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    Deadly Premonition

    Game » consists of 11 releases. Released Feb 23, 2010

    An open-world action-adventure game following an eccentric FBI agent as he investigates a series of bizarre murders in the small rural town of Greenvale.

    Deadly Premonition in Game Developer magazine (august)

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    #1  Edited By Spectreman
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    #2  Edited By buzz_killington

    On the cover too. Damn.

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    #3  Edited By KarateLincoln

    Willie is an extremely important character with a huge backstory?
     
    oh god, swery, never change

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    #4  Edited By Animagess

    Amazing.  Must get a print copy, then fly to Japan, find SWERY and get him to sign it.  And then maybe kidnap him.  If he has coffee, alcohol and a stack of old movies to watch, he'll be fine, right?  Just like keeping a rabbit.
     
    Just kidding, SWERY.  No rabbit could make a game like Deadly Premonition.

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    #6  Edited By armaan8014
    @Animagess said:
    " Amazing.  Must get a print copy, then fly to Japan, find SWERY and KISS HIM.  And then maybe kidnap him.  If he has coffee, alcohol and a stack of old movies to watch, he'll be fine, right?  Just like keeping a rabbit.  Just kidding, SWERY.  No rabbit could make a game like Deadly Premonition. "
    That's what I'd like to do
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    #7  Edited By VisariLoyalist

    it was a bad game, people just thought it was so hilarious they made it into a sort of meme.

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    #8  Edited By Animagess
    @VisariLoyalist:  Nope, it's un-ironically an excellent game.  Are you that fat guy who who keeps stopping me at store counters when I'm trying to buy copies of it for my friends and tries to talk me out of it?  Because it's not working.
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    #9  Edited By Lemoncookie01

    This is great, isn't it Zach.

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    #10  Edited By Evilsbane

    Fantastic the more that game is exposed the better because DP2 will be AMAZING!!!

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    #11  Edited By FalconCritical

    Chances are DP2 will be good, and therefore average and forgettable.

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    #12  Edited By KarateLincoln

    if DP2 is made, I will be incredibly surprised

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    #13  Edited By Dalai

    Great! Amazing! Nice shot! 
     
    Oh the times we had.

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    #15  Edited By Animagess
    @Origina1Penguin: Yeah, we know.  I think there's a thread for it.  The point is, I wouldn't complain if every magazine had something DP-related on the cover, even if there wasn't an article inside.  Like you could have one of the Shadows sticking its hand down someone's throat while bending over backwards on the cover of Cosmopolitan with the caption "77 Sex Positions to Drive Your Man Wild".  Hey, I'd subscribe.
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    #17  Edited By RobotHamster

    Amazing!

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    #18  Edited By sully

    Headshot! 
     
    Well, it is a picture of his face.

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    #19  Edited By MadnessHero

    This is pretty sweet.  I was incredibly surprised with how much I enjoyed the game.  It's great to see more positive press about the game.

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    #20  Edited By Alphazero
    @sully said:
    " Headshot!  Well, it is a picture of his face. "
    Headshots are ruining magazine covers. 
     
    I bought the game (At $20, I think I'm losing money if I don't buy it) but haven't had the heart to put it in yet. Maybe I'll wait for a wall lady cheat code.
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    #21  Edited By I_smell

    I love that the cover of the magazine looks completely awful. It suits the game.
    @FalconCritical said:

    " Chances are DP2 will be good, and therefore average and forgettable. "
    That's probably sadly true.
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    #22  Edited By Animagess
    @Alphazero said:
    " @sully said:
    " Headshot!  Well, it is a picture of his face. "
    Headshots are ruining magazine covers.  I bought the game (At $20, I think I'm losing money if I don't buy it) but haven't had the heart to put it in yet. Maybe I'll wait for a wall lady cheat code. "
    There's about a million ways to circumvent the problems that BR and VJ had playing the game, if that's what's turning you off.  Pretty much all the infinite weapons and upgrades you can get wayyy before the wall missus, and I think there's one strategy for killing them in one go (have to research that, forget where I heard it).  
     
    Really, if you bother to do as many sidequests as possible in episode 2, I think you'll be fine- if the combat is what's worrying you.
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    #23  Edited By MetalGearSunny

    Why is this horrible game getting so much attention?

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    #24  Edited By RedEyesBlueBunny

    i am so glad york isn't smiling there...or am i?

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    #25  Edited By Animagess
    @Metal_Gear_Sunny said:

    " Why is this horrible game getting so much attention? "

    1Up: "One of the best examples of game writing I've ever seen."
    G4: "Strange and uncompromising.
    X-Play: #9 on their Games of the Year So Far 2010 ilst
    Metacritic: Majority of scores are safely above 60.
     
    $20.  What have you got to lose?
     
    EDIT: To more directly answer your question, the storytelling and characters it offers are excellent to a particular brand of taste, which applies to more people than you think.  Myself included.
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    #26  Edited By MetalGearSunny
    @Animagess: Yes, but the gameplay itself is horrible.
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    #27  Edited By OllyOxenFree
    @Metal_Gear_Sunny said:
    " @Animagess: Yes, but the gameplay itself is horrible. "

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    #28  Edited By Animagess
    @Metal_Gear_Sunny: 
    Have you played it?  First of all, it's not at all terrible if you know what you're doing.  Second, the so-called flaws in the gameplay added a certain texture to the experience that you would never find in a more polished title, which I don't expect everyone to understand.  But clearly I'm not the only person who was able to deal with the quirky controls, so take that as you will.  I understand gameplay is the end all be all to some people, but not everyone plays games that way, and I maintain my position that the gameplay suits Deadly Premonition in ways no other game would have been able to overcome.
     
    Also the story could never have worked as well as it did in a movie or novel, so it's not like it would have been better suited to a different medium, either.
     
    EDIT: I'm curious to know how many people commenting on this board actually played the game, and how many are responding based on watching the Endurance Runs.  I loved the ERs, but I didn't find out about them until after I played the game, and I think there's a bit of a loss in doing it the other way around.
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    The atmosphere Deadly Premonition has is thick and full of crazy.  
    If you really can't appreciate DP as a whole I just feel sorry for you.

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    #30  Edited By Ratfoot

    I had no idea about the amount of development hell that this game went through, Access Games really deserves more praise for breaking out of the DNF-style delay cycle.

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    #31  Edited By glitznglam_style
    @Metal_Gear_Sunny said:
    "@Animagess: Yes, but the gameplay itself is horrible. "

    But it has a good story. Not like you'd be interested in a good story going by your avatar, right?
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    #32  Edited By ravuya

    I'm actually a little disappointed in myself that I haven't gotten through a certain near-end boss in Deadly Premonition yet. I need to know how it ends! 
     
    I should've tried harder to get the infinite weapons. I mostly spent my side-quest time working on fetching car upgrades and going for jaunts in the convertible.

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