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Posted: Dec 5th 2011 8:37PM InDurdenWeTrust said

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I'm not ashamed to say I just barely made it through without getting anyone killed. Great experience but a little boring sometimes.

Posted: Dec 5th 2011 9:24PM Shadowbender said

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@InDurdenWeTrust

Whaaaaaaaaaaaat? Come now, every scene was really engaging!
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Posted: Dec 5th 2011 8:39PM Spunky Monkey 190906 said

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I'm bored of pressing X to Jason ¬_¬

I'm going to start waggling the sixxaxis to Jason instead.

Posted: Dec 5th 2011 9:30PM Shadowbender said

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@Spunky Monkey 190906

Where's PedoJokerBear when you need him?
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Posted: Dec 5th 2011 9:44PM Solar Jetman said

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@Spunky Monkey 190906
You're confusing Jason with Milo.
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Posted: Dec 5th 2011 10:13PM Spunky Monkey 190906 said

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@Shadowbender

Well it could have been worse, I could have waggled my...erm....move at him :/
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Posted: Dec 5th 2011 8:40PM Behonkiss said

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Is it actually possible to get an ending where all four lead characters survive? Anyone who's beaten the game knows why that might be a little difficult.

Posted: Dec 5th 2011 8:50PM (Unverified) said

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@Behonkiss I believe there is exactly ONE ending where all characters survive. I believe (and I could be totally wrong) that it involves Ethan being the only one that finds Shaun's location.

By the way, this game is one of my favourites in a long time, and the top reason to own a PS3 for me.
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Posted: Dec 5th 2011 9:03PM adityaksharma said

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@Behonkiss Yes, its possible. That's the ending that I got. The ending involves everyone getting to the warehouse. Each character though has a slightly different role once they get there. Its been a while since I played the game but from what I remember, the FBI dude fights some off top of a crane. Ethan fights the detective, and the reporter distracts the cops when they want to barge in and shoot Ethan.
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Posted: Dec 5th 2011 9:34PM Shadowbender said

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@Behonkiss

Whoa there. I think one of us is confused. I believe they're talking the survival of the characters when dealt with dangerous scenarios, and disregarding the ending cutscene.

Or am I completely wrong? If so, then that's fan-flipping-tastic cool if all of them actually never die at all.
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Posted: Dec 5th 2011 11:10PM Boring K said

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@Behonkiss

HUGE SPOILERS:

If all four characters survive and show up at the final scene, and Norman does well enough in the fight with the Origami Killer he'll both beat him and try to save him; the OK dies anyway, but it still counts as keeping him alive and you get the trophy.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2011 3:13AM PN04 said

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@Boring K
I'm shocked that people feel it's that difficult to keep everyone alive. Everyone can be alive and just not be at the ending depending on your choices. The first time I played it everyone survived, they didnt all have their most optimal story situation but they survived... well except for the killer of course.

I hope Joystiq isnt advocating the dismissal of multiple paths... it'd be just like them to do some crap like that. The thing that Made HR so fun is wondering how many permutations of a scene can occur, fearing that every wrong move could be your last makes you want to try harder.
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Posted: Dec 5th 2011 8:42PM foxhound said

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This is game is actually worth a second playthrough with the PS Move. I finished a scenario recently and was pretty impressed.

Posted: Dec 5th 2011 8:43PM ErkB729 said

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JAAAAAAAAASOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted: Dec 5th 2011 9:36PM Shadowbender said

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@ErkB729

Fool! It's "JAYSUHN!", with an emphasis on the vowels!
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Posted: Dec 5th 2011 8:46PM Kadrom said

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In this case I am the three percent.

Posted: Dec 5th 2011 8:57PM bluefry said

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@Kadrom *33%
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Posted: Dec 5th 2011 9:22PM DarkTwisted said

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@bluefry

...bluefry, don't be so quick to correct him when it is you, who is wrong.
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Posted: Dec 5th 2011 9:22PM Colin said

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@bluefry

*unless he earned the platinum, like the article said.
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Posted: Dec 5th 2011 9:23PM (Unverified) said

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@bluefry

Maybe he meant he got the platinum? I, too, am part of the three percent!
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Posted: Dec 5th 2011 10:07PM Kadrom said

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@(Unverified) @bluefry yes yes I got the platinum.
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Posted: Dec 5th 2011 10:21PM bluefry said

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@Kadrom D'OH! My bad! :(
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Posted: Dec 6th 2011 1:48PM JonahStein said

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@Kadrom

That does feel prett neat, huh?
Now imagine, not only are we among the top 3% of Heavy Rain players, but when you factor in video game players in general, that's got to put us into some marginal .01% club!
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Posted: Dec 6th 2011 8:15PM Mazrael said

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@Kadrom Also one of the 3%, my first play had everyone survive.. except Shawn because I screwed up & didn't find him.. -_-
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Posted: Dec 5th 2011 8:46PM theWillard said

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Yeah, except that there's a bug which allows Norman Jayden to die and still gives you the Four Heroes trophy. This is based on my personal experience of "Aw man, now I don't get the-wait, wtf?"

Posted: Dec 5th 2011 8:49PM TitaniuIVI said

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I platinumed Heavy Rain just cause it was so easy. I rented the game and was able to get it done within the week. Definite one of the easier platinums I have.

