I don't understand the point of not releasing the collector's edition in the US. It makes about as much sense as when they only let people who preordered Killzone 2 play the demo.

well shux.
I move to the US and this is what I get.
No love for the French expatriate Quantic Dreams???

I think it's not coming to Zimbabwe too, that's ridiculous.

@xenomus

Maybe its because Americans don't buy CE's unless its for some AAAAAA established franchise? Whatever the cause I find it to be depressing that we didn't get the Bayonetta CE that AUS got with the guns. I was so ready to triple dip on the game until I remembered that 360 games are region-locked for the most part.

I was interested in this game until I saw a in-game video where someone was trying to convince a kid to do his homework. F that. I have my own children to try to persuade.

I suppose since the PS3 is region free, anyone who really wants a Collector's Edition of the game can just import one. I'm not terribly interested myself after seeing the gameplay video.. so I could care less. From what I've seen, it's basically Quick Time Event the Video Game, and while I don't have a whole lot complain about it being there occasionally, a whole game would get dull very fast for me.

I guess the US just doesn't put up with bullshit Quick Time Events so those type of games aren't popular here. Oh wait; God of War.

I hate QTE's as much as the next guy, if not more because it takes away from the immersion. And for a game that is trying hard to be a movie, that's not a good thing.

Sorry, but after playing the demo's for GoW3, Dante's Inferno and Bayonetta back to back to back, I'm a bit bitter. >_<

so when you have to press X in front of a treasure chess to open it i guess that's not a qte either huh? each and every game every created uses qte, the difference is you don't see the button commands on screen in most of them.

kh2 had perhaps the shittest implementation of qte.

@Rammstein
Not quite the best analogy, in a fight IRL if you use a left punch when a right punch would have worked better it isn't necessarily game over. As for QTE's I don't get the hate, I personally enjoy them. On that note if this game is anything like their last then yes it will be centered on QTE's, not that I see that as a bad thing.

I like QTEs myself, but I grew up with dragons lair, space ace, cliff hanger, ect.

okay, in a game where you have to dodge an enemies attack for him to left vulnerable for attack, that's a qte that is time sensitive and since you had to dodge his attack, button command sensitive too.

after seeing heavy rain videos and what they're trying to achieve with choice and consequence, how could they do it any other way? because i know real life is about choice of actions, you don't go around with a set array of body commands for every different moment you experience. unlike most games where its only attack, shoot, jump, action, run, duck and move forward, backward, side to side.

heavy rain seems to be going for an almost realistic interpretation of life, even if its trying to tell a changeable story, the fact that the gameplay outcomes are not set in stone is amazing, every one love multiple endings, this game has multiple outcomes that are dependent on your choices and actions that you want to do, even if limited to an extent. i don't see many other games trying to accomplish this.

The reason why I hate QTE's so much is because of their excessive use in some games. In GoW3 I just finished dodging the Chimaera-like creature's fire attack and charge-attacks, why do I also have to arm-wrestle with him to see who gets to attack next? It's just a glorified die roll left over from D&D days.

Even more confusing, is that a game that is touting the whole immersion angle so much to have something so jarringly remove you from the game's emotion makes no sense to me!

I can only imagine how they will implement it but if its anything like 'Press Square then Circle then Triangle to play catch with your son' it can only end poorly. 'Press Square, X, Circle to mourn the loss of your dead daughter!' Give me a break. Just release a movie using the game engine if you want a true cinematic experience. Because nothing takes me out of a game quicker than seeing a big green or grey button icon on the screen telling me to mash it so the semi-boss doesn't rape me. Sorry for the rant, I just played X-Men Origins:Wolverine, ugh!

I'm amazed the amount of people who seem to think that they can judge this accurately when it isn't even finished. And they obviously haven't seen it in action or played it.

I'm going to give it a go, its different, and as such I think I'll buy it out of curiosity,
that and I didn't think that fahrenheit was all that bad. its the only game which had sex that didn't seem really awkward to me, goes to show how the story hooked me...

i got a feeling i'll enjoy it. can't say i know for sure though until i'm playing it.

<i>The reason why I hate QTE's so much is because of their excessive use in some games.</i>

You must absolutely HATE the jump button then - not to mention the fire button. And as for directional controls - that whole idea has been done to death! Can't developers move on from this stupid concept of moving left, right, up or down???

As others have pointed out, QTEs exist in all kinds of gaming scenarios, but you may not have realised it. Takle the Titans in Batman: AA, for example. You see them getting ready tor un at you, and you have to jump sideways at the right moment, or you lose health. This is simply a variation on a mechanic which has been appeared in approximately 1 billion boss battles since the inception of videogames - and ya, it's a QTE.

<i>If by 'X' you mean the PS3 equivalent of XBox360's 'A' then that is just a normal button command.</i>

Um....if by "A" button, you mean the x-box equivalent of the X button (which appeared several years before anyone had even heard of the x-box) then......why are you in the PS3 section of Dtoid?

Anyhoo....I'm not a major fan of SEs, but I adore my Fallout 3 lunchbox with bobblehead, and Heavy Rain is clearly my kind of game, so I'll definitely be getting this - £40 is standard retail price for games in the UK anyway.

I do not want to buy this game. It does not interest me at all. Maybe it will be good and I will get it later. But still, a "Meh" from me.

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