Alan Wake

Brakywaki · **Joined:** Fri May 29, 2009 7:22 am **Posts:** 457

Sollah wrote:

So, uh, without spoiling it, what do you all mean when it feels incomplete? Does it set it up for a sequel or leave some things unexplain or not finish the storyline or etc?

It's just extremely ambiguous. Nothing is given any sort of real explanation and it's all left very open to interpretation.

Sheep Cannon · **Posted:** Thu Jun 10, 2010 5:56 am

Link wrote:

Stuff

Link · **Posted:** Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:31 am

Sollah wrote:

what do you all mean when it feels incomplete?

Sort of what Braky says. In one way, you're like "Fuck, it feels like there should be more to the story to learn and discover." In another way, it doesn't dumb shit down like the Silent Hill movie does for example. It says, hey fucker, you played this game, here's your ending. Confused? Figure it the fuck out on your own. Peace!

A lot of answers are there, but they involve a lot of thinking, maybe a replay, maybe reading the Alan Wake Files that come with the collector's edition, maybe watching the Bright Falls mini-series prequel on your X-Box 360, etc.

For example... here's another mindfuck from the ending *SPOILERS, BIG ONES! BUT THEORETICAL!*:

Spoiler

Seriously, I wouldn't be able to figure that sort of shit out unless I heavily played the game, read the book, watched the mini-series, and just went through everything a 2nd time.

Brakywaki · **Joined:** Fri May 29, 2009 7:22 am **Posts:** 457

That Nightingale thing was the only thing I think I actually did figure out on my own. Mostly because he acted so unrealistically stupid. Like, what a fucking dick!

Sheep Cannon · **Posted:** Fri Jun 11, 2010 3:54 pm

Link wrote:

Sollah wrote:

For example... here's another mindfuck from the ending *SPOILERS, BIG ONES! BUT THEORETICAL!*:

Spoiler

Here's something to add to all of that

Spoiler

Just some more food for thought.

Brakywaki · **Joined:** Fri May 29, 2009 7:22 am **Posts:** 457

Mr Black wrote:

Brakywaki wrote:

That's not bad at all. I work at a Gamestop, so you could always have him do what I do: Scour the used copies for leftover codes. That pays off more often than you'd think.

That's actually an excellent idea! I'll message him and see if he can do that for me.

Check your PMs. I snagged one for ya.

Mr Black · **Posted:** Tue Jun 15, 2010 9:37 am

Brakywaki wrote:

Check your PMs. I snagged one for ya.

Did I mention you're awesome and that everyone should kneel down before your awesomeness? Well get to it people!

Dylan · **Posted:** Fri Jun 18, 2010 4:23 pm

Effin' fantastic game. So many parts that still left me confused, but after going back into it again I fully understand. I can't wait for the DLC!

DigitalDebaser · **Posted:** Sun Jun 20, 2010 11:48 pm

I was really hoping that this would be the game that set the bar for survival horror in the 2010s. I've had people say that it's a great game, but it's not going to do all that.

Mr Black · **Posted:** Mon Jun 21, 2010 9:38 am

DigitalDebaser wrote:

I was really hoping that this would be the game that set the bar for survival horror in the 2010s. I've had people say that it's a great game, but it's not going to do all that.

I would consider it more of a survival thriller than survival horror. There are some really intense moments where you're panicing and praying you have enough ammo to make it through a huge wave of taken but there weren't many big scares. Still, A+ game and I can't wait for the next episode just to help piece some things together story-wise.

Link · **Posted:** Mon Jun 21, 2010 2:05 pm

Mr Black wrote:

There are some really intense moments where you're panicing and praying you have enough ammo to make it through a huge wave of taken

Maybe if you suck... or if you're playing Nightmare. I went through on Hard and I had an abundance of ammo.

Let me tell you all what's "scary" to a gamer. Dying and losing progress. The reason Survival Horror games were awesome is because you had a limited amount of saves, and specific "safe rooms" to save at. If you died, that was it, you had to start over from your last save point. Alan Wake saves the game every 5 seconds at pretty much every lamp post and/or cutscene you make it to. This removes the fear factor from the game. Much the reason Bioshock can't be truly survival horror scary either, not because of the vita-chambers, but because you can save whenever you want.

Sneez · **Posted:** Mon Jun 21, 2010 2:10 pm

well I finished alan wake and have to say I enjoyed it very much, wasn't to difficult and the only really hard part was doing the gunless wonder achievement when i ran out of flares and flashbangs. Going back through it on nightmare so I can get the last few missing pages but i'm looking forward to the dlc

Xander756 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 08, 2010 11:53 am

Keep in mind there are two planned DLC episodes for Alan Wake which are most likely going to pick up right where the game left off so I think that is why they ended it the way they did. I thoroughly loved this game but I also didn't care much for the ending. I also would have liked a little more time in the beginning to move about the town while things were still normal.

mickycrueser · **Joined:** Wed Jul 21, 2010 7:09 am **Posts:** 4

Hi,
I absolutely love it so far and not sorry to finish Dead Red Redemption. 5 years of love put into this baby and it shows all the steps of the road.

Brakywaki · **Joined:** Fri May 29, 2009 7:22 am **Posts:** 457

I have to say, The Signal was fantastic and fixed all the issues I had with the ambiguous ending by explaining everything straight off, then oddly enough, delivering a chapter that I found to be even better than the ones built into the disc!

Link · **Posted:** Mon Sep 27, 2010 10:28 am

Mr Black · **Posted:** Mon Sep 27, 2010 11:15 am

Well looks like I'll need to take a break from Castlevania to play this. I really enjoyed the Signal and I'm guess the Writer be just as intense.

Brakywaki · **Joined:** Fri May 29, 2009 7:22 am **Posts:** 457

I'm psyched for The Writer! Just finished my Nightmare run, but I'm still missing like 6 pages...I hope I can pull the full manuscript together before The Writer at least.

Oh shit, this means I'm gonna need, like....money. Fuuuuuuuuuck.

Swordfish00830 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 01, 2010 9:14 am

Beat it the other day on Normal it was pretty fantastic. To me it felt like less of a game and more of a virtual novel. Had I bought the game instead of gameflying it I'd give the DLC a shot.

Link · **Posted:** Fri Oct 01, 2010 4:23 pm

Swordfish00830 wrote:

Beat it the other day on Normal it was pretty fantastic. To me it felt like less of a game and more of a virtual novel. Had I bought the game instead of gameflying it I'd give the DLC a shot.

DLC is even MORE worth the money if you gameflyed it, because then you're not even paying that much.

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