Alan Wake 2 was kino. and a real honest to God survival horror game made by an AAA dev team.
I thought the west couldn't make big budget horror games anymore but Alan Wake 2 proved me wrong.
Alan Wake 2 will be a better Silent Hill game than any of the upcoming shit piles slapped with the SH brand on them.
It's GOTY for me. Amazing game. Hope it won't take a decade for the final chapter.
>The horror story falsely claiming >Naming you servant of the night >Now rise up by the name I'm calling >Your soul returning to the light
Yeah I think KINO GOTY
do you think no one has anything positive to say about this game? how close minded are you? I hate black people too but that's because they smell like cocoa butter 24/7 and act in real life, neither of which are in this game. Quit being a doomer
I can’t help but notice you didn’t deny it. Also you out yourself by not saying nagger. Go back.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
lol, LMAO that's a schizoid response anon
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
You do it for free? That’s sad man, why not just become a janny?
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
my mother taught me not to curse so saying anything too explicit is unnatural to me, I'm not trying to be a poser, but you're really acting like a nagger yourself. Post more handwaving memes because you have nothing substantial to say. people like the game, sorry!
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Nice Reddit post upvoted
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>handwaving memes
easily predicted. You have become the npc and most pathetically you do it for free yourself and in your own mind you're whiteknighting other nerds trying to "save" them from this game lmao. were here to enjoy games. start enjoying games fag
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
> easily predicted. You have become the npc and most pathetically you do it for free yourself and in your own mind you're whiteknighting other nerds trying to "save" them from this game lmao. were here to enjoy games. start enjoying games f-ACK
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
I have a wife and son. i haven't even played this game myself. i showed my wife the first one, and she loved it so much that i just watched her play the new one. aaaand you didn't greentext the part where I easily predicted your next post. lmao. You're so upset
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
I’m surprised she let you in from the cuck shed. What skin color is your stepson?
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
he's my little mini-me. I love him so much bro. took him for a walk today and this Indian lady said hi to him on the street and he waved and said mama. He's so cute
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Too bad he’s a little nagger
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
lmao israelite you got noticed it's already over
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
whatever you're doing you're doing it for free lmao. I wonder what the dlcs gonna be about. I'm hype
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Nobody talks like this here
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>how dare you be yourself
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
https://www.reddit.com/
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
go back
I dont like having an account and I hate people who like to hand wave arguments (like you) in different ways including the biggest one there which is looking at post history, finding something you disagree with, and saying "lmao this guy said X, opinion invalidated" voted for trump which is also a nono and I hate trans people. people are complicated. sorry I don't fit in or talk exactly how you want me to.
anyway i enjoyed this game.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
How much do you get paid?
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
go back bitch
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>I’m a tourist Sweet Baby shill
FTFY
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>memes
go back bitch
triggered
How much do you get paid?
>repost spam
exactly as much as you homo
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
https://sweetbabyinc.com/
It’s totally a meme bro
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
based anon. know that I see you, and support you being you. genuinely and unironically, don't care I'd I get called cringe for this. this place is genuinely way too shallow and narrow minded to care. hope to find more like you in future Alan Wake 2 thread. You brought up one of the reasons I'm not on reddit too. Downvotes is also one. Subreddits being natural echo chambers, mass reporting being so easy, etc. But if I'm being honest, in terms of actual behavior. Ganker and reddit are dismissive and conceited in the exact same way. The only difference is that it's harder for me to get banned on here, so I'm chilling here until I find a better place to talk videogames.
Good luck anon, keep your chin up 🙂
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
bump
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
I'm that guy and this was indeed pretty cringe bro, but thanks.
https://sweetbabyinc.com/
It’s totally a meme bro
actually didnt know this was a thing but all the fake pro-black media in the world wont hide them in real life. What exactly is their goal? reality still exists. I wish all black people were polite, scientists, and smart enough to be fbi agents, maybe i wouldnt have to be racist then.
do you think no one has anything positive to say about this game? how close minded are you? I hate black people too but that's because they smell like cocoa butter 24/7 and act in real life, neither of which are in this game. Quit being a doomer
do you think no one has anything positive to say about this game? how close minded are you? I hate black people too but that's because they smell like cocoa butter 24/7 and act in real life, neither of which are in this game. Quit being a doomer
nagger he's referring to the sensitivity retards at places like Sweet Baby Inc. who are shaping narratives in games
Alan Wake 2 was kino. and a real honest to God survival horror game made by an AAA dev team.
I thought the west couldn't make big budget horror games anymore but Alan Wake 2 proved me wrong.
Alan Wake 2 will be a better Silent Hill game than any of the upcoming shit piles slapped with the SH brand on them.
Sam Lake is what Kojima wishes he was. You can think whatever you want about Alan Wake 2, I for example also think that it gets too self-indulgent, but unlike with Mr. Creatividad's games I sense 0 pretension from Sam's writing.
Kojima's pretentiousness can get on my nerves but at least he's trying new things and death stranding is one kind of experience you find nowhere else. I'm not gonna put him on the same level as westerners shitting out the same boring tps/fps with wokeness enabled.
