PC Alan Wake coming soon?

From what other people have told me, the whole "game" consists of looking for batteries in a forest. Therefore it should cost the same as a pack of batterys :D
 
I was soooo looking for this coming out on the pc but now that I've read some user comments who have actually played the 360 game....it's like wtf? Does anybody have anything good to say about the game who's played it?
 
fps4ever said:
I was soooo looking for this coming out on the pc but now that I've read some user comments who have actually played the 360 game....it's like wtf? Does anybody have anything good to say about the game who's played it?
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The plot's pretty cool and I did like the atmosphere. The voice acting is top notch, too.
The game was originally more of a point + click adventure game and if it had stayed on that path, it would've been pretty solid. The real issue with the game is when you get thrown back in the damned woods and are stuck shining your flashlight and shooting shadows.
 
someone mentioned it earlier but I think the original vision was for an open world game...that had the potential to be a lot better versus the linear game it turned out to be
 
Domingo said:
The plot's pretty cool and I did like the atmosphere. The voice acting is top notch, too.
The game was originally more of a point + click adventure game and if it had stayed on that path, it would've been pretty solid. The real issue with the game is when you get thrown back in the damned woods and are stuck shining your flashlight and shooting shadows.
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Do you think MS made them dumb it down for consoles and make it less scary for release on the Xbox? I'm wondering if you got something similar to the first video's they released or something watered down after getting Microshafted?
 
the PC screenshot that was released doesn't look all that impressive...facial animation looks very good but overall it looks the same as the console...I thought at least the lighting would be much improved but the flashlight beam looks average...then again with most of the game taking place at night I'm not sure how much of a difference DX11 or high-res graphics would make

 
dr.stevil said:
to be honest though, Microsoft has a LOT to do with that. They offered Remedy money in exchange for Xbox exclusivity. They certainly didn't have to take the offer, but if they were short of capital I can see how it would be a difficult deal to pass on.
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One of many examples, albeit there are far worse ones, of why MS really is one of the biggest enemies to PC gaming if we get down to it.

It's all about the crapbox, folks. Always.
 
I guess Alan Wake can take its place behind Halo and Gears of War as another game that is two years too late to the PC party. :rolleyes:
 
fps4ever said:
Do you think MS made them dumb it down for consoles and make it less scary for release on the Xbox? I'm wondering if you got something similar to the first video's they released or something watered down after getting Microshafted?
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Microsoft was the publisher from day one of its announcement. I think Remedy tried to be very ambitious and ended up biting off more than they could chew. They are a tiny studio and have to outsource a lot of their work.
 
While I did get kinda tired of running around in the forest being attacked by shadows, I did enjoy the game. I wouldn't get your hopes up if you think they're going to improve it for the PC; it'll probably just be a port with PC gamers having the benefit of running it at 60FPS and higher resolutions.

I'd like to play through it again; maybe I'll wait and if it's $30 on PC I'll buy it.
 
so...... grappy overrated xbox game becomes PC game how many years after the fact? lol no buy here
 
fps4ever said:
I was soooo looking for this coming out on the pc but now that I've read some user comments who have actually played the 360 game....it's like wtf? Does anybody have anything good to say about the game who's played it?
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Why do you think I dont listen to peoples opinions on games anymore.. ( Including reviews ).

There is no better reviewer for a game.. Then yourself.
 
jonneymendoza said:
too little too late. hope it sells crap on pc. serves them right
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But theyll probably view this as meaning that there's no point releasing games on PC where noone buys them :( ..Then again there aren't any they make that are xbox exclusive i'd actually want...
 
DeathPrincess said:
But theyll probably view this as meaning that there's no point releasing games on PC where noone buys them :( ..Then again there aren't any they make that are xbox exclusive i'd actually want...
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Good. One less developer porting games from Xbox, that's a good thing IMO.
 
This was day one buy for me when they announced it way back when.

Remedy was ridding on the coat tails of the previous max paynes.

Gonna seriously pass on this. Their argument for not bringing it on pc was they only sold 350k copies but didn't talk bout the million in digital sales. Yeahhhh.... *cough* *Bullshit* *cough*
 
tuaarita said:
How is no game at all better than a port exactly? No one is putting a gun to your head to buy it.
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lol that's what I was thinking.

