Zero Punctuation: inFAMOUS: Second Son - Bad Son Good Son

[RicoADF]

Wait, Austrailians actually drink Foster? I thought that was the shitty knock-off beer then send everywhere else (like what Mexico does with Corona).

Actually foster is American owned now, so if it tastes like shit don't look at us

OT: Sofar I've enjoyed second son, that said due to work I don't have too much free time and thus games don't get so repetitive since I cant finish them in 1 sitting. Nice review, especially the last part about backwards compatibility.

 

[Brennan]

I I were a dev contractually obligated to incorporate touchpad features into my game, I'd make a mechanic where any time you happend to come across a dog anywhere, you could pet it by stroking the touchpad. That's it. No combat integration or lock picking minigame, or whatever else that would actually make it at any point mandatory for the player. Just the option to pet any dog you may pass on the street.


And then make a random one out of every ten dogs bite your hand if you pet them. And if you attack the biting dog, it's owner attacks you, and your police/alert rating goes up a notch or two.

Maybe even make it so the petting motion is tied directly to the pad stroke instead of prebaked. So the player has to pet the dog OctoDad style, and if they pet too hard or in the wrong direction, it triggers a bite.

 

[-Dragmire-]

I thought Yahtzee would compare him to Rogue from X-Men. I can't remember Heroes anymore :/

How is this gonna get uploaded to YouTube with that.. dildo?

I was kinda shocked at some of the things youtube allows. Apparently animated breasts(even in the thumbnail) are allowed provided some kind of age verification or warning is in place. The dildo might get that kind of pass as well.

 

[80sboy]

The line, "what a bunch of gamedevelopers in their 30s think younger people are into today" made me chuckle a bit. Yeah, it's guys like Cliffy B that think 90s traits like grungy anti-heroes that are too cool for school and all into EXTREME what-the-fuck-ever sports that have nothing to do with real sports is still what's hip.

 

[Random Wanderer]

Wait, is there actually a superpower that involves controlling paper, or did I misunderstand that part? Because that would totally get notalgia points from me, at the least.

 

[FFMaster]

Augustine to be a really good "I HATE this person" villain.

The problem with this was you did hate her, but also hated absolutely everyone in the game. While they were screaming about bio-terrorists being bad, the team to hunt them down, was led by a "bioterrorist", who wasn't even trying to hide it, giving the general force "biotorrist" powers and (spoiler alert but this is in the first 30 minutes of the game so not too worried but skip to next paragraph if you are worried so will pad this bit out because its not spoiler tag worthy really but just in case someone complains they have less of a chance to complain about accidentally seeing it as you would have to read down further so here we go) the general is the one who blows up bridges, in front of people, with her powers.

I get it was going for "police state", but it comes across as "stupidly retarded", the sort of stuff written by a tin foil hat wearer, even comic books do this sort of story better (like marvels civil war stuff basically being the same thing).

I mention comic books because the story is basically X-men, the main villain is magneto and they couldn't even be bother to change the chant of some of the protesters as they complain about mutants.

And i also agree that the touchpad usage was a complete gimmick, i remember playing it thinking "why do i have to move my hand from the normal buttons when this could just as easily be done by pressing a button"

The game looked nice, and was smooth (even with Delsin feeling a bit like he was sliding on the ground instead of running at the start) but was as shallow as anything and lacking in gameplay unfortunately. There was a lot less variety in what to do, and this is from someone who 100% cleared the city.

And don't get me started on those sodding graffiti moments, most obvious pointless gimmick use to pad gameplay.

 

[Vault101]

this doesn't look like a bad game but Its not exactly making me want a PS4 anytime soon..and I was ahuge fan of the infamous game...they didn't stray into the "government is evil and super epople are opressed" trope for obvious reasons this one I didn't find as appealing

how is the villain? was she always a conduit? how do some conduits join the government and some don't? how did she jion, did she die in the end?

somebody tell me and I'll give them a prize...

