Y'all Remember Prototype? That Game Was Pretty Cool

This is a bit of a messy one but I wanted to talk about a game that was the coolest thing I'd ever experienced back in 2009. I mostly used the Prototype OST for the BGM but then I wasn't liking the sound halfway through so I switched to ol reliable.
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[@Look-out115]

"You're essentially playing as the thing if he locked in" Preach

[@somsambob490]

Yeah if the thing lock in, the whole crew would've died instantly

[@happy5642642]

They set up a cliffhanger with "Pariah", and the second game completely ignored that.

[@Aindpeace]

That dude was capable of stopping both Alex Mercer and Elizabeth Green. Sadly Activision decided to off Mercer and gave us a new Protagonist for no reason at all. Edit: Yeah I'm an idiot. I was an Elementary Schooler back then when i played this game, going full Hulk without even knowing more about Pariah. I found this info in the wiki years ago and there's this guy named Raymond McMullen and he stated that Pariah is indeed capable of stopping Mercer but wasn't mentioned the same for his mother Elizabeth, and he did say that it would be bad if he and Mercer went face to face, as Pariah is the perfect release of the blacklight virus where as Mercer the artificial release of the virus.

[@xxprototypexx5056]

They actually reference him in P2 so he wasn't reconnected.

[@betuna9487]

​@@xxprototypexx5056really at what moment?

[@therobustempyrean1436]

​@@Aindpeace I don't think he could stop Mercer, I recall the military saying that Pariah, and Mercer meeting would be bad for everyone. In fact, if I remember correctly, Mercer had the ability to transform his body instantly as long as he had the DNA for it, whereas Pariah was the opposite, where he could manifest any mutation, but it took time to actually form. The insinuation being that if Mercer consumed Pariah, or vice versa, you'd have a creature that can instantly manifest any mutation the second it wants to, or thinks of doing so. Add that to Mercer's ability to adapt, mimic, and hide, and you have the ultimate apex predator.

[@Aindpeace]

@@therobustempyrean1436 Really?! Honestly the only thing i know about Pariah was that he was the child of Elizabeth and that most his abilities are unknown i haven't played Prototype for years so maybe the info that i have about him is just the tip of the iceberg

[@bobbywalker224]

I swear activision needs to give the Prototype IP to a studio who cares about games beyond useless cosmetics and emoting

[@odg1190]

If they want 7 quadrillion dollars so bad they need to give the foundation to a company to make a venom game

[@thenegromancer4695]

Insomniac would cook so hard on prototype

[@bobbywalker224]

@@thenegromancer4695 facts I also feel like Santa Monica + Prototype = some heat

[@sitosamin]

Cry bout it man, Activision is fuck up gaming company. Trust devolver digital, they're the supportive gaming industry nowadays

[@artherman9768]

@@thenegromancer4695after how bad spiderman 2 was, I don't want insomniac near anything

[@AltKaxREAL]

*Never forget what they took from us.* this game will NOT be forgotten, stay strong brothers

[@ZeBernaudaus]

Don't worry sooner or later we will ask our AI lords to make the prototype 3 game

[@jean-pierrepolnareff9987]

Bro if space marine made a comeback im believing...

[@austinarmstrong4108]

Prototype is such an underrated game it needs to come back and Alex mercer has so much potential as a character

[@xxprototypexx5056]

@@austinarmstrong4108 he still has potential, he's still alive in his current iteration.

[@jaroff-w3i]

Had*

[@xxprototypexx5056]

@@jaroff-w3i no, has. The devs confirmed he's still alive

[@jaroff-w3i]

@@xxprototypexx5056 how??

[@xxprototypexx5056]

@@jaroff-w3i because he's the virus itself. Alex has been all across the world and p1 confirmed Alex spreads the virus everywhere he goes. So long as blacklight exists, he too shall always exist. So long as there's even a molecule of blacklight in the world, Alex can always comeback and resurrect himself.

[@Moe_Lester_fromUptwn]

Jacket over hoodie is timeless indeed.

[@freshboy3968]

Like a mix of Iori Yagami & Rock Howard, plus the hoodie

[@CrimsonSkyLine]

"Roleplaying as a normal soldier in the infected zones" damn that brought back some memories lol.

[@Jackfromshack]

Was I not the only one doing this? Hehe 😁

[@motivateddad]

Manifesting Prototype 3 in two weeks, man. Edit: 4 more days

[@Doom2Draw]

now what?

[@Mewsashi-cz9fo]

manifesting is new age satanism mantra

[@avengedlol6698]

​@@Doom2DrawNow you wait until I find the game on the side of the road.

