Heavy Rain

Controls let it down a lot. Breaks the feeling when you can't walk in a straight line or turn the wrong way when you have to change the camera.

This almost seems like an indie art game or something, except with extreme production values. Definitely going to get it just because it's so different.

Exactly. That's one of the things I love about certain PS3 titles, and one of the motives that make me a proud PS3 owner, some titles at least try something inovative, or just simply diferent, instead of commercial hits (Aka cash cows) like some of the xbox games.

games like Flower, Afrika, The Eye of Judgment, comes to mind. Sure, some of them suck, but at least they're trying...

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":e4q00o7k]games like Flower, Afrika, The Eye of Judgment, comes to mind. Sure, some of them suck, but at least they're trying...

Games lol

I actually want to hold off on it for a wile so I can a) get it cheep and b) wait till a time when I can sit down and play it all in one sitting.

I liked Indigo Prophecy/Fahrenheit enough to warrant me buying this. Kinda looking forward to it.

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":1ktargx0]Exactly. That's one of the things I love about certain PS3 titles, and one of the motives that make me a proud PS3 owner, some titles at least try something inovative, or just simply diferent, instead of commercial hits (Aka cash cows) like some of the xbox games.games like Flower, Afrika, The Eye of Judgment, comes to mind. Sure, some of them suck, but at least they're trying...

agreed.

Demons souls is probably my favourite game of this generation.

This isn't a game.

It's pretty much insulting as an example of an interactive piece of software.

I'll pick it up when it's out though, because I hate myself.

Well whatever it was I really enjoyed the demo.

The character animation was surreal, and I hate to say it but I actually kind of liked the QTE method. I noticed that unlike god of war I could watch what was happening rather than just focus on looking at the button icons.

Still not sold on holding down R2 to move forward though. I wonder what the argument behind that is.

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Still not sold on holding down R2 to move forward though. I wonder what the argument behind that is.

I haven't played it, but from the videos it seems the left analog stick is used in QTE's. If you have to be quick in certain cases with that stick and you already have your fingers on it it may be unfair. Using one of the shoulder buttons frees up the rest of the pad at any one time.

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...though the the lip sync could use work (oh...nm...it's a video game so I should be forgiving).

Not so fast, my friend!

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When we showed The Casting everyone agreed it was nice and it really showed that there was a potential for creating virtual actors, but we're still at this frontier where we don't totally suspend disbelief. We still have this uncanny valley to bridge. But today, I can officially announce that there is no uncanny valley any more, not in real-time.

http://kotaku.com/335065/heavy-rain-dev ... nny-valley

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/revie ... rain/61847

I never really understood what the whole game was about until now and I must say this is such a great idea, it's not gonna appeal to everyone but this is definately the most original concept for a game since Mirror's Edge (if not ever.. in fact!) plus it looks absolutely amazing.

Uncharted 1&2, Siren: Blood Curse, MGS4, Killzone 2, God Of War III and now Heavy Rain... several very good reasons to own a PS3! (although let's face it, MGS4 is worth the purchase of a PS3 alone!)

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(although let's face it, MGS4 is worth the purchase of a PS3 alone!)

I'm through most of Act 3 so far, and I definitely wouldn't go that far. Hideo Kojima crossed the line between genius and insanity with MGS4.

I really enjoyed the Heavy Rain demo. I normally abhor QTE gameplay, but they threw in enough variation on it to make it interesting. The hill climbing part was surprisingly impressive. I'm tempted to fire up the demo and see what happens if I fail the hotel room fight though.

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(although let's face it, MGS4 is worth the purchase of a PS3 alone!)

eh eh, indeed! I bought my PS3 just for that game alone, but fortunately there's a few more awesome titles for it. What a fucking awesome console, xbox don't stand a change in terms of quality.

Heavy Rain apears to be a fantastic game / interactive movie! Every ps3 owner should get this.

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I'm tempted to fire up the demo and see what happens if I fail the hotel room fight though.

I was tempted to just not do anything and listen.

I quit when those glasses were introduced

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(although let's face it, MGS4 is worth the purchase of a PS3 alone!)

I think the MGS series is one of the most overrated series of games ever created. Well marketed and hyped, but pretty meh to me. Got my PS3 for other reasons!

I have such a backlog of games on my PS3 to get through now, done R6V2, LBP at least. That just leaves KZ2, Pure, AC1, GTA4, R:FoM....

Played it for about an hour. Loved what I played. Gameplay and mood are very much Indigo Prophecy, which is awesome. My only complaint is the voice acting is terrible, which really hurts some scenes.

Also, my game likes to glitch out on me. In one scene, the character I was talking to got stuck in a loop and just kept warping back and forth from one spot of the room to the other, but everything else didn't realize this, so the camera and props she interacted with kept doing what they should have been doing while the character model glitched back and forth. It's really hard to be immersed in a game when you're talking to air and a floating cigarette

Gonna put off playing it for a few weeks until a few patches roll out.