Kojima is a nobody, he wrote a whole trash game sucking off Bowie when a hack like Cage made a certified KINO game with Bowie himself a decade before him. Zero respect for that pretentious hack.
to be fair only the last part feels like he started pulling shit out of his ass... other than that, the game is leagues above the walking extravaganza kojimbo presents.
I agree Sam Lake is superior to creatividad, but i tought the ending just didn't land... If not for that, it would've been goty material.
Sam Lake WISHES his dogshit games had the sheer level of ludo of Kojima's.
At least la creatividad actually tries with the gameplay. Death Stranding's literal walking sim completely runs circles around every post-Payne Remedy game. And PT utterly MOGS the sorry excuse or survival """horror""" Lake claims AW2 to be.
>people taking GOTY of British people remotely seriously???
the fuck? who the fuck cares, wait till the real game awards wtf is this retarded baiting. European critics don't matter and aren't critic consensus. The game objectively has less positive critic reception on metacritic and open critic than baldurs gate. Unironically like being retarded enough to cherry pick Nintendo "critics" for a Zelda or Mario game. KYS.
>The horror story falsely claiming >Naming you servant of the night >Now rise up by the name I'm calling >Your soul returning to the light
Yeah I think KINO GOTY
It'd be kinda cool if they split it between Alan and Alice. She could use a camera to record events, and send them to Alan. Replace that clumsy echo mechanic.
it makes sense in a way post credits, a spial has an eventual ending, though If it's true that everyones just a character in thomas world taking him down would be the priority, kinda like a man vs god scenario
Anyone who thought 2 was going to end any story, when Remedy came up with the brilliantly retarded idea of creating a multi-game shared universe, is an idiot. You should have seen this coming.
I thought that too, until I finished act 1. Shit sucks fucking ass beyond that.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Nah
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>act 2 is barebones as fucking shit and terribly written >act 3 is unfinished, terribly laid out, and has a shit story >riddled with bugs, more than any game i've played this year
Yes.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
The only thing that is barebones is your trolling. lol
Jimette is right with xer critique, it should have focused more on real world issues faced by real people and not the imaginary self-inflicted problems of a rich white male.
I am on the way to the trailer park I think, so only like 4 hours in or something but I don't know about it so far. The actual core gameplay isn't anything fun or special, the enemies are annoying but also you can kinda just run away. The atmosphere is the selling point of the game, its pretty damn great in that aspect especially Wake's part I've done
Saga's parts are shit depending on why you think so. But Alan's parts? I've only played 1 of his parts and can already see how much potential it has. If you can't see how well designed the shadow niggas are you're either not playing on hard mode or you play games like a speedrunner aka you don't actually play the game at all (aka meaning you don't explore and take in the game fully)
I am on Hard but also don't give a fuck about bland looking shadow people you use the flashlight on to reveal themselves. Its also annoying to pick "which one is actually real and will attack me" and it doesn't seem the "make enemies less likely to detect Wake" Word of Power does shit.
I cannot genuinely imagine having such a shit mindset that you dub the whole gameplay factor around the shadows "annoying" instead of actually engaging with them.
I didn't believe people could deliberately miss out on fun until now. Wow. And it's literally like one of the few only good things about the game. Ganker has surpassed my conception of mental illness.
>Its also annoying to pick "which one is actually real and will attack me"
Unironically filtered. And if you have the flashlight on the shadows will see you, you have to move around with it off.
>And if you have the flashlight on the shadows will see you, you have to move around with it off.
OH SHIT NTA BUT I DIDNT EVEN KNOW THIS FUCK. This genuinely adds a layer of depth. Holy fuck this enemy is genuinely so well thought out. How the fuck???? When every other enemy is so shit? I legit don't fucking get it. Once I'm done speedrunning Saga's parts, I hope Oceanview Hotel can save the game for me based on what I've heard about it.
Here's the actual problems with the game BTW: >Walking simulator for 90% of the game >Enemies respawn on timers >Cheap jumpscares to increase tension >Fake inventory management system >Wants to be Resident Evil but you can't even rotate items >No enemy variety, no possessed objects >Weaker flashlight mechanics than the first game >Lots and lots of backtracking and gatekeeping areas to pad out time >Puzzles are literally "find symbols" or "place dolls" >Zero licensed music outside of irrelevant generic bands, didn't even get the license to Coconut >Story goes absolutely nowhere >Bright Falls is cheap window dressing, NPCs don't react to you and stand around lifeless >Mindplace is pointless and annoying, even when it isn't bugging out and stopping progress >Lots and lots of bugs
Not a single person has been able to refute this
You got destroyed in the last thread when you complain about the flashlight, enemy variety, and licensed music. You actually lost your argument to badly that you ran away after calling people retarded after gave you examples as to how you don't know what you're talking about.
I never ran away you liar. You stopped posting. Remind me, what was your counter argument to the licensed music?
Do you still want to pretend that licensed music was not a big part of AW1? You can't even be honest with yourself. It's embarrassing.
>Remind me, what was your counter argument to the licensed music?
