Video: inFamous Good Vs Evil Gameplay
Facing moral choices in games is nothing new - pick a side, good or evil, and live with the consequences. Be a hero! Be a villain! Now, my personal gripe is that while I love making moral choices, I don't love making moral choices that have been reduced to black or white: whatever happened to Chaotic Neutral?
In any event, here we see inFamous hero/antihero Cole faced with a "karma moment" that shows both outcomes of a moral choice: let the starving masses share a cache of food (good) or electrocute them all so Cole, his girlfriend, and his buddy will have vittles for the near future. Care to guess whether or not the girlfriend gets bitchy with you if you decide to make sure she stays alive?
While Sucker Punch seems to have stuck to the angel-or-devil dichotomy in developing inFamous, there's always the hope that making conflicting choices will play out conflicted-ly as the story unfolds. That said, the thought of confabulating a dialog tree filled with moral grayness makes my writer's heart beat doubletime, to say nothing of the programming that must be involved. Enjoy!
tiny dancer
Posted to Video Games, Videos on 20 May 2009
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I was excited about it until she became a buzzkill and guilt-tripped him.
What is the point in making moral decisions if you are scolded immediately afterward by the game?
Get rid of her and we'll talk.
I started playing this earlier tonight (only about 1.5 hours into it) and so far the choices have been pretty obvious good or bad, but I'm with you on hoping for something more in that regard. Overall I'm enjoying the game and you can tell it's a Sucker Punch game with how well the character makes their jumps, climbs, grabs, etc., it really reminds me of how they handled it in the Sly Cooper series. Overall the gameplay so far has been a lot of fun and I think the controls are pretty tight.
The acting... cheesy lines coupled with mediocre voice acting on top of terribly, terribly overdone character animations.
I don't have a 360 or a ps3, so I don't know much about the acting in next-gen games, but can someone please assure me that it's a lot better than this in stuff like Mass Effect and Bioshock? (games I'm actually looking forward to playing someday)
"I don't love making moral choices that have been reduced to black or white: whatever happened to Chaotic Neutral?"
I can sympathize - I used to be a Neutral Good kind of person. These video games are like cursed items, forcing my alignment to the upper end of the spectrum against my will.