A Chilling Feeling - Fahrenheit Remake

Grumpypants wrote: »

Poor old David Cage, I think he gets an unfair bashing I quiet enjoyed all his games. He seems to be the go to guy for gamers when talking about bad writing but he is far from the worst. I say fair play to him for trying something different.

It is much harder to write and direct a game than it is a TV show or movie, not just because the script is much longer but you also have to factor a game into the experience and the random input from the user.

There's far worse writers but what makes David Cage laughable is he believes his games are some form of high art when they wouldn't even make abad sci fi channel original or ****ty cop show. Now he does have good ideas for his games but the execution is seriously flawed and when your game us relying on story and it's so bloody terrible there's not much left.

I find all his games open with a good idea and then quickly deteriorate from there. Really if he gave that idea to a real writer to work on his games would be pretty damn good.

Beyond Two Souls though is an exception. That game is just horrible and even its main mechanic isn't even handled well. Dreadful stuff altogether and the story is by far his worst with a plot twist I had figured before I even started the game and not even an interesting hook that kept the likes of Fahrenheit and Heavy Rain going until you it played its hand and you discovered it was all nonsense.

Grumpypants wrote: »

I've met him a few times and never got that impression from chatting to him, he talks passionately about why he thinks story, narrative and different game designs are important and why he would like to see more games take on new approaches but I always felt he was talking about an ideal that he is trying to work towards rather than saying that is exactly what he is doing and that he is the best at it.

I don't know, he can say all that but if he thinks his games are changing that status quo in anyway he is very much mistaken. I feel his games are getting worse and less interesting and really there's no defending his writing skills.

The original publisher and not Quantic Dream might have full ownership of Fahrenheit which probably explains the PC release, I imagine if Quantic Dream owned it Sony wouldn't let this off the PS4 platform.

gizmo wrote: »

It's an odd one alright. When Farenheit was released on GoG a few years back, it was done so by Quantic Dream themselves. This remaster, if you want to call it, is both developed and published by Aspyr. I guess QD did a licencing deal with them for it?

More likely the deal at the time was QD developed the game for the publisher with the publisher retaining the rights to the IP and not QD.

gizmo wrote: »

Well that's the odd part. If that was the case then why wouldn't it have been Atari, the original publishers of the game, who put the game on GoG and, more recently, the ones who commissioned Aspyr to develop the Remastered edition rather than latter taking up the publisher mantle?

Atari probably needed the money and I'd say buying the rights to publish Fahrenheit were bargain basement prices for that sort of thing.