DEADLY PREMONITION livebloggin and community support group thread.

I don't know much about the room but this actually looks like it has pretty good writing in a very off kilter japanese-take-on-twin-peaks way

great ost too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzvXBFwcyek

If this is The Room as a video game I will buy it immediately. Y/N?

It's Twin Peaks meets Resident Evil 4 on a low budget.

If this is The Room as a video game I will buy it immediately. Y/N?

Do you mean Tommy Wiseau's The Room, or Silent Hill's The Room? Both seem like appropriate questions.

If only Silent Hill's The Room had been a video game.

omg dudes, so broken, but at the same time, so so awesome.

Ok, I'm just going to go ahead and say it - this is making my end of year list for sure. It is HOPELESSLY shitty in so many ways, and there are some incredibly frustrating and awful gameplay moments for sure, but oh man the rewards that are there are golden. Not in a purely "so bad its good" way either, some of the moments here are so out of left field brilliant that they are jaw-dropping. Whoever scripted this knew exactly what they were doing.

FAIR WARNING: if you have a pulse, you will hate the first hour or so of this game, no question, but stick with it because it's worth it. Repeat this mantra the first time you drive (oh and also be sure to hit the a button to talk every chance you get, there is hidden gold, especially when you are driving alone). Also keep this persistence creed in mind the first time you have a long long long series of timed button presses to escape from danger (trust me, you'll know it when you see it).

god damn i love this game

haha wild

if i hate res evil style horror games is that a problem

well not really because the gameplay is so terrible and shitty that there isnt really a way to enjoy playing the game no matter what sort of games you like. i know that doesnt seem to make sense but idk you just have to trust me on this one

Is this available as an XBLA game, or do i have to go to a gamestop to get it, or what?

you know now that i think of it "deadly premonition" makes some actual sense as a phrase unlike "resident evil" and "silent hill" which are just stupid.

the resident is evil (he's a zombie!), the hill is silent (everyone is dead!), the premonition is deadly (your prophecy will kill u!)

yeah i dont think this will ever make it to XBLA, but it should be used at just about every gamestop on the planet for like $17

ok, next time i'm at a gamestop i'll pick it up. you've totally psyched me up to play it.

hahaha ok but i take no responsibility if you hate it - many people do!

no, this totally sounds like my thing. if it's anything like a video game version of The Room (a film I've seen 17 times and own the DVD of -- because my friends decided it would be the perfect gift for me) then it'll become my fave video game of all time.

I really need to see the room, ive had plenty of chances i am just kinda lazy

It really isn't like The Room in any way other than being enjoyably weird and shoddy.

But weird and shoddy in an unfathomably uncanny way, right? Cause that's what I respond to in the Room.

is there a bit in the game where you're just sittin there, thinkin?

no but it seems that often the only rational thing to do when you are in an abandoned lumbermill surrounded by creepy ghosts and being chased by an invincible killer is to take some time and shave.

srsly this is one of the most bizarro games ever. just found out that if you are wandering around and bored you can go full on peeping tom crepe and peer through the windows of the unsuspecting townfolk. also kind of loving that you can only buy a couple of things from the nice elderly lady that runs the hotel, but naturally one of those things is machine gun bullets. and lollipops.

I just bought this, btw.

And Valkyria Chronicles so I could get Super Saver Shipping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp5krDoflLI

cozen - game is coming to the UK

Thursday 12th August 2010: Rising Star Games has announced it will be publishing the infamous Xbox 360 game Deadly Premonition in PAL territories, with the survival horror game slated for an autumn release.

Although Rising Star has an agreement to bring Marvelous Entertainment's games to market in PAL territories, Deadly Premonition was notably absent from the publisher's Q4 line-up, which it announced at the beginning of June.

"Having seen how Deadly Premonition split reviewers' opinions in America, gamers are itching to get their hands on it to judge it for themselves," says Martin Defries, managing director, Rising Star Games. "We have high hopes for what can only be described as the most distinctive survival horror game that has ever been released - it's going to be interesting to see how the game is received over here. It's a cult classic in the making."

To date Deadly Premonition has split reviewers down the middle - Destructoid awarded it 10/10, saying: "Judged as a piece of entertainment, as a game that consistently surprises and amazes and leaves jaws hanging, I have no choice but to say that Deadly Premonition goes above and beyond."

At the other end of the scale, IGN named it "terrible", awarding it just 2/10. It said: "Awful in nearly every way… Terrible controls. Terrible pacing. Terrible sound effects. Terrible visuals." However, gamers have been making up their own minds - on Metacritic the average user rating is 8.4/10.

Developed by Access Games, Deadly Premonition is an open-world game set in Greenvale, a secluded rural town in North West America. Playing as FBI Special Agent Francis York, gamers are charged with investigating the shocking, ritualistic and brutal murder of a local girl.