[@gaso3035]

What

[@2diefor]

Its in the pre alpha stage

[@warmcheese4622]

Ever since I played prototype a long time ago, ive been trying to find a similar game, seeing this in my recommendation kinda hit me like a train with nostalgia

[@AriasMalarias]

I think that the closest and latest thing would be infamous

[@Jack_The_Ripper-lb]

@@AriasMalarias Yeah, Spiderman Web of Shadows kind of gave me Prototype vibes too, but not as much as Infamous

[@zzodysseuszz]

Hulk game from ps2. Infamous. Prototype 2 (which was objectively better than the first game)

[@randeli7785]

Hulk Ultimate Destruction. It was made by the same devs.

[@randeli7785]

​@@zzodysseuszzthe sequel is not objectively better. You can say both games did stuff better & worse than the other.

[@dodolord6298]

"Remember Prototype?" My Brother in Blacklight I cannot forget about Prototype even if I wanted to, Mercer was and still is my favorite character of all time. The fact Activision killed this franchise when it had so much potential should be considered a crime against humanity.

[@michaelrizzo7342]

Alex/Zeus was a great main character, who the Fuck wrote that comic.

[@godzillazfriction]

me... also, i can tell you've been indoctrinated & polarized against the comic.

[@michaelrizzo7342]

@@godzillazfriction It doesn't take indoctrination to dislike trash, also it doesn't take talent to turn a moraly complex protaganist into a bland "There is too much evil in the world, I should kill everyone I can so that whoever is left will deserve the world." villain.

[@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051]

@@godzillazfriction The comic is trash objectively.

[@xxprototypexx5056]

​@@michaelrizzo7342your misunderstanding Alex character, the comics aren't trash.

[@personalemail9329]

​@@xxprototypexx5056i think you are confused between Alex as the scientist and Alex the virus fused with. Two different person. He acknowledges it in the end of the first game he's not the same.

[@ulquiorraschiffer1956]

"Nowadays Alex profile picture is an endangered species and Alex cosplayers are critically endangered" LMAO 😂😂😂

[@ColeisGoat]

Prototype Ruined By Activision Greed

[@UmiZoomR]

If it really was ruines by greed we would've seen more about prototype

[@BiggityBoggity8095]

@@UmiZoomRif it was ruined by greed it would’ve had a million sequels churned out every year until it became an open world rpg like assassins creed

[@UmiZoomR]

@@BiggityBoggity8095 Yeah but being deep on the internet is also fun

[@Caboose1899]

Never let Activision cook.

[@ColeisGoat]

@@Caboose1899 True

[@HeldIntegral]

My sister who used to watch me play this still sometimes asks about it 15 years later

[@GyaruRespecter]

I'd be fine with Alex being a villain in 2 if it tied in to his character as a bio-virus that inherited a human's role and memory. Maybe he could have decided that humans are too weak to survive on their own, and converting them all into viruses like him is the best way to 'help' them. As it was executed, though, it's just not possible to connect his personality in 1 with the mustache twirler in 2.

[@Jesse-vt2xl]

Yeah but that’s the problem it wasn’t just not like him it was everything he was against in the first one. For all intensive purposes he was a different person with no real explanation that could work as to why because the first game already covered why that wouldn’t work, so I just chose to treat him like a different person when I played

[@gamerguy6990]

Why not just do what Batman: The animated Series pulled in the episode Growing Pains. Spoilers for the episode, Annie the little girl Robin grows affectionate towards is actually a piece of Clayface that formed sentience. During the nuclear explosion where Alex Mercer is turned into mush, the Alex we see consume a raven is the Alex we know and play as in the first game. Offscreen another piece of him managed to grow as well and is the evil one we fight in the sequel.

[@shadowdragonx07]

wtfh chu talkying about....my gess ish chu nvr read the comics bc its fwom the comics tat turnd alex intu the villan he was in pt2...cuz in the comics its tells the story leading up ta pt2 and in the comics alex twys tu find his pwace bck intu humanity..but he ends up seeing the dark half of humanity and it ends up disgusing him ta were he instead twys tu take over the world and change ppl intu pts as he was b4 he got killd by heller in pt2.....

[@shadowdragonx07]

oh alsu..note tu point out...tat both alexs & hellers cloths ARNT act cloths...tere the virus possing as clothing 😅

[@xxprototypexx5056]

​@@Jesse-vt2xlyour greatly misunderstanding Alex's character. Alex wasn't against spreading the virus in P1. Hell in P1 he was the one who released the virus in the first place. Alex even before he became a prototype was a sociopath that didn't care whether or not all life on earth ended. The vector spread graphs in the web of intrigue showed that had blackwatch not quarantined new York when they did, blacklight would have destroyed the world in just 2 weeks.

