Speedymanic
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Heh, did folk in the US receive a 50% off Infamous 1 voucher? Oh Sony, never change.
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inFAMOUS 2 |OT| Think Twice
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ShinoguTakeruKoeru
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What? You can skip cutscenes, just not the ones with a karma choice at the end of them. Well, I remember skipping a couple, not all of them, and here or there I found a cutscene that didn't have a skip option in the Start menu for some reason.upJTboogie said:
Uno Venova
Banned
I just tried to skip the cutscene after IShinoguTakeruKoeru said:
saved the girl chained in the swamp
This game is pretty selective with the cutscenes you can and can't skip.
Die Squirrel Die
Member
Are bolt abilities meant to drain your energy reserves? I thought they didn't but now I'm a level 3 good guy and the ability I've unlocked is meant to restore energy it seems to be having the opposite effect and regular bolt attacks are draining energy instead. Is this just a bug?
Uno Venova
Banned
I see.Aklamarth said:
pelicansurf
Needs a Holiday on Gallifrey
I think it's only when targeting humanoids and you actually have to connect with the bolt. Anything that misses will drain your electricity.Die Squirrel Die said:
demosthenes
Member
Played for like 6 or 7 hours this morning all good side. I love it. It's a lot of more of the same but it's a lot of fun. Can't wait to play on the bad side though.
spiderman123
Member
For those who finished the game
after the game in the good ending...does it suggest Infamous 3?
The Broken Ska Record
Member
I'm really not a fan of the "follow the monster" missions. They leap from building to building, and I can't keep up on the rooftops.
Uno Venova
Banned
The swamp areas in this game look great, nice foliage.
ShockingAlberto
Member
Grind on wires and don't jump off at the end. Keep going until it basically throws you off and use that momentum to keep going with the R1 floating move. You can usually make it to the next wire if you aim right without ever touching the ground.The Broken Ska Record said:
The Broken Ska Record
Member
The way they jump, I don't see the next wire. Or the wire starts at a different building. The first one I did was easy because I just followed him on the ground on foot. :/
rollingstart
Banned
did they get rid of the horizontal rails on walls, btw? I was just remembering gameplay from last year and there were horizontal rails on walls Hair'd Cole would travel on. I don't know if I missed them the entire game.
The English Conquistador
Member
Got this today, only played a little bit, but from what I've experienced, I'm liking it a lot so far. It feels a lot like the first, just with more things you'd expect from a sequel.
Couple things I don't particularly like, the first being the lack of ambient sound. I think the phrase "silence is deafening" applies a lot to this game, since most of city sound is pretty much muted until you wreck havok yourself or go near cars etc. It's incredibly bizarre. :/
And the other would be, Cole. I remember in the first, he was kinda cool, had his douchey moments, but all in all he was a character you could relate to, and like. In this he doesn't seem to have matured at all. He's still kinda like a kid. I would've thought that the events of the first would have made him a little bit more wiser, but hey, I'm still pretty early on and maybe later he'll shape up. At least, that's kinda what I hope.
Other than those two niggles, the game is stellar!
Couple things I don't particularly like, the first being the lack of ambient sound. I think the phrase "silence is deafening" applies a lot to this game, since most of city sound is pretty much muted until you wreck havok yourself or go near cars etc. It's incredibly bizarre. :/
And the other would be, Cole. I remember in the first, he was kinda cool, had his douchey moments, but all in all he was a character you could relate to, and like. In this he doesn't seem to have matured at all. He's still kinda like a kid. I would've thought that the events of the first would have made him a little bit more wiser, but hey, I'm still pretty early on and maybe later he'll shape up. At least, that's kinda what I hope.
Other than those two niggles, the game is stellar!
Linkzg said:
I think they ended up removing them. At first, I was somewhat disappointed, but when I got to thinking about it, I realized they didn't seem to serve much of a purpose. I mean, I don't think I've ever had a reason to shoot myself sideways across a building. The powerlines seem to be much more useful as they actually link buildings together.
Outtrigger888
Member
Thinking about picking this up to play over the weekend, is the create a mission stuff up and running?
Die Squirrel Die
Member
Grisby said:
Yeah I'm not really feeling Cole's excessive stun animation when he gets hit. It is way too easy to get caught in a damage loop of hit -> stun -> hit -> stun.
Also the melee is a little off. I can see what they are going for but a couple of things, either Cole doesn't close the gap enough on his opening hit or there's some weird lag in hit detection priorities 'cause often times the Amp will completely whiff through an enemy already in their attack animation.
And whoever at Sucker Punch thought of pulling the camera in closer during melee combat is a fucking idiot. You need it pulled back so you can see what's surrounding you.
The Broken Ska Record
Member
Yup. Sucker Punch threw in a few to get the UGC going right away.Outtrigger888 said:
cleveridea
Member
loving this game, beautiful colorful world (my issue with original), nice variety of enemies vs first, like melee and finishers for variety. lots more variety of background life too, loved the mime type performers
should be 90+ metacritic IMO enjoying regardless
should be 90+ metacritic IMO enjoying regardless
WrenchNinja
Member
Bah, I just finished with the good ending.
