Heavy Rain: New Screenshots and development footage*

Heavy Rain Not 'In line' with Trophies

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Interesting take on the Trophy policy.

 

Sounds like a pretty easy fix to me, just make all the trophies based on the important-ish choices like Infamous's good and bad choices.

They needn't give the game away as they can be secret until you've acheived them.

 

Heavy Rain "on time, on budget"

Have been super busy lately. Catching up on my reading, including some Heavy Rain news.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/heavy-rain-on-time-on-budget

Interview Part I: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/guillaume-de-fondaumiere-part-one
(Talks about game budget and French tax breaks. Would be good complement to the earlier KZ2 budget discussion)

Interview Part II: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/catching-the-rain
(Talks about schedule, release window and game aspiration)

Surprised they rate Heavy Rain as a Horror game. Isn't it more like a Triller ?

Also very eager to compare Heavy Rain with Uncharted 2 and The Last Guardian.

 

Fahrenheit-style supernatural stuff confirmed.

 

What supernatural entities does Fahrenheit have ? Put your answer in spoiler tags.

 

Actually, Fahrenheit was supernatural all the way through. It just gets crazy/stupid at the end.

I think we're past the statute of limitations but...

Spoiler

The end of the game turns into a matrixy/cosmic/apocalyptic battle for the fate of humanity. It starts off with a murder that occurs because of voodoo possession. That plot turns crazy soon, you turn out to be a wellspring for some sort of cosmic entity, you die and return to life, by the end of the game you're running on the sides of buildings holding onto the Golden Child while AI constructs and ancient evils fire kamehamehas at your heads.

 

That was probably one of the best spoilers I have read obonicus lol

 

[speechless]

You sound really like ShootMyMonkey relating his prior work experience. It broke my impression/assumption that Sony first party games are rather subdued in game themes.

 

Well, Fahrenheit was an Atari game, I think. I know I played it on PC (with a controller, natch). But that's part of why people are worried about Heavy Rain, because Fahrenheit starts off really well. But Cage has said that he won't do it again.

The stuff Fahrenheit does well, no one else does, and Fahrenheit actually does them fairly well. It is very much the French idea of what an American modern horror-mystery should be, and that includes the basketball-playing black guy cop who is greeted by a funk track whenever he steps on-scene and who IIRC very very close to talking jive.

 

Some amazing Heavy Rain work here:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=17178961&postcount=1

(56K modem still exist ? If so, don't look at the above link).


EDIT: New Heavy Rain trailer here:
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/18/new-heavy-rain-trailer-is-all-about-love/

 

Very impressed by the trailer.

This one seems to really focus on telling it's story. It might as well be my most anticipated title of the year !

 

I'm much more impressed by the gameplay actually. It's the first time that I actually think I might like this game. It's not flaweless, but it definitely looks like a true adventure game, like a modernisation of the old Lucasarts stuff.

http://www.eurogamer.net/videos/heavy-rain-show-floor-gameplay

 

Gameplay looks cool. I like adventure games. My interest in this game was at about -563.4%, but now I'm going to keep my eye on it.

 

David Cage is certainly exploring new gameplay motivation and mechanics ("How far will you go for your loved ones ?"). I am a sucker for innovation. So I approve !

The fat man (detective ?) above moves a little awkward. For some reason, it feels like a skinny guy playing as a fat dude in mocap suit ^_^
Nonetheless, I really like where this game is going.

EDIT: http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/20/heavy-rains-david-cage-wants-to-set-the-record-straight-on-qtes/

Poor guy.

 

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/20/heavy-rain-features-13-voiced-languages-subtitles-in-5-more/

So they will all reside on 1 Blu-ray disc ? and I can switch between them ?

 

The trailer struck something with me...maybe because I have two sons

 

The GC2009 vids lip sync and mouth animation is pretty much solid. However it still suffers from the "dead eyebrow syndrome" so many modern games have.


I mean if a small game like Galleon on the original xbox did it well, surely it cant be that hard?

 

Dead Eyebrow Syndrome ?

 

Same scene they released during Gamecom but with three different endings/solutions.
"Save the Day" - IGN (First version) It may contain a few spoilers. Watch it on your own risk.

Gametreailers Second version
Gametrailers Part 1
Gametrailers Part 2

Third version from Playstation blog David himself talk us through the scene

 

Heavy Rain facing same O censorship issues. Personally, I hope they don't touch the original content. But as a parent, I can understand the paranoia perfectly. Is it a good idea to do a DLC to patch back the adult content ?

http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2009/08/26/sony-pushing-for-heavy-rain-censorship/

Cage in Develop: http://www.develop-online.net/news/32651/Cage-We-need-to-get-censorship-back-to-normal