Defining game of 2010 AKA The Rikth Sense

Albear wrote:You have entered a small room. There is a Warrior Dwarf asleep on a chair next to a table. There is a door at the other end of room.

On the table there is some bread, a candle, and a rusty axe.

To continue through the door on the left, turn to page 326
To attempt to pick up the items on the table, turn to page 132.
To awake the Warrior Dwarf, turn to page 228.

326
You walk through the door and a large Troll/Elf Goblin/Prince punches you in the neck. YOU DIE

132
You pick up the bread, it is poisoned, YOU DIE

228
You Awake the Warrior Dwarf. His name is Tyrone. He kills you. YOU DIE

Interactive fiction is awesome. Give me Trinity any day over this rubbish.

Photek wrote:[ take off your sony glasses and read the previews carefully, there are hints that this might be not all that.

Care to quote some? Just re-read the Eurogamer preview and it's glowing

I don't see it myself yet as the vid I saw yesterday looked a bit meh, but the game is generating some genuine excitement with many people.

PostRe: Predict Your Top 5 of 2010 by **Photek** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:43 am

suzzopher wrote:Care to quote some? Just re-read the Eurogamer preview and it's glowing I don't see it myself yet as the vid I saw yesterday looked a bit meh, but the game is generating some genuine excitement with many people.

admittedly the last Eurogamer preview was rather glowing, but the tagline at the end still reads something like 'wether its gonna be good or bad, Heavy Rain will be someting different'.

Eurogamers previous previews have been rather sceptical of HR and EDGE's preview a few months back was hugely so.

Thing is Photek, that's actual bollocks, isn't it? Even completely putting aside my personal opinion on the game, the latest batch of previews have been almost unanimously positive.

Is Heavy Rain by the same people that did Fahrenheit then? :shifty:

I genuinely need to keep up with this stuff...

I found this after about 1 min skimming.

Eurogamer wrote:Heavy Rain is very contemporary, but the split-screen adds a nice touch of the sixties.
Playing through the scene a couple of times, it was easy to deviate in small details (discovering fingerprints, the flow of a conversation) or very major ones (dying, or not) - but the course of events still felt fairly locked-in, the player's power to truly shape the narrative quite limited. The digital actors looked astonishing and behaved convincingly, if a little stagily - but despite the attentions of Hollywood script doctors, there were still some clunky lines.

It could be that Heavy Rain isn't much more than a remarkably beautiful and slick narrative adventure game for the next generation

As far as I can tell, Tom Bramwell seems to love it to pieces and the others seemed a bit put off but are warming to it. It seems that the basic case for the game is starting to actually achieve its goals the more they play it, the more they are 'getting' it.

I never said the recent previews where anything other than glowing crash.

I can't be arsed looking for my old EDGE from the summer but they where really sceptical, not only for the game but they perceived some it's plot lines where contrived to get maximum coverage in the meejah rather than fit into the games main story arc.

EDIT: Personally I think that it has the potential to be huge. Not so much a genre definer as much as a new genre of it's own. It's still very difficult to get my head around what the game actually is though.

Photek wrote:
I never said the recent previews where anything other than glowing crash.

Yeah, you're right, I must have been confu...

Photek wrote:Take off your sony glasses and read the previews carefully, there are hints that this might be not all that.

Oh... nope, that was it: we're Sony fanboys. Aces.

Of course there are caveats in the preview, there are in pretty much every preview ever written about any game ever. For Heavy Rain, the caveats are particularly meaningful, as it's a very different type of game that's putting a whole heap of pressure on the storytelling skills of David 'Yellow Internet Man Will Kill Us All' Cage.

The excitement is in seeing whether they can pull it off, they've aimed very high. Even I still think it could very well turn out to be complete gooseberry fool, but I'm looking forward to finding out. That's why I think Heavy Rain could be 2010's defining game, as its success or failure could turn out to be important.

Calm down dear.

This is going to be one of the few games that I am looking forward to fellow forumites discuss when/if there's a demo incoming. Mostly for information on wtf it actually is.

