Oh no. This doesn't bode well...

JASON!

Thanks for the news... I guess.

AARON!

Well at least he's playing good games, its a start.

Now if only he could help create them.

SEAAAN! SEAAAAAN!

"I just can't shake the mental image of Wada really, really digging Madison's strip scenes. Ugh."

thank you now i wont be able to sleep tonight




well it looks like the "heavy rain experiment" was a success to me, good sales, good reception and good press

hopefully this will make game devs and publishers more confident on unconventional games

I would like to see more Heavy Rain type games, but with better writing, David Cage isn't very good. I don't think Square would do any better though. I still don't know what a sanctum pulse cocoon purge fal'cie is.

Bloated, pretentious game designer, from a bloated, pretentious studio likes a bloated, pretentious game. Cool.

In a seriousness though, Heavy Rain wasn't that bad.

Hehe. This article made me think of this.

Press X to Jason

Note to self. One of these days buy or rent and then play Heavy Rain.

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@ ekm29,

"I still don't know what a sanctum pulse cocoon purge fal'cie is"

Honestly, it's not that hard to follow the story in FFXIII. You're kind of insulting yourself by saying that.

I do think there needs to be more games "like" Heavy Rain, but not following the same plot line.

Oh gods please no. No more Heavy Rain, and especially no Fat Chocobo Rain

@ekm29

"I still don't know what a sanctum pulse cocoon purge fal'cie is"

Honestly, it's not that hard to follow the story in FFXIII. You're kind of insulting yourself by saying that.

This 100x over.

I'm just watching a film called franklyn, would rather be playing rdr, but shelby off of heavy rain is in it!

Press x to Jason!!!!! I pissed my pants listening to that. Thank you.

Why is it that every screen shot of Heavy Rain I see shows really stiff, ugly looking "people"? Weren't they boasting about it's graphics? Granted, I haven't played the game. I'd say it looks better in motion, but I've been too lazy/uninterested to look up vids. c_c

"Honestly, it's not that hard to follow the story in FFXIII. You're kind of insulting yourself by saying that."

It helped to read the blurb at the beginning of the manual but they definitely throw too many fantasy words at you. Unless you're Tolkien, throwing in a whole bunch of fictional terms just confuses the audience. You can't really blame someone for getting a little lost when the dialogue does its damndest to talk circles around the player hoping they'll keep up. Fal'cie and L'cie were the most confusing by far and unless you read the manual, L'cie are confusing for a little bit and the relationship between people and Fal'cie isn't really spelled out and instead it's something you need to figure out for yourself.

@kingsigy I think the plot was awesome. Very character oriented like most animes. I wish more games where like that. Nosy western games are about big bulky guys killing things. (Thanks to the xbox and america that is). More games need better character interactions.

Oops spelling mistake! I meant mostly western games*

@EggmaniMN,

Nice, I didn't even have to say anything to refute. You summed everything up nicely for me.

@ Chad Almasy,

It looks a lot better in motion (aside from the janky somewhat disturbing sex scene).

I enjoy the story in ffxiii, but the combat is total shit. And the linearity is horrible too. Tunnel simulator is the best description I've heard.

Was gonna say, if they released a fixed rerelease like ffxii, it might make it a quality game.

@Neroisonfire

thats not fixing, thats making the entire game all over again, its not like you can "patch" level design

I'd like to see more games like Heavy Rain, but I'd like the people making them to recognise the massive flaws that the game had and try to avoid them.

And regarding FF13, it's not that it was 'hard' to follow per se, it's that it required a load of fucking boring research that most people didn't see as worth it. It needed exposition that wasn't shit to nonexistent.