Deadly Premonition: Director's Cut

My understanding is that this is a very unique, worthwhile game. I would dearly love to play it! From what I've been able to see, it looks super interesting. But after 12 in game hours of tweaking, reinstalling, patching, etc - I cannot get the game to work. I've never worked harder to have less fun. I don't understand how this can still be offered for sale. Whoever is responsible for this mess should be ashamed! It crashes constantly. It’s just shockingly bad. I have no words. And it’s not as though I lack the skills needed to manage a computer game. I’m very savvy. It’s just that this game is too broken. Buyer beware. Even after installing community patches, manually backing up save games, using every combination of compatibility / administrator modes, installing on different hardware, there are parts of this game that you simply cannot progress past. I’m very disappointed and frustrated.

While playing this one must ask, wherther the developers deliberately want the PC community to hate this game. No native HD resolution (fixed by Durante 1 day after release), no Gamepad support, jaggy edges and texture shimmering beyond belief, crashes galore (usually means losing 30 minutes or more or playtime). The game even crashes while loading the save file, and since you have only one file to save on, this can mean that you have to start over the whole game, just because it will not load your game at all without crashing. The list could go on forever, I don't know what the developers, especially the Q&A people were thinking while greenlighting this. It's a completely broken product as of now. Very annoying stuff. You'd do best to avoid this, untill at least the most game breaking glitches are patched, or you'll most probably end up as frustrated as I am, since underneath it all lies a very interesting and unique game, which is definitely worth playing. Think Twin Peaks with a Japanese twist for the obscure. I didn't heed the warnings and bought this early. Don't make the same mistake! Wait for someone to fix this first, since as of now, this game is next to unplayable and should not have been released in this state.

I was told that the game had been patched, fixing the previous crashing and control problems. I was misled. The game STILL didn't recognize my xbox controller, and STILL crashed whenever I tried to enter a door. Still richly deserving of being called the single worst port job of all time. SHAME ON YOU RISING STAR GAMES!

It is the most unstable and unfinished piece of sh*t i've ever played. You won't be able to finish it unless you tweak endlessly, switch compatibility modes, restart it very often etc etc.. And i'm very used to do all that kind of stuff, and i usually don't complain. It's really a shame because the game is quite good (although not that good). There are some good ideas, and for a very short amount of time, you really feel you're a FBI agent in a redneck city trying to solve a murder case. Don't waste your money, watch a playthrough on youtube, or get it on console. This is really unplayable. Shame on the developers. And also a little on GOG for having such garbage in their calalog.