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Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise |OT| The Return of the True Detective
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All 100 Fleur-de-lis Locations
Hey btw if anyone needs help finding all 100 fleur-de-lis for one of the side missions...I got you covered fam...which why my initial play through was 40+ hours
Man just finished the initial scene and the true opening is a wild ride. Was not expecting any of the live action footage used. Is it similar to true detective? (never seen it)
Definitely inspired by it, but it reminded me even more of the True Blood opening (HBO vampire show, also set in Louisiana) mixed with a Bond opening. Here's the two opening credits:
edit: the True Blood video is somewhat NSFW
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The show's intro had a distinct lack of weed leaf booty shorts.
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I started playing it and i'm about 3 hours in, don't know what's wrong with the reviews, i'm loving it so far, it feels just like the first one with great characters, dialogues and story, of course performance and gameplay are bad but that's to be expected for the DP sequel
Everything I read and see about this game makes me want to play it.
...but the performance just looks too rough for now. I'll wait for a patch, buy when it comes or get tired of waiting and buy anyway if it doesn't.
...but the performance just looks too rough for now. I'll wait for a patch, buy when it comes or get tired of waiting and buy anyway if it doesn't.
Almost everything is exactly what I expected. I agree with the user who said that the dialogue is even better this time around, I'm really enjoying every little conversation. However, I also need to be honest, the framework is worse than expected. I have a high tolerance for those things on consoles, but this time it really feels like a slideshow. I don't know how but they managed to dethrone Drakengard 3 in the bad framerate department.
Drakengard 3 dropped to 0 FPS for a second or two every time you dismembered a big enemy which was.......constantly so hopefully this doesn't have freezes like that but yeah even in the opening walking down the hall it was 20 FPS at most. People were not kidding the frame rate is atrocious
And oh my god literally everything shimmers
And oh my god literally everything shimmers
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I'm only an hour in, and have barely gotten to the part where it's a video game, but I am loving it so far. Some really heavy D4 vibes at the beginning did multiple reasons. It's crazy to be nostalgic for both Deadly Premonition AND D4 at the same time, lol.
Well, I'm so sorry to inform you, but it does freeze like that sometimes. It happened quite a bit while skateboarding, framerate goes down to 0 then back up after a split second.
Got about 3 hours in. MAN the framerate is even worse than I thought, it on top of being low has frequent outright stutters and hangups for a second or so.
Been liking the conversations and general zaniness otherwise, but that's...beyond rough. The game seems finicky with conversations on the skateboard too, seems like if you collide into something it just cuts them talking completely.
Been liking the conversations and general zaniness otherwise, but that's...beyond rough. The game seems finicky with conversations on the skateboard too, seems like if you collide into something it just cuts them talking completely.
The frame rate is not great outside, but I haven't had any combat yet so it honestly didn't bother that much as I already know to expect it.
The dialogue is great so far, but genuinely a bit disappointed you can't do simple tricks with the skateboard though.
The dialogue is great so far, but genuinely a bit disappointed you can't do simple tricks with the skateboard though.
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Bought. Thanks for the heads up. I was hoping they would do a promo like this. Hopefully by the time I have completed it there will be a patch for DP2.
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all the movies referenced in the game
I'm still very early on (3 hours in), but I'm making this list of all the movies referenced in the game as I go along. It's obviously not complete and I'll keep updating it myself, but please let me know if there's anything I missed or of that you've seen referenced in a later part of the game.
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Movies referenced in Deadly Premonition 2
A list of all movies mentioned by name in Deadly Premonition 2.
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There are different types of cigarettes that pass different amounts of time
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great job! threadmarkedI'm still very early on (3 hours in), but I'm making this list of all the movies referenced in the game as I go along. It's obviously not complete and I'll keep updating it myself, but please let me know if there's anything I missed or of that you've seen referenced in a later part of the game.
Movies referenced in Deadly Premonition 2
A list of all movies mentioned by name in Deadly Premonition 2.
A few hours in and I've had a big smile on my face for most of it. I guess that means I'm enjoying the game. Loving the dialogue, Patricia and Melvin are great and so far it's nailing the True Detective vibes just as much as the first game nailed Twin Peaks. I also read a few reviews that said the town feels lifeless and lacks atmosphere and I straight up disagree with that.
