Is Heavy Rain a RPG?

Undeniably, it's a game where you play a role... which seems to be the new definition of what makes a game a RPG. It's missing a lot of the other standards of the genre, but I've seen reviewers refer to those aspects as minutia when talking about other recently released games. Does that make Heavy Rain a 100% minutia-free RPG?

Undeniably, it's a game where you play a role... which seems to be the new definition of what makes a game a RPG. It's missing a lot of the other standards of the genre, but I've seen reviewers refer to those aspects as minutia when talking about other recently released games. Does that make Heavy Rain a 100% minutia-free RPG?

Senor_Kami

HR is QTE's just "gamemovie".....it is not RPG and it is not a game.

HR is QTE's "gamemovie".....it is not RPG and it is not a game.Panosola

Undeniably, it's a game where you play a role... which seems to be the new definition of what makes a game a RPG. It's missing a lot of the other standards of the genre, but I've seen reviewers refer to those aspects as minutia when talking about other recently released games. Does that make Heavy Rain a 100% minutia-free RPG?

Senor_Kami

It's a rental

It's a rental

HermitGTX

[QUOTE="HermitGTX"]

It's a rental

Panosola

[QUOTE="HermitGTX"]

It's a rental

Panosola

Ahhhh SW.... TC made quite interesting point, but everyone thinks in bonders of there convictions and bash him up, since this place is all about bashing ^^

Fun fact: RPG in this way of think is also adventure game.... don't you have in adventure in this kind of games? ;] Does two are quite link to each other

[QUOTE="Panosola"][QUOTE="HermitGTX"]

It's a rental

Revan_911

Then it obviously isn't worth it....

Can you pick a class to play Can you pick your name Can you customize the character Can you upgrade weapons Can increase stats And other things but it does not seem like a rpg to me.SilentlyMad

[QUOTE="Revan_911"][QUOTE="Panosola"] I agree with that.........it is a rental like the movies.For me HR it is not worth a buy and it have no replay value.....maybe i will rent this someday. PSM3 Magazine UK......... "It's a nine-hour film that you nudge along by following on-screen button prompts"MizFitAwesome

Then it obviously isn't worth it....

[QUOTE="Panosola"][QUOTE="HermitGTX"]

It's a rental

shane_orija

oh great LOL another person who uses panosola logic.

panosola if you don't mind me asking, where did you hear that it will have no replay value? you do realize that you can play the story through with different characters each time, and depending on which character dies, your story will be affected. Not only does that change the outcome of the story, but your actions and dialogue options do as well.

I mean even if the story changes only a little bit, story wise It'll at least have more replay value than Mass Effect 2. Now before everyone gets butt hurt about ME2, lets take a look at the 3 different endings you can achieve and the different sidequests you do.


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say you do no additional sidequests and you get to the end, shepard dies but joker is alive sitting on the ship, the reapers are coming. You spend 4 extra hours doing sidequests and upgrading your ship, shepard survives but you blow up the facility, illusive man isn't impressed, then you see the reapers coming. You spend the 4 hours doing sidequests and upgrading your ship, but you save the ship, illusive man is impressed, then you see the reapers coming.

where's the variety? In bioware games, and mass effect specifically, isn't the outcome of your story supposed to be affected by your choices in game? Lets look at the sidequest variety. You talk to a shipmate, they need to go see a long time friend. When you find their friend, the friend isn't like they remembered, then you have a choice to stop your shipmate, or let them kill their friend. That's nearly EVERY sidequest.
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now lets sit back and watch as he comes up with another illogical statement or watch him totally avoid the thread.

HR is QTE's just "gamemovie".....it is not RPG and it is not a game.

Panosola

Heavy Rain is a big QTE.RichardStallman

Heavy Rain i so much QTE as every game menu is

[QUOTE="SilentlyMad"]Can you pick a class to play Can you pick your name Can you customize the character Can you upgrade weapons Can increase stats And other things but it does not seem like a rpg to me.Senor_Kami

[QUOTE="shane_orija"][QUOTE="Panosola"] I agree with that.........it is a rental like the movies.For me HR it is not worth a buy and it have no replay value.....maybe i will rent this someday. PSM3 Magazine UK......... "It's a nine-hour film that you nudge along by following on-screen button prompts"bobbetybob

No, I haven't. I got a beta key and tried it and it was far from impressive. Anyway, I think it was still wrong of me to bash the game simply after trying the beta.

You may want to read this particular page of Heavy Rain's review on gamesradar, thats pretty much what I think of it too.

Yes heavy rain is an rpg

Because when you play it you'll throw it out of the window.

[QUOTE="bobbetybob"][QUOTE="shane_orija"] Same here. Its just a B-grade movie with button tapping. Generic story.shane_orija

No, I haven't. I got a beta key and tried it and it was far from impressive. Anyway, I think it was still wrong of me to bash the game simply after trying the beta.

You may want to read this particular page of Heavy Rain's review on gamesradar, thats pretty much what I think of it too.

How does "being far from impressive" have anything to do with the story being generic? and that review is of the FULL game, not the demo. The review states that heavy rain is badly written, where does it say that the story is generic?

But glad to see you can't form your own opinion let alone read the review that you supposedly agree with.

It´s an adventure game.

it's a pretentious game

albeit a well made pretentious game that i would at least like to rent

[QUOTE="RichardStallman"]Heavy Rain is a big QTE.ShadowriverUB

Heavy Rain i so much QTE as every game menu is

[QUOTE="ShadowriverUB"]

[QUOTE="RichardStallman"]Heavy Rain is a big QTE.RichardStallman

Heavy Rain i so much QTE as every game menu is

[QUOTE="shane_orija"]

[QUOTE="bobbetybob"] And you know that it's a generic story because you played the whole game...right?Some-Mist

No, I haven't. I got a beta key and tried it and it was far from impressive. Anyway, I think it was still wrong of me to bash the game simply after trying the beta.

You may want to read this particular page of Heavy Rain's review on gamesradar, thats pretty much what I think of it too.

How does "being far from impressive" have anything to do with the story being generic? and that review is of the FULL game, not the demo.

But glad to see you can't form your own opinion.

I was referring to what the story and gameplay seemed to me in the beta and like I said earlier I shouldn't have formed an opinion about the entire game though I fail to realise how the rest of the game would be good if the beta is sucks.

And as for the link, I posted it because its take on the story was the same as my opinion from the beta. And so what if I had formed my opinion from what the review said? ( which I didn't, by the way) isn't that the reason why reviews are posted in the first place? and then why do people at System Wars quote scores from gaming sites everytime if they want to prove their favorite game "superior" or something?

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[QUOTE="shane_orija"]

No, I haven't. I got a beta key and tried it and it was far from impressive. Anyway, I think it was still wrong of me to bash the game simply after trying the beta.

You may want to read this particular page of Heavy Rain's review on gamesradar, thats pretty much what I think of it too.

shane_orija

How does "being far from impressive" have anything to do with the story being generic? and that review is of the FULL game, not the demo.

But glad to see you can't form your own opinion.

I was referring to what the story and gameplay seemed to me in the beta and like I said earlier I shouldn't have formed an opinion about the entire game though I fail to realise how the rest of the game would be good if the beta is sucks.

And as for the link, I posted it because its take on the story was the same as my opinion from the beta. And so what if I had formed my opinion from what the review said? ( which I didn't, by the way) isn't that the reason why reviews are posted in the first place? and then why do people at System Wars quote scores from gaming sites everytime if they want to prove their favorite game "superior" or something?

no one in this thread has quoted gaming scores yet? I believe you're the first person to even mention a review other than panosola lol.