 

[Vault101]

Wait, Austrailians actually drink Foster? I thought that was the shitty knock-off beer then send everywhere else (like what Mexico does with Corona).

Real Australians don't let other Australians drink Fosters. I've had it once and I'd rather have the cat's piss that is XXXX. No wait, that's going too far.

what about Emu Export?

 

[Casual Shinji]

this doesn't look like a bad game but Its not exactly making me want a PS4 anytime soon..and I was ahuge fan of the infamous game...they didn't stray into the "government is evil and super epople are opressed" trope for obvious reasons this one I didn't find as appealing.

They also go into that "You were born this way. *wink wink nudge nudge*" territory, that X-Men already thoroughly ran into the ground. I almost expected a 'We're here, we're conduits, get used to it.' parade mission or something.

 

[Vault101]

this doesn't look like a bad game but Its not exactly making me want a PS4 anytime soon..and I was ahuge fan of the infamous game...they didn't stray into the "government is evil and super epople are opressed" trope for obvious reasons this one I didn't find as appealing.

They also go into that "You were born this way. *wink wink nudge nudge*" territory, that X-Men already thoroughly ran into the ground. I almost expected a 'We're here, we're conduits, get used to it.' parade mission or something.

heh...if only being gay were a superpower...

I think what annoys me in thease stories is they tap into my deep seated feelings of inferiority, I can't get along with the "we are the oppressed special people" because to me it feels more like "you are inferior and you don't matter" if super powers became a thing in real life I know I wouldn't get any....

 

[srpilha]

Man....that was a really detailed dildo there at the end eh?

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that.

Thirded. In fact, wasn't even sure if it was a dildo..

yyyyyep, another one here glad to not be the only one whose eyes stuck to that. Seemed like a big one too.

Must say I was (quite unexpectedly) disappointed when it shrunk.

 

[Saltyk]

this doesn't look like a bad game but Its not exactly making me want a PS4 anytime soon..and I was ahuge fan of the infamous game...they didn't stray into the "government is evil and super epople are opressed" trope for obvious reasons this one I didn't find as appealing

how is the villain? was she always a conduit? how do some conduits join the government and some don't? how did she jion, did she die in the end?

somebody tell me and I'll give them a prize...

They never really explain how Conduits reappeared, but they do give two possible explanations, though also state that no one has really been allowed to do research into it. It seems that she awoke to her Conduit powers sometime following the death of Cole and the others.

All the Conduits save for her are imprisoned. Simply put, the government feared what letting people capable of thrashing tanks could do if just let free. As for how she joined, that's kinda spoilerish. Needless to say she is the head of the whole organization capturing Conduits. Also, all the soldiers have a lesser version of her powers.

As for her ultimate fate, that depends on if you are good or evil. I think Good Delsin's story fits the tone and arc better, but the Evil Ending is more memorable.

 

[Vault101]

this doesn't look like a bad game but Its not exactly making me want a PS4 anytime soon..and I was ahuge fan of the infamous game...they didn't stray into the "government is evil and super epople are opressed" trope for obvious reasons this one I didn't find as appealing

how is the villain? was she always a conduit? how do some conduits join the government and some don't? how did she jion, did she die in the end?

somebody tell me and I'll give them a prize...

They never really explain how Conduits reappeared, but they do give two possible explanations, though also state that no one has really been allowed to do research into it. It seems that she awoke to her Conduit powers sometime following the death of Cole and the others.

All the Conduits save for her are imprisoned. Simply put, the government feared what letting people capable of thrashing tanks could do if just let free. As for how she joined, that's kinda spoilerish. Needless to say she is the head of the whole organization capturing Conduits. Also, all the soldiers have a lesser version of her powers.

As for her ultimate fate, that depends on if you are good or evil. I think Good Delsin's story fits the tone and arc better, but the Evil Ending is more memorable.

