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Alan Wake 2 has some amazing visuals. Not just fidelity but design, like early on you're walking Saga through a Threshold and the world is constantly shifting around you between the woods and a subway tunnel.
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I really want to play AW2 but am flat broke til like march so I’m going to ask the thread not to talk about it so I don’t accidentally spoil something E: thanks a lot jerk
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Oct 28, 2023 04:18
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muscles like this! posted:Alan Wake 2 has some amazing visuals. Not just fidelity but design, like early on you're walking Saga through a Threshold and the world is constantly shifting around you between the woods and a subway tunnel. Definitely a lot of it coming from Control.
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Oct 28, 2023 04:36
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TontoCorazon posted:Definitely a lot of it coming from Control. My brother was watching me play early on and when you first return to Cauldron Lake I said to him how I wouldn't be surprised if the Federal Bureau of Control showed up soon. Lo and behold one of the people you run into there is a guy from the FBC.
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Oct 28, 2023 04:42
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I'm chipping away at Cyberpunk. I was jumping across some roofs, being a weirdo and Johnny appears suddenly and goes, "Aw poo poo..." I look around and see a corpse with a weapon and a data drive that is the office escape scene from The Matrix.
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Oct 28, 2023 04:45
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muscles like this! posted:My brother was watching me play early on and when you first return to Cauldron Lake I said to him how I wouldn't be surprised if the Federal Bureau of Control showed up soon. Lo and behold one of the people you run into there is a guy from the FBC. They're all over that area, they've even set up research stations around the caldera
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Oct 28, 2023 04:45
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them connecting control's universe directly to the Alan Wake universe was inspired tbqh, it makes me love both so much more
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Oct 28, 2023 04:46
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It’s a real shame rockstar owns max payne so we have to make do with Alex Casey.
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Oct 28, 2023 04:47
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RandolphCarter posted:It’s a real shame rockstar owns max payne so we have to make do with Alex Casey. Yeah, they would've for sure used Max
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Oct 28, 2023 04:49
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isnt it hinted that Max is just a character that Alan killed off in one of his novels?
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Oct 28, 2023 05:04
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Alex Casey is pretty clearly intended to just be Max Payne with a different name. In the first game it's pretty blunt about it.
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Oct 28, 2023 05:07
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It is super clear seeing as Alex Casey is physically Sam Lake with the voice of James McCaffrey aka what they did in Max Payne 1.
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Oct 28, 2023 05:18
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There's a bit in Control that says Max is an actual version of Alex Casey, just in an alternate universe, which is a pretty cute way of alluding to the rights issue. As to Alex Casey being in this game, I have no idea what to think yet since I haven't gone beyond the fat old naked man prologue 
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Oct 28, 2023 05:21
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Captain Hygiene posted:There's a bit in Control that says Max is an actual version of Alex Casey, just in an alternate universe, which is a pretty cute way of alluding to the rights issue. You're in for a treat very soon
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Oct 28, 2023 05:28
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muscles like this! posted:It is super clear seeing as Alex Casey is physically Sam Lake with the voice of James McCaffrey aka what they did in Max Payne 1. lmao he is actually in the game now? like the character has been manifested as an AWE kinda deal?
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Oct 28, 2023 05:31
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Sally posted:lmao he is actually in the game now? like the character has been manifested as an AWE kinda deal? It's literally "Sam Lake".
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Oct 28, 2023 05:36
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Sally posted:lmao he is actually in the game now? like the character has been manifested as an AWE kinda deal? He is Saga Anderson's partner, who is extremely annoyed because Alan Wake's book character has the same name as him and nobody lets him forget it.
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Oct 28, 2023 05:47
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alan wake 2 leans way more into horror than the first game but my favorite example of it isn't the blood or jumpscares, it's saga's "profiling" skill. she's basically a clairvoyant who can suss out people's secrets once she's gathered enough ancillary information, and when the skill is activated, the game portrays it by surrounding her with flickering manifestations of her suspects who whisper to her in an ominous lifeless monotone. it's a wonderfully eerie effect
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Oct 28, 2023 06:59
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I usually hate horror games but love the control universe and metaphysical stuff, is alan wake 2 a game I can play or is it just... Mostly scary?