DO NOT FALL FOR THE LICENSED MUSIC BAIT I REPEAT DO NOT FALL FOR THE LICENSED MUSIC BAIT THIS RETARD CAN UNIRONICALLY ARGUE ABOUT THE MOST ARBITRARY THING EVER FOR LIKE HOURS STRAIGHT I REPEAT. DO NOT FALL FOR THE LICENSED MUSIC BAIT.
Thank you for your attention and please be advised.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Man, this is embarrassing. I'm asking for your counter argument and you instead post "DO NOT ENGAGE"
It's almost as if you know I'm right and cannot argue against the facts.
You know, it's very easy to concede this point and move on the next bullet points.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
They’re Redditors anon
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
fuck off retard. you should recognize me from the past threads, I've engaged with you a dozen times but YOU never engage with me, then accuse me of not engaging. Do you not understand how circular and retarded that is? Nothing can ever be established then. If you were ACTUALLY smart and good faith you'd realize statements like "you didn't engage!" are equivalent to the fallacy fallacy, and a fallacious argument doesn't necessarily make a wrong one. What does this mean? It means it's your responsibility to actually substantiate your accusation and steer the conversation back to moving forward by outlining what the flaw is so that a good faith Interlocutor could correct it. But you NEVER actually substantiated how I didn't engage so that I could correct that (which I didn't need to because I did engage in the first place). Which suggests you're either braindead and can't read and process words...or you're bad faith and just want to assert yourself as "right" no matter what, and that's why you'll shutdown and essentially dismiss any retort with zero basis.
Address ANY of this in good faith and I'll engage right here right now.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
You just posted an entire long diatribe and not a single counter argument.
Maybe instead of screeching about muh engagement and other non sequitur bullshit, how about you post a single counter argument to my points about Alan Wake 2. I'll wait...
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
good one. atleast you're consistent, by which, I mean predictable. thank you for confirming there's nothing greater to expect from you. just wanted to make sure I wasn't the bad faith one.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>just wanted to make sure I wasn't the bad faith one
not him but yes you are, go have a nice day sniveling redditor
Yes you did, lmao. Every reply made you ignore around half of what the post even said because you couldn't refute it. And that is just one of many examples in the thread, you legitimately ran away like a crybaby afterword's and stopped replying. >lost the argument about enemy variety >also lost the argument about flashlight mechanics being dumbed down >still crying about 'muh licensed music'
lel
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>the enemy variety is great because wolves run around in circles and tank 600 pistol shots! >the flashlight mechanic is so much deeper because you don't even need to use it anymore! >licensed music was never a big part of the first game, that's why Remedy pulled it from stores and refused to sell it without the tracks nobody likes!
That's 0 for 3. We can do this all day.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
No matter how much you want to bitch, 2 has more varied enemies in regards to functional design than the first game. You were unable to disprove this yesterday and you won't be able to do it now.
You do need to use the Flashlight as Alan, and with Saga it's optional because you need to balance the use of trying to conserve ammo or conserving battery power in a constant back and forth with the enemies. Unlike in the first game you actually need to aim the flashlight, there's no passive damage so you actually need to manually engage with targets, and batteries don't auto charge. So despite the fact that enemies can drop them when killed, you still need to take battery power into consideration unlike in 1.
I don't even know if your autism over licensed music is worth posting about. You still didn't explain why it needs it (it has it, just not what you personally desire).
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Saga Anderson is 60-80% of the playtime in this game. In those sections you do not need to use the flashlight once, outside of the blobs blocking progress. If you could see in the dark you could play the entirely of these sections with the flashlight completely off.
Compared to the first game (which is also shallow) its a regression.
First game; need flashlight to kill
Second game: you don't
It's that simple. We can argue over the minutiae but the fact of the matter is the flashlight is garbage in this game despite the entire setting being about darkness and light.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
its still helpful, why are you acting like thats such a big deal. i will give you that its not clear enough which enemies it benefits to beam or when the effect wears off but its still helpful
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Because I think the mechanic deserves to be deeper. The gameplay in AW2 is already pretty shallow, and they could have played with the light and dark mechanics much more.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
its not a gameplay driven title, its just a derivative of re4 and tlou, but its still fun. and alan's section uses light as much as possible, it's a safety net, its the main resource in defeating enemies because once the shadow armor goes they die in four shots, you should propose an idea thats better than that
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Half of the missions are as Alan, this is a fact. You keep trying to say 80% of the game is as Saga but that isn't true, no matter how shit she is. >you don't need to use the flashlight ever (until you do)
You really like using this poor choice of words whenever you say something, and it only continues do make you look like an idiot. The game incentivizes her using the flashlight but you can save battery if you want to. There is no regression, the game objectively has "deeper" flashlight mechanics than the first game. You tried saying that it had a rick vs reward system yesterday which was laughably stupid because there was no risk with the flashlight in the first game. >Second game: you don't
Yes, you do.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Half of the missions are as Alan
You know you're lying to yourself when you say stuff like this, because it's a intentionally deceptive statement.
When you break down "missions" it's probably equal, but when you break down actual PLAYTIME Saga Anderson is like 60-80% of the game.
