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Heavy Rain is the worst game ever

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Maybe he should have written that article right after it was released and not after Sony already has the money in their pockets. Oh wait, you heard that? Sony just announced Heavy-Rain 2 !! Heavy-Rain 1 is utter shit!!
 

SCO

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Unfortunately now that piracy has been ope...

Wait you said their game dpt? Close call then.
 

someone else

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Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
Not that butthurt really. I mean, how can people get butthurt over someone's opinion of games/film/book/drink/food/music. People are starving in China!
 

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Knowing what kind of developer Quantic Dream is Heavy Rain did not surprise me. Same thing with Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy.
They write decent stories with a good plot but the controls are horrible and gameplay is simply nonexistent.
After playing Fahrenheit for about ten minutes i was so mad, i wanted to destroy my keyboard.
Unfortunatelly i haven't played Omikron: The Nomad Soul which seems to have decent gameplay, besides the story.
 

Hegel

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Heavy Rain was never meant to be a game. It was created, marketed and sold as an active movie. As such it's a pretty good product, high quality I'd even say.
Let's compare it with Mass Effect 2, the latter is, on paper, a RPG . On paper, because on screen ME2 is an interactive cutscenes generator, from this point of view Bioware did a shittier job than Quantic.



I liked Fahrenheit but it felt like some LSD addict took over the plot writing midway game.
 

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Heavy Rain is basically a fucking FMV game from the 90s developed with modern graphics.
 

SerratedBiz

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I watched a full playthrough LP about two weeks ago. The plot is so far beyond retarded it's almost not funny. And the game is seriously lacking in the gaming department. Shitty game is shitty.
 

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I was expecting C&C, a good, dynamic story depending on how you played each character and, if nothing else, some good puzzles.

I got none of that - this game is a piece of shit.
 

Lyric Suite

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The phenomena surrounding this game really elucidates the problem with innovashun-fags. This people actually believe they are cultivating a superior taste while falling for the most banal/shit/boring pretentious faggotry instead. This are the same people who think Oblivion had a great story and atmosphere.
 

DraQ

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Lyric Suite said:
The phenomena surrounding this game really elucidates the problem with innovashun-fags. This people actually believe they are cultivating a superior taste while falling for the most banal/shit/boring pretentious faggotry instead. This are the same people who think Oblivion had a great story and atmosphere.
Exterminatus.
 

toro

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Blablabla.

As long as it has user interactivity, technically it is a game. And the game did something unprecedented in the last few years, it included failures as legitimate endgames. Other than this, the gameplay is simply atrocious.

So, how many of you found the real killer?
 

Lumpy

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When it comes to videogames, any complicated narrative is seen as a "good story", regardless of its merits.
The cause is likely the fact that video games in general have minimalistic stories. Though why one would want intricate stories in a medium focused on interactivity is beyond me.
 

Ted

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Truly a shitty game that totally failed at what it was trying to do, i was playing the fat cop really good and that totally fucked up the ending where he was the bad guy...?

Not to speak of all the holes in the plot.
 

commie

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Well if you played Fahrenheit then you'd know to expect shitty plot holes at every turn. Still can't get over the AI thing in that game; the most retarded and unnecessary addition 3/4 of the way through the game. Scriptwriting 101 states that you DO NOT introduce totally new elements into a story near the end of a story,especially such fucking retarded elements as magical AI's that bring people back from the dead and somehow can project themselves into existence in the real world.

The illuminati thing was also unnecessary padding. Why couldn't it have just been a basic supernatural story with an evil cult as it started off as? Why make the story increasingly ridiculous by constantly adding superfluous elements?

Finally, old Lucas really gets over Tiffany pretty quick, no guilt either over her death because of him when she helps him even though they broke up even though he spends a lot of the beginning moping and depressed. That love sub-plot with Carla also was tacked on and shitty and ruined the setup at the beginning as well.
 

Lothers

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As a game it's bad, but as a movie it's pretty enjoyable.
 

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