Heavy Rain inspired Mass Effect 3

i can't wait for garrus to search his pockets for his asthma inhaler.

yeah, that will add to the blistering action that mass effect is missing.

Oh hellz yea.

Heavy Rain storytelling + some actually decent writing= winning formula.

Yeah not going to happen. The blogger that wrote this article sure got a lot of info out of a revel trailer didn't he? I guess if when playing ME3 you have to make a bunch of complicated stick, and button movements to get the same effect as pressing the x button then Heavy Rain inspired ME3.

Let's see I want Garrus to open the door. Let's hold down on the A button, move the left stick back and forth, followed by slowly pushing on the left trigger, not too fast or it won't work. Ok door is open. Yep that is the ME3 world inspired by the Heavy Rain world. I want to go on a mission to rescue Jack. Nope I need to spend 10 minutes setting the table in the Normandy's mess hall first.

I'll put it this way if ME3 does actually end up with Heavy Rain's floating words method of picking conversations I won't be buying it. The current system works fine. I doubt Bioware will be changing it. They've been using it for quite awhile now.

that blog reads like your typical unsubstantiated cow post at gamespot..in other words complete bull hockey

I still think Heavy Rain related topics should go in the Off-Topic Forums, since it's there that we discuss movies.

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I think it's great ! The storytelling in heavy rain was spot on, good to see other developers learning from it.

Master_ShakeXXX

To bad the story was garbage, full of plot holes too.The characters where garbage, Helen is beyond useless, and the killer is just ... Abysmal.

I constantly hear Stevo and jasonharris preach the same thing. If the story sucks so bad why does it get all the lovin? I are confuzzled.

I just hope they have a more indepth character stat based system in leveling you character up with decisions.. As well as item drops.. Weapons armor etc etc.sSubZerOo

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/13/bioware-designer-talks-about-goals-for-mass-effect-3/

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To bad the story was garbage, full of plot holes too.The characters where garbage, Helen is beyond useless, and the killer is just ... Abysmal.

tagyhag

I constantly hear Stevo and jasonharris preach the same thing. If the story sucks so bad why does it get all the lovin? I are confuzzled.

I know, right? The fact that there's people who ACTUALLY think MGS4's story is NOT one of the greatest stories ever told just goes to show that you are correct :P

[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]I just hope they have a more indepth character stat based system in leveling you character up with decisions.. As well as item drops.. Weapons armor etc etc.waltefmoney

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/13/bioware-designer-talks-about-goals-for-mass-effect-3/

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I constantly hear Stevo and jasonharris preach the same thing. If the story sucks so bad why does it get all the lovin? I are confuzzled.

Master_ShakeXXX

I know, right? The fact that there's people who ACTUALLY think MGS4's story is NOT one of the greatest stories ever told just goes to show that you are correct :P

Does that mean I'm going to get one of the most "tragic" (see; unintentionally hilarious) opening segments in gaming history, complete with, dare I say it...."Press X to Shepard"?

Cool, maybe ME3 will have an intruging story instead of just spending the whole time recruiting a team .... [spoiler] only to have many of them die at the end [/spoiler]

I wonder if they'll try to one up the awkward sex scene in Heavy Rain. I mean Mass Effect was stupid, but Heavy Rain was extra stupid with it. Surely Bioware couldn't make it more awkward without going full on porn status. jg4xchamp

I wonder if they'll try to one up the awkward sex scene in Heavy Rain. I mean Mass Effect was stupid, but Heavy Rain was extra stupid with it. Surely Bioware couldn't make it more awkward without going full on porn status. jg4xchamp

Oh, I remember now!

Sex scenes in games are generally stupid. Hell, I hate them in movies.

Cool, maybe ME3 will have an intruging story instead of just spending the whole time recruiting a team .... only to have many of them die at the end

Chutebox

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Cool, maybe ME3 will have an intruging story instead of just spending the whole time recruiting a team .... only to have many of them die at the end

Verge_6

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Cool, maybe ME3 will have an intruging story instead of just spending the whole time recruiting a team .... only to have many of them die at the end

Chutebox

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I constantly hear Stevo and jasonharris preach the same thing. If the story sucks so bad why does it get all the lovin? I are confuzzled.

Master_ShakeXXX

I know, right? The fact that there's people who ACTUALLY think MGS4's story is NOT one of the greatest stories ever told just goes to show that you are correct :P

I played the whole game thinking, "ok, I'm going to recruit this person and so and so then the story will get good!" Turns out I had to do stupid personal quests that I didn't care about to ensure my team would survive. Pass.Chutebox

Loyalty missions were great.

[QUOTE="Chutebox"]I played the whole game thinking, "ok, I'm going to recruit this person and so and so then the story will get good!" Turns out I had to do stupid personal quests that I didn't care about to ensure my team would survive. Pass.waltefmoney

Loyalty missions were great.

[QUOTE="Chutebox"]I played the whole game thinking, "ok, I'm going to recruit this person and so and so then the story will get good!" Turns out I had to do stupid personal quests that I didn't care about to ensure my team would survive. Pass.waltefmoney

Loyalty missions were great.

[QUOTE="Chutebox"][QUOTE="Verge_6"] Son....you did it wrong. Horribly, horribly wrong.

Verge_6

There are "loyalty missions" in every Bioware game. Where was the main storyline? GeneralShowzer

The main storyline was finding/recruiting the team and the collector attacks. The loyalty missions are optional.

[QUOTE="Verge_6"][QUOTE="Chutebox"] I played the whole game thinking, "ok, I'm going to recruit this person and so and so then the story will get good!" Turns out I had to do stupid personal quests that I didn't care about to ensure my team would survive. Pass.Chutebox

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[QUOTE="Verge_6"] Again....you did it wrong.Verge_6

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I think it's great ! The storytelling in heavy rain was spot on, good to see other developers learning from it.

-Snooze-

To bad the story was garbage, full of plot holes too.The characters where garbage, Helen is beyond useless, and the killer is just ... Abysmal.

lets hope not..the ME universe doesn't need to become an 8 hour plot-hole ridden quicktime event borefest...heavy SNOOZE

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[QUOTE="Chutebox"] Nah, I think I did just fine.

Chutebox

[QUOTE="Chutebox"][QUOTE="Verge_6"] Considering you didn't do loyalty/personal missions in a Bioware game...not really.

Verge_6

Considering I didn't want to, I did just fine....Chutebox

So you didn't want to do them, but you complain about getting a bad ending? I didn't want to shoot in Killzone, and I got killed. Such bad game design!

[QUOTE="Verge_6"][QUOTE="Chutebox"] Considering I didn't want to, I did just fine....Chutebox

What, do you get to go around yelling "GAAR-US!" for half an hour?

[QUOTE="Chutebox"]Considering I didn't want to, I did just fine....waltefmoney

So you didn't want to do them, but you complain about getting a bad ending? I didn't want to shoot in Killzone, and I got killed. Such bad game design!

[QUOTE="Verge_6"][QUOTE="Chutebox"] I played the whole game thinking, "ok, I'm going to recruit this person and so and so then the story will get good!" Turns out I had to do stupid personal quests that I didn't care about to ensure my team would survive. Pass.Chutebox

i agree one thousand percent. heavyrain is just one sony game that inspires a gaming generation. sony games are the blue prints imho

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I think it's great ! The storytelling in heavy rain was spot on, good to see other developers learning from it.

Hahadouken

To bad the story was garbage, full of plot holes too.The characters where garbage, Helen is beyond useless, and the killer is just ... Abysmal.

You're right. No idea where I conjured that name up from.

Madison*

Heavy Rain is definitely a landmark in video game story tellingleafsfreak