>Flashlight
You do not need to use the flashlight outside of the forced blobs. If the blobs didn't exist you could mod the flashlight out of the game and nothing would change in the Saga sections.
That is my point. In a game dealing with lightness and darkness, the flashlight is pointless.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
whats wrong with no licensed music? I'm confused.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
He thinks the game is bad, in part, because it doesn't use licensed tracks. Why he thinks this is important enough to talk about is beyond me. There's a bunch of shit wrong with AW2 but the music is not one of them, especially not the lack of licensed tracks.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Well the first game had known bands and songs, that were relevant to plot and set the tone.
AW2 they decided to cheap out and get some generic stuff. Some of it is tolerable, some of it is terrible, but none of it comes close to the first game. What's worse is they couldn't even be bothered to get the license to Coconut which is probably dirt cheap.
This isn't even a controversial point. Licensed music was a big part of the first game.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Poe's This Road blows every track from the og AW out of the water. It reocurring and getting more and more warped each time it appears is far more impactful than any lime in any coconut will ever be.
Also: >Wide Awake when Alan gets out of the lake >Scratch spitting bars at you after getting unleashed >Herald of Darkness and Dark Ocean Summoning
Stop being a retard.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Poe's This Road blows every track from the og AW
You mean the track they used half a dozen times and then hand-waved the repetition because "it's looping bro! just add some skips and other spooky sounds over it to make it sound like we didn't cheap out"
The song was awful. And everyone I've talked to skipped every version of it once they heard the intro.
Using Old Gods of Asgard to pad out your argument tells me everything. That is a given in this game.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>three variations is half a dozen
Damn, not only are you illiterate but you can't count.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Nice deflection. Notice how you didn't defend the repetition but went to arguing about numbers.
The song was terrible and any subsequent replaying of it was an assault on my ears.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Someone else already pointed out how the use of the song's variants was thematically appropriate for the levels that it showed up in, you're just complaining about it because it isn't a licensed song.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
That's a nice way of saying we couldn't be bothered to get any more tracks and just hand-waved the repetition with the "theme" of looping.
American Nightmare also got panned for this BTW, and it actually used licensed tracks.
Anons I want to play it on PC but I don't know how to pirate without being arrested, is the Epic game store really spyware that will send me to chinese prison?
Beat it twice, it's good enough that its gonna be shuffled into my annual playthroughs along with Remedy's other games
Sam's the only good writer left in the business, and Remedy's one of the only devs out there still making good singleplayer games
Max Payne 1 is potentially my favorite game of all time, 2 is up there
IMO they've never made a bad game, I love third person shooters though. Sam's storytelling just makes them that much better
Sam Lake is what Kojima wishes he was. You can think whatever you want about Alan Wake 2, I for example also think that it gets too self-indulgent, but unlike with Mr. Creatividad's games I sense 0 pretension from Sam's writing.
max payne is owned my R* so when I see him in any game my mind gets utterly fucked
In case you didn't know
https://www.remedygames.com/games/max-payne-1-2-remake Another genius move by Sam placing AW2 in New York so all the assets for the Max Payne remakes will already be pretty much done
what I'm trying to figure out is...why does control feel so much harder to play than Alan Wake 2? And I don't mean difficulty. I mean motivation. I just quit Alan Wake 2 to go play control cuz I was getting demotivated with 2 and...I barely feel like continuing control and its been like 10 minutes.
Control is empty rooms and office spaces with never ending doors and never ending ceilings. It's nothingness.
And all the enemies are exactly the same outside of bosses.
One of the most overrated games of all time.
While I do enjoy it in general, I think the game would have benefited greatly from Alan being the only playable character.
The Dark City is very good, and it could have been even bigger and more sprawling. Would've been an excellent survival horror setting if they expanded upon it and cut down the Saga parts.
>critics GOTY
So it won nothing?
Apologize for what? It's my favorite game released this year
Working overtime I see
Unironically mindbroken.
How much are you paid? Is it hourly?
The real question is how buckbroken are you to think anyone has any allegiance to a storefront.
I can’t help but notice you didn’t deny it. Also you out yourself by not saying nagger. Go back.
lol, LMAO that's a schizoid response anon
You do it for free? That’s sad man, why not just become a janny?
my mother taught me not to curse so saying anything too explicit is unnatural to me, I'm not trying to be a poser, but you're really acting like a nagger yourself. Post more handwaving memes because you have nothing substantial to say. people like the game, sorry!
Nice Reddit post upvoted
>handwaving memes
easily predicted. You have become the npc and most pathetically you do it for free yourself and in your own mind you're whiteknighting other nerds trying to "save" them from this game lmao. were here to enjoy games. start enjoying games fag
> easily predicted. You have become the npc and most pathetically you do it for free yourself and in your own mind you're whiteknighting other nerds trying to "save" them from this game lmao. were here to enjoy games. start enjoying games f-ACK
I have a wife and son. i haven't even played this game myself. i showed my wife the first one, and she loved it so much that i just watched her play the new one. aaaand you didn't greentext the part where I easily predicted your next post. lmao. You're so upset
I’m surprised she let you in from the cuck shed. What skin color is your stepson?
he's my little mini-me. I love him so much bro. took him for a walk today and this Indian lady said hi to him on the street and he waved and said mama. He's so cute
Too bad he’s a little nagger
lmao israelite you got noticed it's already over
whatever you're doing you're doing it for free lmao. I wonder what the dlcs gonna be about. I'm hype
Nobody talks like this here
>how dare you be yourself
https://www.reddit.com/
I dont like having an account and I hate people who like to hand wave arguments (like you) in different ways including the biggest one there which is looking at post history, finding something you disagree with, and saying "lmao this guy said X, opinion invalidated" voted for trump which is also a nono and I hate trans people. people are complicated. sorry I don't fit in or talk exactly how you want me to.
anyway i enjoyed this game.
