BlazingDarkness
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stuburns said:
those are part of the choices/branching paths for each scenario
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Heavy Rain Revealed on Next Week's GTTV
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those are part of the choices/branching paths for each scenario
Valkyr Junkie
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Still looks good, but not nearly as good as last year's footage which is surprising since that sequence was created solely for demo purposes.
freethought
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That is not what I was expecting...
Cool, very cool. I hope the 'detective' aspect of the game isn't too simplistic.
Cool, very cool. I hope the 'detective' aspect of the game isn't too simplistic.
Stillmatic
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This game looks and sounds really interesting. If they can pull this off it should be awesome.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
How can you gauge that from stills?Yoboman said:
Waiting for video to confirm my excitement as I've been waiting for a game like this for a while.
I will agree these initial screens are not very flattering. I'm not sure there is great reason to doubt the game seeing as the taxidermist demo looked so frigging good. I can't imagine the game would have regressed since then. I will chalk it up to some bad shots or that it simply looks much better in motion.
MvmntInGrn
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Looks just as good as the last images to me.
SolidSnakex
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Dante said:Blocky character models? Where?
Look at his collar man, it's blocky! Everything's ruined!
MWS Natural
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Looks decent, would love to see this in motion.
Oh and in before, "the black guy looks just like _______".
Oh and in before, "the black guy looks just like _______".
Dobkeratops
OT Hard Carry
Quick and dirty job of the first paragraphs, probably beaten but meh.
Four main playable characters: Ethan Mars, Scott Shelby, Madison Paige and Norman Jayden. Each one featuring different exclusive scenes, character backgrounds, abilities, personality, will be witness to different events and will share his/her own views on what's going on to build the story for the player.
FBI agent Norman Jayde was shown here, his job being the making of criminal psychological profiles. He was sent to the West Coast to investigate the Origami Killer case as backup since it's been months and the police still doesn't have a friggin clue. This already adds a tense relationship between him and the police that'll impact the storyline. He's been trained in psychological studies, able to dwelve into the killers' mind. He's highly professional and organized, but obsessed to the point he'd do anything to catch his man.
Jayden uses a prototype device: the ARI (Alternate Reality Interface), comprised of a pair of glasses and a glove linked together. The glasses are capable of detecting fingerprints, ADN remnants, blood trails and such that'd normally be invisible to the human eye. The glove allows for inmediate analysis of the substances bypassing the wait for lab results.
Four main playable characters: Ethan Mars, Scott Shelby, Madison Paige and Norman Jayden. Each one featuring different exclusive scenes, character backgrounds, abilities, personality, will be witness to different events and will share his/her own views on what's going on to build the story for the player.
FBI agent Norman Jayde was shown here, his job being the making of criminal psychological profiles. He was sent to the West Coast to investigate the Origami Killer case as backup since it's been months and the police still doesn't have a friggin clue. This already adds a tense relationship between him and the police that'll impact the storyline. He's been trained in psychological studies, able to dwelve into the killers' mind. He's highly professional and organized, but obsessed to the point he'd do anything to catch his man.
Jayden uses a prototype device: the ARI (Alternate Reality Interface), comprised of a pair of glasses and a glove linked together. The glasses are capable of detecting fingerprints, ADN remnants, blood trails and such that'd normally be invisible to the human eye. The glove allows for inmediate analysis of the substances bypassing the wait for lab results.
BlazingDarkness
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oh yeahjett said:
i meant the other options on screen, the 'persist' and 'gasoline' choices
SolidSnakex
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Yoboman said:
Are you honestly complaining about that hook not being perfectly rounded? Because those character models certainly aren't blocky.
Dobkeratops
OT Hard Carry
Seems like Jayden's main weakness is his drug addiction. If he spends too long without a dose of Tryptocaine he will manifest abstinence syndrome in the form of convulsions, dizzyness, blurry vision and overall incapacitation that could be fatal in some situations. The player will have to juggle between following the killer's track and hiding this addiction.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
TOBAL port in disguise?!!??!!?
You ferry, it's been revealed exclusively on GAF that this is a TOBAL remake!-viper- said:
Insane Metal
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Quantic Dreams just shot themselves in the foot.
I don't know how much the rest of you know about atmosphere in games (I'm an expert), but the graphics are a huge part of it. It's not like in Gears of War where you just put ultra high res textures and become successful because of pretty surfaces. If you don't create a real, lifelike world in this kind of game, you bring shame to yourself and others, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.
What this means is that PS3 owners, after hearing about this, are not going to purchase Heavy Rain anymore. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but QD has alienated an entire generation of hardcore gamers with this move.
Quantic Dreams, publicly apologize and change the atmosphere in this game or you can kiss your business goodbye.
I don't know how much the rest of you know about atmosphere in games (I'm an expert), but the graphics are a huge part of it. It's not like in Gears of War where you just put ultra high res textures and become successful because of pretty surfaces. If you don't create a real, lifelike world in this kind of game, you bring shame to yourself and others, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.
What this means is that PS3 owners, after hearing about this, are not going to purchase Heavy Rain anymore. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but QD has alienated an entire generation of hardcore gamers with this move.
Quantic Dreams, publicly apologize and change the atmosphere in this game or you can kiss your business goodbye.
Dobkeratops
OT Hard Carry
Old interface has been discarded, now the context sensitive actions appear around the character as he moves around the environment - basically they come up as "ideas" on what to do. The speed these prompts move at, font size and such are relative to the character's emotional status. i.e: if he's calm, they'll move slowly, if he's under pressure they'll be fast and if he's drugged they'll appear blurry, nigh-unreadable. Dialogs use the same system.
MvmntInGrn
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Dobkeratops said:
That sounds awesome.
freethought
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Dante said:Blocky character models? Where?
Yeah, there's a couple of weird shots in there. They look squashed or something, but this shot here is absolutely jaw dropping. That's the best goddamn skin texture I've ever seen.
Night_Trekker
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Uh... super high-tech glasses and gloves? Let's hope the rest of the game stays a little more grounded than that...
Jason's Ultimatum
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Night_Trekker said:
Yeah. I'm not liking the idea.
SolidSnakex
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-viper- said:
Not all models are equal in games. Snake, Otacon and Ocelot have the best looking models in MGS4. Characters like Meryl and Johnny don't look nearly as good.
You know what I hate about this. This is like the only game I can think of where they didn't bother with bullshots. These actually look like screen grabs from a video. And people are complaining even though it still looks better than just about anything on console.
EDIT: Actually, his tie is clipping thru his shirt collar. Fuck this game.
EDIT: Actually, his tie is clipping thru his shirt collar. Fuck this game.
SolidSnakex
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Night_Trekker said:
It's not much different from the current crime investigation shows. They use a lot of technology that doesn't actually exist.