i figured id say this here because i'm pretty sure i am a unique case. there really isn't a single moment in infamous' hero story that effects me emotionally, it's the whole game every line, every frame, every second.
when i got the game it was only because my mom said "this looks like something you would like" at this point in my life i heard that line a hundred times before and it was always wrong, i had heard of infamous but it never struck me as noteworthy, but it was used and cheap at gamestop.
so i figured i'm not paying out of the whazzo for this game so not much to lose if it sucks.
so i got home and started playing it, the intro of this game alone is usually something that i hate in a game, i hate being dropped into a game knowing nothing at all. so i really didn't feel it was a keeper at that point but i played through the tutorial anyway. i knew it had a hero or villian path so i started out as a hero. i let the people eat and the tv jacker comes on bsing about me and i was the one that helped.
now to understand me and games you have to know that i call the main character as me, but in all the games i played before it this was just to help immersion.
but with infamous my persona was almost forced in sync with cole's after a few minutes. i ran through the streets getting dissed left and right so i took shelter on high ground, i then realized i had to build my reputation from scratch. so i did just that, i healed, i defended, i was willing to do whatever it took to not be hated.
when the news shows would air i watched with disgust at the credit they were stealing, it came to the point of violently attacking the tvs with whatever i had at the moment. i would scream things like "i'm here i never saw that!"
and when kessler stole my power of save\load that worked in fallout 3 and dragon age, i got confused at first watching as trish feel to her death no matter what i did, then saddness as she and cole said their goodbyes. after that i hit a brick wall of rage, i was driven to destroy kessler, blinded by my hate i pushed cole, the game, and my ps3 to what may have been their limits blowing through quest after quest. and when i finally was defeating him i felt joy and relief, then as the ending came i was torn my rage fell apart and went back into confusion, and without my rage buffer i went to tears.
nowadays i have to limit how much infamous i play on the hero story, because as i play in a way i become one with cole, i feel what he's feeling and he say's what's on my mind.
16 Jun 2011, 9:24 am