I kind of don't want to even replay it for the evil ending now. : /
Really Sucker Punch? Let's kill everyone off EXCEPT Zeke? I can't believe they just...killed Cole like that. I guess there's no chance of them doing a sequel now. I guess it makes sense, they probably want this series to have no loose ends so they don't have back to it if they're going multiplatform with their new IP.
I kind of don't want to even replay it for the evil ending now. : /
Femmeworth
Banned
Ugh, Flood City is not a very fun area.
Dr Eggman said:
Is it really wrong if I preferred this Cole over the one we got in the final game? I'm fine with the rest of the game which I'll probably be renting next week, but I really hate how Cole looks from the neck up in inFAMOUS 2.
I know it's the same as old Cole, but something about his face looks kinda obnoxious now. It makes him look as if they took a bald space marine design and dropped him into urban gear. I actually think he looked a lot less generic when he had hair.
So far, this game is the best single player game I've played this year since it's basically the first game but refined in every single way possible. Hell, I even like the new voice actor for Cole since he's more light-hearted but can still do a good Christian Bale Batman voice. Even Zeke can be funny sometimes; I genuinely laughed at his three B's joke at the beginning of the game.
revolverjgw
Member
So the ice jump is actually useful? I tried it to see what it did, but I never really used it... I stuck with the lightning tether to get around.
Shit...I'm at the final decision.
I played Infamous 1 with bad karma and done the same right up until this point but this is the first choice I've been presented with in the series that has actually disarmed me from my mindless hedonistic rampage and got me thinking.
I played Infamous 1 with bad karma and done the same right up until this point but this is the first choice I've been presented with in the series that has actually disarmed me from my mindless hedonistic rampage and got me thinking.
Nixx is the blue karma voice of reason and Kuo is the cold logical dissenter? What the fuck?
Revolutionary
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Crewnh said:
Missed the lightning strike at the end, did ya? 
revolverjgw said:
Yeah, it helps remedy the issue I've always had with the climbing in infamous never being nearly as fast as the gliding/sliding on rail stuff. You can basically super jump up to ledges and use the thrusters to clear pretty much any jump.
When do you get the tether?
demosthenes
Member
Someone else put spoil tags on this above...I don't know what but I will too...when do you get
? Still on the first island.
ice or fire powers
Just turned on the power in Flood Town (on my good playthrough). Man, that Ice Jump is so fucking useful and fun to use getting around. Also, those ice dudes are awesome and tons of fun to fight. I feel like such a badass ice jumping/hovering around the city.
I also cleared all of the side missions in the first Island before moving on.
I also cleared all of the side missions in the first Island before moving on.
rollingstart
Banned
Truthfully, that old-new Cole would have bit better with the changed personality.
I was pretty disappointed by all the story and character choices in this game. The first game certainly wasn't good, but it was fun and evoked many comic cliches and Cole was this gruff dude. Infamous 2 has characters like Nix. Nix, man. Nix. I didn't care for any of it, really. The mechanics were still fantastic and what's why I liked it so much, but aspects like that were a bit disappointing compared to Infamous 1.
To clarify, Infamous 2 is a better game than Infamous 1 on the whole. Just as a sequel, it was a bit disappointing. Both are tied as my favorite PS3 game. But Infamous 2 kinda went in the opposite direction I wanted Infamous 2 to go. I was hoping for them to embrace the comic vibe more, get away from realism and use a nice ZoE2 style cel shading. Keep the story cliche with super villains and Cole getting more powerful.
And a weird comparison: Infamous 2 feels more like a re-do of Infamous 1 in the same way Mario Galaxy 2 feels like a re-do of Mario Galaxy 1. Again, like these games are my favorite on the systems, but it's a bit hard to parse which ones I liked more.
I was pretty disappointed by all the story and character choices in this game. The first game certainly wasn't good, but it was fun and evoked many comic cliches and Cole was this gruff dude. Infamous 2 has characters like Nix. Nix, man. Nix. I didn't care for any of it, really. The mechanics were still fantastic and what's why I liked it so much, but aspects like that were a bit disappointing compared to Infamous 1.
To clarify, Infamous 2 is a better game than Infamous 1 on the whole. Just as a sequel, it was a bit disappointing. Both are tied as my favorite PS3 game. But Infamous 2 kinda went in the opposite direction I wanted Infamous 2 to go. I was hoping for them to embrace the comic vibe more, get away from realism and use a nice ZoE2 style cel shading. Keep the story cliche with super villains and Cole getting more powerful.
And a weird comparison: Infamous 2 feels more like a re-do of Infamous 1 in the same way Mario Galaxy 2 feels like a re-do of Mario Galaxy 1. Again, like these games are my favorite on the systems, but it's a bit hard to parse which ones I liked more.