I'm not going to play it anytime soon..so feel free to spoiler...does she have a kind of self inflicted hate against them? or is she just kind of "this is how it has to be..I'm sorry" what happens in the end?

as you can tell I (unfortunatly) find her a hell of a lot more intereesting than the actual main guy

also here is your prize..the best disney gif ever

[spoiler/] [img/]http://i.imgur.com/XyZ0g2X.jpg[/img] [/spoiler]

 

[Zombie Badger]

I just realized that I would give my left testicle for a game where your superpower is that you could become TV characters in the real world. Become Barney and sneak into a kid's party! Channel Jack Bauer and get ready for some hardcore interrogation! Turn into Harvey Specter and talk your way out of anything!

Do kid's party organisers usually let anyone who looks like Barney in? Harvey Specter I can understand, but for Jack Bauer you'd just be limited to kidnapping random innocents for torturing and I'm not sure what the end goal would be.

 

[Remus]

I just realized that I would give my left testicle for a game where your superpower is that you could become TV characters in the real world. Become Barney and sneak into a kid's party! Channel Jack Bauer and get ready for some hardcore interrogation! Turn into Harvey Specter and talk your way out of anything!

Or turn into "the guy in the suit" and kick all kinds of ass like Batman with a SMG.

Captcha: Souffle girl. It's like my mum always said: The souffle isn't the souffle, the souffle is the recipe.

I have only recently purchased a PS4. My choice of games, for what was available included Battlefield 4, NFS Rivals, and Tomb Raider Definitive Edition (never bought the original release, so no loss there). I've never been big on the Infamous series. too black and white. If you're going to have a morals system, make it vague and have the choices make sense, add more of them than just 2! Every infamous game has played as either "paragon of all humankind" or "Most Wanted Asshole #1". Too polarizing, too simple, and just boring.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

Wait, Austrailians actually drink Foster? I thought that was the shitty knock-off beer then send everywhere else (like what Mexico does with Corona).

Real Australians don't let other Australians drink Fosters. I've had it once and I'd rather have the cat's piss that is XXXX. No wait, that's going too far.

what about Emu Export?

Oooo, tough call. It's pretty shite but it's better than XXXX

 

[IrisNetwork]

I thought Yahtzee would compare him to Rogue from X-Men. I can't remember Heroes anymore :/

How is this gonna get uploaded to YouTube with that.. dildo?

I was kinda shocked at some of the things youtube allows. Apparently animated breasts(even in the thumbnail) are allowed provided some kind of age verification or warning is in place. The dildo might get that kind of pass as well.

Ok. I hope it doesn't end up like PoP Skyward Sword, Zelda Chinatown and GTA Forgotten Sands that never got onto YouTube. I wonder what was the problem with those.

Also, can we get the back outro on YouTube? Why is it suddenly cut off?

 

[Dragonlayer]

"Down with the kids" is a slogan we can all get behind.

 

[step1999]

provided some kind of age verification or warning is in place. The dildo might get that kind of pass as well.

{snip}

Ok. I hope it doesn't end up like PoP Skyward Sword, Zelda Chinatown and GTA Forgotten Sands that never got onto YouTube. I wonder what was the problem with those.

Also, can we get the back outro on YouTube? Why is it suddenly cut off?

It's PoP Forgotten Sands, GTA Chinatown and Zelda Skyward Sword. Don't know how you mixed those up.

 

[IrisNetwork]

provided some kind of age verification or warning is in place. The dildo might get that kind of pass as well.

{snip}

Ok. I hope it doesn't end up like PoP Skyward Sword, Zelda Chinatown and GTA Forgotten Sands that never got onto YouTube. I wonder what was the problem with those.

Also, can we get the back outro on YouTube? Why is it suddenly cut off?

It's PoP Forgotten Sands, GTA Chinatown and Zelda Skyward Sword. Don't know how you mixed those up.

I was just kidding