I'm glad you liked it - honestly.  But just as films are visual so to are a large extent are games.  In the scene with the giant fleas, your view is obscured by giant, colour coded button pressing guides.  That is most definately 'weak' IMHO.  You're so busy watching the cue you barely get to watch the action - in a visual medium anything that distracts from what's going on is weak.

Sure, a QTE is more interaction than none at all - but it just about the weakest interaction approach I can think of.  And if QD don't get the balance right, then just as with Farenheight (or Indigo Prophecy as you know it) expect to see the game get marked down in most reviews for the controls.

I don't want to be rigid, but not everything works as an approach, and there are reasons why in games, films and books there are certain know approaches that will essentially work well and every time, and as I said most (not all of course) gamers seem to complain that QTE's as shown here don't work too well vs other games more intuitive and involving controls.

Simply put I find the approach is passable at best but doesn't garner much true involvement from the player.

That's why I mentioned film/books.  Most games make it clear the plot is simply a device, not the main point, but QD are trying to blur that, which is fine, but if the end result is not too involving from a gameplay mechanic, then I raise the point perhaps Cage should consider the stronger medium of film/writing is he really wants to tell a gripping story.  Although, again to be blunt, on the evidence of his writing in Indigo Prophecy and the clips here, he probably shouldn't.

But as I said I will probably buy this.  I expect it to not get everything right, but I do applaud the developer for trying and in some ways I'd rather play an ambitious title that's also flawed than a totally derrivative title that's polished and near enough flawless.

Still, I think we're going to have to 'agree to disagree' on this one.  I can see you find QTEs fine, I don't for reasons that aren't going to change - and yet it looks like we're going to both support the title, human nature is crazy, huh?

what a letdown of a video

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Subjectively, I feel that MGS3 was the only MGS game that I was emotionally attached to, because it was the first game that properly intertwined a good deep story, but the gameplay was kind of lacking. Objectively, the original MGS met all the criteria for pretty much the perfect Metal Gear game was supposed to be in retrospect. Personally, based on subversion, I believe Uncharted 2 has amazing gameplay. Did you see that five minute gameplay? That was f'n sexy man. First day buy for me.

Heavy Rain gamplay HD trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRudxmPpCy4

High Quality trailer:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5NNsUaYonE

watch the video!

its actually really good.

Well Clifford must be a "God" with a small "g" then, because he is on a much lower level than Hideo.  I have played unreal games like everyone else here, the one thing those games lack are strong characters and good stories (gears of war changed that viewpoint recently, but then the second game did not help out the narrative of the story in any way).  Mr. Bleszinski' games are like professional wrestling, sure it looks good, but it is not as exciting as watching  mixed martial arts.  Hideo is a master writer, director, and all around great games maker, his games are legendary for graphics, story, and pacing.  Clifford's games have mostly been mindless shooting in an arena....a far cry from anything one would consider "memorable".

It certainly is, and yes, we can agree to disagree :)

Anyway, like you I am mostly moved by sheer curiosity for this strange - and ambitious - project.

Well, that HD trailer certainly perked my interest. I wasn't really looking forward to this game, but now I'm very curious.

Kids these days, they only look up to shooters....