All posts by PariahParadox

They couldn't swap over because the device blew up and the Blast Core was used up.

Infamous isn't what or should to attempt to be what? Fun and challenging? Sequels shouldn't attempt to do anything new or interesting, they should just do the same crap over and over again, at least that is the message I am getting from you. It sounds like you would be right at home with some walking simulators if all you want is story.

Why do you keep on referring to comic books for power copiers? I refer to video games, you know what the Infamous series is first and foremost? If electricity is all you want then why not just replay 1 and 2 until the end of time?

Why do always to be so vehemently raging all the time? Chill out.

Wasn't talking about sacrificing story, just personal preference: I like having a video game that is fun to play and has wider area, more missions and more powers. A good majority of people just keep talking about bringing back Cole without so much as giving a thought about what gameplay elements they want to see, powers they want to see, more gameplay mechanics, etc.

Fanfic? What the hell are you talking about? How is the power sponge thing overused exactly? I agree that the powers chosen lacked appeal, I would've like to see gravity or even return to fire or ice. Something that screams "I am not to be trifled with." If they gave each powerset a specific set of advantages/disadvantages the idea for multiple powerset can still have merit, not to mention you can have certain powersets work well off of each other and have different effects on the environment to gain an advantage against certain enemies. I feel like just going back to one powerset is a step backward.

Hey Vanity nice to see you put this behind. Hopefully we can move forward.

I am more gameplay oriented person, so honestly I don't really mind as much in terms of story but I do like to see consistency. If Cole does come back, how would they change gameplay up for him? I like the concept of having mutiple powers at once because of how many gameplay nuances you can have with them, but Second Son dropped the ball on this among other things. I just don't see this happening with Cole unless he meets with another First Sons' scientist who just so happened to develop a power transfer device and Cole just happen to meet up with other Conduits to get powers from.

Like it or not, Delsin's Power Absorption feels more organic towards storytelling and gameplay. Now if they could get a more talented writer then maybe they can salvage Delsin.

I just don't care because it doesn't affect me. It doesn't affect me in any negative way and it shouldn't affect you as well even though it looks like it does.

Back on topic again since you like derailing them, they could always try to learn from the mistake that was Delsin try to make him a more likeable character which doesn't seem plausible to me, but hey its an option or they could take the feedback that Delsin received and make a new character from that without running into the same mistakes that Delsin cause, this seems to be the more likely outcome since reviving Cole is completely out of question, IMO.

I always thought Chris6d giving kudos to his/her own comments was unusual but I got over it. Fun fact: Political candidates can vote for themselves, hell any event that allows voting as ,long as you meet criteria, you can vote for yourself.

Getting back to topic, I feel like Infamous still has more potential in it than SP's current game: Ghost of Tsushima especially since samurai/ninja games have been done before.

Yeah but would Beast Cole be the protagonist or antagonist? It seems to me, everybody assumes he would be the playable protagonist but I feel like no matter what we would have gotten a new playable protagonist, if not Delsin, somebody else.

Meh, I only mentioned Naughty Dog as they were the only example of a major company going back to finish off an old IP after establishing a new one that I could think of off the top of my head. I already knew that Sucker Punch doesn't have the manpower necessary for multiple teams and they most likely wouldn't do it as they like to focus on one title at a time.

Like I previously stated that used to abandon previous IPs when they were a 3rd party company that policy might be different now and after making Ghost of Tsushima they could go back to Infamous. You never know.

Sucker Punch has been interviewed MULTIPLE times about this. Since you are apparently too lazy to use Google here you go.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-03-11-infamous-second-son-interview

If you are curious why Conduits are still a thing there are reasons, kinda half-assed retcon reasons but reasons nonetheless. The plague mutating regular people into Conduits after the RFI activated, the RFI eradicated a majority of Conduits rather than all of them and some Conduits having a resistance to the RFI. The list goes on and on. The main reason is Sucker Punch wrote themselves into a corner and this was there retcon repair job.

And like JIm Logan said: Zeke is still alive. What more proof do you need?

The story of Second Son takes place 7 years after Infamous 2's good ending. Originally, Sucker Punch wanted to go with the evil ending as it "set the game world up in a good way", but they decided on using trophy data from the previous game. I wish they would have chosen the evil ending.

I do not get this absurd logic of "because one game did no other games should do it". It didn't stop The Last of Us, Fallout 4 and Quantum Break(They called it Riverport but it is clearly Boston) from using the same location. Even if SP did copy Boston for the setting for the next game, at least it won't be entirely in ruins/quarantine like in Fallout 4 or TLOU.

Agreed. I also think most or all of us that we want a story that isn't dumb down garbage. Seriously, SP needs better writers if this crap is the best they can come up with when they had at least 3 years development time. I feel like they writing started going bad with Infamous 2, felt like Cole should have had another installment rather than just 2.

The Midwest is extremely underused in video games. I guess Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis and Milwaukee would be great places to start.

I never play the series but the Crackdown universe looks promising although it is Xbox exclusive titles.

I just like the premise of the government enlisting Conduits for Military/Police. I mean the plot was already wasted on Second Son. It seems like SP just got rid of the whole government conspiracy after one game and I expected more but never got it. If I was in government and there was people with god like powers that walk among us I DEFINITIVELY try to get some kind of countermeasures.

That just it though, there would have be some pictures by now. I know that the comics were made by DC but video game comic book tie ins are mostly one-shot affairs.

I meant to say that Gotham and Empire City by association are cities inspired by New York, but laziness :p.

Jim's right, the word Gotham used to refer to New York is nothing new, it dates back to 1807, by extension so is Empire City since it is based on the Batman comic "No Man's Land" and another called  "DMZ".

Looking at the Gamestop schedule there is some surprise games, while they might not have had a a presence at the conference we might get some other info.

Well, they are definitely not developing the Spider-Man game, but there is no news yet.