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Jollipop

Since 6899 Days

I was refering to the youtube video above.

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dcdelgado

Since 6876 Days

Damn it!!, ok i'll watch a little bit of the Giantbomb video, but that's it until release i tell you, that's it!!

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Optimusv2

Since 6909 Days

Posted by dcdelgado

Damn it!!, ok i'll watch a little bit of the Giantbomb video, but that's it until release i tell you, that's it!!

You won't be sorry. Most of it is stuff we've seen before, but then it goes a bit further than that. It really gives you a solid sense of what this game is truly like. You get a real idea for just how well this game conveys its impressive atmosphere, and you also get a basic idea of the interesting ways the game uses light.

You also get a fantastic feel for how well the combat controls are handled and it becomes even more obvious than its basically ever been, in my view at least, that this game is made by the same people that brought us the awesome Max Payne games. Thanks to the Giantbomb video, I also came to realize that the environments were much more explorable than anything I was initially expecting, despite the tightly scripted and linear nature of the game.

One of the biggest things for me personally as well, besides the fact that it helped give me confidence to know that I can play through this thing without being totally scared out of my mind, even though I still fully realize that I haven't even begun to see the scarier parts of this game yet, is that it also showed me what a tougher taken enemy can be like besides just simply being faster. I really like the idea of the level of darkness around them being so strong that it can't as easily be burned away as with other taken. It does a great job of leaving the impression that there will be some really interesting moments that help with regards to the pacing and variety in the game so you don't feel as if you're basically doing the same repetetive thing all game. I mean, all good games -- even ones where you are actually doing the same thing all game -- do this in some form or another and its good to see that Alan Wake does it too.

What's more, and this really can't be said enough, the sound design in this game is incredible. The sound associated with the peeling away of the darkness with your flashlight is so awesome. Then there are the environmental and weather sounds. There was that awesome loud thud and stomp sound the taken made as he ran and jumped across those logs. Simply just the sound of you moving through the environment and stepping on things like leaves is just great.

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[quote=dcdelgado]Damn it!!, ok i'll watch a little bit of the Giantbomb video, but that's it until release i tell you, that's it!![/quote]

You won't be sorry. Most of it is stuff we've seen before, but then it goes a bit further than that. It really gives you a solid sense of what this game is truly like. You get a real idea for just how well this game conveys its impressive atmosphere, and you also get a basic idea of the interesting ways the game uses light.

You also get a fantastic feel for how well the combat controls are handled and it becomes even more obvious than its basically ever been, in my view at least, that this game is made by the same people that brought us the awesome Max Payne games. Thanks to the Giantbomb video, I also came to realize that the environments were much more explorable than anything I was initially expecting, despite the tightly scripted and linear nature of the game.

One of the biggest things for me personally as well, besides the fact that it helped give me confidence to know that I can play through this thing without being totally scared out of my mind, even though I still fully realize that I haven't even begun to see the scarier parts of this game yet, is that it also showed me what a tougher taken enemy can be like besides just simply being faster. I really like the idea of the level of darkness around them being so strong that it can't as easily be burned away as with other taken. It does a great job of leaving the impression that there will be some really interesting moments that help with regards to the pacing and variety in the game so you don't feel as if you're basically doing the same repetetive thing all game. I mean, all good games -- even ones where you are actually doing the same thing all game -- do this in some form or another and its good to see that Alan Wake does it too.

What's more, and this really can't be said enough, the sound design in this game is incredible. The sound associated with the peeling away of the darkness with your flashlight is so awesome. Then there are the environmental and weather sounds. There was that awesome loud thud and stomp sound the taken made as he ran and jumped across those logs. Simply just the sound of you moving through the environment and stepping on things like leaves is just great.

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Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

Seeing it in motion on your HDTV, will blow your mind!!

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Frozpot

Since 6775 Days

lol, I'm actually physically wrestling myself to keep from watching that video!...

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Oooh, Profound, isn't it?

