>be Sam Lake & Remedy Entertainment
>make 2 good games in the early 2000s (Max Payne 1 & 2)
>release Alan Wake in 2010
>it flops and no one plays it
>release Quantum Break in 2016
>it flops and no one plays it
>Release Alan Wake Remastered in 2021
>it flops and no one plays it
>Release the super woke Alan Wake 2 in collaboration with Sweet Baby Inc
>it flops and no one plays it
Despite all these flops, he's convinced Rockstar to fund the Max Payne remake and 505 games to fund Control 2. On top of this he's working with AMC to create an Alan Wake TV show. They've shrugged off flops that would have ended lesser studios and have their hands in like 3 different projects. How does Sam fricking do it? Can anything stop him?
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i don't think you know what flop means
it means no one played it
>no one
Low sales.
The studio could close tomorrow. We don't know their finances.
It's only a flop if Ganker didn't like it
every single pre-alan wake remedy release did better than alan wake 2 in sales
what the frick happened
EGS
every game they make they always seem to shoot themselves in the foot with exposure.
>Alan Wake
Xbox exclusive
>Quantum Break
>Xbox exclusive and windows store (temporary)
>CONTROL
Temporary EGS
>Alan Wake 2
EGS permanent exclusive, and no physical version
I hate how they always limit their reach
Those "limits" is what allows them to get the games funded in the first place, moron.
Video game studios don't do ESG. Why do you people use words you don't understand? Also, don't you guys love corporations? Why are you complaining when you're just going to give then tax cuts and no oversight anyway,
EGS, not ESG
fricking moron
>Also, don't you guys love corporations? Why are you complaining when you're just going to give then tax cuts and no oversight anyway
I love how everyone who defends ESG or acts like it's not really happening always outs themselves as a leftist so quickly
Failing upwards isn't common, but it's way more common than you think. I get a feeling Sam is genuinely charismatic irl and gets people to fund his projects chewing the fat despite no big returns.
He sold his soul to Larry Fink
EGS. The fact he probably made money just from going on it and israeliteing Sweeney is why he did it anyway.
Remember the hardest part of a studio is breaking even and if EGS is paying his budget, why not just go with it?
Same reason Square did it. Make your budget back, sit back for a year and then make profit next year when you drop it on Steam.
>EGS
is this really the best excuse though? it's on both major consoles and sold like shit there too, and those have 50+ million established players already
and it's not a matter of
>muh console sales
alan wake was established on console first, its pc release was 2 years later
i see a lot of console players on twitter wanting a physical release before buying, so it could be that
Truth is nobody likes black people (including other black people). Liberals will pretend, but if you drop them anywhere with a high concentration they will leave at the earliest opportunity.
Call me a chud, but the numbers speak for themselves.
Not liking black people is a survival mechanism. It's Darwinism at it's finest.
I'm assuming OP's narrative is heavily romanticized and Sam isn't the underdog this post portrays him to be.
>the super woke Alan Wake 2 in collaboration with Sweet Baby Inc
Still in denial about Sam being a sellout?
it's a good thing people just say shit like this now, that way you know the moron OP hasn't played the game at all.
It isn't super woke but... I'm just Black person fatigued, ok? Maybe I'll play it in 10 years when I'm not as tired of seeing a girlboss nigress every other game I get. Ugh, I know, sorry!
you shouldn't confuse a good game with grab-bag idpol that gets shoehorned into massive products.
>you shouldn't confuse a good game with grab-bag idpol that gets shoehorned into massive products
>game is assisted by sweet baby inc.
The funny thing is, there is irrefutable proof that the very same idpol garbage is part of AW2's core writing. And it's barely a game, just like the first one was.
Does it matter if it is idpol or not? Either way Sam got to make the game he wanted, got awards for it, and now is making other games without any regard to how AW2 actually sold or what chuds think about his game
>artist compromises on his vision for gaybux
It absolutely matters, sweet baby shill. Because he knows the award song and dance is all for show, and that the sales are what determines success.
>sam lake
>compromised
are you moronic? he's literally the reason the entire game is as weird as it is despite everyone else telling him to tone it down. he literally fought against everyone for the musical to be included. you can say whatever you want about sam but he never compromised on his vision for AW2
>he never compromised on his vision for AW2
>but he absolutely will compromise on the actress that plays saga
>despite being established in previous in-universe games
>and will absolutely change dialogue and story beats to make this weird cringe pandering "normal"
What was really fun was seeing him crack on stage about the changes when accepting the award.