If you don't want it, then don't buy it. A lot of people seem to forget how truly awful most PC games were 10-20 years ago. There were a lot of gems (most of the games people consider classics) but there was a lot of dogshit too that was PC exclusive.

I, for one, am thankful for console ports. There are a lot of great games on consoles and while some developers get lazy or do a bad job, I'd rather have that than nothing at all.

If someone really doesn't want a console ports available to them, they should start gaming on linux
 
I sent Remedy an email and got a reply back. :D

Is Alan Wake for the PC going to be chair optimized? I don't think my couch will fit in front of my desk.

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LOL,

thank you, I think we deserved that!

Happy gaming,

Mika Reini
Remedy Entertainment
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If I listened to most of the pc gamers here bitch about all the consolized crap games (and rightfully so on most) then I would end up not purchasing anything at all. I might as well take a chance and see for myself. Might be pleasantly surprised...or not but it's better than playing nothing at all!
 
tuaarita said:
How is no game at all better than a port exactly? No one is putting a gun to your head to buy it.
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1. Alan wake is not the only game coming out on pc.
2. A console port will sell like shit on pc , wasting time and money for Remedy and they then blame poor sales because of piracy.
3. By accepting a console port over nothing, Your telling the game devs that its perfectly fine to release a console game 2 years later on pc. You are also supporting less quality/dumbed down PC games the more you demand/dont mind console port releases.


fps4ever said:
If I listened to most of the pc gamers here bitch about all the consolized crap games (and rightfully so on most) then I would end up not purchasing anything at all. I might as well take a chance and see for myself. Might be pleasantly surprised...or not but it's better than playing nothing at all!
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Nothing at all? diddnt know Alan wake was the "only" game you can play on pc:rolleyes:
 
tuaarita said:
How is no game at all better than a port exactly? No one is putting a gun to your head to buy it.
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That's the problem. It's not Ubi or nothing.

We've become hooked on this idea that it's either Ubisoft their mass produced shite, or nothing, so we better just buy it and put up with it. The games market is no different from any other business market, there is a certain amount of cash being spent by the consumers and that can float a maximum number of companies and keep them profitable before the market becomes saturated. When a large player drops out of the market there's less competition and more potential sales to go around, more investment and more opportunities for other developers who are just starting out, who just need the right conditions to get their games to market.
 
jonneymendoza said:
1. Alan wake is not the only game coming out on pc.
2. A console port will sell like shit on pc , wasting time and money for Remedy and they then blame poor sales because of piracy.
3. By accepting a console port over nothing, Your telling the game devs that its perfectly fine to release a console game 2 years later on pc. You are also supporting less quality/dumbed down PC games the more you demand/dont mind console port releases.




Nothing at all? diddnt know Alan wake was the "only" game you can play on pc:rolleyes:
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Way to misinterpret my post. :rolleyes: Name me one game that half the pc gamers haven't bitched about calling it a port or bug riddled release this past year. No It's not fine to release those kinds of crap games, but one persons crappy game is another's game of the year. I don't buy day one releases anyway until they've been patched up and prices drop so it's a win for me either way. And yes, I would rather have something than nothing if those are the only two choices...jeeezzz.
 
Hard Reset was one of the few PC exclusives this year which was well out of the "Indy game" segment and had a proper crack at being an AAA game and did a pretty damn good job IMO. I don't recall any significant bitching about that game.

I pre-ordered that game, I didn't pre-order any other games this year, but a PC exclusive FPS game I'm willing to go out of my way to support.
 
maboblivion said:
Their argument for not bringing it on pc was they only sold 350k copies but didn't talk bout the million in digital sales. Yeahhhh.... *cough* *Bullshit* *cough*
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their argument for not bringing it to PC was that they are a very small studio and didn't have the manpower to work on both a console and PC version simultaneously...but in reality I think it was Microsoft's call the whole way...they wanted it only on Xbox

I also would rather have a 'console port' versus no game at all...aren't 90% of PC games nowadays console ports?...I still think Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Skyrim and Arkham City are fantastic games despite being multi-platform...plus the wait for Alan Wake only helped the PC market...we get all the DLC included and most of the bugs worked out AND most likely will pay much less then if it had come out at the same time as the Xbox version (not to mention possible DX11 support)
 
