Having second thoughts about Heavy Rain here...

[dreadedcandiru99]

While I haven't been looking forward to Heavy Rain with the same level of enthusiasm as, say, Mass Effect 2, I was at least willing to give it a chance. Okay, so the entire game appears to be one long quick-time event with a primitive version of the Mass Effect dialogue wheel bolted on, and I wasn't quite as captivated by Indigo Prophecy as some of my friends were, but still, I figured this might work out.

Well, a few minutes ago, I watched this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q7DE3x_jUg].

And now I find myself wondering why a developer would go to the trouble of creating such a good-looking game for the stated purpose of delivering an immersive, cinematic experience, only to clutter it up with clumsy dialogue delivered by mediocre voice actors. ("You know what it feels like to find your own son's body on a wasteland"? Who talks like that? And why did they let the actress rush through her lines--was she running late for a dinner date or something?) This is like painstakingly hand-crafting an ornate, jewel-encrusted golden plate, then using it to serve up a lukewarm Manwich.

So yeah, does anyone else think this is as much of a potential deal-breaker as I do?

 

[Omikron009]

I don't own a ps3, and even if I did, I wouldn't have second thoughts. That is because I wouldn't have even had first thoughts.

 

[dududf]

I had second thoughts the second I heard about it... QTE The GAME?! yeah that does not bode well with me.

Partly do to me sucking at them.

 

[GoldenCondor]

This is over-hyped but in reality will be just like Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. No action whatsoever, and functions poorly as a game and much better as a movie. So in other words, it would be just like real life, boring and uninteresting.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Jesus, that was pretty awful.

'Jason! Jason!'

Hilariously bad voice acting (especially from the kid)

 

[johannmaximus]

oh well. still looks ok

 

[dreadedcandiru99]

I have heard it likened to a movie you have to hit buttons all the time to keep watching.

Oh, about that: apparently, there's one point in the demo where you're walking down an alley, and you have to hold down two buttons and then press a third just to shimmy past a dumpster. So, uh...yeah. (I read somewhere that the button-presses are supposed to mimic the way a person performs certain actions in real life. I've never had to shimmy past a dumpster in an alley, but I don't think there'd be that much to it.)

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

I enjoyed the demo. Seems like they have improved on Fahrenheit(which I loved)in just about every conceivable way. I'll take this over the wealth of GTA/GOW/COD clones that will be released this year.

 

[RatRace123]

That is the one area where my concerns lie, I feel that the acting is where the immersion could be broken. But I still remain optimistic about this, it's revolutionary in its cinematic scope. A Bioware exec once said that in the future, games will have no violence or action involved, and Heavy Rain may be a precursor to that.

Speaking of Bioware, I bet they'd be able to find good voice actors for the game.

 

[Zing]

Doesn't really ruin it for me, the story and gameplay is what counts.

Heavy Rain = Indigo Prophecy/Fahrenheight with better graphics and less drug trippin' bits.

Don't forget boobs.

 

[MetallicaRulez0]

This isn't so much a game but a semi-interactive, incredibly slow-moving movie, with 9 billion QTEs thrown in for no reason. Plus the facial animations on many of the characters are just... awful. Truly awful.

 

[Zing]

This isn't so much a game but a semi-interactive, incredibly slow-moving movie, with 9 billion QTEs thrown in for no reason. Plus the facial animations on many of the characters are just... awful. Truly awful.

That's why it has a 95 metacritic score right? Ohhh wait, you don't know what you're talking about.

 

[clutch-monkey]

looks terrible..? am i missing something

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

I never got past my first thoughts. I don't play games that make me feel guilty for no good reason.

At least not lately.

I think.

....

 

[Brad Shepard]

its a cinimatic game, and it looks like it would make such an amazing movie, it also looks like depending on your qte choices, the story changes, like if you had the money up front, you wouldent have to throw yourself in front of that car.

after seeing that, i kinda wish they would make a port for the 360

kinda...

 

[Walkchalk]

This isn't so much a game but a semi-interactive, incredibly slow-moving movie, with 9 billion QTEs thrown in for no reason. Plus the facial animations on many of the characters are just... awful. Truly awful.

That's why it has a 95 metacritic score right? Ohhh wait, you don't know what you're talking about.

Since when is Metacritic trustworthy?

 

[MetallicaRulez0]

This isn't so much a game but a semi-interactive, incredibly slow-moving movie, with 9 billion QTEs thrown in for no reason. Plus the facial animations on many of the characters are just... awful. Truly awful.

That's why it has a 95 metacritic score right? Ohhh wait, you don't know what you're talking about.

GTA4 has a 98 last I checked, and that game was nothing special. Review scores are subjective.

 

[Zing]

This isn't so much a game but a semi-interactive, incredibly slow-moving movie, with 9 billion QTEs thrown in for no reason. Plus the facial animations on many of the characters are just... awful. Truly awful.

That's why it has a 95 metacritic score right? Ohhh wait, you don't know what you're talking about.

GTA4 has a 98 last I checked, and that game was nothing special. Review scores are subjective.

Says who? This is how we gauge whether games are good or not. You just generalized a game...really badly, so I pointed out that the scores say that you're wrong.

 

[Dark Knifer]

If I had it it would keep me entertained for a little bit, but not for long. I just don't want a game that is based around real life, because that's what I try to get away from when I play video games.

 

[Jekken6]

I was thinking about buying heavy rain, but for what it is, i'll wait until it's pretty cheap.