Optimusv2

Since 6909 Days

Heh, as someone who hates spoilers just as much as the next guy, besides one reveal near the end, which I admit is pretty damn cool and interesting, it's not that bad in the spoiler department. It's basically something you might've probably learned in a trailer if Alan Wake were a movie. It doesn't kill the rest of the experience. In fact, it actually does more to make you want to play the game even more.

The Giantbomb vid is good for some very important reasons. It gives you a real sense of the combat and quality of the controls in this game. It also helps to really show you just what an impressive degree of polish is present in this game, and why people going nuts about the atmosphere in the game are 100%. Oh, and it also basically shows you why this game, on the Xbox 360 anyway, absolutely could not have been done at 720p. There's no way a lot of the things present in that Giantbomb video from a visual standpont could be possible at 720p without the game looking significantly less impressive.

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Heh, as someone who hates spoilers just as much as the next guy, besides one reveal near the end, which I admit is pretty damn cool and interesting, it's not that bad in the spoiler department. It's basically something you might've probably learned in a trailer if Alan Wake were a movie. It doesn't kill the rest of the experience. In fact, it actually does more to make you want to play the game even more.

The Giantbomb vid is good for some very important reasons. It gives you a real sense of the combat and quality of the controls in this game. It also helps to really show you just what an impressive degree of polish is present in this game, and why people going nuts about the atmosphere in the game are 100%. Oh, and it also basically shows you why this game, on the Xbox 360 anyway, absolutely could not have been done at 720p. There's no way a lot of the things present in that Giantbomb video from a visual standpont could be possible at 720p without the game looking significantly less impressive.

Halo Reach using 360 tesselation unit extensively.

Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

Seeing it in motion on your HDTV, will blow your mind!!

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of th

Frozpot

Since 6775 Days

Has it actually been confirmed to not be 720 though? All I remember is the one guy claiming it. Regardless, maybe I'll watch most of the video...

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Optimusv2

Since 6909 Days

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2115626...

Game is absolutely fantastic. The environments are incredible and seriously make you feel almost overwhelmed at times. So many times I would just stop for a moment to look around and take it all in. I haven't experienced this kind of intense atmosphere in a game since playing Dead Space. The controls feel very good but it took me about a good hour to get used to and feel comfortable with the shooting mechanic. The story is also really great and can't wait to see the conclusion. I'll be starting episode 6 this weekend.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2115695...

Just wait til you get deeper into the game. The environments become even more vast and detailed. And not that it's already blatantly obvious but I just can't say enough about the lighting. Incredible feat they've accomplished with it.

Nope, and watching some of that gameplay footage, the giantbomb one especially, it becomes immediately obvious why there's no way they could pull of this game at 720p. There's simply way too much going on. The lighting is simply some of the best I've seen, the weather effects are out of this world. It's amazing seeing a thick gathering of mist or forg at its most intense even casting full shadows onto the environments. The manner in which the trees react realistically to the high wind speed is amazing. There is even a scene with a river in the gameplay vid, and that, too, looks amazing.

It's clear a big design focus for Remedy in this game was to have all sorts of crazy things take place in the environment in real-time, but also to have highly advanced real-time weather affects that they could use to set the mood outside of simply just cutscenes, and they wanted to be able to combine that with truly amazing lighting effects.

They've succeeded, but they succeeded by lowering the native resolution of the game, but as a plus we also have a very clean looking game, thanks to the 4XMSAA.

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[quote]Game is absolutely fantastic. The environments are incredible and seriously make you feel almost overwhelmed at times. So many times I would just stop for a moment to look around and take it all in. I haven't experienced this kind of intense atmosphere in a game since playing Dead Space. The controls feel very good but it took me about a good hour to get used to and feel comfortable with the shooting mechanic. The story is also really great and can't wait to see the conclusion. I'll be starting episode 6 this weekend.[/quote]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=21156959&postcount=1482

[quote]Just wait til you get deeper into the game. The environments become even more vast and detailed. And not that it's already blatantly obvious but I just can't say enough about the lighting. Incredible feat they've accomplished with it.[/quote]

Nope, and watching some of that gameplay footage, the giantbomb one especially, it becomes immediately obvious why there's no way they could pull of this game at 720p. There's simply way too much going on. The lighting is simply some of the best I've seen, the weather effects are out of this world. It's amazing seeing a thick gathering of mist or forg at its most intense even casting full shadows onto the environments. The manner in which the trees react realistically to the high wind speed is amazing. There is even a scene with a river in the gameplay vid, and that, too, looks amazing.

