GR - "The change isn't due to a massive outcry, Cage stating that the control in Heavy Rain received very positive feedback despite the initial assumption from critics that the Dragon's Lair-esque gameplay would turn players off."
IGN:
"On IGN's weekly PlayStation show, Beyond!, host Jonathon Dornbush is joined by Brian Altano and Max Scoville discuss all the latest Death Stranding gameplay, the hint of more Last of Us Part 2 news to come, and much more."
Quantic Dream founder and CEO David Cage has been at the forefront of bringing emotion to interactive entertainment. He’s spent his life, thus far, building new technology that allows him to bring memorable stories to life that put the player front and center. Unlike many games, Quantic Dream titles constantly challenge gamers to make important decisions, and these decisions take both an emotional toll on the player and spin the narrative into new directions.
Cage, who wowed the game industry at GDC last year with his short film, Kara, and again at E3 a few months later with his new PlayStation 3 game, Beyond: Two Souls, starring Ellen Page; was on stage at PlayStation Meeting 2013 to show what PlayStation 4 adds to his ultimate quest to bring as much depth and emotion to games as Hollywood has experienced.
You are so right! He's the best, if you ask me. Well, him and everybody at Quantic Dream.
A huge segment of gamers have matured in life and in years since the console business began. We have kids, families, mortgages. Yet the medium remains aimed at 15-25 year old males (for the most part). I like the fact that someone is making adult content for people in my demographic. The man takes the medium seriously as an art form, and attempts to make games that actually cater to the 25+ crowd. That is commendable.
I purchase whatever Quantic Dream makes because of the passion David Cage and his team have for their games. They go against the current and stick to their vision and whether or not they sell 10 mil games is irrelevant, they make adult games and are going to revolutionize the industry with their story-heavy titles.
"This game plays like a game! It is entertaining like a game! It is made for 15-25 year old males!"
It doesn't work like that. Gaming, in fact, is an ageless, genderless hobby. Old and young men and women alike can play games that cater to their tastes and have a good time. Growing up doesn't mean that you forget how to appreciate fun things in life.
And I think the man could do way better in his execution of ideas. Heavy Rain's story, for example, was as believable and touching as a B movie or a campy book. At least in my opinion.
But it's NOT mature content, that's the problem. David Cage's films are pure shallow adolescent cheese disguised by moody piano soundtracks and shoehorned 'mature' subject matter, all the while retaining the same clichè writing, one dimensional stereotypical characters and Pervy forced T and A of any Hollywood popcorn flick.
The creators of games like Journey and Braid are more likely to bring us gaming's Citizen Kane (if they haven't already). Even though their work looks on the surface nothing like Citizen Kane, it stands in a similar place Kane did in relation to the medium in which it exists. Creating a far deeper and more human connection with its audience than anything had before. A game like Heavy rain stands apart from the rest of the industry in terms of its innovative gameplay but in terms of plot it's just every cliché from every detective potboiler over the past fifty years packaged and sold as something new to people without the cultural education to know where and when these ideas were done better. It tries desperately to look mature and grown up but is in fact embarrassingly adolescent, like a thirteen year old boy smoking his first cigarette and trying not to cough his lungs up.
I'm not saying Cage isn't trying to create something deeper and more mature, he is and that is commendable but if he ever wants to actually do it he really needs to develop greatly as a writer.
@zatrox, what's a b movie to you?
Something like the 'Taken'?
Taken is a good movie to compare it with IMO.
Going off David Cage's talk in the conference, it seems very likely. Either way, I am looking to them next-gen for the most immersive storytelling. The insanely realistic character models help greatly in delivering the emotions that he tries to get across. Worked wonder with Heavy Rain, and Beyond:2 Souls has taken it to a new level, deemed unreachable on current-gen tech. But, he will keep proving us wrong.
NowGamer: "Say what you like about David Cage, there's no faulting his passion for pushing the games industry forward..."
So true. I love games like that but I'm also a fan of fun and creative games that doesn't need a gun.
Quite a few people I offered them to play a game like Uncharted, and they wouldn't play it because you have to fire a gun. I thought it was silly that they wouldn't even play it but that's the truth.
Looking forward to Beyond 2 Souls, I played Heavy Rain and kill everyone on my first playthrough.
You literally contradicted any point you were trying to make in that last sentence.
I'm saying the truth. My first playthrough ended like that it's not like I wanted them all dead but that's what my choices were the result of. I think you misunderstood what the last sentence meant.
How about developers quit making those kinds of games start producing something else and maybe you might see a change in trends.
His point was some people will play a game with a gun to fire everywhere, others wont. Some people will play Heavy Rain as a different experience, others wont, cuz there's no shooting.
I love games like that but I'm also a fan of fun and creative games that doesn't need a gun.
I played Heavy Rain and kill everyone on my first playthrough.
hmm see where your comming from thoe, but that sentance all keep seeing your avatar but its cool i get you.
Yes my avatar is a picture I took off of the multiplayer of Uncharted 2 and it features a gun. Really I like many kinds of games regardless if it involves a gun or not. Is what I put above was confusing? I was talking about the 4 main characters in Heavy rain and it ended up that way. I was a different experience seeing that the main character dies and the story moves on to the next. I'm looking forward on how the Beyond story would play out.
@ Y-5150. Lol I understand what you are trying to say.
To the poeple below Read the article and not just the title.
I don't know, there are some scenes in Heavy Rain that are pretty violent and designed to get your adrenaline up. Maybe he means specific kinds of violence?
I think he means "pay attention to me, I perceive myself to be more intellectual and artistic than everyone else and should be adorned thusly."
The guy needs to stop trying to belittle people so much (both consumers and other developers). Let your work speak for you.
Cage is like Peter Molyneux but with way more talent. Guys like them can listen to themselves speak all day long. Love Cage's games though.
"I perceive myself to be more intellectual and artistic than everyone else"
Maybe thats because he mostly is and your comment may just have proven it.
Agreed which he would stop that, let his games do the talking not the other way around
You should have seen that coming.
He did not mean what you've just said, mate.
Where in that article was he belittling other people?
"The games industry offers many games based on violence and adrenaline, which works for a certain audience but there is a huge untapped market of people who are not interested in shooting but would be willing to interact in a meaningful emotional experience."
Which is true.
And he is not disrespecting anyone.
He was just saying that there is a need to make different games for a different set of gamers.
Cooking Mama was very fun will bash him if he made that game?
And Heavy Rain is a game that spoke for him very well.
Look at the misinformation you have done down below.
It is you who should "stop trying to belittle people so much".
Maybe. But his vision and games are good (as per a general consensus).
Hence, he can talk sh!t.
Well let us hope that David Cage can pull off a coherent story driven game this time around. Heavy Rain was a mess of plot holes and unanswered questions. I sure hope he hired a writer/writers for this game and not penned it himself..
can't wait
Sounds very interesting. Read a more in depth version here:
http://www.polygon.com/2013...
Can't wait for Beyond.
Loved Heavy Rain, there's nothing like it on the market.
Cool, HR was kinda clumsy to control. Really looking forward to this.
Definitely one of my day 1 purchases this year. I loved indigo prophecy and heavy rain. GOW Ascension and Bioshock Infinite in March, TLOU in May. Great start for gaming this year.