I would be shocked if this was free. Best case is a discount and I wouldn't even expect that.
Been waiting for this for years. I kind of want to play this on the PS5 because it will be so weird playing AW on Playstation, but I have a feeling that it will fare slightly better on the Series X.
i wonder what their sales expectations on pc are for the remaster. the og alan wake didn't exactly sell well and in the end they were throwing away pc keys for like 5$ and that was years ago. an updated alan wake character model and some remastered cinematics, that doesn't sound like a huge upgrade for pc gamers and and on top of that it will only be on egs.
still i wish remedy all the best, they are a great studio and i'm glad they are still making singleplayer games like this. i'm looking forward to alan wake 2, i hope the gameplay improves a lot for the sequel though. also i will probably buy AW2 on console because i'm not supporting egs.
still i wish remedy all the best, they are a great studio and i'm glad they are still making singleplayer games like this. i'm looking forward to alan wake 2, i hope the gameplay improves a lot for the sequel though. also i will probably buy AW2 on console because i'm not supporting egs.
I would expect a discount at the very least...along the lines of Dark Souls Remastered (which was 50% off for current owners)
One would think that some selling point is get the whole package. But yeah you are right. although American Nightmare was a fraction of Alan Wake, so I don't think that is a reach to pay for both.
It's not. it's a new game. They've already confirmed they're working on that.
It's not part of it though. They're separate titles. They always have been.
Worth it alone for these's awesome tracks in the game by Poets of the Fall (aka Old Gods of Asgard)!
The scene where the latter track starts blasting is one the most memorable scenes in gaming for me.
The scene where the latter track starts blasting is one the most memorable scenes in gaming for me.
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Yes I know. American Nightmare was on Xbox arcade. As I was saying one would think that wasn't a stretch to pay for both in one package.
Funny post, Epic is financing this remaster and AW2 so it course it will be Epic exclusive on PC.
Considering most people probably own it on Steam and GOG it's hard to imagine a discount since this will be Epic exclusive.
I don't think this will ever be on Steam. Epic are funding this, and probably Alan Wake 2 too.
Wasn't that the same case with Control and a lot of other games that eventually came to Steam?
Control was published by 505 Games. This is published by Epic.
Funding as in "paid for development, and publishing", not moneyhatting for a year.
They said they redid all the cinematics, so I'm guessing that they've 100% fixed that.
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I'd say yes, but mainly because I think gameplay wise you'll find it harder to go back to Alan Wake after playing Control.
Storyline wise, you'd be completely fine either way, but I wouldn't play the AWE add on for Control until after playing Alan Wake as that delves more into potential spoiler territory for Alan Wake.
I played Control including the Alan Wake DLC and haven't played Alan Wake as I was holding out for a Remaster (thank you Remedy!). Only thing I can say is that I wasn't ever confused as to what was going on as it explains self pretty well in the optional documents you can read, but I felt that there was certainly some context I was missing out on having not played Alan Wake.
I'd say just wait and play Alan Wake first at this point since it's coming, but if you don't want to, you will still enjoy Control regardless.
"Updated and improved" to me doesn't necessarily mean re-rendered. I'll just wait and see because the FMV stuff is probably going to look pretty fugly compared to all the 4k in-game graphics. There's a couple of interesting challenges they might face with this update. I'm eager to see it.
How do you update and improve the cinematics with 'choice next gen upgrades' while leaving them as 720p FMV like in the original game?
Honestly, the biggest complaint I have with the current game on PC is how ugly the 720p bink files look compared to the 4k in game graphics. I'm sure a lot of people would agree. Gameplay could look a lot better, but it's still held up rather nicely (poly counts of the environments being a notable exception). Those 720p FMVs haven't held up at all.
No American Nightmare is an odd omission. The game isn't exactly strong enough on its own as it's own physical release unless they're going through limited run or something for it.
Ah I actually had this in my post, but must have messed up and deleted the link when I inserted the quotes (man I hate posting here on iPhone). Thanks for pointing this out, gonna edit it in.
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Awesome. This is one of my favorite games ever.
Imagine if Rockstar announced Red Dead Redemption Remastered and released it on the same day lol
Imagine if Rockstar announced Red Dead Redemption Remastered and released it on the same day lol
It's no more odd to me than RE2 remake not also including the events of RE3. American Nightmare uses an updated engine. It's a complete standalone game with greatly updated combat etc, even if its a shorter experience.
But you're the second person who has said that, so what do I know?
I agree and I hope re-rendering is an option. But I fear they might not have all those files and redoing it might be too much work. I'm hoping they can go all out because those FMVs need it. But my fear is they opt for some sort of uprezzing technique.
They can't do that because Alan's model has been updated. It'd be pretty jarring if the game had one model and the cutscenes had an older one. To the point that I don't think they would update the model if they couldn't do that.
Depends on how they price it. Alan Wake by itself is a solid, satisfying game even if the gameplay may not be everyone's cup of tea after a while.
With this being a remaster and not a remake, I'm anticipating a fairly discounted price upon release. Hopefully we'll get American Nightmare eventually too, but I'd much rather revisit AW over AN if I could only choose one or the other.
I'm *very* confident this won't be a Ghostbusters Remaster situation. They invested heavily in facial capture stuff after they got criticized for the cinematics in Alan Wake. They know what is needed. Their tools are really good for redoing this stuff. I'd be shocked, shocked I tell you if they haven't redone all the cinematics in Northlight.
And yeah, this. They're redoing the other graphics. Having the cutscenes using all the old models etc would be even worse than things currently are with the PC version.
The MSRP is $9.99, I can't think of many physical releases that come out at that price. They could raise it to $20 when they decide to do it, but I still think it's a hard sell on its own if you're not already a AW faithful. I'm talking physically here as the title has always been stuck digital only.
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Alan Wake is probably my favorite 360 game, such a great and gripping story and unlike some I really enjoyed the combat
Alan Wake is probably my favorite 360 game, such a great and gripping story and unlike some I really enjoyed the combat