How much do you get paid?
go back bitch
>I’m a tourist Sweet Baby shill
FTFY
>memes
triggered
>repost spam
exactly as much as you homo
https://sweetbabyinc.com/
It’s totally a meme bro
based anon. know that I see you, and support you being you. genuinely and unironically, don't care I'd I get called cringe for this. this place is genuinely way too shallow and narrow minded to care. hope to find more like you in future Alan Wake 2 thread. You brought up one of the reasons I'm not on reddit too. Downvotes is also one. Subreddits being natural echo chambers, mass reporting being so easy, etc. But if I'm being honest, in terms of actual behavior. Ganker and reddit are dismissive and conceited in the exact same way. The only difference is that it's harder for me to get banned on here, so I'm chilling here until I find a better place to talk videogames.
Good luck anon, keep your chin up 🙂
bump
I'm that guy and this was indeed pretty cringe bro, but thanks.
actually didnt know this was a thing but all the fake pro-black media in the world wont hide them in real life. What exactly is their goal? reality still exists. I wish all black people were polite, scientists, and smart enough to be fbi agents, maybe i wouldnt have to be racist then.
>I wonder what the dlcs gonna be about. I'm hype
what a fucking bot holy shit
israelite PILPUL ALERT
go back
go back to /reddit
do you think no one has anything positive to say about this game? how close minded are you? I hate black people too but that's because they smell like cocoa butter 24/7 and act in real life, neither of which are in this game. Quit being a doomer
>knowing the truth= mind broken
ok homosexual
nagger he's referring to the sensitivity retards at places like Sweet Baby Inc. who are shaping narratives in games
I like all Remedy games. One of the only good devs left
You mean Sweet Baby Inc?
>I like all Remedy games.
Even Crossfire X single player campaign, that was developed entirely by Remedy on their own in house engine?
Apologize for having radioactive shit taste
>Show meh the champion of LIGHT
Is that nutrek sulu?
buy an ad tim
I don't get what this even means. who on this board every clicks on ads? or even sees them? how do you naggers not have ad block?
Most retards don't adblock, so buy a fucking ad.
Alan Wake 2 was kino. and a real honest to God survival horror game made by an AAA dev team.
I thought the west couldn't make big budget horror games anymore but Alan Wake 2 proved me wrong.
Alan Wake 2 will be a better Silent Hill game than any of the upcoming shit piles slapped with the SH brand on them.
go have a nice day before I do it for you
What if Alan did an Arthur Fleck and shot Mr. Door in the head
the story in this game reaches kojimbo levels of fart sniffing pseudo intellectual drivel... no wonder critics fucking adore it
Sam Lake is what Kojima wishes he was. You can think whatever you want about Alan Wake 2, I for example also think that it gets too self-indulgent, but unlike with Mr. Creatividad's games I sense 0 pretension from Sam's writing.
both Kojima and Sam Lake are washed out hacks
Kojima's pretentiousness can get on my nerves but at least he's trying new things and death stranding is one kind of experience you find nowhere else. I'm not gonna put him on the same level as westerners shitting out the same boring tps/fps with wokeness enabled.
Kojima is a nobody, he wrote a whole trash game sucking off Bowie when a hack like Cage made a certified KINO game with Bowie himself a decade before him. Zero respect for that pretentious hack.
to be fair only the last part feels like he started pulling shit out of his ass... other than that, the game is leagues above the walking extravaganza kojimbo presents.
I agree Sam Lake is superior to creatividad, but i tought the ending just didn't land... If not for that, it would've been goty material.
Yeah, I'm sure Kojima wants to be the guy who made Alan Wake and Control, not the guy who made Metal Gear Solid.
Sam Lake WISHES his dogshit games had the sheer level of ludo of Kojima's.
At least la creatividad actually tries with the gameplay. Death Stranding's literal walking sim completely runs circles around every post-Payne Remedy game. And PT utterly MOGS the sorry excuse or survival """horror""" Lake claims AW2 to be.
>pretension
Aside from the fact he wrote himself as one of the main characters and stars in most scenes
It has something of an understanding at least.
Kojima was filtered by Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and thought it was long and boring.
It's GOTY for me. Amazing game. Hope it won't take a decade for the final chapter.
>people taking GOTY of British people remotely seriously???
the fuck? who the fuck cares, wait till the real game awards wtf is this retarded baiting. European critics don't matter and aren't critic consensus. The game objectively has less positive critic reception on metacritic and open critic than baldurs gate. Unironically like being retarded enough to cherry pick Nintendo "critics" for a Zelda or Mario game. KYS.
