What's a game you love but can't actually recommend?
What's a game you love but can't actually recommend?
Alternate title: what’s your favorite obscure jank?
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Deadly Premonition. It has a cast of very charming and surprisingly well written characters alongside a fascinating mindfuck of a story that is very much unlike anything else I've ever experienced. Heavily inspired by David Lynch's Twin Peaks and the closest I've seen another piece of media come to recapturing its dreamy, surreal vibes. Has a cult following despite being an absolutely shit game by all reasonable metrics. The combat is atrocious, it's unfathomably buggy, you're forced to drive between locations in a janky ass car, and the driving is like pulling teeth. It's really quite an unpleasant game to play for many reasons, and that's if you even get the game to run; the PC port is basically unplayable and requires a fuckton of fiddling on newer systems. Despite all that, it's an experience I remember very fondly. Just don't know if I'll be booting it up for another run in the next decade.
Oh fuck yeah. Such a weird game. I love it
Came here for this one. In nearly every aspect of what makes up a video game, it absolutely fails. The combat was a last minute addition to appeal to western audiences in the Call of Duty heyday and it's awful. The exploration is miserable. The music is eclectic and the cues are strangely mistimed in several instances. Visually, the game is ugly to look at with very stiff animations. The voice acting is approaching Resident Evil 1 in terms of quality. Despite all of that, the story was so moving, that I was in tears at the end and I can't help but have fond memories for it.
ohh that sounds right up my alley. I saw it's only a few bucks on steam, but the port sounds pretty bad. Do you have any recommendations for the best way to play on PC? One thing that comes to mind is emulating the 360 version, but I'm not enough of a gamer to know how that works or if that would be better lol
It's definitely possible to get the PC game running with some patience.
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Deadly_Premonition:_The_Director's_Cut
PCGW has a good page on most of the PC version's critical issues and candidate fixes, and as you can probably see, there are quite a few. Getting it running in the first place was the hardest part for me. Once you get it running, just refer to the wiki now and then to watch for problematic points in the game and how to best avoid crashes.
As for emulation, I have no idea. I do know that the console versions are supposed to be quite messy themselves, though, so I would guess it won't be a much better experience.
It’s on Switch if you have one