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Detroit: Become Human - new David Cage game

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I cringed every time in Heavy Rain when they referred to a Vacant Lot as a "Wasteland".

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I played Heavy Rain and Beyond Two Souls and watched on Youtube Detroit.

It is not saying much considering how low David Cage has set the bar with the previous games, but I believe this is his best game yet (Nomad Soul was actually terrible). The story was a bit less cringe inducing than the rest of his games ; the scale of the events happening in his game make it somehow more in phase with his pretentious storytelling. I can not say I recommend to buy it, but if you can get it for cheap or have a youtuber you like who did that game, it could be interesting to watch.
 

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or have a youtuber you like who did that game, it could be interesting to watch.

I can't stand people watching let's plays instead of playing games. Sure you can make an argument that these cinematic games lack in the gameplay but one of their strong points is making your own decisions and changing the story. I do like the existence of let's play videos because I can use them as demos and just by watching someone else play it, I can get a fairly accurate idea if I'm gonna like the game or not. Or sometimes I wanna see people's reaction to some really cool moment in the game AFTER I beat it. But watching let's plays instead of playing games is fucking retarded.
 

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Guise.... Emotions are going multiplatform!

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/...dream-no-longer-making-playstation-exclusives


Heavy Rain studio Quantic Dream no longer making PlayStation exclusives
NetEase funding secured for multiplatform future.

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Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls and Detroit: Become Human studio Quantic Dream will no longer develop games exclusively for PlayStation platforms.

It follows a series of controversies for the studio, most notably the allegations of an unhealthy studio culture reported a year ago by a team of French journalists from Le Monde, Canard PC and Mediapart.

For its part, Quantic Dream labelled the extensive reports as a "smear" - and then quietly began suing the journalists who published the story.

The only thing which has reached the courts so far is an employment case brought against Quantic Dream by a former staff member who quit due to conditions at the studio. Quantic Dream lost.

In an interview published today on Variety and Venturebeat, Quantic Dream bosses David Cage and Guillaume de Fondaumière said it leaving PlayStation exclusivity behind was a new beginning for their company.

Quantic Dream has instead secured funding for future projects from Chinese mega-publisher NetEase (the same company which recently invested in Bungie's new non-Destiny IP, and is working on the Diablo mobile game as part of a long-running partnership with Blizzard).

"Our objective is to be present on all platforms where there is an audience that can enjoy our experiences," de Fondaumière said. "We will, of course, continue developing on PlayStation, a platform that we know very well after having worked with Sony for 12 years, but we will also be present on all other relevant platforms."

NetEase exec Simon Zhu said it was aware of the allegations against Quantic Dream's studio culture but was satisfied regardless.

"A company of our size and stature doesn't make investments lightly, and we have of course taken great care in analysing all aspects of Quantic Dream, in particular, the studio culture. This is very important for us, as we take great care of these matters in our own company. We have been able to spend time with the Quantic Dream team, to get to know the studio culture, and we have seen nothing that points to any of the allegations published by certain press."
 

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https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-11-19-detroit-become-human-arrives-on-pc-next-month

Detroit: Become Human arrives on PC next month

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News by Tom Phillips, News Editor

Updated on 19 November 2019
PlayStation 4 adventure Detroit: Become Human comes to PC on 12th December, developer Quantic Dream has announced.

It'll be priced £29.99 on the Epic Games Store, where some of the studio's other games - Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls - have already launched. A free demo will also be available at the same time.

This PC version will offer 4K 60fps visuals and a new interface designed for mouse and keyboard, as well as gamepad controls.
 

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Is heavy rain decent? Because the other two are overdramatized shit. Indigo Children was fun back in the day,
It's funny, but it's also super melodramatic and stuff at points, more like Indigo Prophecy than Detroit and Beyond tho. The biggest difference is that it doesn't go batshit crazy in the last act, even if Cage planned that originally, instead it's more restrained, you're not suddenly playing a super weird Matrix ripoff with ancients cults, AIs, aliens, zombies and stuff. If you liked Indigo you should try it out!
 

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I will admit, the glowing blue circle on the forehead to identify robots from humans is a pretty cool design idea.

Aside from that, it seems like just another shitty David Cage ego-fest. Oh look, androids have feelings too. Why? Where does their true consciousness come from? Is my laptop conscious? Is everything conscious? Is nothing conscious? Where's the line between inanimate objects and conscious beings?

Well, the androids are designed to look and act like humans so they must have feelings like humans do. Don't question it, bigot!!

same shit as westworld, star trek, and every sci fi show with AI. There's no sci in this fi, nor any coherent philosophy or even basic logic.

At least Isaac Azimov invented the "positronic brain" scienmagific macguffin and moved on from that to exploring the various scenarios of his laws of robotics. Suspension of disbelief is only possible when the author seems to be aware of the fictional nature of his fictional premise, and wraps it into something identifiable.
 

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I wonder what the controls are like, can't imagine they will work as well on PC as they did on the Playstation. Especially without the feedback.

Controls are shitty QTE nonsense, doubt it matters. Either way though it's far from the first PC game to recommend a pad.
 

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I played Detroit's demo and man was I wrong, the controls are horrible. The QTE shit is mostly the same, but the WASD walking is totally fucked up. Luckily I don't care because it verified my hatred for this genre. Character says shit I never meant to say, gameplay is random buttons, tone is super preachy. I've also never been one for the whole "androids as allegory for racism" thing because they're fucking machines, I can't get past that. Anyway... game looks fucking amazing though. I'd watch a movie with those graphics, not joking. Too bad they make you "play" it.
 
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funniest one of his games is the Beyond Two Souls one, that shit is hilarious when you're using t he Ghost and fucking with people and shit
 

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Is heavy rain decent?

Nonstop comedy, very funny game.
Yes! The best parts are the ones that are unintentionally hilarious. But there's also parts that are unironically pretty cool, like some of the investigative stuff, some of the more exciting sequences like when you are chased and that torture porn. Unlike Detroit it is also not very preachy or anything, way less unfunny cringe. Best Cage game by far!
I played Detroit's demo and man was I wrong, the controls are horrible. The QTE shit is mostly the same, but the WASD walking is totally fucked up.
Aha, I knew it! These games demand controllers with motion sense thingies, thumbsticks and vibrating feedback because that's what they were made for. Without it you're just stuck with Simon says and QTE stuff and that's not nearly as engaging and I just knew the movement was going to be weird, that too was designed purely for controllers!
 
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