richardhutnik said:
inFAMOUS is a superior game. It actually has a plot, and a whole morality angle to it.
However, inFAMOUS is NOT Crackdown. You have different power in it, so thus you don't jump like a maniac, or drive a car, but you do nasty damage with lightning. And you get to heal people also for XP. And there are submissions also.
On this note, I am VERY interested to see what Crackdown 2 will do.
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Well hopefully Crackdown 2 doesn't do what you think makes inFamous a superior game to Crackdown 1.
Fuck having a plot, not every game needs a plot. The plot of every video game ever released is somewhere between embarrassingly bad and barely tolerable. These games are not exactly being made by Oscar Wilde or Kurt Vonnegut or David Mamet or the Coen brothers, but by a bunch of antisocial nerds who think Watchmen and the Batman movies are the epitome of quality storytelling. I'll take games like Super Mario Galaxy and Crackdown over the usual bad video game stories any day.
Even worse would be any sort of morality angle, Crackdown 2 doesn't need to be the ten millionth game this generation with a stupid good-evil morailty dichotomy. Quick, name every game with a good-evil morality dynamic. I'll be back in a week to check on your progress.
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