Recently Prototype and inFamous were released. Both are open world superhero games so comparisons were inevitable. Strangely though no one online seemed to be happy simply saying ‘I like this one!’ They seem to want to convince the world that their enjoyment of one game is more valid than the enjoyment of people who played the other game. To do this they find it necessary to attack the other title, frequently without seemingly having played it.

Arguments center on elements that neither game does well, excusing their preferred games through bizarre mental gymnastics. Look at message boards you see Prototype fans decrying inFamous’s story for its contrived and ridiculously polarizing decision process. In the same post they will argue that Prototype’s plot is unimportant to the game, simply providing frame for the visceral action around it and using words like ‘competent’ or ‘functional’. Reactionary inFamous fans hit back attacking the simplicity and repetitive nature while forgetting (or ignoring) the grenade spam fest that makes up the later stages of their own game.

…but they make it difficult not to draw comparisons.