[@mrpickle-pe2in]

Alex mercer was a bad guy before we start to play him and I like how we find out what kind of person he is as through story progression

[@Infinite_Mortis]

I own this jacket from soul revolver, I bought it about 15 years ago and I still wear it to this day and it’s still hard as fuck

[@Citygoblin]

Same, I bought mine right when I got out of high school! The quality is outstanding.

[@javierpupo8042]

My headcannon for why Alex in game couldn't take Doctor Mercer's memories is because when it was released, Dr. Mercer was mostly dead already, so any kind of genetic material that the game wants to justify where memories are stored in the body would have been mostly decomposed. In game, we never consume already dead corpses, only people who are actively still alive or very freshly dead. Dr. Mercer was presumably killed sometime before the virus was able to completely consume him, even if just shortly. This would also explain somewhat why James Heller, P2 Protagonist, doesn't have this problem since his transformation is immediate. It's also somewhat theorized that Heller has "annoyingly resistant DNA" because his DNA is more compatible with the virus, meaning it works in tandem with it rather than completely replacing the original human which is what happened to Mercer.

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

I feel like Heller's DNA actually goes against the virus, mostly because of how the first level of tendrils looks like disfigured human arms and not a mess of black and red biomass

[@xxprototypexx5056]

@@javierpupo8042 I see that more that he gave up on trying to figure out who mercer was when he realized he wasn't even mercer, but the blacklight virus As for not consuming corpses, that's just a gameplay mechanic. Not indicative of what mercer is limited too. McMullen is more or less a big plot hole since there's evidence in p2 that he can take memories and even powers just via touch and not consumption. Either that, or simply mercer didn't realize he wasn't limited to living ppl at the time of McMullen.

[@javierpupo8042]

@@xxprototypexx5056 fair enough but I thought it was worth a mention, the corpse thing I mean

[@CoNnOr5899]

​@@xxprototypexx5056nah, him infecting people in an instant is just shit that p2 came up with, it had different writers so its all over the place and inconsistent

[@CoNnOr5899]

​@@xxprototypexx5056nah, p2 had different writers and thats why his powers are so inconsistent

[@vitorvena]

One day, i will buy the rights to this franchise and ill buid a proper legacy for it, this game deserved better!

[@anthonyf616]

Well, Microsoft owns the rights now....... Good luck

[@ArtificialDjDAGX]

@@anthonyf616 considering that Microsoft broke the terms of contract that gave them permission to buy up ActivisionBlizzard, they're hopefully not gonna own the IP for long. Besides, they're a mega corporation, they'd sell you anything for the right price.

[@DanielBrown0306]

ACTIVISION! GIVE ME A 3RD PROTOTYPE GAME AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!

[@jasonkoroma4323]

You must truly not value your life at all...

[@Jackfromshack]

Acti/Blizz could not make it even if they tried. Talented people are nowhere near

[@ZenithLOLLOL]

@@jasonkoroma4323 It's a reference to God of War

[@xxprototypexx5056]

@@jasonkoroma4323 R/Wooooosh

[@alexpricefield6969]

Prototype, Darksiders, Saintsrow were my childhood

[@hahafunnyman-on5rq]

The way i would fix prototype 1 and 2 story is i would make alex mercer do a majin boo and split into two people. One is all of the negative emotions and memories (along with the original Alexanders personality) and the other is the sentient blacklight virus that has its own memories and good will towards humanity. You can make it to where the first one has all of the powers except the ability to take dna. The second one can be powerless but still has the ability to take dna. You can either play as the second one and try to kill your other half before he does something bad or use the second one to assist heller and guide him. That way the alex mercer from the first game isnt ruined by the second game.

[@Glitchedpixel5]

Bro you're cooking fr 🔥🔥

[@eijitoh6252]

Somebody give this guy a time machine

[@hahafunnyman-on5rq]

