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The Day Good Guys Went Away

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Ever wonder what happened to the definitive good guy of video games? What ever happened to the white knights of gaming? They became anti-heroes.
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Published: 111 days 23 hours ago | Article | PlayStation 3
 
 

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PataponKnight - 111 days 22 hours ago
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Pfft, Mario was far from being a saint taking all those 'shrooms and all. Good read though.
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ExgamerLegends2 - 111 days 22 hours ago
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I can't stress how much i hate anti heroes. We need a game with a white knight in it..... O.O oh wait.
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sorceror171 - 111 days 15 hours ago
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The article seems to equate inFamous and Prototype in terms of choice, but they're actually very different. In Prototype, you almost inevitably slaughter civilians by the hundreds. Prototype's designers said they wanted to give the player the feeling of being a badass. That can be fun, but there isn't a whole lot of ambiguity there.

On the other hand, inFamous really does give you a choice of being good or evil. I enjoyed my playthrough on good - minimizing civilian casualties, trying to capture instead of kill as much as possible - because I like to think that's how I'd try to handle such situations if they somehow happened in real life. The evil playthrough is easier, but even there I'm handicapping myself a bit by not going out of my way to roast civies.

The main problem with inFamous is that you don't have a real option to be neutral. You can be good or evil, that's it. That's one more option than Prototype, at least. Future sandbox games might give more options on that score.
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