Well I ordered Valkria Chronicles. It’s been a game I was interested in since it was announced, but ever bought. I managed to find a used copy on Amazon for 12 bucks + shipping, which is the best deal for It I’ve seen (everywhere I’ve looked had it for 20+). I’ll go through that game and watch Two Best Friends play Heavy Rain. Will that spoil it for me? Yes. Is it worth it? FUCK YEAH MATT AND PAT!
Oops, yeah used the wrong term there.
You will probably understand later though, it’s as if every character exists in this crazy vacuum where the only living person is who you are playing (who also makes some very questionable decisions in their actions). They play out this extremely rigid sequence that makes absolutely no sense for any real human and have no actual interaction with others outside, only you (and you are often a complete stranger they totally accept anyway).
There are some situations where they just didn’t treat the subject matter properly at all. Some of them I guess they were brave for trying seeing as they haven’t really been done before, but they really didn’t depict them with the minimum respect or urgency they needed.
Was the game still worth playing in your opinion?
hi guys
now that I have weekends off I’ll have more time to play skullgirls 
If you are enjoying it, it’s always worth playing.
It was worth it for me because I learned what I should not be designing character - character and especially character - world interactions haha.
Been playing a lot of the Dust 514 beta recently. Really buggy at the moment with some crashes requiring a restart of the game but its pretty damn fun all the same.
The game, if you can get past its silliness/plot holes/inconsistent VO and Dialog quality/Generally awful controls outside of QTEs… it does a couple things really well. It is worth playing purely on the grounds its a AAA that handles player agency in a way most other console titles don’t have the luxury to.
As a writer, Heavy Rain made me want to punch a baby. The storyline was flat out insulting and the narrative did something unforgivable, which is to flat out LIE to the player.
Lie to the player? Elaborate in spoilers for me, you’ve got me interested (especially since I used to do a lot of writing myself).
We’re dealing with a bot problem and I don’t have time to explain it. Basically know that the game’s narrative flat out lies to the player in a way that is basically impossible. This basically explains everything: http://www.destructoid.com/how-heavy-rain-has-lowered-the-bar-for-game-narrative-165426.phtml
its a cool experiment by people who had NO idea what they were doing
The main good thing in Heavy Rain is “Sexy Dance”. No idea why people hype a QTE-only (thus: no actual “playing” process) with a gigantic plothole and the dumbest branching storylines ever (thus: their main focus, creating a “story-focused interactive movie” utterly failed) and no ACTUAL freedom (thus: the supposed options are mostly dumb shit) this much. But hey, there’s a woman with bare tits shaking her ass, so it’s all cool.
If only the player wasn’t literally the only one in the entire game with any agency what so ever haha.
It definitely does do some things well and they TRIED to do a lot of new things… probably too much because they are forward thinking ideas but all fell flat or weren’t given the time they needed to succeed.
I would also kind of disagree on the player agency, it gives the illusion of agency sure, but it is a branching tree no less than other games and it is a very rigid one. Would help if you could actually go places other than where the game wants you to go at that specific point.
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Spoilered, not much of a spoiler really, but could be seen as one.
Spoiler
That lie stings so much… that is the one thing most complain about, but I don’t think it is the only thing holding it back, the rest of the game is pretty ridiculous as well.
Mechanics and story should ALWAYS, ALWAYS have a relation. I’m fine with being deceived, but not outright lied to by the mechanics.
Anyone have a render or could render Valentine’s action pose (with body bag)?
Looking to make some stick art and I can’t seem to find a render of it anywhere.
Now I’m anticipating this giant lie! Haha.
So far the game has at least had very good cinematographic framing. Walking through some areas can look pretty amazing for everything around you typically being fairly bland. Though I knew I was getting into an attempt at turning a movie into an interactive game when I began, so I would be severely disappointed if the all the framing attempts were done badly.
Soooo, Filia’s win poses. Now that they’ll be back in the game, which button combinations actually trigger them? :3
has no idea if it’s a well known fact or a well guarded secret
Adding on that, does one press the button combination at char select (where one also selects character colours), or is it smth like “Hold down MK right after you win a round to have her do her 2nd winpose”
Mike Z on the recent Mixup stream went into that a bit and i think he said it was after round win you select (Similar on how T6 allowed you to pick win poses except it was only after the match).
Incidentally enough, Filia actually has 3 win poses on the current patch. Note they were never new, but were locked out because a person who is no longer affiliated with Reverge and took no additional work to add it in
Another note (Filia only has multiple win poses because she was worked on the most before they even got money to create this game. THere was plans to multiple win poses for the rest of the cast, but one thing led to another and it did not get done)
GG lets you pick winposes too.
Why is this thread so dead. Looks like 90% of the people who complained that we need an OTT Thread left these forums the moment we got it.