indigo prophecy / fahrenheit - any good?

i'm also one of the people who don't mind the cutscenes in MGS at all

Indigo Prophecy makes a nifty first impression, but it winds up being an elaborate game of Simon, and I got bored of it at that point. It's worth a rental at most.

yeah it aims higher then most games in terms of plot/story/originality but the actual gaming parts aren't so hot.

The second half of the game was completely botched by rushing form Atari + breaking fom the original episodic intent for the game (they just compressed it all into one game). If you can play a flawed game and appreciate what it did right then it's totally for you. If not, skip it.

The demo features the best part of the game.

FUCK THIS IS SO AWESOME

perhaps i do not care for "gaming" to the degree youse do

so far, among many other things, i have:

1) peed
2) been tempted to reply to email spam
3) gotten a drink from a water cooler

every now and again, though, i do the simon-says thing and i don't know why at all - it says "great!" but i have no idea what i've just averted or accomplished. (OK this only happened once, in my apartment, when the police were at the door - the camera zoomed in on a bloody rag and the police mysteriously went away.)

playing as the different characters in the story is weirdly thrilling. just replying to questions is exciting for me, and the button-mashing, simon-says stuff may be simple and dumb, but so are combination moves in virtua fighter - it's a game, not reality, so all it really needs to do is simulate the tension one would feel at a time like that. i'm loving it so far, in other words. thanks for the warning about the end though - maybe i do need my expectations lowered.

still though - this should be a whole genre. there should be new episodes of this every four months.

now i'm going to the gym! it's practically samuel beckett

just finished playing as my childhood self - in my own dream! when i returned to reality, the sadness of the dream depressed me so much that i immediately committed suicide

I spent the weekend going through this game. It's pretty great! Really great in certain aspects, and the gameplay ideas. It's true that by the end of the game the plot feels really compressed and nonsensical, but as a PC adventure game it finally moves the genre forward, and tries a whole hell of a lot - succeeding more than it fails.

Multiple character POV was a good frame. The dialogue/choice system was interesting - in most games you eventually get around to all the questions, so it's pretty boring, but Fahrenheit takes this general view that you're really directing a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure story and guiding the overall plot - which, when you think about it, is more leeway than you get with most video games, where you're often an actor following a rigid script.

The first half is especially well-realized, with that weird balance of being the killer who is covering up his tracks AND being the cops who are investigating the crime. I really gotta give it to this game - as wrongheaded as some of the bits were (Simon Says QTEs got way too crazy quite early on, basketball and boxing minigames?) it has BALLS. I actually AM tempted to get a PS3 to play Heavy Rain someday...

Did you beat it yet, Tracer Hand?

This is available on Xbox Live as a full game DL, right?

yeah

it's a classic rental, though.

Is there a consensus on which version is best? PC? Steam has it for only ten dollars...

As long as you have a dual analog pad, the PC version was fine (except for this one annoying minigame you have to pass 100% to get a sex scene, which I'm not sure is in the American version anyway). But then again, the Xbox version is only $12 at Amazon. Either way if you like adventure games, that's a fair price.

i loved the basketball minigame!! doing pushups, not so much

yeah i did finally beat it - ending was v v poor as is universally acknowledged. i was particulary unhappy with total lack of ending for tyler.

i think i will actually get a ps3 to play heavy rain, which is purported to echew supernatural elements entirely

eSchew

my brain has turned to mush

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i loved this game, it was more of a creepy immersive film than a game but still excellent - should only be played late at night in the dark. i too am considering buying a ps3 solely for heavy rain. are there any other games out there, on any system, that compare to this?

Heavy Rain got pushed to 2010.