Let's Play Liberal Crime Squad, Liberalism, fuck yeah! Options

[JakAttack]

DISCLAIMER: I would like to disassociate any and all views and opinions on politics showed in this LP with my actual political views. Anything overly political in this LP is purely satire on my part. By extension, any serious discussion of politics shouldn't be discussed here. With that out of the way, LIBERAL CRIME SQUAD!



Are you tired of your beautiful America being threatened by the Evil Conservatives? Well, worry no more! the Liberal Crime Squad is here, and we're going to save the country from a disasterous fate of being run by a Conservative president! This will be near blind (I've watched a few Let's Plays, but this is my first time playing the game). I know the basic mechanics (and I will explain them as we go), and I've looked up the wiki and decided what I'll do with my character from that. Let's get this puppy started.



We're going to be playing Classic, Non-Nightmare mode. The Conservative Crime Squad is something that I had to look up. They get activated later in the game if you choose Classic Mode, so I'll explain them when they come up, because I'd have to draw parallels to the LCS, and we don't even know the LCS yet. I also choose the Classic Agenda, which means everything must be Elite Liberal. See, the goal of the game (I assume) is to basically make everything Liberal, including the President. Why? Because the game is called Liberal Crime Squad. Let's get this rolling. I'd like to introduce you to...



Travis Shepardson! No, I didn't actually type that in, when you press a key it randomly gives you a name, so I just cycled through and randomized it. It doesn't matter anyway, because you get to choose your 'Name to the People' after choosing your history. The history thing is basically the GOAT exam, but you don't get to say "Fuck it, I want this type of character" afterwards. If you want to see it, then click this link, because I was not going to screenshot each and every question individually. I picked (in this order) C, B, E, D, D, A, D, A, C, D. All that means non-statwise is that I'm living in the Homeless Shelter and I started off with $1,000. Here's where we get to see the story.



TL;DR The President's Conservative, and therefore Evil.



And now for our own little Liberal, Jack McDack! This name is only temporary, but I'll default to it if no one else thinks of a name. Oddly enough, I can change the gender here, too. It has no effect on gameplay, but it's the thought that counts. And it's here that I should start explanations. Your stats:

Heart: This plays a part in a few things. In general, it's how loyal you are to the LCS. So, for example, if a character with a low Heart gets arrested, they will probably rat you out and you'll have police on your ass in the hideout in a few days. It also plays a part in interrogations, but we'll get to that later.
Intelligence/Wisdom: Intelligence measures how Liberal you are, wheras Wisdom measures how Conservative you are. So you basically want to have someone with high intelligence, low Wisdom.
Health: Self-explanitory.
Agility/Strength/Charisma: I assume these just alter your max stats in the other column.
Juice: This is actually important; this meaqsures how many recruits you can have. How? Why? I don't know. It gets levelled up by doing various Liberal things, like spraypainting, apperantly.
And your skills are:
Security: This is your lockpicking skill, car stealing skill, etc.
Computer: I'm guessing this is related to computers.
Street Sense: To quote the wiki, "Influences effectiveness of avoiding Conservatives on the streets." This probably decreases your chance of being caught while stealing cars.
Everything else pretty much does what you'd expect (Seduction and Persuasion are your effectiveness to convert people, Driving is how good you are with cars, etc.). So, onto our little menu!



This is basically home base. We can Go out and sabatoge shit/recruit (which is probably what I'm going to do first), Review stuff, change the slogan, fly a flag to increase our safety, etc., etc. And it's here that I'm going to stop, because it's time for...



You, yes YOU get to decide the LCS Slogan, my character's name, and suggest any future names! Now, sadly you will not decide what we will do next, but maybe later I'll take suggestions like that.

So, that's the first part of my LP, I hope you all liked it, and I look forward to doing this more.

[Paragon]

First off, the game itself gave me quite a few laughs. I mean, this is satirizing not just the conservatives, but the liberals, too! I mean, this game could be politically switched, and it would STILL be hilarious to me.

I think his name should be Ann (or a male variation on it) Coulter. For the irony. Either way, I think the last name should be Coulter.

I think the slogan should be something like "Protecting your rights from the Right."

[Caim]

For traditions sake I will have to suggest Dongs as a name (last name unimportant.)

And I'll just have to agree with Paragon for a slogan.

[Viashino_wizard]

Andrew Coulter.

[Dystopian God]

i say that our slogan should be



LIBERALISM! FUCK YEAH!

[Projectkulu]

Although you kind of stole the READER INTERACTION thing from me, I'll still follow this Let's Play because dammit, the internet needs more Let's Plays of this game.