@@Glitchedpixel5 I have a lot more ideas too. The first alex (the one who CANT absorb dna, gonna call him Alexander) has an exception to his weakness. He can take the abilities of other evolved. That way his motivation for creating a bunch of evolved is established. The evolved get stronger and get new abilities and Alex takes them when he needs to. Another idea for the plot is making Heller a canidate for project Orion. You can write it so that he has specific dna that is ideal for the project and he gets assigned to what ever gentech/blackwatch lab to be converted. This dna is why Alexander is interested in him, as he is curious to the interaction between blacklight and this dna. He also might want to evolve heller so he can take his dna for himself. This can explain why a lot of the evoled call him 'brutish' and 'muscle bound' cuz hes literally half super soldier half evolved. You can give heller an even stronger muscle mass power that effects the way his whole body looks, sorta like armor from p1. You can make it so that he cant run as fast but is super strong. Heller hating Alexander for the death of his family is good so i wouldnt change that, but i would make it to where he doesnt actually join alexander until a few missions in, instead of immediately like it normally is. I would make it so that he fights off Alexander after becoming evolved and runs away. He can discover something about blackwatch or gentech a few missions later that causes him to join alexander. I would make heller choosing to go against alexander the same but I would make it so that when alexander tries to consume him, it fails and heller gets super weakened and goes half unconscious. Alexander also gets weakened and flees. While heller is half unconscious, he will be saved by the other alex, introducing his character. I would completely scrap the whole hellers daughter being necessary for alexanders plan thing. In fact, i would make it so that she is actually dead like she is supposed to be. Alexanders motivation can be a hatred of humanity, but it just needs to be explained and explored better in the story. I like the contrast between alexander and alex, with alexander lacking humanity despite the fact that hes the original human that got infected, while alex (which is a sentient virus) is not human but has more humanity than most of the other charcters.

[@omiorahman6283]

Alex Mercer should return as the protagonist in prototype 3 . He can return from anything if a single dna remains like Deadpool or Wolverine

[@Chopper51138]

He was consumed by Heller so there is nothing left of him. They should just reboot the IP.

[@xypherath]

@@Chopper51138 I disagree personally, they should do something with pariah instead

[@ray-tx8yx]

@@Chopper51138 Rebooting the IP nowadays means making the protagonist black and gay. And there will be no gore and blood. I'd rather play the old games again.

[@DreamOnDamu]

@@ray-tx8yxprotgaonist of 2 was already black. Calm down with the red pill shit bro

[@ray-tx8yx]

@@DreamOnDamu Never had a problem with black characters. Changing people's gender or even focusing on it bothers me. And you know what I'm talking about. So stop arguing unnecessarily.

[@512TheWolf512]

the absolute BEST game for a teenager, even today, million percent

[@gaso3035]

As a teenager i agree

[@saint037]

how tf the algorithm knew I was replaying this???

[@killerfoxylp78]

Bro prototype was one of my favorite games i've played on my ps3, man i miss it

[@Chopper51138]

Alex was a much better protagonist imo but James’s angry ass was hilarious. That one clip you showed of him with the keyboard had me dying every time I played through.

[@thatboyakira4202]

If i REMEMBER prototype? That is my most favorite game ever. I read fanfiction about it, played an rpg with my friends about it, finished the game 8 times, only once on hard though. I even an considering writing fanfic about it and actually use the cliffhangers the story used for one.

[@whocares8662]

your good at making videos bro like fr don’t stop dude, these videos fire

[@redtsun67]

I will never forget this game. The amount of variety in things you could do, and the feeling of playing as this extremely powerful shapeshifting parasite character blew me away. No other game even comes close to that feeling.

[@ThatGuyYama]

I started with Prototype 2 when it came out and picked up the first game recently. WE NEED ANOTHER GAME! That goes for Infamous and The Darkness games as well.

[@lightborn9071]

Only when Infamous doesn't tie to second son and only when Darkness leaves that modernized Witchblade bullcrap out.

[@ThatGuyYama]

@@lightborn9071 I completely agree with leaving out second son even though I started with that one. Now that I'm caught up with the lore I also want a game that's more in line with the ending of Infamous 2.

[@JakenTheGreat]

@@ThatGuyYama I think Infamous just needs a hard reboot at this point. The ending of the second game put Sucker Punch in a corner and Second Son trying to ride a canon ending essentially made Cole's sacrifice meaningless.

[@ThatGuyYama]

@@JakenTheGreat Yeah, a remake would probably be the best thing to do because I also didn't like how conduits just came back for the sake of the plot. The Cole's Legacy DLC tried to lazily hand wave all of Second Son's plot holes away and just made me wish the game was never made to begin with despite its amazing gameplay.

[@MemeLordCrusader]

You have great taste in video games

[@eloverlord96]

"He was the good guy or the closest thing to one" I laughed while I remembered how many civilians got sliced or consumed by Alex in my playthrough 🤣🤣

[@SomeNobodyOnline]

Hey if I gotta drive a tank through the Upper West side it’s up to the civilians to move over

[@godzillazfriction]

​@@SomeNobodyOnlineit's funny how someone can state the superficial prescribed, abstraction known as 'Objectivism' & hold that to a pedestal of validating ones outlook as the absolute truth, in a Homunculus manner to what P2 does so much in its combat system, & movement that it excels at over P1 in essence. (P.S. you can't determine what's 'Good nor Evil' in its absolute form of truth...)

[@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051]

@@godzillazfriction "I'm very smart" - ahhh comment.

