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Fil5000 posted:You can't change the story like that, people have to act in character. I must find the clicker. This is a nightmare. A horror story. A dark tale, twisted by the psyches of the goons. They refuse to accept reality. No! I will not succumb. A hero. I need a hero. Heroes and victims and monsters. The forums are infested by darkness. I'm stumbling down the threads, looking for a clear answer, for something to hold onto. "The plot of this game has too many incomprehensible subtext even though it is all completely text and I refuse to read them as presented!" the goons cry. I will defy them. I must find the clicker. I'm the hero. The hero must pay the price. My 50/50 eyesight will be the price. I have found the clicker. "Are you sure you want to exit dark mode?" the forum software says. Yes. I hesitate, but yes. Yes. Click.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:I must find the clicker. This is a nightmare. A horror story. A dark tale, twisted by the psyches of the goons. They refuse to accept reality. No! I will not succumb. A hero. I need a hero. Heroes and victims and monsters. The forums are infested by darkness. I'm stumbling down the threads, looking for a clear answer, for something to hold onto. "The plot of this game has too many incomprehensible subtext even though it is all completely text and I refuse to read them as presented!" the goons cry. I will defy them. I must find the clicker. I'm the hero. The hero must pay the price. My 50/50 eyesight will be the price. I have found the clicker. "Are you sure you want to exit dark mode?" the forum software says. Yes. I hesitate, but yes. Yes. Click.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:I must find the clicker. This is a nightmare. A horror story. A dark tale, twisted by the psyches of the goons. They refuse to accept reality. No! I will not succumb. A hero. I need a hero. Heroes and victims and monsters. The forums are infested by darkness. I'm stumbling down the threads, looking for a clear answer, for something to hold onto. "The plot of this game has too many incomprehensible subtext even though it is all completely text and I refuse to read them as presented!" the goons cry. I will defy them. I must find the clicker. I'm the hero. The hero must pay the price. My 50/50 eyesight will be the price. I have found the clicker. "Are you sure you want to exit dark mode?" the forum software says. Yes. I hesitate, but yes. Yes. Click.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:I must find the clicker. This is a nightmare. A horror story. A dark tale, twisted by the psyches of the goons. They refuse to accept reality. No! I will not succumb. A hero. I need a hero. Heroes and victims and monsters. The forums are infested by darkness. I'm stumbling down the threads, looking for a clear answer, for something to hold onto. "The plot of this game has too many incomprehensible subtext even though it is all completely text and I refuse to read them as presented!" the goons cry. I will defy them. I must find the clicker. I'm the hero. The hero must pay the price. My 50/50 eyesight will be the price. I have found the clicker. "Are you sure you want to exit dark mode?" the forum software says. Yes. I hesitate, but yes. Yes. Click.
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Alan Wake 2 NG+ update is out, with bonus extra lore!
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Basic Chunnel posted:You misunderstand me. I don’t mean to say that FROM invented that. How could they have? They weren’t involved in the development of Death Stranding, the original Strand game which preceded the entire genre we all know and love. god shut up you pseud
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I have yet to play Alan Wake 2 (I'm getting the last pieces of my new rig together) and I saw an IGN article about how unclear it is if it sold well or not and I desperately want AW2 to do well... I don't know if it's game journalism being game journalism or if Epic exclusivity hosed them over, which would suck considering the Epic funding is what helped AW2 even happen.
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TheWorldsaStage posted:I have yet to play Alan Wake 2 (I'm getting the last pieces of my new rig together) and I saw an IGN article about how unclear it is if it sold well or not and I desperately want AW2 to do well... This seems like a really pointless thing to fret about given that there's literally no way of knowing. It's not like their games under performing sales wise has ever stopped Remedy before.
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Blockhouse posted:This seems like a really pointless thing to fret about given that there's literally no way of knowing. It's not like their games under performing sales wise has ever stopped Remedy before. You're absolutely right, I pointlessly fret quite a bit. Thank you though, that does help!