The word 'port' doesn't bother me much nowadays. If it's a game I know I'll enjoy for more than 10 hours, I'll buy the damn thing
 
fps4ever said:
I was soooo looking for this coming out on the pc but now that I've read some user comments who have actually played the 360 game....it's like wtf? Does anybody have anything good to say about the game who's played it?
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On the contrary, the game is VERY good. I guess most people that consider themselves 'gamers' expect a whole lot, and their basis for wanting a lot more comes from the fact that a SIMILAR game had more content, more guns, more strafing angles, more foliage, you get the idea.

The game was very good, in my opinion, the combat was top notch and the animations along with it were superb. The guns had plenty of kick and the sound design was some of the best I've ever heard, especially with a 7.1 surround sound system. The graphics were also very good, despite being a "crap-box". Even though the DLC wasn't that expansive, it did add a bit more to the game, which is always welcome, but all in all, the game is definitely worth a play through, or two even, on a different difficulty setting.

Yeah they're late to the show with a 2 year-late port, but it's better than not getting one I suppose. To be honest though, it was really fluid with the 360 controller, and I wish they'd focus their manpower and genius onto other projects.
 
I'll take "ports" like Batman Arkham City any time over "nothing."

On the other hand, I won't buy garbage or bad games regardless of platform.

It's either a good game or a bad game in the end, folks.
 
fps4ever said:
Way to misinterpret my post. :rolleyes: Name me one game that half the pc gamers haven't bitched about calling it a port or bug riddled release this past year. No It's not fine to release those kinds of crap games, but one persons crappy game is another's game of the year. I don't buy day one releases anyway until they've been patched up and prices drop so it's a win for me either way. And yes, I would rather have something than nothing if those are the only two choices...jeeezzz.
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Sorry but buggy games and console port are two SEPERATE things:rolleyes:

Let me educate you in the difference.

What most define as a console port is dumbed down gameplay and controller based gameplay and UI(where most of us game on a keyboard and mouse)

What most define as a buggy game, is well a game that has bugs. Now tell me. How easy is it to make a bug free game catered for a specific hardware compared to one that caters for a million combinations of different hardware?

Work that out and then come back to me with your lame attempted at bashing my post
 
Q-BZ said:
I'll take "ports" like Batman Arkham City any time over "nothing."

On the other hand, I won't buy garbage or bad games regardless of platform.

It's either a good game or a bad game in the end, folks.
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Batman Arkham City is not a console port as per say. it is a great game with great gameplay. a worth sequal to the first one.

It doesnt have dumbed down gameplay. Its refreshing compared to the first one and is highly regarded as a far superior game then this shit called alan wake.

U see, you and others who are "happy" to play "bad" console ports are the reasons why we GET bad console ports.

Again, watch this game flop big time and Remedy will then blame piracy instead of the fact that the majority of us dont like playing dumbed down console ports released 10 years after the console version on a game that was MEANT to be on PC in the first place.

i can bet you a million pounds that HAD alan wake sold millions on xbxo 360 like the halo and gears of war series, Remedy wouldnt bother releasing it on pc.

They are only releasing it on PC now to try and get more ££ out of the suckers who like playing dumbed down bad console ported games
 
In all likelyhood they had a exclusivity deal with Microsoft which paid them a vast sum of cash but restricted them from releasing on another platform for X years. Now that time is up they are free to bring it to PC as well.

Most platform exclusives follow these similar rules, release on our platform and we'll give you X million and you can't release on another platform for Y years, by which time no one gives a crap.
 
Im pretty sure remedy would have made a bit more money releasing it on various platforms, ps3 included.

Look at the sale of MW3, Skyrim and BF3. i doubt MS or even SONY could have coughed up and paid same profit that those 3 games made by releasing it on multiple platforms.

