Alan Wake

[schild]

Totally didn't expect to see this end up on the PC. 

Someone tell me it's not a shit port. Please.

[Yegolev]

Is any port of a shit game a shit port?

[schild]

If a tree falls in the woods I thought people liked Alan Wake.

[luckton]

Everytime I see screen shots of this game, I can't tell if it's a fancy point-n-click adventure or if it's got some action.  Wasn't this like game of the year in certain genres for 2011?

Or better yet, who the fuck is Alan Wake?

[Surlyboi]

Great concept, nice atmosphere, meh execution.

I really liked it, but it got repetitive quick.

[jakonovski]

AW is not really a horror game, it's an atmospheric 3rd person shooter, and a good one at that. No idea on the port quality though.

edit: RPS might know. http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/02/17/wot-i-think-alan-wake-pc/

[Miasma]

I'm a scardy cat so I'll only buy this if there are glorious console cheats to make me invincible.  Off to gamefaqs now.

[Rokal]

The game doesn't really emphasize the horror much. For what it's worth, I loved it. The game isn't without its problems, but the story and the setting are one-of-a-kind (for games, at least).

[Velorath]

Don't know how the port turned out but the main issue with the game is that a lot of the gameplay is "shine light on enemy, shoot enemy" so in that respect it does get a bit repetitive at times.  The 360 version came out at the same time as Red Dead Redemption which got most of my focus and probably every few days or so I'd play an "episode" of Alan Wake.  Playing like that helped minimize the feelings of repetition a bit.  I'll probably pick this up on a Steam Sale since I gave my 360 away to a nephew, and never did play the DLC chapters (included in the PC version).  Sounds like Alan Wake: American Nightmare might get a port also.

[Ragnoros]

Alan Wake port profitable in 48 hours.

Somewhat related. Derail at will.

[Soln]

Think I will buy this on Pc.  Funny I was also planning on getting Dear Esther as well.  Small world.

[Teleku]

Alan Wake port profitable in 48 hours.

Somewhat related. Derail at will.

Great news.  Its amazing what Steam has done for PC Gaming, and hopefully things like this will help influence future decisions by publishers.

[Yegolev]

I just don't like the game.  Alan annoyed me, the combat was annoying since for me it got in the way of me trying to really enjoy what was going on (Alan being a douche and Scary Town).  Also the forced hallway was way too obvious for me, but I have played a shit-ton of games so maybe other people have lower standards for their use of free time than to be told "You're playing a scary adventure!" then finding yourself slogging through hallways that are also, due to the lighting, monster closets.  So I guess points to Remedy for creatively using the two worst parts of Doom 3 or something.  I might not have been as bothered if the box had said "Writer stuck in scary town, has to shoot lots of smoky lumberjacks with limited ammunition, plus we think there's a story in there as well."

[Sky]

Alan annoyed me, the combat was annoying since for me it got in the way of me trying to really enjoy what was going on (Alan being a douche and Scary Town). 

I saw a developer interview a while back where they said the first one was too slow for gamers, so they inverted the action:story ratio. Rather than an atmospheric game with some action, it became an action game with some atmosphere.

That was the end of my interest. I'll take Amnesia over the newer Resident Evils any day.

[apocrypha]

Do we have a thread for Steam deals? I couldn't find one. I don't like necroing such old, old threads, is there a preferred alternative?

Anyway... the Alan Wake franchise is 90% off this weekend on Steam. Three British pounds and ten shiny pennies for the whole lot or some other number of some other currency!

[UnSub]

Apparently it is supercheap on XBLA as well.

[HaemishM]

I'm not sure $4 is worth it. I bought it for maybe $10 for the whole shebang and stopped playing it maybe halfway in. The controls are shitty shit shit. Take a normal 3rd person action shootery experience, then make it clunky as fuck to use with a light mechanic that gets really old really fast. Make ammo really scarce (typical survival horror). Shove the player into a story as the douchiest protagonist around. Then torture the character and the player relentlessly for hours.

It got the style right but the substance was all over the place. I played it on PC with both mouse/keyboard and controller and it sucked equally on both.

[Lounge]

It was cheaper last week via the weekly humble bundle sale.  You could get steamcodes for everything alan wake related for a buck.

I played it way back when on the xbox and it was ok not great right up until then end when it shit itself.

[Kageru]

It's really hard to resist when the game is less than a shot of coffee... though really the limiting factor is time rather than availability of games even for a PC gamer now.

[Yegolev]

A shot of coffee is easier to digest.

[UnSub]

If there's a reason to play Alan Wake, it's so that you can experience the incredibly unsatisfying narrative for yourself.

[Teleku]

Wow, didn't know the game had that much hate.  I rather enjoyed it, though it certainly was repetitive by the end.  Good concept though.

[Bzalthek]

I just finished the second episode.  So far it's been well worth the 5 bucks I paid for it.  It's not Hemingway, but if you were expecting Hemingway you're a retard.

[KallDrexx]

Finally got to play this game and beat it last night.

I quite enjoyed it, much better narrative than the crap that Heavy Rain turned out to be.  It did get a bit repetitive at the end (the last episode could have been cut in half) but not as repetitive as I've found most linear games after 10 hours.

[bhodi]

The game is a ton more fun when you watch a let's play of it and skip all the boring combat.