RE: Heavy Rain's Control Setup

For those of you who have played the game/demo: Are you as annoyed as I am with the clunky controls?! Ugh I hate it! The game looks freaking beautiful and story was very intriguing, but I got so turned off by the controls. I'm not sure if I want to spend my $60.00 now.

Any thoughts?

The controls do not bother me at all, and I cannot imagine passing on a game because of the controls. Unless, of course, the controls were plain bad and made the game unplayable, which is absolutely not the case with Heavy Rain.

no they are fine.

clunky? no, not really. i just beat the game and i never really had any problem.. there were one or two places where i thought they could have been better but you were supposed to be going slowly in those places anyway.. I never played the demo so idk if it might have been different, imo the controls were very immersive and maybe only 15 minutes out of my 11 hour playthrough where they at all frustrating... as long as you can differentiate between holding, press, and slowly moving controls you should be fine...PoisoN_Facecam0

Wow, you already beat it? I hear the story mode takes a good 10-15 hours to complete... or am I wrong? So what did you think of it? You don't have to give away key plot points. In general, do you think it's worth $60? Way too many people say that you have very little "play" time - the game is just one big movie. Disagree?

I dont LOVE the controls, but there is NO way that is going to hold me back from buying possibly one of the best games of the year...

Id take a game with amazing Story/gameplay with BLEH controls, over a Crappy story/gameplay game with amazing controls.

The movement does feel a bit awkward at times but I'm still enjoying the game.Texas2089

Apparently, it's happening to lots of folks.

http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/adventure/heavyrain/show_msgs.php?topic_id=m-1-53625729&pid=933123&tag=topics;title

[QUOTE="Texas2089"]The movement does feel a bit awkward at times but I'm still enjoying the game.krsvbg

Apparently, it's happening to lots of folks.

http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/adventure/heavyrain/show_msgs.php?topic_id=m-1-53625729&pid=933123&tag=topics;title

*SPOILER ALERT*

I have had no problems with controls, other than a few minor things. Sometimes I'll want to watch what's happening rather than looking for a button to press, which can be sometimes hard. This annoyed me. All combat sequences pretty much did this, even though I thought they were brilliant.

The game hasn't frozen, but I can say that in some sequences, details were slow to load. Take Ethan's facial hair, or the baby's buttons on his nighty for instance. I'll be writing a review on this in the next few days, and so far things are OK... not what I was expecting, but playable, for sure.

[QUOTE="krsvbg"]

[QUOTE="Texas2089"]The movement does feel a bit awkward at times but I'm still enjoying the game.Texas2089

Apparently, it's happening to lots of folks.

http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/adventure/heavyrain/show_msgs.php?topic_id=m-1-53625729&pid=933123&tag=topics;title

Really? I haven't experienced any freezing or slowdown. It runs better than probably any game I've ever played.

[QUOTE="Texas2089"][QUOTE="krsvbg"]Any freezing problems?

Apparently, it's happening to lots of folks.

http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/adventure/heavyrain/show_msgs.php?topic_id=m-1-53625729&pid=933123&tag=topics;title

Phoenix534

Really? I haven't experienced any freezing or slowdown. It runs better than probably any game I've ever played.

[QUOTE="krsvbg"]

[QUOTE="Texas2089"]The movement does feel a bit awkward at times but I'm still enjoying the game.Texas2089

Apparently, it's happening to lots of folks.

http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/adventure/heavyrain/show_msgs.php?topic_id=m-1-53625729&pid=933123&tag=topics;title

[QUOTE="PoisoN_Facecam0"]clunky? no, not really. i just beat the game and i never really had any problem.. there were one or two places where i thought they could have been better but you were supposed to be going slowly in those places anyway.. I never played the demo so idk if it might have been different, imo the controls were very immersive and maybe only 15 minutes out of my 11 hour playthrough where they at all frustrating... as long as you can differentiate between holding, press, and slowly moving controls you should be fine...krsvbg

Wow, you already beat it? I hear the story mode takes a good 10-15 hours to complete... or am I wrong? So what did you think of it? You don't have to give away key plot points. In general, do you think it's worth $60? Way too many people say that you have very little "play" time - the game is just one big movie. Disagree?

i think the controls are just fine... after the original resident evil games i can play pretty much any control scheme fine.MethodManFTW

I still dont understand why we need R2 to walk though. Sometimes they act up but the good outweighs the bad.

[QUOTE="PoisoN_Facecam0"]clunky? no, not really. i just beat the game and i never really had any problem.. there were one or two places where i thought they could have been better but you were supposed to be going slowly in those places anyway.. I never played the demo so idk if it might have been different, imo the controls were very immersive and maybe only 15 minutes out of my 11 hour playthrough where they at all frustrating... as long as you can differentiate between holding, press, and slowly moving controls you should be fine...krsvbg

Wow, you already beat it? I hear the story mode takes a good 10-15 hours to complete... or am I wrong? So what did you think of it? You don't have to give away key plot points. In general, do you think it's worth $60? Way too many people say that you have very little "play" time - the game is just one big movie. Disagree?