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Bluenose
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 |  Subject: InFAMOUS Second Son to be based on Seattle  Sun Feb 24, 2013 9:31 am | |
| http://www.joystiq.com/2013/02/22/infamous-second-son-coughs-up-details-on-smoky-hero-seattle-se/ - Quote :
- Infamous Second Son puffs out details on smoky hero, Seattle setting
Sucker Punch announced Infamous: Second Son at this week's PlayStation 2013 event, following an intro by game director Nate Fox that can only be described as... disturbing. So can the electric series' latest entry live up to his intensity? Well, there's a ways to go yet before we'll find out - Sony hasn't revealed if Second Son will be at the PS4's launch - but Sucker Punch took to the PlayStation Blog to shine a bit more light on the game.
Second Son is set seven years after Infamous 2, and in Seattle - a real-life location as opposed to Empire City, which was based on New York. It stars 24-year-old Delsin Rowe, who Sucker Punch paints as a self-described underachiever. Whereas previous protagonist Cole McGrath was all about electricity, Rowe's superpowers, at least initially, revolve around smoke. That may not sound as badass as electric powers at first, but the game's debut trailer showed a smoked Rowe can whip up plenty of havoc.
As for Fox's (melo)dramatic intro, that was designed to underline the paranoia and restricted freedoms of Second Son's world in the wake of the last game's cataclysmic events. As you might expect, the prohibitory forces in charge and new hero Rowe aren't exactly best mates.
On a final gameplay note, Sucker Punch suggested we could see the return of good/evil choices as per previous games: "As with all games in this series," said producer Brian Fleming, "the path the gameplay and story take will depend on the decisions you make along the way." :megusta: | |
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| | Subject: Re: InFAMOUS Second Son to be based on Seattle Sun Feb 24, 2013 9:35 am | |
| west coast is best coast
editing my post doesnt make it not true
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| | | | Jack the Spectre
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| | Subject: Re: InFAMOUS Second Son to be based on Seattle Sun Feb 24, 2013 9:52 am | |
| Interesting that they'd go with a real city this time. Given Delsin's smoke powers this time around, I'd've thought Los Angeles and its thick layer of smog would be the perfect setting. | |
| | | | Bluenose
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| | Subject: Re: InFAMOUS Second Son to be based on Seattle Sun Feb 24, 2013 9:53 am | |
| From an article on the official Sucker Punch website:
Delsin Rowe is the star of Second Son, and you probably know someone like him: A 24 year-old who is absolutely convinced he’s destined for greatness; though so far that greatness has managed to elude him. He grew up just outside Seattle, Washington, where his great – if accidental – calling comes crashing into his life. After rescuing occupants from a fiery bus wreck, he discovers that he suddenly has the ability to direct, manipulate and even transform into… Smoke. Could he have absorbed this power from one of the teenagers he pulled from the wreckage?
Setting the scene: It’s been 7 years since the Cole MacGrath episodes and the world has clearly changed. Anyone showing signs of being a so-called “bio-terrorist” is immediately handed over to the Department of Unified Protection (DUP) — a government agency created to ensure there is never a repeat of the catastrophic events of Empire City and New Marais. So Delsin, who has never been particularly respectful of authority, finds himself caught in the DUP dragnet... And decides he’s not going to go quietly.
Along the way, Delsin is going to ask questions that are not just relevant to the world of Second Son – but to the world we all live in today. A world where we are often instructed to surrender our freedoms to help improve our security. Benjamin Franklin once wrote “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Is he right?
As you play Second Son, you’ll explore lots of Seattle’s familiar landmarks. As with all games in this series, the path that the gameplay and story take will depend on the decisions you make along the way. | |
| | | | Jack the Spectre
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| | Subject: Re: InFAMOUS Second Son to be based on Seattle Sun Feb 24, 2013 9:55 am | |
| Yeah, the info has been there pretty much the whole time. I wonder why SP just put it up on their site and didn't actually SAY anything at the conference. | |
| | | | Orion
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| | Subject: Re: InFAMOUS Second Son to be based on Seattle Sun Feb 24, 2013 9:55 am | |
| I hope the choices wont be so cut and dry like the previous infamous games and try to provide some moral ambiguity instead of just black and white | |
| | | | Jack the Spectre
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| | Subject: Re: InFAMOUS Second Son to be based on Seattle Sun Feb 24, 2013 9:57 am | |
| Does anyone else think smoke powers are really lame? I mean I get it, they covered lightning, telekinesis, fire, ice, etc. already, but smoke? Instead of Ionic Storm do we just give them emphysema? | |
| | | | Bluenose
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| | Subject: Re: InFAMOUS Second Son to be based on Seattle Sun Feb 24, 2013 9:59 am | |
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| | | | Orion
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| | Subject: Re: InFAMOUS Second Son to be based on Seattle Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:01 am | |
| He could be like the smoke monster from Lost | |
| | | | Jack the Spectre
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| | Subject: Re: InFAMOUS Second Son to be based on Seattle Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:04 am | |
| Here's the problem with the story being set only seven years after inFAMOUS 2: - Spoiler:
At the end of iF2, you have a choice to either destroy all of the Conduits in the world, including yourself and the Beast, or enhance the powers of all the Conduits. This means that in order for Second Son to even have happened, you'd have to have taken the evil route. The evil route is so completely unsatisfying, and it sort of de-legitimizes the story of the first two game. Cole was meant to turn evil all along. Your choices meant nothing in the overall canon of the series. That just provides an entirely new and entirely shitty context for the first two games.
