And that's why you have to wonder why they couldn't get native-english voice actors for the english audio. Honestly it's really weird hearing the french accents bleed through in some of the characters. They're not bad actors or anything but the accents are somewhat illusion-breaking.
Heavy Rain
Game » consists of 12 releases. Released Jan 25, 2010
An interactive thriller from the studio behind Indigo Prophecy, sporting a dark storyline involving the investigation of a mysterious serial killer.
So presumably this is gonna be pushed by Sony as a BIG DEAL
If I was Sony I would be very afraid of this game. It's a strange game and if it doesn't sell well I'm sure they don't want to lose any more money.
Don't get me wrong the game might be great, but that doesn't always translate to great sales.
"If I was Sony I would be very afraid of this game."I bet they are. From what I've heard, the only reason the game exists is that they didn't have anything else to show off at some event a couple of years back. If they had other games to show, Heavy Rain would probably never even have been announced.
Sony has a knack for pushing "artsy" games for their systems. The PS2 has their Team ICO games while the PS3 has Heavy Rain and Flower. They seem to always want a couple of games to advertise their system as having a game library with more than shooters, racers, action, and sports games.
" @JeffGoldblum said:This game would've came out regardless of if sony "Spotlighted" it, Quantic Dream is a good developer and i dont think Sony would want to alienate them."If I was Sony I would be very afraid of this game."I bet they are. From what I've heard, the only reason the game exists is that they didn't have anything else to show off at some event a couple of years back. If they had other games to show, Heavy Rain would probably never even have been announced. "
With that being said, Indigo Prophecy is a cult hit video game, it would be dumb for sony not to take a chance on Heavy Rain. Its a shame Sony doesn't do nearly enough marketing. Of course, where do you market Heavy Rain...(my only thought on that would be a movie theater, make a nice "movie like" trailer for the game, i think the people watching in a theater could really get into it, and understand the "press button" action sequences, regardless of if they are a gamer or not).
" @Icemael said:" @JeffGoldblum said:This game would've came out regardless of if sony "Spotlighted" it, Quantic Dream is a good developer and i dont think Sony would want to alienate them. With that being said, Indigo Prophecy is a cult hit video game, it would be dumb for sony not to take a chance on Heavy Rain. Its a shame Sony doesn't do nearly enough marketing. Of course, where do you market Heavy Rain...(my only thought on that would be a movie theater, make a nice "movie like" trailer for the game, i think the people watching in a theater could really get into it, and understand the "press button" action sequences, regardless of if they are a gamer or not). ""If I was Sony I would be very afraid of this game."I bet they are. From what I've heard, the only reason the game exists is that they didn't have anything else to show off at some event a couple of years back. If they had other games to show, Heavy Rain would probably never even have been announced. "
I think it's great Sony decided to push this game. I'm a fan of games that try something different even if they don't work out exactly as planned.
it is a big deal.
Besides Indigo Prophecy and maybe a couple other games out there...
There is nothing like this.
Its an incredibly immersive story telling experience. Thats the bottom line. Its basically a way of tell stories in a way that engages the viewer like never before.
also i think SONY knows VERY WELL what kind of game this is and what kind of sales to expect from it.
Saying they are afraid of anything is fucking ridiculous. They rely on games like Uncharted 2 and MGS4 and God of War 3, not games like Heavy Rain. lot of fanboys on this thread.
" @Icemael said:I'm pretty sure I heard on a podcast that them needing something to show off at some event literally is the only reason the game exists. I can't guarantee that it's true, of course, but I see no reason why anyone would lie about that." @JeffGoldblum said:This game would've came out regardless of if sony "Spotlighted" it, Quantic Dream is a good developer and i dont think Sony would want to alienate them.""If I was Sony I would be very afraid of this game."I bet they are. From what I've heard, the only reason the game exists is that they didn't have anything else to show off at some event a couple of years back. If they had other games to show, Heavy Rain would probably never even have been announced. "
" @Phished0ne said:thats a load of horse shit. this game exists because of the incredibly passionate developers behind it." @Icemael said:I'm pretty sure I heard on a podcast that them needing something to show off at some event literally is the only reason the game exists. I can't guarantee that it's true, of course, but I see no reason why anyone would lie about that. "" @JeffGoldblum said:This game would've came out regardless of if sony "Spotlighted" it, Quantic Dream is a good developer and i dont think Sony would want to alienate them.""If I was Sony I would be very afraid of this game."I bet they are. From what I've heard, the only reason the game exists is that they didn't have anything else to show off at some event a couple of years back. If they had other games to show, Heavy Rain would probably never even have been announced. "
and Sony has more than enough kick ass surprises to show of at E3 every year
Maybe I'm losing touch with new releases as I get older, but MAN, how did I not know up to this point that this game was a PS3 exclusive? I swear I thought this game was coming out on the PC and 360 as well, and I was all set to buy the PC version. I go to D2D, not there. Then I try Steam, not there either. Weird, they usually have preorders up well before a week until release. So I check MS's site, not there either. Then it finally hits me; "Is.... is this game PS3 only?"