Super late to the party, but...
I'm finally playing though the original game (which I bought before the sale like a chump) and I already want to get this one. It's so inexplicably engaging, and unlike what I was led to believe by its reputation of being so bad it's good and comparisons to The Room, I actually think it is a legitimately well-realized game with a great story and characters whose reach massively exceeds its grasp often and yet is all the better for it.
The townspeople didn't need to have their own daily routines and York didn't need the ability to peek into nearly every house or building like a creep, but they do and you can. It's ambitious in a way that's still admirable, and the good and the bad aspects of it are so intertwined that they just become part of the same weird endearing experience that just exists outside any form of regular criticism. So far I'm really, really liking it.
I just hope I'm not completely burnt out by the time I finish it so that I can jump right into the second one. It looks great despite the framerate.
I'm finally playing though the original game (which I bought before the sale like a chump) and I already want to get this one. It's so inexplicably engaging, and unlike what I was led to believe by its reputation of being so bad it's good and comparisons to The Room, I actually think it is a legitimately well-realized game with a great story and characters whose reach massively exceeds its grasp often and yet is all the better for it.
The townspeople didn't need to have their own daily routines and York didn't need the ability to peek into nearly every house or building like a creep, but they do and you can. It's ambitious in a way that's still admirable, and the good and the bad aspects of it are so intertwined that they just become part of the same weird endearing experience that just exists outside any form of regular criticism. So far I'm really, really liking it.
I just hope I'm not completely burnt out by the time I finish it so that I can jump right into the second one. It looks great despite the framerate.
Apparently it's there in a story context (At least from what I heard from other people playing the game further than I have), but for what it's worth at least the first mention of the character in question (an NPC refers to them as "not a normal woman") York immediately chastises them for their prejudice.
Yeah, this lines up with what I heard from Jim Sterling's review but that it unfortunately gets worse from there. Still waiting and seeing, appreciate the response!
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if it's anything like the original, you can ignore the mission time frames and just do them the next day
Noo!
GameStop Ireland cancelled my pre-order today that I made months ago, apparently they won't be stocking the game(!).
No Irish retailers seem to be stocking the game actually.. I fear this game might have gotten silently banned by the Irish Ratings Board similar to other games like AI: Somnium Files. (pure speculation on my part).
UK importing the physical edition instead now. Man I was looking forward to this game so badly and GameStop as of yesterday was still taking pre-orders for the game. I want the physical copy.
GameStop Ireland cancelled my pre-order today that I made months ago, apparently they won't be stocking the game(!).
No Irish retailers seem to be stocking the game actually.. I fear this game might have gotten silently banned by the Irish Ratings Board similar to other games like AI: Somnium Files. (pure speculation on my part).
UK importing the physical edition instead now. Man I was looking forward to this game so badly and GameStop as of yesterday was still taking pre-orders for the game. I want the physical copy.
It's still available digitally in Ireland (unlike AI the Somnium files, which was very frustrating!) so I doubt it was banned. That is very odd though.
Edit: Swery loves you https://twitter.com/swery65/status/1281552263157178368?s=21
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Just got out of the hotel and walked around a bit. It's definitely Deadly Premonition! York is great as always, and his somewhat more upbeat vibes make him feel even more like Dale Cooper. Everyone in this town is weird as hell but Patty seems pretty cool. The intro with Aaliyah and all was also great. Raised SO MANY questions. Looking forward to seeing how it all shakes out.
I will say, I had one really strange soft lock before even leaving the hotel. I at one point had I guess two copies of the same cutscene running on top of each other. All the dialog was doubled and one man had another copy of himself inside him following his movements. When I loaded out of the cutscene the screen was black, though I could press A to hear York interact with things. Luckily there was an autosave at the end of the cutscene so it wasn't a big deal. Save frequently, folks!
I will say, I had one really strange soft lock before even leaving the hotel. I at one point had I guess two copies of the same cutscene running on top of each other. All the dialog was doubled and one man had another copy of himself inside him following his movements. When I loaded out of the cutscene the screen was black, though I could press A to hear York interact with things. Luckily there was an autosave at the end of the cutscene so it wasn't a big deal. Save frequently, folks!
Played a little bit more on my lunch break. The open areas are incredibly rough. Much worse than I remember the original being. It really needs to be patched.