Also try to beat the game without killing anyone, I DARE YOU

[Dr. O]

Artist's sketch of Travis Shepardson:



~Moe~

[TheSpaih]

Glad to see this game getting popular, it really deserves more recognition. As for reader interaction, Andrew Coulter for the name and what Paragon suggested for the slogan.

This post has been edited by TheSpaih: Jun 3 2012, 01:29 PM

[Caim]

Artist's sketch of Travis Shepardson:



~Moe~

Okay, changing my vote to Shepardson.

The slogan should of course be "~Moe~.

This post has been edited by Caim: Jun 3 2012, 01:41 PM

[Viashino_wizard]

Okay, changing my vote to Shepardson.

The slogan should of course be "~Moe~.

Yeah, changing mine to this.

[Max-Vader]

Okay, changing my vote to Shepardson.

The slogan should of course be "~Moe~.

This. So much this.

[Projectkulu]

Okay, changing my vote to Shepardson.

The slogan should of course be "~Moe~.

I don't even need to add my vote, but I will

[DeanTheAdequate]

Okay, changing my vote to Shepardson.

The slogan should of course be "~Moe~.

This

[JakAttack]

Well well well, it seems this was well recieved-ish. So, uh, funny story, I actually forgot to quit in such a way that it would save my nonexistant progress. What does that mean? Well, not a whole lot, I picked the same exact questions as last time. The only difference is that while I managed to find Travis as the first name, I couldn't find Shepardson as the last name. Fret not, Dr. O, the drawing is still valid (as I'll explain in a second),



Travis Luzinski! I'm always one to put a bullshit backstory to everything, so for the record, our dear Travis got married to a (Liberal) Russian spy and decided to take her last name, but sadly she died in a tragic explosion. As far as he knows. He resorts to underage anime to cope with the loss.



Oh yeah, and now the President is Andy Krasow. No real difference.

Playing this, I totally forgot that Andrew Coulter actually won. I'll change that when I go back (And refer to him as Andrew for the time being), but on the screen, you'll be seeing Dongs Coulter. Again, I'll change it later.



See? Same loadout, different name. Just in case you didn't believe me.



Due to very popular demand, the slogan is now ~Moe~. This gets extra funny when you find out that shouting the slogan in combat has a chance of scaring off combatants.

Also, if you look at the top right you may get a spoiler for what happens in a few minutes. It's not fun.

So, first thing we want to do is recruit a couple people to do our dirty work. The end goal is to have a sort of mafia-style system where the leader (You) is untouchable, but you have a bunch of goobers at the bottom of the food chain doing all the illegal shit. That way they can rat your littler guys out, but they can't rat you out. So I press F, and we get brought to the map.



There's these four areas, and each area has more areas, and those areas are what we walk around in.



The green "SQUAD" is us. Whenever we come across someone, we see the yellow "ENCTR". Anybody Green (Hairstylist, College Student) is Liberal, and therefore recruitable. Red (Other College Student) is Conservative. Technically recruitable, but we don't want them, because they'll just pollute the LCS with their backwards thinking and their eeevil ways. White (Chef) is neutral, again, technically recruitable, but harder than us gee-golly swell Liberals.



We decide to pick up the College Student. Let's just discuss Politics.




Alright. You usually want to just discuss politics with liberals, but anyone else you'll want to throw a pick-up line. If you're lucky, they'll become your love-slave. No, seriously. So we walk around a little bit to find a few people to join our little rag-tag group of misfits when-



Jackpot. I'd really like to have a Liberal Judge, because if you get enough Liberal Judges and Lawyers, then you pretty much never have to worry about being arrested again. This is too delecate of an operation to mess up...

I KNOW LETS THROW A PICKUP LINE OH YEAH THIS CAN ONLY HAVE A GOOD OUTCOME



...Fuck.

Well, that didn't work. Well, at least we got a couple of College boys to molest recruit. And now for the dialogue system!



By general rule of thumb, if they say they "have someplace better to be", you want to spend $50, if they're curious, just talk to them, and if they want to join, let them join. Don't bother getting to like this guy, we lose him anyway.



You want to have an outcome like this...



Not like this. So we got screwed over on two people.



Oh yes, I should also probably show this little menu. These are all the Liberal Activities out Liberal friend can Liberally do. They are all pretty much self-explanitory.

And yes, we can take a Conservative hostage. Seriously, when talking to a conservative, you literally have the option to, quote, "Just kidnap the Conservative bitch."

...I love this game. So much.

We go to Equip Liberals, and we take our clothes off.



