[klj5j6li]

You're a really confused person


Also hey it's a new page, how about that deadly premonition!

[Teflon]

Still waiting for the European version!

I did see an honest to god copy of Way of the Samurai 3 in a store so that means Rising Star have actual distribution which is good news at least. I'd never even heard of them previously.

[Loki Laufeyson]

i'd forgotten about way of the samurai 3! dammit, there are far too many games i want to buy D:
guess i'll be losing weight this term...
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[Adilegian]

I'm at the start of Chapter 2, where it's supposed to open up.

Since I'm playing an adventure game that thrives on plot and characterization, two elements that videogames consistently do terribly, I'm not wearing my LOL It's A Game Goggles. The writing and characterization in this game is mostly terrible so far, and many of York's intuitions rely upon tapping into the writer's frankly broken social assumptions rather than mystical/hyperintuitive insight.

The game's done made gender differences and misogyny a fulcrum on which everything in the plot tips, and that right there is a sign that we're wading through the drek-shores of sacred stupidity.

EDIT: To throw a positive note in here, I am enjoying how the game tries to incorporate the player as a character by giving control over a secondary character/entity/force that acts, in-narrative, as the main character's acting principle. Meaning, the main character who the player controls responds to another character, Zach, as his volition or will, and establishing a character in the story whose existence precedes the player's intrusion into the world AND whose relationship to York highly resembles that of a gameplayer's relationship to the actor is pretty cool.
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[geinou]

Hey, looks like it finally got an european release date:

October 15th.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rising-Star-Games-Deadly-Premonition/dp/B003VM9DEI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1284596824&sr=8-1

I like the boxart. I don't like the Destructoid-thingy though.

[Ymer]

[Lasakon]

[Ratoslov]

Huh. Interesting to see how little the game changed since that. I wonder why they decided on 'York' instead of 'Young'.
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[Schwere Viper]

[boojiboy7]

[diplo]

Once you finish the game, you can access a small photographic library showing the places (must've been one town) the team visited to get an idea for Greenvale's layout and building-types. I wonder how familiar Suehiro is with North America; this might've actually been answered in WAHP's DP interview.

spoilers: I wasn't too keen on DP going all Resident Evil in the end -- having George turn into a silver-haired ogre and Kaysen being revealed as some sort of ancient force, the latter of which bothered me more, since the "evil because evil" explanation is the most boring one in the universe. My disappointment was somewhat similar to my disappointment with Twin Peaks, when it started to do the spiritual moral blame game.

[boojiboy7]

Yeah, the photo gallery is interesting, and explains maybe even more of the oddness of the game, as they team largely nailed the look of the town without really understanding the significance of certain architecture or people.

[parker]

It looked like they just went to the exact same places where Twin Peaks was filmed.
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[Schwere Viper]

[geinou]

Attn PAL guys: Seems like the game is out now. At least my version got shipped yesterday, perfect for Halloween.

[Schwere Viper]

Just bought a copy off of eBay, and oddly enough Twin Peaks just started showing on satellite TV down here, so it seems everything is falling into place.

Pretty excited!
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[Lasakon]

[Sketch]

[geinou]

Looks like I'm getting it together with Red Dead Redemption tomorrow. Pretty excited about that.

[gooktime]

[real_jamicus]

Yeah!!!! I pre-ordered a while ago, so I should get it within the next couple of days. I don't post here very often, but I check every day or two, so I'd hope that someone else who is playing would like to post in detail and I will also do that.

[geinou]

It is here. I'm really digging the boxart.

[8128]

goty
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[real_jamicus]

I also got it today. I've played about three hours. If it wasn't for me having alot of uni work due I would have put all my attention to this today, because I've really really enjoyed it so far.

The town is huge, or seems huge right now, and there are a lot of places to visit. I am in that stage where I don't fully understand the world of the game yet so the connections between things are fuzzy and so everything seems limitless and alive. It's the best part of games! I'm playing right now, I just paused it for a while. Right now I am in the bar SWERY 65 and I've been talking to some characters who are giving me some nice backstory. I guess I heard there are about 30 characters you get to interact with in detail in this game? I suppose I've met uhh...7 or so of those by this point, and a couple of those only fleetingly. I'm looking forward to doing some of the sidequests.

I don't really have much conclusive to say yet, since right now is the first time I have decided to take a proper look around town, and I'm very early in the story I think. I just went through the lumber mill....pretty tense! also though, kind of cumbersome. I knew that before I played it, though, so it's okay.

[Intentionally Wrong]

The lumber mill is the first major hurdle: other dungeons are taxing, but other than one exceptionally aggravating hallway, I don't find any of them as laborious as the lumber mill. This is when the game first really opens up, too.
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[TXTSWORD]

Ah yep, just got through the lumber mill. (Twin Peaks is my fav show ehehe) Drove around for a while trying to meet suspects and collect bones. Kind of overwhelmed right now because, like an above post, the world seems very large and sometimes I do things like drive a million miles on one road to get to a mansion and then it's closed when I get there :\ Afraid of wasting time and missing sidequests and stuff. The first time I picked this up I was told it was like twin peaks and then I played a few minutes of it and was like "This is TRYING to be like twin peaks but is stupid." I've since then radically changed my mind. Yeah, it's wacky and even shitty in various ways but in a wholly charming way. After I got into the game (away from that depressing introductory area) I started to see how it is very much like Twin Peaks in it's own super videogamey way. Really excited about this. Having a p great time B)

[Jigsaw]

You don't have to worry about missing sidequests from "wasting time" fucking around - although the game never really tells you, you can progress in the main plot at whatever pace you'd like. Missing an engagement for a story mission has no worse consequences than simply making you wait until the next day to be able to do mission in question. In fact you're definitely better off doing what you are, since NOT fucking around is just about the only way you're guaranteed to miss out on side quests. Do note though that you can look up side quest information in the pause menu, and even quests you haven't gotten yet will be listed, along with the timeframe within which they can be attempted. You can also go back to any previously finished chapter and do any of its side quests (though I would recommend doing as many as possible during your playthrough, I kinda wish I hadn't missed as many as I did).

[Cynic]

[klj5j6li]

I think another good thing to remember is that you can use cigarettes to pass as much time as you'd like. There's a limit per cigaratte, but i was never short on them, and there's no problem with chain smoking.

I didn't figure that out until like halfway through the game, but maybe I'm just dumb.

[TXTSWORD]

Well I just finished this game and...

man...

I am pretty bummed about it.

[TXTSWORD]

George isn't as mustachio'd

[real_jamicus]

[TXTSWORD]

I feel really weird about the end:

In the end, you have control over Zach (as you know), and the entire game I have been playing AS Zach... York's imaginary friend. Well the issue arises when Zach, who is also ME more than a character in the game, is accepting and content with the events that happened. It feels like an attempt to manipulate my emotions. Like, since I am Zach I should feel alright with what happened. I don't, though. I don't feel alright about it.

[TXTSWORD]

Requesting pictures of all suits.

[diplo]

Adilegian, did you play more of this?

[analogos]

don't do it adilegian.

[bleak]

do it adilegian.
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[Adilegian]

This is all happening so fast.

Serious post: I haven't gotten around to this because my old save file was attached to the primary gamer profile a 360 not my own in Austin. I no longer have access to that 360 or that profile, which means that I'll be starting from scratch on my own profile and system, and that's been a barrier to getting this thing going again.

Deadly Premonition's on my list of games to play when I'm in an adventure gaming mood though.
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[smartblue]

The save file might be a loss, but if you know your password, you can recover your old profile online.
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[Adilegian]

[analogos]