It's clear a big design focus for Remedy in this game was to have all sorts of crazy things take place in the environment in real-time, but also to have highly advanced real-time weather affects that they could use to set the mood outside of simply just cutscenes, and they wanted to be able to combine that with truly amazing lighting effects.

They've succeeded, but they succeeded by lowering the native resolution of the game, but as a plus we also have a very clean looking game, thanks to the 4XMSAA.

Halo Reach using 360 tesselation unit extensively.

Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

Seeing it in motion on your HDTV, will blow your mind!!

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of th

Frozpot

Since 6775 Days

Ok, watched the first half, and it has solidified my already solid purchase. I will watch no more! One thing though. This is how ingame adverts should be done(product placement). Makes it feel more real to have real brands in there, and it gets the controversial advertising dollars!

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Jollipop

Since 6899 Days

Yes its not 720p some bits have terrible aliasing, game looks stunning though.

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Optimusv2

Since 6909 Days

Posted by Frozpot

Ok, watched the first half, and it has solidified my already solid purchase. I will watch no more! One thing though. This is how ingame adverts should be done(product placement). Makes it feel more real to have real brands in there, and it gets the controversial advertising dollars!

Yea, some are making a fuss over the product placement, but I don't have a problem with it. He is using energizer batteries, oh no! :D

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LEBATO

Since 7138 Days

lol at the EG reviewer, WTF? Oh well, no wonder, move on.

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scoobs0688

Since 5651 Days

Posted by Optimusv2

They are downloading it illegally, of course. I'm willing to bet that at least 40% of all non major gaming magazine, website, or blog impressions of the full game are the result of pirated copies of the game.

Some of the stuff in those CE/LE are usually totally worth the price of admission. They usually have really cool behind the scenes developer commentary about what the overall development process was like and what directions they thought about going in, but opted not to. They usually give you all sorts of really interesting information about not just development of the game itself, but the process of developing videogames as a whole. Whenever I've seen such things, I've always found them to be particularly interesting.

I like seeing instances where some of the best ideas were the result of complete accidents, or bugs. In even rarer cases, you actually get to see the entire process by which a developer painstakingly comes up with a solution to something they want to achieve in their game, and that's almost always really awesome. Also, that FBI files book about all the events that transpired in Bright Falls has me excited like you wouldn't believe. I can see it really serving to enhance my overall experience with the game. Also, there's a sense of pride that I get out of owning the collectors edition or limited edition of specific titles. For most I just couldn't care one way or the other, but certain titles you really do want to make that exception, in my case anyway :)

Every CE has stuff like that.. heck GoW Collection came w/ it in the regular edition for $30. As long as you find value in it, thats all that matters :)

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They are downloading it illegally, of course. I'm willing to bet that at least 40% of all non major gaming magazine, website, or blog impressions of the full game are the result of pirated copies of the game.

Some of the stuff in those CE/LE are usually totally worth the price of admission. They usually have really cool behind the scenes developer commentary about what the overall development process was like and what directions they thought about going in, but opted not to. They usually give you all sorts of really interesting information about not just development of the game itself, but the process of developing videogames as a whole. Whenever I've seen such things, I've always found them to be particularly interesting.

