That was my mistake since most adventure games today are action adventure, I just thought it would assume the general position. Anyway, Akvod was still wrong because Davd Cage said in his opinion adventure games are dead. I disagree....and adventure games are alive and well in the form of Alan Wake. Given it has a twist or horror and suspense. :) 

You make lots of sense there then. I just cannot stand Heavy Rain and Mass Effect being put into the same sentence which someone before you did. 

CGI-Quality said: Bottom line, HEAVY RAIN isn't like Dragon's Lair, IS in the adventure genre (though at one point, I denied it too), and has many different endings. David Cage has admitted he doesn't know what genre he would put HEAVY RAIN, but still considers it a psychological thriller while being an adventure about story and character's everyday lives. It's not a game about "pass or fail" (LIKE DRAGON'S LAIR), but about decision making, choices, emotion and the like. I've listened to this man's words over and over again and always have to clear up inaccuracies. Thank you Torillian and Akvod, for y'all have done your homework!

When did he say it was an adventure game? My quotes are from his interview with Game informer magazine. 

David Cage can think whatever the fuck he thinks, it won't change the game he made itself, and its gameplay mechanics. Just like Uwe Boll saying his movies are masterpieces, or George W. Bush saying his war is just doesn't make it.

Here I can call "Akvod's Adventure" an RTS. Reading my description of it, would you say "You're the boss"? No.

I can't believe you're willing to put a murky modern game (which incorporates many genres) like Alan Wake in the adventure category, with its combat and shooting gameplay, when Heavy Rain doesn't have an ounce of that. The most combat you'll be doing are pressing triangle or circle in the QTE.

Stop avoiding the question by quoting David Cage and answer the 2 fundamental questions:

1) What is the core definition of an adventure game?

2) How does Heavy Rain fit under it?

Cant you be serious for 1 minute

Akvod's right, the game is most clearly an adventure game from what we've seen regardless of what David Cage says. Developers can be wrong, and unless the full game is far different from what we've seen I would say Heavy Rain fits quite comfortably in the Adventure genre. it's like a point and click mystery game made for consoles and that would definitely be the adventure genre.

S.T.A.G.E. said: CGI-Quality said: Bottom line, HEAVY RAIN isn't like Dragon's Lair, IS in the adventure genre (though at one point, I denied it too), and has many different endings. David Cage has admitted he doesn't know what genre he would put HEAVY RAIN, but still considers it a psychological thriller while being an adventure about story and character's everyday lives. It's not a game about "pass or fail" (LIKE DRAGON'S LAIR), but about decision making, choices, emotion and the like. I've listened to this man's words over and over again and always have to clear up inaccuracies. Thank you Torillian and Akvod, for y'all have done your homework! When did he say it was an adventure game? My quotes are from his interview with Game informer magazine.

A work is a seperate entity from the author. Once it's created, it has its own properties and qualities.

The author intending or saying what a work is doesn't matter, but how he actually made it.

David Cage could say that he didn't mean to create an adventure game, but from what I saw, I strongly believe he did.

You are not being constructive in this discussion because you're not saying your own beliefs (or at least supporting them) with your own ideas, but simply falling back on the same old tactic of "But, but, David Cage said so!"

Answer my 2 questions:

1) What is an adventure game?

2) Why or why not does Heavy Rain fall under that genre.

Types of answer I ban:

David Cage said X

It's not Mass Effect or Alan Wake.

Ok, instead of saying Dragon's Lair, lets say Heavy Rain gameplay is like the dialogues in Mass Effect then?

Essentially that's an improvement over Dragon's Lair, by branching the story line to multiple choices and outcomes, but in it's core it's the same - an interactive movie.

Like the dialgoues in Dragon Age (I suppose they are very similar in their structure to Mass Effect's) - I didn't feel like I was playing a game when I did the dialogues in Dragin Age: I felt like I was watching, or rather "directing", an interactive movie.

Don't diss my MMORTS d00d

Taking back because I'm unsure.