So, games aren't movies, after all...

Scott Shelby, the origami killer

This is not a recent news but it's still worth spending a couple words on. The game is Heavy Rain and as you already know it's been hyped as one of the saviors of the PS3 (back when it "needed a savior"). Created by Quantic Dream, the main appeal of the game is an engaging story full of plotholes, great acting jasoooooon and a surprise twist at the end WTF this makes no fucking sense!

The game actually managed to sell much more than expected because $ony fanboys bought it to save their beloved console, so the benevolent dictator of Quantic Dream, mr. David Cage took the chance to say something incredibly stupid and arrogant. It makes perfect sense to say that your game is not a game, but rather a movie (a bad one, btw) when your supporters are people that wants to PLAY a game. A game without a story can survive, a story without a game can be a book, a movie, but not a game by any chance.

Speaking of gameplay Heavy Rain relies on the shittiest game mechanic ever created, the quick-time events (QTE from now) where you just press button/masturbate your controller to make the game progress in the intended way. Makes you wonder if you really are playing the game or just watching... to be honest you aren't even paying attention to what happens on the screen because you SPEND ALL YOUR TIME WATCHING QTE'S PROMPTS ON THE SCREEN.

Story quality is debatable, plotholes aren't. You get to play as the killer without knowing it, with proper handling it can be cool I suppose, but the game just tricks you (Shelby's thoughts are even against his own plans otherwise you would know in 0.05s who the culprit is).

Still, the opinion of a game designer is backed by his achievements, his experience and his skill. Let's review the previous work of Cage: Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy. Man, this game starts as the holy grail of gaming (at least back then) you can even get to have sex (just to cater to the manchild audience)!

Well... you begin as a killer, then you get to play as a hot detective and a black police detective (which is totally useless to the game plot to the point not even Cage probably understands why he was put in). After that you start to hallucinate and see bugs and shit, you visit an old medium in a wheelchair (cool camera angles there, i have to say) and then it happens.

From that point the game goes from a good detective story to a shitty Matrix-clone, to WTF moments, to things threw in for no reason, to the artificial intelligences (NEVER MENTIONED, NOR HINTED BEFORE) to the Illuminati cousins to.... you know, just thinking about it makes my head hurt. ALL THIS SHIT is infested with QTEs, you know... to "streamline the experience"...

TL; DR: Fahrenheit sucks. Heavy Rain sucks. David Cage needs to STFU. I need something for my headache.