E3 2013: What Has Beyond Two Souls Become?

I recently replayed Heavy Rain with the PS Move controls patch, and surprisingly I found it played better than with the gamepad. Too bad it looks like they dropped support for it here.

I was a huge fan of Heavy Rain despite its issues, so this looks to be really awesome. Not too sure about the Aiden thing, but getting rid of that horrid Sixaxis QTE stuff is, in my opinion, fabulous.

I don't mind QTEs too much.

Quick time events have been removed and replaced with quick time events.

@archaen:

If that is the case I should be fine. Will wait and see really. Just was first time I have had to really think about it outside of motion gaming.

@ekpyroticuniverse said:

I don't think it has anything to do with which hand she's using but which direction on the screen the action will take place, so if there's a guy ----> over on this side you push the stick ----> over here. If the dude to punch is on the left side of the screen you flick that way instead. I think you'll be fine.

I'm not a fan of QTEs but gesturally moving the analog sticks sounds really iffy to me. I hope there is a demo for this one.

Sounds brilliant to me.

I am really curious how these powers will work, seems really interesting.

I obviously don't entirely know how "the entity" is incorporated into the narrative, but I feel like the entire inclusion of it and its application during gameplay is quite silly. This is kind of how I feel about all of Quantic Dream's games as a whole: the visuals and the realistic characters and settings intrigue me, but there's always some supernatural element or other to their games that just completely kill it for me.

That new QTE system seems like an absolute disaster.

That new QTE system seems like an absolute disaster.

Is it year of the child soldiers?

I believe in Heavy Rain you had to hold down R2 in order to walk. But yeah, still weird to mention in a trailer.

@mattchops: Female Psycho Mantis? lol

Was this video suppose to be their instruction manual? What ever it was the game play turned me off, I was somewhat looking forward to this game but I do not feel it is the type of game for me.

From everything I've seen of this game it looks like it will be about 700 hours long.

Does Ellen Paige have to ghostly choke a bitch?

So is this a point and click adventure game??? But I didn't see a kickstarter

For people who have played their previous games. In heavy rain you walked forward by holding the R2 button and looked around with the left analog stick i believe. It was really shitty and was a big complaint people had with the game. Same thing with all of the quick time events.

This entire video is basically a reaction to past critiques people had with their games. It's smart, I know I am more excited knowing that it has a chance to not be as awkward as heavy rain.

@dudacles: It's obviously telling people who disliked the camera and control scheme in Heavy Rain that it's not the same. You no longer "drive" your character. You have direct control. No more QTE's (debatable), the ghost is always available so it's not strictly scripted etc.

Before this looked like some sort of bad splinter cell recruitment drive. Now there's a supernatural entity flying around blasting shit while you slap the analog stick around to do shit.

It's called hard work.

Yeah, it's crazy. Compared to the very first PS3 games, this is next-gen.

I have always wanted to be in Ellen Page...

I mean, umm, nevermind. Anyways, game looks pretty cool.

What, like job placement?

Are platformers QTE-based games where the jump QTE prompt is an obstacle?

Guitar Hero/Rock Band were just peripheral-based QTE's that lasted upwards of 7 minutes.

GET AT ME

Not sure why the story needs to include war in somalia and crazy train jumping in order to be emotionally involving, but I like the ideas of the game and interactions do look far more intuitive, so I'm down.

Ellen Page with different hairstyles: The Game.

A couple of things:

1. Muting the color is not grey-scale.

2. I have always wanted to be Ellen Page.

I'm still not really sure what this game is about, but the more I see of it the more I think it looks freaking sweet.

I loved Heavy Rain, but I have no idea what to make of this game. Hopefully it makes for an exciting surprise in October rather than a disappointment.

I don't mind QTE, story focused games as long as the story doesn't suck and the voice acting isn't horrible. Heavy rain suffered from both those things, but it seems at least this game has proper acting.

@redrocketwestie:

@ekpyroticuniverse said:

Hopefully not too much of a derail, but how do you play most games? You don't need to know which hand is which to know which way to run in a platformer. It sounds like this system is similarly intuitive. You move the stick in the direction Jody needs to go, not based on handedness.

I was iffy on this game, but it's looking better and better. I'm definitely a lot more interested than I was.

Normally this is not an issue, you are right you move the stick without really thinking. But this game asks me to identify which left or right the character is using (something I can't do instantly) then asks me to correspond with the same left or right stick movement (something I will need a second to work out) Not a major issue but will mean I am going to die so much lol

The main problem I had with Heavy Rain was that some of the game's story development was based purely on a simple reflex system. I felt robbed when I couldn't react fast enough and my character died resulting in me resetting the system and trying again.

If your skill and tactical ability in gameplay affected the outcome of the story it would feel fair but when it comes down to simple reflex motions it feels more like the game failed instead of you. Not sure if I explained my point very clearly but it doesn't seem like Beyond will resolve this problem completely. I like the look of the game and the main character and everything else about it, but deeper gameplay mechanics should be involved when the fate of a character is on the line, and player choice should be involved as often as possible (do I fight this guy or jump off the train etc).

Looking pretty damn good Monsieur Cage.

Reminds me of Geist.

I love how friggin' nuts this game looks. Can't wait.

This looks so good...

This is beginning to look more and more like a female metal gear solid.

Jesus Christ, what the fuck is this trailer?

@ekpyroticuniverse said:

Hopefully not too much of a derail, but how do you play most games? You don't need to know which hand is which to know which way to run in a platformer. It sounds like this system is similarly intuitive. You move the stick in the direction Jody needs to go, not based on handedness.

I was iffy on this game, but it's looking better and better. I'm definitely a lot more interested than I was.

Because that's new for a Quantic Dream game, sad to say. Have you played one before? Maybe you'll love/hate them as much as I do!

How the hell does this run on the PS3.

With 256/256 megs of split memory for system/graphics.

What is this wicked-ass magic.

Cooool.

Well I am boned. I cannot tell my left and right apart, since I am dyspraxic. I have hellboys right hand tattooed on my right arm to tell which is which and with the game needing quick identification of left and right no way I will be able to be good at this game.

@secondpersonshooter: Blame the Die Hard arcade game!

So excited for this game, have no idea what the fuck it's about! But excited none the less.

Punch out didn't have QTEs, not the NES one anyway. Just twitch gameplay and pattern memorization.

This looks fucking crazy.