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by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 06/14/2009, 4:10am PDT |
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At the risk of going all icycalm: is this what people want from their games nowadays? Don't get me wrong, neither game is bad per se, but neither are they compelling. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I demand more from what are supposed to be AAA games.
Both games give you powers in an open world, both games have absolutely no new ideas to bring to the open-world sandbox genre, both games INSIST that you play them in their pre-approved, pret-a-porter styles.
Bad design decisions: Prototype thinks artificial difficulty makes a game fun, inFAMOUS thinks cramming stealth and escort missions into the game constitutes variety.
Tangent on the same old artificial difficulty tropes being hauled out yet again with absolutely nothing new added, the persistence of the fallacy that a game has to be hard to be fun, the inability of designers to recognize the difference between challenge and difficulty, the introduction of the grind to action games, cheap tricks and how they lessen the enjoyment of a game.
Prototype spent money on its VA and it shows. They also cheaped out on modelling, and that shows as well.
A trillion cutscenes. Let Prototype show you them.
inFAMOUS has the most not-caringest story in the history of video games. I care more about the plot to Bezerk than I give a flying fuck about stupid bitch Trish and slack jawed yokel Zeke.
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inFAMOUS/Prototype double review outline by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 06/14/2009, 4:10am PDT 
A reply for Prototype by Worm 06/14/2009, 4:39am PDT
Infamous is exactly as you describe it by Lizard_King 06/14/2009, 6:41am PDT
Re: Infamous is exactly as you describe it by Choson 06/14/2009, 8:43am PDT
Re: Infamous is exactly as you describe it by Qt3 Historian 06/14/2009, 10:48am PDT
I haven't hit a single invulnerable enemy, where are you talking about? by Worm 06/14/2009, 11:12am PDT
Re: I haven't hit a single invulnerable enemy, where are you talking about? by Lizard_King 06/14/2009, 4:37pm PDT
Re: I haven't hit a single invulnerable enemy, where are you talking about? by Worm 06/14/2009, 5:57pm PDT
I guess Amon Tobin did the soundtrack to inFamous? by Fullofkittens 06/14/2009, 8:09am PDT
nobody knows who that is because of music having died years ago but by Weyoun Voidbringer 06/14/2009, 8:47am PDT
Okay, so that obviously was a script. NT by Worm 06/14/2009, 8:56am PDT
I think he was copying the text from the link and pasting it (thanks). NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 06/14/2009, 9:05am PDT
that's too much complex info for him to process, you just blew his mind NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 06/14/2009, 9:06am PDT
It's good he did that because you can't click on it :( NT by Worm 06/14/2009, 9:14am PDT
Electronic music isn't really music, so it didn't die when music died. NT by Fullofkittens 06/14/2009, 9:34am PDT
You migh say it was Eno-culated against the disease ravaging music. NT by motherfuckerfoodeater 06/14/2009, 10:00am PDT
so, nothing to flagellate ourselves over (and they still call it the fail staysh NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 06/14/2009, 8:53am PDT
oh yeah and on the subject of infamous'ses moral choice system by Weyoun Voidbringer 06/14/2009, 9:00am PDT
Re: oh yeah and on the subject of infamous'ses moral choice system by Creexuls, a monster >:3 06/14/2009, 9:03am PDT
Yeah I thought it was gonna be really in depth and stuff, too bad. NT by Worm 06/14/2009, 9:16am PDT
Spoiler! by Lizard_King 06/14/2009, 10:51am PDT
So, assuming I had a PS3 (which I don't), which should I buy, Prototype or Infam NT by Fortinbras 06/14/2009, 4:35pm PDT
Prototype! NT by Ethan Steele 06/15/2009, 11:51am PDT
Some of the challenge events are going to make your fucking blood boil, fyi. by Worm 06/15/2009, 3:17pm PDT
inFAMOUS/Prototype double review first draft, mostly done w/ Prototype half by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 06/24/2009, 2:54pm PDT
Harsh by Fortinbras 06/24/2009, 3:07pm PDT
From the Makers of Scarface and Simpsons: Hit and Run... NT by The Littlest Hobo 06/24/2009, 3:13pm PDT
I just threw cars at the hive, are you dumb? NT by Worm 06/24/2009, 3:45pm PDT
Here's the point, here's Worm. by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 06/24/2009, 4:33pm PDT
