Tretton: Heavy Rain will sell “incredibly well”

I’m not so sure. I hope he’s right, but I just can’t see it happening.

on many stores in Germany the game is sold out after day one.
one employe of the store where i bought it said “uh, i hope its as good as it sells”
on german amazon game charts its top2

seems it sells better then expected.

i hope it does well, good on sony for bringing a game of this type to the market.

mine has literally just landed on my door mat. bring it

I think I’ll be picking mine up tomorrow, looking forward to getting stuck in.

just played about an hour in, excellent

I think the statement “incredibly well” is very vague and it doesn’t say much. Instead he such give an estimated sales number. Will it sell better than 1.5 million world wide? I think that would be a huge success.

I must admit, it seems to be selling very well in Belgium at least. I walked into my local yesterday to see one copy sat on an otherwise empty rack. One of the employees then put what must have been around 20 copies next to it. I think it’s going to do alright.

I was up playing this until 2am last night (although I only started around 11pm). It’s really excellent, I don’t think it’s got much replay value, but the story and QTEs merge together really well to draw you in.

I don’t understand why you can only trigger the shower once though…

i hesitate from calling the QTEs just QTE. they are implemented far better then any other ive seen in games and they are somehow a bit more then just QTE. I like to call them extendedQTE or advancedQTE.
at least its far from beeing the “QTE fest” it got called beforehand.

I just came back doing an errand in town. Got Heavy Rain while I was there.

Really want to play it now.

I’m properly pumped for it, though. Especially the Madison Chronicle in my CE. I’m going to download that asap. I didn’t really care much for the soundtrack anyways if I am honest.

A quick email to let you know that your next rental is on the way!

Heavy Rain for the Playstation 3.

Fuck yeah, i was getting a little worried i wasn’t gonna get it

If this sells, we might have a gaming revolution on our hands.

Got it yesterday (HMV LE) and have played about 4-5 hours.

It’s the best game I’ve played this year.

Yes the controls can be janky and some of the textures and objects are flat…. but Goddamn i’m loving the pacing, story, characters, urgency, emotions etc.

@JC
The soundtrack is really good. Obviously I haven’t got the download but in game it’s incredible!

I’m very doubtful it will sell incredibly well. How much is that btw?

I predict it will sell incredibly well for a new IP with unusual game mechanics.

@ onlineatron

The best game you’ve played so far this year?
Really?

From what I’ve played yes.

Obviously Mass Effect 2 comes in a close 2nd… but Heavy Rain just about trumps it for being unique and exciting.

I really feel for the characters and some of the situations you’re put it are so hectic and frightening that i’m literately squirming around on my seat trying to keep my character safe.

Granted I can see a lot of people disagreeing with my opinion, maybe the controls or odd animation/vo will put them off… but for me it’s top notch!

I doubt it will sell “incredibly well”. Even if it does, I expect a great number of people will be trading in the game.

So, that means there’s going to be a tonne of pre-owned copies floating about in a few weeks time being sold at the expense of new ones.

God, I’m pessimistic today.

Hmmm I think he might be a bit biased!

I can’t speak for sales, but I can vouch that the game is fucking awesome.

So what happened to all the “Heavy Rain is a glorified QTE fest” haters? They seem to have run a mile… *laughs*

I’m no hater, but I really wasn’t that impressed with the demo. It’s still nice to see such a leftfield game receiving such great praise – so game on, gamer!

I already beat this game and no desire to play thru again. It was a good 8 hour romp but i’m glad I Gamefly’d it. I would be pissed if I spent $60 on this, as @21 put it “Glorified QTE Fest” because that’s all I felt it was.. an immersive movie, NOT a game. The story being the biggest draw was rediculous, you had to SERIOUSLY suspend disbelief and just go with it, because there were holes you can drive a truck through.

I like a leftfield game too, but I just can’t justify this to myself.

I hate the acting, animation and interaction that I’ve seen. It just seems so arbitrary, and if the game were more sandbox, less scenebox, then there’d be more of your story.

But, ugh. I can’t get on with it. I will rent it, eventually.

The game is great but there are major issues, game breaking such as the sound goes out very often, also it will stop working like you can’t walk or the QTE icons do not show. I uninstalled the game and reinstalled it to see if that would solve the issue…Nope. The game is full of bugs like DAO prepatch. I will be trading it in on Monday because as stated it has no real replay value.

Its a really good game very unique.

whoever designed the glass tunnel level wants a good smack in the mouth

I beat it just now.