Saga is Mr. Door's daughter and Mr. Door was originally supposed to be played by Lance Reddick, with whom Alan is close with. That's just another example of Sam sticking to his vision. And honestly his speech at the awards was moving - I almost cried with him too, seeing him finally get recognition for his amazing writing and storytelling
>sweet baby shill posts his (xis?) suggested changes on 4chons, outing sam lake as a compromising loser
you tremendous homosexual
noooooooo he can't change his mind on a single choice in between the 7 year span between quantum break and alan wake 2! he can't hire an actual actress to play the part now after puttng some random remedy employee in costume for a teaser!!! no!!!!!
you get those items later then you can freely explore those areas
>noooooooo he can't change his mind on a single choice in between the 7 year span between quantum break and alan wake 2!
if he wasn't a compromising homosexual, there would be no need for the change in the first place
also
>max payne was loaded with remedy randos and was better for it
im sure sandra the intern would be able to carry the load of playing the secondary protagonist.
Yes. Remember -- Alan Wake is not voiced by his likeness.
yeah and he's an actor, not an intern
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Thank you Sweet Baby Inc! I love what you did with Alan Wake 2 btw
I'm sorry to hear you're butthurt anon. Can I offer you some ass cream in these trying times?
>no actual argument
>just more sweet baby shilling
>game still isn't selling
lol!
is that a no on the ass cream? you really seem to need it
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Saga's implied actress in the old video was tied to Quantum Break to which Remedy doesn't have rights to, Microsoft has. Also she had a singing career or some bullshit so she wasn't even available. Not to mention Mr Door.
How did you figure that out from a single image showing the lady cop is black now? Thats quite the leap in logic.
it's called bait morons
i know it's bait, so was my post. we are all just autists sitting on our ass trying to bait each other for no reason. this is not a discussion board.
They have a point. Kim bel air has made studios change MC's into black women. That'a baseically where her advisement begins and ends.
Yep.
Avoid all games Sweet baby had a hand in, those women are incredibly cringe
>name yourself heel vs babyface
>work yourself into a seething shoot 24/7
Imagine unironically posting any of the welfare leeches of Fandom menace as an authoritative source.
>"live love laugh" sign is character building
shiggy diggy my morons
sweetbabyinc com/projects/
lol, its real, anal wake gtfo
Probably because they've mostly kept to themselves and can actually be sustained off of modest successes, instead of setting off the fire alarms and flushing 70% of the employees down the toilet when they fail to make "fortnite 2". This is what game companies SHOULD look like. Remedy has been around for a long time, and with that comes experience and knowledge. Alan Wake II isn't a game that needs to sell all of its copies in the first two weeks, it's not an annual sports game. Remedy will be selling Alan Wake II for years.
This honestly. You shouldn't need a slam dunc each time to keep your doors open
what's more incredible is that only MP1&2 were good games. Everything they made since has been utter shit.
I don't think he cares. All he wants to do is turn his autistic stories into games.
Alan Wake did actually really well over time. It just struggled at the outset because it came out right next to fricking Red Deadass Redemption.
>It just struggled at the outset
>original game sold 1.4 mil on 360 alone in a year
i mean it's only been a couple months but we're dealing with an existing ip now, and it can't crack a mil on three platforms with the ad campaign it got?
>make 2 good games in the early 2000s (Max Payne 1 & 2)
I dunno man, I always thought they were pretty fricking boring.
here's a (you)
When will you learn
You have no say in what's being made in this industry
You cannot vote with your wallet
You chose this when you accepted subscription services, people subbed to gaypass and psn and other ones are what's making this customer bypassing possible
Its over
I'm in the woods with saga, third chapter starting on the beach side
Lots of things that seem locked in the woods, look like I need to find a screwdriver and a second doll, and some rocks... Am I supposed to find them now or progress then come back later? Casey waiting at the car
What are the points of no return in terms of exploration?
the game simply gives you a "this is point of no return" warning before the end
I just like the fact that he just directly translated his Finnish name into English (Sami Järvi -> Sam Lake)
>it flopped even though the studio is still in business and developing multiple projects
>sweetbaby was mentioned so i need to start spamming and defending the studio
kek
I like AW2 but Saga is just unlikable
She's bland, I don't understand how she's supposed to be interesting
where is the money coming from if they're flopping? I'm not familiar.
or is this "Ganker flopping" where it's not actually a flop?
its odd how Ganker is suddenly very interested in sales charts and popularity numbers, when it used to be the opposite. live long enough to see yourself become a israelite.
