inFamous

[Loony BoB]

I haven't got to that bit yet, but now I'm afraid. I genuinely wish I did Good on Hard and Bad on Normal instead of the other way around.

[Rostum]

I must say after watching video reviews I didn't think this game was anything special, but so many people keep raving about it so I downloaded it with the 'Welcome Back' campaign and I'll give it a go eventually. As soon as I can find some time.

[Jiro]

The mission itself isn't that tough, it's just that I found myself something like 9000exp short with one mission to go. I just had to do this one section repeatedly and then die so I could respawn and kill all the enemies again. 80 times that's not even exaggerating. It was painful man

[Loony BoB]

Should have just fought a bunch of conduits. There are certain places you can almost guarantee them.

[I Don't Need A Name]

The mission itself isn't that tough, it's just that I found myself something like 9000exp short with one mission to go. I just had to do this one section repeatedly and then die so I could respawn and kill all the enemies again. 80 times that's not even exaggerating. It was painful man

Snap Dak. Snap. It was a horribly long evening. I just wanted it to end.

Should have just fought a bunch of conduits. There are certain places you can almost guarantee them.

That's even more tedious. At least when doing a mission, the enemies are guaranteed. I tried to find conduits, and half the time they didn't spawn, so I gave up.

[Loony BoB]

I guess I'm the only one who figured out where conduits are guaranteed to spawn (obviously you can die once beating them and then start over). =x There were certain areas where you could always get a conduit and about 10 bad guys. It's a "Reaper vs. Dustmen" area most of the time. If you're looking for First Sons conduits, well, I don't know about that. But the giant Dustmen conduits were always in my way when I was trying to move from one area to another, so yeah. It was in the middle of a block in the northern area of the Warrens. Look for the block with the open area in the middle of the block and that was it for me. Not sure if it's "on demand, all the time" but it certainly was always happening for me post-completion of the game.

In my Bad/Hard game, I'm just about to head into the Historic District and I've already got almost every upgrade I care for. I just have the mammoth 12,000 exp required for the final lightning bolt upgrade and then the Gigawatt Blades (I never use them so don't care for that end anyway). Oh, and whatever requires 15 evil missions to be completed. Either way, I'm confident I'll get there. I'd rather just look for conduits in the Warrens to get my experience up than constantly redo a mission, though. Missions may have a lot of guys, but usually you don't have a lot of time or there are some other kind of restrictions about. You can always find enemies if you know where to look, though, so doing it in the regular game is simple as can be. Especially if you still have "lights out" zones where you haven't got the power up yet. Those places are a goldmine for experience.

I find the First Sons not worth the experience with how annoying they are (particularly invisible ones and those stupid flying machines), so I stick to the Warrens for my experience.

[Shattered Dreamer]

Just finished inFamous & got the bad ending. Not a bad ending I have to say, bit corny but I'm pretty satisfied with the game overall. Gonna start again on Hard & try for good karma

[Loony BoB]

I have to admit that was one of the easier Platinum trophies out there, or at least it was for me.

[Pete for President]

I too started a new game on bad/hard this week. Thinking about getting the platinum, but collecting all blast shards is somewhat tedious. I think I'm around 300 out of 350 on my good/normal save.

[Shattered Dreamer]

About half way the Neon district section of the game on hard now & already have to admit the good karma recharge ability has been invaluable!

[Del Murder]

I'm now on the final mission. Went down the 'Hero' path because I like playing the hero better. I found the combat sections to be pretty fun and definitely not as repetitive as games like Batman or Uncharted. The variety of missions probably helped in that it wasn't always just 'make your way to the next area through scores of enemies' (though there was plenty of that). Cole's powers are pretty cool and innovative.

I felt the story dragged on at first but it is picking up near the end. Getting the Dead Drops helped with that, and I felt they were much better integrated with what was going on in the game than other 'exposition' elements in games (see FFXIII, KH, Batman Arkham Asylum).

My main complaint is the drab setting of the game and the fact that it never changes. Sure, there are three districts, but they are mostly the same. Bland buildings, busted cars, couple of billboards. The whole game takes place outside in a city which is kind of boring, because the city landscape gets repetitive pretty quikcly. The sewer parts did throw some variety in there, but that was it. I would have liked a few more 'inside' locations like that to break up the jumping from bulding to building.

I think I will play it again sometime, just to try the Infamous side of things. Maybe try to get through it quickly without doing many side missions or exploring, because that took most of my time.

[ljkkjlcm9]

My main complaint is the drab setting of the game and the fact that it never changes. Sure, there are three districts, but they are mostly the same. Bland buildings, busted cars, couple of billboards. The whole game takes place outside in a city which is kind of boring, because the city landscape gets repetitive pretty quikcly. The sewer parts did throw some variety in there, but that was it. I would have liked a few more 'inside' locations like that to break up the jumping from bulding to building.

The 2nd game attempts to fix this. The first area you play in is just like Infamous 1, a big city type area. The second is a partially submerged area. It certainly makes traveling a bit more difficult and adds some extra strategy/variety. The third area is a city type place again, but not so much with buildings, but large DESTRUCTIBLE objects. Honestly almost everything in this third area is destructible. So yeah, it adds a bit more variety in terms of setting.

I definitely like the 2nd better, and I have to say the good abilities FAR outweigh the bad abilities IMO. Granted once you beat the game both good and evil, you can unlock all the abilities!
My only real gripe is the endings.Essentially both endings leave it nigh impossible for any sort of sequel. Especially with how different the two endings are, they'd have to start over/create a new hero and world.

THE JACKEL

[CimminyCricket]

I was in love with the first one (until I played Prototype, which prevented me from ever going back to inFamous), but I was worried about the second one because they changed what Cole looked like. After reading this thread though, I'm excited to pick it up and play both good and evil. I like ice powers and I saw a picture on the back of the box for inFamous 2 of a really cool explosion of of fire and that made me want to play it. I'm going to pick it up soon, I'm waiting for it to go down in price, since I'm really cheap.

[Shaibana]

(to first topic entry)
Lol, i tried saving Trish first, but than it appeared she wasnt there, so she fell, and so did my karma
So i did it over and saved the doctors... .. and Trish fell again D: But this time not my karma

And i just finished Infamous 2 ..
OOOMMGGG D: i hate the ending (SPOILER) Cole die's!! i never like it when the main character dies.
But than again at the end movie when Zeke sailes away with the coffin there was a lighting strike.. making some ppl think/hope there wil be an infamous 3 :o
Sure i hope that too, but i dont think there will. that wouldnt do the end of inf2 any good

@ Cim
i was worried about that too, i first didnt like how cole's appearence changed either. but you'll start liking it even better later