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CarlosBoozer
03-21-2014, 09:11 AM
Just bought it for $40 bucks thanks to the 10% PSN membership discount! Never played any of the previous games before, so no idea about the story other than having superpowers :lol Will write up a review when it is done downloading (20GB )

Rose
03-21-2014, 07:28 PM
I played an hour and a half earlier.


I like it so far.

jaydacris
03-21-2014, 07:54 PM
500 word review please

CarlosBoozer
03-21-2014, 11:26 PM
Finished the intro, I will be a hero! Graphics are ****ing gorgeous and the controls are pretty good, they are actually using the motion control and touchscreen function :eek:

Rose
03-22-2014, 12:14 AM
500 word review please
This is pretty devoid of spoilers but I do talk about enemies that you fight. No plot line reveals, character power reveals, enemy power reveals, or anything of that sort.

Just finished freeing the first district of Seattle you arrive in. I think the motion controls/touchpad are kinda lame for this game. I really only like the touchpad for moving around on a map or to bring up a menu/map or something like that. You swipe it to perform certain actions in this game, or press it to drain stuff to recharge your power(s). (one of these things you use the touchpad for is really cool and really ****ing annoying at the same damn time).

But that's the only thing so far that has been either annoying or disappointing. The gameplay is pretty good, not perfect but pretty close to ideal. Combat flows well if you are fighting less than 10 enemies or so. Anymore and it becomes pretty chaotic. Because you can take a lot of damage depending on what you're fighting. For example, I finished a fight where two tanks with turrets on top were shooting at me, several snipers, several regular enemies, and an enemy I won't name because it could be viewed as a spoiler. You run out of power slightly faster than you should when fighting big groups, so I basically would run fight a few guys and run around wind up killing three. Go hide in a corner. Then run around again until I finally finished the fight.

What's really shining so far is the storyline and writing. The story is very very good. The writing is spot on. Has some pretty solid character development for basically only playing two or so hours. Has a good sense of humor, and some very good cut scenes. One of the few games that has perfect pacing for cut scenes actually. It is by no means a movie game (like Uncharted), but it definitely is cut scene friendly. The graphics are top notch. Probably the best I have seen on the PS4. If not it is second only to 2k.

The controls are pretty solid. There's no wonky mashing techniques or anything. Each button has a function for a power basically. Some of the stuff is things we have seen in previous games (in terms of effects not the power itself). If I had a complaint here it would be that you do get kind of overexposed to moves early. One of the first missions basically amounts to getting four new moves in under 45 minutes real life time. The game does remind you though of how to use the more powerful ones though, which is a good thing :lol

The day one patch adds some extra content, and they are going to keep doing that on a regular basis which is nice as well.

Overall I would say the game is on pace to get at least an eight out of ten in my book.




^^^^501.

Mr Exlax
03-22-2014, 06:13 AM
Is it as good as the first 2 games of the series?

Rose
03-22-2014, 10:47 AM
The first part is. I'm not that deep into it yet.:lol

Give me a week, or wait for someone else to give you a better idea on that. I try to take my time with the single player only games, and collect everything I can and do everything possible in one area before I move on.

lilgodfather1
03-22-2014, 09:13 PM
Is it as good as the first 2 games of the series?
Much better than number 2 for sure. Not that I didn't like 2, but it wasn't as good as 1 imo. Personally I would say this is the best game of the series. It's a blast switching between powers. Don't like to spoil things, but power 2 is amazeballs.

Also it feels like the world is a lot bigger. Not to mention this is the only next gen game graphically. None of the others cone close, ryse can't hold a candle, and it was a hallway hack n slash compared to this open world masterpiece.

Rose
03-23-2014, 12:04 AM
Much better than number 2 for sure. Not that I didn't like 2, but it wasn't as good as 1 imo. Personally I would say this is the best game of the series. It's a blast switching between powers. Don't like to spoil things, but power 2 is amazeballs.

Also it feels like the world is a lot bigger. Not to mention this is the only next gen game graphically. None of the others cone close, ryse can't hold a candle, and it was a hallway hack n slash compared to this open world masterpiece.
:bowdown:

Love it.

