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naruball on 02 March 2016
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DivinePaladin said:
naruball said:

Couldn't disagree more. I hated Cole (or whatever his name was). His voice and attitude were boring as hell. Delsin has character and I found him quite a few times hilarious. It was the first time I actually cared about the story. Easily the best Infamous to date, for me, though I didn't play Infamous 2 all that much.

First Light is good too. Nice story and a somewhat relatable protagonist. Augustine was interesting in both games. I don't remember who the main villain in the first one was.

Delsin is essentially antagonistic the entire game, and his character never fits as a hero when you choose that path.  They effectively pigeonholed his writing into the InFamous path, which would be a good thing if they hadn't done it so poorly.  There are literally five times where you side with your brother with no issues on one mission, and then suddenly Delsin has a mood swing and lashes out because it's convenient to the plot.  It helps that Delsin's brother physically can't understand the concept of Conduits being NOT evil, because propaganda, I guess?  There's no coherence to these two characters from one mission to another, and it's about as bad as Cole is in inFamous 1.

 

The difference is Cole is just boring in the first game.  I actively disliked Delsin when he was inFamous, but I couldn't rightfully play him as a hero because it didn't feel right.  (It helps that the moves are objectively better when you're evil in Second Son, so they're pretty much leaving karmic choices in there because reasons.)  I mean, I still DID play him both ways, because I've 100%ed this entire series, but it just never felt right - as if they were trying to invoke the whole "good and evil are too black and white" and making Delsin play wildly shifting shades of gray no matter which side you were on.  Cole in inFamous 1 is just kind of there, with things happening to him rather than him reacting to things.  But there's a reason they overhauled him for 2, and why 2 is such a phenomenal game as a result.  That version of Cole, up until we meet Fetch, is the most relatable we get for a character, and the Evil choices you can make with him actually make sense some of the time, with Cole still being Cole when he's evil.  Particularly near the end that holds true.  With Delsin, they should've just removed Karmic choices because they simply don't work in Second Son.

Just wanted to say thanks for the elaborate response. I look forward to going back to Infamous 2 and finishing the story (I actually only played for an hour or so) to what you're talking about, since it sounds interesting. Only problem I have a data cap and don't know when I'll be able to download the game again.