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[chubigans]

Swery said not to expect it on other platforms.

Swery says lots of things.

 

[LurkerPrime]

Coffee with Forrest Kaysen. SWERY is a genius.

If I bought an Xbox One for a single game, it would be D4: gotta get that D, and avoid that cat girl.

 

[strafer]

that cat lady is kinda hot

 

[daydream]

Fuuuuuck, I really want to play D4.

 

[strafer]

okay, what the hell is this game

 

[LurkerPrime]

okay, what the hell is this game

Every fifteen minutes the weirdness doubles. It's exceptional, really.

 

[stump sock]

Swery says lots of things.

Isn't that right, Zach?

 

[strafer]

That....was.....an......amazing.....quick....loook....

 

[atomsk]

Took me about 6.5 hours to play through D4, and I still missed some stuff

Easily in my top 5 this year.

 

[LurkerPrime]

That....was.....an......amazing.....quick....loook....

Lol, you made me laugh so much I had to use my inhaler.

 

[Xater]

D4 looks like quirky fun but also like an abysmal video game.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

D4 looks like quirky fun but also like an abysmal video game.

Most of the reviews say that it's a legitimately good video game.

 

[LurkerPrime]

D4 looks like quirky fun but also like an abysmal video game.

SWERY's work is proof that some games transcend what they first appear to be. I think the Quick Look proved that.

 

[Xater]

Most of the reviews say that it's a legitimately good video game.

It doesn't look like anything i'd ever want to play, but just watch someone else play to see all the dumb stuff.

Nothing about the gameplay looked good to me.

 

[Myggen]

D4 looks like quirky fun but also like an abysmal video game.

The gameplay looks like a David Cage game done right to me.

 

[Zaph]

And the XONE has just had a UK price drop too... Shame it would probably be kinectless.

 

[Jamie OD]

What in the fuck did I just watch? This is so beyond what Suda 51 does.

 

[John Kowalski]

goddamnit patrick just read the damn manual for once

 

[Data West]

Hard times is when Seifer Almasy has to work a second job as a Steward.

 

[LurkerPrime]

Hard times is when Seifer Almasy has to work a second job as a Steward.

I got real Eric Northman vibes from that fellow, complete with true real blood.

 

[daydream]

What in the fuck did I just watch? This is so beyond what Suda 51 does.

Suda's been part of the establishment for years now, Swery's where it's at.

 

[Myggen]

Suda's been part of the establishment for years now, Swery's where it's at.

I was highly dissapointed by Killer is Dead, but Let it Die at least looks...interesting.

 

[bonercop]

It doesn't look like anything i'd ever want to play, but just watch someone else play to see all the dumb stuff.

Nothing about the gameplay looked good to me.

Have you ever played one of those telltale adventure games? I'd say D4 looked pretty comparable to those. Maybe that kind of game just isn't your cup of tea.

 

[so1337]

I was highly dissapointed by Killer is Dead, but Let it Die at least looks...interesting.

I still cry myself to sleep every night because Lily Bergamo turned into that.

 

[daydream]

Wonder what bug bit Alex in the second half of the D4 QL? He seemed a bit annoyed, skipping a lot of stuff, saying "I don't care" a bunch. :S

Maybe the controls had worn him down.

Edit: Oh, he seems back on board.

 

[Fattony12000]

I have two Metal Gear Scanlons to watch right now.

 

[Twin Tails]

the clam chowder scene in the quick look was nothing. Shit gets weird.
Also D4 is fing awesome

 

[daydream]

I adore detective games so this would be GOTY material for me if I could only play it somehow.

 

[GavinGT]

Fucking Alex turning off Kinect right before the best fight sequence in the game.

 

[stump sock]

the clam chowder scene in the quick look was nothing. Shit gets weird.
Also D4 is fing awesome

what the FUCK

Swery is achieving his goal of being the David Lynch of video games...

 

[Zero-Crescent]

the clam chowder scene in the quick look was nothing. Shit gets weird.
Also D4 is fing awesome

Wat... Wat...

GOTY

 

[Incandenza]

the clam chowder scene in the quick look was nothing. Shit gets weird.
Also D4 is fing awesome

I've been to Boston and it was pretty much just like this.

 

[strafer]

gotta love that cleavage

>.<

 

[Lijik]

the clam chowder scene in the quick look was nothing. Shit gets weird.
Also D4 is fing awesome

Ive played through a ton of horror games and there has been NOTHING as unsettling as watching Forrest eat food lmao

 

[Aaron]

David's accent is insane. It's the product of aliens.

