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Latest Update: The Writer, Part 2 - Leave a Light On (09/05) Latest Supplemental Material: (03/31) Alan Wake is a third person survival horror/thriller developed by Remedy Entertainment, the brilliant minds behind the Max Payne series. It was released in late May 2010 for Xbox 360, and mid-February 2012 for PC. The story- well, at least, at first -follows best-selling novelist Alan Wake as he tries to uncover the mystery behind his wife's disappearance during a vacation in the small rural town of Twin Peaks, I Mean Bright Falls, Washington, all while experiencing events from the plot of his latest novel coming to life. The game is structured similarly to a television series, with episodes that contain plot twists and cliffhangers and even a "previously on" recap at the start of each. Having played Hotline Miami 2 Alan Wake is a fantastic game that does quite a few things that many video games are scared of. The story is perfectly willing to sit back and let you interpret it how you want, and the open-endedness of it all makes room for a lot of questions and speculative answers. The gameplay is varied enough to be fun, the setpieces are varied enough to stay fresh, and the graphics are just plain great. What's not to love? As always, there will be two versions of every video: One with cut commentary so you don't have to hear me and my buddy Skippy Granola blabbing over Alan, and one with uncut commentary that is pretty self-explanatory. Keep in mind when choosing which one to watch that Alan Wake is at times a walking-through-the-woods-in-the-dark simulator and there are extended periods where Alan has nothing to say, so let that affect your decision accordingly. Please don't. As a horror/thriller game with a plot twistier than a pretzel made out of klein bottles, it thrives almost entirely on being presented as-is. If I haven't talked about it or it hasn't shown up in the videos yet, please don't talk about it. Yes, technical wink-and-nod spoilers do count. I know the game's been out for like five years but for the sake of the thread readers don't just go CAN'T WAIT FOR THE MONSTER TRUCK RALLY BOSS FIGHT IN THE SECOND DLC or something. CJacobs fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Sep 5, 2017 |
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FINALLY. It feels like Alan has been planning this vacation for years! CJacobs fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Aug 18, 2017 |
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I am excited to watch Alan Awake.
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 04:27 |
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Woo! Been waiting for this one for a while.
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 04:36 |
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Holy Smokes Cjacobs and Skippy Granola in once place, that's the kinda added character you could only get with an oddly forced christmas special.
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 04:38 |
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Oh hey, guess I should finally watch a LP of this game. It's clearly pretty ripe for mockery. Also yes, a conversation between Alan Wake and Max Payne would be awful/amazing.
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 04:41 |
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poo poo what joke do i do from now on
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 04:44 |
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biosterous posted:
This is in fact Alan Wake! I checked to make sure and everything! Blind Sally posted:Woo! Been waiting for this one for a while. Me too! I am pumped.
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 04:54 |
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What kind of a place is a town called Bright gently caress, and what sort of game would take place there?
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 05:36 |
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I played through this game years ago and loved every minute of it (except for the ending, until I played the DLC, then I loved every minute of it again). Revisiting it in this format is going to be great. Kind of wish Remedy would quit dangling Alan Wake 2 in front of us. Just tell us you aren't going to make another one, and stop with the cryptic "well, we really want to make another one, there's like a 50% chance we're going to make another one, maybe, you know, when we have the time to devote to it. Possibly."
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 05:46 |
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I remember when this LP was first hinted at being a thing. I was an unemployed student back then! Now I'm moving into a house that I own with money I earned from a job that I have. And yet, after all of this, I still can't swim in three jackets, two t-shirts, and a pair of jeans But somehow, Alan can. That man is made of magic.
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 06:02 |
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Ahhh, Alan Wake. I played this game back in 2013 because I picked it up for cheap on a Steam bundle and I ended up looking at old reviews of it before I was done. A lot of people basically called the game an adaptation of a bad Stephen King book. At the time, I disagreed. I'd grown up on a lot of his short stories and felt A: no it really wasn't and B: it really felt more of a homage to horror writers in general, with the occasional Lovecraft reference and some feeling that evoked Clive Barker at a point I can't remember. Well that was three years ago and after reading Under The Dome and a few of his other books proper (or tried to, in the case of The Tommyknockers) and some of his more recent fiction, I have to say that yeah this game is probably the most accurate adaptation of a Stephen King book that doesn't exist. In fact it actually has some added benefits that King doesn't, such as: no weird views of minorities as Literally Magic, no weird idiosyncratic sayings for kids and teens, no weird sex scenes in general, a pretty rad soundtrack and how this game was most likely not written under the influence of hard drugs or written as part of a half-baked pseudo Grant Morrison soul exercise where you write about that time you nearly died to deal with the demons of your past. This isn't to say that Alan Wake doesn't have problems (it totally does) but the older I get the more I realize that yeah this game is pretty much Peak Stephen King back when he was allowed to have editors and didn't do drugs. Also the music is really good.