CarlosBoozer
03-23-2014, 12:23 AM
This game is amazing, been playing for hours! Getting the hang of my powers and I'm loving the story. Graphics are so ****ing gorgeous, there are times I just chill on a rooftop and enjoy the scenery. I love the fact that the crowd take pictures of DUP soldiers that were subdued, pretty funny :lol

Anyways, I'm on the path of being a hero and enjoying it so far! It feels great having the choice to just knock out enemies instead of executing them and helping out dying civilians. My powers are getting stronger and I'm getting a bit more creative with my fighting style! This game is the bomb!!!

I'm curious what the second power will be :D

Mr Exlax
03-23-2014, 04:18 PM
Much better than number 2 for sure. Not that I didn't like 2, but it wasn't as good as 1 imo. Personally I would say this is the best game of the series. It's a blast switching between powers. Don't like to spoil things, but power 2 is amazeballs.

Also it feels like the world is a lot bigger. Not to mention this is the only next gen game graphically. None of the others cone close, ryse can't hold a candle, and it was a hallway hack n slash compared to this open world masterpiece.

Nice!!!!! Gonna go buy today then.

lilgodfather1
03-23-2014, 07:18 PM
Beat the infamous playthrough todag, if I had to put a tine stamp on it I would call ot roughly 25 hours, but I did everything. All the shards, all the cameras, etc. I'm going to try and platinum it. Really pissed me off though. I turned the difficulty to expert right at the beginning, and It didn't save the choice, so I thought I was playing on expert to get the trophy until the end when I didnt get it, and checked after the credits. Now I made damn sure for the hero play lol.

Power 3 is kind of lame imo, and after getting power 4, I realized it really sucked. Still if delsin could do what the guy mentions in one of the audio logs, and broke into that conduit prison. Mother of god that would be an amazing game.

Question, could anyone get papertrail to work?

Rose
03-23-2014, 10:36 PM
Paper trail is down right now. If you got an account made on the site already you're at least gonna get it to work soon. If not...who knows? The servers are overcapacity on both ends.

I tried for like 15 minutes today to get it to work just kept walking back to the start of the mission-nada.

CarlosBoozer
03-23-2014, 10:59 PM
y'all finish so fvcking fast, jesus

Thorpesaurous
03-24-2014, 08:23 AM
I just got this late Saturday. Haven't played it much. Made it through the intro and cleared the first segment of the city. So far it's been pretty enjoyable. I find the movement to be a little wonky.

Shade8780
03-24-2014, 11:43 AM
I'm playing the Uncharteds and ACs now, but I'll get this game when I finish them. Did yall pick Hero or inFamous? Which is better? No spoilers pls.

Thorpesaurous
03-24-2014, 12:02 PM
I'm playing the Uncharteds and ACs now, but I'll get this game when I finish them. Did yall pick Hero or inFamous? Which is better? No spoilers pls.


I picked Hero. They force you to choose a direction pretty much right off the bat. And one of my issues with this series is because that karma meter moving up is how you level up, so once you pick a direction, you pretty much have to play it out.

It does give you a valid second playthrough.

lilgodfather1
03-24-2014, 05:35 PM
I'm playing the Uncharteds and ACs now, but I'll get this game when I finish them. Did yall pick Hero or inFamous? Which is better? No spoilers pls.
The evil playthrough was fun. I will mention which I thought was better when I beat the hero play later this week.

Sucks about the damn papertrail. I wanted to see what that was all about.

@thorpe

Yeah the smoke movement was pretty weird for me at first too, but once I got used to it it is sooo much better. Power 2 and 3s movement is easy mode, great for long travel, smoke and power 4 are for short travel.

Rose
03-24-2014, 07:30 PM
Power 3 is so-so to me. I'd like it more if you could fly longer.

Also it has the weakest down button attack animation IMO.

lilgodfather1
03-25-2014, 03:17 PM
Just plat'd the game. I'd say the story lines are basically the same, except for small differences. Personally enjoyed the infamous ending more, but like I said it's all the same.

Thorpesaurous
03-26-2014, 10:30 AM
For those who haven't heard, I tore my left achilles the other night. I updated my "Hurt Bad" thread in the OTC if anyone cares to read about it.

But for the purposes of here, it probably means I'll be playing more.

One thing I was disappointed to discover when I bought this, because it wasn't what I wanted, is that the South Park game wasn't released on PS4. That's how I wound up with this sort of on a whim late on a Saturday night.



