[QUOTE="biggest_loser"][QUOTE="gameguy6700"] Quantic Dream's games are all about story and experience, not so much gameplay. Think of them as highly interactive movies.gameguy6700
So now we're playing games without any actual game play? Is that what you're suggesting? Max Payne is like an interactive movie. But at least that gives you control and things to do! From all the videos of HR you have the freedom of walking. But every other action is a quick time event. Why are people in awe of this? Why are you talking like this is some kind of new trend? There have been games with minimal, if any, interaction for decades now. The visual novel genre is quite big in Japan and a few of those have even managed to make it over to the US (such as the Ace Attorny series). Quantic Dream's games are basically like that, except they're like interactive films instead of interactive books.
What I'm saying is that if you want this to be an action game you're approaching it from the wrong perspective. Indigo Prophecy and Heavy Rain are not meant to be like Max Payne. Back in Indigo Prophecy the producer of the game even told you right at the start that it was meant to be more like a movie than a game. Video games don't have to give you full control to be enjoyable.
There are many ways to go about making an enjoyable game, and that's what makes this hobby so great is that you're not limited to just one way to enjoy the medium. If you don't like Heavy Rain you don't have to buy it. For the record, Indigo Prophecy wasn't exactly a hot seller either. QD is a niche developer, their games aren't supposed to appeal to a mass audience (which is why it's weird that they allowed HR to be a PS3 exclusive. They're shooting themselves in the foot by doing that).
I think you've missed my point in talking about Max Payne. What I meant was that Max Payne has cinematic-like aesthetics. Yet at the same time it provides extremely solid game play.
Why not just make a movie then? According to you you don't have to have full control, so why not just have a series of cutscenes? I must be out of touch, because I always thought it was the very nature of a game - interacting with your character - that was the whole point, what separates it from a movie.
I know I don't have to buy it, but I'm still entitled to my opinion.
Its funny, they're a niche developer and yet they're putting so much effort into the visuals.
I really think people are being conned by this game and I think they're going to get a rude shock when the game play is only made up of pressing a single button.
This is not the same as Farenheight - that game had a great sense of immersion in the way you interacted with objects. There was still a game in there, the way you had to move the mouse around to say wipe up some blood or something.
Having a game tell you when to do something continuously through onscreen indicators and then do it through the single press of a button, that my friends is being "dumbed down" - as much as I hate that phrase - and game play simplifed to the nth degree.
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