Deadly Premonition launches for £24.99 in the autumn.

did this show up yet polyphonic? curious to get a second opinion on it.

Still waitin'.

thanks, jeff, £25 rrp means it'll probably go for about £18 here which is perfect

wow this just gets more uh the further i get - for every WHY THE FUCK CANT I WALK UP THE STAIRS moment (oh trust me u will know exactly what im talking about when u play it) you get a batshit crazy story from "the general" or a discussion of "the sinner's sandwich" or the sheriffs deputy creepily dancing alone to non-existent music in the hotel room he lives in while you peep through the curtains at him. none of these are spoilers btw. im not even sure if you dould spoiler this game because it makes no goddamn sense most of the time.

its completely fucking unhinged - and unlike what some people are saying, not all the shittiness is intentional, but some of it definitely is (there is no way that using the old doom "picture of something on flat plane" technique to do the vegetable bins in the grocery store was anything other than intentional for example). i still dont know what the hell to make of all of it. also somewhere in there is a totally engrossing story. i think.

also, BEST PAUSE MENU IN ANY GAME EVER.

another totally bizarre thing about this is that every so often out of the blue will come a really well acted and totally touching moment and then its right back into the blender of weird.

probably clocked at least 20 hours so far, only on day 2! however i would be lying if i told you that all of that time was enjoyable. there are some slogs here for sure.

silent hill is a stupid name. also: twin peaks.

btw i finally found a copy of this in canada and i am stoked to play it. i played the first 30m or so last night and i laughed a lot.

I played through the first part (which I'd already seen before) and am looking forward to continuing. I think I'm going to only play a bit at a time, though. The gameplay is pretty terrible, so small doses is for the best.

hahaha ok i hit the first point in the game where i am 99% sure someone on the development team is not only in on the joke, but actively fucking with me. real time 30 mph LONG LONG LONG tailing a suspect sequence concluded by - well you know yer just going to have to find out for yourself.

also had a genuinely O_O "conversation" w/zach about a past murder investigation. whatever other weirdness is going on here the script has some srs over the top dark freaky shit in it.

okay i had never heard of this game before today, but it sounds amazing.

(i will probably wait for a youtube highlights vid though)

man idk, considering the length of playtime available here and the sub-$ cost i dont see any reason for anyone not to pick it up, if you hate it sell it back to gamestop and yer probably out what a beer at the bar dollarwise?

isn't this like "the food is terrible, but the portions are huge (and the prices are low)"?

since i don't really have enough time to play fun games, it seems like a good move to get lols from youtube/this thread rather than actually playing through it?

but even i don't play it, i'm heartened that there are still broken + hilarious games being made for the youth of today

or watch the giantbomb dudes play it
http://www.giantbomb.com/endurance-run-deadly-premonition-part-br-01/17-2280/

If you don't have enough time to play fun games then you probably shouldn't play this fun game.

yeah if i am not being clear here i have def got more solid enjoyment out of this than any other game thats come out this year i think. like i am pretty sure ill never finish red dead but i am certain that ill finish this

also no runthrough could really do this justice, the instrusions of bizzaro crazy kinda come from all angles. random conversations with NPCs that are otherwise obviously useless can yield fantastic results for example.

not to keep sounding like the street team for this - its def not for everyone - but its way better than the whole "so bad its good" thing, it stands up as a really legitimately entertaining (albeit sometimes frustrating) experience. whoever suggested rolling through on simple difficulty is otm though, yer def not playing this for the game mechanics.

or watch the giantbomb dudes play it

I wish they would shut the fuck up.

yeah there is that

pro tip: get some infinite ammo weapons early in the game, or you will break something in your house in response to the section w/several wall crawling ghosty things.

still digging this, although ive definitely missed out on some side missions and whatever. the bizarroness is starting to gel into something fascinating beyond lols tho - i think there might actually be something intriguing going on behind all this o_O stuff. we'll see.

am flabbergasted that this has a thread dedicated to it. bought this used a few weeks ago after hearing of its rep and this game is genuinely fucking incredible, like video game outsider art.

i am so amazed that there are still used copies of this out in the wild, i assumed that by now they all would have been snapped up, but i see them all the time.

anyone who hasnt played this is missing out on what is arguably the most interesting thing to ever come out on the 360. no lie.

i still haven't played my copy but it's sitting at home waiting for a good free chunk of time

ha trust me, you may not want to sit down for long stretches with this one, yer brain might melt

Someday I will give this game a second effort. I got a good chunk of the way in but not far enough to get to the meat of the game, I think.

yeah, i think the greatness of this game did get buried in the so bad its good vibe like i said upthread. there are some really shocking and startlingly emotional moments, and they are so interesting within this alien landscape of oddness rather than badness - def a game where i suspect many reviewers just didnt give it time to turn into what it really is and just got hung up on the gameplay, to which i say hey man, people please choose to play og resident evil games, this is a hell of a lot better than that.

