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DeadFatDuckFat posted:imo, its a game that you play for the atmosphere and narrative rather than the combat. The combat is just there. I played halfway through on Normal then just switched to Easy. Just depends on if you wanna engage in managing supplies and/or Shooting Accurately in Combat Holy poo poo, I had forgotten that was even an option. Definitely doing that the next time I play, since I was just thinking that the story owns but the combat in Alan's chapters is just at best merely OK and often downright annoying.
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:imo, its a game that you play for the atmosphere and narrative rather than the combat. The combat is just there. I played halfway through on Normal then just switched to Easy. Just depends on if you wanna engage in managing supplies and/or Shooting Accurately in Combat Ok. I am fine with that. I was just curious because 1 was all over the place with that.
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Oxxidation posted:iirc they only suggest that in their first encounter, and it's implied that the story is still rattling their brains so they're going back and forth on what's actually real. tor in his mind place profiling makes it a lot clearer that he drove freya away from her hometown when saga was too young to remember it. the story's trying to enforce a tragic parallel where saga returned to the place of her birth only to lose the thing she cherished most and become totally unmoored by it - classic horror-protagonist fare - but it's running up against the factual contradictions of her established history there and has trouble taking effect Saga's family stuff: They actually don't say that she did. And their reaction is one of seeing her for the first time since she was a baby, introducing themselves and their relationship to her. As far as I can tell, Tor and Odin never say anything untrue to Saga, she just didn't know about her mother's family so she writes it off as part of Scratch's story initially until she gets more evidence and eventually when she realises that trying to connect to Odin via the Mind Place doesn't just give her passive insight but she can have a direct conversation with him she starts to believe
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Nov 2, 2023 22:26
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Okay so I'm not usually into horror , but I like paranormal stuff like SCP and control, and due to raving reviews I've decided that while I don't want to play AW2, I still wanna watch a playthrough after watching a summary of the first. I watched the first 2 hours, then decided to replay control a bit, and now went back to watching the playthrough. Holy poo poo the player just met Ahti literally 5 minutes after me meeting him him in control. It's blowing my mind a bit. The shared universe stuff is way more in depth than I suspected, this loving rules (don't read if you haven't played control or AW2 or want to go in completely blind) I'm so glad I decided to jump over my shadow and give this a try, this is incredible.
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Nov 2, 2023 22:51
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I replayed American Nightmare last night, and I had forgotten that the Night Springs narrator refers to Alan as the Champion of Light and Scratch as the Herald of Darkness. Also, re: when AW2 takes place in relation to Control: remember at the end of the AWE DLC, Langston says the alarm from Cauldron Lake is dated a couple years in the future.
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Arkannoyed posted:I replayed American Nightmare last night, and I had forgotten that the Night Springs narrator refers to Alan as the Champion of Light and Scratch as the Herald of Darkness. Also in the hotel chapter for Alan's side, apparently in addition to the flashes of Darling, there's also some audio from Jesse, possibly implying that section is taking place at the same 'time' as the AWE expansion, given Zane's involvement there
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Nov 2, 2023 23:29
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The hotel chapter is after AWE, because they are both dressed like Alan Wake 1 Alan and not two different dudes
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Nov 3, 2023 00:17
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okay can someone tell me if i did this wrong? i wrapped Local Girl with Saga and saved right before i went back to bright falls. which kicked off the attack on the hotel with alan and casey called...No Chance i think it was. so i loaded the previous save and did We Sing (which was hilarious and amazing and i loved it btw) which right into Initiation 5 Room 665.. is this the right order? am i supposed to be doing this part before going back and starting No Chance or is Room 665 after that?
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My new theory is Alan has been writing Alex Casey books basically the past decade, and that's why everyone is on his rear end to get back to work on initiation & departure. It also explains why The Dark Place is extremely hardboiled
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There’s some good environmental storytelling. In the basement of the rest home, there’s a note accusing Ahti of stealing all the electrical fuses. I get into Cynthia Weaver’s room and find a whole box of them. 
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Detective No. 27 posted:There’s some good environmental storytelling. In the basement of the rest home, there’s a note accusing Ahti of stealing all the electrical fuses. I get into Cynthia Weaver’s room and find a whole box of them. Of course he wouldn't, the janitor keeps things working, perkele... EDIT:On a different note, I'm retroactively a little bummed that Ikka Villi wasn't able to do the voice for Alan in the first place. His lines as Zane in this one barely have any trace of a Finnish accent so it's not like he can't play American. Poretta's phenomenal in every role Lake gives him, and it's cool they found a way to let Villi give a full performance, it's just a shame it took this long. Gaz-L fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Nov 3, 2023 |
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I decided to play through the game in the default chapter order it presented me, but decided to take a quick look at how the character switching mechanic worked first once it came up. Of course Alan's chapter turned out to be WE SING, and I instantly gave up on my plan. What a game 
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Either I bugged the game or I just can’t figure it out. I’m looking for the Old Gods record. I got to the point where I got inside of Cynthia’s room. I’ve checked everything in the room and done everything I can in the Mind Place. The record is nowhere to be found. I check some walkthroughs which say it’s in her bath tub. I don’t see a prompt or anything about it. I found one video which shows that the info is obtained by profiling Cynthia. I don’t have her profile photo so I can’t profile her. Doing an online search for this is useless because the SEO brings up something else.
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Nov 3, 2023 02:21
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Have you gone into the Old Gods room? EDIT: I'm reading some stuff suggesting that NG+ is going to add more narrative content? It's not a loop, it's a spiral
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Nov 3, 2023 02:30
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The man in black fled across the pacific northwest, and the writer followed.