You might have to explain it to him as you would a child. NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 06/24/2009, 4:58pm PDT
I'd really like this, because it looks like he just never threw a car a hive. NT by Worm 06/24/2009, 5:04pm PDT
Maybe he should throw a car at a hive NT by Entropy Stew 06/24/2009, 5:53pm PDT
What? It's just as valid as using the fucking tank. by Worm 06/24/2009, 5:04pm PDT
You know what? Fuck you, Worm. by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 06/24/2009, 5:53pm PDT
OH THESE CHAINS THAT BIND by Entropy Stew 06/24/2009, 6:00pm PDT
The track of not throwing cars? NT by Worm 06/24/2009, 6:01pm PDT
No, the game doesn't want you to do that. I can't explain why; trust me on this. NT by Entropy Stew 06/24/2009, 6:02pm PDT
Nice projecting by FABIO 06/25/2009, 1:11am PDT
FABIO realizes he makes bitchy nitpicky complaints constantly and shuts up by The Caltrops Narrator 06/25/2009, 7:38am PDT
Nope NT by FABIO 06/30/2009, 5:23pm PDT
blob is pretty much entirely correct, hey wrom how did you find caltrops? by Weyoun Voidbringer 06/30/2009, 2:22pm PDT
Just throw a car, moron. Get Jhoh to do it for you. NT by Fortinbras 06/30/2009, 2:25pm PDT
the game gives you a shitty unfun "choice", you "choose" the worst idea to defen NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 06/30/2009, 2:27pm PDT
Crackdown did it. NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 06/30/2009, 2:42pm PDT
Haha imagining you trying to fist fight the building after being told it doesn't by Workm 06/30/2009, 4:22pm PDT
I heard you can knock buildings down NT by Moog 06/30/2009, 4:31pm PDT
wrom has to intentionally misunderstand posts to reply to them now. by Creexuls, a monster >:3 06/30/2009, 4:46pm PDT
the game even gives you jazz hands I mean sledgehammer hands AND supar muscle a by the game even gives you jazz hands 06/30/2009, 5:01pm PDT
i tried a hundred times and then the hive broke and there was all this cool stuf NT by gruman 06/30/2009, 5:05pm PDT
Thanks for proving us right. 8) by Creexuls, a monster >:3 06/30/2009, 5:09pm PDT
Re: Thanks for proving us right. 8) by the game even gives you jazz hands 06/30/2009, 5:10pm PDT
Re: Thanks for proving us right. 8) by Mysterious Stranger 07/05/2009, 6:59pm PDT
We sit around laughing at the replies we get 100% of the time. NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 07/05/2009, 7:12pm PDT
haha holy shit this couldn't be easier NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 06/30/2009, 5:10pm PDT
haha holy shit all i had to do was post shit for a decade and - hahaha holy shit by Weyon Voidbringer 06/30/2009, 5:16pm PDT
Whoa seems like you're being a crybaby faggot again. by Worm 06/30/2009, 5:04pm PDT
Sounds like you're accusing us of the exact thing you're doing right now. 8) by Creexuls, a monster >:3 06/30/2009, 5:20pm PDT
Hey look, more white knighting and screaming about how little you give a shit by Worm 06/30/2009, 5:33pm PDT
Re: blob is pretty much entirely correct, hey wrom how did you find caltrops? by Tricknology 06/30/2009, 7:43pm PDT
I'm with worm, not throwing cars is pretty retarded by bombMexico 06/24/2009, 5:46pm PDT
Horrible Gelatinous Blob begins to realize he shouldn't post incomplete first dr NT by The Caltrops Narrator 06/24/2009, 5:51pm PDT
Re: I'm with worm, not throwing cars is pretty retarded by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 06/24/2009, 6:31pm PDT
Re: I'm with worm, not throwing cars is pretty retarded by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 06/24/2009, 7:10pm PDT
stop saying inFAMOUS :( by bombMexico 06/24/2009, 9:19pm PDT
I'll stop saying inFAMOUS as soon as you stop quoting below new text :( NT by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 06/25/2009, 10:12am PDT
they're daring each other to blink NT by discuss. 06/30/2009, 5:11pm PDT
This isn't gonna happen until he and Zseni have hashed out their porn preference NT by Fortinbras 06/30/2009, 5:16pm PDT
I just threw shit at the hive. Are you retarded? NT by Entropy Stew 06/24/2009, 5:47pm PDT
Entropy Stew and Worm have a gentle clusterfuck as they obsess over a single sen NT by The Caltrops Narrator 06/24/2009, 5:54pm PDT
You can't have a clusterfuck with 2 people!!! NT by Entropy Stew 06/24/2009, 5:58pm PDT
Why am I genuinely getting angry at accusations I didn't throw shit? by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 06/24/2009, 6:03pm PDT
You might have been a victim of Caltrops hype! NT by Fortinbras 06/24/2009, 6:04pm PDT
