its not worth your time.
Play Control or Alan Wake.
Or Play Control or Alan Wake again.
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Control's second DLC "AWE" releases August 27th on all platforms (featuring Alan Wake)
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its not worth your time.
Play Control or Alan Wake.
Or Play Control or Alan Wake again.
See, I didn't even realize he played Dr. Casper Darling which shows how distinct and different that character is from Alan Wake, so it won't be weird at all.
Loved Control, didn't really like Alan Wake but I should replay it sometime (I didn't play it in the best conditions back in the day).
I'll probably replay Control on next gen consoles anyway.
Please please please let this be a sign that our boy Alan is finally going to get his sequel! Please Remedy!!
I bought the season pass when it first came out, but christ it's been so long I forgot about it entirely.
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Don't listen to them. Quantum Break is very solid to good game that had potential to be great but misses the mark. It's still worth playing and experiencing the story.
Yeah it's a little weird because Alan Wake was played by another actor that was in the live action scenes in that game, Ilkka Villi, but he was voiced by Matthew Porretta, the guy who plays the live action role of Dr. Casper Darling in Control. So it's like a Darth Vader scenario in that there's multiple actors who portray different aspects of Alan Wake.
Yeah, figured he has the range to pull off very different characters.
For what it's worth, I really enjoyed Quantum Break. Not as much as Alan Wake but stringing together the time powers can be very satisfying and the story was awesome. If you appreciate a good time travel story, this game is for you.
Well I already own it so I might as well lol thanks!
It's worth your time, play it. Gameplay wise it's not Remedy's best but it's worth it for the story alone.
Honestly I'm kind of seeing it as a sign towards the opposite. They know fans want more Alan Wake, but there's not enough demand in the industry to warrant a full blown sequel and the IP sales didnt exactly set the world on fire. They've established a much more acclaimed IP in Control with all of the awards it's won and good press it's gotten so they'd be kind of foolish not to continue forward with it from a business point of view, especially over Alan Wake. Including him in the DLC is a fan service and homage but I really cant see there being a full blown sequel moving forward. I'd love to be wrong as Alan Wake is one of my favourite games of all time and I'd be ecstatic if it were to happen, but it seems like a pipe dream. Still, some AW is better than no AW :)
Took them a year to release the 3 DLCs, looks pretty normal by season pass standards ?
Anyway I'm glad. Finally something I give a shit about playing this summer.
I finally played Alan Wake when it came to Gamepass, then immediately played Control, so I'm super pumped for this DLC!
Yeah, this makes sense. On the other hand, it could still signal that there's renewed interest in the IP from the studio and the expansion is being used to generate excitement among fans and the press. They know full well that including Alan Wake in a DLC for Control is going to raise all kinds of questions among both fans and the press, and I imagine studios would try to avoid disappointment for fans altogether if they didn't have any long term plans for the AW IP.
Maybe given a smaller budget (or a large one with a publisher that is willing to risk it), I think an Alan Wake sequel could be a perfectly viable step for Remedy depending on what they do with it and how it is marketed. Still, no matter what their plans are - I agree, some AW is definitely better than no AW (and more Remedy is always a good thing, too!)
Though, they can now leverage Control for a new AW game if they want to. And they don't necessarily need to call it Alan Wake 2.
"Alan Wake: Crafty Title Here (Part of the Control Universe)"
Use this DLC to essentially recap AW, introduce him, and slightly push it forward. It could work.
Control Expansion 2 AWE - Announcement Trailer | PS4
As Director of the Federal Bureau of Control, Jesse Faden must enter the Investigations Sector and confront the creature lurking within this long-abandoned p...www.youtube.com
Damn. Was hoping for some Alan Wake environments and enemies.
They might be in the game, but that's better left out of promotional material for shock factor.
Considering how Bright Falls is considered an AWE and Alan Wake himself a possible patrautilitarian, this seems like a fantastic expansion and possible setup for bringing Alan Wake back.
I guess its safe to assume steam launch to be the 27th as well, considering that will be exactly 1 year after egs launch as well.
Damn, I couldn't get into Control, but this really makes me want to give it another try.
Alan Wake is hype as hell.
Alan Wake is hype as hell.
God damnit. Now I'm going to have to force myself to finish Control just to play this. Alan Wake is my favorite of the 3.
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I just saw that!
Playstation Blog said:
ALAN WAKE 2!?!? /letamandream
They were about to go on GamePass some months ago, but IIRC Phil (I'm thinking he forgot that it wasn't officially announced as of yet, at that time) accidentally spilled the beans in an interview (podcast? don't remember exactly) that it's coming to GamePass, and they (the publisher, not Remedy) decided to pull the GamePass deal at the last moment as they feared it (it = the "coming to GamePass" announcement or leak which will obviously make the impulse purchase consumers hold off on their purchase, not GamePass deals in general, as we have seen with multiple indie and AAA titles that GamePass has increased the sales momentum, and few evidences of slowing down. I think Phil even said this to be the case) would impact sales because Remedy titles usually have a strong Xbox market. They went with PS Now instead. I think it will come to GP eventually, maybe some months after the next gen launch (think summer 2021).
As for RTX, it's one of the BEST implementations of the tech, in ANY title till date. The icing on the cake here is DLSS 2.0, and how close the IQ is (with RTX ON and acceptable performance), compared to a natively rendered image and it's relative performance with RTX. It's, inarguably, the best here as well and is the poster child of DLSS 2.0 (with Death Stranding following up).
Take a look at this:
I think you've made the right choice. I doubt it'll be required to understand the DLC, but it's an amazing game that shouldn't be spoiled by some out of context comment made in a DLC for another game.
Think i could hit 60 fps with it - i79700k/rtx 2080 super
Control came out last year on the 27th, so it makes sense to me that it would be out on Steam along with the DLC on the 27th this year.