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Alan Wake was an okay game.

It's as 5/10 as you can get. Boring shooting, boring premise, boring levels and man is there little reason to care about anything.

>>16114434

It's fun. Excellent atmosphere - haven't seen the rural PNW done so accurately. Story is pretty good. There are some spooky moments, but I'd barely call it horror in any way. Worth a playthrough if you think you'd like it.

It tries to be both humorously self aware and spooky and neither works.

Spooky it is not, but it's inoffensive as far as gameplay goes. It's pretty much just porn for writers though, so you pretty much have to write at least a few short stories to enjoy it fully.

>>16114434

Light mechanics were great, shooting and most of the puzzles weren't, it's a pretty damn shame they limited themselves to adhering to the episodic bullshit for Xbox Arcade and this was Remedy trying to be more like the movies and television, their fucking downfall when they were trying so fucking hard. Great music though.

I like it.

Actually just played and beat this last week. Was pretty fun. Not groundbreaking but for the most part solid all around. Light mechanics are really good. Just minor issues with some platforming. To me there wasn't really much horror. Had some elements but more psychological thriller than horror.

It captures the atmosphere of the PNW nearly perfectly.

There's the rolling hills and farms of Eastern Washington, the ferries and shores of the coast and rivers, and the thick forests west of the cascades.

There were times in game that I could go outside irl and hear the exact same shit.

It was completely average otherwise. Worth the play.

It was okay, fun to play through though the mechanics were neither great nor deep. Solidly mediocre gameplay but with nice setpieces and atmosphere.

It's about as scary as FEAR was in most of the same ways, if you want a comparison.

What really annoyed me was how the game showers you in ammo and health right before each boss fight, so you always knew when a boss was coming up.

Some call it Twin Peaks: The Game.

Haven't the tv show myself nor do I plan to, but I can tell you that the game isn't spoopy at all. Just overly atmospheric.

it was a whatever game, the plot wasokay and the gameplay was serviceable. You really aren't missing out on this unless you really like that twin peaks aesthetic.

>>16114434

It's an okay game, it starts up pretty interesting but the overall story is confusing and badly told. The combat is a little bit irritating and repetitive. I actually enjoyed Alan wake's American Nightmare way more and wish they had kept putting those out like episodes as they originally planned. The combat felt better and more flushed out and the storyline was simplified but still interesting.

>>16114607

> Twin Peaks the game.

I think that title should fall to Deadly Premonition, even with all of its problems I think Deadly Premonition pulled off the weird spooky and kooky atmosphere that Twin Peaks could have been if it hadn't been so focused on trying to ape an irritating soap opera. Funny thing though Twin Peaks was extremely popular in Japan, you can find some old news stories on YouTube about it.

it has it's flaws, but you don't really play a remedy game for the mechanics etc. anyway. GOAT atmosphere and details if you're into into, if you liked that shit in max payne you'll like it in alan wake

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjY1WDz8TpI

>>16114434

It's not that good. The gameplay also revolves around a light mechanic where enemies can only be killed after shining a flashlight at them for a certain duration, which is an interesting concept from a lore perspective but serves no gameplay purpose other than to make each fight twice as tedious. It doesn't help that they massively increased the number of enemies during development without proportionally increasing the player's ammo reserves or gun damage, so combat generally ends up being 50% flashlight-kiting, 40% sprinting from ammo pickup to ammo pickup and 10% actually killing things.

The one redeeming element is the writing, which is generally excellent (aside from the last hour or two, when the plot just goes completely off the rails).

The sequel fixes most of the gameplay issues, but the writing gets fanfic-tier at times and you spend about half the game revisiting the same few areas.

Overall I'd say the first game is a 6/10, second game is a 7/10. Might be worth a pirate, but I wouldn't pay money for either.

The shooting will wear out its welcome by the time you get to the end of the game and the platforming sections are a special kind of bad, but for a while it’s fun. The characters, story, ost, and atmosphere are pretty damn good and will keep you going till the end, it’s a decent game especially if you’re a fan of Twin Peaks.

Fun but definitely a product of it's time; more of a thriller than horror.

It's okay. American Nightmare too. Quantum Break on the other hand is pretty awful, gameplay isn't fun and the story is pozzed to hell.

>>16114848

I thought they did a good job mixing up the shooting/ flashlight mechanics with the occasional co-op npc parts. It was a lot more different than other shooter games I played. But yeah, I agree with all your other points

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Also side note OP, Alan Wake can't run for shit and that makes sense because he's a pussy ass writer lmao. Use it for dodging.

>>16114832

you know what I mean. you play it for the whole package, not because it has the best third person combat on the planet.

>>16114923

Max Payne 1 & 2 certainly were played mainly for the gameplay.

>>16114434

You're better off playing Evil Within 2

>>16114434

I enjoyed it. Doesn't overstay its welcome. Story is neat. Gameplay is mediocre as fuck but serviceable. It's not spooky at all. American Nightmare was dog shit though.

