inFamous

[Depression Moon]

I just beat inFamous the other day and I was quite surprised about the last few bits of the game especially the ending.

Skip the spoiler below if you just want to know my opinion of the game overall and haven't beaten it yet.

(SPOILER)I was going to be a good guy for most of the game until I encountered the mission where Kessler took Trish hostage. When he forced me to choose if I wanted to save my girl or the 6 doctors. I thought for a bit and then decided to go for Trish. The 1st time I didn't realize I climbed up the wrong building and climbed the one with the doctors. I immediately reset the game and still got the trophy for it. I redid the mission and climbed the right building. I was pissed to find that it was a trick and Trish was actually with the doctors. I decided to just go bad from there on, but I didn't go around killing citizens off the street, I still helped them, but leeched almost every enemy that I fought. When the next to last mission came I was really thinking about if I should destroy the sphere or use it. Given what has happened to me with Trish and Zeke I thought it would be more realistic for him to use the Ray Sphere. I was smurfing pissed when I beat the final boss and found out that he was actually me from the future.
He had set all of it up and wanted me to become evil, so I could handle some kind of threat in the future. I fell right into my own plans. I wasn't really expecting that at all. From then on I've just been doing evil missions and they're a nice change of pace.

Overall this is a fantastic game. I like how varied the use of the powers are. I don't really understand how electric powers gives you the ability to glide though. The combat's the best part of the game and is challenging. The game has a problem with cover sometimes. Sometimes you can't take cover behind stuff that you should and when you do sometimes like when using hanging cover you get a weird angle. In uncharted that's never a problem. It always is here. The game seemed a bit weird in giving out good side missions throughout the game. I probably did about 20 or more of those side missions before I beat the game and only came across 2 good side missions. The game seems picky about what's a good side mission the neutral one seem like they could be good too, but only the ones with the blue inside are the ones that count. The game does have a bit of a problem with pedestrians getting in the way in the middle of fights. I'm glad it doesn't affect my karma because I had hit plenty throughout the game. The graphics look a little funny on some of the characters particularly Trish looks weird.

[ljkkjlcm9]

The 2nd is just as if not more awesome so far. It also gives you some small perk based on your infamous 1 saves.

THE JACKEL

[Pete for President]

Digging inFamous 1, but I'm not that far into it yet. I like how you can't just storm in and punch everyone like a one man army, those Reapers can really hurt. Suckerpunch also got it with the collectibles; whenever I need to go somewhere I always pick up some blast shards along the way.

The karma system though... not too sure. Most of the story missions decisions are more a sense of logic instead of a conscience dilemma. That said, I mostly go with the good. On the other hand though, I once thunder dropped from a building into a group of reapers + pedestrians and my karma dropped like a brick for destroying everything/everyone. Being good has it's shortcomings apparently.

[Shattered Dreamer]

inFamous is definitely a fun game. I love the fact that the Reapers are actually pretty tough and they attack you as a group rather than just throw themselves at you begging for an a$$ kicking! I'll definitely be getting inFamous 2 & thus wetting my appetite for Prototype 2

[Depression Moon]

I was wondering is the game intended to end with an inFamous ranking considering the name of the game.

[DMKA]

I love the game.

I'm playing InFamous 2 right now and it's superior aside of the fact that they completely changed Cole's appearance and voice. Arrg!

[ljkkjlcm9]

I was wondering is the game intended to end with an inFamous ranking considering the name of the game.

I would say that there definitely is a lean in that direction. I won't spoil anything. However the evil powers are typically way cooler and Cole looks way better as well.

THE JACKEL

[McLovin']

Gameplay is smurfing phenomenal. You never get tired of fighting in this game. Most games you always avoid fighting after sometime, but Infamous makes you wanna kick some ass with lightning godliness. And the power to fly/hover was a completely awesome and welcomed surprise.

[Loony BoB]

I've finished the game on normal with a good character and am now playing the evil character on hard. Once I do this, I should just have maybe one or two bronze trophies that I can pick off on Evil or after the storyline finishes. Yay. I love the game, far more than I originally thought I would. I don't see it as a sandbox game much at all, at least not when you consider other sandbox games... it comes across very Action-RPG for me. Almost Action-Shooter-RPG. But semantics, semantics... it's great! I get the real feeling that you are a character with good personality in a decent world with a few good characters... as opposed to when I played GTA IV where I felt I was just moving a boring character around a boring world with a lot of boring characters (I never got the expansions).

One thing I will say is that I did enjoy the good powers far more than the evil powers. The evil powers make people explode and stuff, which is fun and all, but I hate running out of power and having to charge up. With good powers, I could just shoot the enemy when my power ran out and it would slowly charge back up again that way, and this was supremely effective when fighting in longer battles. Not having such a recharge ability for the evil character is really disappointing for me. At least the railings still charge you up.

I'll consider buying inFAMOUS 2 someday. Although I'm stunned that they changed the lead character so much (well, going by what people are saying). Weird.

[Shoeberto]

Digging inFamous 1, but I'm not that far into it yet. I like how you can't just storm in and punch everyone like a one man army, those Reapers can really hurt. Suckerpunch also got it with the collectibles; whenever I need to go somewhere I always pick up some blast shards along the way.

The karma system though... not too sure. Most of the story missions decisions are more a sense of logic instead of a conscience dilemma. That said, I mostly go with the good. On the other hand though, I once thunder dropped from a building into a group of reapers + pedestrians and my karma dropped like a brick for destroying everything/everyone. Being good has it's shortcomings apparently.

The karma system was really poorly done for how much it was supposed to be a feature. There's one I remember quite specifically where a bomb is planted at a police station and you can either defuse it or just let it go. Defusing required you go up and press triangle; no minigame, health sacrifice, didn't draw enemies. You just either pressed triangle and got good karma or walked away and got bad karma.

Great game, aside from that and some horrific dialog. It's a pretty cool story, it's just told really poorly.

[Del Murder]

Downloaded this for free with the Welcome Back campaign so it's on my list to play. I'm excited to hear the combat doesn't get tedious like it does with most action games.

[Dreddz]

I have the first Infamous and didn't care for it. Played for maybe 8 hours and stopped. The gameplay was weak and none of the enemies were interesting to fight. The city was dull and terribly interesting to explore. The missions were very routine game missions like protect this guy or collect this and that. The story didn't really go anywhere from the 8 hours I played,although I've been told it gets better near the end of the game.

As you might expect, I have no interest in Infamous 2.

[Shoeberto]

I have the first Infamous and didn't care for it. Played for maybe 8 hours and stopped. The gameplay was weak and none of the enemies were interesting to fight. The city was dull and terribly interesting to explore. The missions were very routine game missions like protect this guy or collect this and that. The story didn't really go anywhere from the 8 hours I played,although I've been told it gets better near the end of the game.

As you might expect, I have no interest in Infamous 2.

It really does get better. But I guess if you didn't have fun exploring the city using Cole's power, the game probably just isn't for you. The biggest draw is how cool it feels to just running around everywhere, blowing stuff up, which is what a majority of the early missions are focused around.

[DMKA]

The second one is great, and better, except for the ending is kinda a bummer. The good ending anyway.

[McLovin']

Downloaded this for free with the Welcome Back campaign so it's on my list to play. I'm excited to hear the combat doesn't get tedious like it does with most action games.

You definitely want to play on Hard.