Heavy Rain - Now with QTE SPOILERS

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lol my gf just mocked me for playing this

gotta say i'm curious about this

that ten minute gameplay video of a woman sexying herself up in a bathroom was kinda o_O

it's the most fun i've had trying to climb up a muddy hill

$54 on day one, sell on amazon a day later for $51, net outlay $3, boring time had by me.

maybe i'm not gonna buy a PS3 after all

I'm not even sure this is worth $3.

RIP

i have never been so angry. i hadn't even taken my copy out of the plastic, but i put it in the microwave anyway. fuck these assholes and their shitty game.

and as for all those reviewers who gave it high marks...first against the wall, you hear?

heavy pain in jeff's butt

high marks from amazon customers

more like high marks from high customers

Metacritic Score: 87
User Score: 6.1

Generally favorable reviews

Based on 71 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?

Game has 7 100s and 1 99. Who the fuck are these people.

tracer, surely the show is another reason to buy a PS3?
http://www.vertigogaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/show10.jpg
*droooooooool*

main reason to buy a PS3 is WipeoutHD, IMO

god stop rubbing it in ;_;

still haven't BOUGHT wipeout, maybe i should take a blizzard plunge

guys i want to hear more about heavy rain

well, the thing about Heavy Rain is PRESS △ TO READ THE REST OF THIS POST OOPS TOO LATE

is heavy rain just like a whole game of those mini moments in RE4, where you had to QUICK, PRESS TRIANGLE & CIRCLE TO DODGE THIS BOULDER !! oh you failed.
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(they were crap)

Apparently it is, and I'm guessing the reviewers who loved it don't read because they keep talking about how awesome the story is, whereas everyone who has panned it says the story is a useless pile of shit

I don't think you can fail the though, right - the game just kinda keeps going whatever you do (even if your character dies as a result of your actions or non-actions)? I should really try out the demo....

if it's better than fahrenheit (same developer guy) then it is v. good. Fahrenheit's story turned pretty woeful but it had a new (ish/kinda) and interesting mechanic for those stories so is v. exciting. This seems to be pretty much the same but with better mechanics and apparently a better story (tho prob. still awful). If i had a ps3 i'd buy this in a second.

i am gonna put some time in on this over the weekend, so i will be in a position to tell everyone what to think on monday

I mean Fahrenheit is one of my favorite games of all time despite the shitty ending so if this is even close to as good (and supposedly HR has no supernatural chosen-child radioactive Purple Guild bullshit) then sheeeeeeit - FWIW I loved all the minigames in Fahrenheit (especially the basketball one) so I may be an outlier here

Yeah cozen I'm just not sure about The Show.. I know wrong thread but honestly what I want out of a sports game is something that I can pick up and play - just do.. not.. have.. the patience for spending weeks getting good at hitting an animated baseball so that I can begin to have fun

this is true; lots of things outside of the show to recommend the now £215 (at asda) ps3 tho (says the guy lined up to buy one this week)

rented this & played the first two hours earlier. once you get past admiring the graphics & lighting effects it quickly became very tedious. virtually no gameplay, with as much meaningless waggle as a cheap wii minigame collection. mediocre voice acting & dialog. wtf reviewers have you gone insane?

Hmm that's a bad sign - the first two hours of Fahrenheit were A+ top notch would QTE again

oh, if its QTEs every 10 minutes or so that you want, then you might be ok with it. sound design is top notch btw.

they should have made this a video game of the movie-within-the-movie "Chubby Rain" from Bowfinger

okay, here's what i learned before my PS3 got the plague and booted me off the game. so far, it's a mixture of genuinely compelling and well-meaning but tedious. the start was about 100% tedious and as the game progressed it has moved at a reasonable rate towards being compelling, so that 4 hours in it's about 60-40 in favor of the good stuff, i.e. the detective work/action set pieces. these parts of the game are superbly done, i think, but clearly they are not going to be everyone's thing. the boring parts are usually the character-building, story-depth stuff, but the whole package is less like a michael bay film than this makes it sound. the dull parts are dull because the games makes you use the control system for all manner of pointless tasks, instead of letting you just absorb the information, in case you forget you are supposed to be playing a game, i guess. criticisms about the story and characters, voice-acting, dialog etc are kinda overblown though. they are all good by video game standards, even if the movie adaptation isn't going to win any oscars. if i ever get to play it again, i am excited about the prospect.

which part(s) do you find genuinely compelling? the story? good by video game standards is very faint praise. there have been parts that have made me laugh out loud they were so bad, particularly the FBI agent. what gets me is its all so tedious, long cutscenes with a pointless button press or waggle every now & then.

the actual detective stuff has been a lot of fun, not too much hand-holding so far, but we will see. the dramatic sequences are genuinely tense, in particular the fight in the hooker's room and the grocery store.

it's going to be such a divisive game that my advice to most people would be you have to suck it and see. but, for example,if you are finding anything so bad you have laughed out loud, you are a few levels more cynical than me.

Does this one have Angelo Badalamenti maknig the tunes? Because seriously that added so much more to Indigo Prophecy than it deserved to. I seriously think it might be AB's best music. :O

just felt that the dialogue & delivery was very cliched & hammy. if that makes me cynical then i guess so.

i guess i could express myself better by asking, what is the high watermark of video game dialog and voice acting that makes this laughable? good by video game standards is very faint praise for this kind of thing, but what other standards are you fairly going to judge it by?

i guess i'm judging it against the standards of films, which is the level that Heavy Rain is aspiring to. i mean, its not much of a game, there is very little gameplay, its more of an interactive film. so the dialog & voice acting has to be filmic in its quality to make watching all those lengthy cutscenes worthwhile. and for me obviously they fall very short.

its getting hard to talk about this without spoilers! there was one scene that i thought was very well done.

Go for it; we can always start a new thread if necessary.

officially ducking out of this thread

haha thread title change. there's a bit where you confront a mentally ill religious guy & have to make a split decision. it was very well co-ordinated & i felt my actions actually made some sort of difference, which made a change from "shake the controller up and down before you drink the orange juice" bullshit.

split second decision obv

"shake the controller up and down before you drink the orange juice" bullshit.

haha this is in the game?

has anyone who actually liked fahrenheit played this yet?

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so, in the end, this was the A for intention C for execution game that a lot of people expected. the characters were promising but ultimately shallow, the story started well but fell apart. those were the pieces they really had to get right and they didn't at all. the gameplay was slight by design but it's like the developers lost the courage of their convictions and tried to pad it out with useless crap like the oj shaking and making goddamn scrambled eggs just as the denouement starts to kick in. i should remember the game for the handful of really great, high drama set pieces, but i can already tell that it's the scrambled eggs that will stay with me.

but it wasn't so far away from the game it was reviewed as. they should do it again, and heed these lessons:
1. don't patronize your audience. make a genuine detective game that you actually have to think about. the fps drones are not going to buy your game anyway.
2. if you construct a great story and populate it with rounded characters, and create a real detective game within that framework, the gameplay will take care of itself. we don't need to make scrambled eggs to have a good time.
3. it's okay to move with the left stick and look around with the right stick. you don't have to screw up your controls just to do something different.

Scrambling those eggs was one of the best parts of Heavy Rain.

i admit i sometimes play a game irl i like to call "making scrambled eggs". however, with that game, if i win, i get some scrambled eggs as a prize.

I think I ended up hearing it nearer 100 times.

I did find it incredibly hilarious though.