I'm excited about this game, even more so after reading the latest previews. Having said that, I'm ultra-worried that the story and dialogue won't be up to the bar set by the tech, which may make the final product a frustrating one for me personally.

Come on people...David Cage and Sony want this to work. If it ends up being not all that then fine...at least they have the balls to try it out...invest millions in to the project...and see what the reaction is like.

This is good news for gamers, isn't it?

What was the defining game of this year? I have no idea, so without a precedent to base my judgment on I am a little confused. Or is this really just a Alan Wake Vs Heavy Rain discussion?

Also we don't even know what Microsoft/Sony have lined up for the majority of late 2010. The defining game could be something that uses either platforms new tech.

cooldawn wrote:Come on people...David Cage and Sony want this to work. If it ends up being not all that then fine...at least they have the balls to try it out...invest millions in to the project...and see what the reaction is like.

This is good news for gamers, isn't it?

Exactly, they should be applauded for the effort as it really is a bit of a step into the unknown.

I have to say that my first instinct is to say well there doesn't seem to be much "gaming" to be done here, but that seems to be pretty much a universal first reaction from all those that have played it. These recent previews have shown, however, that whilst that reticence has not been dispelled entirely, there are countervailing positive aspects to the game that could reduce the significance of such concerns. The main one being that this does seem to be a genuine stab at creating a strong story based narrative designed for adults within the general confines of what is recognisably still a "game". Isn't this exactly what Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg have been banging on about for a while now? A least these guys have got Sony to put their money where their mouth is and make it happen. Good luck to them.

I hope it's great and I hope it sells well enough to justify its inception. To be honest the industry needs people who are willing to take risks like this.

Zartan wrote:What was the defining game of this year? I have no idea, so without a precedent to base my judgment on I am a little confused. Or is this really just a Alan Wake Vs Heavy Rain discussion?

Alan Wake and Heavy Rain seem to be VERY different games from what I can tell. HR is trying something new while Alan Wake looks like something similar to Silent Hill. SH has been rubbish on the HD consoles so far though so a polished clone would be more than welcome in my book.

With no big western franchise sequel next year (CoD, GTA, AC) the ball finally passes back to Japan and next year will be the one where it proves WHY it has so much more imagination than the west: Bayonetta, FFXIII, Sin and Punishment, FFCC, Tatsunoko vs, Okamiden and Peace Walker look too add back some of the craziness back into gaming the west has forgotten about.

I predict Metroid will be game of '10. People forget Retro are 50% involved in Other M. Retro adventuring and art Design with Team Ninja action and challenge (Imagine fighting Ridley with the hardcore challenge of Ninja Gaiden thrown in!) is a combo of great potential.
I also predict no announcement, not even DC games on PSN/XBLA will top the trailer for the new Zelda at E3.

Carlos wrote:I also predict no announcement, not even DC games on PSN/XBLA will top the trailer for the new Zelda at E3.

The original Twilight Princess trailer got the reaction it did because everyone was expecting Wind Waker 2, and it was one of the most unexpected reveals in recent times.

We already know what style Zelda Wii is going to have, and I can't see the gameplay alone being enough to "win" it the entire year (in trailer form). It's normally something completely unexpected that gets that, like FFXIII's X360 revea.

Carlos wrote:Western developers of course simply a load of baka gaijins compared to GLORIOUS NIPPON

With no big western franchise sequel next year

Halo Reach
God Of War III
Splinter Cell Conviction
Crackdown 2
Bioshock 2
Mass Effect 2

all cancelled and nobody told me

Rik wrote:
With no big western franchise sequel next year

Halo Reach
God Of War III
Splinter Cell Conviction
Crackdown 2
Bioshock 2
Mass Effect 2

all cancelled and nobody told me

I was looking forward to Splinter Cell and Bioshock as well.

I guess the true master race will have to make games for my pathetic white brain to enjoy.

Retro aren't even working on Metroid Other M.

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