E3: Quantic Dream unveils Beyond: Two Souls

Tristrix

Looks interesting. Didn't see enough to say I'm stoked, but I dug Heavy Rain so I'll certainly give it a try.

The Silent Protagonist

TechnicolorDewDrop

The only thing I disliked about Heavy Rain was the awful writing. As long as the writing in this is improved and there's more action in it, consider me interested.

BalloonFighter

Baaaah, so many movie cliches. Video games are not movies.

ScrappyDoo

I refuse to beat up a dog.

Hasney

David Cave wanked himself silly.

Oishidesu

Confirmed: Sony Devs have a crush and/or major fetish on Ellen Page!!

Tristrix

Who doesn't, Oishidesu?

TheNephilym

@Oishidesu

So do I. Thank you, Sony! As long as I can repress memories of 'Hard Candy', I'm in for a real treat.

Seriously, though, it looks very interesting, but it didn't show quite enough for me to get all giddy about it just yet. However, if it's anything like Heavy Rain, I'm sure I'll be one happy creepy Ellen Page fan.

JoeTheProYaKnow

I was just getting irritated at her silence in the beginning. It went on for sooo long. Like ungodly long. I was getting like...okay...are you sure Ellen Page has done the voice over yet?

coyotelunaire

I cringe at the thought of all the time and money that's been spent in trying to emulate a bad action flick.
What the hell is Cage trying to accomplish?

The Amazing Shenazin

call me on my mental hamburger phone!

The Silent Protagonist

Why do they direct the sheriff to open the door. At that point Swat was in control and had men at point.

It's little things like that which annoy me about Cage's writing, there's always a logic error in five minutes or less.

The Silent Protagonist

Sat

David Cage should hire actual screenwriters and directors to make Quantic Dream games. I think Heavy Rain went in some interesting directions, but I wouldn't replay/watch it. Get some crazy art house guy! I want a David Lynch game!

The Silent Protagonist

Whoa... Thought I only posted once there o.O

Sorry.

Tristrix

Such a pointed, biting criticism it deserved a triple post just to ram home that clever witticism.

Scissors

That was a really bad trailer.

I played through Heavy Rain because it looked promising, and was severely disappointed. I thought Kara was good so I was thinking maybe they had made things better, than I watched this. It was just dumb. The graphics are like super duper impressive, but the writing is so poor. I don't want to write it off completely because so little is known about the game, but it looks like a pass for me.

Oishidesu

@Tristix and TheNephilym

I think Ellen Page is hot and cute, but once nerdy Michael Cera shacks up with you (in a movie or real life), I lose interest. Sorry, but that's just me!

Oishidesu

@Scissors
Jeez, what a negative Nancy! This game has ELLEN PAGE! As long as Michael Sera isn't in this game and doesn't try to impregnate you, I'm all fine!

Hasney

At least the comments told me who Ellen Page is. I liked Juno, never liked it enough to look up who she was.

Amna Umen

Maybe this is what Cage needs, to just embrace the supernatural element in his storytelling and not use it as a plot twist or try to avoid it and create a plot hole ridden story.

Or maybe we could get another JASSSSSSSSOOOOOONNNNNNNNN moment. Regardless I will wait to hear what people say about the story.

shinryu

I have zero faith in Cage as a storyteller, but Heavy Rain was a fun experience for one playthrough.
Ironically, like many others pointed out, it was the writing itself that ultimately made it less than great.
This looks interesting. For one thing, the character animations are miles ahead of Heavy Rain.

Noir

Absolutely gorgeous. This is going to be a great movie, maybe Ellen Page's best role.

Noir

Wow if I knew it was going to turn out like that I wouldn't even have bothered.

ctg867

Heavy Rain was the shit. Quantic Dream is brilliant. Ellen Page is pretty cool. That video was incredibly intriguing.

Sold.

Einlander

@The Silent Protagonist

Obviously the SWAT team knew something we did'nt know at the time. Why would you send in the swat teamm which she is obviously running against in when you can send someone in that wont make her suspicious and blow the building up? As you saw in the later parts of the trailer, she is lethal. Deplomacy before action, even if it is with your enemy.

chiptoon

Shouldn't David Cage just start going to Cannes and Sundance?

Panzadolphin56

I liked the first bit but it turned me off as soon as the swat guys showed up. Just seemed like a mediocre action film after that :/

Complete Global Saturation

That was a ridiculously long cutscene. It certainly has nice visuals, but where's the game? I think I already know what the story will be about too, judging from the cliches, head scar, "two souls" and her psychic abilities. The gameplay will probably end up being a combination of Heavy Rain and Infamous.

