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| Topic | Exdeath Plays Every Game in the GotD 2020 Contest |
| Evillordexdeath 07/02/20 10:17:38 PM #229: | ZenOfThunder posted... here is the zenofthunder ranking with no explanation: Zaeed in first - maybe I should've shelled out for his DLC after all. Our rankings aren't too different over all, with my top 3 still being fairly high on yours and some agreement on the bottom couple of characters. Do you usually romance Jack? Since you've played the game a few more times, have you ever sided with Morinth over Samara, and if so, would you rank her any higher than her mom? BetrayedTangy posted... I actually have a little respect for Heavy Rain, pretty sure it was one of if not the first game of its kind. Paving the way for much better games. It is something of a pioneering game, yes. People who like Telltale's stuff or Life is Strange might owe a little bit of thanks to Heavy Rain for popularizing the whole mostly QTE-based branching narrative game, although some of HR's mechanics were already done by Cage's own Farenheit and even Shenmue. Incidentally, the playthrough of Heavy Rain that I watched was Slowbeef's "wifestream:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9bFb3kpKeM I played about two hours of the game today, which is just enough time for the game to establish the basic plot. Calling this "slow-paced" is a bit of an understatement. The game opens with protagonist Ethan Mars getting out of bed, taking a shower, and then getting dressed, all of which we have to manipulate using a slightly cumbersome set of controls. What, no special interaction for making the bed, David Cage? I guess the takeaway is that Ethan is a slob. There's an anime called 21 Emon that also starts with the main character waking up and having a shower, but the crucial difference is the whole thing takes about 10 seconds in that and more like 10 minutes in Heavy Rain. Aside from this glacial pacing, the most immediately apparent thing about the game is that it has a really bizarre control scheme. It kind of works like the old tank controls in Resident Evil, except you have to hold down R2 to move forward. I also hate the QTEs that require you to move the entire controller around. In any case, the essential purpose of this opening is to give us some emotional investment in Ethan and his family, so that it's at least a little bit impactful in the very next scene when Ethan's 10-year-old son wanders off into traffic and gets fatally run over. This scene and a later one where his brother, now around the same age, needs a teddy bear to go to sleep made me realize that David Cage writes based on the Sims school of child development, where there's no real difference between a toddler and a 12 year old and kids only start to acquire higher brain functions when they hit the teens. Then again, Ethan hasn't displayed much in the way of higher brain functionality yet either. This writeup to be concluded tomorrow morning. --- I'm playing every game from GotD 2020! Games Completed: 4/129 Currently Playing: Heavy Rain ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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