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 06:30 |
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Ah this game. It has some very interesting ideas with some question on if it sticks the landing. The music however is quite good indeed.
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 06:45 |
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I can't decide what I think about this game. It's not as horrific as some horror games, and not quite as quirky and fun as Deadly Premonition... but I think it hits a pretty good middle ground. I think them not being afraid to add some levity into situations really helps the game, and makes you care more about what's going on. Anyway, looking forward to the rest of this LP!
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Alan Wake has a ton of invisible walls, except you can find ways to bypass them. He can't swim unless it is a cutscene. I spent way too much time trying to do everything I can to mess with the game. Beside meeting the other people on the boat (I think you missed a plot point) and having extended conversations with several characters in the game, there is a bug where you get five batteries as you entered the cabin and lose them all when you exit and come back in.
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 07:02 |
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Well, this has sure been a long time coming.
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 07:05 |
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Oh awesome. I love Alan Wake! Can't wait to see you go through this whole thing
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 07:20 |
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SUBJECT VERB OBJECT! ADVERB OBJECT! ADJECTIVE SUBJECT VERB OBJECT OXFORD COLON ADVERB SUBJECT! I am a master writer
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EponymousMrYar posted:I am a master writer ingwit posted:Johnny Fiveaces powered down the magnabike with a not quite unhearble hum and checked his chronometer. “drat.” he hissed threw his clinched teeth which were surrounded by the stubble of five days where in he had not shaven himself at all. It was almost chromodawn at Clashpoint. Alreddy the sun was sitting Walliston’s Hill ah blaze like so much molten meddle or a coin, gyreating in the air, tossed there by the uncaring hand of an imaginary god that doesn’t exist, borne from the interior minds of the hobbled masses. The sky was the color of a television tuned to a dead channel that was orange. drat, he, Johnny, thought. We thought we were opening a new beginning with our mad dreams of time travail but ironically the only time now is the time of which we’re out of. It’s almost humorous. Yeah, I could almost laugh, if I hadn’t cried that part of me away when my parents were maccasared by Dr. Malaprop and the government sanctioned murderers of “CAPITAL”.
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CJacobs, one of the things I liked about your previous LPs is that you've a good idea of when to provide commentary and when to let the game do its thing. There's been a lot of commentary (by virtue of two commentators) in the first "cut commentary" episode of Alan Wake, which takes away from the That all said I'm still on board, good show otherwise.
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 08:32 |
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Hostile V posted:Ahhh, Alan Wake. I played this game back in 2013 because I picked it up for cheap on a Steam bundle and I ended up looking at old reviews of it before I was done. A lot of people basically called the game an adaptation of a bad Stephen King book. At the time, I disagreed. I'd grown up on a lot of his short stories and felt A: no it really wasn't and B: it really felt more of a homage to horror writers in general, with the occasional Lovecraft reference and some feeling that evoked Clive Barker at a point I can't remember. peak stephen king was doing drugs tho, Misery is his only good book
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Not only is Max Payne in this game, everyone's favourite mascot costume wearing escort quest subject, Vinne Gognitti, voices Barry. By the way you can get a look at the island if you turn around before the bridge and climb back up the hill. There's coffee and a "focus" thing up there that goes to an overhead view of the island.
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 08:45 |
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I love this game despite its flaws.
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 09:32 |
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Wasn't there supposed to be an add-on to this game or am I just going doo-lally? Edit: So, by bad writer, are we talking Garth Marenghi-esque or worse? Also, I think I've got the twist of the game already. Light heals you, so Alan is secretly part plant! Edit edit: Dangit, that'll teach me to make comments about Dark place before watching the drat video in full. Samovar fucked around with this message at 10:47 on Dec 4, 2016 |
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Samovar posted:Wasn't there supposed to be an add-on to this game or am I just going doo-lally? There was some DLC, yeah.
