Comments on: New Heavy Rain information coming to you live from GC08

By: Quiiick

Quiiick — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:21:00 +0000

@ No_PUDding
Then, what’s a title you really are looking forward to?

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:31:43 +0000

Well, I am a pessimist.

And I never played Fahrenheit, so I ahve vague reasons.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:09:50 +0000

I don’t know how you can be so definitive on it. Fahrenheit worked much the same way and it was still a really good game.

I’m concerned, for sure. But I’m not writing it off by any means.

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:07:25 +0000

I give in… sounds awful. Glad we still have other unnannounced games to rely on from Sony.

By: Quiiick

Quiiick — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:48:37 +0000

Well, it won’t be “game”-play, I guess. The “play” part will be more like “acting”.
So I hope people will not try to compare it with standard games too much.

Besides: The fact that you obviously can still DIE in “Heavy Rain” makes gameplay very old-fashioned …

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:44:39 +0000

Exactly.

This whole R2 thing adavnces… are we on rails, and get to slow the character down, or do we actually control the character?

QTE’s = the most unimaginative thing since unsliced bread

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:33:06 +0000

It should be impressive. It’s like watching a movie vs playing a game. That said, by concerns are about the gameplay, not the top notch presentation.

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:28:11 +0000

Really?

I am one of the few people who don’t get this. I am very critical about lots of thigns, but this is the title, I am most cross about.

By: patlike

patlike — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:30:08 +0000

Just a note on this. I’m back at the hotel now. This was far and away the best thing I’ve seen this week. It made everything else look very creaky. The Sixaxis stuff may be a bit daft, but in terms of atmosphere and “next gen” feel this really is it. I was knocked out.

By: morriss

morriss — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:59:41 +0000

Done.

By: morriss

morriss — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:54:38 +0000

Good idea.

By: DrDamn

DrDamn — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:26:12 +0000

You could do with doing a EG here Mike. It’s no longer live so put it in order top to bottom. It reads confusing as hell if you just stumble into the new story like I did now.

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:57:16 +0000

I already voiced my displeasure, I’d like to do it again. I shan’t becuase I still thinking about it as a game.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:53:51 +0000

It depends. It depends very much on how much interactivity there is, like I said above. The thing with point n’ click was that you could take something from somewhere and use it to interact with something else in another location – puzzles. But they’ve said that there won’t be any puzzles. If everything you can do is already laid out for you in the room and all you can do is push a button and watch what happens it’s less point n’ click and more like one of those ‘get the sequence right’ flash games.

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:51:52 +0000

‘She smells some nasty’ XD

God, the immature humoru will never run out.

By: XDamage

XDamage — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:49:10 +0000

Nice! This must be the bastard child of point & click games, all grown up.
If the story is really engaging and keeps up the interest of the player, then I’m all for it.

By: TJ

TJ — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:45:44 +0000

Sounds like Fahrenheit 2.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:42:31 +0000

Kill everyone. It’s the only way to be sure.

By: ecu

ecu — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:35:31 +0000

Wow, sounds really good after that. Colour me interested.

By: Robo_1

Robo_1 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:34:06 +0000

I’m certainly intrigued. I do like the idea of there being a multitude of possibilities for how to deal with the situation. Escape, kill, get him arrested, how will that effect the overall story arc?

I like the freedom of narrative you’re getting, even if the price is a closed world.

By: Whizzo

Whizzo — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:27:46 +0000

“Night Trap : The Next Gen HD Experience”

By: Blerk

Blerk — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:24:58 +0000

It’s sounding worryingly like that first batch of CD-ROM ‘interactive movies’.

By: Quiiick

Quiiick — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:24:23 +0000

This game is now #1 on my most wanted list!
Can’t wait to play “Heavy Rain” …

I’m old, I played so many games and finally there’s this new game which promises to do what I always wanted games to be:
Realistic 3d Hollywood-style action but NOT controller-skill driven NOR stats driven!

I really, really hope this will not turn out to be a disappointment …

By: Whizzo

Whizzo — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:22:47 +0000

This sounds terrible.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:21:18 +0000

Whoops! Didn’t realise this was a ‘live blog’.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:19:54 +0000

Interesting. It sounds sort of like a point-and-click adventure, with everything just popping into context-sensitive ‘push this button to interact with that object’ as you get close to it.

Again, though – how this actually turns out will very much depend on how much of it is ‘on rails’ and how much interaction the lack of an interface will allow you to have with the environment. It’s all very well being able to sit on a chair, but could I shove it behind the door? Or throw it through the window?