzee! I don't know what to think any more! (brain implodes)"
Also, I need to find a place where I can get VtM:B from at a decent price. Need it on GOG nao!

yeah yeah:
just finished rome aka last last city (did: taipei, then moscow, then rome) and some of the locks were pretty hard. alarm ones were extremely difficult sometimes and had to approach them few times before i succeeded (my stats are weak. like five points only)
surprisingly the hacking difficulty didn't rise that much. One computer in CIA HQ in rome gave me troubles as it was superfast.
Dammit. Now I want to replay the game (Moscow, rome and taipei: seems order matters right?)
and can you really bed Sis? I managed to do it to Mina and i guess that chick from rome would be possible too...
Lake too?
still only two causalities on my side. Can't wait to replay it as kill them all guy.

Sadly you can't snog sis, I got the achievement for shagging them all in one game and I only did mina, scarlett, madison & SIE (though the last one was less of a choice than I imagined)

Huh... all of them?
i just snagged mina. Do you do scarlett in the hotel before the last mission? And i really had limited contact with Sie... we never really met. just a stand off in moscow.
Done with goodie goodie guy.
Now new game with trigger happy Thorton who pisses off everyone.

Sis is definitley the cutest girl in the game for me. Hmm...
Where's that old video game crushes thread?

Fun game and reinforces my belief that "pro" reviews are worthless. Only things I hated were the computer hacking (moving with the keyboard was so slow), and the oversensitive sniper and mg turret. My first playthrough I went stealth/pistol/martial arts and am going to do a second just running and gunning. I only encountered one major bug which was with Omen Deng where I left him a sliver of health so I could listen to the President's entire speech, but I couldn't finish him off afterward. I ended up having to reload a previous checkpoint.
Yeah, you get to romance Scarlett before the last mission. SIE was the most entertaining of them all and you should be able to get her since you're not doing good guy.
Anyone happen to know who the AP women were modeled after? Madison reminds me of Joey Lauren Adams and Scarlett looks like Ivana Milicevic.

I rather hope they plan to add some dlc or an expansion, from what I gather there was more to Sis and probably G22 than was in the final game, the medallion thing just felt like it should lead to more than it did, next time I'll pick albatross as my handler for the final mission to see if it helps but for some reason I felt like being handled by SIE...
Hey cool, she's exactly one year younger than me, I'm not the only one who got chernobyl as a strange birthday present...

Wahey! Lost my save! This is actually excellent news beacuse now I can play it again and this time, now knowing how to kill BRAYKO.

He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious...