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Infamous: Second Son |OT| Smells Like Beanie Spirit
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digoutyoursoul
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I love racing to the top of a building with neon dash and landing right on top of an advertisement holding. Strangely satisfying
I think that's mainly because you're so overpowered. You can pretty much zoom up the highest buildings right from the start. Getting around is trivialized, everything goes by in a flash. SS is still a great game, but it feels somewhat shortish because of this.
I preferred the deliberate pace of the first game, where you had to restore power in each district first, and even than you had to keep your eyes open for power lines. Felt more satisfying to me.
So.. i watched my GF finish the game yesterday and she played along the good side so i can start with the bad side now.
game looks awesome and feels awesome. What i noticed first is that this game runs buttery smooth and i like it!
Didn't notice much bugs tho my GF fell through the floor once @ a Boss fight =)
I'm gonna start de evil route and go straight through the story.
game looks awesome and feels awesome. What i noticed first is that this game runs buttery smooth and i like it!
Didn't notice much bugs tho my GF fell through the floor once @ a Boss fight =)
I'm gonna start de evil route and go straight through the story.
Unknown One
Member
I feel that the smoke vents is the power line of the old game. You can combo it really well to get around.
Neon and the third power makes it moot though.
Neon and the third power makes it moot though.
I certainly like it more than the cities of the first two games but I've found that much smaller area used in Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes to be far more memorable and interesting from a gameplay perspective.
Creating a large area just for the sake of having a huge world is starting to feel pointless. The best games make full use of the world they've created.
Finished the game earlier on my Hero playthrough. Loved it!
Oh, the song that was playing during the credits was pretty dope, too...
Right after I finished my first playthrough, I went right on to start my Evil, Hard mode playthrough. This game is so addictive! I had to force myself to stop playing.
Edit:
The visuals.. my God, the visuals. I haven't been wow'd this much by a game's looks in so long!! Sucker Punch really did a great job.. and their attention to detail in the world is astounding.
Oh, the song that was playing during the credits was pretty dope, too...
Right after I finished my first playthrough, I went right on to start my Evil, Hard mode playthrough. This game is so addictive! I had to force myself to stop playing.
Edit:
The visuals.. my God, the visuals. I haven't been wow'd this much by a game's looks in so long!! Sucker Punch really did a great job.. and their attention to detail in the world is astounding.
I found it alittle strange that they did not give you a continuous travel mode for all of the powers
the mission where your chasing Hank down in the city makes his smoke travel look far more useful, but Delsin can only teleport. Video should have had a sustained flight mode like Neon had for super speed
Unknown One
Member
When I seen that I was quite envious. I enjoy the smoke powers a lot that's why.
It seems like they wanted each powers to have a specific purpose rather than be a point of preference. Smoke is the least useful of the powers but in combat it's the most abundant. When you're in a pinch smoke is the easiest to absorb. Neon is the most useful all around, and excels at long distance and traversal. It's basically the one you'll want to have on hand the most often, but it's harder to find in the middle of combat.
Video
I don't think the game pushes hard enough in a direction to really force you to use each power for what they're designed for, but that's both a good and bad thing IMO.
NinjaCarrot
Member
I don't remember
getting the sex
Unknown One
Member
I don't rememberon my good playthrough...Maybe I was doing it wronggetting the sex
It was implied after the time change.
i'm hoping paper trail ends with an additional power tbh.
potentially 2, seeing as the girl you're following is paper power, and the victims are being killed by wire power, and on top of that there is strong mention of glass power too in the "dead drops",
I've completed the game and thought it was awesome
Quick question, is there any way to change the time of day after the story is complete or does time change naturally? It seems like it is very much scripted but that means I shall never see the night and awesome rain effects again
Quick question, is there any way to change the time of day after the story is complete or does time change naturally? It seems like it is very much scripted but that means I shall never see the night and awesome rain effects again
When famousmortimer talked about data from social sites showing that people were more interested in Infamous then Titanfall in one of his Twitch streams when the PS4 was released, was he right on the money?
sadceph2001
Member
Wow, couldn't agree more. The balance of power and sheer scale of player ability is what separated InFAMOUS and Prototype, which obviously isn't upheld to the same standard in SS (not stating that it isn't a great game).
