Alan Wake

was this any good?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Wake

After the battle Alan approaches the main television with him agonizing over "Why...why..why couldn't I make him stop". A powerful scream comes from the television

obviously it is awesome

i still kinda want to play this if i ever finish RDR. at least by then it will be like $10 (if it's not already).

got mixed reviews

waiting, like I always do these days, for it to hit £10

Played a little of it, it was all right. Felt like those nightmare sequences in Max Payne, but done much better and without the crappy platforming.

what kind of game is this? it sounds like a max payne style thing, is that right?

this looks like it was designed by robots in order for me to like it - action/adventure without (much) gunplay and a ton of atmosphere

plus: it's finnish!

oh - xbox :(

a lot like silent hill but with a game mechanic that's really samey - pointing your flashlight at an enemy slows/stops them and stops them being invulnerable, so you do that then shoot at them. fairly good atmosphere, lighting, water etc.. didn't play enough of it to comment on the story because i didn't really dig it that much.

I bought it, as I saw it for £15. The first two episodes I was pretty engrossed. It's pretty trippy; very much (narratively) like Max Payne, but avoiding the crappy platformers for lots of running through woods which probably isn't much better (so far, I've only done 2 1/2 episodes). Also, when I was playing it, other people in the room sat and patiently watched the whole 'episode', and were quite taken in, which is pretty unique.

I'm not sure if I would recommend it though, that said. I'm on the third episode , and I'd like to know how it ends, but I'm not enjoying the actual gameplay all that much. It's fun, but very repetitive and only really stands up to playing for an hour or so - with each episode it seems like more of a chore to sit down and play the whole episode in one sitting.

hmm interesting answers.

it's always kind of a mystery which gameplay elements turn out really "strong" and worthy of repetition, and which quickly look weak. L4D: shoot zombies, strong! could do it all day. alan wake: shine your light, not strong? is that the consensus?

my only real complaint is the samey-ness of the enemies. the story really starts getting more absorbing around episode 3 or 4.

this game is pretty solid if you like silent hill types.

I think its biggest issue is that its just not freaky/weird enough especially in comparison to SH. it tries for this psychological thriller level but isn't smart enough to move it past cliches.

the gameplay has a lot of underdeveloped good ideas that it feels like they gave up on. overall though, definitely worth getting used.

wow i just finished episode three and that was like the longest most tedious thing ive played in YEARS

note: from the studio that brought you those endless blood trail levels in max payne, so obv fun having is not priority number one for these dudes

If someone can figure out a way to give players whatever they need from a shitty video game that will allow them to stop playing it without beating it that person will make a million dollars

finished this last night and it was 100% no fun at all. just pretty much a terrible game in every way.

so uh antexit otm i guess.

no joke here, not one scare in the whole thing, ultra repetetive gameplay to the point of huge frustration, garbage script, super boring visually, makes the color palatte in FO3 look like a rainbow brite episode, pointless driving sections, terrible characters, and for bonus points direct ripoffs of other games and the most noxious product placement ive ever seen (not in quantity, but in the way its done). god i hated this game.

i need a new game but this will not be it.

yeah, it blows. I rented it via Gamefly a few weeks ago, and it's just boring.

in all seriousness, even without the camp factor Deadly Premonition is a better game than this, esp since they're kinda walking the same ground - just way more legitimately involving and scarier and smarter while at the same time being hilariously and enjoyably inept in so many ways. which has got to be a pretty huge embarrassment for remedy tbh.

got mixed reviews

waiting, like I always do these days, for it to hit £10
― hopa dreams (cozen), Tuesday, August 17, 2010 8:18 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

shouldn't have even bothered. shit game

my bro downloaded it. i think i played 10 minutes of it.

so much hate for this game still lingering within me

Why do you dudes hate this game so much? I was vaguely enjoying it for the first hour or so but sent it back to Gamefly because I had other games I wanted to play more.

well take that first hour and repeat it over and over again - also you didnt get to the joe pesci simulator, or the further depths of alan wakes incredibly boring and mopey inner life

the Joe Pesci simulator?????

well technically he is an NPC but man, if you havent had enough joe pesci over the last 20 years have i got a game for you

We're talking about "Barry", right?

aw

I was hoping you were referencing a minigame

yeah barry

one of many fingernails on the chalkboard level characters in this shitshow

I would be very tempted to purchase a game that involved a minigame that made you be as Pesci as you possibly could

somebody need to get on some sorta "being john malkovich" style video game franchise

i would definitely play "being ray liotta"

Try Vice City

ha

being crispin glover

would not really want to play "being michael madsen" tho

Being Jeff Conoway would be a massive bummer

Whole new meaning to Crazy Taxi

Because he is crazy and was in Taxi, do you seeeee

(or was crazy, anyway. RIP Jeff 1950-2011. np Boyz II Men It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday.)