Heavy Rain - Now with QTE SPOILERS

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.

what happens if you don't scramble the eggs

the kid dies

making fake breakfast is better than playing a second draft from David Cage's sophomore year screenwriting class

of hunger? i really hope this is true.

xp

they should make heavy rains for novels. heavy rain: the magus, i'd play that. heavy rain: gatsby.

cmon it'd be fun.

if you successfully scramble the eggs the hooker with a heart of gold cries a little less

http://www.heavy.com/post/press-x-to-jason-the-game-4539

big lols

haha!

working hard to get all the achievements right now.

Peter Molyneaux has seen the future. And aside from incorporating twitter and a bunch of other bullshit into fable, its heavy rain

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/16/molyneux-says-heavy-rain-offers-first-glimpses-of-the-future/

I liked this game! But I loved 90's adventure PC games. I mostly was pushed to keep playing because I knew that Ethan and Madison would someday bone. By the time that happened, I was pretty hooked in the story.

Watched a friend play this game with 3 or 4 other spectator friends over the course of a week or two and we all really enjoyed it. I haven't been interested in the story of a game I haven't been playing myself since twilight princess.

i'm gonna get this :)

this is fuckin intense

Interactive detective movie? How does it compare to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_a_Killing_Moon

Interactive detective movie? How does it compare to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripper_%28video_game%29

so far the quick-time events have been awesome, probably my favourite part (besides the ARI spectacles - seriously, so fuckin cool)

also the graphics are AMAZING.. light years beyond Red Dead Redemption for example

I've given in and purchased this, got a taste for getting stuck into this type of adventure game. just over twenty quid so not bad.

Yeah, reckon I'll wait until it hits a tenner myself.

£18 in blockies this week /hotukcozen

so much to say about this game... it's fatally flawed in at least two ways but what an experience anyway.. a couple of times I actually felt like I was in the world of the game after I turned it off. that's only happened with me after playing marathon sessions of gran turismo an then seeing cars corner on the street

I just finished this last night. Managed to save the kid but kill off all three other characters and somehow, I still enjoyed the hell out of it. After I finished it, I went to bed, got up this morning and started a new game.

where did you play from, the second time around?

i finished this last night. the origami killer went free, but i saved the kid and kept ethan alive. everybody else: dead.

i was pretty disappointed by the story, ultimately. and i think the delicate little movements you have to make with the controller should have been limited to just things that are IMPORTANT. i still thought it was fantastic fun.

really interesting article here - http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4412/persuasive_games_the_picnic_.php

this is another great article, i love this stuff about how narrative works -

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/27972/Analysis_Heavy_Rains_Storytelling_Gaps.php

only played the intro so far, and the bit up until you turn up to a crime scene. but can't say i'm that impressed with the visuals, which I thought were going to be jaw dropping but imo look pretty basic. maybe they get better.

well i dunno, i was impressed. i only have a 26" TV though.

i'm super impressed with the crowd scenes, how individual everyone is

actually yeah the shopping mall crowd was pretty amazing

Hated the sound of this game. Played it because it was there, my bro has it, and really enjoyed it. Denouement a bit crap but I was with the story up to then.
I have a crush on madison /shamefulshit

hahahahaha

you mean you have a crush on YOURSELF

if they'd made the gestures only necessary for very specific shit and just let you get on with it otherwise it would have been loads better.

the news that this will be Move compatible is v v interesting though; i can imagine it working EXTREMELY well

Think they've done that already. I have no interest in any of that though.

come on you'd be controlling a naked woman with a glowing dildo