Fahrenheit Xbox

[Concept]

The ending I got was

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Lucas sitting in the sun with Carla pregnant.

I don't suppose you could say how you got that ending? I've only managed to get three so far, and none of them were the one you mention.

[Wozza]

I don't suppose you could say how you got that ending? I've only managed to get three so far, and none of them were the one you mention.

I got that first time. It was the epilogue.

[Concept]

I got the

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AI winning (world turned to ice), the Oracle winning (the world going back to normal) and Lucas winning (Garden of Eden) endings. I wonder how you trigger the sunset?

[Wozza]

That's strange cause when I got

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the ending with Carla pregnant it was after Lucas had won. I just asked Jade the question. Only other event that might have triggered it is Lucas boning Carla when they went underground with The Invisibles.

[Concept]

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Carla's pregnant in every ending I think.

[PeteJ]

Concept, I think we may both be talking about the same thing

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I refered to Lucas sitting in the sun, rather than in a sunset. The snow is all gone and it did look very garden of eden-ish. The other two endings sound much better though.

[Concept]

Yeah. That's the one - maybe there's only the three. To get the other endings

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you can revisit the last chapter (or the one with Agatha where you can give the prophet over) and if you let the AI win, or agree with the Oracle to side with him, you can see the endings. It's possible to seem them by replaying the last couple of chapters of the game, though I played through the whole thing twice to see two, and then played the last chapter again to see the last one.

[Briareos]

I'm just about to get Burnout Revenge, roughly how long does it take you to finish Fahrenheit once? I need to start scheduling my game time!

[in5ane]

6 hours 30 mins- and that's not rushing. It's not like the game lets you explore or deviate too much anyway, so I doubt you could squeeze much longer out of it.

[Wozza]

I'd say about the 7 hour mark. Though the game is that good, you'll want to play it again anyway. It could have maybe had another hour tacked to it, but otherwise it was the perefect length for me. The story flowed, and didn't get to the stage where it dragged. This is my ideal length game as I can find the time to complete, and not neglect kids and missus.

[Concept]

Does anyone know how to completely unlock all the bonuses?

I've collected enough points to unlock every item with what's available on the main menu, but the in-game inventory says that only 82% of the bonuses are complete, despite the fact everything seems to be unlocked. There seems to be a preview of the 'making of' in the PC version but not complete 'making of' documentary. Has anyone managed to obtain that?

[Magnakai]

Minor Spoilers, I suppose:

I don't mean to be on a downer here, but I feel like such a grouch!

I completed Fahrenheit this evening and I don't think I've been so disappointed in a game for a long time. Feeling the game go from the promise of the demo and the tense atmosphere of the first couple of hours to horribly choreographed and animated "fight" scenes and a plot that felt like an overwrought, sub-par Dark City was actually rather horrible.
I really enjoyed the detective work that they had you doing with Carla and Tyler. The multiple perspective thing worked wonderfully. Sure, Tyler is subject to some horrible secondary racism, but that seems par for the course and the rest of the game felt mature enough to ignore that. I even compensated for it mentally, imagining plot reasons for it. The token gay character (Tommy?) was quite cliched too, but you know New York - every girl has to be a fag hag.

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The dodging sequence in the bank felt rather cheesy and his overly dramatic jumps rather bothered me until you found out that he had powers.

But apart from these relatively minor complaints, the first half of the game was pretty pleasant. I enjoyed playing it and I wanted to continue and find out more.

Suddenly, everything takes a turn for the worse.

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After Lucas's tumble his character has such an abrupt change in personality that it feels horribly forced. There's no transition at all! One moment he's confused and unsure of everything, the next he's wise and in total control. For a game that prides itself on it's movie-like qualities and strength of story-telling, it bothers me that so many plot points were raised and then abandoned, or simply convenient deus ex machina.
Yes, Lucas spent 3 weeks living with Carla while it got colder, but there was simply a bit of placeholder text to indicate that. Their sudden relationship and Carla's total neutering feels tacky and forced. I didn't mind the pixellated nipples. She's alright to look at, for a bunch of 1s and 0s. The actual sex scene itself was reasonably choreographed. But the sudden jump? Nonsense.
Also notice that Lucas barely says one sentence to his brother, who he apparently is worried about. This sort of ultra-linear, rushed ploddery felt like the exact sort of thing that the diner sequence was promising me that I would be avoiding in this game.

I think that's what killed it for me... the lack of detail. The rush from Plot Point A to Plot Point B.
Maybe I've been spoilt. I just played Metal Gear Solid 3 and, for all it's super-soldier dramatics and crazy hornet-men it felt a lot more mature. The ending moved me, which is a darn sight more than I can say about that of Fahrenheit. Besides moving me to search vigorously for a "skip credits" button.
But I ramble.
Yes, it does feel a bit like a movie. But it ends up feeling like a straight-to-video movie, scraping a star or two in whichever magazines were having a slow enough month to devote some column space to it.
And it's a damn shame.

[Ish]

Can I get this to work on my XBox. No. I'm on my second copy now. And going to have to take that back. One more try and then I'm giving up.

Maybe I'm just being incredibly incredibly unlucky or maybe my XBox is borked. But every other game I have seems to work fine (ok so I've not tried them all but I've been playing 4 or 5 of them this week).

[Concept]

Why not pick up the PC version instead (best version I feel)?

I didn't have any trouble with the Xbox version loading - maybe it's your drive, or as you say, the fact you've been unlucky.

[Ish]

Yeah I've thought about the PC version but I'd rather play it in front of my TV from the comfort of the sofa. Plus I'm trying to ween myself off PC gaming - I'm fed up of forking out for the privelige of one or two games a year.