I support this move and honestly hope to see more of it.

Trophies and achievements still mean nothing to me, but my only real problem is that I cannot turn off their notices exclusively on either PS3 or 360. Delaying them is a step in the right direction.

Good. I hate achievements and trophies.

I honestly fail to see how trying to preserve mood is inherently movie-like. Call it pretentious if you want and I'll disagree; but say that Heavy Rain isn't attempting to capitalize on the strengths of video games as a medium and I won't know at all where you're coming from.

I don’t mind. Trophies don’t really do anything anyway.

Plus I hate it when I beat a last boss and I’m distracted by a stupid pun in the corner when I’m trying to watch the end.

I really don't see the problem with this. This is is possibly unlike any game we'll play in a long, and Trophy notifications are important? They want us to focus on the experience and not whoring trophies.

Wow really? Who gives a shit if the trophies activate when you get them or when u finish a chapter? You still get them. I actually see this as a step in the right direction, imagine if some one makes it that the notifications don't show until you beat the game?

Damn straight it's pretentious. I mean, how did we ever get along in games WITHOUT achievements and extranious sound effects? How dare a developer buck the trends! That's not the videogame way. NO SIR! And MOOD and ATMOSPHERE in a videogame being ruined? That is too far on one side of creative integrity for me! I for one like my BEER COLD, MY TELEVISION LOUD, and my VIDEOGAMES CHIMING AT ME!!!

oh please can i have a delayed trophy system like Fat Princess? i mean i love trying to get a trophy but having to exit the game to see if i actually achieved it.

it is still a game. if you want to make a movie make a fucking movie.

its a brief sound effect along with a sense of joy because you did something that you have never done. If they think that is taking you out of the experience then they are insane. Or does everyone live in a soundproof room that is pitch black? oh and be sure to turn off your life while you play too, no hunger or phone calls.. breathing should be done as little as possible.

i mean really?

/sigh

Taking steps to ensure immersion? NOT IN MY VIDEO GAMES YOU DON'T!

@secondthumb
It was a cheap laugh but I lul'd. I think it was the last sentence, random caps, and imagining Russel Brand reading it to me.

I don't understand this logic.
Trophy notifications popping up in games have annoyed me way way way back when they first showed up. And achievement notifications are even worse. I remember playing Silent Hill Homecoming, getting all into the spooky atmosphere and everything when "ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED, HERPADERPADERP" came in and spoiled everything.

Delayed Trophies that only show up during breaks doesn't detract from the game or make it any less potentially fun, its a feature that I welcome with open arms. I don't mind getting them and stroking my E-Peen, but I'd rather them not pop up all obnoxious and what not during an important cutscene that's supposed to make me feel all gooey/mopey/ragetacular inside.

I hate fun.

I think I read somewhere that QD wants us to play the game once and never again, so that each person gets a special, unique experience from it. Of course, I will play through until I uncover every last tiny detail, but that doesn't change their mind about it, and Trophies in RPGs pretty much demand that you play through more than once, if you're trying to collect them.

Of course, I could have just made that up in my head.

I was excited for this game until I heard Nick talking about it on podtoid Im scareded now :(

I disagree with your sentiment, Jim. Trophy bubbles rip me right out of imagination land.

Question: Do you think the audience that Heavy Rain wants to collect are the achievement farming crowd?

Question: If Heavy Rain makes everything that would normally be a cutscene interactive are they trying to be cinematic or movies?

I really have to get a PS3

@EternalDeathSlayer

I'd agree but I think of all the times I've gone back after beating the game and i've just done a real pain in the ass to get a trophy and sat there waiting to see if I got it. Having to do a entire level or whatever to get "Find X mount of X" or "Kill boss A using method B" is bull.

The clown did it- and that is a scientific fact.

"Trophies so often contain spoilers for the game and encourage me to play the game differently from how I want to enjoy it."

THIS! I know they don't mean anything I'm compelled anyway.

"My personal belief is there are two ways of thinking about games. You can think of games like toys or entertainment, where you want to spend some time having fun. That's fine and there's nothing wrong with that. On the other hand you can start to think about games and interactivity as an art form, at least a creative platform... In this situation the goal is not fun, it's to make you feel something, even if it's not fun."- David Cage.

that pretty much sums up how I feel about the above post. Games can use interactivity as a way to enhance a story, draw the "user" in and provide them a unique experience that is not possible through books,movies, comics, etc. It's not about making games into movies but about fully utilizing games as a medium in which to transmit ideas, emotions, experiences. 99% of the games out there are about bombarding you w/ fun, excitement, competition every 5 seconds. And trophies fit in nicely w/ those sort of experiences but w/ what Heavy Rain is trying to do trophies don't really have a place or at least not a prominent one. If there have to be trophies at all I'm glad they're implementing them this way.

From what I have seen of the game so far, I can't help but feel that it comes off as being an cinematic story driven QTE movie more than a game with actual gameplay.

I hope the developer knows what it is doing because the game does look promising.

It bothers me that almost no one in this comment thread knows that there's a way to disable Trophy and Achievement notifications.

That clowns gotta be the origami killer right?

C'mon! Fuck trophies! Haven't you read enough about the game to know Quantic Dream don't want to make a movie out of Heavy Rain!? I don't know why, but I really don't like you for writing such bullshit.