Quantic Dream casting for next project

Gamersmint : Heavy Rain and Fahrenheit devs are looking for a girl-actress to provide the voice-over and MO-CAP for their yet-to-be-announced title.

[gillri]

get Jacqui Ainsley again!! what a gorgeous english beauty!!

[cyborg]

they are looking for a new face

[Immortal321]

from all genres.

[Meisadragon]

read first

[avengers1978]

Heavy Rain was fun and had a good story, but I hope they do something with more action. The action sequences in Heavy Rain were intense, but I wanted more of that feeling. I remember playing through that game just trying to get to the next fight or car chase.

[AKS]

Then I'm not sure Quantic Dream's games are for you.

[BYE]

Not sure about that, I think in order to appreciate action scenes, you need to have slow parts in a game.

Nonstop action sequences would be fatiguing and lame, in a way.

[DarkTower805]

Btw, DAMN!!! I would've thought QD's next game was well under way. This means we will probably have to wait another 1.5-2 years for another game. Spring 2012?

[avengers1978]

@AKS I bought and played and enjoyed Heavy rain, I also played a game much like heavy rain called Indigo Prophecies(or something like that)
Just because I wanted a little more action doesn't mean I wouldn't go out and get a new game from them.

[AKS]

@ avengers1978

I understand. Tastes differ. But Quantic Dream's games are probably just going to be that way. It's more of a psychological thriller that delivers excitment through anticipation and moral dilemmas rather than explosions or a high level of action. This makes the rare major action scene more impactful in my view. This type of approach keeps me more engaged and moves me more emotionally.

I also tend to find psychological drama/ thriller movies to be more powerful, such as Rosemary's Baby.

[gillri]

huh!? whats with the disagree's!?

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

watch this if you disagree

[gillri]

huh!? whats with the disagree's!?

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

watch this if you disagree with my last statement

[Cloudberry]

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Looking forward to it. : )

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"We are looking for a girl between 10 & 13 years (10 years being physically) speaking fluent English with an American accent imperative – language preference."

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10 years huh...

I hope she's doesn't have annoying English voice acting like Jason & Shaun... : /

[wdeath]

Man great feature damn interesting!

[Lord_Doggington]

not confirmed as multiplat, submitter?

[NecrumSlavery]

What's with the 'Xbox 360' tag? It's not happening people, & like the 360 community would actually play this. They shat on Alan Wake and that was a good game.

[DOMination]

Until otherwise confirmed, there's no reason why this news shouldn't have an X360 tag.

David Cage himself said he was looking at multiple formats for his next game and besides, Sony would have snapped it up by now if they wanted it.

[Joostin]

Pretty much confirmed by their recruitment page. All PS3 postings without the mention of Microsoft/360 anywhere on the page.

[Convas]

The 360 community DID support Alan Wake. The adults and teenagers like me who aren't as shooter crazed. A lot of the folk on the official AW forums are multiconsole owners as well. That aside, AW is a niche game, not everybody is going to jump it. Especially not the gun-freaks and little kids on the 360.

But it did well enough because AW2 is in development.

[NecrumSlavery]

are you telling me 500K out of 42mil Xbox owners are not FPS junkies? Wow! Look, this isn't some troll comment. I dont get on N4G and spout nonsense. The 360 community doesn't support the originality that the PS3/Nintendo community does. Which is sad, cause the original Xbox was full of amazing games to include QD's IndiPro/Farenheit. But hey call me a fanboy. Im an Oddworld fanboy which was on Xbox to. But when it comes to consoles, I game primarily on the system that has everything I enjoy and the Xbox 360 does not have a very large selection of original IPs.

[Hades1337]

The fact that you interpret a perfectly sound comment as a fanboy comment just shows how much of a fanboy you are. You stereotype the entire 360 community as "not supporting originality" just because one game sells below-par compared to other 360 games. So the 500k extra sales that Heavy Rain got over Alan Wake shows that the PS3 community is way more supportive of originality than the 360 community? If that's the case, why did Modnation Racers sell so poorly if the PS3 community supports originality? Your philosophy is completely flawed.

[YoshiMeetsU]

Stop pretending QD are Sony first party. QD's best work is on the Xbox/360.

They didn't shat on anything fanboy.

[AKS]

But Heavy Rain was more of a niche title than Alan Wake and fared much better in sales. The difference is that it found and audience that embraced it. Alan Wake had a terrible time in the US in particular, which happens to be the biggest market for the 360 by far and is the territory that is primarily response for the "shooterbox" reputation. I don't doubt that 360 owners who are receptive to a game like Alan Wake enjoyed it, as I'm one of them, but in general this type of game isn't going to be as popular on the 360 as it would be with the PS3 and PC crowds.

[DOMination]

Sorry Bud, but your link proves nothing. I'm not saying the next game WON'T be a PS3 exclusive, but recruitment postings on their website is not a confirmation of anything.

