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[PROTOTYPE2]: Revenge is a Dish Best Served Cold - Old Klingon Proverb
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I was surprised that they just straight up villain-ified Mercer
I guess a return is possible, given the ending of the first game.
Wonder if there'll be any story-based DLC with additional missions or stuff like that. Long as the gameplay is fun, and it really is, I can enjoy exploring almost any game's story.
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Best reason I've heard yet.
Yeah, likewise
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Ugh... Yeah, the whole excessive swearing made me wince at times.
Also I was a bit disappointed with the whole story. It felt like it moved sideways instead of forward. Even some questions I had from the first game were not really answered...
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But occasionally he did things I simply would not do. Like the mission where someone insulted his missus and so he decided to kill the guy. I don't care about peoples words. So to me that is more or less a waste of time I could be spending doing more useful things. His specific reason for doing that mission put me off.
On the other hand sometimes he just decided to randomly kill someone and I roll with that because its vague enough that it doesn't directly cut across what I may or may not do. I'm playing a game where I kill blackwatch so hey this mission wants me to kill blackwatch. That works. I laugh and do the mission.
Then I got to the missions about Maya. Suddenly I'm into it. When Heller is all revved up I'm revved up to. I got super involved in the last part of the story and couldn't stop once I got about three or four missions away from completion. I am highly sympathetic towards father figures. The cutscene where Heller begs Dana, that really got to me.
So more or less I liked parts of him and not others. Like a real person I guess. I don't like everything about most people I know.
Mercer on the other hand was more or less a player analogue and a Thing, so I didn't hate him, I didn't like him or anything like that. I slipped into my Mercer skin when I turned on the game and ran around being a God. I found his character intellectually interesting because they actually portrayed relatively accurately how a thing like that might go about interacting with people. I found his awkwardness amusing. I had no emotional attachment to his personality in Prototype 1.
So it didn't bother me that he changed radically after a year or so because I never had a specific character in mind for him in the first place.
I wouldn't want to hang around either of them though.
But that's not enough to make him a good character. He had some great dialogue and great voice acting. To me, he was as realistic as a man suffering from psychosis who has just been given goopy cannibalism powers can get. The swearing wasn't over the top for me. The man was a Marine for god's sake. Plus, revenge spree and all that jazz.
hey, can you go over some of the stuff you can do in this game, aside from the obvious mash/hold these two buttons and jump a lot stuff?
Pretty sure thats the armor from the Excessive Force Pack, look it up on Radnet, even though it isn't released yet, the icon showing it, is more or less "Armored Heller"
At least a bronze. You can complete that just by doing max jumps and gliding if you have all the movement upgrades. If not, choose jetboost as soon as you can.
I will get to your request, I only just woke up, it will be all over the place if I post now.
Aww, yes, that would be sweet.
Also, one disappointment involving the final boss.
I think this is the kind of thing you are looking for. I wont mention the combo thing again since you already know.
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I don't really like Prototype 2. I know, I know... you CARE about my opinion, so this MATTERS!
In all seriousness, I just don't like it. Parts of it are OK, I suppose. The gameplay itself isn't really BAD, but it's flawed in many ways (targeting is glitchy; if you want to consume someone who is being watched, just walk into them until they are out of the line of sight - they won't mind; etc.). The writing is just terrible. There's no other way to put it. I mean, every single enemy in this game needs a mustache so that they could twirl it while they talk, because they are all just the embodiment of mustache-twirling villains. Everyone is so EEEEEEEEEEEVIL just for the sake of being EEEEEEEEEEEVIL. And the fact that Mercer is the bad guy, that just pisses me off. I HATE when the protagonist of one story becomes the villain of the next one for no good reason. Granted, I haven't beaten the game so I don't know all the motivations at play here, but that doesn't matter. My immediate reaction is "Mercer was a good guy, even if he did eat some civilians when faced with imminent death, so why is he bad now?" And Heller? Man, that dude has got DOUBLE motivation! "I wanted revenge for my wife and child, but that revenge went bad, so now I need to get revenge for my failed revenge!"
I'm not one to typically come to a thread to shit on the subject matter, but damn... I am let down, big time. I'm gonna go read some reactions to see what you guys have been saying, cuz I haven't seen this thread for a little while now. Sad face.
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Except that one.
Mercer wasn't really a good guy at the end of Prototype
Targetting is a fucking pain in the ass in this game though
Half the time I'm trying to target something in front of me and it's choosing that tank a block away, STOP IT
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And grenades man. How the fuck did you get that many kills! I can't find enough zombies packed tight enough.
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Jesus.
It's just as much fun as I thought it would be which is to say a lot.
Course I'm making it worse (better) by refusing to upgrade my health again.
my scores remain unchallenged
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-If infected take down a living human, like a Blackwatch trooper, they'll start eating his body. If two infected target the same dead body, they'll start fighting over it, eventually pulling it in half, with both infected dragging their respective halves away.
-You can grab big blue canisters of the virus from Blackwatch bases. If you damage them first before picking them up, they'll start spraying red viral fumes. Any human that you happen to be near when this happens will start convulsing, fall over, and eventually revive as an infected. Affects soldiers and civilians alike. Run around through a crowded area with one and a full-blown infected army will spring up.
Goin' looking for more now.
I got fired from my job the Friday before Prototype came out. I got REAL fucking high on every day that ended in 'y' that first month of being jobless. I played this during that time so it's entirely possible that I blanked out on Mercer becoming a bad guy, but I honestly don't recall that happening. Did he grow a mustache and twirl it?
DeMoN, I completely disagree. The PLAYER can do that, but I don't recall a single instance of Mercer deliberately/specifically consuming a civilian/innocent person without the direct intervention of the player. He's more of an anti-hero than a good guy anyways, but even still... hero. Not villain. Ah well.
it's not a big deal but personally, even when i was playing prototype 1, mercer seemed like the bad guy.
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It's a psychopath's profile. Not "this guy is super evil we'll call him a psychopath" profile. They actually put a proper Silence of the Lambs psychopath profile in there. Mercer has very little emotion in the entire game. You know the last bit at the end? With all the yelling? You know why he is doing that? To make him run. He was told to push him hard and keep him running, so he is.
He lacks empathy for others and all his reasons/motivations are entirely selfish. He does get a tiny, tiny bit better by the end of the game, but it's akin to a man with a crippled leg learning to walk again. He's still way below the bar.
anti-hero in methods. he beats criminals within an inch of their lives, breaks bones and drops them off buildings. he's a good guy but with unforgiving edge. most heroes don't try to scare you, or cost you thousands of dollars in dental surgery.
but that is another discussion