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kergeten said:

Damn in the latest videos the graphics have been dumbed down a whole lot, the game now looks pretty generic. The graphics look like they turned the settings to medium on a pc game, everything is down a notch, textures, lighting, polygon count. I have to wonder what problems they had with the game that they had to lower the graphics bar by this much in the final months before release.

You usually expect games to look better as development moves on, not worse. Those first screen shots with the closeup of that girl were breathtaking, and not even one blocky curve in sight. Now the textures are compressed and fuzzy, and you can see the blocky shapes everywhere in the environment, and the lighting went from terrific with advanced skin shading and crisp shadows, to cheap run of the mill skin shading and washed out shadows. Now everything looks flat and washed out, and all i see are blurry textures, blocky models, and human faces which except for the main characters look dead and creepy.

I though this game would revolutionize gaming, and it's graphics would make the dream of a believable interactive movie possible, this game went from CG quality graphics to just another game. Big dissapointment.

You and me have been looking at totally different videos.



                            

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Carl2291 said:

You and me have been looking at totally different videos.

I just followed the link, but there's something I've just realised, so far I've only seen this game on my old 17 inch, 4/3 monitor, but recently i've bought a 24 inch, 1080p monitor, so maybe now that I've seen the game in far greatar detail and size, it suddenly looks less impresive than I though it was. Although now that I've also looked at some older screen shots I still think it looks worse, Compare Page's face from the video to that from the screenshot galery, the old one is just beautifull, the new one is just flat and lifeless.



http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-6894-Video-Game-News-Examiner~y2010m1d11-Amazon-reveals-Heavy-Rain-US-box-art

Amazon has apparently posted the official North American box art for Heavy Rain on their web site. You can view it below:



Yeah...better than the provisional one but I still prefer the european one.



Where do you intend on importing the game CGI?



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CGI-Quality said:
Boutros said:
Where do you intend on importing the game CGI?

I actually may not. The US will still receive the content in that Chronicles version from EU. All you have to do is prorder the game from GameStop and you get a voucher code to download the extra stuff, including that Taxidermist Scene I'm just dying to play.

Alright, I'll do that too then :D



CGI-Quality said:
http://www.criticalgamer.co.uk/2010/01/12/heavy-rain-a-gaming-revolution/

An absolutely brilliant article! I agree 100%, and not just because it's HEAVY RAIN. His wording reflect my sentiments about many things, to a "T".

Don't you hate it too, that everyone still uses this ages old "Audition" picture in their Articles?



“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”

- George Orwell, ‘1984’

CGI-Quality said:
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-6894-Video-Game-News-Examiner~y2010m1d13-SCEA-to-offer-alternative-print-out-box-art-for-Heavy-Rain

No need to fret if you don't like the current US box art. SCEA has confirmed that an alternative box, which mimic the EU box, will be available as well.

See, now no more complaining about the box art.

But you have to print it yourself...it won't be as pretty and shiny!



What can I say? Simply amazing and a new bookmark for me! In respect to this game will players keep updated journal/blogs to what is happening in their adventure?



Long thread.

Congrats.

Anyway, I had a question, in case anybody can find this thread in the confusing mess of "Game Specific Boards". But, you know how when a character dies, he/she is removed from the game, and you continue? What if all the characters die? Does the game end there? That would be...interesting.



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