Alan Wake looks insane

[mojovonio]

Buncha new footage

http://www.gametrailers.com/game/alan-wake/1608

drooool

[Great Rumbler]

I'm still a bit miffed that they took out the open-world aspect, but it does look pretty good.

Edit: Also miffed about the PC version getting axed.

[Stoney Mason]

I'm starting to get excited for this one when I originally wasn't because I've always felt Max Payne was incredibly over-rated.

Seems like a good action version of Silent Hill which is especially needed since Silent Hill stopped being good a long time ago.

[Stoney Mason]

This has been consoleified and maintstreamed it seems.

Still would like to play, but its nowhere near as exciting and ambitious as it was.

You mean its been potentially made into something somebody would actually like to play.

[The Fake Shemp]

This actually looks pretty good. Will check out.

[MCD]

it always looked fuckamazingfuckmyassnow but the shooting in the e3 video bored me to tears.

[Stoney Mason]

This has been consoleified and maintstreamed it seems.

Still would like to play, but its nowhere near as exciting and ambitious as it was.

You mean its been potentially made into something somebody would actually like to play.

Potentially made into something someone with ADD would like yeah.

I know. Max Payne was such a deep and nuanced experience, this won't be able to compete by comparison.

or Death Rally.

[dark1x]

Looks great, but I'm concerned by the poor performance (so much tearing).  Hopefully they fix that.

This has been consoleified and maintstreamed it seems.

Still would like to play, but its nowhere near as exciting and ambitious as it was.

What exactly have they've shown in the past that would lead you to this conclusion?  Most of the early footage seemed like tech demos and the like.  It's finally starting to look like an actual GAME.  It still seems more ambitious than their past work on Max Payne, which was extremely linear and limited confined corridors.  If you enjoyed their previous work I can't understand how you'd find fault here.

[Brehvolution]

Edit: Also miffed about the PC version getting axed.

Those gametrailer vids in the above link all include PC as a platform.

[Great Rumbler]

Edit: Also miffed about the PC version getting axed.

Those gametrailer vids in the above link all include PC as a platform.

Remedy shelved the PC version back during the summer and said it would be up to Microsoft whether the PC version ever got finished. MS has said nothing at all since then about doing that.

[dark1x]

Edit: Also miffed about the PC version getting axed.

Those gametrailer vids in the above link all include PC as a platform.

Remedy shelved the PC version back during the summer and said it would be up to Microsoft whether the PC version ever got finished. MS has said nothing at all since then about doing that.

Ah, well, that's why PC gamers are taking such a negative stance against this game then.  :\

[The Fake Shemp]

Some of it looks really fun, but I hope there's more puzzle solving and such. Right now, it kind of looks like RESIDENT EVIL: TWIN PEAKS.

[Van Cruncheon]

wow, that screen tearing is abominable

also frame rate am cry

[Great Rumbler]

wow, that screen tearing is abominable

also frame rate am cry

And since there's no PC version, everyone that wants to play this will simply have to bear such travesties.  :'(

[Brehvolution]

I remember a couple years back when AW was initially shown to show the power of SLI. 

[demi]

Why get excited? You can get the same experience from Alone in the Dark. BUT SINCE THIS EXCLUSIVE OH MAN

[cool breeze]

Why get excited? You can get the same experience from Alone in the Dark. BUT SINCE THIS EXCLUSIVE OH MAN

That must be why no one cares about Braid now that it's on PS3

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Braid

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[demi]

I'm not excited at all.  Game looks like shit from what i've seen so far.

Well you like weiners

[duckman2000]

Looks about as exciting as that QTE game.

[Brehvolution]

You guys are going to make Draft mad. 

[The Fake Shemp]

Says the producer of Imagine Babyz.

[Crushed]

Wait, they shelved the PC version? Damn it, there goes any excitement I had.

[Don Flamenco]

You mean to tell me that some writer killed all my deputies?!111   

great, this kind of corny talk is gonna be the whole game...the aleins are attacking alan waek and he's a pretty cool guy so he kills them and doesn't afraid of anything, but the police won't believe him because after all who would believe a story about aliens and spirits kekekeke!   

frame rate is in the 20s, there was no gameplay in that section, horrible tearing, big meh.

[BamYouHaveAids]

Some of it looks really fun, but I hope there's more puzzle solving and such. Right now, it kind of looks like RESIDENT EVIL: TWIN PEAKS.

it looks even more linear than resident evil. dead space: twin peaks is more apt

edit: actually, it looks like alone in the dark made by someone competent. it's settled, the new name is alone in the dark: twin peaks

[Don Flamenco]

how about Max Payne in New England Wearing A Blazer and a Hoodie?

