Jeff from Volatile Mode questions why any developers haven't taken advantage of what Heavy Rain accomplished. Playing out like an interactive movie, the game utilizes quick time events to create something special. It wouldn't be hard to recreate that magic.
Quantic Dream are set to offering hands-on opportunities at PAX East 2024, but which game it will be has not yet been revealed.
Quantic Dream has announced a new publishing label, Spotlight, following the reveal of debut title Under the Waves.
Interesting to see how this works out for them. QD have had a very lucrative partnership with Sony. David Cage is a household name among Playstation owners, and he might not have been if QD stuck with Atari as their publisher. Now they're launching Spotlight so they can circumvent Sony exclusivity? I imagine this isn't the last we'll hear from Spotlight.
Can’t wait for all those quicktime events and bash-you-with-boredom storytelling.
From GI.biz: "Today, Quantic Dream embarks on a new chapter as it is brought into the fold of NetEase – the Chinese publisher's first European acquisition.
Over the past quarter of a century, the French studio has built a reputation for itself on the back of cinematic titles such as Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls and Detroit: Become Human. While these games may divide opinion among individual gamers, generally speaking they have been well received by critics and praised for attempting something different when it comes to interactive storytelling.
The high profile of these games, and the studio's long-running partnership with PlayStation, put Quantic Dream on the map – to the point where co-CEO Guillaume de Fondaumière (pictured above left) tells GamesIndustry.biz the company has engaged in acquisition discussions with several potential buyers over its lifetime."
I guess another company that will be restricted on what they can and can't say by the Chinese govmt
infinite supply of fried rice?, I kid I kid, most probably cash ?, retirement? running out of ideas, who knows.
Well I wrote a big post on this but somehow it deleted from the stupid glitching advertisement on this site. Does any bodies screen jump around as the advertisement changes up. Just asking.
As for the Chinese buying up game companies. What’s one way to monitor people and behaviors? Through the gaming analytics they get from people playing. I really believe they are trying to manipulate the world as much as possible. Remember the bird nest at their first Olympics. Their Vision of the world all neatly tied up for them.. I know it’s a stretch, but either the Chinese government has a lot of Gamers, or something else is going on behind the scenes.
Quantic Dreams has something amazing with this interactive drama genre. Indigo Prophecy was pretty amazing when it first came out, but Heavy Rain is by far one of the greatest gaming expereince I have ever played.
QTE games are weak
No thanks. I spend too much time looking at the buttons I am supposed to be pushing instead of the awesome that is happening on screen. Just give me full control or give me a cut scene.
keep my cutscenes and gameplay separate, please. QTEs aren't as interactive as developers want to make them seem. usually they're just annoyances that distract me from watching what should be a cool cutscene. of course God of War gets it right with the cool finishing kills (and they perfected it in the third game by putting the buttons on the screen relative to where they are on the controller), but i seriously don't want more games coming out like Heavy Rain where the gameplay consists of contextual QTEs.
Heavy Rain is one of the best games this gen, can't wait for Quantic Dream's next masterpiece!