I like seeing instances where some of the best ideas were the result of complete accidents, or bugs. In even rarer cases, you actually get to see the entire process by which a developer painstakingly comes up with a solution to something they want to achieve in their game, and that's almost always really awesome.  Also, that FBI files book about all the events that transpired in Bright Falls has me excited like you wouldn't believe. I can see it really serving to enhance my overall experience with the game. Also, there's a sense of pride that I get out of owning the collectors edition or limited edition of specific titles. For most I just couldn't care one way or the other, but certain titles you really do want to make that exception, in my case anyway :)[/quote]
Every CE has stuff like that.. heck GoW Collection came w/ it in the regular edition for $30.  As long as you find value in it, thats all that matters :)

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Optimusv2

Since 6909 Days

Posted by scoobs0688

Every CE has stuff like that.. heck GoW Collection came w/ it in the regular edition for $30. As long as you find value in it, thats all that matters :)

Indeed, indeed :D

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Halo Reach using 360 tesselation unit extensively.

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Optimusv2

Since 6909 Days

Apparently a spoiler free, 20 minute stretch on the joystiq podcast where some pretty major praise is being thrown Alan Wake's way.

http://forum.alanwake.com/showpost.php?p=78974&pos...

The boys on the Joystiq Podcast talked about Alan Wake again on their new podcast. It was spoiler free and was about a 20 minute discussion which started around 3:30 into the podcast.

Chris Grant, who is the Editor-In-Chief of Joystiq, said it was his game of the year, that he like it better than Mass Effect 2! He also said he was amazed that the game was below a 90 on Metacritic, really expecting it to be around a 95.

Direct link to podcast in question http://podcasts.aolcdn.com/joystiq/podcasts/05-07-...

Loving what I'm hearing in this podcast. They make the combat sound so amazing. They mention it being surprisingly strategic, and that's something you can immediately tell isn't bs because it all makes perfect sense based on what we've already seen.

You have all these taken coming at you, often times from various different directions, especially right on your six, naturally you're going to need to make the best possible decision as to exactly which of the taken you'll target first. But then you also have options like dropping down a flare, which won't exactly kill them, but it will at least give you some breathing room because they'll shy away from the light it produces. In addition to that, it's also effective at stripping away their shrouds of darkness. So while they're busy staying away from this flare that you've just dropped, all of a sudden you've just bought yourself some valuable time to either recharge the battery on your flashlight or pop in a new battery and focus on taking out the largest of the threats, and then dispatching the lesser enemies afterwards.

Then when you also factor in the dodge, there's generally just much more to think about than you would otherwise expect in an action title. They also state with some confidence that Alan Wake's action gameplay is something that could totally stand on its own separate from the storytelling experience, because it's just that good.

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Apparently a spoiler free, 20 minute stretch on the joystiq podcast where some pretty major praise is being thrown Alan Wake's way.

http://forum.alanwake.com/showpost.php?p=78974&postcount=1136

[quote]The boys on the Joystiq Podcast talked about Alan Wake again on their new podcast. It was spoiler free and was about a 20 minute discussion which started around 3:30 into the podcast.

Chris Grant, who is the Editor-In-Chief of Joystiq, said it was his game of the year, that he like it better than Mass Effect 2! He also said he was amazed that the game was below a 90 on Metacritic, really expecting it to be around a 95.[/quote]

Direct link to podcast in question http://podcasts.aolcdn.com/joystiq/podcasts/05-07-10-joystiqpodcast-e137.mp3

Loving what I'm hearing in this podcast. They make the combat sound so amazing. They mention it being surprisingly strategic, and that's something you can immediately tell isn't bs because it all makes perfect sense based on what we've already seen.

You have all these taken coming at you, often times from various different directions, especially right on your six, naturally you're going to need to make the best possible decision as to exactly which of the taken you'll target first. But then you also have options like dropping down a flare, which won't exactly kill them, but it will at least give you some breathing room because they'll shy away from the light it produces. In addition to that, it's also effective at stripping away their shrouds of darkness. So while they're busy staying away from this flare that you've just dropped, all of a sudden you've just bought yourself some valuable time to either recharge the battery on your flashlight or pop in a new battery and focus on taking out the largest of the threats, and then dispatching the lesser enemies afterwards.

Then when you also factor in the dodge, there's generally just much more to think about than you would otherwise expect in an action title. They also state with some confidence that Alan Wake's action gameplay is something that could totally stand on its own separate from the storytelling experience, because it's just that good.

