8 Games We Love Even Though They SUCK

1. Deadly Premonition

Deadly Premonition
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And finally we have Deadly Premonition, perhaps the Hall of Fame example of a game that's close to "objectively" terrible in so many ways, and yet still won the hearts of so many through sheer, steamrolling charm.

Even when this barmy slice of Lynchian open-world survival horror dropped in 2010, its gameplay and aesthetics already felt wildly behind the times, unaided by maddeningly clunky controls and ridiculously iffy dialogue and voice acting.

Deadly Premonition's gunplay and driving feel genuinely awful, and yet, the game's story is so disarmingly strange, its characters so memorably off-kilter, that it adds up to a surreal stew that's far more than the sum of its parts.

Often dubbed Twin Peaks in video game form, Deadly Premonition is a game whose extremely rough, bumpy edges are very much part of the deal, and yet the overarching tone and atmosphere have a tendency to grow on folk over time.

 
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