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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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I actually played Psychonauts recently for my 24 hour live stream for Extra Life. That game has a shit ton of things to collect.

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@Jaded_Racoon: They are almost non-existent on PC. All of them so far haven't lasted more than a second.

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I am the milkman, my milk is delicious.

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Guess I shouldn't have bought this on Xbox live a few months ago.

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I've always loved this game and its crazyness.

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Edited By Humanity

It's weird - I beat the game back in the day and I literally don't recognize anything from that trailer.

The one thing I remember quite well is the Milk level and that wasn't shown.

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@Pepsiman: They improved the last circus level? Kudos to them. That was the only thing about this game that didn't rock.

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Edited By MeatSim

I guess I should go play Psychonauts now.

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Yo Tim! XBLA please if you don't mind. Thanks.

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Edited By baron_calamity

I will have to replace this sometime in the future. The NEAR future.

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Edited By starerik

At first I was disappointed that it wasn't featured in widescreen, then I saw the Xbox controls and "copyright 2004" and realized that this was an old trailer.

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Edited By steevl

As others have said, they added Steam Cloud support, Steam achievements, apparently made the Meat Circus a bit easier, and gave the game proper controller support.

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Edited By RedEyesBlueBunny

now that i watch this, i realize i do not remember the story of this game AT ALL

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Looks like a mind trip

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Still my favourite game of all time.

Maybe this re-release of the original Psychonauts means that Double Fine are gearing up for a sequel? I can only hope so!

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Psychonauts getting a re-release? Nice!

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Edited By nh_213

HD remake, please.

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Edited By oasisbeyond

What's revamped? It looks the same. Stop with these so called HD versions. Keep the classics... Classics and make a new sequel already.

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Edited By Tuco

One of my favorite games ever made, and the PC version is beautiful; it (obviously) put in shame both the PS2 and Xbox versions in every way.

For those claiming the game didn't age well: you're dead wrong. Controls are fine, graphics has its own personal [and weird] style, there is full support for widescreen and high resolutions, etc.

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Edited By BisonHero

Is this trailer fairly dark, with audio out of sync, for everybody else? It certainly is for me.

Also, I think this trailer gives away WAY too much, as far as seeing a ton of late game stages and plot development. But maybe I'm just saying that because I missed pretty much all of the media coverage when the game first came out, so when I finally got around to playing it on Steam, I pretty much went in blind.

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Edited By Pepsiman

@guanophobic: The trailer itself is just using old footage from the Xbox version, but the Steam one was recently updated to accommodate Steam achievements and (apparently) make the Meat Circus a bit easier in addition to the Mac support. Graphically, the game itself is still the same, although in all fairness this trailer is not the thing to consult if you want to see how well the visuals have held up on the PC specifically considering it's, well, not depicting the PC version.

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Edited By scottygrayskull

Did they fix the part where the game is just not very fun to play?

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Edited By Jazz_Lafayette

I DO remember Psychonauts, Brad.

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This game is so dark.... I mean seriously, someone turn up the brightness please! 

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Edited By guanophobic

What's new about this? The Psychonauts has been on Steam for years, is it the Mac-support? Can't see any difference in the textures/models of the trailer. Weird that they just used regular old 4:3 resolution for the trailer aswell if it's upgraded..

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I am on the road crew. This is my stop sign. I am here to work on the road.

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Edited By HrMagni

i am still recovering from the meat circus, since i finished the game a couple of years ago, so will give it a miss until they release it on PS3, if or when.

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this was never meant for anything but an XBOX this is ridiculous

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Edited By Krystal_Sackful

I've bought this game three times. On release, when it came out on steam, and again as a gift for my sister's birthday. In other words, yo, I like this game a lot. Double Fine is the shit

I bought Costume Quest on steam too. I like it.

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@Sackmanjones said:

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

u mad

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Edited By PhantomGardener

I don't get this.. what is it? I mean Psychonauts has been on steam for a good while now. Why this sudden trailer of the game?

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Edited By Roger_Klotz

I really enjoyed this game back when it came out. Too bad the xbox disc will never work on the 360.

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Edited By Mumrik

Doesn't look revamped. Looks like it always did. The trailer is even in 4:3.

I know there's talk that they "fixed" the Meat Circus, but what else did they do (that matters in any way)?

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Okay, I've avoided and avoided...and it gives me something for the steam sale. Damn, I just occurred while I was typing this, I kind of feel bad about that. But I am getting this game.

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@RhombusOfTerror said:

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

Ah never mind, question has been raised already lol

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So...if you already bought it before the update you get the updated version downloaded automatically or do i need to rebuy it?

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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.

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

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Edited By project343

One of my favourites.

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Milkman conspiracy is still one of the greates levels ever created

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hopefully its coming to LIVE

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

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

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This game needs some serious polygon upgrade.

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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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Edited By Wiseblood

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

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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.