Heavy Rain DLC
Not DLC for the Not Game.Published 22/12/2009 at 15:59 by Tuffcub
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Heavy Rain is not a game so let me introduce to you something that is not DLC. It may look like DLC, it may sound like DLC but I’m sure David Cage will call it ‘Additional Emotional Experiences’ or something equally pretentious. According to the lovely chaps over at Digital Spy the content will be called ‘The Heavy Rain Chronicles’ and will help flesh out the characters from the main game.
‘Chronicle One: The Taxidermist’ features journalist Madison Paige as she investigates a man who likes stuffing animals. If this sounds familiar it is because this chronicle will be based around the 2008 Heavy Rain demo. It will be available at the launch of the game either via the PSN or you can buy the Heavy Rain collectors edition. This will feature a voucher for the DLC, the sound track CD and most excitingly, a customised Heavy Rain XMB! Cor!
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SIR-DARK-HAZE | 22/12/2009 16:07
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The collectors edition was shown on the PS Blog. Also i posted a thread on the forums about the DLC.
Amphlett | 22/12/2009 16:08
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Why the slightly negative and sarcastic tone to the article? I appreciate that the new ‘product’ may be difficult to label ‘game’ or ‘media’ or ‘film’ but by being negative (even slightly) is putting a taint on a ‘product’ which may well blow away all other traditional games.
Tuffcub | 22/12/2009 16:53
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Which bit do you find negative?
Pitcher-T | 22/12/2009 17:07
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I felt the whole “not game, not DLC” was a bit sarcy, but so was the xmas Nativity, lmao.
Tuffcub | 22/12/2009 17:25
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Sarcastic yes, Negative no. I’m looking forward to the Game that isnt the game.
skibadee | 22/12/2009 21:10
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gage has made a meal out of this game but still looking forward to it.
Deadpixel | 22/12/2009 16:11
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Hmmm, I have a problem with this.. DLC is always DLC as long as its downloadable stuff… It’s downloadable allright, but content? Yes.. It still counts as a definition
Heavy Rain (on the other hand) definetely is NOT a game… Looks like the New Year comes with a new (yet to be defined) genre! 
Pretentious as it may sound.. I really really look forward to this thing, let’s not fall over its puzzling marketing strategies..
Raen | 22/12/2009 17:22
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No if it’s not a game (it still is a game, it has a goal and will have rules, sounds like a game) then it’s a new medium, not a new genre.
Tuffcub | 22/12/2009 17:26
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Derek Accorah? Oh sorry wrong sort of medium.
illogicology | 23/12/2009 08:51
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I’m pretty sick of hearing people proudly shouting out that Heavy Rain isn’t a game because I’m betting that if it comes out and genuinely isn’t a game, all those people are going to be very disappointed.
legalisemurder | 23/12/2009 09:01
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Of course its a game.People shouldn’t be so quick to swallow game developer hype.Even dragons lair was a game.Of sorts.
SIR-DARK-HAZE | 22/12/2009 16:16
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This will feature a voucher for the DLC, the sound track CD and most excitingly, a customised Heavy Rain XMB! Cor! – I see what you mean Ampthlett, i didnt play farrenheight but what iv seen on this game it looks nice.
teflon | 22/12/2009 16:36
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Before everyone starts screaming and shouting about how they announced this DLC and made it before the game’s released, The Taxidermist is a completely separate little nugget of story which they created specifically for taking to several game shows to demonstrate what the game’s all about without giving away any major plot details.
So yeah, that’s already been made, and I would’ve preferred to see it in a demo or something rather than paid for DLC, but the other Chronicles almost definitely won’t have got much further past the “OK, so we’re going to take moments from these character’s backstories and turn them into DLC after the game is finished” stage.
cc_star | 22/12/2009 17:11
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I’m not fussed if anyone makes DLC even before a game is released… what I’d object to is basically paying for an unlock code for stuff which has already shipped on the same freakin disk like at least one blockbuster title did next year.
This game is a must have for me, and if I like it I’ll but the DLC
teflon | 23/12/2009 01:03
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This DLC isn’t on the disc. It’s going to be downloaded separately.
illogicology | 23/12/2009 08:54
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Which Blockbuster title was that?
The only one I can think of that did that was Katamari on the 360. A really short campaign and then you had to shell out extra points to unlock the rest of the game. But Katamari was hardly a blockbuster title.
Also, a part of me thinks that business practices like that could actually violate some trading standards regulations.
Severn2j | 23/12/2009 10:10
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I think that was Resident Evil 5.. I didnt bother with that, but in this case, I think Im even going to get the special edition, also a must have imo.
mjolliffe | 22/12/2009 17:30
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Wasn’t this confirmed last week on the PS Blog?
SIR-DARK-HAZE | 22/12/2009 17:44
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yh it was i also posted the DLC info on the TSA forums on the 16th http://www.thesixthaxis.com/forum/playstation-news/heavy-rain-dlc-episodes-confirmed/
DRCD1 | 22/12/2009 18:41
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I’m going to buy this game, but I pheraps may not buy the DLC, because I think I pheraps might buy the Collector’s Edition.
H3O | 22/12/2009 19:17
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Day One DLC always makes my blood boil. A very meager Special Edition as well.
SIR-DARK-HAZE | 22/12/2009 19:51
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H30 the game was already being printed on to disk before they started making the Heavy rsin chronicles, so they say. do u believe them? DA da daaaa
iNsAnE_gAmInG | 22/12/2009 22:43
* Banned *
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Same here dude, also things like the Resi 5 Versus mode being separate DLC frustrated me.
teflon | 23/12/2009 01:07
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The “Day One DLC” is, as I said above, the gameplay demo that they created for the trade shows.
They will presumably have gone back to it and changed various things so that it ties in better with the backstory of the character.
The other DLC, though, they wont be working on till the game is actually finished. The first Chronicle is simply chucked into the Special Edition because a lot of the people who’ve been following the game for years would be quite eager to play what they saw many moons ago.
iAvernus | 22/12/2009 20:52
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NIIICE! I want the collectors edition.
legalisemurder | 23/12/2009 00:08
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My opinion on this will depend on the length of the game.If its short i won’t be impressed.Developers should act more like criterion and less like media molecule.
SIR-DARK-HAZE | 23/12/2009 00:37
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im not sure how long each chapter is but there are 60+ chapters according to Quantic Dream
online4ntagonist | 23/12/2009 06:11
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In any case, it will be a real refreshment not playing a game for once.
dirtyhabit | 24/12/2009 08:07
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This game has been hyped to the bollocks, I’m sick of hearing about it TBH. My concern is that this amount of hype and claims that its not a game is, its gonna fall flat on its face.
Plus release day DLC ……….. ‘I just paid £40 for your game, now I have to pay another £10(?) for the rest of it’? Sod off………..