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it has a sale now so you can get it now too https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/...genumber%3D1362
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The Saddest Rhino posted:it has a sale now so you can get it now too Oh drat, thank you for the heads up! That's a steal
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Yeah that rules. Thanks for posting
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On sale so quickly? Not a good sign, financially. Remedy probs shutting down in the next year or so.
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oldpainless posted:On sale so quickly? Not a good sign, financially. Remedy probs shutting down in the next year or so. On sale for $10 off but Epic does holiday sale coupons where you can get 33% off any game. With the same deal you can get Hogwarts Legacy, Lords of the Fallen, Remnant 2, and Mortal Kombat 1 for cheaper than Alan Wake 2.
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Yeah, its Epic paying for it. They are burning tons money to try and make the Epic store more than a Fortnite platform and failing utterly at doing that.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:it has a sale now so you can get it now too Thank you, gentle Goon.
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I have read some stuff about Wake 2 underperforming Control but it feels like there is a good chance all the praise will give it a longer tail.
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I don't think Alan Wake 2 was ever going to be a megaseller, the fact that a sequel even got made was a bit of a shock.
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ImpAtom posted:I have read some stuff about Wake 2 underperforming Control but it feels like there is a good chance all the praise will give it a longer tail. Being digital-exclusive is probably hurting it too, compared to a combination of physical and digital salea.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Being digital-exclusive is probably hurting it too, compared to a combination of physical and digital salea. Probably, combined with being Epic exclusive.
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ImpAtom posted:I have read some stuff about Wake 2 underperforming Control but it feels like there is a good chance all the praise will give it a longer tail. That isn't too surprising, it's a sequel for a cult hit from 14 years ago with some questionable design if you aren't Into That Stuff. Control was a new IP based off a very active online fan community (ie SCP). Even with all the good writing and new gameplay changes I honestly think the game is probably a bit of a hard sell if you aren't already invested in the series IShallRiseAgain posted:Yeah, its Epic paying for it. They are burning tons money to try and make the Epic store more than a Fortnite platform and failing utterly at doing that. If Epic wants to subsidize half the cost of my game purchases then I'd be happy to buy it on their platform. The thing they are missing is that I'm not going to then buy anything else on top of that.
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CuddleCryptid posted:That isn't too surprising, it's a sequel for a cult hit from 14 years ago with some questionable design if you aren't Into That Stuff. Control was a new IP based off a very active online fan community (ie SCP). I bought AW2 based solely on my enjoyment of Control, idk if you really need to be a fan of the original or have seen it at all.
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CuddleCryptid posted:That isn't too surprising, it's a sequel for a cult hit from 14 years ago with some questionable design if you aren't Into That Stuff. Control was a new IP based off a very active online fan community (ie SCP). Epic's entire business model was apparently 'if we give away free stuff we'll capture 50% of the online PC game market' despite them taking loving ages to add a shopping cart to their store.
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Free games might have been a better gambit had they not hit the scene after a solid decade of Steam sales cluttering up the inventories of inveterate PC gamers. I ended up finally getting the client for free Hitman 1 just so I could start the game from scratch again.
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The only reason i've not bought Alan Wake is because its on Epic. If i buy a game, i'm buying it on steam.
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Fil5000 posted:Epic's entire business model was apparently 'if we give away free stuff we'll capture 50% of the online PC game market' despite them taking loving ages to add a shopping cart to their store. It's 2023 and the Switch still doesn't have a cart dogstile posted:The only reason i've not bought Alan Wake is because its on Epic. If i buy a game, i'm buying it on steam. Still gonna lol at people acting like the epic store is some whole new system that they just can't access
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Len posted:It's 2023 and the Switch still doesn't have a cart I've been collecting free games and buying the odd exclusive on there like AW2, I just prefer steam because I have more stuff on there and it's generally a smoother experience than Epic or GOG.
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Yeah, Epic's a bit of a pain to deal with, but not enough to avoid a game I really want. Steam's getting to be more of a pain, too, it feels pretty common for newer games to have their own publisher's launcher that stacks on top of it, so Epic really doesn't feel much different in the end.
