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Hey, Remember Psychonauts?

Double Fine's platformin' classic, now revamped on Steam and available on Mac!

Oct. 18 2011

Posted by: Brad

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Edited By Brad

woo!

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Edited By Oscar__Explosion

x2 woo

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Edited By Moody_yeti

I remember psychonauts load times,man they sucked.

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Edited By ckeats

Bought it boxed on PC a few years ago, could never get it to run, bought it again on steam a few weeks ago, couldn't get it to run past the tutorial on my mac without crashing.

I'm destined to never play this game. (although the issues on mac os lion are supposedly patched, so i'll attempt again later.)

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Edited By gearhead

My body is ready.

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Edited By JamesJeux007

I own 3 copies of this game (PC, PS2, X-Box) :'D The PC version on Steam is cheap, looks awesome and is playable with either the 360 controller or the keyboard (which works surprisingly well).

What are you waiting for ? Go buy it now !

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wow brad steal the quest from some innocent soul. Shame on you....

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Edited By Koolaids_Back

Woo Psychonauts!

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Edited By cornbredx

Such a great game. I wish they'd make a sequel already. I already own it on everything! How much more can I say I loved this game? haha

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Edited By jmfinamore

I should really finish this game. It makes an awesome first impression, but I got over the style and gameplay (especially) pretty quick. It's a shame, because the dialogue and jokes are really well done, but after a while, I just got tired of it.

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Edited By peterious

I have a feeling Psychonauts is getting a sequel from all the new attention it's been Double Fine's been giving it.

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@Brad said:

woo!

Hah! Nice cock block =D

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Edited By Gerhabio

Never saw the appeal. It just wasn't funny for me andvthe platforming wasn't a revelation either.

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@Gearhead said:

My body is ready.

But your mind may never recover. ==CENSORED==

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Edited By turilas

Started replaying this after the update. It's shocking how well this game has aged.

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Edited By narficacid

Just S Ranked the steam version a last week. Genuinely one of my favorite games of all time.

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Edited By indieslaw

And removed from XBLM.

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Edited By PerfidiousSinn

I feel like I buy this game every year. I don't regret any of the purchases.

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Edited By Seedofpower

Wow, I just got done playing through this game.

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Edited By Korax

Hey, remember when this wasn't old news?

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Edited By CosmicQueso

I know that no game is universally liked by everyone... but man if any game deserves to be appreciated in some way by anyone who enjoys games, Psychonauts is it.

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Edited By obscurefan

This game was so much fun and so creative. Anyone who missed it the first time needs to get it this time around.

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Why yes, I do!

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Edited By MudMan

Sure, not the most refined gameplay, not the best controls, imaginative but sometimes rough around the edges level design...

...but that Erik Wolpaw/Tim Schafer script collaboration? That's some of the best writing in gaming, ever, regardless of how either of them felt about it after the fact.

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Edited By jaqen_hghar

One of the best games ever made. Simple as that.

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Edited By jacksukeru

I played through this game twice so that's something, it's pretty funny.

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Had an great time playing this a few years ago. Writing and attention to detail is amazing.

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I wondered why my steam copy had a 2gb update recently, this is why!

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Edited By Castiel

I was actually just wondering about replaying this gem. I might buy this.

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Edited By AlmostSwedish

Man Iove this game but it sure is kind of ugly.

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I need to play this

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Edited By peewi

I replayed Psychonauts right after the update went out. Got 100% for the first time.

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Edited By OldGuy

Somebody needs to post this... so I will:   

  
And... I may just play this again... starting tonight... yes BEFORE I play Arkham City. :-)
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Edited By chilibean_3

I tried to play this game for the first time last year. I don't think it's aged gracefully.

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Edited By mattclassic

@AlmostSwedish - I actually think it still looks pretty decent. The textures are low res as shit, but that's not important when the art direction is this good and unique. It really nails that cute but grotesque look that's so hard to pull off. And that level design, my god. I really like this game in case you couldn't tell :3

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Edited By Origina1Penguin

Great game, but that wasn't a very good trailer. The Inception mash-up is better: 
 
EDIT: Didn't even realize someone posted it already.

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Edited By Wiseblood

Uh, isn't this an old XBox trailer?  You can see black and white buttons.

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@videorob said:

And removed from XBLM.

I'm betting that is because either:
a) The publisher has changed over to Double Fine
 
or
 
b) because they want to patch the new fixes into the game (meat circus fixed)
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This game needs some serious polygon upgrade.

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Edited By tgammet

I bought this re-vamp day 1. Totally worth it. Works great using a pad now! :-D

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@peteisfat: They said no to that on their podcast. They said it would be to expensive to make for the setup they've got there now.

We can hope though! It's the best game.

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Edited By Evilsbane

Great game, everyone should play this on any platform they can get their hands on.

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@AlmostSwedish said:

Man Iove this game but it sure is kind of ugly.

Don't let that old trailer fool you. The PC version on max settings might as well be an HD remake, and it has good gamepad support.

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Edited By HarrySound

hopefully its coming to LIVE

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Edited By abendlaender

Milkman conspiracy is still one of the greates levels ever created

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Edited By project343

One of my favourites.

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Edited By Cirdain

Just show me footage of that glorious main menu screen. That was beautiful.

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Edited By xbob42

Heard about this the day it happened, but just got it today! Only commented cause I saw this video today and thought "All has gone according to the Almighty Schafer's plan."

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Edited By MormonWarrior

I played this game a year ago with the Xbox Originals download. I think it was on sale. Maybe not.

Anyway, I didn't like it at all. I thought it was clever and funny but incredibly tedious and just a bad platformer. No thanks. I guess that describes basically every DoubleFine thing. Quirky, charming, but no fun.