[@AszBlaster1802]

The best way to describe Alex is as a anti-villain

[@Frenchy_47]

@@godzillazfriction Mannn shut up

[@youngkhronic2243]

Prototype is my comfort food. I remember it came out literally a month before my birthday in 09. And for my birthday I got prototype, plus one of those “gaming” chairs that you plugged your audio cables into and it surrounded your body in sound. It was insane. I still have the “remastered” prototype downloaded to my Xbox series x. I play it about once a month just to fuck around

[@JujangoBango]

this guys channel is an example of if you make good videos, the alg will pick them up. Subscribed

[@sir_rick_dickpump]

Real

[@odg1190]

Last night was telling my friends about Prototype being a hulk game revamped and boom this video pops up in my feed. The power you have is undeniable

[@saikyue4462]

Prototype powers are EXACTLY the kind of Power trip im having when i think of awakening powers one day xD

[@ahnafchowdhury-yd2xw]

I hope Alex mercer returns

[@hunn20004]

I hope he stays dead but kinda sorta exists as a taunting voice in James's head

[@xxprototypexx5056]

@@hunn20004 he's not dead, the devs confirmed it a long while ago. Alex is blacklight itself, so long as Blacklight exists, he will always exist. P1 already confirmed Alex spreads Blacklight everywhere he goes, and in the comics he's traveled across the whole world. Meaning blacklight is seeped into every part of the world.

[@SolidSnake240]

I'm asking a genuine question but what is that Prototype fans love so much about Alex Mercer? He's a pretty bland character with not much of a personality (given that he's a literal virus, it kinda makes sense but still). He's cool but not all that memorable imo

[@jackbishop8610]

@@SolidSnake240 Define memorable. He's kind of like that cutscene artstyle from Prototype 2. You're looking for color, but he's just black and white. But black and white doesn't mean bland, we've all seen enough well made sketches. He's not really defined by any "quirks" like, I dunno a One Piece character, with habits like having no sense of direction, or being immature. He's defined by three main aspects that break down into smaller explanations, his identity, his relatability, and his edginess that kind of all interact. His relatability comes from what we start out with, him finding out he can absorb people on accident, and his looking for answers. His reactions to the story and the people around him that he cares about kind of cut into that too, which also grinds against his identity which we find out is that of a sociopathic paranoid. Which explains his thoughtlessness about the people he kills along the way. This usually defines his judgement, his care conflicting with his uncaring need for results. And they both of course interact with the edgy effortless "coolness" that he exhibits with his abilities and such, but that's mostly defined during gameplay with the utilization of his abilities and the way his default attire is styled. He's not exactly the best written character ever by all means, but calling him bland or implying he has no personality does seem to just be working off of a stereotype. But maybe I'm just tired and angry after hearing "early 2000's generic white male protagonist" over and over by people who've not played the games they're trying to make poor commentary on, and I'm just taking it out on you.

[@anthonyf616]

​@@SolidSnake240Iove the twist that the virus is a better "person" than the real Mercer and black watch as a whole

[@naenre21]

I forgot about the opening but he's a tragic hero...borderline bad guy. But someone you empathize with.

[@naolidecomisso4108]

Peak as hell video brother. Also another thing to talk about alex symbol is that its really good to conect his idea to that of a "super hero" is that well heros normaly wear symbils, so having alex having his iwn distinctiv logo helps make him as you sayid more distinct and memoravle

[@GameOfDAYI]

I still have hope for prototype series about comeback . When Microsoft annonced to completion of buying activision . There is one second of this trailer they showing us Alex Mercer. They still Remmember this IP ,

[@kaiseropium]

alex's villain role in p2 could have been swapped with pariah greene's son implied in p1, the "infect the world" mindset would fit cause its similar to greene, nothing would have changed much and alex could have returned as a protagonist in p2, maybe have heller as a side character like nero or raiden are to dante and snake from dmc and mg respectively

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

Prototype 2 remake, where Pariah is the villain, Heller is an unwilling test subject for a new version of Blacklight and Mercer is a vigilante and you can play in co-op

[@powerneed1023]

you could have had greene's son somehow infect alex thats why you have to start over then have greene's son appear as a personification of the cells fighting alex throughout the game as some figment of alexs imagination

[@xxprototypexx5056]

@@powerneed1023 pariah can't infect anyone with anything. One of the things that makes Pariah special is that he has mercers and Greene's powers, but they aren't virus based. When tested by fort Detric, pariah tested negative of ALL viral agents. Meaning he unlike mercer, isn't a virus nor does he harbor any viruses. He's something else entirely.