>The horror story falsely claiming
>Naming you servant of the night
>Now rise up by the name I'm calling
>Your soul returning to the light
Yeah I think KINO GOTY
Ok.
Still not playing your goyslop.
Keep me posted.
Good luck with your next thread.
How much were they paid to write a good review for this slop?
I felt blue balled by this ending.
Will the DLC be a true ending to the series or are they planning an Alan Wake 3?
DLC and NG+ seems like it'll put together the real ending. Mr. Door says the door is meant to end with this game, or at least finished the trilogy.
It'd be kinda cool if they split it between Alan and Alice. She could use a camera to record events, and send them to Alan. Replace that clumsy echo mechanic.
it makes sense in a way post credits, a spial has an eventual ending, though If it's true that everyones just a character in thomas world taking him down would be the priority, kinda like a man vs god scenario
Don't think they plan on ending the series anytime soon
Anyone who thought 2 was going to end any story, when Remedy came up with the brilliantly retarded idea of creating a multi-game shared universe, is an idiot. You should have seen this coming.
Is New Game+ with more story coming soon or next year?
>brownwash Alan
>toss in a random nagger BECAUSE ITS HECKIN 2023 CHUD
No thanks, as someone with an inner monologue, standards and self respect I will not be playing it.
>critics
who? They are all in conflict of interest, they are advertisers not critics
>epic exclusive
loved Alan Wake, genuinely didn't know this came out on PC
Still not gonna play it
when is Ganker going to stop repressing and come out as trans?
Jim is right
What was the last game this homosexual even liked?
He gave Baldur's Gate a 10/10, one of his 6 10s ever.
You mean the game that actually lets you play as a tranny?
I dont fault him, its a great game, lol.
I thought that too, until I finished act 1. Shit sucks fucking ass beyond that.
Nah
>act 2 is barebones as fucking shit and terribly written
>act 3 is unfinished, terribly laid out, and has a shit story
>riddled with bugs, more than any game i've played this year
Yes.
The only thing that is barebones is your trolling. lol
>no argument
Concession accepted.
Broken clocks and all that
Jimette is right with xer critique, it should have focused more on real world issues faced by real people and not the imaginary self-inflicted problems of a rich white male.
I am on the way to the trailer park I think, so only like 4 hours in or something but I don't know about it so far. The actual core gameplay isn't anything fun or special, the enemies are annoying but also you can kinda just run away. The atmosphere is the selling point of the game, its pretty damn great in that aspect especially Wake's part I've done
Saga's parts are shit depending on why you think so. But Alan's parts? I've only played 1 of his parts and can already see how much potential it has. If you can't see how well designed the shadow niggas are you're either not playing on hard mode or you play games like a speedrunner aka you don't actually play the game at all (aka meaning you don't explore and take in the game fully)
I am on Hard but also don't give a fuck about bland looking shadow people you use the flashlight on to reveal themselves. Its also annoying to pick "which one is actually real and will attack me" and it doesn't seem the "make enemies less likely to detect Wake" Word of Power does shit.
I cannot genuinely imagine having such a shit mindset that you dub the whole gameplay factor around the shadows "annoying" instead of actually engaging with them.
I didn't believe people could deliberately miss out on fun until now. Wow. And it's literally like one of the few only good things about the game. Ganker has surpassed my conception of mental illness.
>Its also annoying to pick "which one is actually real and will attack me"
Unironically filtered. And if you have the flashlight on the shadows will see you, you have to move around with it off.
>And if you have the flashlight on the shadows will see you, you have to move around with it off.
OH SHIT NTA BUT I DIDNT EVEN KNOW THIS FUCK. This genuinely adds a layer of depth. Holy fuck this enemy is genuinely so well thought out. How the fuck???? When every other enemy is so shit? I legit don't fucking get it. Once I'm done speedrunning Saga's parts, I hope Oceanview Hotel can save the game for me based on what I've heard about it.
So Sweet Baby Inc israeli pedophiles gave it a ticket to epstein island?
Here's the actual problems with the game BTW:
>Walking simulator for 90% of the game
>Enemies respawn on timers
>Cheap jumpscares to increase tension
>Fake inventory management system
>Wants to be Resident Evil but you can't even rotate items
>No enemy variety, no possessed objects
>Weaker flashlight mechanics than the first game
>Lots and lots of backtracking and gatekeeping areas to pad out time
>Puzzles are literally "find symbols" or "place dolls"
>Zero licensed music outside of irrelevant generic bands, didn't even get the license to Coconut
>Story goes absolutely nowhere
>Bright Falls is cheap window dressing, NPCs don't react to you and stand around lifeless
>Mindplace is pointless and annoying, even when it isn't bugging out and stopping progress
>Lots and lots of bugs
Not a single person has been able to refute this
Lol this fucking autist is still at it after getting BTFO every thread. I don't even think this game is that great but you're actually retarded.
Notice how you still fail to provide a single counter argument. You still can't engage in proper debate.
Very telling.