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Oct 28, 2023 11:31
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It's still very much survival horror, taking a lot of cues from the most recent third-person Resident Evils. But it has Remedy's unique aesthetic and sense of humor. I'm only 3 chapters in and the scary stuff has been a bit of a slow burn so far.
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Oct 28, 2023 12:33
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Man I wish I wasn't such a big baby about horror, because the game sounds very cool
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Oct 28, 2023 13:34
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ImpAtom posted:He is Saga Anderson's partner, who is extremely annoyed because Alan Wake's book character has the same name as him and nobody lets him forget it. It is funny when (very early spoilers) Alan is found and introduced to Casey and kind of freaks out while Casey is just irritated by it.
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Oct 28, 2023 13:40
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Y'all are making me antsy to get home and play. Gotta get discharged from the hospital and get Mom and baby situated first
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Oct 28, 2023 14:52
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Alan Wake 2 just shot up in my list of games i want to play. glad to hear theyve leaned onto the Control extended universe
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Oct 28, 2023 15:26
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Len posted:Y'all are making me antsy to get home and play. Gotta get discharged from the hospital and get Mom and baby situated first You weren't playing it while she was delivering? A shameful goon
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Oct 28, 2023 15:47
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Loved control but watched a let’s play of Alan wake and it did not seem like game I would have enjoyed playing myself. Which way does Alan wake 2 lean?
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Oct 28, 2023 16:43
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Cool Kids Club Soda posted:You weren't playing it while she was delivering? A shameful goon I was not 
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Oct 28, 2023 16:58
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Len posted:I was not Talk about being cucked!!!
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Oct 28, 2023 16:59
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Weird Pumpkin posted:Man I wish I wasn't such a big baby about horror, because the game sounds very cool 
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Oct 28, 2023 17:13
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Remedy always wins, even when it comes to their easter eggs Six years ago: https://clips.twitch.tv/SuspiciousElegantMacaroniMau5 Yesterday: https://clips.twitch.tv/PrettyNurturingMoonPartyTime-NXAksWotHoAXjO05
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Oct 28, 2023 19:57
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GenSpecific posted:Loved control but watched a let’s play of Alan wake and it did not seem like game I would have enjoyed playing myself. Which way does Alan wake 2 lean? It is definitely way more Control than Alan Wake 1.
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Oct 28, 2023 20:06
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She and I are now comfortably settled on the couch playing the game. She's here for moral support
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Oct 28, 2023 20:18
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Go home and be a family Len
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Oct 28, 2023 20:21
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CJacobs posted:Go home and be a family Len
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Oct 28, 2023 20:54
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CJacobs posted:Go home and be a family Len
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Oct 28, 2023 21:38
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CJacobs posted:Go home and be a family Len I was home! Mom was taking a nap so me and the baby were playing games. Now she's awake and eating and mom took over the TV Switch stays winning?
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Oct 28, 2023 22:28
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is Alan Wake 1 any good? I've put like three hours into it, and other than being impressed by the graphics for the time, I find the game tedious and not much fun. Combat isn't fun at all, just an annoying thing to get through; Alan's constant monologues are okay for now but I think it's about to get really annoying. His name annoys me, because I know it has something to do with "A. Wake" and I'm just getting my eyes ready for that roll moment. I never really hear why anyone likes Alan Wake so much, other than it's "very good." Nobody seems like the combat, though.
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Oct 28, 2023 22:29
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credburn posted:is Alan Wake 1 any good? They are always playing with different genres of pulpy stories, but it always feels like a love letter rather than something they are above or embarrassed about.
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Oct 28, 2023 22:47
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credburn posted:is Alan Wake 1 any good? The quality parts are mostly the writing and atmosphere, yeah. How do you feel about stuff like Stephen King novels and Twin Peaks? Because it's really trying to tap into stuff like that and if that's not your thing, there's not too much there for you.
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i loved alan wake gameplay from the get go
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