Posted: Dec 5th 2011 8:59PM Faenix said

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@TitaniuIVI

My easiest was terminator salvation, I rented that pile of crap. Horrible game, 5 hours to platinum. Wasted of a rental.
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Posted: Dec 5th 2011 9:01PM RickGhastly said

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I wish more companies would do this. There's nothing worse than being proud of your hard-won 1000/1000 in Bayonetta only to read some neckbeard on the internet say "LOL everyone has that one, (insert homophobic slur of your choice)". That's not exactly the metric I'm going for.

It somewhat undermines the potential of achievements if you don't know exactly how you stand with everyone else out there.

Posted: Dec 5th 2011 9:02PM SpikePoint said

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I'm interested in hearing that 74% of players have finished this game.

Isn't the average rate like 10% for most games per that Game Informer/CNN article back in the summer?

Posted: Dec 5th 2011 9:19PM onan said

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@SpikePoint 74% completion? Makes perfect sense to me. I'm sure Nielsen has a similar metric for people that have managed to sit through the Matrix trilogy.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2011 3:18AM PN04 said

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@SpikePoint
The problem with the math on game completions is that they fail to measure the market situation at the time of their release. While I've completed HR twice, there are numerous games that I own that havent been completed at all or are on the back burner until other games can be finished. The lack of completion doesnt mean the lack of interest, it can also mean severely divided attention due to a flood of other games.
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Posted: Dec 5th 2011 9:29PM Shadowbender said

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Wasn't that hard to sustain their life, at least for me. One-third?...Huh. Very weird.

Posted: Dec 5th 2011 9:48PM Solar Jetman said

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I've only done one playthrough, and I remember letting one character die without restarting the sequence.

Well except for that Taxidermist DLC. Tried to see every possible outcome on that one. Even the bad ones were pretty good. At least the voices told me so.

Posted: Dec 5th 2011 10:19PM TehPeanut said

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Heavy Rain was the only time I've ever played through a game with my fiance and it was a disaster. She was totally into the story, so that made me invest more in it, but the part where we'd switch off between each section? Man.

Let's just say by the end of my game everyone was dead and I still have no clue what the hell happened.

Posted: Dec 6th 2011 1:45PM JonahStein said

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@TehPeanut
Man. I would feel kinda weird having my wife see me playing parts of that game. She would stop in sometimes, at first amazed by the realistic graphics, but then creeped out by the uncanny valley.
Anyway, there were times when I was playing as Madison Paige that I had to get up and shut my door for a bit. Specifically when she confronts the club owner. Knowhatimsayin?
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Posted: Dec 6th 2011 3:28PM kentuckyfried said

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@TehPeanut

lol
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Posted: Dec 5th 2011 11:01PM A Sandwich said

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Well, to be fair, only about 25% of the characters were even interesting. And by that I mean the FBI agent, of course.

Posted: Dec 5th 2011 11:02PM Boring K said

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Just played through HR a few weeks ago; I made it all the way to the way to the end sequence with all four characters, then blew things pretty badly and got two of them killed. Needless to say, as soon as the credits ended I reloaded the last chapter and "saved" everyone.

Posted: Dec 5th 2011 11:03PM tylerh1701 said

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I lost the cop guy right near the end, couldn't figure out WTF the game wanted me to do until it was way too late.

Posted: Dec 5th 2011 11:14PM themisanthrope said

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I platinum'd this game.

Posted: Dec 5th 2011 11:50PM Kage25 said

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norman took a sledgehammer to the head and he still survived at the end...

Posted: Dec 6th 2011 11:39AM eat it said

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@Kage25

did you ever see panic room? that guy takes a sledge hammer to the face. fall two or three stories and then gets up and starts running around.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2011 1:00AM DevilSei said

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Wait... if only about 75% finished the game in the first place, and out of those people only 33% kept everyone alive...
It should be 25% of the Heavy Rain players kept everyone alive, not 33%...

Posted: Dec 6th 2011 8:03AM Oddgirl said

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@DevilSei For the jolly good fun of arguing semantics:

Have you read a book when you quit after three chapters? Have you seen a film when you slept through the middle?

Personally, I'd argue that no, you haven't. So, have you truly played a game when you haven't "beaten" it? That, I honestly have no opinion on, though I suppose I'd be more inclined to say yes than no just out of habit.

Good times!
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Posted: Dec 6th 2011 6:06PM KinseySS said

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@DevilSei
The fact that 75% of people actually finished the game is also high compared to other games.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2011 6:08AM CaramelZappa said

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I messed up near the end, and the detective died.

I have a lot of complaints about Heavy Rain, but I can't deny that I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would, and it had me on the edge of my seat a lot of the time.

Posted: Dec 6th 2011 11:30AM Cranky Penguin said

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@CaramelZappa I agree, it had some plot holes but the mechanic of autosaving a lot and only having one save file made the game much more intense and you felt you really had to get things right the first time.
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Posted: Dec 6th 2011 9:25AM darcwolf said

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I beat it with 3/4 of the charectors alive, I might go back and try it again but I cant put up with the HORRIBLE controls, seriously, who uses the RT to move. The devs were on drugs when they decided to do this.

Posted: Dec 6th 2011 10:30AM Dizazter said

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This statistic is kinda meaningless, they're going by how many people got this trophy. To get the platinum trophy you had to play ALL endings, so this is also including people who did multiple endings. So say there's 7 different endings, you could have 33% doing each!

Posted: Dec 6th 2011 11:05AM ttcfcl said

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I got annoyed because 1) jumping out a two story window shouldn't kill you and 2) It didn't look like it was that high off the ground.

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