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Nov 3, 2023 02:38
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Malcolm Excellent posted:The man in black fled across the pacific northwest, and the writer followed. It feels stupid now not to realise that Lake's Stephen King nods in the Wake games are as much to the Dark Tower as to the Shining and it's ilk.
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Nov 3, 2023 02:40
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Yeah, the only interactables are some old newspaper clippings and the broken record frame on the ground, which prompted the whole power outage ordeal. I got that taken care of and everything.
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Nov 3, 2023 02:40
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Have you gone to the Mind place (tm) for your puzzle solving needs?
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Gaz-L posted:It feels stupid now not to realise that Lake's Stephen King nods in the Wake games are as much to the Dark Tower as to the Shining and it's ilk. Stephen King are the first words in Alan Wake
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Detective No. 27 posted:Yeah, the only interactables are some old newspaper clippings and the broken record frame on the ground, which prompted the whole power outage ordeal. I got that taken care of and everything. this might sound very stupid, but did you flashlight boost the darkness cloud protecting the record? I remember there being one there
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Issaries posted:Have you gone to the Mind place (tm) for your puzzle solving needs? Yeah. I’ve exhausted everything there. I found a video walkthrough. The Cynthia profile got added when finding the broken record frame on the floor in the museum. It didn’t do that for me! Bug confirmed, I can’t continue the game.
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CharlestonJew posted:this might sound very stupid, but did you flashlight boost the darkness cloud protecting the record? I remember there being one there There’s no darkness cloud there for me.
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Malcolm Excellent posted:Stephen King are the first words in Alan Wake Yes, but I think people hear that and go 'oh, it will be spooky game' not 'oh poo poo, metafiction where the writer is literally a character in the story'.
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Nov 3, 2023 02:56
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I'm doing the hotel section for Alan and the game is just way too easy on Normal. Resources are so abundant and I barely have to engage with things like my flashbangs, flares or even use the shotgun given that I have abundant pistols and battery ammo and that's enough to handle everything
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Nov 3, 2023 03:24
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BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:I'm doing the hotel section for Alan and the game is just way too easy on Normal. Resources are so abundant and I barely have to engage with things like my flashbangs, flares or even use the shotgun given that I have abundant pistols and battery ammo and that's enough to handle everything Crank up the difficulty, tough guy.
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Maybe on a repeat playthrough. I'm inclined to, but I think it's a Goldilocks problem if there's going to be boss fights or later sections where cranking it up makes it irritating
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BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:Maybe on a repeat playthrough. I'm inclined to, but I think it's a Goldilocks problem if there's going to be boss fights or later sections where cranking it up makes it irritating Cynthia is the only fight that was any problem so far and even then it was only three or four tries on hard, though I'm not done with the game yet. It's fine to add a bit of challenge but I don't think combat is enough of a focus to care, I assume playing normal vs hard is much the same experience.
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BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:I'm doing the hotel section for Alan and the game is just way too easy on Normal. Resources are so abundant and I barely have to engage with things like my flashbangs, flares or even use the shotgun given that I have abundant pistols and battery ammo and that's enough to handle everything I started the game on Hard because I wanted the combat to have some bite to it and reading posts like this makes me really glad I did. I haven't really been challenged outside of a few fights where I didn't respect the enemies enough and got killed for it, and Saga's third boss fight which had a bug where the bosses attacks would get me stuck in a loop of standing up and when I actually got her to stand up she wouldn't be able to fire her weapons or switch them for a full minute. In fact the whole Nursing home section was VERY buggy complete with T-posing models and bizarre lighting bugs. Every other section has been fairly stable so far.
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Am I misunderstanding something about how Saga's charm to do more damage when undetected works? Since you have to use the flashlight before striking enemies, aren't you always detected?
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BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:Am I misunderstanding something about how Saga's charm to do more damage when undetected works? Since you have to use the flashlight before striking enemies, aren't you always detected? One of the weapons has a perk that allows it pierce darkness shields, so you could use it to ambush dudes. Honestly though, I ditched that charm because you almost never encounter a single Taken alone. You can alpha strike the first one and then the next two, three of them know you're there so it's pretty meh.
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Detective No. 27 posted:There’s no darkness cloud there for me. You profiled on it first as well right? Sometimes if you don't do profiling/story-boarding before stuff it doesn't trigger for some dumb reason. For the record I don't know that that would affect it but it's worth a try. It's a bug otherwise.
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Wow perfect dodging normal Taken attacks is loving impossible. Sekiro had more forgiving timing than this
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RatHat posted:Wow perfect dodging normal Taken attacks is loving impossible. Sekiro had more forgiving timing than this It feels a lot harder to do than Re4make's knife parry, for example.
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God man, the live action sequences are just so well made this time around. Ilkka Villi isn't the voice of Alan Wake, but David Harewood is the voice of Mr. Door. Sam Lake voices himself, but not Casey. And so there's this really really smooth mixture of overdubbing and acting directly from the scene and it's awesome. Anyone else forget that Matthew Porretta isn't the face of Alan for a while? I've gotten so used to games with face capture!
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Posting here to manifest a real Old Gods of Asgard gig. There's merch and an album release coming. We need a real gig.
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Poets have enough OGoA songs to put together a pretty decent set at this point. Save Children of the Elder God for the encore for sure.
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I've seen them live a couple of times and they never play any of those  .SirSamVimes posted:Save Children of the Elder God for the encore for sure. Have Ilkka Villi run around the stage as a pyro tech during that.
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WaltherFeng posted:It feels a lot harder to do than Re4make's knife parry, for example. I definitely found RE4R more challenging than this game on standard But agree doing the perfect timing is tricky. It's usually safer to try and run and shoot than to try and intentionally do this while standing ground
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