If Sony wanted this to be exclusive then they would have snapped it up already. IMO, they should, because HR exceeded expectations. BUT The fact QD are still shopping for a publisher suggests multiplatform is more likely.

David Cage:
"After Heavy Rain the question can be asked whether we should stick to one platform or open out to different platforms. Now that we're established why are we limiting ourselves to one share of the market when we can reach more"

[InTheKnow]

...the yet to be announced title will be a multi-platform one???

[PopEmUp]

If you only a 360 I feel sorry you waiting for a multi platform games,

[pyramid121]

@Popemup

So true.

[Hades1337]

Exclusive games are not automatically better than multiplatform games. Out of any game released next year, I'm most looking forward to Deus Ex Human Revolution (PC, PS3, 360).

[plb]

I hope it's not multiplat. That would mean QD would likely have to dumb down the game. No offense to 360 gamers, but no way HR could run on 360 in all it's glory. And like someone else said, the majority of xbox people probably wouldn't buy it, just look at Alan Wake. Even MS calls xbox shooterbox. Anyway HR was one of my favs so far this gen, it really was a masterpiece of a game despite what some people say. I look forward to the next QD game.

[BYE]

True, Heavy Rain is a game that relies heavily on facial animations, which couldn't have been done without the cell.

People who don't believe it, compare Heavenly Sword cutscenes with Enslaved. A 2007 game that looks more advanced than a 2010 title. Hopefully, the next Quantic Dream game will not share the same fate.

[M4ndat0ry_1nstall]

Heavy Rain uses Quantic Dream's OWN motion-capture tech for facial animations. It can be replicated almost anywhere, the CELL is not needed and was not needed to create the motion-tech.

Also Enslaved uses the Unreal Engine and Heavenly Sword does not. You can always achieve more when designing an engine yourself than using a proprietary one.

@Joostin below

Looks like Bungie are making a PS3 exclusive - http://www.bungie.net/insid...

[AKS]

In many ways Alan Wake was a third person shooter, just with shadow "shields." I still enjoyed it quite a bit, but I expected to be a bit more daring. It was daring with the story but not so much with the gameplay (not bad at all, just much more traditional than I expected).

Heavy Rain would have been a difficult game to pull off as a multiplatform title. I also think the overwhelming majority of the audience who would be interested in a game like Heavy Rain would be PS3 and PC gamers.

[YoshiMeetsU]

You are so %100 full of it! Get out of 2001 because you sound desperate as hell.. QD's best work is on the Xbox/360..

Just this year I've played games like Mass Effect 2 and Alan Wake.. shooterbox. The PS3 is the console having all the multplat problems, that is the PS3's problem...

"that relies heavily on facial animations, which couldn't have been done without the cell. "

LOL! Is there something in the PS3 manual that says you have to sell your brain to own one? Never a shortage of BS.

[pyramid121]

QD's best work is on 360? LOLOLOLOLOLOLO!

desperate for games much?

[mirroredderorrim]

Hahaha.

[redDevil87]

talking about yourself are you?

[Acquiescence]

He can put on another one of his fruity accents.

[Joostin]

If you goto Quantic Dream's site, there are postings for R&D Programmers and Engine Programmers specifically asking for PS3 developers. Not one position mentions the 360 environment. Looks like the new game will be Exclusive and cattered towards the PS3 hardware architecture.

Quotes:
Senior Graphic Programmer
"• At least 3 years of experience on PS3 programming ;"

Senior Engine Programmer (x2)
"• Strong PS3 Programming skills (SPUs, multi-thread);"

Senior Maya Programmer
"You will join a dynamic and passionate team, having the opportunity to work on ambitious and innovative projects on our future Playstation 3 productions."

http://www.quanticdream.com...

(They misspelled Recruitment lol)

Not a chance it will be multi-plat. You can take that to the bank and cash it...good as gold.

LOL 2 disagrees for doing some actual research into a story. What a joke haha.

[Cloudberry]

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I give you Agree+ & BUBBLES+ Helpful.

Although, in my opinion, things could also be changed in the future a-la Final Fantasy XIII, so...

I'm not holding it up as "god given" exclusive yet, lol.

But my reaction is, if it's exclusive, fine.

If it's not, fine as well.

Peace.

[Joostin]

Could very well become Multi-plat. BUT, at the moment it is looking pretty exclusive, especially coming from a dev that has said they love Sony and the support/freedom they allow within game development. A 360 release doesn't seem too plausible as Sony exclusives aren't really known for "Timed Exclusiveness" like 360 titles.

[DrillaKid]

That's the French spelling for "recruitment".

But yeah, i cant see this being multi; Sony will probably publish the game.

[Joostin]

I'm Canadian too. Should have caught that. I'm blaming my mistake on the time...8:00am lol.

[slutface]

after playing heavy rain....im buying every game QD makes!

[mirroredderorrim]

That-a-boy/girl! Support the devs who create your favorite games. I have and always will, until gaming is 99% casual, 1% hardcore, then it's time for me to be out like 10 years ago.

[Azianphil88]

same here