>>16114651

The problem with twin peaks is that Lynch almost seemed to use the murder case as a means to explore everyone's weirdness without really coming to a conclusion. It didn't help that it ended on a really dumb cliffhanger due to people losing interest. Ive only watched one episode of the newer series

DP at least has a satisfying conclusion, while still managing to advance the story.

its fucking great

did something new in third person - light, its major gameplay mechanic and somehow manages to be something really unique and great, event thou you wouldnt believe that unless you tried it because its sounds like no big deal

I enjoyed the game greatly despite its flaws. I dont recall much of the story but I do recall the rockstars

It’s a great game. Don’t listen to gamer bois and their pretentious cuntery

>>16115239

Executive meddling, instead of organically letting the show go along with it's own pace, they said to Lynch that he needs to reveal the murderer by the second season, completely fucking up the main premise and appeal of a "MYSTERY" show.

>>16114434

I hated the ending.

As a fins love letter to twin peaks and stephen king its an atmospheric, fun ride.

As a game even on its hardest setting its a very, very easy shooter with little difficulty.

>>16115239

The new series is great for a fan of lynch but its lynchs 18 hour thesis statement on societies regression and demand for remakes/revivals as new art is dead. the ending is literally cooper travelling back in time to the start of it all and standing in the middle of a road screaming 'WHAT YEAR IS IT?!?' so its not quite subtle so while its cynical and bitter and intentionally designed to piss people off who just wanted season 1 all over again at the same time its still the best television made in this century thus far.

>>16114434

I really liked it when i played it, but that was like 8 years ago, no idea if it stills holds up

It's pretty broken, either you run out of ammo or the floating flailing objects instakill you.

Its sad the soundtrack is what pulled alan wake frm sale, anyone know which particular licence they lost to fuck them over? I have most of the albums on the OST downloaded now

>>16115530

>The estate of the guy that sang 'in dreams'.

>>16115407

It wasn't bad, but it wasn't great even on it's own merits (certainly nothing close to the original), and I'll admit if that is really the intended subtext of the final episode I missed it, I just thought it was some randumb shit like everything in the lodge.

I get it, remakes are tiresome and uncreative, but this wasn't a remake, it was supposed to be a continuation that finished the unfortunately unfinished story of twin peaks and sewed up loose ends. Instead we got a completely different (and totally inferior, be serious) show that opened up a dozen loose ends for every one it addressed, while ignoring most of the central plotlines that fans wanted resolved. Yeah, maybe steak for dinner's a little boring or uninspired, but if you send someone chicken curry shit instead because what they want "stifles your creativity", don't expect a pat on the back.

>>16114651

Being a finely crafted and well-acted version of a soap opera is what made twin peaks great, I only wish the newer series had the focus or plot consistency of a low-quality soap. Whenever Lynch could pull his head out of his ass and be bothered to advance the main plot the show was watchable.

Can we talk about how fucking retarded the book pages were? Spoiling what is just about to happen with some fucking internal monologue? Because that still bothers the fuck out of me.

>>16114434

I tried it out a few years ago and I thought it looked nice but the main character is extremely unlikable at the beginning– maybe he gets better perhaps. I plan to play it as soon as I am done a couple other backlog games. It was spooky to some degree but I took away the background environment as very good.

>>16114453

PNW? thought this was in the northern east coast, like Maine?

>>16115085

so what about max payne 3 then?

>>16115813

do it!

>>16115407

I can’t remember if Lynch or Frost said it, but the ending was pretty definitive. Basically, Cooper lost but Judy didn’t win. It was a stalemate to basically keep a balance on good and evil.

Still, trapping a light hearted character like Cooper in an alternate dimension away from his friends is a sad way to end the show.

>>16114440

>boring premise

The premise is awesome. The game might suck, but the idea doesn't.

>>16114434

I know you're banned for saying "Alan Wake" in the chat of Just Cause 2 Multiplayer, so there's that.

too repetitive, dropped it fast

>>16116319

better than the original plan of driving backwards in cornfields forever like a bad sliders episode but at least that explained all the cream corn shit in season 2.

>>16114434

ithe meh

I think it's better than Max Payne 2. It was the last Remedy game that felt original in that loveable, campy way of theirs. But jesus, what it was originally going to be before they went to Microsoft. It was going to be a landmark title in graphics, weather effects, lighting, open world concept of horror. That's what makes me dislike it - thinking about what it could have been. The best parts of the game are the few moments you have free reign between large swathes of land in the daytime, imagine how it could have felt if the full game was designed around this in the end.

Unfortunately Remedy is cucked and dead now.

>>16116695

>open world concept of horror.

except that had nothing to do with ms, emphasis on story and open world is shit, especially for horror. any hint of urgency, danger or even pacing goes completely out of the window when you can just dick around doing sidequests or exploration.

I had a really good time with this game.

Story was good, gameplay was fun with the light mechanics and overall not bad to relax to.

