Poll: Borderlands Or Prototype?

[Biosophilogical]

ok, here's the deal.
If you'd like an awesome platformer/ third person shooter, go for inFamous. It's awesome (ten million times better than Prototype).
If you want an FPS/RPG game that requires old-school grinding and weapon combinations that rival Diablo II, go with Boderlands.
as for Borderlands vs Prototype? Go for Borderlands... Prototype is just shit.

I haven't played infamous but why would you say it's so much better than prototype? It seems to be the exact same game but it's slower to climb a building and the attacks look the same on infamous.

The games are nothing alike except on paper. Prototype is just some hack and slash with super-powers, with its only real plus being the fact that you cause immense destruction, but even then they destroyed that by making your enemies be able to shoot explosions at you and follow you wherever you go. Infamous, on the other hand, has a decent story-line, has a decently functioning moral choice system (meaning replay value), climbing buildings makes sense (physics wise), the main character is much more human and so are his enemies, so it is much more immersive, all of his attacks may be electrical based but they have great diversity, unlike prototype where the attack types only have one major advantage over another (blade arm for tanks, muscle mass for quick damage, whip-arm for hijacking). Also, in Infamous, the way the story is told is much more awesome than prototype's 'web of intrigue'. And for the final plus, in Infamous, killing enemies isn't just a matter of spamming the attack button because dying is alot easier and therefore tactics are required (dying doesn't happen all the time, but it is like MW2 in that you take damage then heal after a bit as opposed to having a health bar).

So yeah, Infamous and prototype are nothing alike except for the 'sandbox' aspect, and even that is done differently in each game.

OT: Get Borderlands, I have never played it but Prototype gets repetitive fast, even the side-missions in prototype are just the same 4 or so things over and over.

 

[Red Bomb]

Prototype gets pretty brutal when you turn all aggression onto the public. HOWEVER, it did get boring after, oooh a couple of hours! (Give me infamous anyday)

Borderlands I love because of the graphics. But apart from that, I wasnt too overwhelmed by it. I mean the last "boss" - friggin heck....you know what I mean if you've fought it. *rolls eyes*

 

[Beartrucci]

I wouldn't buy Prototype, it is very fun at first but will get boring extremely fast.

 

[KyleThePirate]

borderlands has way more re playability and the company is going to support it longer. there is already a DLC becoming available at the end of the month

 

[Chaossebba]

I would most definitely go for Borderlands if i didnt own both games allready. Borderlands offers alot more i feel.

 

[Flack]

Out of those two games; Prototype if you have no mates/internet, and Borderlands if you have 3 other mates who want to play! Its fantastic fun!

 

[SultanP]

I'd recommend Prototype. Borderlands wasn't very good in my opinion, and it got old a lot faster than Prototype did.

 

[Sarge499]

borderlands has way more re playability and the company is going to support it longer. there is already a DLC becoming available at the end of the month

If you read their forums you will see they arent really supporting anything, people are saying there is a memory leak, thats why i suggested the console versions.

 

[Daedalus1942]

Ooh, fuck thats a difficult one.

Well, I'd go for Borderlands myself, but only if you can play online, if you can't play online, get Prototype.

NEVER recommend Prototype... ever...

Thank you.

Prototype is a derivative third-person beat-'em-up with very, very little originality. It comes from a genre that should have died the best part of a decade ago. Go for Borderlands; it may just be Diablo with guns, but Diablo was quite fun back in the day.

Then again, I wouldn't have either game; I'm sick of these derivative and clichéd titles that everybody seems to have adopted this year.

See? this man gets it! Prototype was just horrible and when I reccomended inFamous, I wasn't suggesting a different game to prototype, I was merely suggesting a game that was similar to Prototype in many ways, except in the fact that inFamous was a good game.

 

[Caligulove]

Borderlands just has a style to it that makes it so hard to pass up. Its a great time

 

[Biosophilogical]

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Stop saying Infamous karmic choice offers replay value, the story is the EXACT same.

Yeah, but the storyline isn't why you play a game, though it is nice. The story-line in Infamous is good, and being a bad guy and seeing all those little changes makes it a partially-new one. But the biggest bit of replay comes from the powers you get, evil powers and good powers are like two sides of a coin, they are both part of one big thing (shock grenades, lightning bolts etc), but they are completely different (good powers are designed for accuracy and controlled damage while evil powers are designed as sweepers to blow up as much area as you can as quickly as you can hoping that your enemies are amongst all the civilians you just killed. And seeing as the powers and the karmic choice system are DIRECTLY RELATED, the karmic choice system is what offers the replay value TYVM!!!

 

[Cherry Cola]

Ooh, fuck thats a difficult one.

Well, I'd go for Borderlands myself, but only if you can play online, if you can't play online, get Prototype.

Both are damn good though, I'm playing both right now.