One might wonder why we're doing this. Well, if you're naked in Sweatshops, you'll actually blend in, because Sweatshop workers are also naked.

Now, I didn't take any screenshots of the action, sadly. Let's just say that I freed three workers, and...well...



I know the slogan was different at this time, I didn't want Paragon to feel completely useless. So, our little group is pretty beaten up. We sent them to the free clinic, though. I mean, the can't be that bad, ri-



FUCK.



DOUBLE FUCK



TRIPLE FUCK



QUADRUPLE FU...Actually, that's a pretty good loadout. And she's the only one who isn't all shot up. Plus her Tailoring skill is higher than her max, somehow.

Well, there's our little...team. Andrew's missing an eye, and everyone's wanted. I'm only going to assume if everyone lays low for a while they'll lose the charge, but for now, I'm probably going to have Ashley make some clothes and sell them for profit. Maybe. Possible. Hopefully.



We have three new members who need names! Keep in mind, I can actually change the gender, so if that's a request, then I don't mind. I'm going to work on getting us more money next time, and hopefully nothing bad will happen. I highly doubt it.

LIBERAL JAK ATTACK OUT!

This post has been edited by JakAttack: Jun 4 2012, 10:56 AM

[Viashino_wizard]

Actually, Travis Sheperdson won. A bunch of people changed their votes (including me).

Name our new threesome Larry, Moe and Curly.

Time to photoshop an eyepatch in there, Doc.

[Dr. O]

Time to photoshop an eyepatch in there, Doc.

By the end of this LP, the character will be some awe-inspiring combination of Travis, Shepard, and Big Boss.

As far as new character names go, I just ask that one of them be based on Obama. Like Zerobama or Nobama. Or "Barack 'Superallah' Obama," if it'll fit.

[TheSpaih]

What Viashino said.

[JakAttack]

(This page is getting rather long, so I'm hoping that we get to two pages by the next update.)



There. Now he's Travis Shepardson. He will always and forever be Travis Shepardson. With that over, let's disband this little group.



We go to make a new group, but not before changing a few names. (And genders)



Curley's going to be our main man for the moment, and all the others are senf off for...Holy shit. two months. Looks like it's just you and me for a while, Curly. We spend a bit making clothes for ten bucks a pop, and sell them for a profit of twenty bucks a pop.

(Also, I didn't screencap it, but this group's name is "Let's sell some damn clothes".)



We also get a can of spraypaint, because this is one of the esiest ways to get juice. Just go to the crackhouse and spray spray spray, won't cound against you, and you still get the juice.

Oh yeah, while equipping i noticed this little gem.



I love this game.

While at the crackhouse, we talk to a Crack Head...



And a Teenager...



...That we will try to recruit.

Instead of risking it, I just immediately spend 50 bucks on both of them a couple of times. Sadly, we have not the correct amount of Juice to acquire them. So I go on a spraypainting rampage. The only problem is that I didn't go to the crack house, I went to one of the Projects, and, well...



Curly's not going to be good with the law for a while.

On the bright side, we got the Teenager (Had to let go of the Crack Head).



He has some musical talent, so we'll start him on legal fundraising. Let's just put him in a squad of his own. What shall we name it...?



While doing this, I also found a screen that details how much shit you're in with the (Evil Conservative) Police. Let's look at Curly's rap sheet.



...Heh...heh heh...Um...wow. I need to get to recruiting some more people that are clean. Jesus Christ.

Well, it seems it's almost time to end this time, so I'll just fastforward a little until the other guys are out of the Clinic and-



Fuck. This is the screen where you see how much of an impact you're making on the President and congress. It's aneat little feature, but it also highlights how much I suck at this game. Watch.





Hey, looks like some North Carolinans are in the Congress.



There's also this, which details how much we spent/made. We've been spending a lot. Joy.

There's always a silver lining, though!





Our Liberals are finally out of the Clinic. And it only took two months. Our dear Travis still only has one eye, though, so he can'd really recruit anyone because his Charisma is shit.



Still, for a hastily thrown-together gang, it's not that bad.



Well, the obvious one is that now we got a musician on the team that needs a name. But you know what? I'd like to know what you all want me to do. I've got four wanted people free. Should I vandalize more? Should I destroy equipment? Hire more people? Sell special brownies? I'll attempt whatever you want (except kill people, I'm keeping that challenge as long as possible).

Farewell, my fellow Liberals!

[Max-Vader]

I asked myself, "How does the conservative side view our hero Travis?" The answer was pretty obvious.

[Yaoi Huntress Earth]

How about sell some special brownies and calling the singer, "Not-Ted Nudget"?