David Cage wants to make a new type of interactive experience which derives from the adventure titles of yore. Article is crap.

@Neckbear
^^^Just ignore him. He contributes nothing to N4G but biased immature remarks. Go away neckbear.

And he can do what he wants. He should. However, to claim that game mechanics are "evil" and that his game design is the only one with any legitimacy, any worth pursuing, is plain retarded.

it doesnt matter if what he does is indeed innovative or not .

He never refered himself , at least not so far , as the next best thing , messiah or whatever .

He has his vision and ideal about what he want from games , wich he in invested in that's all .

I'm fairly sure that if you talk to him about pc about pc adventure games , he'd happily give them their due . You conveniently forget he is part of that same pc world , with the exception of one game , due to fundings .

Again that article is just an insult to ,already for starters , Cameron that came out of the blue , and rather gratuiteous .

EDIT : "according to rumors"

We already know why Sony and most others wouldnt bother with visuals novels . The western market for it is too small . If think they are wrong , but its their call . it was the same crap with many 2d japanese games .

Should they care more anyway ? It get released and sells plenty in the market that care the most : japan .

Even if HR was indeed just a visual novel , well its one with a blockbuster budget that could sell and well it did .

Not to mention that Sony have already published a shitload of odd titles with or without success through their history , just to build a decent portfolio , asides from the usual mainstream stuff .

It in contrary seems to be a right fit for a publisher otherwise 80% of the time releasing mainstream money makers

woah woah woah.. i've never heard him say he is a messiah or saviour. whatever helps u sleep too.

"Have you ever played, say, Grim Fandango or The Longest Journey? "

i have and i don't see how Heavy rain is bad.

Those two games have flaws like heavy rain but they aren't even in the same category .

Heavy rain tries to make you see the influences of your actions on a straight path while for example grim fandango (or others like gabriel kinght, or monkey island ) have a set story and your only task is too find how to progress.

Second, "The man thinks he's the next Messiah, the next big thing of videogames".
he never said that . And last time i checked i didn't see cage running off like an attention whore saying anything for fame like others ( example : molyneux )

"I find it funny that Sony publishes his games, considering they, according to rumors, have the attitude of "HURR VISUAL NOVELS ARE NOT VIDEOGAMES". "

There are 34 visual novels on PS3 , 293 on PS2 and 62 on psp . the numbers are against you .( that's my personnal count , i 'm pretty sure i missed some )

Not sony fault if there isn't a huge market for visual novels on the west in america or europe.
if you're really a fan of visual novels ( like me ) then play them in japanese .

"Otherwise, companies like Jast USA or Mangagamer wouldn't be alive"
And what prevent them from releasing VNS on consoles ? that's right they aren't big enough. or teh cost are too high.. See how mangagamer handled Koihime musou on PC ... NO VOICES , DELAYS , and the script isn't even perfect and of course no physical disc BECAUSE this would have cost too much .. thos companies are living by release games no ones cares while leaving the ones driving the genre forward untouched because they can't handle the work needed to do a proper job ..
WHAT a good example you've picked. /s

How so?

http://www.metacritic.com/g...

It starts off very well but it just devolves into the worst, most interminable sci-fi bollocks I've ever had to endure. Like the matrix mixed with conspiracy theories; two things absolutely done to death.

It just becomes so juvenile at the end.

EDIT: Also, why is it, that despite the metacritic score, I still don't like the game? "Opinion" is the answer.

i agree indigo has a pretty bad final act but that doesn't change the fact that the parts leading to the end weretrilling and fun .

You can hate the game i don't care i LOVE IT