CJacobs posted:

Also god he's SO HANDSOME. How can someone be this handsome???

algebra testes posted:

The biggest mystery of this Let's Play so far is that I already am subscribed to Skippy Granola's youtube channel and I can't for the life of me work out why.

Not in an existential "Nothing he has done is of worth" way, but a "I must have been following a let's play of his and I can't remember which one" way.

chitoryu12 posted:

Have you been recording commentary for a whole year or is there a backlog and you're doing fresh stuff now?

Antistar01 posted:

Oh, right; they did put out another game. It had something to do with time travel/manipulation, didn't it? What was it called?

Hmm, let's see; they had Max Payne, then Alan Wake, so... "Tim Travell"?

EponymousMrYar posted:

When Skippy said 'this episode is sponsored by Danny's' I was expecting Danny Diesel

White Coke posted:

Then why have I been waking up, my hands covered in blood?

Neophyte posted:

O Holy Skyboat!
Doing pinnace for our sins!

Nice piece of fish posted:

Mr. Highway posted:

I'm either surprised or disappointed in the lack of a "the car honked it's own horn" reference.

The battle with inanimate objects is so silly yet also so great. On one hand you are fitting pipes and junk that randomly launch toward Alan or a bulldozer that lightly brushes against Alan. On the other it provides the player with another enemy type and continues this self-deprecating self-awareness about Alan Wake and Stephen King. Stephen King making a monster out of some random object is an somewhat inaccurate caricature (e.g. early Family Guy had that joke about King writing a book about a killer lamp). The caricature is not entirely wrong and, as such, has worked its way into the shared view of who King is to the point where if you were to ask someone who had never read a King story or book to describe a King story or book, this person would probably talk about a killer lamp.

biosterous posted:

White Coke posted:

Nightingale is in Bright Falls to save the world from the evils of Alan Wake. How can Cooper or York compare to that?

Fish Noise posted:

Gothsheep posted:

So everybody loves this part of the game for the stage fight, which is awesome. However, I also think this is the best written part of the game from the meta-narrative standpoint. Now, that's a really wanky term, but it's an important one in Alan Wake.

Whenever I explain this game to someone, I always tell them Alan Wake is about two authors arguing over what the genre of the story is going to be. There's a lot going on during the time Alan is actually writing the story, and you get bits of it from the television flashbacks, but a lot of it you only really get if you watch how the story unfolds.

Basically the game starts off straight horror. You're powerless, hunted by shadowy figures you don't understand, with no idea what's going on or why. Even if it made sense in the plot, something like that fight on the stage wouldn't have fit in the earlier parts of the game just because it would have been such a shift in tone.

But as was pointed out in the last television bit, Alan decided to steadily push the genre out of horror and towards action, where the darkness could be defeated. In the last couple chapters, he discovered the actual enemy was this 'dark presence' all along, talked to the Old Gods who gave him a goal for how he might learn how to beat it, and killed off the distractions so the plot could focus entirely on the main villain.

What I really like about that though, is that this shift coincided with his second dunk in the lake. The story really started the first time he jumped into the lake to try and save Alice. Then the shift away from horror and towards action started after he fell into the lake again, but this second time he was carrying a flare. (which a story page noted could burn underwater)

Anyway, I always thought that was a really neat angle in the game that's never really directly touched on.

Combat Lobster posted:

You know, seeing Barry wrapped in Christmas lights made me think of a neat weapon idea. Braid a couple feet of the stuff and make a christmas light whip.