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Deadly Premonition

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The ceiling crawler or whatever it is, it's not even a difficult enemy, it just has a ludicrous amount of health.

Brad's hilarious first encounter, or series of encounters with his first one, will always be a fond memory for me.

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I don't think a more accessible control scheme would really be fixing the problems that game had. Moreover, I'm not sure fixing the problems that game had would make it a better experience. I mean, people basically love it because it's a b-movie, it's a charming and lovable failure of a game.

I get your point, but honestly the characters, writing and music really sold me on it, the gameplay being bad had nothing really to do with it... also I just watched giant bomb so that's probably why it was a non-issue to me. With better controls, I might play it myself which would make the experience better.

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Did Giantbomb's DP Endurance Run explore the city at all?

Like, to me, the most mechanically interesting thing about that game was that it's a huge open-world city with dozens of characters running errands on an actual real-time clock.

Anyways, don't take me to be shitting on Deadly Premonition.

I love that game.

But it's a bad game.

But it's awesome.

But it's pretty bad.

So many great ideas and characters, that great soundtrack, and executed like it was trapped in a late-Dreamcast/early-PS2 time vortex.

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Has it really been 7 years since Deadly Premonition came out?

 

Shit, I don't even know what to think right now.

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I actually started playing this for the first time the other night on the PS3, as a kind of teaser for season 3 of Twin Peaks. It turns out that it would be extremely generous to compare this to Twin Peaks.

 

Some obvious points: it looks shockingly ugly today; the sound design is all over the place, though some of the music is actually rather nice (if wildly incongruous); the shooting is tedious, if not super difficult so far.

 

The writing is like nothing else I've ever seen in a game. It's like they got Kevin Smith to rewrite a Mel Brooks parody of Twin Peaks, and then removed half the jokes. And some of the environmental design is monumentally weird - it's kind of awful but in a strangely compelling way. Endless hallways and doors that lead nowhere.

 

I have no idea whether I'll have the patience to persist with this - it's not exactly 'fun' thus far, and the cutscenes seem interminable - but I can see why some find it fascinating.

 

(Actually the Idle Thumbs podcast was probably the first place I ever heard this game mentioned - wasn't there a 'cast recorded while Steve was playing it in the background?)

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I never could get this game to work on PC. I almost bought it for PS3 but then I realized I absolutely dread using my PS3, so I didn't. Guess I'll never play this game. C'est la vie.

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One of my hopes is that this game comes to the Backwards Compat list on Xbox One. I would play it all over again.

 

Everything Marginal mentioned is a legit complaint, it just didn't matter to me.

 

Also, another thing I have discovered, I like games based on Twin Peaks (Deadly Premonition, Virginia), but I don't like Twin Peaks... Tried watching the show and didn't get far at all.

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