Poll: Is Heavy Rain a game?
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Its definitely a game. It just uses quick time events as its primary gameplay function. Saying it's not a game is like saying adventure games aren't games, or that any text game from the days of old was just a book you had to enter text to read.
It is odd how fast this community is to embrace Heavy Rain as a video game but consistently castrates farmville, bejeweled, etc. as "real games".
I could tear that article apart. It is just some dude being an elitist pompous douche. His points are all contradictory and his logic has glaring holes in it. This is probably why he stressed his college education all the way through the article. The article read with a very "I went to college so I am smart and right about this" mentality.
The problem with this pompous article is that it even states the game director stated "Do not look at this as a game, but instead an interactive film". This is the guy who made it. He said "Not a game". And sure enough, as a game it fails, but as an interactive "movie" it succeeds. Hmmmm. This is like arguing with Metallica what the meaning their song is. Or they come out with a CD that they say is a play set to instrumentals with rhyming lyrics. Then people proceed to call that CD a long song but it sucks because he talked all the way through it instead of singing. Or when people went apeshit over the movie "Wall-E" saying it was an artpiece that was a metaphor for the direction our society was heading. It got so bad the creators had to come out and say "We never intended that, we were just making a movie about a robot."Steven Kilpatrick said:
I could tear that article apart. It is just some dude being an elitist pompous douche. His points are all contradictory and his logic has glaring holes in it. This is probably why he stressed his college education all the way through the article. The article read with a very "I went to college so I am smart and right about this" mentality.
Why not? The Monkey Island and the Myst series are considered "games", and both of those series seem to have about as much interaction as Heavy Rain.
It is. But its not very 'interactive'. Its mostly composed of QTE's and walking around like a tank. You can manipulate the story. It has been labeled 'interactive media'. Don't get me wrong it was one of my favourite games of 2010, due to 2010 was a shit year for gaming. Its just lacking real involement for the player. Instead of holding down R2 n' using the joystick to walk about, how about using R2 n' L2 to walk about.
It's a terrible game. The people who suggest otherwise want it to cleanly avoid the standards that other games are held to.
I'm joking man xD I figured the exclamation points would have given it away.Professor James said:Are you being sarcastic?maddawg IAJI said:A game? Eh, depends on your definition of what a game is. Heavy Rain is definitely an interactive story, but that's all any game really is.
WOAH! MIND! BLOWN!Professor James said:well actually...Ghostwise said:That's a pretty silly question. Especially considering you're a "professor".
I"m not a real professor, my real name isn't even James.
Heavy Rain is an extended cutscene, nothing more. It is not a game any more than a Choose Your Own Adventure book is a game, and the rare moments where it attempts to shoehorn something distantly resembling gameplay into its narrative, it's a jarring break in the immersion.
What's worse, if that's the best games can do for being "art"? I hope Roger Ebert never, ever sees it because if he does there is no hope of ever conveying to him that his point is anything other than a truth handed down from the gods. As an artistic "game", Heavy Rain is a step up. As an artistic expression in any other medium, Heavy Rain is toddler finger painting trying to hang in the Louvre. I don't want to know what this says about games and gamers. It doesn't cast them in a very good light.
What's worse, if that's the best games can do for being "art"? I hope Roger Ebert never, ever sees it because if he does there is no hope of ever conveying to him that his point is anything other than a truth handed down from the gods. As an artistic "game", Heavy Rain is a step up. As an artistic expression in any other medium, Heavy Rain is toddler finger painting trying to hang in the Louvre. I don't want to know what this says about games and gamers. It doesn't cast them in a very good light.
You know I never understood why people care so much about Roger Ebert's opinion on games.SimuLord said:
Just so People know I think Heavy rain is a game. I created this thread to see what the escapists think.
Damn you inflation.Royta said:
As far as I know, it's a game. It came out for a game system with an interactive interface. I'll actually have to get around to trying it one day.
Well it's not a movie because you interact with it but then again I wouldn't say it a game. I mean it is a serie of QTE's with animations...Textbook might state that it is a game but I disagree. So if I would buy it, I would pay almost 70 euros(not that much anymore I think) for an interactive movie-type thingy....No just no. I can just buy a book or watch a movie and save many euros( I know that Heavy Rain has multiple endings but I don't know if I would play it again). If it would be for Xbox I might consider buying it from sale but I just don't like the concept.
It's a game. You have to play it, don't you? Oh fine, use interactive drama if you want to, but interactive drama is a synonym for GAME.
Yes it is a game, simply because video games have the wrong name. Games are essentially artificial experiences and that is exactly what Heavy Rain is.