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Didn't it get delisted over licensed music at some point? e: Alan Wake's American Nightmare, that is.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:The Max Payne adaptive difficulty was hilarious because if you didn't let the whole drawn-out death animation play in full and just hit quickload, it didn't count and the difficulty just kept going up lol Oh wow, that explains a lot. I feel... lighter now.
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Nov 1, 2023 20:36
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SkeletonHero posted:Didn't it get delisted over licensed music at some point? I thought I remembered that but couldn't find anything. Edit: Ah, it was the original Alan Wake, then MS renegotiated the music stuff and that allowed it to be back on the storefronts. thebardyspoon fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Nov 1, 2023 |
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Nov 1, 2023 20:36
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For what it's worth I've played Alan Wake 1 like five times in one form another across the years and I played American Nightmare precisely once. It's just not a good game.
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Nov 1, 2023 20:43
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CuddleCryptid posted:For what it's worth I've played Alan Wake 1 like five times in one form another across the years and I played American Nightmare precisely once. It's just not a good game. Yeah, this. AWAN doesn't have a single setpiece I can recall anything about whereas AW1 is full of them.
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Nov 1, 2023 20:47
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CuddleCryptid posted:For what it's worth I've played Alan Wake 1 like five times in one form another across the years and I played American Nightmare precisely once. It's just not a good game. They did improve the combat but it's not improved enough to make it worth the extra combat focus. That and it only has three levels you revisit three times each. It did give us the best Poets of the Fall song though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNrG3w_a448
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Nov 1, 2023 20:49
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Mr. Fortitude posted:They did improve the combat but it's not improved enough to make it worth the extra combat focus. That and it only has three levels you revisit three times each. Yeah the combat in AW is not deep so all it really did was add in some new guns which so what. It was pretty transparently a DLC stretched out to short game length. I liked the DLC levels from AW1 more than AN. Balance Slays the Demon just wasn't for me, it's easily lowest on my list of POTF songs. Compared to the songs in AW1 it just felt like a flat rock song. But to each their own, maybe it's just tied to a game I found disappointing.
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Nov 1, 2023 20:56
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I find it strange how King hates his breakout book, Carrie, for being not polished to his standards. When at 60K words it's his tightest book. Ain't nobody giving a poo poo about Bag of Bones.
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Nov 1, 2023 21:33
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I find it strange how King hates his breakout book, Carrie, for being not polished to his standards. When at 60K words it's his tightest book. Ain't nobody giving a poo poo about Bag of Bones. Pretty much every writer on the planet inwardly cringes at their earlier work no matter how popular it is. I think you'd probably get looked at weirdly if you were like "Aw yeah my first book is awesome, haha."
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Nov 1, 2023 21:54
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replaying fatal frame 1 with the undub patch and boy is it scary!
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I find it strange how King hates his breakout book, Carrie, for being not polished to his standards. When at 60K words it's his tightest book. Ain't nobody giving a poo poo about Bag of Bones. King's mused on more than one occasion how people always tell him that The Stand is his best book*, and how it occurs to him that telling him in the 2000s/2010s/2020s that the best work he's done over his entire career was something that was published in 1978 is both a sort of backhanded compliment, and a not-so-subtle critique of his later works. (*It's not his best work, though. That's 'salem's Lot.  )
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Nov 1, 2023 22:28
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I don't know which is the worse trope. The Magical Negro or the Psychic Simpleton.
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Sigh, another year as the lone Dolores Claiborne Fancon attendee
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Nov 1, 2023 22:32
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I don't know which is the worse trope. The Magical Negro or the Psychic Simpleton. Worst part of The Stand is that insanely racist bit just thrown randomly into the descriptions of how the world is falling apart.
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Worst part of The Stand is that insanely racist bit just thrown randomly into the descriptions of how the world is falling apart. Similarly, the part where a character gets  forcibly penetrated with a gun did NOT need to be in there! 
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ImpAtom posted:Pretty much every writer on the planet inwardly cringes at their earlier work no matter how popular it is. I think you'd probably get looked at weirdly if you were like "Aw yeah my first book is awesome, haha." Kind of depends on how much you write. Gene Wolfe disowned his first novel, but then you get Harper Lee never publishing again until an old woman because she didn't think she could live up to To Kill a Mockingbird. Sydney Bottocks posted:King's mused on more than one occasion how people always tell him that The Stand is his best book*, and how it occurs to him that telling him in the 2000s/2010s/2020s that the best work he's done over his entire career was something that was published in 1978 is both a sort of backhanded compliment, and a not-so-subtle critique of his later works.