[The Fake Shemp]

Some of it looks really fun, but I hope there's more puzzle solving and such. Right now, it kind of looks like RESIDENT EVIL: TWIN PEAKS.

it looks even more linear than resident evil. dead space: twin peaks is more apt

I'd settle for that, since Dead Space is way better than Resident Evil anyway.

[BlueTsunami]

Yeah, my hype has waned on this game. It went from all OPEN ENDED FUCK YEAH, to WE NEED TO TIGHTEN THE SCENARIO SO NO OPEN ENDED FUCK YEAH, to WE'VE DELAYED THE GAME AND SHOWING YOU A BUILD THAT CHUGS AND SCREEN TEARS.

[cool breeze]

Max Payne games are good because the action/shooting is incredible. 

I'm still looking forward to Alan Wake, but of what's been shown, it looks kinda dull.  The writing is still entertaining because it's so hammy; the gameplay seems like a lot of in-game cutscene/adventure game stuff that's hard to get a read of from the videos shown.  The shooting from back at E3 seemed fairly one-note with "light enemy > shoot enemy".  And for a game that should look good, it has a lot of performance problems (can all get taken care of by release).

[Bebpo]

I haven't watched the videos because I don't really care but I'm definitely looking forward to this.  It wasn't even just the gameplay in Max Payne 1 & 2 that made them great, it was the atmosphere.  Especially in MPII they did a great job at creating locations oozing with personality.  That's exactly what a horror game needs.

[Bildi]

I came.

GOTY 2010

Hey, that's my post.

[Third]

My most wanted X360 exclusive. I trust Remedy.
The footage so far has been pretty interesting.

[maxy]

Tearing is just a product of GT shitty videos,every GT AC2 video has tearing and yet there is zero tearing on AC2 360,playing it right now.

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

"Like a shadow of a brain tumor"

Who the fuck is writting this shit?

[MCD]

Alan Wake.

[The Fake Shemp]

I remember a couple years back when AW was initially shown to show the power of SLI. 

Not only that but on some Intel Developers Forum they showcased Alan Wake running on some octo-core Intel CPU boasting how powerful it is.

And now it's cancelled on the PC

So what you're saying is that the PC couldn't handle this game

[cool breeze]

"Like a shadow of a brain tumor"

Who the fuck is writting this shit?

Have you played the Max Payne games?

"Logic told me backup should be on its way; someone must've heard the gunfire. Logic was such a liar."

 

[Great Rumbler]

"Like a shadow of a brain tumor"

Who the fuck is writting this shit?

Have you played the Max Payne games?

"Logic told me backup should be on its way; someone must've heard the gunfire. Logic was such a liar."

 

Alan Wake has the same writer as the Max Payne games.

[Cravis]

Here's hoping it's released this summer, then again I said that last year. I have faith in Remedy. Graphics are very nice. I'm sure they will hold up well. Heck Max Payne 2 still looks good.

[The Fake Shemp]

They said a couple of months ago that it was pretty much done, and they are working on polishing the game.

[SantaC]

Is the game going to be as linear as it looks in that police chase video? It pretty much looked like there was one corridor in the forest that the character could run through.

yes the game abandoned the sandbox world.

[Great Rumbler]

Sounds like Project Ego all over again.

 

[cool breeze]

haha, it does, actually.

Does that make Too Human Sudeki all over again?

[Jansen]

you guys are a bunch of distinguished mentally-challenged fellows. game looks awesome as fuck.

[brawndolicious]

I don't get the bitching.  Framerate and tearing issues like that would definitely be fixed for release but otherwise, it looks beautiful.  You can tell they spent a lot of time polishing every little detail and set up the levels as setpieces.  Even if it doesn't deliver on all of the promises, nobody can doubt that it's going to be an awesome game.

[Jansen]

there's a video from an event a couple weeks ago floating around that had minimal screen tearing.

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[Van Cruncheon]

Framerate and tearing issues like that would definitely be fixed for release

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

are we even talking about the same industry

[Human Snorenado]

Framerate and tearing issues like that would definitely be fixed for release

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

are we even talking about the same industry

Whatever, loli enthusiast.

[Van Cruncheon]

y'know, at least my weeaboo devs in jappaland know what vsync fuckin' is

[brawndolicious]

Yeah but they're also the graphical equivalent of hobo poop stains.

This clip has some drops and tearing at very specific, scripted, spots so it's obvious that they're not going to just let it go like that after the past few years of using this game as a tech demo to justify new, now obsolete, video cards and quad core processors.  They're not going to just let the 360 gag on the nicest parts of the game.  I just won't believe it until I see it happening.

[MCD]

so what if it got tearing and framedrops?

nothing new to this gen