well, sure, but they're very different games. Plus, for all this talk about Prototype being a better power-fantasy. There's more personality going on as well, whereas Prototype just seems sorta generic. So, this is basically ''Fuck Infamous'' the thread then? Eh, I haven't played the second Prototype, but I think the first two inFamous games are vastly superior just in the quality of craft alone. If I'm playing a game that flirts with the power fantasy, I don't want to feel restrained. It ultimately comes down to which is more fun to play, and Prototype leans into the absurdity a bit more. It would nice if one would step away from the obvious, but I'm willing to accept their rote arc as long as it remains mostly coherent. Both of them kind of rehash tales I've heard a thousand times before. It makes even less sense in InFamous because evil Cole has no qualms murdering street performers, but the giant monster who is murdering street performers, well, that's unacceptable.Īnd, I'll reiterate that I'm not playing either of these games for their profound narrative. Let's make his clothes black and him be a dick to his friends. We have this hero and we need to make him bad, but he still has to want to fight the villain, so we can't make him too bad. I've said it before, but it reminds me a lot of Spider-Man 3. The story unfolds, largely, in the exact same way, Cole is either just a unbearable prick in the cutscenes, or excruciatingly boring. I think the moral choices in InFamous are there more so they can say they're there rather than any significance to the overall product.
It's not profound, and it's been done hundreds of times in this medium, but it doesn't really compromise what it's ultimately doing in attempt to appeal to a larger crowd. He just happened to help the right people while on his way to getting his family. Whenever he's the hero it's by circumstance. He wanted to save his family and gave no shits about anybody else, they don't really stray from that. Being a dick and having well meaning goals aren't mutually exclusive.