>>739226417
It was because they assassinated Mercer and the game looked worse than 1 for some reason

Because it ruined the first game
The new MC is fucking boring and he does is go "muh family"
The gameplay is worse because it's easier and braindead. You might as well just mash buttons
And amongst many other things
Nice bait thread tho

>>739226417
Tendrils and bio-bombs were great additions. But besides from that, everything was a complete downgrade

>>739226417
raped Mercer's character for literally no reason and then expected you to hate him and ally with the new guy

>>739226417
They could've replaced Alex with James-but-white and people would still prefer Alex since he's cooler

>>739226417
the unlikable protag was a factor, but them raping mercer's character in an interrim comic book while completely dropping the pariah subplot was probably a bigger factor. the fact that 2 controls worse and has worse combat is probably the biggest factor though.

>>739226417
Murder Your Maker is a good song.

No this game was actually profitable but EA wanted COD and sim numbers from every single game
so the killed the studio and moved the talent to COD

>>739226417
Garbage parkour, terrible characters, killed Mercer for no reason, made it have no real stakes, worse combat. I would sacrifice 2 to get a remake of 1 in modern hardware.

>>739226417
I didn't really hate the new mc that much, but I didn't really like him either.
What i really hated about the game was how it destroyed fucked over the mc from the first game. It was so stupid.

>>739227968
It had a hell of a good sound track all things considered. I don't regret buying it.

>>739226417
>why did it kill the franchise?
It didn't make 18 gorillion dollars on a budget of $0.15 and the gum I scraped off my shoe
>why forever
character assassination of the pretty well received protagonist of the first game for no fucking reason whatsoever destroyed any chance of people giving a fuck in the unlikely case that activision becomes less gay and retarded and decides to have more realistic expectations for non-flagship titles

>>739226417
Black MC is the least of its problems, Heller was a brick but you could at the very least sympathise with him
The real problem is that they dumbed down the combat and turned Mercer's character a complete 180º, in a fucking comic book no less
bad canon cannot legally enter you if you don't want to and that's exactly what i do when thinking of this game
The Tendrils was a cool power, i'll give it that much

>>739226417
Whoever thought it was a good idea to justify Mercer's change in mindset via a shitty comic that 99% of the players didn't even read should be tortured and beheaded.

>>739226417
Activision literally killed the studio because they were only interested in producing titles that sold as many units as guitar hero and cod. No single player action game has ever really done that. No, not even that hugely popular one you're thinking about.

The idea of “Hey, I need to kill the MC from the prequel because, from my perspective, he’s the bad guy” is actually really fucking cool. But I remember the execution feeling a bit weird. People who played it recently could probably explain why, but my playthrough was too long ago for me to say.

>>739226417
No. Unironically Activision being greedy and sabotaging Radical Entertainment for "not getting enough sales".
>fired 100 people from Radical Entertainment after getting the studio from the Vivendi merger and shut down 2 out of 4 mid-development games
>fired 90 people from Radical Entertainment, supposedly around half the studio's employees, after the release of Prototype 1 and may have replaced them before the release of Prototype 2 or they had to make do with half the studio, I forgot
Activision-Blizzard probably wanted more employees to work on their cash cows like Call of Duty.

>>739229978
Because it was all offscreen.

>>739226556
>>739226810
>>739227046
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>>739228706
Mercer's character was fine

>>739226417
Yes, it's the MC's fault.

>>739226417
>games with black characters on the cover sell markedly less than games from the same IP that dont

>>739226417
The new MC didn't wear a hoodie and fully embrace looking like an emo-Kingdom Hearts character with powers to boot

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>>739234107
man Prototype Kingdom Hearts world would be hilarious. They'd pretty much have to put it in the timeskip between games so the writers could at least pretend Mercer's pg13.

>Turns Mercer into a retard
>James, a former marine, acts like a ghetto boy with attitude
>Turns Blackwatch into saturday morning cartoon villains

>make 2 games
>WHAT ABOUT THE """FRANCHISE"""
why are amerisharts like this

>>739226417
Nah, people didn't care about race stuff before forced diversity from wokies

>>739232273
tell me why did he become evil then? go on

>>739234535
a woman betrayed him

>>739226417
It was a worse game in almost every regard.
They cut depth while adding only a few new features to make up for it.
The game looked worse, textures and models were slightly more detailed, but the art direction and intentionality of design suffered.
The open world was less interesting.
And the story completely negated anything you might have cared about in the last game. All those threads go away without being addressed satisfactorily.

I still don't quite understand what they were thinking. Heller isn't an irredeemably bad character, but he never shows much development or depth.

