Trailers: Prototype 2: Alex Mercer
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The biggest thing that confuses me is that they had already laid the seeds for a much better sequel: Pariah. All the foreshadowing about it being the end of the world if Mercer and Pariah met, all the backstory via Web of Memories, and they just ignore it in favor of a completely new out of left field situation. Plus, it almost looks like they're trying to shoehorn in this story and say it took place DURING the first game. Makes no sense.
Unless I'm wrong about when this takes place, and unless Mercer deliberately MAKES this new protagonist to help him go after Pariah, the story is going to suck. I say delay another year and write a good story for the game.
Unless I'm wrong about when this takes place, and unless Mercer deliberately MAKES this new protagonist to help him go after Pariah, the story is going to suck. I say delay another year and write a good story for the game.
So we're kicking all the buildup Prototype 1 gave us and replace the main character with a generic knuckle head. Great. At least, there's no cover based shooting. But no, won't get my money for going for the stupid Alien 3 route of killing characters incoherently.
Uh-oh, looks like the Prototype franchise will end for me sooner than expected. Well, judging from what data I have anyway, maybe I just don't know enough of the game to understand anything at all just now.
Don't get me wrong, making Mercer (and by "(Alex) Mercer" I mean the identity the virus has developed by the end of the game, not the original person) the antagonist is - in itself - nothing bad, it even has the benefit of letting you start from zero again with a new character and delivering a powerful enemy at the same time. I do prefer it to making bad excuses about new enemies and how the protagonist of the prior game gets depowered.
But I'm afraid Mercer is getting the Idiot Ball this time, and there's nothing more dissatisfying than defeating an idiot and being portrayed like it's a great achievement.
I could excuse Alex Mercer becoming the villain despite him saving the city, despite him defeating the Redlight Virus, despite him developing real emotions and attachments to humans. After all, he was betrayed numerous times and as a virus he probably could have some deep instinct of acquiring more biomass or enlarging his territory - that part could be excused somehow, even if it wouldn't satisfy me because it would mean degrading the entire character development for me - back again to animalistic instincts from a complex and troubled existence that is unsure about its own identity, purpose and fate.
In fact, in the end, he is filled with regret and self-despise in my opinion, he hates the part of him that started the infection, even tho it meant he got to live, this new existence came to be, at the price of the lives of others.
He, ultimately, puts the lives of others ahead of his own and goes to extremes to that. That makes him an unlikely hero, an anti-hero for me, someone who slaughters hundreds, thousands of peoples to reach his goal, which is, in the end, saving others. We got no canon info about how he handled civilians after all, so we can't even say he killed or nom'd innocents (on purpose) at all.
He could've just ditched New York and flown away in a helicopter after all (and even with the "animalistic" traits of a virus it would've made more sense to start anew somewhere less dangerous), but I guess it was his sense of responsibility that made him follow a different path without questioning it.
It might be over-analyzing, but seeing the amount of Fridge Brilliance everywhere in Prototype, I can't help but think the writers did put a lot of effort into developing this rather complex and intriguing character once you get behind his potato face.
And now he's powering up some random dude and makes him angry.
There's just no excuse for that. Not even if Alex was bored and wanted a toy to play with, he knows what it's like to be a toy, a lab rat, I don't think he'd be egoistic enough to do something like that after the first game's events. He knows how quickly this stuff can get out of control, he, as a researcher and the blacklight virus in itself, knows how unpredictable and versatile these superpowers can get.
It's always so boring to see villains that impose challenges onto themselves and then they ultimately get defeated by their own arrogance. It's just so cliché and such a common way to make the victory graspable for a new hero against a villain that knows all the tricks.
/rant
Don't get me wrong, making Mercer (and by "(Alex) Mercer" I mean the identity the virus has developed by the end of the game, not the original person) the antagonist is - in itself - nothing bad, it even has the benefit of letting you start from zero again with a new character and delivering a powerful enemy at the same time. I do prefer it to making bad excuses about new enemies and how the protagonist of the prior game gets depowered.
But I'm afraid Mercer is getting the Idiot Ball this time, and there's nothing more dissatisfying than defeating an idiot and being portrayed like it's a great achievement.
I could excuse Alex Mercer becoming the villain despite him saving the city, despite him defeating the Redlight Virus, despite him developing real emotions and attachments to humans. After all, he was betrayed numerous times and as a virus he probably could have some deep instinct of acquiring more biomass or enlarging his territory - that part could be excused somehow, even if it wouldn't satisfy me because it would mean degrading the entire character development for me - back again to animalistic instincts from a complex and troubled existence that is unsure about its own identity, purpose and fate.
In fact, in the end, he is filled with regret and self-despise in my opinion, he hates the part of him that started the infection, even tho it meant he got to live, this new existence came to be, at the price of the lives of others.
He, ultimately, puts the lives of others ahead of his own and goes to extremes to that. That makes him an unlikely hero, an anti-hero for me, someone who slaughters hundreds, thousands of peoples to reach his goal, which is, in the end, saving others. We got no canon info about how he handled civilians after all, so we can't even say he killed or nom'd innocents (on purpose) at all.
He could've just ditched New York and flown away in a helicopter after all (and even with the "animalistic" traits of a virus it would've made more sense to start anew somewhere less dangerous), but I guess it was his sense of responsibility that made him follow a different path without questioning it.
It might be over-analyzing, but seeing the amount of Fridge Brilliance everywhere in Prototype, I can't help but think the writers did put a lot of effort into developing this rather complex and intriguing character once you get behind his potato face.
And now he's powering up some random dude and makes him angry.