 

[brianmcdoogle]

the clam chowder scene in the quick look was nothing. Shit gets weird.
Also D4 is fing awesome

For what it's worth, the thing with the knife/fork and the hotdogs is from an old Charlie Chaplin bit in The Gold Rush (I think that's the movie). The other hotdogs the heavy guy eats may refer to Orson Welles and Pink's hotdogs, which does serve hotdogs like that, and Welles used to sit in a car and, supposedly, have have someone order a dozen or so just for him, served on a silver tray which he would then eat in the car.

 

[giant_frying_pan]

the clam chowder scene in the quick look was nothing. Shit gets weird.
Also D4 is fing awesome

Spoiler

More games need Charlie Chaplin homages.

 

[Hot Coldman]

the clam chowder scene in the quick look was nothing. Shit gets weird.
Also D4 is fing awesome

I feel sick.

 

[Keyser Soze]

I'll buy an Xbox One later in the year. Have many Games with Goals redeemed (still, use Gold on Xbox 360), so it would be rude not to. D4 will be my first actual buy

 

[EmCeeGramr]

the clam chowder scene in the quick look was nothing. Shit gets weird.
Also D4 is fing awesome

oh my god



also on the subject of reusing names: "Forrest Kaysen" was also in Spy Fiction, SWERY's Hitman-meets-Metal Gear Solid weirdo hybrid game. There he was a scientist who looked like a knockoff of Dennis Nedry. Big dudes with glasses named Forrest Kaysen is just his thing, I guess.

Also David Young is also a sort of reference: when Deadly Premonition/Red Seeds Profile was first announced, it was called Rainy Woods and bore an even bigger resemblance to Twin Peaks than the final game (ie instead of the twin boys in the red forest, it outright had twin little people in a red room). York and Zach didn't exist either; the main character had a different character model and name: David Young Henning, with his "friend" Jeter.

 

[Twin Tails]

Also weird cat girl super weird/awesome scene

Fucking Alex turning off Kinect right before the best fight sequence in the game.

yeah i was like noo. I found the action scenes to be wayy better w/ kinect.

 

[Hot Coldman]

but remember: SWERY has never seen Twin Peaks

never

 

[jgminto]

The fact that Swery uses digital actors like Forrest Kaysen and the General makes the choice of D4 a kind of funny name since D and D2 also used the concept of a digital actress with the main heroine.

 

[daydream]

Also weird cat girl super weird/awesome scene .

Awesome, lol.

I need a soundtrack release ASAP.

 

[LurkerPrime]

Also weird cat girl super weird/awesome scene

Well... you're not wrong.

oh my god



also on the subject of reusing names: "Forrest Kaysen" was also in Spy Fiction, SWERY's Hitman-meets-Metal Gear Solid weirdo hybrid game. There he was a scientist who looked like a knockoff of Dennis Nedry. Big dudes with glasses named Forrest Kaysen is just his thing, I guess.

Also David Young is also a sort of reference: when Deadly Premonition/Red Seeds Profile was first announced, it was called Rainy Woods and bore an even bigger resemblance to Twin Peaks than the final game (ie instead of the twin boys in the red forest, it outright had twin little people in a red room). York and Zach didn't exist either; the main character had a different character model and name: David Young Henning, with his "friend" Jeter.

Very interesting.

I'm happy there's someone as Lynchian as SWERY out there making games. The world needs more Lynch.

 

[Myggen]

I just love that there's people like SWERY making games out there. He just goes all out every time he makes a game.

Also, the QL reminded me of this legendary GB video.

edit: SWERY said on Twitter that they're releasing a soundtrack of this game. Need to get that, the soundtrack seems incredible.

I am trying to figure out of D4 is a game Jeff would love or hate.

Seems like the right amount of stupid/weird for him to enjoy, without the gameplay of DP that made him not like that game that much.

 

[Keyser Soze]

I am trying to figure out of D4 is a game Jeff would love or hate.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

The fact that Swery uses digital actors like Forrest Kaysen and the General makes the choice of D4 a kind of funny name since D and D2 also used the concept of a digital actress with the main heroine.

Oh yeah, General Lysander.

In Deadly Premonition he's just a grumpy old war vet who sells you cars and sits like a champ, but in Spy Fiction he's literally just a grumpier Revolver Ocelot.

That means that he must be somewhere in D4 as well.

 

[TheTylerRob]

I am trying to figure out of D4 is a game Jeff would love or hate.

It's not old so hate

 

[jgminto]

I need to get Spy Fiction, it's the only game Swery was lead designer/writer on that I don't own.