*SPOILER WARNING* Heavy Rain Story Discussion. No tags required.

[ariakon]

Did anyone else get the most depressing ending possible? I lost Norman Jayden at the auto parts yard, then I couldn't save Shaun, and so Ethan commits suicide in front of Madison. Then, Shelby comes back, and Lauren caps him in the face. It actually made me tear up a little, knowing I had made everything go so wrong.

[Sagacious Koreo]

Ethan kills himself?! Holy crap, I didn't know that was possible.

[Blu-Generation]

Originally Posted by Sagacious Koreo

Ethan kills himself?! Holy crap, I didn't know that was possible.

Ethan can hang himself in prison if he gets put there and fail to save Shaun.
Or he can shoot himself in the face in his hotel room, if he drove to the wrong location at the end, instead of the warehouse. Of course it'll only happen if no one save Shaun.

Again, my equation. Give it a shot.

Originally Posted by Blu-Generation

Ethan live + Not kissing Madison + Ethan rescuing Shaun + Madison warning of cops = Ethan and Shaun living together in new home
Ethan live + Having sex with Madison + Ethan rescuing Shaun + Gets warn about cops = Ethan, Madison and Shaun living together in new home, as family
Ethan live + Ethan rescuing Shaun + Madison fail to warn of cops = Ethan gets shot down by cops
Ethan live + Shaun live + Stuck in prison = United and gets forgiven by ex-wife
Ethan live + Shaun dead = Ethan suicide
Madison live = Becoming Heavy Rain author
Madison dies = News lady reporting at Madison's memorial
Jaden live = Jaden seeing virtual tanks
Jaden dies = Blake takes Jaden's glasses and gets haunted by Jaden's ghost
Jaden live + Shaun dies = Jaden suicide by overdose
Shelby live + Lauren live = Lauren shoot Shelby
Shelby live + Lauren dies = Shelby walks away free
Shelby dies + Lauren live = Lauren spits on Shelby's gave
Shaun live + Ethan dies = Shaun visiting Ethan's grave

There's more variations to it. But that's the gist of things.

Originally Posted by ariakon

Did anyone else get the most depressing ending possible? I lost Norman Jayden at the auto parts yard, then I couldn't save Shaun, and so Ethan commits suicide in front of Madison. Then, Shelby comes back, and Lauren caps him in the face. It actually made me tear up a little, knowing I had made everything go so wrong.

My opinion, the most depressing ending is when Ethan save Shaun. And promise he'll never leave him again, then walks out only to get shot down by cops. Shaun calling for his dad, and running to his dead body. Then later visit his grave. Too sad. After all Ethan went through.

[foots]

Originally Posted by Blu-Generation

There's more variations to it. But that's the gist of things.

There is one where if Shaun Dies and Madison lives, she is crying in her apartment while the guy who gave her the Dr's info is talking on her answering machine. He is concerned because he hasn't heard from her for days. She is then surrounded by the assailants she fought off earlier in her dream.

[ariakon]

Actually, in mine, Ethan shoots himself over Shaun's grave after he asks Madison for a minute of privacy. She sees him shoot himself, then falls to her knees and cries.

[Blu-Generation]

Originally Posted by ariakon

Actually, in mine, Ethan shoots himself over Shaun's grave after he asks Madison for a minute of privacy. She sees him shoot himself, then falls to her knees and cries.

Yeah, but I was reffering to the other variations of his suicide. Ones without Madison around.

Whichever way, they're all still depressing.

Originally Posted by foots

There is one where if Shaun Dies and Madison lives, she is crying in her apartment while the guy who gave her the Dr's info is talking on her answering machine. He is concerned because he hasn't heard from her for days. She is then surrounded by the assailants she fought off earlier in her dream.

Yes, forgot to add that one.

[mikejet]

We can start compiling the endings in the OP if you guys want. Let me know.

[Blu-Generation]

Originally Posted by mikejet

We can start compiling the endings in the OP if you guys want. Let me know.

Compiling every possible ending segments? Sure, that'll be cool.

[mikejet]

Argh I hate that you have to sit through the credits again with each ending lol.

[owa]

Yeah, they should let you skip that after the first play through.

Also, another thing I don't like when going through the game multiple times, you already know some parts of it so the timing ends up being a little off (b/c you do things too quickly). Like when the wife tells me to get the dishes, I know where they are now so I'm already getting them when she yells at me for not getting them fast enough. Then, in the mall, I kept up with Shaun after he gets the balloon. So, I'm standing close to him waiting for things to trigger when he suddenly disappears and reappears downstairs.