>>16116730

How do you know when we've never seen the end product of that design? To me it was the most unnerving part, and the open world meant like Soul Reaver, a seamless gigantic area, not that there would've been sidequests, just that there wouldn't have been the quite retarded TV show episode concept.

>>16116730

I wrote a paper on the game back in university and it took a bit of digging to get the full story going back to 2004 but they couldn't get the engine to do more in a dynamic setting than what they showed at a Intel trade show and they scrapped the open world purely because side quests and not reaching the right area at the right time didn't flow with their 'cinematic acton' studio ethos. For years people thought it was simply cut down for the episodic meme under microsofts direction but they simply couldn't get the open world running on an xbox 360 or PC back in 2004 and by 2007 scrapped most of it and restarted entirely. Hence the stuff about the raincoat killers was removed entirely.

and ripped off for deadly premonition.

>>16116730

>>16116756

I apologize then if this is the real story. Still I want to wonder how it would've worked as the original concept.

>>16116769

I used to fantasise about it too till the aforementioned digging. Theres not a lot of evidence of it to be found but there was a period where it included big floating arrows in the corner of the screen to direct the player and they had to try and maintain every character was a unique character with a timetable and they said they couldn't do that without resorting to padding the towns with duplicated models which back in the days of Dead Rising meant like the same 5-6 townsfolk repeated over and over while the retail version manages to go the entire game with only repeating the taken character models and every person is a unique npc.

>>16116399

That describes Stephen King's books as well.

the game is about a book author so it made me think of king

I just started this and got up to the start of episode 3. Gotta say that I want to like it but the actual gameplay is pretty boring because all you do is run around in the woods and the enemies are more annoying than scary. I don't really get why you have to lose everything you're carrying when an episode ends. The atmosphere and milieu are great, but the run around the dark forest parts outweigh the daytime parts so goddamn much that I tend to question if the good is good enough. I also wish that the dodge button wasn't the same as the sprint button. As for the story, I think it blew its' load way too early.

[spoiler]The whole finding manuscript pages foretelling the future and forming reality by the influence of some otherworldly evil being feels like a straight ripoff of In the Mouth of Madness.

I haven't played it through yet but I'm guessing the previous writer from 1970 found an ancient evil while he was diving and it somehow managed to influence his writing to become true while feeding him ideas in the form of his girlfriend/wife. He caught on to the fact that the evil being was trying to break free from hell or wherever and resisted by writing himself out of existence and destroying his home and the artifact or whatever in a volcanic eruption. [/spoiler]

I wish Alan Wake and Deadly Premonition could have some kind of superbaby that would have decent looking graphics, the open world town with sidequests, time to get to know the area, some good writing and characters with some quirky and actual serious stuff mixed in and some good gameplay with maybe more of a puzzle/survival horror focus.

>>16136486

Hi Halfchan.

>>16136486

The only plot point you didn't guess is the ending, which involves one of the most retarded deus ex machinas I've ever seen.

>run through the woods

>run through abandoned barns

>repeat 200 times

>>16114607

>Some call it Twin Peaks: The Game.

Obviously both Alan Wake and Deadly Premonition >>16114651 mimic Twin Peaks, but the former devolves into a stupid action game rather than upping the surreal comedy.

>>16136526

I've been up all night and I hardly ever post pls no bully.

>>16136533

Now I'm not sure if I even want to play it anymore.

I CLOSE MY EEEYEEEES

It's not Stephen King: The Game because the game is actually well-written and doesn't have any christian characters that are just one bad day away from murdering the good guys in some kind of ritualistic sacrifice.

>>16115727

I didn't think I could find a dumber person than me, but you get that prize, congratulations.

I generally enjoyed it my first time through but haven't been able to make myself stick with another playthrough. There's a little max payne easter egg somewhere which was pretty cool to stumble onto at a time when I purposely didn't know anything about the upcoming 3rd game.

its trash, the Max Payne studio died for this shit and that diahreah that was Quantum Break

A.Wake.

Geddit.

He woke.

Too much of a corridor shooter to my liking. Thanks, consoles.

>>16118667

Alan literally quotes King in the opening CGI sequence, so you're definitely justified. Hell, the story is set in a Northern coastal town (not Maine, but I'd hazard a guess that Washington isn't all that different).

If you're aware of the anti-white agenda, then it's definitely a bit of a struggle getting through King's books (I'm trying to get through The Gunslinger and it was going great up until I got to the bit about the kid stuck in a time warp, and his back story references how his well-to-do father is skeptical of the poor oppressed niggers.

To your point, King's books have absolutely genius premises tainted by shitlib nonsense. It truly is a tragedy.

It's fucking lame.

>>16141254

What the fuck is going on with her eyes?

>>16136582

Just play it, you'll still have fun.

>>16116274

MP3 is a rockstar "game".

>>16164880

It's from http://thispersondoesnotexist.com

>>16138967

Quantum Break was so terrible.

>cutscene

>cutscene

>walk and talk sequence

>5min gameplay

>cutscene

>TV EPISODE

>cutscene

>walk and talk sequence

>5min gameplay

repeated ad naseum