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CDiablo said:
I see this game bombing.......it would do better to come out on PC IMO.

So it could bomb there too?



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I really with they would just put some solid information on this already though. I am tired of being teased with tiny inklings of information. They need to put out another demo of gameplay. Maybe even a playable one.



      

      

      

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I am interested in the game for the storytelling and what might be a game where you get to make ACTUAL CHOICES.

The graphics, not so much, the environments look cool, but the characters look horrible IMO. No graphics are worse than when they approach the uncanny valley, and this game clearly has. But it's just something we have to suffer through I guess, maybe next generation they will pass the valley and not make faces that creep me out.



You know....I think Heavy Rain deserves to be put in a genre all its own. It is so radically different that it is hard to place in one of the others. So what kind of game can it be classified as then?

Immersive Genre? because it tries to wrap you in the world of the game.
Emulation Genre? because it emulates real life action and consequence.

What do you guys think a good name for Heavy Rain's genre would be?



      

      

      

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forevercloud3000 said:
You know....I think Heavy Rain deserves to be put in a genre all its own. It is so radically different that it is hard to place in one of the others. So what kind of game can it be classified as then?

Immersive Genre? because it tries to wrap you in the world of the game.
Emulation Genre? because it emulates real life action and consequence.

What do you guys think a good name for Heavy Rain's genre would be?

Immersion is immediately broken when you can't control your character and its whereabouts. And for the genre its more like interactive movie with real time rendered content.

This game has high possibility of flopping.



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I wish they'd hurry up and release it!
If we had a release date, and maybe a gameplay video or something, it would be higher than fifth on my Wanted list.



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Deneidez said:
forevercloud3000 said:
You know....I think Heavy Rain deserves to be put in a genre all its own. It is so radically different that it is hard to place in one of the others. So what kind of game can it be classified as then?

Immersive Genre? because it tries to wrap you in the world of the game.
Emulation Genre? because it emulates real life action and consequence.

What do you guys think a good name for Heavy Rain's genre would be?

Immersion is immediately broken when you can't control your character and its whereabouts. And for the genre its more like interactive movie with real time rendered content.

This game has high possibility of flopping.

You know nothing about Heavy Rain if you think it's 'just' an interactive movie

You control your character through the entire game QD even stated that there won't be any non-interactive 'cutscenes' unless highly needed.  You choose all of your actions as you progress through the game, where you walk, drive, pick which door to open, pick a room to go or not go in; it's completely non-linear.

Yes it could flop, but only if it were 'just' an ineractive movie.  I could see it flop, if all you did was press buttons through various cutscenes, that would be boring. 

People must be scared of change when it comes to video games, they never accept something such as this any good.  *sigh*



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chaospluto said:
Deneidez said:
forevercloud3000 said:
You know....I think Heavy Rain deserves to be put in a genre all its own. It is so radically different that it is hard to place in one of the others. So what kind of game can it be classified as then?

Immersive Genre? because it tries to wrap you in the world of the game.
Emulation Genre? because it emulates real life action and consequence.

What do you guys think a good name for Heavy Rain's genre would be?

Immersion is immediately broken when you can't control your character and its whereabouts. And for the genre its more like interactive movie with real time rendered content.

This game has high possibility of flopping.

You know nothing about Heavy Rain if you think it's 'just' an interactive movie

You control your character through the entire game QD even stated that there won't be any non-interactive 'cutscenes' unless highly needed.  You choose all of your actions as you progress through the game, where you walk, drive, pick which door to open, pick a room to go or not go in; it's completely non-linear.

Yes it could flop, but only if it were 'just' an ineractive movie.  I could see it flop, if all you did was press buttons through various cutscenes, that would be boring. 

People must be scared of change when it comes to video games, they never accept something such as this any good.  *sigh*

It's not new, though. It's a progression of the architecture laid down in Indigo Prophecy, harkening back all the way to the days when 25 cents would get you a run through an interactive cartoon that you controlled where one wrong move meant death.



chaospluto said:

You know nothing about Heavy Rain if you think it's 'just' an interactive movie

You control your character through the entire game QD even stated that there won't be any non-interactive 'cutscenes' unless highly needed.  You choose all of your actions as you progress through the game, where you walk, drive, pick which door to open, pick a room to go or not go in; it's completely non-linear.

Yes it could flop, but only if it were 'just' an ineractive movie.  I could see it flop, if all you did was press buttons through various cutscenes, that would be boring. 

People must be scared of change when it comes to video games, they never accept something such as this any good.  *sigh*

Uhm, can you show me something else than this,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raPw9vNF7yk&feature=related

If thats all what that game is about, it looks more like dragons lair than highly interactive game.



Fuck I want to play this game soooooooooooo baaaaaaaaaaaaaaad. I hope it does not dissapoint.