Girls Would Love Heavy Rain, Says CliffyB
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Actually... [http://twitter.com/#!/therealcliffyb] "When bad pullquote summaries attack. If you see the Heavy Rain quote please read the full quote. Fred, next time I see you it's on! 
" and "This type of journalism is going to force devs to never be able to comment on peers products and force devs into talking PR fact sheets."
CliffyB said both of those things. I felt like I should bring this to your attention.
" and "This type of journalism is going to force devs to never be able to comment on peers products and force devs into talking PR fact sheets."CliffyB said both of those things. I felt like I should bring this to your attention.
How about making a game people actually care about, then it would be much easier to market. Now it is too late since it is very hard to appeal to a broad audience with a glorified FMV game.
Ahaha, very much this. My roommate and I (both female, gasp!) had a grand old time at that scene, actually. It was kind of nice to see that turn on the classic sexualization that tends to happen.IAmTheVoid said:
While I do agree that the crime drama watching crowd would be a perfect market to advertise to, dime store gossip rags would not be the best place to reach them. Ads during crime shows, maybe? That seems like it would make a whole lot more sense to me.
If Sony released Jersey Shore the Videogame with a shower head peripheral, they'd definitely have the female gamer market. Rescue Me the Videogame might also work.
"only going after core gamers", several women I know would probably be offended that you do not include them as mainstream gamers. Anyway, I don't really think that heavy rain was advertised one way or another, it was simply advertised as a crime thriller and if people were interested in that they would have checked it out.
I can see why you don't never met any, they avoid you like crazy. My girlfriend plays games just as much as me, and gets more into the story than I do, and I am visiting the local game store every week for any new launches.La Barata said:
As for the topic at hand, I like Cliffy, but sometimes he doesn't think before he talks, and I would disagree on his assumption that the game would do better if it marked towards the ladies. Sure it might have worked, but it wouldn't pull in the record numbers that he believes it might have.
EDIT 1337th post. How about that.
I.. You.. We... Say what now?La Barata said:
I'm fairly sure that AS a girl gamer, I still have an attention span and from what I've seen, I would love to try Heavy Rain. Cut scenes and all. All you've effectively done is show how fragile the male ego can be by labelling a game a "girls game" and saying men won't play it.
Ew, cooties. Grow up.
Oh. And as for this. My EX boyfriend didn't have an xbox, but he sure liked using mine! My well loved, well stocked xbox that I play on a regular basis with a lot of my other girlfriends who bring their controllers and games from THEIR xboxes.La Barata said:
So, y'know...
Yeah, the attention span of an Xbox player! *hides*Radelaide said:
Hey, that's only when it's a game that isn't out on PC yet (or is a really shitty port)!Radelaide said:
PS: Please don't hurt me.
Stupid idea is stupid. Women who read glossy magazines are more concerned with getting their hair done than spending 10 hours playing an 'interactive movie.' You'd have more success selling the game if you'd, say, handed out freebies with movie mags saying it's the 'new step in interactive media' or something. Or demos along with other, game related paraphernalia.
My lack of boobies probably explains my lack of interest for this interactive movie then. Pfew, for a moment I thought that there was something wrong with me.
Why do I get the feeling Cliffy B is this huge frat boy who just happended too get lucky and get a job at a gaming Company? now i'm sure he works hard, but part of me can't help but picture him drinking in his office surrounded by half naked women.
OT: an interesting idea. i'm also surprised that Heavy rain only sold 1.5 million. mind you its still an impressive number, but I expected it too do better.
OT: an interesting idea. i'm also surprised that Heavy rain only sold 1.5 million. mind you its still an impressive number, but I expected it too do better.