>>739226417
the only thing i liked about the second game was returning to the city from the first and seeing it all fucked up with some people surviving on rooftops and shit.

other than that 1 mogs it in every aspect.

>>739226417
Heller was forgettable. A stereotypical angry black guy.
What really killed the franchise was making Alex Mercer evil out of the blue for the most retarded reason.

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>>739234107
Where my prototype 3?

>>739234424
After taking futa Greene's power, Alex want that black cunny

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>>739228401
Who read the comic by DC?

>>739235883
Me. And I'm to this day beyond mad.
>>739235639
Had once an idea for a Prototype 3. Only that it didn't have a 3 and it was more of a reboot/retcon that acknowledges the 1st game but ignores the 2nd one ever happening. And it happened in Japan and you could swap between Alex and the new protag who is a medical student girl whom Alex saves by infecting her with a piece of himself in the same way he did with Heller.

>>739234586
yeah, after seeing all the horrors that humanity could come up with in the first game, what really made him decide to eliminate humanity was one whore shooting him once(with a normal gun) and running away with his money(that he doesn't need), all on a comic no one even read

>>739226417
Prototype 1 worked, because it was edgy as fuck, the sequel with a black Christian dad who kills edgyboy doesn't work

>>739236045
Would her name be Lucy from Elfen Lied?

>>739236140
>good black man must kill evil white boy
Little on the nose, dontcha think?

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>>739226417
Unironicly it was because of him, not just he being black of course, his character is shallow, uninsteresting and his whole personality is "black vin diesel", muh family.
There was other stuff like killing the fan favorite Mercer whole personality, gameplay being worse and easier somehow, but i'm 100% sure that people would look passed the gameplay being worse if it wasn't for the shit protag and retroactively ruining the first game.

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>>739226417
Mercer got character assassinated (literally). But at least he said this sick line before he died
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOB4PXASxI4

>>739235639
[Prototype 3]

The Prologue: The "biohazard failure" - Rather than returning to a crime scene, Heller himself embodies the crime scene.

The Incident: During a botched Blackwatch extraction or a containment breach where Heller tried to use his powers to save his family, the sheer kinetic output or viral "spike" was too much. The daughters was caught in the crossfire.

The Coma: a female patient gets caught in a biomass blast. For three days, her body goes through a violent, forced evolution while she's in a deep, feverish coma.

The Awakening: She doesn't just wake up; she erupts. The virus, sensing her near-death state, overwrites her Elizabeth Greene-infuse DNA, turning her into the most refined Prototype.

In this timeline, Heller’s return isn't just a homecoming to a tragedy, it’s the catalyst for one. Whether through a botched tactical strike he called in while still with Blackwatch, or an early, accidental exposure to a strain of the virus that he carried home, the "Heller Incident" becomes the spark for the Third Outbreak.

The woman is trapped in a vegetative, biomass-induced coma, and death of his daughters Maya becomes the weight that breaks Heller's mind, potentially making him an even more unstable antagonist (or anti-villain) than Mercer ever was. In the wake of Heller’s failure, the strange woman emerges as the true protagonist, sporting a look that blends "Red Zone" survivalism with a sharp, alternative edge.

The protagonist is named Dana Mercer, who now the third prototype. She has a hairstyle similar to Stella Maynard from the Wii U game Devil's Third, an emo fashion sense, a bodybuilder physique, and a tomboyish style, complete with a hood. Dana didn't know she was carrying Pariah within her.

Dana’s primary tool for navigating the Red Zone is her Arm-Blade, but with a distinct "Prototype 3" evolution. Rather than a heavy, broad cleaver, her blade is a sickle-like obsidian shard.

>>739234903
hahahaha i knew this would be posted

>>739226417
in retrospect it was one of the very first DEI slop games that replace the original likable protagonist with a diversity hire and then shit up everything out of spite
the fact this is a franchise about being at the ground zero of a supervirus is indeed very funni with this foresight

>>739237996
yes
>lets have our protagonist killed off by generic angry black guy
I mean that's bad enough but the game also plays like utter shit compared to the first

if you make a game
and the sequel changes
>main character
>gameplay
>style
your sequel deserves to die and your company deserves to go bankrupt

>>739226417
for me its the parkour and combat that encourages you to stay mobile. i love bullet diving the bases and infected shitters after pulling off a sick parkour run. traversal and combat in the sequel feels static and soulless. and yeah you also cannot destroy bases in 2.

>>739236048
That woman resemble Elizabeth Greene.

>>739227968
Can't deny that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDBHbewH22A