The Quantic Dream boss reflects on his gambles with Heavy Rain, the inspiration for Beyond, and the future of his studio.
David Cage is a developer who needs no introduction. He's the founder and CEO of Quantic Dream, the developer behind Fahrenheit, Heavy Rain and now Beyond: Two Souls.
Amid the chaos of gamescom last week, we sat down at the Radisson Blu in Cologne to discuss the gambles behind Heavy Rain, the ways in which TV writing is influencing Quantic Dream, and the personal inspiration for Beyond.
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Level 85 brown nosing.
Take your pick.
@MySwordIsHeavenly for someone who's name is MySwordIsHeavenly I'm scared.
There's actually some useful information about their next game, Beyond. How he explains that he plans to surprise the audience with something that nobody would be expecting.
He is unreachable right now.
Infinite is worrying me though..
There are Facebook games out there if you just want casual stuff
I don't even...
I always poke people to get money in real life.
"i heard heavy rain was a neat little mini-movie for an indie company on a high school budget"
Your source sucks. Heavy Rain was an amazing experience unlike many others. Most trolls like to talk sh#t because it was original and took a huge risk rather than your generic meaty military grunts shooting EVERYTHING OR just saving princesses from turtles and playing tennis with em FOR 25 F**KING YEARS!!!!!! (Yup i went there lol >_<). It featured an original story that can show hollywood a thing or two about an entertaining well-paced thrill ride. It set the beautifuly written story in front of my eyes and placed the character's lives in my hands. I CHOSE every outcome. I CHOSE the ending. 18 different endings and i saw em all ^_^ It's a GAME worth replaying. Now if your "source" can stop being jealous fu$king trolls for one second. Tell them to go lie face down in a rain puddle until the bubbles stop. :b
Signed: Blondie
A game called 'Omikron: The Nomad Soul' for Windows and Dreamcast.
I would like to get my hands on it eventually.
So you haven't played it. Opinion dismissed.
He sets his mind to an amazing roller coaster of a journey for gamers to be part of and Sony sit the hell back and throw money at him because they know how fine a talent he is.
For all the numb skulls out there who, to this day, STILL brand Heavy Rain a movie instead of giving it credit of one of the best experiences this gen, those people need to hop back on that COD train and gtfo of these articles.
If you don't understand how to enjoy and experience that doesn't involve mindlessly shooting hundreds of mens faces off, you input is neither valid or wanted here. No doubt somewhere in your collective comment histories are comments on other titles like Journey filled with "Where are teh gunz? i cant shoots stuff so it not a game!!!1!!111"
It's core strength lies in the fact that it feels much like a point and click game and it's fairly decent at that. However, it seemed quite clear from the outset that it wouldn't play to that strength while you meander about doing actions that don't affect the game in any way.
Ultimately, it's a good quasi-movie-game thing with a decent plot that features QTE sequences with branching narrative paths that lead to a singular ending. It also had problems when it came to the walking animation looking and being difficult to maneuver. Not to mention that some of the voice acting (especially with the children) and the delivery sounded off to me. Neither did they have accents which really puzzled me. I put it in French with English subtitles and it sounds so much better because there was some some real emoting and line delivery in there.
David Cage was right when he said that Heavy Rain was a risk because there were problems in that game. Cage himself admitted that he wasn't happy with the way the game turned out but it was a success regardless. It is an achievement regardless of the flaws.
You realize that 95% of PS3 exclusives are reskinned shooters right?
That is exactly the point i'm making. if he isn't a fan of the person, game or genre in the article then he shouldnt bring his anti-HR stuff in.
That's a bit like going into a BF3 article and shouting about FIFA being better, in your mind it may well be, but it's completely irrelevant and there is no need for the input in the first place.
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As for your question. I just was wondering, what's the point really if they're playstation exclusive anyway? :)