Deadly premonition...should i get?

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Ok, i have read a few reviews of this, as with most games...yet i am still highly unsure.
I love creativity and weirdness. Destructoid gave it 10/10 yet so many others were very negative.
The thing is...if you watch a really awesome movie, but it happens to be a pirated bad copy, rendering the film awful to endure and ruining the experience...will that be what deadly premonition will be like??
 

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If you like creativity and weirdness, you will love Deadly Premonition. It's a strange game in how it is pretty much objectively bad, what with the awful graphics, tank controls, and hysterically bad gunplay and driving, but it still manages to be some of the best fun you can have with a game this generation. The storyline is compelling, the characters and dialogue are hilarious and bizarre in a very David Lynch-like way, and the game has this strange charm about it that makes a lot of people (including myself) overlook the more obvious flaws.

It's dirt cheap by now if you buy a used 360 copy, I'd strongly recommend it if for no other reason that it's one of the most unique experiences out there right now.
 

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Here's the thing about the game, mechanically speaking, it's absolutely awful. The combat is awful, the controls are awful, the driving is awful, all of that is terrible, as are the graphics, the animations, and the sound design.

The game is so fascinatingly strange though, with interesting (really out there weird) characters, and a really bizarre yet strangely compelling dialogue that you can't help but become engrossed in it even though it's a seemingly terrible game on the surface.

Just remember, if you're going to buy a copy of this game, get the director's cut. The original version's combat was incredibly tedious, and while the director's cut's combat isn't much better, it really scales down the difficulty to make it trivial (which is a good thing in this case, trust me).

Also, a bit of advice, ALWAYS go to lunch at the sheriff's office.
 

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Imagine if David Lynch made a Resident Evil 4 clone set in Silent Hill, starring the bizarro cast of Twin Peaks. If that sounds like fun to you, you should get Deadly Premonition.
 

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Deadly premonitions is pretty much a trainwreck if we're talking about technical quality. The graphics are abysmal, theres frame drops in the weirdest of places, texture pops everywhere, and the sound mixing is sometimes downright atrocious.

That said, it's got an undeniable endearing quality to it. The characters are loveable and the story is strangely compelling for reasons I can't quite explain. If a game is succeeding in keeping me engaged throughout, then honestly, what it's doing right definitely overshadows what it does wrong. Combat isn't great, but the director's cut fixes that.

I'm most likely buying it again when it releases for PC, and there's very few other games I can think of I'm willing to re-purchase that I've already finished to completion. You'd be doing yourself a great disservice by missing out, I assure you.
 

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Hmm...i think i'm sold! Didn't realise there was a directors cut. Is it anywhere like killer 7 wierdness? I ploughed through that game in a trance
 

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Xsjadoblayde said:
Hmm...i think i'm sold! Didn't realise there was a directors cut. Is it anywhere like killer 7 wierdness? I ploughed through that game in a trance
Killer 7 is more like weird for the sake of weird, whereas Deadly Premonition is more like "human interaction as perceived and written by aliens" kind of weird.
 

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I kinda like comparing Deadly Premonitions to Tommy Wiseau's The Room.

Both have horrible production values, barely make any sense and are pretty much completely inept at just about everything. And yet, both are strangely fascinating and the unintentional humor that flows from them makes them really endearing. Makes me wonder if we'll be seeing Deadly Premonitions marathon sessions with people dressing up and using props to play out scenes from the game.

In other words, it's one of those 'so bad, it's good' things.

PS: Tommy Wiseau has expressed interest in directing a movie-adaptation of a video game. He should totally do Deadly Premonitions. It. Would. Be. GLORIOUS!
 

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Xsjadoblayde said:
Hmm...i think i'm sold! Didn't realise there was a directors cut. Is it anywhere like killer 7 wierdness? I ploughed through that game in a trance
Director's cut (on the ps3) has low framerates, it took me a while to get used to.

It's also gonna be released on Steam soon, maybe get that version if you want better combat and better framerates. (more stable port/fan patches etc.)
 

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Dirty Hipsters said:
Xsjadoblayde said:
Hmm...i think i'm sold! Didn't realise there was a directors cut. Is it anywhere like killer 7 wierdness? I ploughed through that game in a trance
Killer 7 is more like weird for the sake of weird, whereas Deadly Premonition is more like "human interaction as perceived and written by aliens" kind of weird.
I'm sure if you looked hard enough, one could scratch some sort of meanings from killer 7. Over-analysis is certainly something english lit taught me well ;)

Please tell me more of this 'the room'. I am intrigued. Am a bit of a film nerd tbh.
Might get the 360 version and save it to HDD, that usually smooths things out even if just a little.
 

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Sack of Cheese said:
Director's cut (on the ps3) has low framerates, it took me a while to get used to.

It's also gonna be released on Steam soon, maybe get that version if you want better combat and better framerates. (more stable port/fan patches etc.)
Yeah, if you haven't gotten the game yet I'd wait for the PC release first and see if it's any better.
 

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I'd say pick it up, if you're a fan of Twin Peaks and the survival horror genre. Director's cut is still the better version to get compared to the original release. Or wait for the PC version.
 

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Xsjadoblayde said:
Please tell me more of this 'the room'. I am intrigued. Am a bit of a film nerd tbh.
The Room is a 2003 independent film and romantic drama written, produced & directed by and starring Tommy Wiseau.

It is a huge mess of a movie full of bad acting & dialogue that makes you think the writer never interacted with another person before in his life, bad cinematography, bad directing, loads of plot holes, plot points that are brought up and immediately dropped, nonsensical scenes, continuity errors ... it's just all-around horrible and it got trashed by critics.

Yet despite all its many flaws a lot of people came to love The Room for all the unintended humor they derived from it and it has gained a cult following. So nowadays, you have these movie theaters that hold regular midnight screenings of the movie where fans show up dressed like the characters, act out scenes, provide commentary, throw plastic spoons at the screen and pass footballs at each other[footnote]The latter two are references to nonsensical stuff happening in the movie[/footnote].
 

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Sack of Cheese said:
Xsjadoblayde said:
Hmm...i think i'm sold! Didn't realise there was a directors cut. Is it anywhere like killer 7 wierdness? I ploughed through that game in a trance
Director's cut (on the ps3) has low framerates, it took me a while to get used to.
The original version also has frame rate issues, and from my experience the frame rates are actually worse in than original than in the director's cut, but they're a bit more noticeably jarring in the director's cut because the game goes from 30 frames to 10 frames and back constantly, whereas the original basically ran the whole way at about 20 frames, with some dips.