First Heavy Rain Trailer and Screenshots Emerge

Oh nice this thing is still alive. PS3 only = fail though.

David Cage doesn't want to make games, he wants to make movies. He has no interest in creating gameplay.

Indigo Prophecy was a giant stinking load of crap. One of the worst games I've ever played.

Having said all of that, I'll probably play through this game too, and even I'll give it a fair shot (I did with IP). I *want* interactive storytelling to succeed, I just think this guy has no conception of how to go about doing it right.

Haha you know I was sad (and still kind of am) that Hard Rain was a PS3 exclusive, cause I was such an indigo prophecy fan. But now I see this fucking gameplay... god dammit there should be less button mashing not more!

I don't know why, but I really want to play this.

OK, so instead of 'cutscenes' we get QTEs, or more simply 'fuck it, we got balls lazy and didn't want to map buttons to body parts and objects for flow purposes, so instead, interactive cutscenes!"

Neogaf, is that a playstation forum or something?

I tried registering on that forum but i don't have enough credentials to post there or something

anyway, regarding the comments i've read on Neogaf vs Shacknews

It's like Night and Day

Neogaf has positive things to say about this game (Heavy Rain) as it does about that Killzone 2 video yesterday while Shacknews it's constant hate towards anything Playstation 3 related, it's either ugly or just something has to be wrong with it

Press square to not get stabbed! Press square to not get stabbed! Press circle to not get stabbed!

Oh, innovation.

Dragon's Lair! Now on the PS3!

oh my god hit the X button!

This is not a game. Next!

Damn, I guess I am the only one who liked Indigo Prophecy. The only thing I didn't like about the game was how fucked up the story became 3\4ths through, but other than that, I thought it was pretty good.

Colour me intrigued.

I must say that the little facial animation they showed looked very very disappointing. The way the woman talked to the recording device was very crappy indeed vs. what they've showed before. Also, continuing on the whine, it would be nice to finally see specific animations when characters walk on stairs or up/downhill - this could even be done using code or just with a sub-animation added to the actual walk cycle.

I wish quicktime events would die a horrible death

What's with all the shackhate for Quantic Dream?

Fahrenheit and The Nomad Soul were both pretty innovative.

I love adventure games and Quantic Dream is one of the only developers doing anything new with the genre.

You guys suck. :(

Oh sweet- quicktime events, my favorite.

The cinematic look of this is impressive.. BUT please consider removing the quicktime event floating icons, and replace the system with one that makes use of the analog stick where you swing it towards the direction of the object/interaction that you expect to work.. like a clockface using the locations of things on the screen. it can be done for all of the events in the trailer and offer a lot more than QTE button presses can. It would remove all need for icons floating and simply rely on player's intuition. It would make your game a lot more interactive in nature and also potentially more groundbreaking if done correctly. Especially if, as far as directing and composition expertise goes, the player's expectations were always met due to each shot being crafted well, actors being believable and readable, without being led by SHITTY FLOATING BUTTON ICONS THAT DISTRACT from each shot. lol.

This game looks like it could be fun, but since I don't have a PS3, I probably won't ever find out.

Get to work on on Omikron two. Make sure it's released for PC too please. Omikron was and still is one of my favorite games.

Simon Says button sequences need to DIAF Yesterday. What the hell is wrong with pure adventure games? I see no upside to this horrifically outdated game mechanic.

I'd much rather watch a cool non-interactive sequence, than be frustrated and pissed off from frenetic pattern scrutiny, while missing said scene from arbitrary focus. It's like getting an annoying phone call in the middle of an important scene when watching a movie.

I really enjoyed the first few chapters of Fahrenheit, and was hoping Heavy Rain would improve things/go more in that direction. Honestly, this trailer leaves me concerned and wary about the game. :/

quicktime events. :|

Every action has a conseqeuence? They promised that in Indigo Prophecy and it never happened. The game only allowed a few choices early on, and none of them changed jack shit. Also if this one is filled to the brim with QTE and has a shitty ending they can bite me.

Indigo Prophecy had so much potential. In fact it's *still* hard to hate, just on it's presentation values. However as a game it sucked, as an adventure it sucked, as a QTE game it sucked......and the story took a major turn for the worse.

Hm...

i was at the press conference, the sound there sucked. you could hardly hear wtf they were saying over the guitar hero stand nearby

So wait, what is this game about?

If you haven't seen the original Video - look it up.

Graphically, it's not bad - but it's a pretty neat story, and a solid piece of Voice Acting^^

I want this game so, so much.