Just finished the campaign, and I'm moving on some city-wide cleanup next.
Overall, Second Son was everything I wanted it to be. Story was great, Delsin controls like a dream and Seattle is a hell of a fun playground. The various power-sets give you plenty of options in how you want to play in terms of both traversal and combat. The visuals excel stylistically and technically in spades, and the sound/music/voiceovers are top-notch.
Favourite power: Probably Smoke. I love the way it looks particularly, from the scattershot R2 charge-attack to the way Delsin's chain lights up when he swings it.
I'll stop rambling now. Massive thanks to Sucker Punch for creating what is now my favourite PS4 game, and possibly one of my favourite console games of all time.
Overall, Second Son was everything I wanted it to be. Story was great, Delsin controls like a dream and Seattle is a hell of a fun playground. The various power-sets give you plenty of options in how you want to play in terms of both traversal and combat. The visuals excel stylistically and technically in spades, and the sound/music/voiceovers are top-notch.
Favourite power: Probably Smoke. I love the way it looks particularly, from the scattershot R2 charge-attack to the way Delsin's chain lights up when he swings it.
The Neon dash is a lot of fun to charge around the town with, but I'm not much of a sniper so the precision attacks weren't terrifically fun for me. Video was pretty great, and I enjoyed the tracer-missiles and the rapid-fire projectile a lot. The visual execution was a bit of a mish-mash, but I can let that go. Finally, I'm already enjoying Concrete a ton. Most importantly, the Ice-Launch is back!
I'll stop rambling now. Massive thanks to Sucker Punch for creating what is now my favourite PS4 game, and possibly one of my favourite console games of all time.
useyourfist
Member
Just finished it off 100% on good, great game! I hope we get some story dlc at some point, other than the paper trail of course.
Yes, Nate Fox said that they are working on a DLC in the same kind of scope of Festival of Blood.
Glorious Ownage
Member
How are you doing the launch?
First time I've been satisfied with a game on my PS4. D:
I'm the same. I want to be be home and tasting that next gen goodness. Think I will bunk the gym and go straight home after this.
I think the pedestrians are as dumb as in the previous infamous games.
I think the traffic density is lower compared to the previous infamous games and it is the cause the city could appear lifeless. I think GTA 5 is more times populated as infamous Second Son and therefore it feels more alive.
Pai Pai Master
Banned
Civillian AI is probably the most disappointing thing about an otherwise fantastic game. There is absolutely no improvement with them over the previous generation and they do drag down the experience little.
I finished @ about 10 hours or so, no where near as long as AC4.
(Completely agree that it's way too long).
They're both around the same length, ten hours ish.
NinjaCarrot
Member
I got the time change on my bad playthrough after
kissing Fetch
I haven't reached Neon powers yet, but I have pretty much all the smoke power tricks and it has been a blast. While I haven't used Neon yet, what I've seen in videos lead me to think that I'm not sure if I will enjoy it as much as I have been enjoying Smoke powers. I mean... Going through air vents is just so damn fun. It adds a lot of variety and dynamism to the every encounter.
Neon looks amazing though, so I'll judge when I get there.
By the way. It's so damn awesome seeing how fucking amazing this game looks visually and it's very exciting to know that even better looking first party games will release on the PS4. Greatness Awaits indeed.
Neon looks amazing though, so I'll judge when I get there.
By the way. It's so damn awesome seeing how fucking amazing this game looks visually and it's very exciting to know that even better looking first party games will release on the PS4. Greatness Awaits indeed.
Nymphae
Banned
I can't believe they still haven't fixed the enemy AI.
Every enemy in the game has 100% perfect aim at all times from any distance. It is incredibly frustrating at times when you get in a little over your head, and are being assaulted from nearly every direction.
