Prediction: Second Son (PS4) Will Outsell Titanfall (Xbox One) in Lifetime

[DivinePaladin]

naruball said:

DivinePaladin said:

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.

2 is something really special, so whenever you do get the chance, give it a whirl. I still enjoyed some parts of SS immensely, but it's very basic in its execution and by the end I was just as sick of it as I was of the first game. Difference is the first game had that mindfuck at the end that actually made the trudge through the rest of the game sort of worth it for no particular reason. With SS it was insanely fun at first for me and then the cracks were growing more and more by the end, from the static enemy variation to Delsin's poor development, etc. 2 had the best of both, minus SS's graphics of course, and FL felt more like 2 than SS, which is why I loved it enough to buy a disc from Europe just to have it in my collection.