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http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/14/heavy-rain-producer-confirms-dlc-talks-marketing/

Last month we spoke with Heavy Rain executive producer Guillaume de Fondaumiere about Quantic Dream's upcoming PS3 adventure game. As a game far from the everyday, de Fondaumiere agreed that Heavy Rain has been a challenge to market. "It's a difficult game to market, because it's difficult for people to understand what it is unless they experience it," he admitted in our video interview above. "So we have to show it to them. We probably have to give them a playable demo for them to see and experience for themselves how different and unique this experience is."

We argued that a playable demo would simply reveal how unconventional the controls could be, to which de Fondaumiere responded: "You simply cannot use conventional game mechanisms when you want to create a unique experience. But I think that -- and user tests we've conducted show that -- you get used to it very quickly. It's quite intuitive. I'm not too concerned about this. At all, actually."

Finally, when asked if he had any final words to tell the Joystiq audience, de Fondaumiere advised fans not to sell the game back to GameStop after completing the story. "Buy the game, don't sell it. Keep it to yourself. You'll need it to continue and experience more episodes in the months following the launch of the game." So, DLC confirmed, right?

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Awesome, more Heavy Rain to come! I just hope the main game isn't gimped in story because of it.



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Wow that is great, DLC for this game should be very interesting!



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Announcing DLC before releasing games themselves. I guess that's a new standard in this generation.



Probably prequel events



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Thats disgusting. Why not release it with the game seen as though its ready?



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The_Killer said:
Thats disgusting. Why not release it with the game seen as though its ready?

Most DLC takes months to create, this would only delay the game, which isn't a good idea from a business standpoint.



Odd. Future. Wolf. Gang. Kill. Em. All. OFWGKTA Don't give a fuck!

Fuck Steve Harvey. FREE EARL!

Final Fantasy Versus XIII will be the GREATEST game EVER made!!!

I'd take a bullet for Square-Enix! 

 

Hmm. My excitement for this came back a bit but making DLC before the game is even released is pretty.....interesting. The dude reminds me of Vincent Cassel....



 

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i just had an idea for an amazing Multiplayer mode

one person plays the good character, and the other one plays the Origami Killer.

the good character obviously tries to find the killer and the killer tries to outsmart the other one while claiming his victims.

don't ask me how to pull that off, its just an idea :D

...well, actually there could be a number of pre-determined victims both players could concentrate on protecting/killing.



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- George Orwell, ‘1984’

Porcupine_I said:
i just had an idea for an amazing Multiplayer mode

one person plays the good character, and the other one plays the Origami Killer.

the good character obviously tries to find the killer and the killer tries to outsmart the other one while claiming his victims.

don't ask me how to pull that off, its just an idea :D

...well, actually there could be a number of pre-determined victims both players could concentrate on protecting/killing.


Sounds pretty interesting. But how would protecting be done? And can the players kill each other? Sounds good but hard as hell to pull off....



 

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chris1_16 said:
Porcupine_I said:
i just had an idea for an amazing Multiplayer mode

one person plays the good character, and the other one plays the Origami Killer.

the good character obviously tries to find the killer and the killer tries to outsmart the other one while claiming his victims.

don't ask me how to pull that off, its just an idea :D

...well, actually there could be a number of pre-determined victims both players could concentrate on protecting/killing.


Sounds pretty interesting. But how would protecting be done? And can the players kill each other? Sounds good but hard as hell to pull off....

yes, that would be the challenge

the killer would have to first choose a victim that he can't change any more until he has killed it. he has to observe it for a certain time, to find out about its habits until he can find the perfect way to abduct it, all the time leaving clues like fingerprints and stuff, that gives the good guy time and opportunity to determine the victim himself.

 

..and you are right, he looks like Cassel



“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’