I did lay around and play a bunch yesterday. It definitely improved as I got a bit more acclimated to the controls. Part of my issue is that the game is paced differently from how I play. Loading the map up with bits and pieces at a time, means that I went and did the few things I could in every region before pushing through to complete the region. So I eliminated all the HUD bases, then tracked down all the stupid flying spy thingys, then finally went to the missions, which then added more things on the map to do, like the secret cameras and secret agent stuff. I think I'm totally done with 3 of the first 5 regions, and nearly done with the last two, with only the region with the spiraling vortexes in it to finish that first map. Now that I see how it works, I need to finish this stuff differently to get the upgrades.

So the pacing is a bit off for me, and coming off of playing Assassin's Creed, the controls wonk me out a bit. Because it's so much of the same stuff as far as the layout goes, but the controls are just different enough. It's not as if the character free runs, and I can just hold square and tilt the stick a bit. Climbing sort of requires repeated pushes of the jump button. Then I realized that some stuff is more climbable than I remembered, if I hit it right.

So it's not even really the games fault, it's just the layout is so off from what I just came off of.

I will admit that part of the problem I have with it in design is that there's no cover system, and the shooting reticule moves crazy fast. Now I'm not a huge fan of shooters. I flat out don't play FPS's, and while this is 3rd person open world, it's got a ton of basis in FPS. Uncharted and even GTA both have cover schemes. The Last of Us plays off a cover scheme, and has more stealth elements. I don't like button mashers either, but I have enjoyed the newer melee combat systems layed out in Batman and Assassin's Creed, and this one just doesn't seem up to the level of either of those, or even what they did in The Last of Us.

So overall, while admitting that this is more shooter, which is not really my thing, I feel like this is closer to a B than the typical A games I play. And part of that is I only play a half dozen games a year tops, so I know what I like, know what I want, I pre-order, and I play. This is an example of a game that was just a hair outside my range, I knew it, but I picked it up on a whim, and it seems very good, just not snugly in my wheelhouse.

The last game I bought like that was probably Dead Space, and that wound up being an A for me. But while it's more shooter based than most stuff I play, they pulled back the pace for the horror element, and the lack of vertical movement made the shooting, while still needing to be pretty precision, a lot more functional for me.

lilgodfather1
03-27-2014, 01:05 PM
For those who haven't heard, I tore my left achilles the other night. I updated my "Hurt Bad" thread in the OTC if anyone cares to read about it.

But for the purposes of here, it probably means I'll be playing more.

One thing I was disappointed to discover when I bought this, because it wasn't what I wanted, is that the South Park game wasn't released on PS4. That's how I wound up with this sort of on a whim late on a Saturday night.



I did lay around and play a bunch yesterday. It definitely improved as I got a bit more acclimated to the controls. Part of my issue is that the game is paced differently from how I play. Loading the map up with bits and pieces at a time, means that I went and did the few things I could in every region before pushing through to complete the region. So I eliminated all the HUD bases, then tracked down all the stupid flying spy thingys, then finally went to the missions, which then added more things on the map to do, like the secret cameras and secret agent stuff. I think I'm totally done with 3 of the first 5 regions, and nearly done with the last two, with only the region with the spiraling vortexes in it to finish that first map. Now that I see how it works, I need to finish this stuff differently to get the upgrades.

So the pacing is a bit off for me, and coming off of playing Assassin's Creed, the controls wonk me out a bit. Because it's so much of the same stuff as far as the layout goes, but the controls are just different enough. It's not as if the character free runs, and I can just hold square and tilt the stick a bit. Climbing sort of requires repeated pushes of the jump button. Then I realized that some stuff is more climbable than I remembered, if I hit it right.

So it's not even really the games fault, it's just the layout is so off from what I just came off of.

I will admit that part of the problem I have with it in design is that there's no cover system, and the shooting reticule moves crazy fast. Now I'm not a huge fan of shooters. I flat out don't play FPS's, and while this is 3rd person open world, it's got a ton of basis in FPS. Uncharted and even GTA both have cover schemes. The Last of Us plays off a cover scheme, and has more stealth elements. I don't like button mashers either, but I have enjoyed the newer melee combat systems layed out in Batman and Assassin's Creed, and this one just doesn't seem up to the level of either of those, or even what they did in The Last of Us.

