Heavy Rain (PS3)Quantic eyes Hollywood A-listgamesindustry - December 18, 2007
Submitted by ixaarii (444)
at 3:10AM PST on December 18, 2007
"French developer Quantic Dream has told GamesIndustry.biz that it intends to secure some of the biggest names in Hollywood for its upcoming PlayStation 3 title, currently known as Heavy Rain.
With a new in-house motion capture studio, the Fahrenheit developer believes that it can successfully portray actor's emotions - not just physical movement - with actors now interested in the script and story behind the game rather than worrying about the technology."
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Now *this* is what I expected from next-gen all along... the point where it stops being about technology and it starts being about content, about acting, about scripts, about story... and not about killing hundreds of monsters... I think this is *the* way to make gaming mainstream, not a new approach in mechanics like the Wii is doing. Games need to be able to be more experiences like a movie and book and less a test of stamina and perseverence in killing endless hordes of thingies...
Now I realize I may be setting my hopes too high for this game, and I'm not that confident that this will be the one, but this is the direction I expect gaming to head in. At least half of gaming. I think gaming is split into two audiences, the one that enjoys the mechanics and competitive fun, I think of it as the Pong derivative, Wii seems to be great for that part, but then there's the other side which needs fantasy for their lives, movies, books, who'd play table top rpgs and adventure games... needless to say I'm of the second type: playing games for the sake of the story and universe therein... and I believe this could really bring games mainstream if more games had cinematic qualities to them. Anybody picking up a game should be able to finish the story and feel good, even those with less mechanics skils. It's games like this that I can recommend to my book reading & movie watching friends and family...