Baconsammy
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A-freaking-men. The idea that Microsoft somehow fucked Remedy is hilarious.
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Alan Wake 2 to be revealed this year!?
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A-freaking-men. The idea that Microsoft somehow fucked Remedy is hilarious.
Ultra lol what is that from?
funkystudent
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If its more AW I hope they do something drastic with it.
The combat really isn't this series strength, they need to have more stuff outside of combat.
The combat really isn't this series strength, they need to have more stuff outside of combat.
American Nightmare
Baconsammy
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I just could see in the map design where encounters would happen (almost on the exact spot). And them jumping on you was maybe interesting the first few times. Like most scary movies, AW just a lot of cheap scares as well. Too repetitive.
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Like many other games, it started out as a game for "PC and next gen consoles" looking for a publisher. "Moneyhats" was Remedy finding the said publisher in Microsoft.
Yes, the demo featured a tornado. It's still in the game, although not in the same sequence (obviously, since that was just a tech demo).
It would be very interesting to see what the initially envisioned open-world version would end up being like, although I doubt that game could provide the same sense of pacing and atmosphere as the final product. You should really give it a try, it's available for chips now, and it's loads of fun.
shinobi602
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Do the DLCs take place after the game or during it?
Q
Queen of Hunting
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i think this is one of those games where its highly possible or infact should be that the sequel is better in everyway
Immediately after the end of AW1.
all of them take place after the game. but everything you need to know to "get" the story is in the main game. the dlc just makes it a bit clearer for people that didnt bother to read the manuscripts.
Baconsammy
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After, and The Writer is great.
In the art book Remedy actually talks about how they switched from the open world stuff themselves because they couldn't figure out what kind of structure they wanted the game to have. That seemed to be one reason while the game was taking so long in the beginning, that they were creating all of this open world content but couldn't find a way to tie it together.
There were some strange cut missions. There was a UFO encounter in there at one point.
I liked Alan Wakes combat a lot. It felt er, 'punchy' like all of my shots had impact and I never got tired of the slow motion kills. It made me think that they still had it.
There were some strange cut missions. There was a UFO encounter in there at one point.
I liked Alan Wakes combat a lot. It felt er, 'punchy' like all of my shots had impact and I never got tired of the slow motion kills. It made me think that they still had it.
shinobi602
Member
I haven't played AW in over a year probably but...correct me if I'm wrong, didn't he
die at the end?
Does it? I played it all and felt It adds significant amounts of story not mentioned in the manuscripts and sets up American Nightmare and Alan Wake 2.
No.
blindrocket
Member
I did actually purchase it from Steam on sale and look forward to playing it.
Sentenza
Member
This narrative ignores entirely the fact that Microsoft -you know, those who make Windows, among the other things- actively asked to Remedy to ditch the PC version.
Also, "letting them release the game on PC not long after its initial Xbox 360 release" is actually almost two years later, after the game sold quite poorly, losing for them most of its financial appeal as exclusive.
of course it takes the story furthe (and adds something)r. but i remember a lot of people complaining that the story in aw 1 didnt make sense without the dlc.
anyway, the second dlc was fantastic. i hope they add more gameplay elements in aw 2. if alan wake is able to write/influence his story, he should get more (ingame) powers to do so.
I disagree too. Alan Wake is one of the less predictable games when it comes to enemy placement I've played. There are some scripted enemies, but a lot of the times the placement was dynamic. Even if you died and restarted the game, some enemies would appear in other places, or not appear at all.
Quicksilver4648
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There is nothing else really to say other than this is great news and I hope these hints really do mean Alan Wake 2 is not only in production but will be getting closer to release. I am not sure if it would be a "must have" launch title (assuming Durango releases this year) compared to something else but I am certainly excited.
dinosaur_hunter2
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Pretty much thisAlan Wake 2?
Raven77
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Soon-to-be-confirmed:
- Xbox 720 Launch Title
- Multiplayer
- Easy Mode to help new players Featuring: auto-aim, objectives highlighted with a glowing trail showing you where to go to avoid the player getting frustrated, and a skip option for sections of the game that are just too hard
- City / Urban setting
- Working in a squad with 2-3 NPC's
I wouldn't exactly label almost two years as "not long".