So overall, while admitting that this is more shooter, which is not really my thing, I feel like this is closer to a B than the typical A games I play. And part of that is I only play a half dozen games a year tops, so I know what I like, know what I want, I pre-order, and I play. This is an example of a game that was just a hair outside my range, I knew it, but I picked it up on a whim, and it seems very good, just not snugly in my wheelhouse.

The last game I bought like that was probably Dead Space, and that wound up being an A for me. But while it's more shooter based than most stuff I play, they pulled back the pace for the horror element, and the lack of vertical movement made the shooting, while still needing to be pretty precision, a lot more functional for me.
I would agree with you about the controls. They were difficult to adjust to after not playing an infamous game for years, but the one thing that will help you is getting power 2. It especially helps with traversal, eliminates the need for the parkour climbing like smoke.

Thorpesaurous
03-31-2014, 09:08 AM
Beat it over the weekend. Really didn't have a ton else I was capable of doing, so I put in some really long sessions (PS4 controller battery life is oddly short-ish).

Overall it was a very good experience. I still say a lot of the design elements just aren't in my wheelhouse, so it's a little harder for me to be subjective, but then again that's why this isn't something I pre-ordered. However enough of it is that I'd buy it. The exploring, the open world. The expanded single player story. I just aint a huge fan of the shooter elements, and the comic book art style. But that's fine.

I think it's cool they give you as good a reason as they do for the second playthrough. Although I may be a bit burnt out after playing as much as I did over two days.

The story was a little choppy. The effort to explain the motives for why these Conduits were so despised is a little all over. And Augustine's motives felt goofy seemingly because they were trying to explain two sides of a story at once depending on the choices you make. But overall it worked. It was kind of a screwed up version of the overall X Men plot I suppose.

Gameplay had some cool ideas. Switching powers was a nice idea. I felt the pacing of it was a little off. It felt like as soon as I'd gotten comfortable with the first they threw the second at me, and for me, it felt like they threw the third at me too late to really get comfortable with that one. Although that's in part because of how I play. I had already stripped the city clean before I played the missions, so by the time I got to the third power, there was little to do but march through the rest of the game.

I also thought they did a good job keeping the function of the three powers similar enough, while making each unique enough to warrant it's existence. I liked power two the best with it's ability to string together karma. It helped with leveling and creating down button attacks. And it's movement control was the coolest in my mind by far.

My biggest gripe would be the same I had with the first game (I didn't play the second), is that the combat is just too repetitive. They've expanded the cast of characters a bit. There's five or so diffetent types of ememies. A few different weapons. And adding in the drug bust combat added a second dimension, but after a while, it just all feels like varying levels of the same thing. A lot of the bigger battles I sort of cheated on. All the district showdowns I'd go into with a down attack set, do a dive bomb, and hit the down attack. There were a few I beat without ever seeing what or who I killed.

I also have some issues with the morality choice thing, because it feels like once you make that first choice, you're sort of obliged to follow through. Doing half and half just feels like you'll not level up enough in either direction.

Overall I'd give it a solid B as an experience. Totally worth checking out.

Le Shaqtus
03-31-2014, 11:49 AM
Getting infamous after I get my pay check this week :rockon:

Thorpesaurous
03-31-2014, 12:19 PM
Also, did they pay Banksy to do those stencil graphitti pieces for them, or are they just an "homage"?

CarlosBoozer
03-31-2014, 11:33 PM
Got the 3rd power, it's not so bad! Story getting more intense :)

Shade8780
04-01-2014, 12:14 PM
I'm gonna finish up AC: BH, Uncharted 2 and maybe even Revelations if I finish them all before May, and get inFamous then. Really want to play this and South Park, they both look really good.

Thorpesaurous
04-01-2014, 02:37 PM
I'm gonna finish up AC: BH, Uncharted 2 and maybe even Revelations if I finish them all before May, and get inFamous then. Really want to play this and South Park, they both look really good.

I found out the hard way that they don't make South Park for the PS3, and Infamous isn't available for the PS4 as far as I know. Just so you know before you start really looking into it.

Shade8780
04-01-2014, 03:43 PM
I found out the hard way that they don't make South Park for the PS3, and Infamous isn't available for the PS4 as far as I know. Just so you know before you start really looking into it.
april fools? it's the other way around.

just noticed i already posted when i was gonna get the game :lol