theres at least one murder scene (no spoilers) that rivals anything "dark" ive ever seen in videogaming, and when it drops into a game with the sinners sandwich and one sided conversations between the protagonist and himself its like a slap in the face.

last day free on ps+ i think, so get to it people

if it's the one i am thinking of... yeah. and also... fuck. now that i am thinking about it again i am like whoaaaaaaaaaa. there are some serious "play this a second time and notice things" moments popping out at me.

also mad props for making the game's most tragic character, like, not an utter embarrassing farce and really kinda pitiable in a real way (altho it gets DANGEROUSLY close to crossing that line)

damn man and the blindfold scenes. jjjusten thank you so much for beating the drum for this game as long as you did, it really pushed me to finally play it and i am so glad i did.

All right, maybe I'll get back onboard and push through the awful, awful driving when I'm done being addicted to GTA Online.

thing i wish someone had told me: once you cna start doing sidequests, complete quests 004 and 005 as soon as possible. the reward for 005 is fast travel.

http://planetredwood.webs.com/beginnersmanual.htm

http://store.nisamerica.com/deadly-premonition-classified-edition

ugh waht no i want this

Director's Cut in this week's Humble Bundle

i haven't played this game before but on a recommendation i started watching this old Let's Play by some guy from SA and i'm completely enthralled
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL845B60D60A411471

he does a good job of letting the game's bizarreness speak for itself while still adding value with commentary (i lost it when he went around the grocery store and started zooming in and reading off all the mangled product names). i'm pretty glad that i can experience the game this way since it doesn't look like the actual gameplay is rewarding, just the writing & 'acting'

Yeah, I lost my saved game when my old PS3 crashed and the thought of replaying the early portions of the game kinda keep me from picking it up again.

Swery is crowdfunding a new game, trailer seems suitably unhinged.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MzVVp-aqUs

new one is out in 2 weeks, i am hyped

Wait waht?!?

heard it's pish

oh boy, wait till you hear about this one

ya meant this one. hopefully they patch it

i haven't played yet but it sounds like it's good just even lower effort/less polish than the first

on the tech side i mean, there's definitely some effort in the world design and such

If for nothing else, the first gets props for having literally the worst driving controls in the history of video games. Like so bad that I have to assume they're willfully so.

ya meant this one. hopefully they patch it

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that's what some of us hoped as well, and someone brought it to swery's attention, and he said "oh! sorry, i'll get right on that", and released a patch that fixed damn near nothing, and then that was brought to swery's attention as well, and swery's response was to talk about his "creative freedom" and make a couple more tweets that were more blunt that he then deleted

don't get your hopes up.

if it gets a pc release after the 6 months of switch exclusivity are up then maybe it'll run better there, though the first game actually runs worse on pc than on 360 lol

either way i will be playing this on switch handheld mode for the proper experience

I literally forgot this game came out until I watched sleepy hollow today and saw that weird tree and was like "oh damn deadly premonition, did that come out?" and then I bought it and now I'm playing it that's the whole story

i'm two scenes in and he's talked at least a couple of lines about... 8 different movies or so? i wish i was keeping a list

wait are you playing the first one for the first time?

there is a lot of movie chat

the second one!

oh nvm you're playing 2 i see

there is still a lot of movie chat

yeah i totally didn't clarify that. maybe i should've played the first one thru again first though, because i cannot remember the ending at all? and iirc it got very convoluted

these are both on sale for switch now, which seems rare?

by which i mean they are both discounted. i don't remember a price drop on DP2 since i put on my wishlist a year or two ago.

should i play either of them? should i start with 1 or jump to 2?

Definitely don't jump to 2.

everyone should play Deadly Premonition 1, but I can't speak to how well it plays on the switch since at least the 360 and PC versions all had their own problems.

play the 360 version. it's back compatible with the bone and series consoles too

if xbox is not an option, the various ports are all slightly worse than the 360 original: the director's cut extra content is pointless, game looks worse, performance is worse, crashes are more frequent. still worth checking out imo, but the switch one is the worst port of all i think

definitely don't bother with 2 unless you've played 1. i loved 1 but couldn't stomach 2, ymmv

yeah 2 was not well received even by huge fans of 1 so i stayed away. sounded like it was just worse all around - writing not as charming or engaging, performance downgraded from 'janky low budget game' to 'so broken it's barely playable'

This is the perfect steam deck to play beside my wife while she watches pretty little liars. I tried it when it came out and was one to jump out as soon as I had to jump in a car and navigate the games handling. Now, I’m having a ball. Very keen to try 2 as well, apparently the pc version fixes most/all of the performance woes of the switch

Incredibly on brand for this game: The steam achievement for completing episode 1 spoils who the killer is in its description. Couldn’t help but laugh when I saw it come up at the bottom of my screen. Oh well, let’s see how it all unfolds!