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Alan Wake - The First 12 Minutes (German)

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Is the texture that his right hand is hovering over supposed to be a rock or water?
 
slasher_thrasher21 said:
Got my tweed jacket and I'm fucking ready for Alan Wake :lol

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Oh my goodness.

Did you really just a post a pic of yourself? On NeoGAF?

May God have mercy on your soul. I hope the photoshoppers are gentle.
 
WickedLaharl said:
i would like to know this myself. i'm very tempted by the LE but next month is kinda crowded with releases so for me to fork over the extra cash the extras in this LE need to be substantial.

an audio disc and special casing isn't cutting it.
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Confirmed on the offical forums its a download from live into the game and it can be turned on/off

The thing is the LE is normal price £40 so im getting it anyway
 
There's six chapters. This is gonna be a very polarizing game in terms of reviews. I'm guessing 7 from Edge, 8.+ from IGN, much higher from more mainstream reviews places.
 
Hammer24 said:
You sure? Wouldn´t that mean, that the last episodes come after the game is out?
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*shrug* if you go to the website and hover over the episode tabs, it says the dates on them.
 
Opus Angelorum said:
Based on the large amount of very favourable previews and initial hands-on/impressions, this is is going to be far from polarizing.
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Many previews are generally overwhelming positive prior to release, but I haven't noticed any mention of a fatal flaw or anything of the like that should make the game polarizing within the confines of the genre...

I suppose riotpetaljaa has played it though
 
Opus Angelorum said:
Based on the large amount of very favourable previews and initial hands-on/impressions, this is is going to be far from polarizing.
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Isn´t RiotPelaaja working for a finnish game mag? I assumed he played a review copy.
 
Damn, I really hope they can deliver on The Lynch/King front. Not too much Lost hopefully.

Say what you want about Stephen King, but some of his older stuff is amazing. Especially if it is settled in Maine. Also can I have a new Lynch movie pls?
 
RiotPelaaja said:
There's six chapters. This is gonna be a very polarizing game in terms of reviews. I'm guessing 7 from Edge, 8.+ from IGN, much higher from more mainstream reviews places.
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So IGN isn't mainstream anymore, they usually rate everything much higher than everybody else say Gamespot for example.
 
RiotPelaaja said:
There's six chapters. This is gonna be a very polarizing game in terms of reviews. I'm guessing 7 from Edge, 8.+ from IGN, much higher from more mainstream reviews places.
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So, can you tell any impressions? Pelaaja's reviews are often in line with my own taste so I'm interested to know. :)
 
Alan Wake preview: a haunted man in an amazing game

By Ben Kuchera | Last updated about 18 hours ago

Alan Wake has a pretty good life, all things considered. He's a successful author, he has a beautiful wife, and his agent is just waiting for the next book. The problem is that for two years, Wake hasn't been able to write. The words simply aren't coming. So his wife has an idea: take a vacation to the small town of Bright Falls to get away from everything.

Alan Wake, an Xbox 360 exclusive from Remedy Entertainment, has been in production a very long time; usually not the best sign in this business. We have a retail, final copy of the game in our office, and I spent last night delving into the world of a writer whose imagination may be a little more powerful than he realized. We're allowed to talk about the first "episode" of the game, so let's dig into what makes this so impressive.

My name is Alan Wake, and I'm a writer
Wake feels like an actual person, which is a welcome change from the world of overgrown space marines. His relationship with his wife likewise looks and feels like an actual marriage. Bright Falls, with its hyper-detailed environment and realistically quirky inhabitants, complete with the with yearly "Deerfest" event coming up, feels like an actual place you might have driven past. While the voice acting can be rough in spots, overall it's much better written and acted than average. Yes, it's better than Heavy Rain, thank God.

Making an environment seem real is getting easier these days, but filling that environment with a sense of dread and foreboding is much harder. The game handles both light and dark sections with ease. Light is your weapon in Alan Wake, and things you encounter can be harmed by your flashlight... before you finish them off with your gun. The lesson is clear: the light is safe, while reality tends to slide away in the darkness.

What's impressive about the game is that the people you encounter seem like nice, down-to-Earth folks. It's a small town and everyone knows each other. But the game gives you the sense that they are not safe from whatever is going on.


So it was written
As the episode progresses you'll find the pages of a book, and you can read each one. At first they seem completely fictional, until what they describe begins to happen. The pages will come to you out of order; you'll sometimes read about the future, sometimes the past, and sometimes about things happening to other people far from you. It's a creepy mechanic to move the plot along. If something terrible happens to someone, that's bad enough, but to have to read about what they felt as if God were writing a novel? That's even worse.

Much has been made about Alan Wake being structured similar to a one-hour drama on television, but in practice the system works very well. You play through a section that seems to have a discrete beginning, middle, and end, and that tells a healthy chunk of the story. Afterwards, the camera pans back, you get a song to finish the section, and before the next one starts you are treated to a brief recap with the voice over soberly giving you the "Last time, on Alan Wake" line. The way the whole thing plays out, it's hard not to want to jump into the next episode; the first section ends with quite the reveal.

