{"id":2013,"date":"2010-02-15T19:16:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T00:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/15\/monday-%e2%80%93-minimalist-gaming-update\/"},"modified":"2010-02-22T20:29:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T01:29:22","slug":"monday-%e2%80%93-minimalist-gaming-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/15\/monday-%e2%80%93-minimalist-gaming-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday \u2013 Minimalist Gaming Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is another minimalist gaming update.  Not a lot to report, but I do need to get a couple of thoughts on \u201cpaper\u201d before today comes to a close.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>TheSixthAxis Does Heavy Rain<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nIn general the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/games\/platforms\/ps3\/heavyrain\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/games\/platforms\/ps3\/heavyrain', 'metacritic scores');\" target=\"_blank\">metacritic scores<\/a> of <em>Heavy Rain<\/em> have been fantastic, so it was interesting to see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesixthaxis.com\/2010\/02\/15\/review-heavy-rain\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.thesixthaxis.com\/2010\/02\/15\/review-heavy-rain\/', 'TheSixthAxis');\" target=\"_blank\">TheSixthAxis<\/a> is one of three sites (out of 43) to give the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=uber\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=uber', 'uber');\" target=\"_blank\">uber<\/a> title a 7 out of 10.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But it\u2019s not a game, is it? It certainly doesn\u2019t play like one. Split firmly down the middle, half of the time you\u2019ll be steering your character around various locales (left stick to look, R2 to walk) and the other half you\u2019ll be performing some of the trickiest Quick Time Events since Dragon\u2019s Lair. Heavy Rain doesn\u2019t just want you to tap \u2013 you\u2019ll be holding, twisting, pushing and bashing that controller before the story is done, and often doing several of those at the same time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I agree that the controls distract from the game.  Funny comment \u2013 while I enjoy reading a good review, and this one from <em>TheSixthAxis<\/em> is fantastic, I seldom make a purchase decision on the actual reviews.  I use reviews as a starting point; to see if I may be interested in a game.  After reading this review I was thinking about punting on the game; almost.  Then I regained my senses.  Funny how even this jaded gamer came close to being disappointed in a 70% review.  OMG \u2013 I have crossed over to the Dark Side.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is another minimalist gaming update. Not a lot to report, but I do need to get a couple of thoughts on \u201cpaper\u201d before today comes to a close. TheSixthAxis Does Heavy Rain In general the metacritic scores of Heavy Rain have been fantastic, so it was interesting to see that TheSixthAxis is one of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/15\/monday-%e2%80%93-minimalist-gaming-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday \u2013 Minimalist Gaming Update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,9],"class_list":["post-2013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-heavy-rain","tag-ps3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2074,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}