[@xxprototypexx5056]

@@powerneed1023 think of mercer and pariah as this. Mercer can access mutations instantly so long as he had the DNA for it, Pariah had access to every mutation imaginable, but it took time to access. The implication being if mercer were to consume pariah, or vice versa, you would have a being that not only had access to every mutation ever imaginable, but could access it instantly. Making the winner of the fight the ultimate apex predator. You literally need reality warpers and omnipotent beings to challenge either at that point.

[@oliwardcomics]

appreciating edginess 'ironically' is for cowards who are afraid to admit that they think this admittedly cringe stuff is also actually cool af

[@bphater31]

I'm playing prototype 2 now. Just to destroy everything in the city for just fun. The prototype game is good for get rid of stress

[@Moe_Lester_fromUptwn]

Fr. It was that or redfaction guerilla.

[@Vera11]

I remember how much prototype did help me to "get in that world" when I was 10-13yrs old and dealt with bullying

[@Rodoet001]

I'll admit, at first I thought the whole "no hoodie up" sounded stupid, but actually seeing him there from behind (the angle you will see him the most from) I get it and I agree. He not only looks weirdly bulky, he looks messy. The hoodie is just this big lump and the high collar makes him look like he has his shoulders pulled up to his ears from non-stop stress. Which sucks because there are so many elements with potential cool factor that ends up clashing with each other.

[@maxpats]

7 august 2024. If you are right I recommend opening a shop with tarot cards as a fortune teller and making money from that, then pay me 50% for the idea.

[@GigalassII]

😂 nobody gets 50%, you might see 2% Gross if he took you seriously

[@hinobye14]

Why did you write your date like that I was taught to write it August 7 2024

[@maxpats]

@@hinobye14 Well where I am from... its written DD/MM/YYYY. I've seen few countries use MM/DD/YYYY as well tho.

[@KryXOXO]

@@hinobye14aussies use DD/MM/YY

[@maxpats]

Well the day is here. By some miracle I hope it gets announced by tonight (I'm deluded)

[@Storm_Bringer_666]

Prototype fanboy here

[@AltKaxREAL]

we have been summoned

[@mindset9102]

I hadn’t known you were responsible for the dead rising thing. I just wanted to thank you for your service. God speed soldier, god speed.

[@hadiferlan3760]

The devs destroyed Alex's progress of his humanity just to make a sequel. That's kinda braindead move.

[@domidoodoo]

Gotta thank my cousins for introducing me to the amazing games And the fact that Alex Mercer from P2 being the same VA of Kiryu Kazuma is awesome

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

TEN YEARS IN THE COMIC MADE YOU A FUCKIN' PUSSY! But nah, imagine if someone modded Heller to have Nishiki's lines and Alex to have Kiryu's

[@Jack_The_Ripper-lb]

@@NiCoNiCoNiCola There's something close enough for Yakuza 0, someone made a Prototype mod a while back called Prototype 0

[@omiorahman6283]

Alex Mercer in prototype 2 never offed anyone . Those were rubber claws. Maybe Alex Mercer in 2 was a rubber all along

[@freshboy3968]

​@@Jack_The_Ripper-lb Poggers

[@donovanfaust3227]

Two more days till Prototype 3 is announced lol

[@TripeDemo]

Thank you for bringing back the prototype series, very cool. Can you please make a video about my will to live next time? Cheers

[@nikolatasev4948]

Alex Mercer was phenomenal. The attitude, the powers, the idea behind it all... majestic. "They keep coming, I keep killing" "They call me a monster, a killer, a terrorist... I'm all of these things. I'm gonna find out who did this to me, and I'm gonna make them pay". The second game should have been about Pariah. The first game set him up so well... a tragic missed opportunity.

[@mayteexxis]

The plotline suggestion of prototype 3 is the best way i think a possible sequel to this game can go.

[@wingsting9792]

>completed prototype multiple times as a teenager >Didn't know or forgot all that info about Alex in the spoiler section >legit learned stuff

[@steveweast475]

Amazing summary of the plot, I like the way you tell the story in a way that puts things into context, and gives an imaginative take for the audience.

[@TheDAWinz]

I blame Activision for not bringing back the original devs and writing team for P2 and messing up the story.

[@jaredrobinson7071]

This video needed to get made. We need Prototype. Fingers crossed your powers don't fail now.

[@JaCKal_646f67]

i miss this edgy game and so does Infamous

[@LeonScottKennedy7]

I still love Alex's outfit, ever since then

[@Shinesart]

Alex look really cool and I was kinda disappointed when Prototype 2 mc doesn't has hoodie.

[@localdude2979]

Prototype and inFamous are the greatest rivalries I've ever heard of and experienced, Im not interested in most media as I find it generic, standardized and boring, fk god of war and the slow traversal, team infamous and prototype.