I also thought it was funny how they made a point to say that it's realtime. It doesn't matter whether it's pre-rendered or realtime if it's still all cutscene and no game. I like to say that if I wanted to watch a movie I'd watch a movie, not play a game.

I miss when story used to complement games, not the other way around. Not that I'm criticising Beyond: Two Souls in particular, I just wish there was a distinction between interactive movies and games. A lot of these kinds of games would probably make better movies than games.

Noir Trilby

Ellen Page the game? Sold! I hope it plays like a prettier Second Sight, I loved that game.

Themuad

The thing is it could be a good game if Cage hired people to do all the work he would. He would be much happier writing angry letters to reviewers than actualy making "games" i think.

Paroxysm

Wow it's amazing how much time and resources they spend hiring recognisable actors and filming them to create something that looks kinda close to just filming them! AMAZING! What's with all the violence?

Also it's weird how shitty aspects of the graphics are outside the faces. I guess everything else has to come secondary to that.

Sanious

The graphics are impressive, but that's about it.

ZombiePlatypus

Handy

That scene where the cup flies across the room pretty much epitomises the problems with David Cage’s storytelling. They spend too much time lingering on “oh, look how real that coffee stain looks” instead of having the cop react like a real person would to {i]flying cups[/i]. I’m pretty sure I heard the audience cracking up when he just goes “.....................okay..........”

Still, I’d be happy to be proven wrong.

Occams electric toothbrush

I enjoy David Cage's games. They are trying for something different and while they aren't always successful, its certainly an interesting experience. This looks to be another interesting experience.

maycausecancer

How many games is she in?

VitaminShoe

Holy Movies Batman! Major animation and lighting improvements. Though I thought cage was going all violence free "I'll kill everyone!". Well at least the writing probably still sucks.

Elsa

it looked like a really awesome movie... but I saw almost no gameplay at all.

Quiotu

Judging by what Quantic Dream is saying... this is basically Fahrenheit with a female protagonist, remove the exposition-heavy first half, extend the action-heavy second half, and remove a lot of the QTEs. Supposedly this one will be a bit more open and less about pressing X not to die.

Cautiously optimistic...

BoomingEchoes

Story looks interesting, but the game play itself looked non-existent considering the style they're taking (which, to me, is a bit of a turn off.. I want to play games, not watch them, if I can help it).

Page is a good actress, I like her, however she doesn't have the face for this.. She just looks off for motion capture. The cop looked great, but she looked.. Wrong.. I think it almost hurts the game to have us know who the actress playing the character is; we stop relating to the story because we're too focused on picking apart how they made her look.

I mean, I spent most of the time she wasn't talking in the video talking to my screen, asking the cop to call her on her hamburger phone; that she'd only talk to him on her hamburger phone.. Thats kind of saying a lot about the impression this games made so far, when we care about lines and scenes from an actresses movies, instead of the game itself.

I don't really know where this will ultimately go.. But I'm imagining at the end of it Sony will be claiming its GOTY and Cage will spend a few more years defending his works.

CharlieWhistle

There's a good reason this game will cost sixty dollars - hiring an Oscar-nominated actress to "play" the main character. I mean really...no wonder it's so expensive to develop when developers make decisions like that. Although, if you can swing it, go ahead and do it. I'm sure at least a few purchases or at least rentals will be made because of Page's participation in it. Though anything other than a first day buy may upset David Cage....

It is kind of sad, though, because it's easy to claim that Cage seems desperate to get out of one business and into another. Yet who knows what the man ultimately is aiming for. Profit, I assume?

mix

I couldn't out down Heavy Rain as I found the story quite compelling, mind you I only paid $20 for it but if this is anything like HR, (which I can assume it will be) I will be getting this at some point!

Polite Gentleman

Looks quite interesting, to be honest. I will keep my eye on it.

Press X to Smack My B* Up

BLARFF! So... this is what it's like when your game gets praise. You make three sequels. Dave Cage's paranormal obsession can go die in a well.

And this also applies to John Carmack's endless remakes of Doom/Quake. It's basically the same shit, different day.

Sorry I haven't tempered my gut reaction. I know someone out there will like this, and more power to 'em and such. I just dislike this kinda stuff.

GEKKO-Fox

I'd repost the Microcosm box blurb here, but I can't be arsed.