Heavy Rain, Please Revolutionize Gaming, kthxbai

So, every Monday I go over to a friend’s apartment to play video games. A couple of weeks ago, he showed us the PlayStation3 Heavy Rain demo, and since then we’ve been anxious to see the finished product (and I mean really, really anxious).

Well, this past Monday, I was able to view it in all it’s glory. I wasn’t playing, our friend was, but I got enough sense of the game that I can say.. I want this game to revolutionize the way designers and consumers think about video games.

Is that a lofty statement? Maybe. But I think it’s well within Heavy Rain’s capacity to do so.

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Mass Effect 2

My Shepard looked like Frank Castle. But this one is still bad ass.

I have a problem. And that problem is I rarely finish a video game. I’ve played a lot (pretty much my whole life I’ve been a gamer) but the problem is that I get bored easily. Final Fantasy keeps my attention with stories and then loses me with the constant grinding. Games like the GTA series give me too many choices and I end up going on random sprees of malice rather than following the plot. Very rarely to games grab my attention and not let go. Bioshock was one. I played and beat it in two days, the story was so intense and the setting so interesting I couldn’t let it go. The Halo and Call of Duty series are others (although Halo has been losing its luster; although I am excited for Halo: Reach), but this is because my genre of choice is definitely FPS. Half-life, GoldenEye, Perfect Dark, and Timesplitters are some of my favorite games. Maybe because they are so short and linear, but mostly because the great multiplayer they offer. As much as I love RPGs I just can’t seem to finish them, unless the story is so good I can’t stop playing.

This is what happened with Mass Effect 2. (Full Warning some spoilers ahead but not things you probably don’t know.) … Continue Reading