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the dark place is just a place. the dark presence is a separate entity that follows alan trying to gaslight and compel him into writing it into existence using his artistic abilities to access the dark place - all of the power it demonstrates in the game is because he sat at cauldron lake and wrote that it would have that power during the story that ends with him defeating it, just as thomas zane wrote he would.
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disposablewords posted:Alan's there in the first place because he's burnt out and can't create. But he proved desirable because the Dark Presence really needs a narrative to exploit, and a novel author works in a more suited medium than the poets, painters, and songwriters it snared before. He talks constantly about how the narrative has to hang together, not just be logical but also follow the "rules" of storytelling, and it gets hammered in further when he mentions writing for TV serials and having the ability to just write originally beat into him by the need to pay bills. The picture painted of him is someone formulaic and workmanlike, which is what the Dark Presence actually needed. "Man, he wrote this in a 24 hour bender with someone holding a gun to his wifes head. It's pretty awful. I don't think he's a great writer y'all.".
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Oct 25, 2023 04:59
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James Joyces Fart Letters are pretty great
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Hwurmp posted:lots of famous writing is actually real bad "What!?" Watson ejaculated
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Countblanc posted:yellow taxi goes vroom demo
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Oct 25, 2023 05:11
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So it may be rubbish, but at least it's fast rubbish under pressure?
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sebmojo posted:So it may be rubbish, but at least it's fast rubbish under pressure? Yeah? Alan even says in game it's not his best work, because he you know. Had poo poo going on when he was writing it. This is on top of them playing with him having bad writers block before getting forced to write this whole thing. And also MAJOR SPOILERS FOR ALAN WAKE 1 him not even being real/in control of his actions, because he himself was a character created for this event.
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Oct 25, 2023 05:23
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I'm glad we've finally come back around to accepting that the writing in Alan Wake is bad
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Oct 25, 2023 05:26
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Alan Wake is a bad writer. This is not played for laughs, he isn't there to skewer King or Patterson or whomever, this is not Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. But it is indeed funny that he's a bad, yet very popular writer, nonetheless.
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Oct 25, 2023 05:30
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The worst thing about the Remedyverse, a place where supernatural forces of unknowable power and malevolence are apparently a dime a dozen, is that Alan Wake is a bestselling author.
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Orv posted:The worst thing about the Remedyverse, a place where supernatural forces of unknowable power and malevolence are apparently a dime a dozen, is that Alan Wake is a bestselling author. 
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Oct 25, 2023 06:09
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Lots of authors are both bestselling and terrible.
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Orv posted:The worst thing about the Remedyverse, a place where supernatural forces of unknowable power and malevolence are apparently a dime a dozen, is that Alan Wake is a bestselling author. Said fact is sufficiently explained by the mentioned forces of unknowable malevolence.
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Venuz Patrol posted:the current dominant trend in business management across all sectors is to fire all permanent employees and use fleets of disposable contractors for all work instead. When this concept is applied to game development, you end up with a lot of people who are brought in to design or build specific systems, but nobody with the long-term knowhow to understand how everything fits together and design things to do so smoothly. hence: lots of feature rich games that run like poo poo And all games are built on Unreal now, a large complicated engine that these contractors are all familiar with on the surface level but that nobody has the time or expertise to customize or optimize for their specific use-case.
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Orv posted:The worst thing about the Remedyverse, a place where supernatural forces of unknowable power and malevolence are apparently a dime a dozen, is that Alan Wake is a bestselling author.   Upsidads posted:James Joyces Fart Letters are pretty great
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Leal posted:"What!?" Watson ejaculated The 7th Guest posted:That game also kicks rear end
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Alan Wake absolutely rules
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Lol Konami released a convoluted guide for deciphering their patch versions for some reason
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Rinkles posted:Lol Konami released a convoluted guide for deciphering their patch versions for some reason What the gently caress use is this to anyone??
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Oct 25, 2023 09:37
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It reminds me of those charts that show what version of what console will have what content because they would have console exclusive content
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Necrothatcher posted:What the gently caress use is this to anyone?? Exciting new technology in chart crimes.
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Oct 25, 2023 09:57
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Necrothatcher posted:What the gently caress use is this to anyone?? They're being thoughtful to people pirating the game by letting them know if they've grabbed the latest version or not. How nice of Konami.
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there's already a mod to get MGS2/3 running at high resolutions https://github.com/Sergeanur/MGSResolutionPatch
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Assepoester posted:Alan Wake is a bad writer. This is not played for laughs, he isn't there to skewer King or Patterson or whomever, this is not Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. On the plus side. I just read the new Garth Marenghi novel and it was delightful https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/62003142
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Hwurmp posted:lots of famous writing is actually real bad 
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Harry Potter is worse than I thought.
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Sci-fi written by old white dudes primarily fuckin' weird about sex? You don't say.
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Alan Wake would have been a much better game if he wrote like this.
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Orv posted:Sci-fi written by old white dudes primarily fuckin' weird about sex? You don't say. "We have failed to uphold Brannigan’s Law. However, I did make it with a hot alien babe. And in the end, is that not what man has dreamt of since first he looked up at the stars?"
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Good thing nobody reads the books past Dune.
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Is that from a Frank book or from his failson's oeuvre?
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Dune works fine as a standalone novel
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Where the red fern grows excitation edition
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Anti-Hero posted:This. Witcher and STALKER are the quintessential eurojank games. CDPR were lucky that it was enough of a breakout hit that they were able to work their way up to Witcher 3, kinda like Larian with Original Sin. Some of those eurojank studios could probably do amazing things if they didn't languish in B budget obscurity or get lost in licensing hell. Imagine if Piranha Bytes could actually make a polished game.
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Imagine is larian made cyberpunk
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Fruits of the sea posted:Witcher and STALKER are the quintessential eurojank games. CDPR were lucky that it was enough of a breakout hit that they were able to work their way up to Witcher 3, kinda like Larian with Original Sin. The lucky part was being tied to a successful publishing business (CDP) that could afford to foot the bill of increasingly ambitious sequels.
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Rinkles posted:The lucky part was being tied to a successful publishing business (CDP) that could afford to foot the bill of increasingly ambitious sequels. Huh, I always thought CDP came after Witcher 1, but I guess not. E: Upsidads posted:Imagine is larian made cyberpunk 
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Fruits of the sea posted:Huh, I always thought CDP came after Witcher 1, but I guess not. Iirc the Witcher 1 came about in the form it did in part because of good relations between CDP and BioWare (from publishing the Baldur’s Gate games in Poland). BioWare apparently gave them the Aurora engine license for a pittance.
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I just figured Alan Wake was Stephen King basically, sometimes you get a masterpiece, sometimes you get a shower thought pushed out to 500 pages and the idea that a town would be a supernatural nexus honed on him/his work is also extremely Stephen King
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The 7th Guest posted:I just figured Alan Wake was Stephen King basically, sometimes you get a masterpiece, sometimes you get a shower thought pushed out to 500 pages Look no further than King's self-insert in The Dark Tower books.
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