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Nov 1, 2023 22:45
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King is a good writer when he is writing about things that he personally knows (getting hit by cars and alcoholism) and the rest is all over the place.
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Nov 1, 2023 22:51
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CuddleCryptid posted:King is a good writer when he is writing about things that he personally knows (getting hit by cars and alcoholism) and the rest is all over the place. I think he's actually pretty good at portraying characters that are grieving the loss of a partner/spouse. Bag of Bones and Lisey's Story weren't GOOD by any means, but they definitely got me teary-eyed at certain points when the main characters are mourning their dead spouses.
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Nov 1, 2023 22:55
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I admire Kings ability to get the most absolute nonsense published, and nothing else.
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Read After Burning posted:I think he's actually pretty good at portraying characters that are grieving the loss of a partner/spouse. Bag of Bones and Lisey's Story weren't GOOD by any means, but they definitely got me teary-eyed at certain points when the main characters are mourning their dead spouses. Regret is a pretty strong theme in his books in general. Needful Things, The Shining, Pet Semetary, they're all good books that focus heavily around regret and loss. His good books have a strong theme and wrap up in one book without getting deep into "lore". When he starts getting into the weeds of long stories or (God help us) series things go to hell.
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https://x.com/succinct_punchy/status/1719536427355009078?s=46 Good news everyone
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Who has poked at Stray Souls? It's supposed to be Gollum-bad outside of having a guest composer for Silent Hill. It also came out two days before the good Resident Evil clone.
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roomtwofifteen posted:https://twitter.com/succinct_punchy/status/1719536427355009078?s=46 lol
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Kotaku launch interview with the SH stream leadkotaku article posted:moderators who were there were finding that their moderations were taking 10 minutes to go through A free for all chatroom where it takes 10 minutes to ban anyone, what could go wrong
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Silent Swill
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So what I'm hearing about Alan Wake 2 is that it's the Bloober Team level of follow up.
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Don't just throw slurs around omg
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Kokoro Wish posted:So what I'm hearing about Alan Wake 2 is that it's the Bloober Team level of follow up. What does this even mean?
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Kokoro Wish posted:So what I'm hearing about Alan Wake 2 is that it's the Bloober Team level of follow up. you mean the effusive and near universal praise?
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Kokoro Wish posted:So what I'm hearing about Alan Wake 2 is that it's the Bloober Team level of follow up. If by this you mean nearly the exact opposite, then yes 
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Kokoro Wish posted:So what I'm hearing about Alan Wake 2 is that it's the Bloober Team level of follow up. What? Most people have praised the game online. It's literally only certain Goons here who've said anything bad about it and 90% of the time it's because they were actually terrible at the game and didn't bother paying attention to the tooltips and the last 10% is from people who genuinely didn't vibe with Remedy games anyway. It's nothing like a Bloober Team game, which gets okay reviews but is routinely mocked.
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Omg maybe they actually like bloober team
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Alan "I DIDN'T GET NO SLEEP CAUSE OF YALL, YALL NOT GONNA GET NO SLEEP CAUSE OF ME" Wake
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Alan "I DIDN'T GET NO SLEEP CAUSE OF YALL, YALL NOT GONNA GET NO SLEEP CAUSE OF ME" Wake I appreciate this reference deeply. Me, finding yet another clue: 
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Mr. Fortitude posted:What? That 10% is always loud as poo poo, though. Like Remedy games are weird and kinda janky and not for everyone but anytime they come up you get the I COULDN’T HIT WITH TK AND SERVICE WEAPON SUX response. Criticisms about the story and writing I’m totally okay with because that poo poo’s subjective and yeah they’re not well written but they’re fun and trippy so I enjoy them.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Who has poked at Stray Souls? It's supposed to be Gollum-bad outside of having a guest composer for Silent Hill. It also came out two days before the good Resident Evil clone.
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Mr. Fortitude posted:What? Yeah this is a really good point btw. There's tutorial menus you can pause and access any time which clarify many of the things goons were having trouble with It's a great game that I haven't found especially challenging so far on Normal but still tense and is much more compelling than anything Bloober has done
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Kokoro Wish posted:So what I'm hearing about Alan Wake 2 is that it's the Bloober Team level of follow up. Game is getting 9s and 10s from every outlet and the general consensus from regular people is that it's awesome. Who on earth are you talking to to get the idea that it's bloober level lol.
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Kokoro Wish posted:So what I'm hearing about Alan Wake 2 is that it's the Bloober Team level of follow up. I feel like you owe Sam Lake and the Remedy team a personal apology for this post
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