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Given the existence of the steam deck now and that it's a pain getting egs stuff to run on it (sometimes it works sometimes it won't) I don't blame people for wanting to stick with just steam.
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I remember shady user data policies when it came out sort of stumbling the start, but that didn’t stop me from firing it up to get extra (free) copies of indie games I already loved and indier games I’ll never play. But mainly it was a thing of, by that point I had come to realize the virtues of minimizing the number of apps that launched on startup, and if there was an app I was going to always have open, it was going to be Steam. Also Steam didn’t do desktop notification ads (tbf they might exist and I just don’t remember disabling them on the OS level) When Hitman II came out as an Epic PC exclusive I was definitely firing it up, but only through the H2 desktop shortcut.
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To their credit, Epic’s hubris may well have kept a few AAA independent studios alive when they otherwise might have collapsed or been acquired — Remedy and IO being the big examples — but otoh that same hubris also set Bandcamp on a path to ruin. So who’s to say if they’re good or not? Perhaps not as noble a misfire of gaming finance as Private Division, which likewise propped up indie+ devs and had a big hit in The Outer Worlds, only for Microsoft to (presumably) cut them out of future profits on the franchise bc PD explicitly set out to give its devs rights to the IP, and MS acquired the devs… an extraordinary and good policy, but presumably one investor types would come to hate. They’re still at it, though.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:it has a sale now so you can get it now too They even give you the Alan Wake 1 remastered for free with that.
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Didn’t they do that as a weekly thing too? Or was that the original release version? American Nightmare was definitely a giveaway
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Remastered is the bad version anyway because you lose out on the stupidly amazing product placement.
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SirSamVimes posted:Remastered is the bad version anyway because you lose out on the stupidly amazing product placement. See people keep saying it's stupid, but you name one other battery that let's you focus the light beam of any flash light and also regenerates its charge. You can't because there isn't one 
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Len posted:See people keep saying it's stupid, but you name one other battery that let's you focus the light beam of any flash light and also regenerates its charge. You can't because there isn't one Duracell can't dispel the impenetrable barrier of shadow surrounding evil presences like Energizer™ can.
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Pro tip: if you want to know what “Ahti, but good” looks like, Fargo Season 5
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Basic Chunnel posted:Pro tip: if you want to know what “Ahti, but good” looks like, Fargo Season 5 I literally only just found out a couple days ago that there was a season of Fargo currently airing, I'm trying to decide whether to jump in or wait until it's mostly/all out. I've heard good things about it, but I thought the series was dead after season 4 - I tried and failed to get into that one a couple times, it just felt extremely slow paced at the start compared to earlier seasons.
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Captain Hygiene posted:I literally only just found out a couple days ago that there was a season of Fargo currently airing, I'm trying to decide whether to jump in or wait until it's mostly/all out. I've heard good things about it, but I thought the series was dead after season 4 - I tried and failed to get into that one a couple times, it just felt extremely slow paced at the start compared to earlier seasons. I recommend watching now. I think even more than other seasons this one benefits from week to week viewing. As much as I hate waiting and binging there is something to be said for the slow burn
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Captain Hygiene posted:I literally only just found out a couple days ago that there was a season of Fargo currently airing, I'm trying to decide whether to jump in or wait until it's mostly/all out. I've heard good things about it, but I thought the series was dead after season 4 - I tried and failed to get into that one a couple times, it just felt extremely slow paced at the start compared to earlier seasons. At the very least I think there's broad agreement it's better than seasons 3 and 4. I guess you could call it a "return to form"; even if the remixing and pastiche of Coen movie elements is just as blatant as it's always been (the aforementioned Ahti guy is sort of a cross between Anton Chigurh and that guy from The Big Lebowski who holds Maude's trampoline and makes insane faces at the camera for like ten seconds -- he is sorely missed whenever he's offscreen) it is pointing mostly toward the Fargo film, and the thriller / neo-noir elements are very well paced and shot.
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