The game is rated Teen, which is an interesting move for what seems to be a horror game. Thankfully, the scares are mostly psychological, without gory violence or shocks to draw you into the game. This is a much more drawn out and uncomfortable sense of tension. The music likewise does a lot to increase the atmosphere, and the licensed tracks have obviously been picked with care.

The first episode only gives a hint at the game to come, and we'll have a full review as soon as we can. If this is the beginning, there's a lot to look forward to. Alan Wake is coming to the Xbox 360 exclusively on May 18.
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http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/04/alan-wake.ars

Opus Angelorum said:
Based on the large amount of very favourable previews and initial hands-on/impressions, this is is going to be far from polarizing.
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Pretty much, in fact it has been essentially universal praise from all the previews which is a rare thing indeed. Not changing my Meta guess. Anyhow we all get to find out review wise on Tuesday.

miladesn said:
So IGN isn't mainstream anymore, they usually rate everything much higher than everybody else say Gamespot for example.
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Aye, although I expect at least 9+ from them anyhow especially with that earlier tweet on the game.
 
SamuraiX- said:
Oh my goodness.

Did you really just a post a pic of yourself? On NeoGAF?

May God have mercy on your soul. I hope the photoshoppers are gentle.
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Honestly.. it amuses me more then anything, so by all means its cool!
 
RiotPelaaja said:
There's six chapters. This is gonna be a very polarizing game in terms of reviews. I'm guessing 7 from Edge, 8.+ from IGN, much higher from more mainstream reviews places.
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This word, I don't think it means what you think it means.

I would say that receiving scores in the range of 7-10 means that it is generally approved (especially since we know that Edge uses the whole range). Deadly Premonition is polarizing, receiving scores in the range of 0 - 10.
 
Shurs said:
What is it?
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Looks like a rock, though the rez of it looks lower than pretty much everything else in the screen for some reason.

You nitpick the shit out of other games like you do this one? I've seen a couple of UC2 screens that show some terrible textures in spots, you harp on them too?
 
ghostofsparta said:
just a guess. Edge likes giving 360 exclusives high reviews.
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What's this... a vision... it looks like an image from the future... of your GAF account:
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Seriously, I've seen it all happen before man. Edge, NPD's, E3 one day you'll snap.. SNAP and go crazy and shit and I'll be there to watch you go down in flames.

And then I'll salute you. Just like the others that came before.
 
At the risk of playing the graphics whore, I'm not apprehending the atmosphere, storytelling and gameplay mechanics of this game -since I KNOW Remedy must have accomplished an amazing job on these elements. AW being a GOTY contender is pretty much a given! What I'm eagerly waiting to discover is the layers and layers of eye-candy the title will offer...
By the way, are the events confined in the same small town or are we to visit some neighboring places ?
 
I have a feeling this will be one of the most successful true "episodic" franchises yet released.

If the game hooks you like everyone says, the future DLC episodes could actually make me feel like it would be worthwhile buying them.
 
I love how none here has played it yet some are criticizing certain reviews you don't agree with? How does that make any sense? It's quite common too, not talking about this game only.
 
LegendofJoe said:
Why in the heck are there so many console warriors in this thread? Go get hyped for Red Dead Redemption or something.
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A big exclusive game which by all accounts at this point is something special but hasn't delivered on some of the promises made by it's developers (see 720p).

Seems like the type of thread the lines would be drawn again.
 
Wow, I wasn't even trying to troll intentionally but I guess that's what happened.

Look at edges past scores and tell me they don't give 360 exclusives higher reviews.
BUT fuck it man I'm not trying to start a new page of wars.
 
mujun said:
A big exclusive game which by all accounts at this point is something special but hasn't delivered on some of the promises made by it's developers (see 720p).

Seems like the type of thread the lines would be drawn again.
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Yes, because 540p means the gameplay has been comprised. Alan Wake is fail guys. If the developers couldn't deliver on 720p for the sake of possible performance issues, all is lost. Cancel your preorders now. Matter of fact, just quit production. Alan Wake = flop.
 
ghostofsparta said:
Wow, I wasn't even trying to troll intentionally but I guess that's what happened.

Look at edges past scores and tell me they don't give 360 exclusives higher reviews.
BUT fuck it man I'm not trying to start a new page of wars.
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How about instead of you telling us to go look at scores, you provide the well researched documentation to support your warrant as opposed to making unjustified claims and just 'assume' that we should do the leg work for you? Maybe?

I would love to read a thread on your criticism of Edge's unfair review score reporting and how they are in the tank for Xbox 360 games. With an emphasis on actually quantifying it...
 
ghostofsparta said:
Wow, I wasn't even trying to troll intentionally but I guess that's what happened.

Look at edges past scores and tell me they don't give 360 exclusives higher reviews.
BUT fuck it man I'm not trying to start a new page of wars.
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Avatar.
 
RyanDG said:
How about instead of you telling us to go look at scores, you provide the well researched documentation to support your warrant as opposed to making unjustified claims and just 'assume' that we should do the leg work for you? Maybe?

I would love to read a thread on your criticism of Edge's unfair review score reporting and how they are in the tank for Xbox 360 games. With an emphasis on actually quantifying it...
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someone already did
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=17649155&postcount=503
 
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