Well Excuse Me for Being Right…
Yes, the games are very different...
Recently Prototype and inFamous were released. Both are open world superhero games so comparisons were inevitable. Strangely though no one online seemed to be happy simply saying ‘I like this one!’ They seem to want to convince the world that their enjoyment of one game is more valid than the enjoyment of people who played the other game. To do this they find it necessary to attack the other title, frequently without seemingly having played it.
Arguments center on elements that neither game does well, excusing their preferred games through bizarre mental gymnastics. Look at message boards you see Prototype fans decrying inFamous’s story for its contrived and ridiculously polarizing decision process. In the same post they will argue that Prototype’s plot is unimportant to the game, simply providing frame for the visceral action around it and using words like ‘competent’ or ‘functional’. Reactionary inFamous fans hit back attacking the simplicity and repetitive nature while forgetting (or ignoring) the grenade spam fest that makes up the later stages of their own game.
…but they make it difficult not to draw comparisons.
All this energy is wasted in an attempt to be ‘right’. Gamers it seems still to clutch to the misconception that there is a best game, that somehow there is a scientific formula that can calculate a hierarchy of games. The problem is I suspect if the hierarchy didn’t agree with their opinion they would probably argue the equation was flawed.
Tags: inFamous, Opinion, Prototype
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I’m just grateful that these games weren’t both console exclusives or else things would have gotten REALLY ugly on the Internet. Having played neither (save for a crappy demo) I’m reserving judgment on both.
‘It appears to be an extension of cognitive dissidence’?!?
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I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t take the piss out of you for most of the next DoFuss Show about that line.
Psychology was my major Darren, you know that! I am allowed to mention a few concepts from it at least.
Its all comedy gold sir. Actually – maybe me on the couch and you as the psychologist would be a good feature format?
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