Heavy Rain Corner Store Gameplay

[Nuriko]

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Now if I could only get Day of the Tentacle to actually play on my PC

I found some complicated app that supposedly works but it was too much for me. I could have sworn I followed the steps to the letter but the damn thing just wouldn't run and I gave up lol.

Have you tried VirtualBox from Sun? It works fairly well, you just install a different OS on the virtual machine and there you go...

[Malacite]

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I wish they could just re-print it and make it viable for Windows XP/Vista/7 & Mac. It's an oldie but it was hilarious and might actually still sell.

[Balfree]

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I thought I'd come back to this thread right?

How exactly is it that anyone in this forum enjoyed Indigo Prophecy?

In my eyes that game failed horribly... what the shit is going on in this game?

Guy has special powers, OMG RLY?
Doesn't play with others special child.
Ancient mayan shamans, born in The Matrix.
THE EVIL COUNCIL!!!
Huge ticks?
Psychics, no wait, robots. Or rather, ONE robot.
Sacrifice the pure child! The Indigo Child! She pretty much is in the name of the game, so amazing.
CSI Kiddygrade Edition.
INGAME SEX! so fresh, cos us regular folks never do any of that!
She falls in love with the guy 10 minutes after meeting him.
In a subway, full of bums. A dead guy, who she then has fucky with.
MOAR SEX yeehaw our main character is the baumb! He scores even after hes dead, DOWANT.
I lost the game yellow robot says hi. Its snowing and its terrible. The end!

There's everything in this game, pretty much everything but quality.

And you guys are excited about the new game?

I thought people on this forum had a little bit of better taste?

[Icemage]

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Indigo Prophecy's latter half made very little sense, but the gameplay was definitely unique and refreshing. I'm excited to see Heavy Rain push the boundaries of the "normal" gameplay as well - and frankly, I don't see the problem with the graphics either. Sure, there's a big Uncanny Valley to cross, but the characters look sharp and detailed, the motions are undeniably good - no doubt to the extensive use of mocap - and the same sort of choose-your-own-adventure flair is still there, only more so.


Icemage

[Yellow Mage]

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CSI Kiddygrade Edition.

That's basically what the TV show was in the first place.

[Feba]

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Guy has special powers, OMG RLY?
Doesn't play with others special child.
Ancient mayan shamans, born in The Matrix.
THE EVIL COUNCIL!!!
Huge ticks?
Psychics, no wait, robots. Or rather, ONE robot.
Sacrifice the pure child! The Indigo Child! She pretty much is in the name of the game, so amazing.
CSI Kiddygrade Edition.
INGAME SEX! so fresh, cos us regular folks never do any of that!
She falls in love with the guy 10 minutes after meeting him.
In a subway, full of bums. A dead guy, who she then has fucky with.
MOAR SEX yeehaw our main character is the baumb! He scores even after hes dead, DOWANT.
I lost the game yellow robot says hi. Its snowing and its terrible. The end!

yes, the supernatural crap in the last third or fourth of the game turned the ending to shit, but that's not the point. It's not that it has a wonderful plot, it's that it has an incredible way of presenting and advancing it. Allowing the player to influence how events play out in very meaningful ways, allowing conversations to proceed with a huge degree of freedom, and in a natural manner. Same as Shenmue's plot is basically lifted right out of a Hong Kong kung fu flick, but it's presented in such an incredible way that that's just fine. Although it definitely works in Shenmue's case, and not in Indigo Prophecy, they're both very good games.

But to be fair to the game, you have to admit that the indigo prophecy stuff wasn't originally in the title. The original title was simply Fahrenheit. You can blame the changes on the same people that fuck up box art for the US release constantly. And the whole sex-with-zombie thing was clearly due to desperation, because, hello, the world was very likely going to end in a day or two.

[Lmnop]

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I enjoyed the plot from the get-go. But towards the end (I can mark the point in the story where it looks like production value was shot and they had to cut out a bunch and try to make sense of a bunch of shit in very little time), it started to unravel. Girl-falling-in-love-with-main-char-in-10-mins makes me laugh every time, though.

But before all that, there's something undeniably awesome about a game where your main character starts out stabbing a random stranger repeatedly.

And then there are awesome parts like when the main character leaves his very normal apartment and a few hours later, when you're Carla (the detective on the main char's trail), you visit his apartment to find it to be completely covered in occult symbols and writings on all the floors and walls. Like a crazyperson lives there. And you, the player, goes "is my main character going crazy and doesn't even realize what he's doing all the time?"

Give me any video game, movie, book -- whatever. And I will give it a summary that makes it sound at least as retarded as Balfree's. It's easy to make anything you don't want to like sound unlikable.

[Yellow Mage]

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Give me any video game, movie, book -- whatever. And I will give it a summary that makes it sound at least as retarded as Balfree's. It's easy to make anything you don't want to like sound unlikable.

You probably don't even have to - there's a decent list right over here.

[Balfree]

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It's easy to make anything you don't want to like sound unlikable.

Man the game mixes occult magic, aliens, robots, crime and a uber-ass cliche prophecy not to mention it tries REALLY hard to be really hip what with the matrix bullet dodging and crazy mid-air fighting.

It's also easy to defend something you really like I guess...

In the end the game does bring a new and interesting concept to the table but I get the feeling they were just trying out a new approach and the quality of the title itself kind of got lost in the middle, i'll still give Heavy Rain a chance but that is simply because i like a good story and the fact that i'm in control of it is really interesting, but i still i can't help but feel like a rent will be more than enough.

I honestly regret buying a copy of I.Prophecy that's for sure.

[Feba]

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Man the game mixes occult magic, aliens, robots, crime and a uber-ass cliche prophecy not to mention it tries REALLY hard to be really hip what with the matrix bullet dodging and crazy mid-air fighting.

yes, but as mentioned, you can CLEARLY see where they started to run out of funding and had to cobbled together what they had left. You know what else mixes the occult, aliens, robots, and plenty of other cliches? Halo. It works because it's so well done that it takes awhile for it to hit you that you're dealing with aliens out to destroy the galaxy, ancient mysterious forebearers of humans, ZOMBIES!!!1!!111!!1, robots out to destroy (or save, at various points) humanity, Marines IN SPAAAAAACE, and so on.

This is also why Heavy Rain is promising; they probably won't make that same use-all-resources-up-front-and-hope-there's-enough-to-finish-LATER strategic mistake, and they've said this one is staying OUT of the supernatural, which was where Indigo Prophecy met pretty much all of its problems.

[Balfree]

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Halo sucks too though... doesn't it?

but as mentioned

I know. I know.

[Feba]

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Halo sucks too though... doesn't it?

It's not as earth shattering and incredible as some would have you believe, but it's plenty solid as its own game.

[TheGrandMom]

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We cry that we want something different but we can't appreciate it when we get it. It's no wonder the same old shit keeps getting rehashed.

[Feba]

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To be fair, there are very few games that are incredibly refreshingly different AND also don't have quality problems. Much as I love Shenmue, the voice acting can be grating, and the progression isn't always brilliant.

[Lmnop]

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"Hi. My name is Quantic Dream. I've only made one game and it did pretty poorly on sales. Here's this idea we have for a game that's nothing like everything else and is 90% risk because no one wants to invest in an idea that will likely fail. So, Mr. corporate sponsor, would you like to invest in our next project?"

I won't spend more time trying to convince people to love a game when it's completely their opinion as to whether or not to like it. That's fine. But I implore anyone: support games that encourage change.