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Beat Alan Wake's American Nightmare.

It's really good.

About 4 hours of SP content which is about on par with the length of the two DLC episodes combined.

There's also a bunch of combat challenges for when you are done with the SP.

Can't wait for Alan Wake 2 now.

IceOrb, on 23 February 2012 - 12:57 PM, said:

Any idea if that will be coming to the PC?

Bundai, on 23 February 2012 - 01:08 PM, said:

The developers said that they're "thinking about it" in something a couple of days before Alan Wake PC was released. They made it seem like they would do it if Alan Wake PC was a success and, it was.

There's a guild wars 2 open beta for the next 24 hours. I'm letting you all know as well as saving this for myself later when I get home from work and back to my desktop since it wants to scan my pc for hardware detection.

I'll wait for a PC release so i can *~BUY~* it.

I should warn that there is only 3 areas in the game and they reuse them 3 times each. There is a story reason for this but it still kinda sucks. Thankfully the time you spend in each area is shorter and shorter and you get a bunch more dialog with all the NPCs you meet each time. Most of it is pretty funny.

*Edit*

3 areas in the story I mean.

There are a bunch of areas in the arcade section of the game. But there's no story there aside from the intros from the narrator.

i beat neverdead for the third time today


i hate myself

Only 12 more times for 1000/1000!

there's no way i'm playing the game 12 more times to have enough experience to purchase the last ability

*cue funny cut of me pasting a 1000/1000 screencap a week later*

Just beat Alan Wake's American Nightmare. Took 6 hours, got all manuscript pages, watched all TV recordings and heard all radio shows. Is there only one phone conversation/audio log in the entire game? I found out you could use the phone booth in the first area during the last Act.

The combat is very, very easy. Enemies don't throw their weapons at you anymore, so you no longer have to worry about dodging objects. The slow motion whenever combat ends and sometimes even when it begins is still around, making every encounter feel artificial and giving it a clear indicator of when you should let your guard down. The infinite ammo boxes are everywhere, making conservation a non issue. The amount of items you can carry is pretty big, 10 flare guns, 5 flash grenades, 5 flares and 2 weapons? They should've limited all the items and flare guns to 4 or so. As it stands you have to try very, very hard to die in this game.

I really liked the open levels though, even when they repeated themselves in Acts 2 and 3 it wasn't a big deal because they got shorter and they changed enough things to keep them interesting.

Dialogue and story were good and the line A LITTLE BEER, A LITTLE FUN makes me laugh for reasons beyond my comprehension.
I really liked the FMV cutscenes. Ending was very good, which surprised me because I was expecting a 5 second clip with a hook to buy the eventual u$60 sequel.

I didn't check the Arena mode yet, but I like that they apparently made brand new levels for it instead of cutting up small areas of the campaign maps like most games tend to do.

Hopefully there will be more episodes in the future before they make a sequel for the Xbox 9000 or whatever it's going to be called.

Everyone buy it.

Doom 4.

OH SHIT BETHESDA TWITTA SAYS OTHA WISE NUKKAAA


Edit or at least that guy says so.

Bundai, on 23 February 2012 - 09:08 AM, said:

It took what...6-7 years for PC (from time of development) SOOO probably, seeing as how Alan Wake sold really well on Steam when it came out for PC remedy said.

Those supposed Doom 4 screens actually look pretty cool.

DrMatta, on 28 February 2012 - 09:37 PM, said:

They're in dire need of 500 invisible walls and npcs you have to follow.

Also, your Steam is acting up again. Restart it.

DrMatta, on 29 February 2012 - 12:37 AM, said:

I'm assuming that it's like Doom 2 and "hell on earth". I'm not impressed.