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 09:42 |
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Nice; enjoying this so far, looking forward to the rest. Alan Wake is a fun game.
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Is there really a MONSTER TRUCK RALLY BOSS FIGHT? If so then I've got to finish playing the game.
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Hell yeah! This is my poo poo right here! Cakefarts Carol posted:CJacobs, one of the things I liked about your previous LPs is that you've a good idea of when to provide commentary and when to let the game do its thing. There's been a lot of commentary (by virtue of two commentators) in the first "cut commentary" episode of Alan Wake, which takes away from the Yeah, I get what you mean. For the cut commentary version I just, uh, cut the commentary out of only the actual cutscene-cutscenes. I'll make sure to cut it or otherwise edit around the general dialogue too in the future. White Coke posted:Is there really a MONSTER TRUCK RALLY BOSS FIGHT? If so then I've got to finish playing the game.
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 11:30 |
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I did not really like this game but I am hype for this LP anyway because My Friends Together At Last.
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 12:18 |
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I hope you teach us all a new word every episode because I need to make a punk band called The Defenstrators now. Throwing people out of windows is punk right?
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mandatory lesbian posted:peak stephen king was doing drugs tho, Misery is his only good book Honestly this game tonally feels like his take on Von Trier's show "The Kingdom" which became Kingdom Hospital which was...interesting but kind of hamstrung by being a thirteen episode show so there was a lot of padding and just general shenanigans.
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Cakefarts Carol posted:CJacobs, one of the things I liked about your previous LPs is that you've a good idea of when to provide commentary and when to let the game do its thing. There's been a lot of commentary (by virtue of two commentators) in the first "cut commentary" episode of Alan Wake, which takes away from the Quoting this again to say that I have recut and re-uploaded the cut commentary version of the first episode. It now has much less talking over the characters. In later episodes of the LP (and episodes of Alan Wake) this will not be as much of a problem because it's mostly Alan by himself, but the game's introduction and other parts where you're just walkin' around Bright Falls are pretty full of dialogue for us to jabber over. So I have rectified the issue by cutting/changing some of the commentary to not be in the way of the game anymore.
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CJacobs posted:Quoting this again to say that I have recut and re-uploaded the cut commentary version of the first episode. It now has much less talking over the characters. In later episodes of the LP (and episodes of Alan Wake) this will not be as much of a problem because it's mostly Alan by himself, but the game's introduction and other parts where you're just walkin' around Bright Falls are pretty full of dialogue for us to jabber over. So I have rectified the issue by cutting/changing some of the commentary to not be in the way of the game anymore. This is why you are a cool dude, unlike Alan Wake who is both uncool and kinda a Jerk (but interesting).
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 17:44 |
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CJacobs, LP'r of the people!
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 18:17 |
This is absolutely one of my favorite games. It hits all the sweet spots for me regarding dialogue and creativity, and the soundtrack is wonderful (it helps that I'm a huge Poets of the Fall fan). The combat isn't perfect, but it's not bad enough that it does anything to drag down the quality of the game; the game could never last 100% on the combat, but it does so much else right that you can ignore any minor quibbles.
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Stormgale posted:This is why you are a cool dude, unlike Alan Wake who is both uncool and kinda a Jerk (but interesting). Thanks. It's all in the name of quality. By the way, here's the overhead shot of the island that Kibayasu mentioned. Alan even has a blurb to say about the island and the lake being on top of a volcano
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CJacobs posted:Thanks. It's all in the name of quality. Is Bright Peaksmouth supposed to be in the northeast U.S. or the northwest U.S.? 'Cause I don't think there are many caldera in loving Maine. (Fun side note: Yellowstone National Park is the caldera of a supervolcano, which is a volcano massive enough that its eruption would seriously threaten all life on Earth!)
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 19:47 |
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Bright Falls is in Washington. Also, holy crap, that's terrifying!
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Kibayasu posted:Not only is Max Payne in this game, everyone's favourite mascot costume wearing escort quest subject, Vinne Gognitti, voices Barry.
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CJacobs posted:Bright Falls is in Washington. Also, holy crap, that's terrifying! Not as terrifying as it seems, if I remember correctly. It's only ever erupted a few times in millions of years and we can't figure out if we're "due" in our lifetimes, or even any reasonable distance into the future.
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