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

God of War usef to be a fast paced badass game, not a walking simulator

[@hito-sama]

Playing as a hero? Nah, playing as a villain... Noice... That's why prototype is cool for me

[@muhammaddanielhakiminazaru3217]

Alex is an anti-hero

[@falco5148]

Thanks for this nostalgic video, I think I'll go pirate this old gem again to replay it

[@YoutubeCommentor1]

I remember keeping up with the development for the first game as far back as when it was announced in a magazine. Still bummed out they were never able to implement the coop for it because I could imagine the fun this sort of game would have with a buddy. I also remember a friend of mine drawing fan art of Alex's original design with the vest instead of his jacket and it showing up in gameinformer. good times, would love both games getting a modern cleanup with some upscaling and fixes

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

I still love the idea that Alex's vest design was abandoned because he, accidentally, looked like Altair of Assassin's Creed

[@motivateddad]

We try to forget Prototype 2's story exist like DmC's story exist.

[@charlieflight6124]

Nah not really... Prototype 2 is still better. At least there was SOME explanation for it being garbage... DmC just doesn't. It's just garbage for garbage's sake.

[@cotocoyerakson8195]

I'm pretty sure that Alex was being controlled by Greene at the events of P2 and he was so desperate to be stopped that he let James win at the end. He wasn't even trying, I was him! I know what he is capable to do and a 4 years boosted Alex Mercer who just devoured what? Eight equivalent to himself from the first game? He should be able to at least pound my head so hard in the ground that the whole NY city would look like just got nuked. He should be able to completely destroy James Heller. So in my head canon he let James win and took the L as the sociopath chad he is, showing his middle finger to Greene and dying as Mercer.

[@xxprototypexx5056]

​@@cotocoyerakson8195he wasn't, he acted of his own accord. The comics confirm it.

[@xxprototypexx5056]

​He didn't try because he knew even if Heller consumed him he would survive. Alex is blacklight itself, so long as Blacklight exists, HE will always exist.

[@SolidSnake240]

​@@cotocoyerakson8195Your head cannon doesn't really matter cuz there's a comic that covers the events between the first 2 games. Heller had the same exact powers as Alex and had actual combat experience, years in fact so him being a better fighter than Alex and being to overpower him isn't far fetched. Mercer was a scientist with no combat experience prior to becoming the blacklight virus, he just fought on instinct and the superhuman strength it granted him.

[@Delulu1886]

Came For The thumbnail stayed for the Edge🗣

[@Flesh_Wizard]

I'm Edging 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@Tofuaho]

I genuinely think this is my new favourite channel now, good job!

[@thedevilsleutice]

If Marvel cared they’d relicence some remasters to Activision and radical to not only update the Incredible Hulk, but add some enhancemants for Prototype 3 and an Ultimate destruction sequel. Not like they’re doing anything with these ideas or IPs.

[@thedxbrotherXIII]

Looks like I know what game I'm gonna revisit after Frontlines Fuel of War which both were my favorite games growing up during that time. Thanks for the nostalgia that hit like a freight train and happy to know that I was not the only young teen who would RP as a soldier going into red zones to clear out the infected. Btw also love how Prototype was pretty much like a Hulk,Venom and Wolverine,The Thing rolled up in one game.

[@randomfeg4141]

I loved Protype one as a kid spent a bunch of hours just running around the city doing random shit.

[@tagmatarkhis-3330]

do it with Overlord and The Darkness smh

[@YoutubeCommentor1]

Overlord my beloved. Still mad they ruined that series with the crappy multiplayer game.

[@TBaroon]

Haha so true everyone wanted that jacket hoodie combo as a kid

[@akirachisaka9997]

I wonder if Prototype 2 would be a better game if the protagonist Heller just doubles down into madness. Like, have Alex be the evil saint martyr, with attitude like “humanity needs hardship to evolve”. Meanwhile, have Heller just be purely focused on revenge, the “I’m going to kill chaos” attitude. If the whole humanity needs to be damned to kill Alex, so be it.

[@anthonyernst999]

When I was a kid, I wanted to play prototype so badly. I saw that you could shapeshift into anyone and asked my mom to take me to the store to buy it. Problem was, I didn't know what it was called, so I just picked the game I thought looked like it. It was Metal Gear Solid and like the lowest rated one. I've still never played prototype...