You got destroyed in the last thread when you complain about the flashlight, enemy variety, and licensed music. You actually lost your argument to badly that you ran away after calling people retarded after gave you examples as to how you don't know what you're talking about.
I never ran away you liar. You stopped posting. Remind me, what was your counter argument to the licensed music?
Do you still want to pretend that licensed music was not a big part of AW1? You can't even be honest with yourself. It's embarrassing.
>Remind me, what was your counter argument to the licensed music?
DO NOT FALL FOR THE LICENSED MUSIC BAIT I REPEAT DO NOT FALL FOR THE LICENSED MUSIC BAIT THIS RETARD CAN UNIRONICALLY ARGUE ABOUT THE MOST ARBITRARY THING EVER FOR LIKE HOURS STRAIGHT I REPEAT. DO NOT FALL FOR THE LICENSED MUSIC BAIT.
Thank you for your attention and please be advised.
Man, this is embarrassing. I'm asking for your counter argument and you instead post "DO NOT ENGAGE"
It's almost as if you know I'm right and cannot argue against the facts.
You know, it's very easy to concede this point and move on the next bullet points.
They’re Redditors anon
fuck off retard. you should recognize me from the past threads, I've engaged with you a dozen times but YOU never engage with me, then accuse me of not engaging. Do you not understand how circular and retarded that is? Nothing can ever be established then. If you were ACTUALLY smart and good faith you'd realize statements like "you didn't engage!" are equivalent to the fallacy fallacy, and a fallacious argument doesn't necessarily make a wrong one. What does this mean? It means it's your responsibility to actually substantiate your accusation and steer the conversation back to moving forward by outlining what the flaw is so that a good faith Interlocutor could correct it. But you NEVER actually substantiated how I didn't engage so that I could correct that (which I didn't need to because I did engage in the first place). Which suggests you're either braindead and can't read and process words...or you're bad faith and just want to assert yourself as "right" no matter what, and that's why you'll shutdown and essentially dismiss any retort with zero basis.
Address ANY of this in good faith and I'll engage right here right now.
You just posted an entire long diatribe and not a single counter argument.
Maybe instead of screeching about muh engagement and other non sequitur bullshit, how about you post a single counter argument to my points about Alan Wake 2. I'll wait...
good one. atleast you're consistent, by which, I mean predictable. thank you for confirming there's nothing greater to expect from you. just wanted to make sure I wasn't the bad faith one.
>just wanted to make sure I wasn't the bad faith one
not him but yes you are, go have a nice day sniveling redditor
Yes you did, lmao. Every reply made you ignore around half of what the post even said because you couldn't refute it. And that is just one of many examples in the thread, you legitimately ran away like a crybaby afterword's and stopped replying.
>lost the argument about enemy variety
>also lost the argument about flashlight mechanics being dumbed down
>still crying about 'muh licensed music'
lel
>the enemy variety is great because wolves run around in circles and tank 600 pistol shots!
>the flashlight mechanic is so much deeper because you don't even need to use it anymore!
>licensed music was never a big part of the first game, that's why Remedy pulled it from stores and refused to sell it without the tracks nobody likes!
That's 0 for 3. We can do this all day.
No matter how much you want to bitch, 2 has more varied enemies in regards to functional design than the first game. You were unable to disprove this yesterday and you won't be able to do it now.
You do need to use the Flashlight as Alan, and with Saga it's optional because you need to balance the use of trying to conserve ammo or conserving battery power in a constant back and forth with the enemies. Unlike in the first game you actually need to aim the flashlight, there's no passive damage so you actually need to manually engage with targets, and batteries don't auto charge. So despite the fact that enemies can drop them when killed, you still need to take battery power into consideration unlike in 1.
I don't even know if your autism over licensed music is worth posting about. You still didn't explain why it needs it (it has it, just not what you personally desire).
Saga Anderson is 60-80% of the playtime in this game. In those sections you do not need to use the flashlight once, outside of the blobs blocking progress. If you could see in the dark you could play the entirely of these sections with the flashlight completely off.
Compared to the first game (which is also shallow) its a regression.
First game; need flashlight to kill
Second game: you don't
It's that simple. We can argue over the minutiae but the fact of the matter is the flashlight is garbage in this game despite the entire setting being about darkness and light.
its still helpful, why are you acting like thats such a big deal. i will give you that its not clear enough which enemies it benefits to beam or when the effect wears off but its still helpful
Because I think the mechanic deserves to be deeper. The gameplay in AW2 is already pretty shallow, and they could have played with the light and dark mechanics much more.
its not a gameplay driven title, its just a derivative of re4 and tlou, but its still fun. and alan's section uses light as much as possible, it's a safety net, its the main resource in defeating enemies because once the shadow armor goes they die in four shots, you should propose an idea thats better than that
Half of the missions are as Alan, this is a fact. You keep trying to say 80% of the game is as Saga but that isn't true, no matter how shit she is.
>you don't need to use the flashlight ever (until you do)
You really like using this poor choice of words whenever you say something, and it only continues do make you look like an idiot. The game incentivizes her using the flashlight but you can save battery if you want to. There is no regression, the game objectively has "deeper" flashlight mechanics than the first game. You tried saying that it had a rick vs reward system yesterday which was laughably stupid because there was no risk with the flashlight in the first game.