I mean, I have a PS3 so no big deal, but I was totally out to lunch on this one.
" @Icemael said:He has a point actually. The first thing we saw of Heavy Rain (the monolouge) was tech demo that Quantic showed off. It was not a game by then. It also helped Quantic that they wanted to support Playstation 3 and SCEE was on the lookout for new games and saw their demo. So it's kind of a fluke or a accidental pitch if you will. So when we first heard about Heavy Rain there was nothing except for that demo." @Phished0ne said:thats a load of horse shit. this game exists because of the incredibly passionate developers behind it. and Sony has more than enough kick ass surprises to show of at E3 every year "" @Icemael said:I'm pretty sure I heard on a podcast that them needing something to show off at some event literally is the only reason the game exists. I can't guarantee that it's true, of course, but I see no reason why anyone would lie about that. "" @JeffGoldblum said:This game would've came out regardless of if sony "Spotlighted" it, Quantic Dream is a good developer and i dont think Sony would want to alienate them.""If I was Sony I would be very afraid of this game."I bet they are. From what I've heard, the only reason the game exists is that they didn't have anything else to show off at some event a couple of years back. If they had other games to show, Heavy Rain would probably never even have been announced. "
BTW... don't you think that the woman in that demo looks alot like the prostitute in the demo you can play on PSN now?
Real Casting video:
@Icemael: Regardless of whether or not the game "came from a tech demo" you can't say the game "wouldn't exist" without Sony giving the tech demo a shot at E3, i guarantee that Quantic was working on this game anyway.
"@Icemael: Regardless of whether or not the game "came from a tech demo" you can't say the game "wouldn't exist" without Sony giving the tech demo a shot at E3, i guarantee that Quantic was working on this game anyway. "I'm not saying it wouldn't exist. I'm saying I've heard it wouldn't exist, and since I fail to see any reason anyone would lie about that(and if my memory serves me correctly, the dude who mentioned it had got the information from David Cage himself) I think it's pretty likely that that's the case. I'm not saying you have to believe it -- hell, seeing as I can't even remember what podcast it was on, I might just have misheard something -- I'm just saying that to me, it seems believable.
Can people not suspend disbelief enough to just assume that the characters have weird accents? I mean, you can be in New York and not sound like a New Yorker.
I'm going to call it right now. The game will be great, but it will sell like shit. And heres a few reason why it can/will be a sales flop.
1. Sony cant market videogames.
2. People don't usually like QTEs and wont give the game a chance.
3. Story heavy games dont really sell all that well, very few exceptions.
4. Farenheit/Indigo Prophesty probebly scared of potential buyers because of its incredably bad ending and paceing.
5. They haven't shown the game off all that well outside of the hardcore gaming circle. This is a game that should have more covarage in mainstream media and showcase that games can be more then GTA or kids toys, simply put, which is what the public sees games as.
Games aren't funded by sheer willpower." @Icemael said:
" @Phished0ne said:thats a load of horse shit. this game exists because of the incredibly passionate developers behind it. and Sony has more than enough kick ass surprises to show of at E3 every year "" @Icemael said:I'm pretty sure I heard on a podcast that them needing something to show off at some event literally is the only reason the game exists. I can't guarantee that it's true, of course, but I see no reason why anyone would lie about that. "" @JeffGoldblum said:This game would've came out regardless of if sony "Spotlighted" it, Quantic Dream is a good developer and i dont think Sony would want to alienate them.""If I was Sony I would be very afraid of this game."I bet they are. From what I've heard, the only reason the game exists is that they didn't have anything else to show off at some event a couple of years back. If they had other games to show, Heavy Rain would probably never even have been announced. "
I'm sure the game would come out with or without Sony's help, but Sony's push they gave it is probably the reason we are talking about it now.
I'd bet Quantic Dream had 'final cut' as part of their exclusivity deal. Nothing to do with Sony in that regard.
" Sadly, Sony doesn't seem to know how to market any big game they have. I've never really seen good marketing for any of the games they publish. "Sony had bus stop ads put up for Killzone 2 in Toronto. But somebody complained that when their children looked at the ads, it reminded them of Nazis or the War in Iraq, so they pulled down the ads.
They really need to market this game to women, it could do so well with that demographic.
As for accents, I love Jayden's in the demo, he sounds like a French Canadian doing an impression of a Kennedy.
Also, why is everyone worrying about sales? It's gonna do fine. Not blockbuster numbers, but fine. It's been top of a host of Amazon sales charts worldwide for a while now, and while that's not a big indication of sales, it certainly means people ARE preordering it. It'll do fine.
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