Glass Rebel
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Technically speaking Alan Wake was phenomenal on PC. One of the prettiest and most atmospheric games in recent memory and I greatly enjoyed most of my Nightmare playthrough and I'm slowly working my way through the DLC which is refreshingly different and has a very cool narrative.
Yet I really hope they improve the combat a lot in the sequel and add some more day time activities. It's definitely not the kind of game I can play too much at a time like the Max Payne games which I finish in 2-3 sittings. I heard American Nightmare has much better combat so they probably only need to do the latter.
Yet I really hope they improve the combat a lot in the sequel and add some more day time activities. It's definitely not the kind of game I can play too much at a time like the Max Payne games which I finish in 2-3 sittings. I heard American Nightmare has much better combat so they probably only need to do the latter.
SolarPowered
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This needs to be next gen bad.
so bad
so bad
American Nightmare has better enemy variety but the combat itself remains unchanged.
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Sorry, I was wrong, my memory of it was clouded by the fact that American Nightmare came out on PC mere months after the XBLA game. Still, it did release on PC, which is something that wouldn't have happened had Sony or Nintendo (or possibly even someone like Konami) gotten hold of the publishing rights.
I really liked the combat, I didn't find it any less repetitive than what they gave us in their Max Payne games. I finished it in just a few sittings, but I have to admit that the main driving factor has been the game's incredible atmosphere.
daemissary
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I hope they saw the success of the Walking Dead and go truly episodic with a compilation disc released afterwards.
Vulcano's assistant
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I haven't finish American Nightmare, but so far I think that the DLC for the first game is the high point of the franchise.
HoodWinked
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new IP pls
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I doubt they've grown enough to be able to handle two games at once, and abandoning Alan Wake this soon would be a terrible waste of potential.
It's still the same basic concepts, but there are a lot of little tweaks that change the flow of combat, and really improve the way it plays. For example, Wake's flashlight only burns off the darkness when you "ADS" now. He feels more responsive to control, there's a much larger weapon variety, a stronger focus on actually shooting enemies to finish them off instead of relying on flares, and way more enemies on-screen swarming you at any one time. It makes Wake seem more powerful during combat than he was in the first game, where all the fighting became tiresome. I've played the arcade mode in American Nightmare almost endlessly this year, it's some of the best money I've ever spent on XBLA.
rosaceadude2112
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Please be something unrelated to Alan Wake.
Bad idea. Remedy is a small(ish) studio, they should build on what they have, like they did with MP2.
rosaceadude2112
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I don't care if it's a bad idea for them, it's a good idea for me since I hate Alan Wake with a passion.
Opus Angelorum
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If the Xbox 720 is being releases in 2013, it will absolutely be at launch.
You mean that ancient dark fantasy game?
Or you mean the open-world PC version (that's still running on the Xbox--iirc, the Digital Foundry stuff said it's rendering a ton of shit that's hidden behind mountains, those last vestiges of the open world)?
Microsoft didn't ruin Alan Wake, Remedy changed it because it doesn't make any sense to have an open world game built around chasing someone. Players would want to screw around, rather than actually hunting for Alice.
The problem with Alan Wake was that they didn't set up Alice as someone to be cared about all that much, so wanting to rescue her was never really foremost in the player's minds. This created a disconnect between audience and game. While Alan Wake is amazing, that one bit of assumed empathy really hurt player engagement.
The people who talk about how repetitive it is confuse me. The game's constantly in different locations with different environments (what you have to keep track of in a 3D space). Yes, there are trees and mountains, but they're presented in different contexts each time. The park full of bear traps is not the lumberyard, which is not the Farm, which is not the chase through the woods, etc.
I've yet to experience better third-person combat than that seen in Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Doctor Decimate
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can't wait to see the next-gen forest and the......
....i said forest already, right?
....i said forest already, right?