Heavy Rain is the only Unique game that came out this gen (Agree or Disagree)

http://gdc.gamespot.com/story/6301812/david-cage-on-creating-emotion-in-heavy-rain

Definately agree about developers exploiting new avenues to create games. Altho the regular core mechanic of a game will most likely never get old but new avenues have to be created.
Heavy Rain was the first ever game to make me feel guilty about pulling the trigger and i can say iv pulled so many triggers in my whole gaming life

Disagree, plays like Fahrenheit.

Since everyone decided to list a game I'll add Norrland.

Unique as in genre or overall?

If you mean genre, I agree since it's the only one in that genre that I know of.

Mirror's Edge was kinda unique

It could be, but i have to ask, unique in what way? because form what i understand, Heavy Rain is not the first game with this style of gameplay.

Minecraft?

Anyone who agrees with that simply hasn't bothered looking for unique games. Cryostasis, The Void, Minecraft, Shadow of Chernobyl... the list goes on and on really.

to that list you can add Valkyria Chronicles too!

I've never played anything like it

My wife watched me play the whole game like it was a movie...she has never done that.

Minecraft?

Wasdie

It is unique, but it certainly isn't the only one this gen

Mirror's Edge was kinda unique

TheEpicGoat

I was pretty impressed with the game's take on death and it's implications and all that.. until the part where you barge in to that house and quick time kill like 9 guards.

Anyone who thinks it's unique just hasn't played Indigo Prophecy.

Disagree, plays like Fahrenheit.

Since everyone decided to list a game I'll add Norrland.

Yangire

[QUOTE="TheEpicGoat"]

Mirror's Edge was kinda unique

lucfonzy

[QUOTE="Yangire"]

Disagree, plays like Fahrenheit.

Since everyone decided to list a game I'll add Norrland.

Animal-Mother

That's nice, but Heavy Rain cannot be unique if something in a past generation did everything that made Heavy Rain "unique".

[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"]No, it's not unique. Indigo Prophecy used the exact same game mechanic. Not to mention that non linear adventure games were there since early 90's. Name a single aspect of it that's unique.Syn_Valence

Yes. If you're a fan of the moves and you're feeling nostalgic,it was one of the best experiences this gen for me. But there are some issues. Like the first episode lacked any good puzzles, the second one had some though.

The animations are flonky too. It's more of an interactive movie than an adventure game where you explore and interact. But i love it just the same.

[QUOTE="Animal-Mother"][QUOTE="Yangire"]

Disagree, plays like Fahrenheit.

Since everyone decided to list a game I'll add Norrland.

Yangire

That's nice, but Heavy Rain cannot be unique if something in a past generation did everything that made Heavy Rain "unique".

exactly that's like saying the first fps this gen was a unique game because its the new gen, not last gen

[QUOTE="Animal-Mother"][QUOTE="Yangire"]

Disagree, plays like Fahrenheit.

Since everyone decided to list a game I'll add Norrland.

Yangire

That's nice, but Heavy Rain cannot be unique if something in a past generation did everything that made Heavy Rain "unique".

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[QUOTE="Animal-Mother"] He said this gen. cyanblues

That's nice, but Heavy Rain cannot be unique if something in a past generation did everything that made Heavy Rain "unique".

exactly that's like saying the first fps this gen was a unique game because its the new gen, not last gen

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[QUOTE="Animal-Mother"] He said this gen. Animal-Mother

That's nice, but Heavy Rain cannot be unique if something in a past generation did everything that made Heavy Rain "unique".

Heavy Rain is different or stands out, but I would say something has to be original or not done before to be unique.

[QUOTE="Animal-Mother"][QUOTE="Yangire"]

That's nice, but Heavy Rain cannot be unique if something in a past generation did everything that made Heavy Rain "unique".

Yangire

Heavy Rain is different or stands out, but I would say something has to be original or not done before to be unique.

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[QUOTE="Animal-Mother"] He said this gen. Animal-Mother

That's nice, but Heavy Rain cannot be unique if something in a past generation did everything that made Heavy Rain "unique".

[QUOTE="Blabadon"]This almost definitely goes to Patapon. Snakemaster9

THIS

[QUOTE="Animal-Mother"][QUOTE="Yangire"]

That's nice, but Heavy Rain cannot be unique if something in a past generation did everything that made Heavy Rain "unique".

GeneralShowzer

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[QUOTE="Animal-Mother"] I beg to differ. in a generation filled with shooters, heavy rain stands out from the crowd. Hence unique. And again, he's not mentioning the past generation. I don't see why that das not computeAnimal-Mother

Heavy Rain is different or stands out, but I would say something has to be original or not done before to be unique.

He's saying Heavy Rain is the only unqiue game released this generation, everything in Heavy Rain has been done before. I don't see the problem here.

[QUOTE="Animal-Mother"][QUOTE="Yangire"]

Heavy Rain is different or stands out, but I would say something has to be original or not done before to be unique.

Yangire

He's saying Heavy Rain is the only unqiue game released this generation, everything in Heavy Rain has been done before. I don't see the problem here.

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[QUOTE="Animal-Mother"] And again, he's speaking within the generation. Nothings like it has been done. Now your just graspin for straws. It's in the thread titleAnimal-Mother

He's saying Heavy Rain is the only unqiue game released this generation, everything in Heavy Rain has been done before. I don't see the problem here.

Tell me what other game like heavy rain has been done THIS generation. Animal-Mother

Place your egos aside, it doesn't matter arguing if the thread is already wrong to begin with.

Alan Wake, Stacked, Toy Soldiers, the upcoming Trenched, etc., etc. are all pretty unique for this generation. That's not even getting into some unique MMOs released in the last few years.

So I disagree with your conclusion.

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[QUOTE="Animal-Mother"] And again, he's speaking within the generation. Nothings like it has been done. Now your just graspin for straws. It's in the thread titleAnimal-Mother

He's saying Heavy Rain is the only unqiue game released this generation, everything in Heavy Rain has been done before. I don't see the problem here.

It doesn't matter if it has been done this generation or not, a game cannot be unique if it has been done before. He's asking for unique games that have been released this generation, he never said anything in the past similar to it doesn't count because it was not released this gen.

Anyways I'm not going to debate over this.

Ghost Trick, World of Goo, Boom Blox, Limbo (haven't played it so maybe?)... yada yada.
I probably didn't read it right.

[QUOTE="Syn_Valence"][QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"]No, it's not unique. Indigo Prophecy used the exact same game mechanic. Not to mention that non linear adventure games were there since early 90's. Name a single aspect of it that's unique.GeneralShowzer

Yes. If you're a fan of the moves and you're feeling nostalgic,it was one of the best experiences this gen for me. But there are some issues. Like the first episode lacked any good puzzles, the second one had some though.

The animations are flonky too. It's more of an interactive movie than an adventure game where you explore and interact. But i love it just the same.

I think it's one of a few. Mirror's Edge, Zak & Wiki, Patapon, Braid...actually no. There has been alot of unique games this gen. Look at XBLA and Wii games.

EDIT: Portal, Phoenix Wright, Trauma Center, The World Ends With You, and World of Goo were all also unique games I've never experienced anything like before.

What about Elite Beat Agents?

LocoRoco is pretty unique, heavy rain....not so much (although it was a very awesome game)

The Last Guardian.

Ghost Trick

Minecraft

Bayonetta

Mirror's Edge

This gen has plenty of unique games.