Heavy Rain developer wants emotional impact of Team ICO games |
FPS and fighting games can be the life of the party, but the games that have a real impact on us are the ones that we connect with on an emotional level. ICO and Shadow of the Colossus are two such games, and developer David Cage says that's the kind of impact he wanted for Fahrenheit, and now for Heavy Rain:
I really think [Team Ico's Fumito Ueda] has something interesting and something unique. He has a real sense of poetry in his games. It's very different from how I see games and what I want to make, but I really love his work.
I think the more it goes, the more this industry will need art directors and less producers. We'll still need producers, of course, but we need to feel that there are people behind games. I've always loved games that have a soul, where you can feel the people behind them, and it's rare these days.
Knowing how Heavy Rain's story involves a guy with the handle "the Origami Killer," I don't think he means the "oh, I'm holding her hand!" kind of emotion. So what's his idea of a game with "soul"? LittleBigPlanet! Sackboys have souls under all that burlap too you know.
LittleBigPlanet is a game with a soul. And when you play it you love this game, because you play so many games that are just cold fish. It can be a beautiful fish! It can smell good, it can taste good. But it's just a dead fish. And here you feel that there are human beings behind it.
No, I don't think he means the "warm and fuzzy" kind of emotion either.
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Via Eurogamer
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Just put in a little helpless girl you have to protect xD
I can't wait for this game...it was one of the most brilliant trailers I've ever seen for a video game...and after words like Fumito Ueda said on this article.....wow, that's exactly what producers should try to put in games...emotion, connectivity with the player
I'm sure Heavy Rain will be an epic game. If it isn't, the studio deserves to be blown up. They've been working on this for ages and tons of $$$ has gone into it. But uh..
"FPS and fighting games can be the life of the party, but the games that have a real impact on us are the ones that we connect with on an emotional level."
Who said FPS or fighting games couldn't induce heavy feelings? Who remembers in COD4 when that nuke dropped? Doesn't sound so devastating when you HEAR about it, but in the game, YOU WERE THERE WHEN IT HAPPENED. Not even a mile away.
Yeah, there were other moments (end of the game anyone?) that were equally emotional. Almost any game with a story can have emotional impact on someone. Genre is irrelevant.
As for Heavy Rain... well, I don't really want to see a lot of typical cliche things happen. Like your player character has a friend, and you grow attached to that character and boom, he/she winds up dead or something. Make it something so real yet so surreal that it wouldn't make sense at first.
It should have moments that induce complete shock to the player. The shock should be so major that even the coldest heart would skip a beat upon seeing that scene, and in other for that to happen it'd be cool if the scene went on a bit longer so the actual player could sort of...recuperate from the shock.
I've played games that made me cry. Yes, the 17 yr old that I am, I remember playing something a few years back. Don't remember what it was (shame on me) but I cried for a few seconds. It was pretty epic, whatever it was.
Heavy Rain has some massive potential. As a matter of fact, I think I'm gonna go preorder the game sometime this week. It's definitely getting a purchase even with the little we know of the game. 2009. The year of pwnage.
Don't be surprised when, close to the game's release, it'll be hyped up to become a system seller. Yes, a system seller.
That's a bold claim this early in the game.. Don't get me wrong I have been excited for this title since it was announced I only hope it lives up to my personal hype.
PS3 is clearly still waiting for its Shadow of the Colossus, That title that you just need to have. Fingers crossed this is it.
Funny story now that you mention SotC.
I give that game 10/10 btw. So many people bashed it because "all you did was ride on a horse and fight bosses".
That was true, but did anyone else get wrapped up in that game's excellent atmosphere? It would make you think about things. Like, why exactly were you even going through all of that? And were you somehow related to Ico's protagonist (question that arrives upon completion of the game)
The game was just epic. Had it's own emotional scenes. But yes, it's not fair for me to say it'll be one, a system seller, but just to be clear I did say "Don't be surprised if.."