Halo Reach using 360 tesselation unit extensively.

Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

Seeing it in motion on your HDTV, will blow your mind!!

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of th

Optimusv2

Since 6909 Days

They are dropping some pretty heavy damn praise on the quality of the storytelling in this one. Sounds like the manuscript pages are a highly effective tool, indeed. Informing or foreshadowing events involving Wake himself, but also what's going on with others. You are treated to the opportunity to get into the heads of the other characters in the game and get a feel for their internal thinking, which directly gets you to look at that character in an entirely different or more informed way the next time around because you've literally been inside their head. And, done right, I can certainly imagine just how highly effective something like that would be.

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Halo Reach using 360 tesselation unit extensively.

Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

Seeing it in motion on your HDTV, will blow your mind!!

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of th

Optimusv2

Since 6909 Days

Weekend Confirmed Podcast. They sound extremely excited about Alan Wake. Also no spoilers.

http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/cdn2.shack...

They start talking about the game at 28:46. Damn, the wait just gets harder and harder.

Ahh, here's what I mentioned before.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?i...

Speaking to CVG at a spooky event in the middle of the woods last month, Remedy's head of franchise development (your guess is as good as ours), Oskari Hakkinen painted a disaster picture for the developer if Wake doesn't sell.

He said: "We are betting the farm on [Alan Wake] and if this isn't a success we'll be selling hotdogs in Helsinki. Really.

"We were in a good situation after Max Payne 2 and we invested everything after selling the intellectual property and putting it back into the love of making videogames."

He added: "Everything's gone into this project so this will ultimately set us up for how we continue and how many videogames we can make in the future."

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Weekend Confirmed Podcast. They sound extremely excited about Alan Wake. Also no spoilers.

http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/cdn2.shacknews.com/public/extras/podcast/wknd_confirmed_043010_06.mp3

They start talking about the game at 28:46.  Damn, the wait just gets harder and harder.

Ahh, here's what I mentioned before.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=245729

[quote]Speaking to CVG at a spooky event in the middle of the woods last month, Remedy's head of franchise development (your guess is as good as ours), Oskari Hakkinen painted a disaster picture for the developer if Wake doesn't sell.

He said: "We are betting the farm on [Alan Wake] and if this isn't a success we'll be selling hotdogs in Helsinki. Really.

"We were in a good situation after Max Payne 2 and we invested everything after selling the intellectual property and putting it back into the love of making videogames."

He added: "Everything's gone into this project so this will ultimately set us up for how we continue and how many videogames we can make in the future."[/quote]

Halo Reach using 360 tesselation unit extensively.

Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

Seeing it in motion on your HDTV, will blow your mind!!

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of th

scoobs0688

Since 5651 Days

lol optimus posting 4 in a row? someone's excited.

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Jollipop

Since 6899 Days

Alan Wake cheerleading squad.

I think he would have a meltdown if Blue Dragon 2 was ever announced.

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dcdelgado

Since 6876 Days

Excellent stuff Ops!! c'mon may 14th!

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Jato

Since 6893 Days

Posted by kenshin2418

True, but very few games have been able to come close to the Half Life series in execution. Half Life 2 is still the perfect implementation as far as linear approaches go. Though I didn't mean linear games were bad, just the ones that assume you're mentally handicaped and feel the need to point everything out. For instance having a minimap with a big ass yellow dot telling you where to go. That's ok for some games where the agenda is just get from Point A to Point B and shoot everything along the way, but for a game like this, where you're suppose to be exploring and trying to piece stuff together, it's a little disappointing. Though whatever, it's not that big of a deal. If the game is fun, the game is fun.

