SONY - Heavy Rain to be of a new genre -- "Interactive Drama"

[Khuutra]

DTG said:

Riachu said:

DTG said:

Soleron said:

HappySqurriel said:

"Interactive Drama" it hasn't (really) been tried since the early 1990s with CD-Rom games that were (almost) always awful ...

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This kind of thing is what got Sony into the PS3 situation: games that are expensive to develop, appeal to few becasue the focus on cinematics takes away from gameplay and value, and end up failing in the market. Lair was the perfect example of that.

 

Good storylines appeal to a much wider audiance than good gameplay. Hence why books and movies are far more mainstream than are videogames. If anything, this kind of cinematic game will help propel the ps3 toward a much wider userbase.

If that case, I'm suprised that first person shooters are the dominate genre and not more story driven ones like RPGs

 

 

That's because most RPG's have deep gameplay foundations. If you cut the depth of gameplay away and wrote a better story than the crap most of them have then they would appeal to a much broader non gaming audiance.

You cannot be serious.

I tell myself this every time, but I refuse to believe that you mean the things you say.