[Locke]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sentai

And since I'm playing Infamous now to beat it on the good side I remembered something else annoying. Those stupid crab things in The Warren, and Suicide Bombers. Their ability to take damage is idiotic.

The suicide bombers didn't annoy me that much on their own, but it's the way this game just drops everything in your lap at once. So you've got snipers you can't even see chipping away your health, you've got a turret forcing you into cover (if you're lucky it's just one, usually it's about four), you've got grenades and rockets coming around corners, you've got suicide bombers drawing your fire away AND you've got conduits using that super ground move which clips through every wall, cover and surface between you and the Conduit using it.

What the fuck are you even supposed to do here? Run? Playing a superhero sandbox game where your main tactic is running and hiding is not fun at all. At first, in a meta sense, playing a depowered Cole is pretty fun but this mission reminded me that playing this badass demi God who was just as powerful in cut scenes as he is in the game is the whole reason I loved inFamous 2 in the first place, both in itself but also over the sea of similar games. inFamous One took away the main thing I enjoyed, and now I'm stuck as a mule I really don't have any motivation to persevere.

Like I say, on inFamous 2 where Cole could take a beating and had crowd control supers this was all really manageable stuff - and pretty damn entertaining as well. The ending of Festival of Blood forces you to hold out on waves upon waves of enemies, and I beat it on the first try, without ever feeling like I wanted to kill myself with my controller.

inFamous One Cole however is just not built for this kind of combat, I don't think I've ever played a game before where the gameplay actually feels wrong for the character you're playing. I dunno how people have managed to finish this game.