Incoming 10s.

I'm so waiting for this game...

Thanks edjevink for clarifying things.

GOTY 2009, it's Farenheit 2!

wow before I could care less about this game but now it's looking like a purchase. I want to see more.

Ben:  The revolutionary aspect of Fahrenheit (aka indigo Prophecy) is how it told its story.  So far, from the casting trailer and this gameplay video what is unique is the atmosphere that is being developed.

Bioshock wasn't revolutionary, but what it did it did well.  F.E.A.R. and I'm sure other games told the story the same way Bioshock did.  Not everything has to be revolutionary to be unique, fresh, or just well done.

Also, the cutscenes look better than any RE cinematics, so it just sounds like you're saying "oh, the game has cinematics, it's just like every other game that has cinematics," when clearly RE and FF are very different experiences so this game could be completely different as well.

Thank you for enlightening us oh, you great adventure pioneer. Maybe you would like to discuss the amount and quality of the dozens of adventures I have finished since 95. It seems that YOU don't know what adventures are, sayin that Fahrenheit was a masterpiece.

Yeah, there was some innovation in Indigo Prophecy, but doing QTE to play guitar or avoid flyin attackin objects in the room, or walking down the ONLY path at the graveyard to find a cross, or do the silly stealth part as a boy?

Gimme a break dude...The game was more utter junk than masterpiece.

However, still Heavy Rain looks promising and astounding graphically and technically.

I have to say again while I really liked what QD tried with Fahrenheit, I found that in many cases the execution failed, particularly with how QTE's were so numerous and essentially blocking your view of what you were doing.

Now I liked what I saw here, but it implies all they've really done is reduced the intrusive nature of the prompts (in Fahrenheit sometimes your on-screen prompt literally blocked any ability to actually see what you were doing). Which is an improvement, but for me the jury's still out on how well the shown QTE really works.

Fahrenheit for me was an interesting title - almost a trial run to see what worked/didn't - and I guess a fair bit did work, and quite a fair bit didn't.

The big question (which no teaser is going to answer) is have QD learnt well enough from Fahrenheit to make Heavy Rain really good or will it represent an improvement but only a progression with its own fair number of experimental flaws?

Whatever it would appear its sure going to look good if nothing else.

I really think QTE's should be dropped totally. Instead I'd rather press L1 to switch betwen an explore mode and use sticks to move and buttons to interact and a combat mode (this could even kick in automatically) where sticks move and buttons trigger moves - so square means try and block with an object, O try and flee in direction of stick movement, and X means try and attack based on direction of stick movement.

With a good control scheme you shouldn't need on-screen prompts and QTEs. An on-screen prompt means the developer doesn't know how to give you a good control scheme.

As another example look at the couple of lame QTEs in Uncharted... they made no sense as the basic control scheme already gave you everything you needed to handle each 'set piece' when something fell towards you, etc. - having you suddenly have to press circle to dodge just felt wrong and pulled you out of the game.

@Reasonable
...ah... dude, you couldn't have been more reasonable! Kudos mate!

Uhm sorry, did i offend you in any way? Cause looking at your reaction it seems i did? I'm reading my post again, but i don't see any reason why you would be. But i'm glad you highlighted the right one so i know what you're talking about.

To prevent to offend people like you, who do know adventure games, i clearly said: "It also seems that 'a lot' of people don't even know adventure games". I'm glad that you like adventure games, i really do, and that you finished dozens of them since '95, but why would i want to discuss that with you? Even better, why would you want to discuss that with me? Anyway, you probably know a lot more about adventure games than i do. So no, i'm not "a great adventure pioneer", i know i'm not, i never said i am and i don't pretend to be one.

Even if it's a dying breed, that might have it's comeback in the coming years, i do know the adventure genre and how these games play. Maybe i didn't play that many, but just because i think Indigo Prophecy is a masterpiece, that doesn't mean i don't know adventures. Come on. Besides, it's my personal opinion. Indigo Prophecy to me was a great experience, the atmosphere and the way it told it's story. I loved it. Of course i'm talking about the first 75% of the game, the last quarter was, well, just bad. That doesn't mean i think it's perfect. I do agree with you about some weird aspects of Indigo Prophecy, but still, i loved the game. But hey, you have your own opinion and that's fine. But don't tell me my personal opinion is wrong, just because you think differently. You would be right though if i said Haze was a masterpiece, but Indigo Prophecy is a different story.

Anyway, the only reason why i wrote my post was that, clearly, there seems to be some misunderstanding about Heavy Rain. A lot of the posts above this one tells me they didn't understand the Heavy Rain trailer, maybe they didn't play Fahrenheit(Indigo Prophecy) or they don't know the Adventure genre. Whatever the case may be, i felt like i could help them to explain what Heavy Rain will be like. And i'm glad it seems that my post helped at least a few people.