Game exclusives are a dying breed.
 
jonneymendoza said:
Batman Arkham City is not a console port as per say. it is a great game with great gameplay. a worth sequal to the first one.
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Busted DX11 and only supports up to 5.1 speaker configurations; they might not have ported it from a console but they wrote it with a console in mind. Developed with Xbox 360 in mind, no time taken to verify that PC features worked properly. No 7.1 surround support is a tell-tale sign that they wrote the game for the 360 because the 360 only supports 2 and 6 channel configurations so in the code they leave out the IF statement that would be necessary to detect an 8-channel system and set the game to output to a 7point1 configuration.

Batman AA was awesome but they re-wrote the audio code (used a different API) for AC and effed up the 7.1 support probably because they had the 360 in mind.

I'll be surprised if Alan Wake properly supports 7.1 surround and any other modern PC gaming features.
 
jonneymendoza said:
Batman Arkham City is not a console port as per say. it is a great game with great gameplay. a worth sequal to the first one.

It doesnt have dumbed down gameplay. Its refreshing compared to the first one and is highly regarded as a far superior game then this shit called alan wake.
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I couldn't agree more.



U see, you and others who are "happy" to play "bad" console ports are the reasons why we GET bad console ports.
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Where'd you get this from?

You're making a big mistake here if you're going to include me in this statement.



Again, watch this game flop big time and Remedy will then blame piracy instead of the fact that the majority of us dont like playing dumbed down console ports released 10 years after the console version on a game that was MEANT to be on PC in the first place.

i can bet you a million pounds that HAD alan wake sold millions on xbxo 360 like the halo and gears of war series, Remedy wouldnt bother releasing it on pc.

They are only releasing it on PC now to try and get more ££ out of the suckers who like playing dumbed down bad console ported games
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You're preaching to the choir with me here.

You couldn't put a gun to my head and make me buy this game.

Did you see my earlier posts in this thread shitting on this game? ;)

Do you not see a number of my posts around this forum? Honestly, if I haven't given off a better impression about where I'm coming from on my tastes and what I want out of gaming than THIS then damn, I'm in trouble. I thought I was a better communicator than that.
 
Alan Wake could bring every supercomputer in the world to its knees with uber-PCness and it still wouldn't make the game any less terrible.
 
jonneymendoza said:
Sorry but buggy games and console port are two SEPERATE things:rolleyes:

Let me educate you in the difference.

What most define as a console port is dumbed down gameplay and controller based gameplay and UI(where most of us game on a keyboard and mouse)

What most define as a buggy game, is well a game that has bugs. Now tell me. How easy is it to make a bug free game catered for a specific hardware compared to one that caters for a million combinations of different hardware?

Work that out and then come back to me with your lame attempted at bashing my post
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LOL...I'm not arguing for or against consolized pc games, so is that educated enough for you. You seem to have a prickish attitude with anybody that doesn't agree with your views! I'm a pc fps player at heart with keyboard and mouse but I can see where other games have their place with consoles and or controllers. Try and lose the tunnel vision and see that maybe some people like to play games to have fun, not just to make a statement....good luck up on your high horse there, me I'll probably give this game a shot and enjoy it.
 
Not going to buy it now, unless it is really cheap. As far as I am concerned it is a year and a half old game, a price point on par with other titles released 18 months ago is all I would consider paying for it. Timed exclusives this far out of original release do not get AAA coin out of my pocket. AAA game or not.
If enough people buy it to make it worth their effort I suppose Remedy will be happy at least. It seems like it is a decent game. Just not willing to pay that much for it.
 
Wondering if it will be DX10/11..If I remember,this game was to be a DX10 showcase before MS put the kibosh to it.
 
djoye said:
Busted DX11 and only supports up to 5.1 speaker configurations; they might not have ported it from a console but they wrote it with a console in mind. Developed with Xbox 360 in mind, no time taken to verify that PC features worked properly. No 7.1 surround support is a tell-tale sign that they wrote the game for the 360 because the 360 only supports 2 and 6 channel configurations so in the code they leave out the IF statement that would be necessary to detect an 8-channel system and set the game to output to a 7point1 configuration.

Batman AA was awesome but they re-wrote the audio code (used a different API) for AC and effed up the 7.1 support probably because they had the 360 in mind.

I'll be surprised if Alan Wake properly supports 7.1 surround and any other modern PC gaming features.
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Is there honestly a difference between 7.1 and 5.1?
 
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