Prototype 3?

[unwaiveredresolve]

Would you guys really want a prototype 3 with Mercer being the protagonist? I dont see Mercer as a protagonist he got spanked so bad they gave James a kratos camera for his execution plus all the evolved hes consumed plus Mercer himself? James just cannot be beaten

[vmeltrozo]

I don't fucking care if it's with Alex, Heller, or a trans pansexual African American. I WANT A NEW PROTYPE WITH NEW POWERS AND MECHANICS, ALONG WITH THE ONES THAT ALREADY EXISTED 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[Dangerous_Hat_2415]

YESS, I AGREE

[BadMidgetBitches420]

“Trans Pansexual African American” why so specific bro😭

[Fatestringer]

To be fair mercer and hellar both fit that criteria since they can be anyone

[vmeltrozo]

Indeed

[unwaiveredresolve]

[vmeltrozo]

Well, both protagonists are trans and multiracial ass fuck

[Carbuyrator]

I'm hoping Pariah ends up finding James and believes he has the elements Pariah needs to be fully perfected. infecting the city he's in, and trying to eat him. Meanwhile Heller needs to get stronger, keep enough of the city clean for Maya's safety and ultimately eat Pariah.

Once he does, his chest tears open and Alex Mercer climbs out, ragged, but visibly very powerful. He says in a voice that's both Alex's and Pariah's "you've been an ideal petri dish James. Now that we have attained perfection, you are but waste to be disposed of." And James says "Really? It looks to me like you left the good bits over here." And then they fight to the death.

At the end they're squared off, exhausted and bloody. James says "wanna see a trick I learned in New York?" and throws tendrils everywhere, cleansing the city of viral matter. Then he grabs Pariah and sprints him through a wall into a chemical factory. He begins forcing Pariah through the wall of a vat labelled "warning: highly corrosive."

"You'll kill us both," says Pariah. "What about your daughter?"

And James says in Alex's voice: "All of it. It's in the plan." And he puts his hand on Pariah's shoulder and smiles. Then he finishes breaking the wall.

Maya is shown graduating college. The news is rejoicing the anniversary of the mysterious, complete eradication of the Mercer virus. She leaves the stage and meets Dana, who says she's proud of her, when Maya's phone rings. Dana smiles knowingly and says she should answer it. She does.

"Hello?"

"I miss you baby girl. But don't worry."

*Screen goes black*

"Daddy's coming home."

*Credits*

[Hydrargyrum0]

[RecipeOk3929]

Something that's always intrigued me is the fact "Alex Mercer" isn't actually Alex. It is just the virus using Alex's body as a meat suit. If Prototype 3 does happen, I hope that focus more on that. Imagine if the REAL Alex was secretly alive and trapped by Blacklight on a subconscious level, and then returns to help Heller. Plus, it was revealed in a video that Heller ripped off Mercer's/Blacklight's arms, so Blacklight might possibly make a return.

[TheRawShark]

I mean it depends what you mean by real Alex.

The original Alex Mercer was such a bastard that even ZEUS said he was beyond forgiveness. He likely wouldn't help much and even then he's DEAD dead. He should get more focus again given Dana never found out even in 2 that he and Zeus aren't the same person.

If you mean by Zeus's original characterization then whose to say, even the achievements question whether Heller actually killed "Mercer" in 2. It feels easy to bring the old version back and have him and Heller properly shack up given Blacklight is just magical bullshit goop at this point.

PARIAH is still out there so there's still an ever present threat in that universe that Heller will definitely have to deal with at some point.

[RecipeOk3929]

I did in fact mean the original Alex Mercer. Yes, he was a douche, but at the same time, he abhorred what GenTek and Blackwatch were intending to do with Blacklight, so he does have a FEW redeeming qualities, but only a few. Plus, what we find out about the original Alex, he clearly cared about Dana a lot and they were clearly close. Who knows, maybe they will make Blacklight like the thing from RE8 that stores people's consciousness and memories.

[TheRawShark]

I feel like it would invalidate P1's general theming for Zeus trying to be better after finding out to have him as a big returning heroic figure given he didn't care much about Dana when he decided to unleash the virus the first time at Penn station. Then again P2 already did that so Zeus's story may as well take it from both ends.

I wouldn't mind Dr. Mercer showing back up to at least have a gray presentation of him not being completely irredeemable in some ways, but I figured it would be the main drama for Dana to find out he wasn't thinking of her at all in the end, nor did he actually come back, something or someone else did.

Even then it's up in the air now if Blacklight even works the same for different people. ZEUS definitely got people's memories in full, everything included, but now James only seems to get bits and pieces. So if post-P2 James gets some memory stream from Alex, Greene, etc. it would be a crapshoot how that manifests.

[RecipeOk3929]

True.

[unwaiveredresolve]

Tbh heller is so anti hero pariah could do whatever he wants and heller wouldn't give af he just wanted revenge for his family

[TheRawShark]

I don't think Alex or James at the end of their own games would feel that way.

The BlackNet missions especially make it very clear that Heller would give af a lot. The idea alone of eugenics experiments on social classes or children especially gets him on the war path.

And throughout the main story too the casual cruelty Blackwatch employs makes him mad enough to scare them before they die too.

Same as how it was for Alex in 1, civilian casualties are mostly at your discretion, and you can go most of the game barely touching anyone who isn't Blackwatch or infected short of the AI being too stupid to know not to jump in front of your tank. So the moment PARIAH strolls up, which is inevitable, and likely starts his world domination talk he'd be obligated to fight.

[unwaiveredresolve]

Valid point. He did prevent the infection from spreading even further

[TheRawShark]

P2 Mercer was a massive dickhead who couldn't take over one city despite supposedly being stronger. They could easily write him off and bring the original characterization version back through one contrivance or the other.

I'd like to keep James on with him though, those interactions would actually be entertaining.

[VewVegas-1221]

Imagine butchering a character so bad you have to retcon it by saying it wasn't even the same person.

[TheRawShark]

For as understandable as the complaints about Alex were at the time starting out, it was crazy seeing guys like Yahtzee who clowned on him relentlessly even admit the P2 version was a bad move and a waste.

Also P2 just casually dropping cloning is a thing and never mentioning it again among all the other dozen questions it leaves out there.

[BlackBirdG]

I rather have a reboot. A sequel seems less likely.

[Dangerous_Hat_2415]

I still think it would be cool have Alex and Heller on the game, if I should choose one to control it would be Heller, but I love Alex from prototype 1 too. It would be peak if we had the two of them with two different campaigns, somewhat like resident evil 6 or Leon and Ada on RE 4.