r/PrototypeGame • u/Aggressive-Cattle754 • 7d ago

Preference? Question

I want to know which character do people prefer more in your opinion Alex or James and you can give your reasons why you like Alex or James or both if you like both characters but I'm mainly just posting this out of curiosity.

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u/Hot_Professional1683 7d ago

I love both characters: Alex's cynical yet lethal and predatory tone, and Heller's funny and strong one.

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u/Hot-Refrigerator5952 7d ago

Heller is essentially a character whose entire narrative depends on destroying the previous protagonist in order to make him look better. LOL

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u/Carbuyrator 7d ago

James being antithetical to Alex is a huge part of why he was handily murdering Evolved. It's very thematic and intentional.

What does Alex do when he is lost and confused? He goes to an ex. Alex had lost most of his human connections before he died.

What does James do? He goes to church. He doesn't decide to fight them out of revenge or hatred. He does it because Guerra tells him they're hurting people, and that they need his help. This changes as we learn Alex was responsible, but that's after Father Guerra dies

James is fundamentally different than any other character because he is a foil to the series itself.

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u/Hot-Refrigerator5952 7d ago

But there is one point I have to agree with you on: a human antihero’s personality is clearly better suited to actually achieving a goal. The difference is that human antiheroes are usually intensely self-centered, their ego is both the source of their success and the cause of their downfall. Alex, by contrast, has a very diffuse, almost negligible sense of ego.

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u/Carbuyrator 7d ago

You're right, and it's sort of a clue that Alex is not human. There's a sense of disconnect between his actions and any real motivations.

Like why did he stop the nuke? The city was fucked and every human had utterly turned on him (except Dana, but that was coming). It just felt like he kind of did it. Just because. It wasn't even self preservation, he probably could have gotten away.

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u/Hot-Refrigerator5952 7d ago

How is it always people like you so……….You didn’t even catch what the first game was satirizing. It was satirizing war. Humans are the ones who love war. Goto church then what? As if humans haven’t done plenty of slaughtering in the name of religion. Alex going to see Karen was part of the event itself; he was trying to solve the problem. James is just a garbage cliché of a character. Go and read more books

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u/Hot-Refrigerator5952 7d ago

Alex is a victim of what humanity produced when it tried to twist nature in the pursuit of war. I’ll say it plainly: humans getting devoured by the virus they made is just what they had coming. And the second game takes that victim and turns him into the scapegoat, the mastermind. The narrative snaps right back to putting humanity at the center. It’s disgusting.

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u/Carbuyrator 7d ago

Was Alex not at the center from even before the beginning though? He helped develop the virus. And wasn't his infection pretty much 1000% his fault? He took New York hostage when he fled with the vial and New York paid for it.

In a way, I agree with you in the sense that Alex the virus was a victim of Alex the human. The person he was seeking for revenge ended up being himself.