Yeah, I get what you're saying. Oh well, we'll just hope for the best... :)

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Optimusv2

Since 6909 Days

Haha, yea, definitely excited bigtime. I was also pretty excited before the release of Splinter Cell Conviction, too, but with that one I honestly wasn't expecting anywhere quite as good a game as I actually ended up getting. It totally caught me by surprise. I was just expecting to find myself with a game that I simply had a lot of fun playing, even though it would probably be lacking in a number of areas. However, I came away from that game with pretty much no complaints about the experience whatsoever, I thought it was one of the most enjoyable and surprisingly polished games I've played all generation. It's always amazing when a game catches you off guard like that.

With this game, however, I'm totally going in with all the excitement I had for Conviction and then some. I'm expecting this one to be a truly incredible game through and through from the start. Pretty excited about the story, but I'm also pretty surprised that I seem to be so excited about taking on as many creepy enemy encounters as possible, something that was once a negative for me, which may have prevented me from getting the game altogether.

Haha, Jolli, you've got no idea... If Blue Dragon 2 were announced, just wow, I wouldn't be able to put my excitement into words. There's so much potential for a follow-up to that game, not only on the gameplay and story side, but on the graphics engine side as well. I just hope Microsoft learns that follow-ups to games like Blue Dragon and Alan Wake are more beneficial to them in the long run than not.

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Haha, yea, definitely excited bigtime. I was also pretty excited before the release of Splinter Cell Conviction, too, but with that one I honestly wasn't expecting anywhere quite as good a game as I actually ended up getting. It totally caught me by surprise. I was just expecting to find myself with a game that I simply had a lot of fun playing, even though it would probably be lacking in a number of areas. However, I came away from that game with pretty much no complaints about the experience whatsoever, I thought it was one of the most enjoyable and surprisingly polished games I've played all generation. It's always amazing when a game catches you off guard like that.

With this game, however, I'm totally going in with all the excitement I had for Conviction and then some. I'm expecting this one to be a truly incredible game through and through from the start. Pretty excited about the story, but I'm also pretty surprised that I seem to be so excited about taking on as many creepy enemy encounters as possible, something that was once a negative for me, which may have prevented me from getting the game altogether.

Haha, Jolli, you've got no idea... If Blue Dragon 2 were announced, just wow, I wouldn't be able to put my excitement into words. There's so much potential for a follow-up to that game, not only on the gameplay and story side, but on the graphics engine side as well. I just hope Microsoft learns that follow-ups to games like Blue Dragon and Alan Wake are more beneficial to them in the long run than not.

Halo Reach using 360 tesselation unit extensively.

Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

Seeing it in motion on your HDTV, will blow your mind!!

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of th

blmbox

Since 6348 Days

I think I'll pass on this until it becomes a little bit cheaper and I can afford to invest some spare cash.

The reviews have disappointed me. Don't get me wrong, an average of around 8.5/10 is not bad, but I was expecting 9.0+ to be honest.

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SimonM7

Since 7040 Days

I dunno, 9+ games are usually too fancy for me. The reason they get high scores is so very rarely that they're exceptional as games, and so often that they do some other ultimately superficial thing that elevates it above the norm.

Bioshock and GTA4, two of the hands down most intensely praised games of the last 10 years, are genuinely some of the least satisfying gaming experiences I've had. So I'll take you, Alan Wake, to be my wedded 7/10, to have and to hold along with Splinter Cell Conviction from last month.

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Nietzsche

Since 6369 Days

Very true Simon, so many games that get vast amounts of praise are so often due to design choices and experiences that are new or exciting, but do not usually add up to an true indication of how fun the overall experience is.

So very often there are plenty of 8/10 games on the market that I have fun with longer and/or more fun playing than the 9/10 or 10/10 games that offer certain things that are very impressive, but in the end the overall fun value doesn't equal other "lesser" games.

I'm not going to assume Alan Wake fits this bill, but I certianly agree that the numeric value next to a review is anything close to an indication of how fun it is, rather just how well polished it is.

Darksiders didn't have a huge amount of 9/10 reviews, but I had far more fun playing that game than the majority of 9/10 games that have been coming out as of late.

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icemanufc

Since 5682 Days

wow those podcast have blew my hype meter through the roof, everything they said is exactly what i wanted to hear, cant wait!

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