damn, my sock is wet

I’ve seen a couple tweets, read in various comments and message boards about how characters in Heavy Rain are mispronouncing “origami” in a variety of ways. I’ve also noticed this while playing, particularly with the newscaster.

It’s one thing when some stress “ori-GAH-me” while others are peppy with “ori-GEH-me”, and it’s another when the entire cast mispronounces the word the same way every time. The former is realistic; the latter is lazy.

Point your friends to this word:

Acai

Ask them to pronounce it. Chances are you’ll get at least three variations.

The vids shows off more of the QTE’s, something I despise in action games. I still have no idea what the fight between Leon Kennedy and Krauser looks like because I had to watch the bottom of the screen for those goddamn button presses, and Heavenly Sword’s is an exercise in burning off my patience. Heavy Rain is looking like it can fix the stagnation by having the button presses appear and then move with incoming/oncoming danger. It’s an elegant system since you can watch the action and have a greater sense of reacting to the action as opposed to waiting for the button presses to appear in its reserved screen estate.

Although I wonder why the baddie feeds Norman to the car munching machine instead of simply feeding him a bullet.