"Story-driven market has untapped potenital" - David Cage

[theprof00]

okr said:

theprof00 said:
Bad movie director? Look, it's as I said earlier in the adventure game thread. It's hard for you to understand how this is a game because you don't realize it's an adventure game from the same vein as full throttle, samnmax, myst. Granted it's a little more story driven, but all the themes are there. It's an adventure game, and one that sold 2m copies. Adventure games don't sell like that anymore, so he's right. There is untapped potential.

David Cage disagreed already more than 3 years before you posted this.  http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2009/12/04/david-cage-interview.aspx

He was obviously trying to disassociate his game from what is considered to be a dead genre. He doesn't even know what genre heavy rain is. He says so in the interview.

It's different. Definitely. It's a modern take on adventure gaming. His qualifications on adventure game tropes are 10 years dated. Recent point and clicks don't have inventories or cutscenes either, but focus very heavily on the characters. There are tons of games like this.