There's just no excuse for that. Not even if Alex was bored and wanted a toy to play with, he knows what it's like to be a toy, a lab rat, I don't think he'd be egoistic enough to do something like that after the first game's events. He knows how quickly this stuff can get out of control, he, as a researcher and the blacklight virus in itself, knows how unpredictable and versatile these superpowers can get.
It's always so boring to see villains that impose challenges onto themselves and then they ultimately get defeated by their own arrogance. It's just so cliché and such a common way to make the victory graspable for a new hero against a villain that knows all the tricks.
/rant
While reading your post i thought of this: In the end the new protagonist will find a way to take Merce's powers leaving him weak but somehow Mercer will kill him and we will have an explanation why he will have to start from zero in the third game.CGAdam said:
Edit: And in the third game we will face Pariah. Of course it is more likely that Kratos will start hugging and loving us all.
Why take Alex Mercer's form, when not make a medley of people he has absorbed to make a new identity, hell why keep Alex Mercer's form when Alex Mercer was being hunted down for most of the first game and he is basically public enemy #1. And the real Alex Mercer was kind of a selfish douche...Megacherv said:
I'm unimpressed. Either they're playing this straight, in which case it sounds completely retarded, or they're covering up a more complex plot with this as a sort of feint. That still doesn't make me want to play it.
Still, whatever. If they do a better job of balancing the gameplay than they did the first time around, I'll be sold. Expecting anything other than mediocrity from videogame writers is foolish.
Still, whatever. If they do a better job of balancing the gameplay than they did the first time around, I'll be sold. Expecting anything other than mediocrity from videogame writers is foolish.
You know, I'll pull out a story out of my ass right off the bat without thinking:
Alex realizes he is about to die because of this virus thingy inside him, he needs a successor so he infects some other guy with the same powers. Out of no real reason Alex apparently acts like a dick forcing the new guy to develop his powers and get stronger. At the end, surprise surprise, it turns out Alex is not really the enemy and he dies for some reason. The new guy dramatically screams "nooooo", promises to avenge him (lolwut?) and we see him standing on a skyscraper watching down the city with an guitar leading into the ending credits.
It would piss me really off, if the story turns out so simple.
Even though Alex is not a really deep character, I have grown to like him. Why should I play as someone else?
Alex realizes he is about to die because of this virus thingy inside him, he needs a successor so he infects some other guy with the same powers. Out of no real reason Alex apparently acts like a dick forcing the new guy to develop his powers and get stronger. At the end, surprise surprise, it turns out Alex is not really the enemy and he dies for some reason. The new guy dramatically screams "nooooo", promises to avenge him (lolwut?) and we see him standing on a skyscraper watching down the city with an guitar leading into the ending credits.
It would piss me really off, if the story turns out so simple.
Even though Alex is not a really deep character, I have grown to like him. Why should I play as someone else?
Uhm yeah, they didn't actually tell us what Alex Mercer will do in Prototype 2 so the whole video was... pointless?
Is he attacking a city, will he just sit around in a corner, twiddling his thumbs until we reach him? What's his deal in Prototype 2? THAT's what I want to know, not hearing for the umpteanth time how he "created" James Heller.
Is he attacking a city, will he just sit around in a corner, twiddling his thumbs until we reach him? What's his deal in Prototype 2? THAT's what I want to know, not hearing for the umpteanth time how he "created" James Heller.
How would Heller know that Alex Mercer died? Regardless, he wants to kill Blacklight for murdering his family.Rednog said:
So you that kind of guy who dont read the whole thread? If you were youd see i allready wrote that... thanks for the wastefill and pointing out whats wrong with forums these days. I give you 8 out of 10Aiden_the-Joker1 said:
I guess I'm the only one who gave a shit about the story in PROTOTYPE...
Anyway, I'd much rather play as Alex, but as long as the game is fun and the story is serviceable I'll be happy.
Anyway, I'd much rather play as Alex, but as long as the game is fun and the story is serviceable I'll be happy.
Im going to take another spin at this.
Ok "zeus" ventures fouth in prototype 1 in the end. I think its easy to say that pariah isnt anywhere near events in Prot 1. Lets say Zeus goes looking for pariah to get more answers or just to kick ass. What he finds is a town/city allready infected by pariah. The new protagonist thinks all this shitgoingdowness is zeuses fault and attacks. Lets say this guy is allready infected by the pariah string and when mercer tries to consume him the pariah virus is to strong and consumes zeuses hand. New prot guy then merges with blacklight making him part pariah part blacklight. Still thinking that its all zeuses fault ( and in not having consumet the whole mercer (his brain?) id gather he doesnt get his memories so he cant see it isnt his fault) he goes on a mercer hunting trip. And i think that its all spinned so that we all start out to think that it indeed is mercers doing, knowing nothing about pariahs work until past midgame.
Ok "zeus" ventures fouth in prototype 1 in the end. I think its easy to say that pariah isnt anywhere near events in Prot 1. Lets say Zeus goes looking for pariah to get more answers or just to kick ass. What he finds is a town/city allready infected by pariah. The new protagonist thinks all this shitgoingdowness is zeuses fault and attacks. Lets say this guy is allready infected by the pariah string and when mercer tries to consume him the pariah virus is to strong and consumes zeuses hand. New prot guy then merges with blacklight making him part pariah part blacklight. Still thinking that its all zeuses fault ( and in not having consumet the whole mercer (his brain?) id gather he doesnt get his memories so he cant see it isnt his fault) he goes on a mercer hunting trip. And i think that its all spinned so that we all start out to think that it indeed is mercers doing, knowing nothing about pariahs work until past midgame.