If you're hungry for more Heavy Rain, then you'll be pleased to know that it's getting episodic DLC, so you can keep enjoying that top-notch writing and quality acting. The first episode is The Taxidermist, and Sony has released some screens to let you all see what it looks like.
It will be interesting to see how well these DLC episodes sell. Heavy Rain had fantastic launch sales, but the reaction from those paying customers has been very split, with some adoring the game, and others hating it. We'll soon get to see who thought the Heavy Rain experience was worth extending and how that stacks up against initial sales.
How about you lot? Who's looking forward to getting the DLC, or was European enough to get it already?
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4:20 PM on 03.09.2010
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the story alone doesn't fit with itself
This looks like Heavy Rain.
Wonder what Plotholes this creates.
My Guess: Madison is Jason.
Oh wait it's DLC news nevermind.
So, you created a profile just so you could make fun of Jim Sterling? Wow, that's sad.
Granted, there's also that awful voice acting and dialogue, but that bothers me much less if I only have to play one or two scenes.
That's an interesting way to look at it. I like you.
You must not have looked very hard if you think there's no one that dislikes Heavy Rain. There have been tons of C-blogs for both sides, and Jim's article was riddled with just as many commenters agreeing with him as there were disagreeing. Of course, I suppose you could just stick to your 'label everyone who disliked the game as doing it for popularity instead of actually having a valid opinion' mentality, if that works best for you.
I am sort of looking forward to the DLC, maybe it will patch up a few holes in the story.
Go somewhere to find origami killer, its not, but its a rent a crazy.
Fun stuff and it turns out the hardest ending to get (there are 5) is to alert the cops yet SOMEHOW stay in the house without dying. Voice work is way better in it too.
That's why I got HR! And play I did, solid playtime, I was happy to be gaming again. Because something was interesting enough to play solid.
SPOILER!!!
@crazy
I believe his deep seeded need to find a father capable of trying to save his son made him investigate it. Think about it, it's a perfect cover for coming ip and eventually getting out of them what happened to the father of the kid. If he just walked up and asked it would be suss. But as a PI, it's not expected and he can ask such questions.
Not saying it was a solid plot! But I made enough sense of it to be very happy with it! I mean I was adamant from go it was Blake haha
Plus I think Shelby constantly questioning the mothers of the kids he killed was because A) he was sick and derranged lol
and
B) because he did want to comfort them. As he never wanted to Hurt the mothers, only the fathers. I mean he still visited his mum. He wanted to lessen the pain for them in a way.
My thoughts anyway
Funny, I don't see any other writers on this site, or any other site with integrity bashing a game they dislike in every (even non related news) article they write about it. Two features going in deapth about how much you hate it apparently isn't enough. Feeling insecure, eh?
Even more pathetic is the fact that you keep claiming how "split" the reaction to the game has been. lol, even you know that's bullshit.
Yep, but this isn't the first time he's used the account. He magically shows up for pretty much every Heavy Rain article Jim writes. It's a wonder, really... almost like he can smell them from across the internet (aka N4G).
Are you reading some of the other comments to this article? Obviously, some people did not like the game. And don't you dare just insult their way of thinking just because they aren't of the same mindset as you are.
P.S. I liked the game, but I'm not so stupid to think that everybody will like MY games or MY systems. Jim Sterling gave a review of what he thought of the game. People thought it was too low (When has a 7/10 been low?), so he made another article that was obvious flamebait (Which every flamer took).
Basically - very short but good replay value, and the atmosphere in it is great. If the rest of the DLC is similar I'll be a happy bunny (though I'd like some plot hole fixes too kfanx).
**SPOILERS**
Also one of the endings has you killing the killer with a chainsaw to the balls. Awesomesauce.
If you liked Heavy Rain it's still worth picking up though even if it doesn't add much insight to Madison as a character.
You clearly didn't hear the Heavy Rain Spoilertoid. The Destructoid staff seems pretty unified on their opinion of Heavy Rain.
As for other reviewers, eh, it's all opinion. I really though the game was very stale and the uncanny valley literally terrified me at times, but it wasn't a terrible game. I'd say Jim's 7.5 was pretty much exactly how good the game was.
To be brutally honest, look back on it next year or the year after. I really don't think people will see the glorious revelation they are claiming this is currently.
Seems they only saw three things: Who wrote the piece, the fact that it was about Heavy Rain, and then looked at the header image and immediately set to posting.
The fact that they have such a dislike for him because he doesn't fawn over every game they want him to is just very creepy.
He's written only a few articles about the game, talking about how much he'd looked forward to it and enjoyed it apart from the hack writing (This is David Cage, for chrissakes, he's good at scenes like someone else pointed out, larger scale he's not so talented at, and relies too much on "OMG WHAT A TWIST" moments done somewhat cliche -- I remember Indigo Prophecy/Fahrenheit starting off very interesting, but then careening into "Wait...what?" territory halfway through) and gave the game a 7, which is a solid score.
And all his detractors just see "OMG 7 WTF TROLL HARDER STERLING WHY A 7 THIS GAM IS 11 YOU NOT GAMS JURNLIST jim failsterling LOL BASH BASH BASH!!!"
Try actually reading the articles, kids!
No, really, actually read them! Don't just repeat the words, try exercising a little, oh what the hell was it called again...right: Reading COMPREHENSION. Takes thinking that's more than just figuring out what the next key you were going to press on the keyboard.
GAMS JURNLISM.
SEMI SPOILER ALERT:
I liked how it told you how many endings you could get and which ones have already been obtained. There were a bunch of outcomes/ways to do things differently.
This is grand theft at $5. Thank fucking god it was free for us pre-order folks.
Major butt rape right here.
It was listed there since day 1, unde the bonus section.. but it only became actually playable when I downloaded it from the Playstation Store.
Thank you, I like you too. I do believe I shall put you on my friends list. :)
Until I read here how long it is. Seriously? Less than ten minutes for $5? I can think of a looooooong list of things I could do for five bucks or less that would amuse me for longer than ten minutes.