No, you like inFamous and hate Prototype. Explain how you can have this opini NT by Fullofkittens 06/24/2009, 6:08pm PDT
Whoa, it's not like anyone threw a car at you. NT by Worm 06/24/2009, 6:12pm PDT
Did you also not call in an artillery strike? by Entropy Stew 06/24/2009, 6:15pm PDT
Poor word choice: acknowledged. NT by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 06/24/2009, 6:22pm PDT
They're crap. Crap. Crap. Megacrap. NT by J Entropy Steweson 06/24/2009, 6:31pm PDT
Aw, isn't that sweet? I HATE SWEET! I NEED CARS! CARS TO THROW AT HIVES! NT by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 06/24/2009, 6:33pm PDT
Isn't that cuuuuuute? BUT IT'S WRONG! by Fortinbras 06/24/2009, 6:42pm PDT
Re: Aw, isn't that sweet? I HATE SWEET! I NEED CARS! CARS TO THROW AT HIVES! by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/24/2009, 9:16pm PDT
You can throw cars in this game? NT by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 06/24/2009, 9:24pm PDT
The car throwing feature is not available in the PC version. NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 06/25/2009, 5:36am PDT
/flips keyboard FUCK THIS, I'm holding out till the Vectrex port NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/25/2009, 9:14am PDT
So....can you throw cars in inFAMOUS? NT by Fortinbras 06/25/2009, 11:25am PDT
In a way. by Lizard_King 06/25/2009, 1:31pm PDT
Re: In a way. by Weyon Voidbringer 06/30/2009, 5:20pm PDT
If your B button doesn't work just buy a new controller, retard! by bombMexico 06/24/2009, 9:06pm PDT
2nd draft delayed indefinitely due to deaths of MJ, McNair, Billy Mays, Shia LeB NT by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 07/04/2009, 6:26pm PDT
Shia is dead? NT by no NO no NO n-n-n-no NO NO NOO! 07/04/2009, 8:51pm PDT
Read: A car got thrown at me NT by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 07/04/2009, 11:25pm PDT
Re: inFAMOUS/Prototype double review outline by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/25/2009, 9:16am PDT
Prototype is great! Everything Blob wrote is 100% wrong by FABIO 07/05/2009, 6:46pm PDT
Re: Prototype is great! Everything Blob wrote is 100% wrong by Lizard_King 07/05/2009, 8:04pm PDT
Here's a sexual question for you, Fabio. by Zsenitan 07/06/2009, 4:26pm PDT
Also if you would please be so kind as to not answer, thanks. NT by Zsenitan 07/06/2009, 4:28pm PDT
I'll wait till someone makes fun of that so it''ll be readable by FABIO 07/06/2009, 5:41pm PDT
Re: I'll wait till someone makes fun of that so it''ll be readable by Zsenitan 07/06/2009, 6:33pm PDT
Soooo, which one is FABIO and which one is you? NT by Confused Caltrops 07/06/2009, 6:42pm PDT
Yes, that's the problem, isn't it. NT by Zsenitan 07/06/2009, 6:54pm PDT
Isn't that how QB met Irene? NT by Mischief Maker 07/07/2009, 8:33am PDT
You were right to ignore her post, friend. by Quétinbec 07/06/2009, 8:17pm PDT
It's obvious she replied to the wrong post. It's safe to continue ignoring her. NT by FABIO 07/07/2009, 1:43am PDT
Yes, that's a very safe thing to do. I'm glad people are becoming aware of her NT by dangers - Quétinbec 07/07/2009, 2:27am PDT
"You're a pussy." by Zsenitan 07/07/2009, 12:53pm PDT
Re: "You're a pussy." by Quétinbec 07/07/2009, 4:34pm PDT
inFAMOUS/Prototype double review second draft by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 07/17/2009, 3:58pm PDT
So do you still want to just punch the building to death? by Worm 07/17/2009, 4:20pm PDT
You're right, Worm. Destroying a building with your bare hands = not fun at all. NT by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 07/17/2009, 5:26pm PDT
I brought up controlled demolition as a goofy example, not an unfun one! by Worm 07/17/2009, 6:11pm PDT
I agree with pretty much all of this despite only playing prototype for 5 hours by Weyoun Voidbringer 07/17/2009, 4:31pm PDT
Re: inFAMOUS/Prototype double review second draft by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/17/2009, 6:24pm PDT
Can there be a rebuttal saying how dead wrong he is? NT by icycalm 07/17/2009, 7:50pm PDT
No, because he's actually right, idiot. by icycalm 07/17/2009, 8:59pm PDT
One of us nitwit(tgenstein)s NT by Fussbett 07/17/2009, 9:03pm PDT
hahah NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/17/2009, 9:11pm PDT
Instead you'll just tell us because you can't stand to have your ego torpedoed by Fortinbras 07/17/2009, 10:13pm PDT
Go ahead. All I would add at this point is (even more) whining. NT by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 07/20/2009, 3:34pm PDT
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