There's no good way to get out of fire other than run like a motherfucker until you are way out of the combat zone. At times I'm just trying to let my health refill and I'm running around trying to find something to hide behind where I can't be shot at, and it's nearly impossible. Nothing makes you feel more heroic (or superheroic) than having to run a mile away and hide before coming at enemies one by one at angles where they all can't shoot you at once.
Compounding the frustration is the fact that as you get closer to death, they strip all of the audio, except for an annoying musical tone that intensifies as you get closer to dying. It pulls me right he fuck out of the game and I find it very very frustrating and annoying when I'm being assaulted from every direction.
I love this game a lot, more than any other InFamous, but this stuff was really bugging me last night. I kept saying to myself, who the fuck play tested this shit?
Every enemy in the game has 100% perfect aim at all times from any distance. It is incredibly frustrating at times when you get in a little over your head, and are being assaulted from nearly every direction.
There's no good way to get out of fire other than run like a motherfucker until you are way out of the combat zone. At times I'm just trying to let my health refill and I'm running around trying to find something to hide behind where I can't be shot at, and it's nearly impossible. Nothing makes you feel more heroic (or superheroic
) than having to run a mile away and hide before coming at enemies one by one at angles where they all can't shoot you at once.Compounding the frustration is the fact that as you get closer to death, they strip all of the audio, except for an annoying musical tone that intensifies as you get closer to dying. It pulls me right he fuck out of the game and I find it very very frustrating and annoying when I'm being assaulted from every direction.
I love this game a lot, more than any other InFamous, but this stuff was really bugging me last night. I kept saying to myself, who the fuck play tested this shit?
Sometimes it really looks like a city after an ebola outbreak.
compared to the also not GTA level previous inFamous 2
gift of 100 gab
Member
Gorgeous game! Just got into Seattle and haven't really started the missions yet, having a lot of fun just getting the hang on the mechanics and traversal. This is the first full size retail game I've downloaded and I'm wondering if there's anyway to see the status of the background download in the OS? Just showed the first 5 gb in the download list but I'd like to know if the full game is downloaded before I turn off.
Sometimes it really looks like a city after an ebola outbreak.
compared to the also not GTA level previous inFamous 2
i've seen second son ram packed with life. cars, pedestrians...it's just their spawn rate seems inconsistent. you can be on a street full of people, then turn a corner and see only 3 or 4. i mean, reality is not all streets are as ram packed as each other. but it's always been an issue in open world games. even the mighty GTA has frequent moments where the entire length of road is empty. and then you can turn a corner and have a street absolutely full of the exact same car (usually a crappy one, just to punish you..lol). i hope the open world genre rectifies these things tbh. but i feel it's less of a issue in infamous since you're rarely ever on street level, i'd still like a more packed city though.
HORRORSHØW
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ruh roh.
FeiRR
Banned
Have you seen a town under martial law at night? You're not allowed to walk around...
I really don't know what was a big spoiler in this screen-shot. It is the main mission in the game to get this power to heal your tribe.
I'll apologise in advance if my wording was misleading there;
there's a close approximation of the Ice Launch in the Concrete power set. Hit L1 to launch.
People who've not finished the game aren't going to know if Delsin succeeds in saving the tribe though, are they?
People who complain about crowd density in inFamous saying that it's not like in GTA miss the point by a mile. In every game the city is under an occupation or a quarantine. Characters reference the fact that people are scared to show up outside. Gangsters with guns that shoot on sight are everywhere in the first two games. It makes sense there aren't that many people around, especially so in the first game.
Keeping away from this thread until I've finished my first playthrough but just popped in to ask if the game has any missable trophies that can only only be got at specific parts of the game?
I've set out to do a story focused playthough on Good/Normal, followed by a Evil/Hard run and then finishing with a trophy sweep back down on Normal for the platinum.
No spoilers if possible please!
I've set out to do a story focused playthough on Good/Normal, followed by a Evil/Hard run and then finishing with a trophy sweep back down on Normal for the platinum.
No spoilers if possible please!