>is this "Ganker flopping" where it's not actually a flop?
Yes. The real reason they're seething, is that Sam is a successful and fit chad with a wife and children, thousands of fangirls uploading videos of themselves leaking from their eyes and pussies, and he isn't a terminally online loser obsessed with american politics.
>outsold by the first game
>the 360 version
>only
Funny how the Game Awards were like "BUY ALAN WAKE II" and no one did.
>obsessed with american politics
moron, watch him be all about fricking american politics when Finland is ordered to attack Russia to drag us all into WW3
Sam Lake and Illkka Villi on the front lines against Russia in 2024 (colorized)
DIDNT MAKE A BUNCH OF MONEY THATS HOW YOU KNOW ITS BAD I MEAN LOOK AT VALORANT THAT MAKES A LOT OF MONEY SO ITS GOOD
Sales and engagement are generally indicators of success. It's immature to think otherwise. AW2 lacked both.
yeah cause the movies and games these days that make a shit load of money are always quality and good, sure sure.
In the wise words of Todd and Aaron
>MOVIE OF THE YEAR: JURASSIC WORLD, YO THERES DINOSAURS ALL OVER THE PLACE, YOU GOT DINOSAURS HERE DINOSAURS THERE, THEIR STOMPING AROUND. AND IT MADE A LOT OF MONEY AND EVERYBODY KNOW THE MONEYS WHERE ITS AT
Max Payne is one of the best games ever
>release Alan Wake in 2010
>it flops and no one plays it
Loved it and got every achievement on 360
I'm not convinced Alan Wake 2 is a real game yet. All I know about it is that it has a black woman and a gay TikTok bait dance, the one from the awards show.
Control sold 3 million copies and Epic is funding them to promote strong black female protags
My guess is that they have enough money for Max Payne 4, Control 5 and Anal Woke 3
QRD on Sweet Baby?
It's a social justice extortion racket. You send your game in to get "sensitivity read" for "problematic" content, and they don't get their friends in the gamesjourno mafia to write hitpieces on your company or product.
diversity and sensitivity consultant that games use to sit down, listen and become educated
BG3 losing to it twice really mindbroke the Lariangays huh
game is pure kino, no surprise v is getting filtered
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chuds can't even make their shitposts make sense.
>chuds
hello sweet baby shill
if you're just gonna screech and cry like a little homosexual all day long, you should just have a nice day already.
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looks better than alan wake 1 at least
More slower paced than AW1. Better as a horror game, exploring the woods actually feels spooky, enemies are more threatening and unpredictable, ammo more scarce. AW1 never felt tense to me, it had fun combat but everything was on rails.
They just ripped off RE2R for the gameplay and it was a good decision. Limited inventory and resources, risk/reward reticle focus, some non-linearity and backtracking.
I think it still falls apart on gameplay, because even if you went for making it like RE2R, they made the environments way too open so that you simply run past enemies easily. On top of that, they give you a lot more ammo than I felt I ever had in RE2R, and killing an enemy was more consistent in how much ammo it'd take. The pacing was also awful because they'd go for these smaller scale encounters, broken apart by much longer periods of all story.
emerging into NYC just feels breathtaking
like emerging into Limgrave the first time
Is sweet baby the new Ganker boogeyman or something? Never heard shit about them until like a week ago
>Is sweet baby the new Ganker boogeyman or something?
Yes, it's the new scapegoat for morons when they don't have an argument.
calling it a boogeyman is avidly avoiding facts and logic
Rent free.
wat
>Okay now put progressing the story in hold to go back and explore this new area—
Um, I think not.
He keeps shoving his face into everything he makes. At this point he killed the Remedy studio just to get personal glory and fame and hang out with Hollywood people.
Filtered, lynched, laked
My biggest complaint with this game is even though I have it installed on an SSD I still have very long load times. No idea why, I've also heard other people with SSD's have really short load times so it seems just random to me.