Quick Look: Throwback: Indigo Prophecy

This game was brilliant at the start. The very start of the game, the tension of the scene where you're cleaning up the body and trying to get out without getting noticed. How it immediatly shifts to being the cops on the scene of the murder, investigating the murder you just commited on a different character. 
The game started off amazing, and had some brilliant moments throughout, but the game just get's worse the longer you play it. When the climax of the game is literally 2 minutes in...
 
 
Super hyped for heavy rain because the guy really sounds like he learned from his mistakes on Indigo prophecy with interviews I've heard with him.

"Shake the controller to pee."

looks really interesting. isn't there a sequel to this? dreamfall or something? heard pretty much universal praise about this or that.

Uhhh, been trying to install this on windows 7....... wont fucking run... i've tried everything, i give up

What the hell, a two man quick look?

All right. Reinstalling and playing it up to the part where Lucas dyes his hair.

I've been trying to find this game for my original Xbox forever. No luck yet, I'm afraid.

Endurance run, please!

Oh yeah... I think the mood meter for your character's mental state is important. If it gets too low, I think they off themselves and you die. Can't remember what the lowest it can get is though... "wrecked" I think.

Thanks for posting this guys...you always deliver the goods! Funny how you're playing the Xbox version when Sony has the next one exclusive. Was actually the clincher in my decision to buy a PS3... Heavy Rain and Alan Wake are my type of games... Can't wait!

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I just played this game on Monday specifically because of this Quick Look and the Heavy Rain preview. I got about 5 minutes past where you control Carla and her partner, then I got stupidly frustrated because as Lucas, I hid the knife in the trash and I wanted Carla to find it so she gets the credit, but I made her partner do it because I was fucking around and I think her partner is an ASS so I quit. I will definitely load this back up and try to finish it between other games. I remember it seeming fascinating when 1UP FM did their Backlog of it(remember that anyone? fucking awesome), but I just recently found a PC copy in my mess of older games. To be honest, once you've played through the two scenes in the diner, you can say you've played Indigo Prophecy from what I've heard. It gets ABSURD and crazy at the end with that little girl, and the gameplay gets really frustrating, but it's an interesting game. Endurance Run it! But do not for the love of god play it on PC because the controls are so annoynig to get used to.

Also...the tutorial is hilarious and David Cage totally lends his voice and likeness to it.
Also, also...Farenheit is signifigantly better because of the sex scene.    

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I played the PC version up to the army base childhood part and I'd had more than enough by that point. Using a keyboard and mouse for this game makes it far more frustrating than playing with a controller, which I found out after messing around on the PS2 version for a bit. Quantic Dream is pretty good at coming up with cool concepts and getting me interested in their games, but after playing Omikron The Nomad Soul and then Indigo Prophecy, I'm not excited for Heavy Rain at all.

Btw this let's play of Indigo Prophecy is hilarious, check it out:
 
 http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Fahrenheit/

this was a pleasant surprise when i played it back in the day (not that it was that long ago).  the game does kinda "nuke the fridge" at the back quarter, but it does offer a unique experience to the player.  nice quick look as always. 

We need more of these throwback QLs.

Endurance run it.
 
It'd like a Giant Bomb song featuring Chris Brown... only so much better.

Turns out you can't unlock the scenes in the Indigo Prophecy PC version since patch 1.1 
 
So those looking to play the unedited game, don't buy from Steam since they auto-patch games. It's silly that D2D is selling it for double price. I just hate not getting the content I rightfully bought. I'm surprised as fuck that there are no fan patches to re-enable the scenes like The Witcher had before the devs did it themselves.
 
Also the controller support is weak. If I didn't already own an Xbox Type-S controller and adapter, I would have rather gotten the Xbox version instead of on PC.
 
@Apathylad said:

" @EVO:   Sex scenes are there, just censored if I recall correctly. "

This seems like a good game that I never got around to playing. Great idea for a Quick Look though.

i bought this game day 1. a great game except for the final few chapters, they get really stupid, but the first 50% of the game is awesome and really fun to play. if anyone hasnt played this i recommend picking it up.

Oh, God! 4:3 stretching!

" Oh, God! 4:3 stretching! "

I stopped playing this game when it started to get all Silent hill on me. 

When I saw the thumbnail for this video, I thought this was some kind of Garry's Mod video.

I think Quantic Dream would be pissed if GB did an endurance run for Heavy Rain, because it's really all about story and if someone can experience it online, even in this way, it would hurt sales.

Indigo Prophecy was one of the best games of last gen.I loved the entire game including the sci-fi twists,I don't really understand why people hate it.

Gameplay looks cool, but Idk if I'm into the whole supernatural stuff. I think I'll just wait for Heavy Rain. I enjoyed Shenmue a lot.

I should play this game. What is the best way to enjoy this game.

the end of the game for me was garbage.  Very much not cool.

Indigo prophecy is such a good game for the first quarter-half of the game, once it gets past that it becomes utter garbage especially with the rushed plot and reliance on QTE sections

" I should play this game. What is the best way to enjoy this game. "

The dude appearing in the reflection of the medicine cabinet actually made me jump and I have no idea why. That's like the oldest scare tactic in the book. And it wasn't even that freaky, but still made me jump. I am baffled.

" @DrainDeimo said:

" I should play this game. What is the best way to enjoy this game. "

Computer with gamepad preferably, otherwise x box is good. "

what the fuck? You guys tried asking the homeless guy with one dude, then you went to try with the girl but then got turned around and headed in the other direction...i was like whaaat where are you going

Just bought it on XBL thanks to this quick look!.. (Cheers guys ) Should tide me over till Heavy Rain comes out!..

I think if your mood goes too far down then you kill yourself. Not sure if there are any other implications.

Endurance run! Make it happen!

It doesnt look as good looking from 2009 but such a good game. Its kinda lame that, that diner  is one of the funner parts T_T

Bought it today, finished it today. Was awesome except for the last third of the game... Man, wtf were they thinking? Looking forward to Heavy Rain.

I'd be down for an Indigo Prophecy endurance run, or even heavy rain when it comes out!

This looks really interesting, and it's $10 on Steam, I think I may buy this.

Vinnys new catch phrase "turn the volume up a bit"