As stated in the stickied topic in Deadly Premonition's forum, this game is currently on sale for 25% less than its normal price on amazon.com. However, I never thought it would come to:
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 is currently Amazon's #1 selling 360 game.
Honestly, I don't either. I never thought anyone would ever know this game existed outside of gaming communities, such as ours, who are into "so-bad-they're-good" games for the hell of it. Although, Deadly Premonition does have more going for it than that since the gameplay and graphics might not be... of this generation, but the story of this game is so completely fucked, with weirdly specific references to various other TV shows, games, movies, etc., that I guess it is full of heart and people became oddly drawn to it like a moth to flame. Plus the price tag helps." Yeah! I don't what else to say? "
" Giant Bomb strikes again... "Indeed.
@Venatio said:
" I'd buy the game for cheap but it has NO EU RELEASE, that sucks Although I gotta admit, I would not pay alot for it "Don't quote me on this, but I heard that Rising Star was looking at bringing the game over. Which wouldn't be so surprising since Rising Star is Marvelous' European branch and Marvelous put the game out in Japan.
I have always said that a lot and I mean A LOT of the games that don't sell at $60 would have instead came out for $40 they would have sold boat loads. Maybe something like this will teach video game companies to challenge themselves to find the right price point for games that aren't that anticipated. Who knows maybe for the right price at day 1 a game like Tekken 6 could have had sales better then Modern Warfare 2..... Yea probably not but I would think Tekken 6 would have sold more games then it did at this point. My point $60 should not be the price point for every game.
Jim Sterling's review of DP makes me want it
http://www.destructoid.com/review-deadly-premonition-165168.phtml
I hope it comes to Europe.
" Giantbomb community, pat yourselves on the back. "This community is awesome, but let's be honest. GB has only embraced this game for the last 4 days. Sites like destructoid and NeoGAF deserve alot more of the credit to be honest. There were really few people on here who even gave this game a chance before the ER.
The ER's damn good. The game however? From the albeit limited footage I've seen, it's shit. Why people are purchasing this is beyond me.
I bought my copy today because of the ER. Playing janky games isn't so great, but playing them with friends is awesome!
" My god....you know they're gonna make a Deadly Premonition 2 now. "Please God yes! Maybe it will get an actual budget this time.
Despite the low price, I think I'll be ducking out on this one. The endurance run will tide me over. I still haven't even finished Resident Evil 4, which is a game I'm much more interested in playing; at least, in theory.
Edit: Yet right after I say that, I'm still tempted as hell...
Its actually not a TERRIBLE game. I played about 4 hours of it today and while the acting is cheesy, the controls are old school (sometimes frustrating), and the graphics are horrid- the game has a charm to it that cant be denied if you play it.
I will accept its not for everyone, but the amount of stuff there is to do in this game is surprising for a budget title. Despite its lack of polish, and being pretty old school (this game would've been a classic if it was released last gen) its a really fun game.
I dont think even the endurance run really does it justice in that just looking at it it just looks bad... but when you play it, its a pretty fun ride. I dont know, its definitely what people would call a guilty pleasure, but something about it (at least to me) is really fun.
So, anyway, my point is I believe it deserves the sales as despite the quality, the game seems to know what it is and its not really ashamed of it. I also like to mention despite it being bad on graphics, acting, and stolen ideas, gameplay wise the game works so that to me says something (as even a triple A title can be released with game breaking bugs, havent seen anything like that in this thus far). Plus theres quite a few novel things to this game. I wont spoil anything, but the ER has some cool moments a comin'. Many more laughs to be had as well.
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