Is the Heavy Rain Mall Scene Uncanny-Valley-Tastic?

[MurderousToaster]

It would be very, very emotional if it didn't feel so odd.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

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Clowns...

I HATE clowns.

 

[Vigilantis]

I...Hate...CLOWNS!

 

[Summerstorm]

Looks well made. Actors are good, good cinematography and pacing. Looks fine to me. But the writing... Jason is a complete moron... and the clown is fucking disgustingly evil... ALL CLOWNS ARE EVIL.

I would play that game. I liked "Fahrenheit" too, up to THAT point. (YES THAT ONE were everything went to hell with the story).

 

[Skuffyshootster]

I thought the clown looked good, but that isn't something to be praising a game on, now is it?

The rest of the characters looked good, and the voice acting was, for the most part, ok.

Sadly, I don't have a PS3.

 

[inpachi]

I wasn't planning on buying it anyways.. Its just another one of those over hyped so much that it just has to suck games.. Like MW2 oh crap hope no Cod fanboyz read that..

 

[SimuLord]

The spirits within this game are so far down in the valley that it's legitimately "fuck, what were these people thinking?!"

Really, it confirmed my own prejudices about the game. I wasn't getting it before, I'm really not getting it now.

 

[Ancientgamer]

Well, the dubbing seemed a bit out of sync with the body gestures, and sometimes they looked a little shooldawhoop why opening their mouth, but the animations and crowd dynamics seemed fantastic.



Oh, and that clown scared the fuck out of me.

 

[Skreeee]

The dialogue feels excruciating to me. I can't stand badly written dialogue, or any that makes me think, "There's almost no one on Earth who would say something in that way."

 

[Assassin Xaero]

I didn't really feel anything after watching that. I'll admit the game is different from anything I've seen, but as I've said before, it still looks boring as hell.

 

[DaxStrife]

Didn't seem that bad to me, mostly some awkward movements and bad delivery; that kid was acting really excited but the voice actor didn't match that level.

 

[MagnetoHydroDynamics]

Scawy...

 

[rossatdi]

Argh! Fire...kill it with.

Not really a fan of the move towards to super realistic graphics. Partially because of this and partially because I'm not sure how comfortable I am murdering thousands of realistic fake people.

But, hell, its a tough line.

 

[-IT-]

Didn't feel "real" enough to be proper uncanny-material. The way they characters moved and facial expressions where not that realistic.

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Also, CHRIST what an annoying kid.

 

[Plurralbles]

after five seconds, her mouth got way too big and I completely lost it.

Then I kept watching and... no, game creators, you can't quite get RL. And you can get so close it goes the otehr way.

 

[Jared]

Gah!

I've just walked into a Blade Runner Replicant training camp!

Nope, Fahrenheit actually looked better than that, realistic face wise. Which isn't saying much.

Yeah...characters are little offputting...aside from that, its got some intrest ehind it.

 

[Arrers]

That's just too creepy. Pity really, I was quite interested in this.

 

[Heart of Darkness]

Yeah...that's definitely uncanny valley. And they couldn't get a better voice actor the kid? Like, a younger one? With a higher voice?

Meh, I don't know. On the one hand, I can empathize easily, so I might be able to get into the story, but I'm not terribly fond of the animations or gameplay. If I had a PS3, I'd be on the fence about this, but...eh...

 

[The Austin]

What a stupid little boy.........

Yea. I thought Heavy Rain would work, but that vidio looked... Well, bad. The graphics were bad, the voice acting was bad, and the mouth-to-voice coordination was bad. It all looked Bad.

I hope it turns out better than this.
And I hope the Dad is OK.

 

[lacktheknack]

"Can I try on a pair of shoes?"

WAAAAUGH!

But otherwise, I didn't think it looked that bad. Just her jaw when she said that.

The voice acting, sadly needs a bit of work. It looks like a truly amazing idea, though. Kinda wish I had a PS3.