It's funny you mentioned how you lose all the stuff you collected, weapon and ammo wise, at the start of each new episode. One review in particular, can't remember which, or maybe it was a podcast, stated how they felt Remedy deciding to do such a thing was a pretty good move on their part, so the player was never in a situation where they just felt too powerful, or were too capable of dealing with all the various situations presented to them in each episode. I had a similar feeling with regards to the inability in Splinter Cell Conviction to just go balls out and have a shootout with everybody. It didn't feel like so much a controls oversight, more than it felt like a very deliberate move on Ubi's part to ensure the player wasn't being encouraged to just rush in and have a massive shoot out. In the case of Alan Wake, I guess it can keep things feeling pretty tense and unsettling, and it also serves an extra added benefit of encouraging the player to explore the various environments off the designated path listed on the mini-map more, resulting in the player running into and being able to stock up on useful items or collectables, like manuscript pages, television sets, radios, etc.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2120390...

lol this guy sounds like he loves it.

lol optimus scouring the internet for 9+ reviews eh?? Spanish websites really optimus?? we get it, you are excited lol.

Nice try noobs0688 :P

It's simply just the latest reviews posted in the exact same thread, on the official alan wake forums might I add, as the one containing Remedy's direct reaction to all the reviews thus far. If you pay attention, none of what I listed are my own words, they are the words of people on the official alan wake forums talking about the reviews. Did the lack of quotes on all of it confuse you, or what? :D

Not exactly "scouring the internet" when it's right there.

There's no need to scour the internet for strong reviews to a game that has already been reviewed at a 9 or better 40 times already, and that's even leaving off quite a few that don't follow the 1-10 scale. :P

Now consider the fact that metacritic is missing over 30 of those 9+ reviews. I know you're a smart guy, do the math. :) Obviously metacritic doesn't consider all those reviews as important enough to place alongside some of the other sites they follow and I completely understand the need for a "control" group, as it were, to prevent too much heavy skewing of the results, but reviews are reviews as far as I'm concerned, so long as they have a history of reviewing titles without some obvious agenda. Hell, metacritic even accepts reviews of some Xbox centric magazines and websites or playstation centric magazines and websites, so so much for control right?

This is especially true as you constantly see new review sites hop on and off metacritic's list of followed sites, and you are compelled to ask sometimes, what exactly makes whoever it is that makes those decisions any more qualified to judge which reviews matter from which ones don't than anybody else out there? Hell, some of Alan Wake's heaviest praises have been sung by wildly popular gaming blogs that don't even hand out scores to their reviews in the first place.

Yep, I'm excited about Alan Wake, very much so. However, there have been many games that I've been excited about, but I think I'm very honest about what I think of the quality of those games once I try them out myself. My hype was literally through the roof for Fable 2, and I came away from Fable 2 immensely disappointmented at the quality of the game, considering it was probably my favorite title on the original xbox, although I played the pc version :P. In fact, I'd say Fable 2 is one of the worst experiences I've had with a highly anticipated game. That's an opinion I expressed on this very site. This from the person that created a thread just to state how unbelievably excited I was about Fable 2.

I was super excited for Infinite Undiscovery, as I'm sure you know, and criticized reviews that I felt may have gotten it wrong, only to come back and agree wholeheartedly with every negative review about the game. I couldn't even advance very far into the game because I was just that disgusted by the quality of what I was playing. I started out excited for Splinter Cell Conviction when the new direction was revealed at E3, then as time went on I began openly criticizing the game on this very site for not looking like it was going to be very good, that is until I started seeing more promising things, and then the demo just did wonders for me, and the final game ended up even more incredible than I could've ever hoped.

So, long story short, don't you worry scoobs. Despite my level of excitement, if Alan Wake is a disappointment, or not as good a game as I hoped it would be, you'll certainly hear that from me. Until then, however, please respect the fact that the hype train is coming through! :P

Lol, in your face, courtesy of Optimus!!

I cant belive you get wound up so much by Korndogs comments your such bloody muppetts at times.

If you think he is trolling ignore him.

Not that he was his comment was sound, but yet the "only buy this game if your hyped" comment was not moaned at? really people double fucking standards.

You are joking right!, i've seen you get wound up for far far less and get banned a few times in the process, you have now calmed down a bit though, but don't act like you don't know why Korn gets people's backs up sometimes with his constant stealth trolling comments.

Korn commenting on an a 360 game is kind of like me commenting on an FPS, nothing good will come of it.

LOL, it'snot even "stealth" at this point of time.

As i said dont comment then, as for past tense :) yeah yea lol i cant argue that :(

I know i'm the worst offender, but i expect you guys to be better behaved :D

LOL! very true.

Shock and Awe perhaps, or maybe...



Also, I'm now officially on blackout for this game until I get it myself. There has noticeably been a new phase in the strategy as of this morning. Mofos are spoiling significant chunks of the story left and right, even on GAF, with an added bit of advice from a simple concerned citizen warning (yes warning) not to buy it. :P

I don't want to get spoiled any worse than I already have been, and that's pretty bad enough already. I was fortunate enough to at least avoid whatever the heck it was that was spoiled on GAF.

only a few more days :)

Got me some Alan Wake!!! :)

Grrrr. Four more days. Still, I guess it's cool that you guys over-seas get something first, for once...

The game arrived early this morning but sadly, I wont be able touch it till tomorrow afternoon........grrr

wow!! so far so fracking good, but like joli maybe i should started on the normal level, as like joli everytime i get surrounded i get owned!!, i am getting better though :)

holy crap just opened my ce edition, the book you get in it is great, but the more i read it the more i feel i might be spoiling my game experience a bit, so i'll put off reading it untill i've finnished the game :)

I am also playing it on hard, just need to use the evade button more, its alot more enjoyable than normal. Its brilliant so far, the graphics are phenomenal!

I'm finding it a bit to much for me on hard, i evade one fucker and feel great about it, only for another taken to axe my head from behind!, that and the fact that i'm cacking my pants most of the time means Normal level for me :), i am loving it though.

Alright, spent about an hour with the game. So far, so good. The atmosphere is gripping and very well done. Graphics are very nice but lip-synching is a disaster and clearly aged throughout development. At the moment, it's a little bit slow if you ask me. All in all, very good.

I played the first Episode. It's really well done. The pacing is perfect, the atmosphere is very dense. The game literally consumed me during the first hour, especially in the scenes at sunset and when the dark presence seems to take over the forest at night. Spooky.

Love it. Already scared the crap out of me a few times and I've only played an hour or so. Graphics are really nice as well if you ignore the crappy facial animation.

Yup, facial animations suck!

Can't wait to get my hands on this thing. People are going absolutely ape youknowwhat over this thing from various impressions I've read. Avoided looking at any spoilers, however.

lol can't say shit? cute optimus