Even if they explain how people got powers again, which would make the good outcome more canon, it still completely removes the gravity of Cole's decision.
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| | Subject: Re: InFAMOUS Second Son to be based on Seattle Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:21 am | |
| - TheCinemaJack wrote:
- Here's the problem with the story being set only seven years after inFAMOUS 2:
- Spoiler:
At the end of iF2, you have a choice to either destroy all of the Conduits in the world, including yourself and the Beast, or enhance the powers of all the Conduits. This means that in order for Second Son to even have happened, you'd have to have taken the evil route. The evil route is so completely unsatisfying, and it sort of de-legitimizes the story of the first two game. Cole was meant to turn evil all along. Your choices meant nothing in the overall canon of the series. That just provides an entirely new and entirely shitty context for the first two games.
Even if they explain how people got powers again, which would make the good outcome more canon, it still completely removes the gravity of Cole's decision.
- Spoiler:
NANOMACHINES
 im guessing theyll either go with good- a few sooper heroes magically survived. bad- alot of them where killed but a few survived aswell. im calling it right now. cole appears in second son. |
| | | | Jack the Spectre
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| | Subject: Re: InFAMOUS Second Son to be based on Seattle Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:44 am | |
| - shigdig wrote:
- TheCinemaJack wrote:
- Here's the problem with the story being set only seven years after inFAMOUS 2:
- Spoiler:
At the end of iF2, you have a choice to either destroy all of the Conduits in the world, including yourself and the Beast, or enhance the powers of all the Conduits. This means that in order for Second Son to even have happened, you'd have to have taken the evil route. The evil route is so completely unsatisfying, and it sort of de-legitimizes the story of the first two game. Cole was meant to turn evil all along. Your choices meant nothing in the overall canon of the series. That just provides an entirely new and entirely shitty context for the first two games.
Even if they explain how people got powers again, which would make the good outcome more canon, it still completely removes the gravity of Cole's decision.
- Spoiler:
NANOMACHINES
im guessing theyll either go with
good- a few sooper heroes magically survived.
bad- alot of them where killed but a few survived aswell.
im calling it right now. cole appears in second son. - Spoiler:
It's very possible he'll reappear, but again, if he reappears, that even further invalidates the good ending to inFAMOUS 2. And I think with either of your scenarios, it's a total cop-out. Here's the thing, I think Second Son's scenario would work better if it didn't occur so soon after iF2. If it had occurred maybe thirty years after iF2, then you could say that the Conduit gene made a resurgence. This would fit because then the good ending and the bad ending could both support the existence of Conduits; remember, the Ray Sphere only killed all CURRENT Conduits, so if Delsin hadn't been born yet, then he could end up with the gene. But since it only takes place seven years after iF2, and Delsin is 24, he must've been alive during the events of iF and iF2, meaning in order for him to be alive and the good ending to be canon, he couldn't have had powers back then. And let's say he DID absorb them from the wreckage of that bus, well there were only teenagers on it, so THEY couldn't have had the gene anyway.
I think it'll still be a great game with a solid story in its own right, but as part of the iF universe, it just doesn't fit. I mean, unless SP can find a really good way to explain things. | |
| | | | Bluenose
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| | Subject: Re: InFAMOUS Second Son to be based on Seattle Sat May 18, 2013 1:04 pm | |
| - Jack the Spectre wrote:
- shigdig wrote:
- TheCinemaJack wrote:
- Here's the problem with the story being set only seven years after inFAMOUS 2:
- Spoiler:
At the end of iF2, you have a choice to either destroy all of the Conduits in the world, including yourself and the Beast, or enhance the powers of all the Conduits. This means that in order for Second Son to even have happened, you'd have to have taken the evil route. The evil route is so completely unsatisfying, and it sort of de-legitimizes the story of the first two game. Cole was meant to turn evil all along. Your choices meant nothing in the overall canon of the series. That just provides an entirely new and entirely shitty context for the first two games.
Even if they explain how people got powers again, which would make the good outcome more canon, it still completely removes the gravity of Cole's decision.
- Spoiler:
NANOMACHINES
im guessing theyll either go with
good- a few sooper heroes magically survived.
bad- alot of them where killed but a few survived aswell.
im calling it right now. cole appears in second son. - Spoiler:
It's very possible he'll reappear, but again, if he reappears, that even further invalidates the good ending to inFAMOUS 2. And I think with either of your scenarios, it's a total cop-out. Here's the thing, I think Second Son's scenario would work better if it didn't occur so soon after iF2. If it had occurred maybe thirty years after iF2, then you could say that the Conduit gene made a resurgence. This would fit because then the good ending and the bad ending could both support the existence of Conduits; remember, the Ray Sphere only killed all CURRENT Conduits, so if Delsin hadn't been born yet, then he could end up with the gene. But since it only takes place seven years after iF2, and Delsin is 24, he must've been alive during the events of iF and iF2, meaning in order for him to be alive and the good ending to be canon, he couldn't have had powers back then. And let's say he DID absorb them from the wreckage of that bus, well there were only teenagers on it, so THEY couldn't have had the gene anyway.
I think it'll still be a great game with a solid story in its own right, but as part of the iF universe, it just doesn't fit. I mean, unless SP can find a really good way to explain things. - Spoiler:
Cole's death at the boat scene at the very end of IF2 good ending did end with a lightning question mark. Maybe he comes back as Kessler and starts shit again like what happened in IF1 for some greater reason. All your other point are true, but I have faith in Sucker Punch to not dissapoint.
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