SCEA president Jack Tretton believes Heavy Rain will sell very well indeed. He also believes that Heavy Rain is completely new and unique, so maybe his opinions shouldn't be taken completely to heart.
"I spent 25 years in this industry, and it’s rare you see a game that sells incredibly well and that impresses you," claims the Sony Lord. "But when you go, ‘Wow! That’s the type of game I’ve never seen before!’ And I think Heavy Rain falls into that category. I don’t even now how to classify it or describe it. I read a review that said it’s the next stage of reading the book. You don’t have to be a gamer at all. I think if you read a book, unless you read the chapters in reverse order, the story is pretty much going to be the same.
"But with Heavy Rain, depending on what you do, you are going to get a different outcome every time."
Considering online reactions to Heavy Rain since launch have been very mixed, I don't think Sony needs to add to the overhyping. Quite a few people have felt quite burned enough already. Not to mention, Heavy Rain is not that new at all, nor is it unique. Dragon's Lair was doing that stuff years ago, and with much better writing, I might add.
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8:00 AM on 02.26.2010 | 
ALSO APPARENTLY THERE ARE TITS IN THIS GAME!
Scroled up and sure enough it was Jimbo.
Keep fueling the Sony hate train Jimbo.
I just picked up Heavy Rain and Aliens vs Predator at lunchtime (traded in Modern Borefare 2) - suffice to say had trouble getting into a species deathmatch before playing a bit of survival. looking forward to getting stuck into Heavy Rain after work.
i't snot really unlike anything we've ever played before, if we've played Farenheight.
What? Very mixed?
Okay then Jim...
My basic problem with Heavy Rain is that it's founded on the idea that movies are more immersive than games and it just comes off as this pretentious crap aimed at educating gamers about what 'real' stories are. I don't mean to go all JRPG-er here...but subtlety would have done wonders for Heavy Rain, particularly in the Emo Ethan sections.
And if you haven't played through the mansion level as Scott Shelby yet, look at the dead henchman on the right side of the screen as your character exits - midair glitch ftw.
I feel as though it is selling pretty well as we were clean sold out at the store I work at. We also had several people coming in and asking about the game.
If you took a break from desperately trying to undermine the opinions of people with far more experience than you you'd probably end up enjoying the fuck out of all the games you pay out.
This is all I care about. Even if this isn't all it was hyped up to be it's still a developped taking a huuuuuge risk and doing something that while it may not be new it certainly has not been done this generation with this budget.
I would argue that intelligent people would quickly see through the gaping plot holes.
The voice acting is not good. It isn't laughably terrible, but is consistently jarring, stilted, awkward and detached from the game situation.
The animations are good in some places, pretty bad in others. Intimacy looks particularly bad and when everything is completely scripted it is inexcusable.
I really like the music, and I'm enjoying the interaction to this point, but even so early on many actions are occurring often enough that they will become repetitive and boring soon.
*SPOILER ALERT* - It really seemed like Ethan got hit by that car and not Jason.
@barnabyjones
If Heavy Rain were to go all JRPG, it wouldn't become a subtle masterpiece. Instead of being blunt and mundane, it would become blunt and bombastic. The subdued story portrays depressed Ethan much more convincingly than pretty much every fumbling RPG, which expect complex emotional responses to sterile exposition and telegraphed, outrageous, Michael Bay style (COLOURS! ACTION! NOW YOU FEEL SAD!) plot twists.
/goes back to playing the blatantly better Miles Edgeworth
"Most people thought it was pretty damn good, an interesting title to have in your game collection, but I thought it was wank because Sony are hyping it and I'm KING OF THE TROLLS!"
Can someone just give Jim some fucking charity $'s because he always posts a metric-fucktonne of flaimbait whenever he's a bit hard up and needs to boost his income.
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Well Jim, after finishing it yesterday, i can safely say i have no idea where you found this "bad writing." Or, really, any bad impressions at all"
I have to agree on this one. The first half hour or so grabbed me an introduced me to the mechanics of the game, and it just kept getting better from there. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. I can safely say that I will play this game at least 5 more times within the next month and enjoy every bit about it. Completely recommended to anyone who likes adventure games in general.
I praise you sir, for finding that image
I mean in this very thread are people with mixed feelings on the game but instead we focus on Jim's review.
Well...Sexy focuses on Jim's review.
It's totally unique in terms of it's setting that's for sure. Heavy Rain is a mix of films Seven and Saw with noir movies and with Philip Dick on top, you can't go wrong with that. There are some really powerful moments in this game.
And why the fuck do you keep talking about Dragon's Liar? Maybe you should bring up Braindead 13 too?
That's not an argument, that's trolling. You really act like you're a fucking troll, or maybe I'm too serious sometimes. When I listen to Podtoid, I fucking love when you're talking, you're almost always right. I heard you talking to Samit about Heavy Rain and it was nothing like "This game is worse, than Dragon's Liar", so you must be joking now. But still, fuck you :)
I am kidding, I still love you. I a non-gay, very heterossecual way, I mean.
But you are wrong, HEAVY RAIN is awesome. Fuck You! I love you...
Reason # 334 that Jim's opinion means absolutely shit. Seriously, you can't possibly believe that.
Oh, right.. you know your audience oh so well.. and we just love it when you troll us.
Right.
I consider myself a very strict critic of stories in games (very, very few have actually worked) and generally find most to suck completely while others talk about how amazing they are (MGS for example).
So a game that relies entirely on it's narrative intrigues me. 90% of gaming sites seem to be claiming that this is the new standard in stories for games, while a few dissenters (i.e. Jim) claim that the story is hot garbage.
Considering people's tendency to be blinded by perceived "INNOVATION", and the track record of the developer (Indigo Prophecy, ICK) I'm inclined to believe more in Jim and remain skeptical until I play the game.
I have a bridge to sell you guys.
It seems like it will sell well too. I work at a Gamestop and we had more preorders for this game than Bayonetta and Darksiders combined, and more walk ins who picked up Heavy Rain in the first two hours of being open then we had in the entire day for Bayonneta and Darksiders.
http://www.destructoid.com/sony-heavy-rain-will-sell-well-is-totally-unique-165091.phtml