Beyond: Two Souls

[Ruiadas]

After Heavy Rain I wasn’t excited for Beyond at all. Heavy Rain felt so boring and contrived to me because I couldn’t give a crap about the characters, the only upside is I got the ‘Shaun!’ bug at the end (if you’ve never seen it is worth a watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t0uCWjQ6Og) which had me in tears from laughter but somehow I don’t think that was the intended effect. Cage’s problem, with both Heavy Rain and Indigo Prophecy, is that he thinks that if the in game character cares about something I will too but without properly establishing the character as a person I have no way to get emotional invested in their experience. It is too bad too because with better writing these games could be really great. I can only imagine having a season of The Wire or a remake of the TNG game A Final Unity done by Quantic Dream and what a trip that would be.

That being said, I’ve read a few interviews about Beyond and it does look like they are working more on the characterization side of things so I’ll prob pick it up when it comes out. Assuming I can tear myself away from Hearthstone by then D:

 

[Arwin]

And that's my point. We'll never get something as good as a high end tv show if there's just one of these. This genre is like the adventure game, highly dependent on story and characters.

 

[RenegadeRocks]

Not going to watch any 2 Souls trailer unfortunately. Just remind me when the release date is when it's close.

Good boy :smile: ! I haven't watched anything except the first two videos either. The game releases on the 8th october, but funnily theres still no psn pre order even though we have pre orders fpr watch Dogs and COD which release in November.
I am hoping next week will bring in the pre order, hopefully .

 

[DieH@rd]

Demo of Beyond: Two Souls [3GB] can be snatched by liking US Gamestop FB page, they will give you serial for US PSN
https://www.facebook.com/GameStop?sk=app_174961479209942

This demo will be made available on PSN in a week.

 

[patsu]

Is it coming next month ?

 

[RenegadeRocks]

Is it coming next month ?

8th October. Still no news about the psn version

 

[baten]

Just started playing - so far it's awsome. I love Cage's work, imo we need more of this kind of games.

 

[Billy Idol]

Just started playing - so far it's awsome. I love Cage's work, imo we need more of this kind of games.

Where did you get it?!?

 

[RenegadeRocks]

Its leaked on torrents...Otherwise it releases on the 8th. Maybe someone broke street dates. happened with HR too.

 

[Arwin]

There are review copies out there and of course a demo is up.

 

[Billy Idol]

I played the demo, and it is fantastic...unfortunately, starting at 8th october, I can't play for about 3 weeks...so I hoped to buy it earlier somewhere...

 

[Brad Grenz]

Yeah, I thought the demo was pretty brilliant. I'm suddenly very excited about this game.

 

[RenegadeRocks]

I was putting off downloading the demo, wanting to experience it when it launches, but with no PSn version in sight, and you guys praising the demo so much....I am getting a feeling I will be playing the demo son. Gotta fight it !

 

[baten]

Where did you get it?!?

I meant the demo. I will definitely get the game first day, the game is fabulous!

 

[RenegadeRocks]

First review : 8.5
http://www.hardwarezone.com.my/tech-news-review-beyond-two-souls?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hardwarezone-my%2Fall+(HardwareZone.com.my+Content)

I won't be reading any reviews, they usually always take away all surprises from the game.

Edit: saw a 4.5/5, another 4.5/5 and a 9.something. When are big sites gonna announce the scores? I think even if these are inital scores, we can see it works.

 

[DieH@rd]

I've finished the game and its magnificent. Really awesome adventure game, perfect ending to the currentgen. QD managed to extract absolute everything from PS3, story is great, acting is top notch, gameplay is much better.

BTW reviews go between glowing 10/10 reviews, like the one from Revision 3:

...to the torrents of dissatisfaction like from Destructoid [Jim Sterling has a long standing hate against David Cage and his games]:

 

[Scott_Arm]

Eurogamer, Destructoid and Kotaku reviews are not particularly good. I think it all hinges on whether you enjoy the interactive movie style of game, and how high you place the bar for writing in that kind of game (relative to other games or to movies and tv).

 

[DrJay24]

Anyone who has played Heavy Rain should know what they are in for, they will probably be happy. Some games just don't appeal to the typical 18-30 year old male gamer (who make up reviewers), but its nice some are experimenting with something other than GTA and COD type games. Gaming as a medium could use some genre expanding.

 

[Brad Grenz]

Yeah, it's unfortunate that games like this one become lightning rods for people obsessed with enforcing some narrow definition of what a game can be. I hate reading a review when it's more a semantic deconstruction of the title's right to exist than an examination of how enjoyable or enriching the experience was.

 

[patsu]

I got it ! [hurry back to office]