I think I'm through with this game and I've barely even started it.

First off, I'm a giant pussy when it comes to scary things.  I like them, but I'm still a pussy.  Deadly Premonition has done a great job at making me nervous, part of that is because it did a good job at making those backwards walking things scary and second the controls are so bad I'm afraid I won't be able to kill them in time.

Before I go on, I quit Resident Evil 4 for mostly these same reasons.  I despised the controls on the Gamecube and I couldn't get past the first village for the longest time because it just didn't occur to me to sneak around and not run up the middle.

Anyways, Deadly Premonition is interesting but it pissed me off last night.  I got to a point where I found an infinite enemy spawner blocking me and a path (shortly before I did the fuse box puzzle).  I sat there and shot enemies for a few minutes and decided, yup, that's an infinite enemy spawner between me and where I want to go.  I thought perhaps that simply getting closer to the spawner would cause them to stop since getting close to these things is bad.

So I killed the enemy and booked it.  I heard another enemy spawning right by and decided getting close to it wasn't going to stop it.  I ran on and then saw the red barrier.  Noooooo!  I walked up close to it trying to put some distance between me and the enemy that just spawned and suddenly it goes into a cut scene and the enemy doesn't stop!

He finally stops talking and the enemy is right on top of me and starts thwacking me with a shovel.  I kill it and just run even though I hear another enemy spawning.  One more enemy spawns at the other side in what I assume is another infinite spawners, I quickly kill it with a barrel, and just fucking run.

I run down the path and all of sudden out of nowhere a damn quick time even happens that I of course just fail.  Shit.

Luckily, that doesn't appear to be game over right away and the thing with the Jawa eyes is on top of me and it tells me to shake the left stick back and forth which I do.  And then I die.

Fuck this game.

It's cool they wanted to copy as much as they could from RE4 but why did they have to take the worst parts and then make them even worse?

Quick time events out of nowhere suck but they suck even more when I do the action and I still die. 

And the controls are awful.  I'm scared in this game because the controls are so bad I just feel helpless.  I'm fine with them doing the RE4 thing but just aiming is so hard because the stick is so sensitive.!

Anyways, I died, restarted, and it sent me back a good ways so I turned the game off and said fuck it.  I don't think I'll be playing it again anytime soon.

I only read ''Fuck this game.''

That pretty much sums it up.

If there are two things that frustrate me to no end it's random unforgiving QTE's and terrible controls.

k boss.

lol u can tell its a bad game just from the reviews :P

haha...I want to play it even more now.

Control horror >>> actual in game horror.

All the truly scary games (Silent hill, resident evil) had control issues which made you feel a little helpless when fighting monsters. If you were Rambo and could use the chainsaw on their ass, it wouldn't be survival horror.

Will you sell me the game? I had one on hold at gamestop but the clowns sold it before I was ready to trade in AVP for it...

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/xbox360/deadlypremonition

Other than IGN...which are morons, I don't see these "bad reviews".

I only played RE4 on Wii, so I have to greatly disagree with your summation that its controls suck.

That's why I mentioned the Gamecube. 

Resident Evil 4 was brilliant on the Wii was brilliant.

And there are games I will suffer through bad controls and QTE's, Heavy Rain comes to mind, but these controls are just soooooo sensitive and you basically have to hump something for a prompt to come up and he puts his gun away every two seconds.  Blah, they're just terrible.

And then the random unforgiving QTE.  I failed the first one because random unforgiving quick time events just plain suck like that but then the fact I failed the second one even though I was doing it was just awful.

With something like Heavy Rain they may have failed miserbly on the controls but at least they handled Quick Time Events well so I can kind of forgive that game, but this game, fuck it.

Yeah, I played the Heavy Rain demo and simply hated the game due to its controls. Seemed to be a game only build around QTEs.