>Second game: you don't
Yes, you do.
>Half of the missions are as Alan
You know you're lying to yourself when you say stuff like this, because it's a intentionally deceptive statement.
When you break down "missions" it's probably equal, but when you break down actual PLAYTIME Saga Anderson is like 60-80% of the game.
>Flashlight
You do not need to use the flashlight outside of the forced blobs. If the blobs didn't exist you could mod the flashlight out of the game and nothing would change in the Saga sections.
That is my point. In a game dealing with lightness and darkness, the flashlight is pointless.
whats wrong with no licensed music? I'm confused.
He thinks the game is bad, in part, because it doesn't use licensed tracks. Why he thinks this is important enough to talk about is beyond me. There's a bunch of shit wrong with AW2 but the music is not one of them, especially not the lack of licensed tracks.
Well the first game had known bands and songs, that were relevant to plot and set the tone.
AW2 they decided to cheap out and get some generic stuff. Some of it is tolerable, some of it is terrible, but none of it comes close to the first game. What's worse is they couldn't even be bothered to get the license to Coconut which is probably dirt cheap.
This isn't even a controversial point. Licensed music was a big part of the first game.
Poe's This Road blows every track from the og AW out of the water. It reocurring and getting more and more warped each time it appears is far more impactful than any lime in any coconut will ever be.
Also:
>Wide Awake when Alan gets out of the lake
>Scratch spitting bars at you after getting unleashed
>Herald of Darkness and Dark Ocean Summoning
Stop being a retard.
>Poe's This Road blows every track from the og AW
You mean the track they used half a dozen times and then hand-waved the repetition because "it's looping bro! just add some skips and other spooky sounds over it to make it sound like we didn't cheap out"
The song was awful. And everyone I've talked to skipped every version of it once they heard the intro.
Using Old Gods of Asgard to pad out your argument tells me everything. That is a given in this game.
>three variations is half a dozen
Damn, not only are you illiterate but you can't count.
Nice deflection. Notice how you didn't defend the repetition but went to arguing about numbers.
The song was terrible and any subsequent replaying of it was an assault on my ears.
Someone else already pointed out how the use of the song's variants was thematically appropriate for the levels that it showed up in, you're just complaining about it because it isn't a licensed song.
That's a nice way of saying we couldn't be bothered to get any more tracks and just hand-waved the repetition with the "theme" of looping.
American Nightmare also got panned for this BTW, and it actually used licensed tracks.
I'll check it out when it comes on GoG.
How does it compare to the original?
I thought the original was a juvenile game
It’s worse in every way
I'm enjoying the game but she should have been the protagonist
she cute and actually wants to help Wake :3
We can’t have whites in our games xister
Her facial expressions were the most impressive I've seen in a game, especially the beginning scene in the diner
Alan Wake me up when it releases on steam
>Publisher: Epic Games
Good luck with that. Just pirate it. That's what basically everyone did.
>pirate
but I don't want the cyber police to come after me
More like Alan Wake me up before you go go
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Bad games win GOTY all the time
Alan Wake more like Anal Wokeeeeeeeeeee
Anons I want to play it on PC but I don't know how to pirate without being arrested, is the Epic game store really spyware that will send me to chinese prison?
this game is obviously better than baldur gate 3 its not even funny
Beat it twice, it's good enough that its gonna be shuffled into my annual playthroughs along with Remedy's other games
Sam's the only good writer left in the business, and Remedy's one of the only devs out there still making good singleplayer games
They haven't made a good game since Max Payne 2.
Max Payne 1 is potentially my favorite game of all time, 2 is up there
IMO they've never made a bad game, I love third person shooters though. Sam's storytelling just makes them that much better
max payne is owned my R* so when I see him in any game my mind gets utterly fucked
In case you didn't know
https://www.remedygames.com/games/max-payne-1-2-remake
Another genius move by Sam placing AW2 in New York so all the assets for the Max Payne remakes will already be pretty much done
Imagine how many millions more it could have made if it wasn't woke with shitty writing
if alan wake 2 is so good, why isnt it out on pc?
Best chapter song coming through
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The only people who give a fuck about the game are journos lmao because they fucking hate actually playing games.
Sad.
what I'm trying to figure out is...why does control feel so much harder to play than Alan Wake 2? And I don't mean difficulty. I mean motivation. I just quit Alan Wake 2 to go play control cuz I was getting demotivated with 2 and...I barely feel like continuing control and its been like 10 minutes.
Control is empty rooms and office spaces with never ending doors and never ending ceilings. It's nothingness.
And all the enemies are exactly the same outside of bosses.
One of the most overrated games of all time.
are you actually so desperate that youre falling back to the opinions of ""critics""?
While I do enjoy it in general, I think the game would have benefited greatly from Alan being the only playable character.
The Dark City is very good, and it could have been even bigger and more sprawling. Would've been an excellent survival horror setting if they expanded upon it and cut down the Saga parts.
after playing it anytime I read something I can't help but read it in alans voice