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New Alan Wake Trailer, coming May 2010
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CitizenCope
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Wow!
Looks like I'll be calling in sick on day one. Or should I wait to play this at night?
Looks like I'll be calling in sick on day one. Or should I wait to play this at night?
Klyka said:
No. If you compare it to more closed-world/corridor one-genre games, then perhaps yes. Contextually for a semi-sandbox/semi-openworld game like Alan Wake is, then they look just fine.
jj984jj said:Where those parts at the end all real-time?
Especially at 3:32. Wow.
AFAIK that looks like a part of a cutscene, not real-time gameplay.
What he means is that even if the game has a lineair structure, the core technology and environment are still open world. So if you are standing on a cliff you can see locales you are going to visit rendered real time all around. Places you are going to visit later in the game.Shurs said:
I think someone else already got dibs to do it (even official thread extraordinaire BruceLeeRoy wanted to take the job).miladesn said:I'll do it then, it will be up one week before the release date.
I know, because I almost wanted to make it myself
Also, holy shit at the new trailer!!!!
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Shurs said:
Oh, this doesn't need qualification, judging by that new trailer, it's definitely going to be one of the best looking games out there.
webcivilian
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Looks pretty good. Is there going to be a multiplayer too? I don't have Live Gold.
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canova said:
There are sledgehammers at the very least. Then again, I'm not sure if you'll be able to use them, maybe they're only for enemies.
webcivilian said:
No.
EagleEyes said:
I think the lighting looks great. The faces look ugly. The gameplay looks fine. The driving looks bad. The story seems okay. Everything else seems par for the course. It reminds me of a better looking, better playing, but less ambitious Alone in the Dark. To be clear, I'm sure the game will be vastly superior to Alone in the Dark.
It just seems like people are trying to make the game into something it might not be.
The new trailer is very cool. I preordered the limited edition at Gamestop last week. The clerk said he thought the game looked awesome, and he said he was trying to sell people on the game since not enough people had preordered yet. I nodded and took my receipt.
I still don't like how the flashlight is this hyperfocused beam. It looks like he is holding a lightning bolt.
I still don't like how the flashlight is this hyperfocused beam. It looks like he is holding a lightning bolt.
Shurs said:
Everyone has his opinion, every game has it's flaw, name one and I can think up of a flaw, which will immediately prompt you to defend it.
Oh and why waste your resources?? Why not? Most lineair games feel fragmented with their level design, it doesn't feel like you are part of a single world. Even if alan wake is lineair to make the thriller story more cinematic, at least it gives you the notion that you inhabit a real enviroment, a real town where every place in that town/world exists every moment you are playing.
So if you are in the woods and your objective is to reach the light tower. Imagine you follow a llineair closed of path in which you can only see what's in front of you and not the light tower, doesn't that destroy the purpose of the objective? You might as well call the objective, follow the lineair path. However if you let the player see the light tower waaay over in the distance, you give the objective more meaning and give the player a goal to reach it also gives the player a sense of progression.
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I feel the same way.Shurs said:
Moreso because, even with this new trailer, i still feel like i've not seen a lot of variety in the gameplay/environments - feels like i've been seeing the same stuff for year(s)
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Omg omg omg, awesome trailer!
Always-honest
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looks great. want to play.
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Shurs said:
You sound bitter. Same goes for some people in this thread.
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I like these new Red dead Rdemption-like trailers with the Discovery Channel-ish explanations. Works well
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Shurs said:
I beg to differ, I think they look great. However, there's something slightly off in the way they animate, just like in Heavy Rain. The uncanny valley rears its ugly head again - the closer you are to photo-realism, the more jarring the tiny imperfections.
That's interesting. How can you tell from the footage?
BlazingDarkness said:
That's because you have. They've been purposely shying away from showing a lot of daytime footage, and I don't think we've seen the New York flashbacks yet either (unless that Harry Garret Show video is a part of the game). But this new video finally gives you a glimpse of some previously unseen locations.
That said, Alan Wake is not a globetrotting adventure. I expect something akin to Silent Hill or Silent Hill 2 (or, indeed, Twin Peaks) as far as environmental diversity goes.
derFeef said:
That has to be live action or at least CG. We're not there yet.
metareferential said:
Love it.
Uhhh, not sure how I missed this. Longest month wait ever.
Anyhow besides going gold it's hitting Euroland on May 14th;
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3178689
Hypertrooper
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Amazing! I hope the story is good as they promised.