What, at the same time? Did you get a Bayonetta-control scheme where you can play with one hand or do you have 4 arms?

 

[Daedalus1942]

Prototype gets pretty brutal when you turn all aggression onto the public. HOWEVER, it did get boring after, oooh a couple of hours! (Give me infamous anyday)

Borderlands I love because of the graphics. But apart from that, I wasnt too overwhelmed by it. I mean the last "boss" - friggin heck....you know what I mean if you've fought it. *rolls eyes*

Yes, agreed. the last boss was lame and then you get like no decent weapons or anything from---
SPOILER ALERT!!!! (I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO ADD THE TAGS) YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!
----The vault... hell you don't even get to enter it and find absolutely awesome weapons?
Also.. you can't fight the final boss more than twice (once on each playthrough), like wtf!?

 

[Daedalus1942]

Ooh, fuck thats a difficult one.

Well, I'd go for Borderlands myself, but only if you can play online, if you can't play online, get Prototype.

NEVER recommend Prototype... ever...

Thank you.

Prototype is a derivative third-person beat-'em-up with very, very little originality. It comes from a genre that should have died the best part of a decade ago. Go for Borderlands; it may just be Diablo with guns, but Diablo was quite fun back in the day.

Then again, I wouldn't have either game; I'm sick of these derivative and clichéd titles that everybody seems to have adopted this year.

See? this man gets it! Prototype was just horrible and when I reccomended inFamous, I wasn't suggesting a different game to prototype, I was merely suggesting a game that was similar to Prototype in many ways, except in the fact that inFamous was a good game.

Except, by your other posts on Infamous/Prototype its clear your completel biased against it, so therefore you cant be taken seriously.

I have no love for Prototype at all, clearly, and yes I'm biased, but I'm biased because Prototype was just awful, couldn't be bothered to finish it. As for inFamous, i'm currently still collecting all the blast shards and dead drops.

 

[Daedalus1942]

ok, here's the deal.
If you'd like an awesome platformer/ third person shooter, go for inFamous. It's awesome (ten million times better than Prototype).
If you want an FPS/RPG game that requires old-school grinding and weapon combinations that rival Diablo II, go with Boderlands.
as for Borderlands vs Prototype? Go for Borderlands... Prototype is just shit.

I haven't played infamous but why would you say it's so much better than prototype? It seems to be the exact same game but it's slower to climb a building and the attacks look the same on infamous.

Similar concept, granted, but inFamous manages to pull it off so much better.
When i first saw Sucker Punch's trailers i thought (oh great, another travesty like the spiderman film games). Hell, I even played the demo and hated it.
Then one day i saw it for only $25 preowned and I thought hell I'll give it a shot.
I'm so glad i did. It's one of the most well put together games I have played in a long time and easily trumps Prototype in nearly every aspect (yes the sidemissions get a bit repetitive, but there's more variety than prototype).
My advice is you go and play inFamous and then come back and give me your honest opinion.
I was expecting to hate it.. and I didn't.

 

[Cherry Cola]

Ooh, fuck thats a difficult one.

Well, I'd go for Borderlands myself, but only if you can play online, if you can't play online, get Prototype.

NEVER recommend Prototype... ever...

Thank you.

Prototype is a derivative third-person beat-'em-up with very, very little originality. It comes from a genre that should have died the best part of a decade ago. Go for Borderlands; it may just be Diablo with guns, but Diablo was quite fun back in the day.

Then again, I wouldn't have either game; I'm sick of these derivative and clichéd titles that everybody seems to have adopted this year.

See? this man gets it! Prototype was just horrible and when I reccomended inFamous, I wasn't suggesting a different game to prototype, I was merely suggesting a game that was similar to Prototype in many ways, except in the fact that inFamous was a good game.

Except, by your other posts on Infamous/Prototype its clear your completel biased against it, so therefore you cant be taken seriously.

Then perhaps a biased opinion is in order!

I had fun with both games, I really did. But... something about Prototype was wrong. I do not know why, and I didn't notice until after I sold it. It was like, when I had stopped playing all the hours I had spent seemed wasted. Maybe I played it too much, but it got repetitive in the end.

InFamous had better quality by far. Quality as in better controls, better graphics, better loading times, better technical stuff. Game play is up to debate on which one is best, story was more consistent and better but the plot twist at the end was kinda weird, but I liked it better than prototypes ending.

Prototype: Mindless fun

InFamous: Mindless fun that at the same time makes you feel like your playing a game that is actually from 2008.

Although InFamous gets a huuuuge minus for the fact that you have to press R3 to see hidden collectables on the minimap. My thumb hurt a lot after getting the platinum trophy.

 

[Cherry Cola]

What, at the same time? Did you get a Bayonetta-control scheme where you can play with one hand or do you have 4 arms?

Neither, I'm just that awesome

I'd argue with you on that point, but you are too awesome.