Please be warned that this will contain spoilers for the ending of Infamous 2.
At the end of the game, it is discovered the ?the Beast?, the creature whose destruction the game has supposedly been building up towards, is in fact a character we once knew. Their power has been used to activate the powers of conduits (people born with a gene that could potentially give them superpowers), such as the game?s protagonist, Cole McGrath. The Beast offers McGrath the chance to join him, to help him activate as many conduits as possible before the plague (which had been causing problems all over the US eastern coast) kills off all of humanity.
You are then given a choice. To help him and save the conduits of the world to survive and become the ones who inherit the Earth from humanity, or defy him and bring about an end to all conduits, yourself included, in order to save the millions of regular humans all over the world.
This was an interesting choice to me because it didn?t really feel like the typical good or evil dilemma that you?re given in most moral games. There are reasons, both good and bad, for going with either option. Save humanity and doom not only yourself but thousands of people across the planet who have no idea that they carry the conduit gene. Or become the Beast yourself and save your brethren at the cost of every other non-conduit human in the world.
My playthrough of the game had ne doing pretty much every single ?good guy? option available. Support the cops, heal wounded civilians and all that stuff. However, when it came down to the final choice, I was actually ready to go ahead and support the Beast, siding with the conduits over the rest of humanity, even though the game designates it as the ?bad guy? choice.
I won?t go into details about why I decided to do that, but, when I tried to go that road, the game wouldn?t let me. Because it turns out that the final so-called evil choice is only available to those who have evil karma, those who have done pretty much nothing BUT bad guy stuff until this point.
This actually irritated me a great deal because that pretty much meant that all the good guy stuff I?d done until that point was all for nothing, because it meant that I would be denied the ending I truly wanted. If I did want it, I?d have to either start the game from scratch and be a full-on bad guy from the start, or delay the missions until I?d been around the city and slaughtered every innocent person in sight to switch my alignment.
That, I felt, was the one mis-step of the entire game, as it made it so that, when it came down to the big final choice, I had no choice whatsoever.
At the end of the game, it is discovered the ?the Beast?, the creature whose destruction the game has supposedly been building up towards, is in fact a character we once knew. Their power has been used to activate the powers of conduits (people born with a gene that could potentially give them superpowers), such as the game?s protagonist, Cole McGrath. The Beast offers McGrath the chance to join him, to help him activate as many conduits as possible before the plague (which had been causing problems all over the US eastern coast) kills off all of humanity.
You are then given a choice. To help him and save the conduits of the world to survive and become the ones who inherit the Earth from humanity, or defy him and bring about an end to all conduits, yourself included, in order to save the millions of regular humans all over the world.
This was an interesting choice to me because it didn?t really feel like the typical good or evil dilemma that you?re given in most moral games. There are reasons, both good and bad, for going with either option. Save humanity and doom not only yourself but thousands of people across the planet who have no idea that they carry the conduit gene. Or become the Beast yourself and save your brethren at the cost of every other non-conduit human in the world.
My playthrough of the game had ne doing pretty much every single ?good guy? option available. Support the cops, heal wounded civilians and all that stuff. However, when it came down to the final choice, I was actually ready to go ahead and support the Beast, siding with the conduits over the rest of humanity, even though the game designates it as the ?bad guy? choice.
I won?t go into details about why I decided to do that, but, when I tried to go that road, the game wouldn?t let me. Because it turns out that the final so-called evil choice is only available to those who have evil karma, those who have done pretty much nothing BUT bad guy stuff until this point.
This actually irritated me a great deal because that pretty much meant that all the good guy stuff I?d done until that point was all for nothing, because it meant that I would be denied the ending I truly wanted. If I did want it, I?d have to either start the game from scratch and be a full-on bad guy from the start, or delay the missions until I?d been around the city and slaughtered every innocent person in sight to switch my alignment.
That, I felt, was the one mis-step of the entire game, as it made it so that, when it came down to the big final choice, I had no choice whatsoever.
