Heavy Rain - SPOILERS GO UNDER TAGS

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[Rasix]

[Mazakiel]

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[Rasix]

[jakonovski]

This discussion is not very fruitful for someone who hasn't even started on Heavy Rain yet.

[Rasix]

This discussion is not very fruitful for someone who hasn't even started on Heavy Rain yet.

It's hard to really talk too much about this game without spoiling it.  The game is a collection of moments, character choices, and plot developments.  Not much else to talk about other than QTEs, voice acting and animations.  The facial animations and animations in general are just fantastic.  Can you imagine how bad this game would be with Bioware or BethSoft facial expressions or animations?  The side pain from unintended laughter would be too much to bear.

[stray]

There was one part that made me laugh because of expressions though.. That was

[Rasix]

There was one part that made me laugh because of expressions though.. That was

Yah, that was bad.  Given the technology used, I think it was totally on the actor.  A lot of shit you can give this game can be laid at the feet of the actors.  Only two, IMO, gave very good performances:  Madison and Scott Shelby.  Some of the bit parts did pretty decent also, but I think they were given outrageous enough personas that it was easy enough to pull off.

Otacon.. haha yah. I remember that.  God, that was bad.  No one ever pulls off a man crying without it looking completely shitty.  Strong men also cry.

[stray]

Oops, I meant "yet both were done well despite those things".

Anyways... hmm.. I'm not sure how I would act exactly in Ethan's case. Otacon is just a wuss though. And to do it in front of Old Snake and Raiden makes it worse. Heh

[caladein]

The facial animations and animations in general are just fantastic.

The animations in-QTE are pretty good, but the walking around like a robot kind of makes that not matter.

[Lounge]

Finished this last night and finally getting around to reading the spoiler tags here...

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[Ghambit]

The next generation of these games will use tech. like Multiverse's "remix" (ala Avatar) or that ULive/quicktime guy's "Contour."  Then we wont have facial animation issues anymore... or char. animation issues at all.  As good as HR is, it still has that "Uncanny Valley" feel to it and it tends to ruin the experience sometimes.  It's CLOSE to being playable in front of a crowd, but not quite yet.

[Furiously]

I hear there is a way to get Madison naked on the PS3...

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[Ghambit]

I hear there is a way to get Madison naked on the PS3...

Pretty much the whole point behind the game is trying to get your characters to do phucked up things... over and over.

[Rasix]

I hear there is a way to get Madison naked on the PS3...

There's a way to make her perma nude from some bug.  But she manages to get naked a few times on her own.

[caladein]

I hear there is a way to get Madison naked on the PS3...

There's a way to make her perma nude from some bug.  But she manages to get naked a few times on her own.

Considering half preview videos I've seen with Madison in them involve her looking like an American Apparel ad, I am unsurprised by this.

[Rendakor]

There's shower video (NSFW) of her that's been floating around since before the game even came out.

[Tarami]

I clicked and I lost all self-respect.

[Ghambit]

I clicked and I lost all self-respect.

[Rasix]

Done trolling yet?

[AcidCat]

The animations in-QTE are pretty good, but the walking around like a robot kind of makes that not matter.

Yeah with everything else looking so good and being very immersive, it was kind of annoying at times when your dude moves in that awkward I AM A VIDEOGAME CHARACTER BEEP BOOP way. My wife watched my playthrough and I would generally try to be smooth but there were definitely some moments of unintentional laughter.

[Rasix]

I think it's the way that your head turns where ever you're looking but the walking animation stays static.  Plus, there's not a lot of fine control over the walking so you can overshoot something easily (or take a wrong turn, etc) and have to walk back; all with your head still craned in some direction. 

[Falconeer]

Just finished. Great game, great product, great time.

My story, what I did wrong (and I am going to change in my second run):


I was so hyped up that as soon as I finished it I played the first downloadable Chronicle. The Taxidermist. It's all about Madison and

[Xurtan]

End game spoilers.

[Rasix]

End game spoilers.

[Velorath]

End game spoilers.

[Xurtan]

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[Velorath]

Heavy Rain broke into the NPD top 10 sales for Feb. (at #10) with 219.3K sold.

[Yegolev]

Finished last night, came to read thread.

[Ard]

[NiX]

You all taunt me with these spoiler tags. Maybe I should rent it.