Poll: inFamous or Prototype?
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Me and my mates were actually talking about this on thursday, and we couldn't decide. To me I feel that its wierd that two games of a stupidly simular genre, story and game play should come out in the same month. Either each developer planned the simular release dates or its really bad luck.
Anyway we decided Prototype will win because its gorier and multiformat.
Anyway we decided Prototype will win because its gorier and multiformat.
From what I've seen, definitely Prototype.
From Susan's review of infamous I gathered that it's put too much emphasis on the morality part and mostly consists of throwing electric grenades all the time and a bit of climbing stuff.
Prototype looks awesome, with running really fast, wall running while ***** slapping Isaac Newton, gliding, shape-shifting with blade, claws, hammers, whip, shield and full body armour. Body snatching looks awesome and elbow dropping a tank will be epic. Alex is in the grey so morality doesn't effect the game.
Damn I can't wait 17 days for it.
From Susan's review of infamous I gathered that it's put too much emphasis on the morality part and mostly consists of throwing electric grenades all the time and a bit of climbing stuff.
Prototype looks awesome, with running really fast, wall running while ***** slapping Isaac Newton, gliding, shape-shifting with blade, claws, hammers, whip, shield and full body armour. Body snatching looks awesome and elbow dropping a tank will be epic. Alex is in the grey so morality doesn't effect the game.
Damn I can't wait 17 days for it.
I'll have to go prototype because there just seems a bit more variety when it comes to abilities. I think lightning might get a bit boring especially if its all ranged attacks and, according to the escapist review, I think its quite annoying that by killing civilians accidentally (when trying to be good) you'll attacks will weaken. Linking morality to power seems a really odd step and it seems to push you in the direction of evil making the morality piontless. Plus in prototype you can make a sword of bone.
As much think as both look great my recent selling of my ps3 (goddamned rent) requires me to say prototype as it's the only one I'll be able to play when released. Oh well I've been looking forward to prototype for a while now anyways, ability absorption for the win!
I can't pick either one. None of them stands out. I think of this because neither have been polished enough for my tastes. Prototype is a good multi-platform concept, but missions look too repetitive. As for not doing missions like GTA 4-style killing, never got into it.
InFamous looks more polished, but because his powers are lightning-based, melee attacks are not presented well.
I still wait for a sandbox game with these aspects, but rather have a lot of variety in which powers you'd refine and choose. Just think about it. You're a villain or anti-hero, and justice or heroes would try to stop you. You get to pick different powers to add a nice edge in gameplay. You could play as a powerful destroyer of cities using your shapeshifting, or go enigmatic and use your powers of manipulation to control the world from the inside.
InFamous looks more polished, but because his powers are lightning-based, melee attacks are not presented well.
I still wait for a sandbox game with these aspects, but rather have a lot of variety in which powers you'd refine and choose. Just think about it. You're a villain or anti-hero, and justice or heroes would try to stop you. You get to pick different powers to add a nice edge in gameplay. You could play as a powerful destroyer of cities using your shapeshifting, or go enigmatic and use your powers of manipulation to control the world from the inside.
Played both now. And I still think 2 completly different games with similar storylines.
Infamous while has the "moral" choice it is pretty useless with really only one skill being affected. Being super evil though is cool.
Prototype....well I had huge dissapontment from the beginning because we were getting a skill "shapeshifting" where we can only shapeshift into these designated things..and well only your arms......so consume and become.....anything that is human only.....
But in saying this I do love both of these games.
Infamous while has the "moral" choice it is pretty useless with really only one skill being affected. Being super evil though is cool.
Prototype....well I had huge dissapontment from the beginning because we were getting a skill "shapeshifting" where we can only shapeshift into these designated things..and well only your arms......so consume and become.....anything that is human only.....
But in saying this I do love both of these games.
I think Prototype does it better, whereas inFamous forces you to be good or evil, as you play through Prototypes story you see this moral ambiguity. I mean, your character is kindof a hero, but then again he's also very much a sociopathic crazy in his own right.
The gameplay in Prototype is very satisfying, its like a combination of Saints Row, Hulk Ultimate Destruction, Spiderman 2, and God of War. The parkour is INSANELY satisfying, body surfing, gliding from rooftop to rooftop, running up the side of a building, its all so satisfying. With that being said though, inFamous was the first, and is still the only PS3 exclusive that has appealed to be. I'll be honest though, Prototype will sell better, its multi-platform against a console exclusive.
I'll close with this, its apples and oranges, Prototype isn't really you're traditional hero game, whereas inFamous is. They've both got good reviews, and i'm sure inFamous is a good game, and I know Prototype is a good game. My opinion is? If you have a PS3, get both. If you don't have a PS3, you still owe it to yourself to play Prototype.
The gameplay in Prototype is very satisfying, its like a combination of Saints Row, Hulk Ultimate Destruction, Spiderman 2, and God of War. The parkour is INSANELY satisfying, body surfing, gliding from rooftop to rooftop, running up the side of a building, its all so satisfying. With that being said though, inFamous was the first, and is still the only PS3 exclusive that has appealed to be. I'll be honest though, Prototype will sell better, its multi-platform against a console exclusive.
I'll close with this, its apples and oranges, Prototype isn't really you're traditional hero game, whereas inFamous is. They've both got good reviews, and i'm sure inFamous is a good game, and I know Prototype is a good game. My opinion is? If you have a PS3, get both. If you don't have a PS3, you still owe it to yourself to play Prototype.
No it's just totally removed, moral choice is just a joke anyway, because a human has 443 DISTINCT AND DIFFERENT EMOTIONS THAT ARE KNOW TO SCIENTISTS.Valiance said:
These emotions have all been mapped during the course of many years of psych studies and so on. This is just what we know now maybe in ten years there are 600 emotions.
But this is only to prove my point that moral choice is STUPID AND IMPOSSIBLE. A human can approach a problem with 443 different options and different combos that makes it (443!)= INCALCULABLE. Or in other words a calculator couldn't calculate the amount of possibilities so how are we going to program them all when we make choices in games?
It might be done by 2265 but not any time soon. Thus moral choices serve only to annoy me and I am glad Prototype just ask you "Would you like to kill these innocent helpless civilians now or later?" No morality they are just there happening to run in front of a tank I threw at em.
Prototype sounds much more interesting. Safe Shifting, memory absorption, a war in a huge free city between mutants and the military(with you in the middle).
Infamous, on the other hand has......Lighting powers and a moral choice system. I just can't get excited about lighting powers anymore. Unless you can turn the largest tower in the city into a lighting rod to fry half the city at once(Like Red Alert 2 did), I don't care.
As for a moral choice system, it's been done, and most of the time, not that well. Yathzee hit the nail on the fucking head. Some moral ambiguity PLEASE! Not just a choice between goody goody and DIE! Situations where neither choice is purely good or evil, perhaps where you have to do something rather unethical to help the lesser of two evils and the ethical choice would allow the greater of the evils to suceed.
Infamous, on the other hand has......Lighting powers and a moral choice system. I just can't get excited about lighting powers anymore. Unless you can turn the largest tower in the city into a lighting rod to fry half the city at once(Like Red Alert 2 did), I don't care.
As for a moral choice system, it's been done, and most of the time, not that well. Yathzee hit the nail on the fucking head. Some moral ambiguity PLEASE! Not just a choice between goody goody and DIE! Situations where neither choice is purely good or evil, perhaps where you have to do something rather unethical to help the lesser of two evils and the ethical choice would allow the greater of the evils to suceed.