[@vesuvios9006]

Dude if you get prototype back ill vote for you this election 😂

[@DuyNguyen-bk1zv]

So you're saying Mercer is literally me

[@webhands7354]

i think of this daily this is my fav game we need prototype 3 its too badass

[@StolenTheif]

I know that prototype 2 wasn't a great story (or even really a good one) but holy shit I had so much fun in that game, it was the first sandbox-type game I ever played

[@DiabolicCrusher]

>reviving franchise Some years back, yeah, i would've wished for the same. Now? Please don't revive Prototype. I don't want one of my favorite game series ever to be revived to be tainted by modern day bullshit. As for him sounding "lost" in P1, he is, don't forget that it's not even really Alex, it's essentially a living virus with Alex's memories, essentially just using Alex's appearance by default.

[@TheSarcasmOfficer]

Imagine the beginning on prototype 3 they put you into the heller vs mercer battle (as mercer) and when heller consumes you a black screen fades then suddenly in a distance we see Alex mercer says “Pathetic” and go away from that scene and in over all game we get to see both characters story and play as them as well or may even introduce 3 protagonist. As for the ending let’s just say the fight again Alex try na kill heller and vice versa then all of a sudden a blackwatch specie of some sort interfere between their fight and they gets united to defeat the specie and it’s whole army and for the cliff hanger just show a scene heller daughter’s corpse getting researched by the blackwatch (because of the DNA ofc). Idk if somebody will be patient enough to read this whole monstrosity but I’m tryna make a point that there’s a lot that can be done in this franchise

[@cloudftw113]

It will never not amuse (and kind of amaze) me that the virus basically wearing Alex's skin was a significantly better person than the orginak Alex (at least until they did what they did in the sequel smh)

[@godzillazfriction]

I'd use 'better person' very loosely on both ends regarding 'better' & 'person'... & both intertwined in context.

[@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051]

@@godzillazfriction You are a defender of the second game's atrocious story, your opinion is worthless.

[@randeli7785]

​@@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051they didn't defend P2, just argued that Alex as the virus, while not as sinister as his human form, could hardly be considered a better person. You still eat & mass slaughter thousands, both military & civilians, throughout P1.

[@xxprototypexx5056]

​P2's story wasn't bad, it was just executed poorly.

[@godzillazfriction]

@@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051 how does that even equate my comment into what you spewed oit of your fingers.

[@Starcar-zl9vb]

This is a pretty fire video man I like it.

[@blvckkaviar9658]

Any youtube channel talking about prototype even once, gets a sub ❤

[@demonkey6997]

A story I would like to see for the third one is because mercer is what he is , he's still present in Heler's psyche and there's this constant conflict in Heller to the point where he even uses Mercer's form sometimes.

[@soldaatjhu]

11:31 I've never realised this game is voiced by the sniper from Saving Private Ryan, but as soon as you said the guys name, it clicked.

[@ColeTrain94]

You are criminally undersubbed man. Keep at it!

[@itsyaboidaniel2919]

Cool video. The combination of humor with stating complete facts was very good to watch. Pointing out James Heller's delivery being the same when opening Facebook as it is when finding the man who killed his family was straight up factual. Also, I'll be real with you, Wow Such Gaming's "Why You Wouldn't Survive" videos have on rare occasions also revived dead franchises, like "Destroy All Humans" so you might have some competition for God's attention.

[@JtheBOSS]

If your powers work infamous needs to be next 😭

[@jebbbungo7873]

based yakuza enjoyer

[@E180skud]

Back in like 2017 I moved into a new place and it took forever to get WiFi, I had a pirated copy of both games on my pc and lord did I play the shit out of them

[@noctis2641]

New prototype game will come out in 2031, trust me I am a time traveler

[@skippythescout5446]

remember army of two? remember last stand dead zone? please do more videos on these forgotten gems !

[@skippythescout5446]

and scarface

[@UmiZoomR]

Deadzone was pretty nice but man the building time sucked and lets not talk about the fuel..

[@FateBringsMe2U]

27:48 that's just how people in the military talk tbh

[@Jackfromshack]

I can confirm this

[@yani2499]

Alex Mercer is Iconic because he's the last thing you want to run into.

[@JaCKal_646f67]

bro pushing his luck for a remake

[@giusepperesponte8077]

Yeah I played this game a lot in middle school, but I’ll be honest, I was too scrubby to beat the final boss

[@Justcallme_L]

Fk where are they WHERE ARE THEY where is my favorite game my favorite character fk But great video be the way, I'm looking forward for your next videos

[@ThunderWolfUE]

As a game dev myself I can say one thing for certain, the amount of passion and talent required to make a game like the Prototype no longer exists...

[@xdavis2919]

So which are you lacking the passion or the talent?

[@ThunderWolfUE]

@@xdavis2919 the money. Ask that question to billion dollar companies

[@LittlFoxy]

3:14 I STILL DO THAT, u can pretty much level the entire city with ur bare hands but role playing as a regular soldier is soo damn fun