[Sagacious Koreo]

Sometimes I kind of wish you could skip dialouge a little faster...like how you can hit a button in Mass Effect and skip the dialouge. I always have subtitles on so I usually read faster than I hear. Heavy Rain forces you to listen to all of it.

[vladittude0583]

First off, I've heard that there exist 22 different endings for Heavy Rain - is this true? If not, what's the actual number?

Second, first time around playing the game, I completed it with all four characters still alive. The second time I played the game, all characters were still alive, however, the ending consisted of Madison and Ethan only without the help of Norman.

Hence, I've noticed once finishing the game, there are the "bonus" materials option along with the ability to load a certain chapter of the game. Thus, when it comes to attaining all the different endings, can we just load the last few chapters and just change the decisions from there or do we actually have to play the entire game again, etc?

Your advice on what is the easiest way to attain the different endings would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

[Groo The Perverted]

*trying not to read what you just wrote*

YOU NEED TO KEEP THIS CRAP IN THE SPOILER THREAD, IDIOT! BANNINGS ARE GIVEN FOR THIS TYPE OF STUFF.

[foots]

GAH!!!

So I was three trophies away from Platinum. I had all but two endings and two bronze trophies left.

The PS3 glitch caused my Heavy Rain trophies to disappear from the console I was playing on. Now that I can connect to PSN they are still missing despite resynching. I load up Heavy Rain and in the trophy section it says no trophies earned.

I have a slim and the trophies do show up there. The problem is the save data is locked and can't be moved to the slim.

So my options are to start all over on my fat console.

Or

Play through every ending and get the two bronze trophies on my slim.


Both options suck. Any ideas?

EDIT: Nevermind. They are back. Apparently the key is to start the game, exit the game, and then resynch the trophies. They magically reappear.

[Blu-Generation]

Originally Posted by vladittude0583

First off, I've heard that there exist 22 different endings for Heavy Rain - is this true? If not, what's the actual number?

Second, first time around playing the game, I completed it with all four characters still alive. The second time I played the game, all characters were still alive, however, the ending consisted of Madison and Ethan only without the help of Norman.

Hence, I've noticed once finishing the game, there are the "bonus" materials option along with the ability to load a certain chapter of the game. Thus, when it comes to attaining all the different endings, can we just load the last few chapters and just change the decisions from there or do we actually have to play the entire game again, etc?

Your advice on what is the easiest way to attain the different endings would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

All endings are just a matter of combinations. Depends on how you want to play it. You do not need to play the whole game over again to obtain the different endings. Just load whichever chapter you want, and go about from there.

Example, load a chapter where you want the characters to die and let that story flow. Keep repeating over and over. As I said, all endings are just a matter of combinations. You either get everyone dead, or everyone alive, or some live and some dies.

[Sagacious Koreo]

So I heard this glitch is happening whether you're connected online or not. Is that true?

[Icemage]

Originally Posted by Sagacious Koreo

So I heard this glitch is happening whether you're connected online or not. Is that true?

The glitch was date-related to Feb. 29 (which doesn't exist in 2010, hence why some older PS3s were having issues). All systems should be working fine now (and Sony has four years to go before they have another such potential problem, so I'm sure it'll get silently fixed in a firmware update at some point).

[MacLover]

So that was a yes then? if I haven't been connected to PSN while playing Heavy Rain will I have to start again? I haven't been connected in a while :/

[jamclaur]

Originally Posted by vladittude0583

First off, I've heard that there exist 22 different endings for Heavy Rain - is this true? If not, what's the actual number?

Second, first time around playing the game, I completed it with all four characters still alive. The second time I played the game, all characters were still alive, however, the ending consisted of Madison and Ethan only without the help of Norman.

Hence, I've noticed once finishing the game, there are the "bonus" materials option along with the ability to load a certain chapter of the game. Thus, when it comes to attaining all the different endings, can we just load the last few chapters and just change the decisions from there or do we actually have to play the entire game again, etc?

Your advice on what is the easiest way to attain the different endings would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

yeah you can reload the last chapter and beat it again differently (according to ps3trophies.org)

I HATE the QTEs in this game. I messed up ONE time and Norman (the fbi guy) gets killed and I don't get the "four heroes" trophy. So I reload and beat that part. Then, once again, ONE slip up and I take a sledge hammer to the forehead and die.

This game is just as annoying as it is beautiful.

[Mr. J]

Originally Posted by Groo The Perverted

*trying not to read what you just wrote*

YOU NEED TO KEEP THIS CRAP IN THE SPOILER THREAD, IDIOT! BANNINGS ARE GIVEN FOR THIS TYPE OF STUFF.

LOL this IS the spoiler thread Groo. LOL!