Alan Wake 2

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Just finished it, loved it. Definitely not a game for cutscene skippers.

Its definitely a game where the more you immerse yourself into it, the more you will get out of it.

 

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I mean that applies to just about any game but sure

I dont know, I imagine you can immerse yourself as much as you want into Gollum and you still wont get anything out of it

 

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Pritty much every game in existence has issues like you mentioned tho, can't think of many or any that everything in the game is 100% realistic.

This really, most single player story based games do not allow you to just blast doors and windows open to climb through instead of making you find a key etc, does seem to be slightly harsh to give those games a pass for such things but list it as a major fault in AW2

To counter balance Worth a Buys ludicrous 4/10 mark, here is Cohhcarnage's thoughts on the game

 

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Epic have a 33% off code for black Friday so if anyone is on the fence that might sway you.

oh ! really? Nice, had my eye on Dead Island 2 for a while now but not at full price, if I can knock 33% off of it thats quite tempting

 

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November 21st to 28th (4pm)
- Epic automatic coupon of 33%
- You can recover 10% from each purchase into your Epic Rewards balance

Means this game would be about £26 big drop considering how much people paid about 2 weeks ago lol.

Yeah, considering how awesome the game is I can foresee quite a lot of people snapping it up with 33% off

 

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Surprising given how popular the first game was on the XBOX.

We love it on PC at least .

Bah, what do console owners know anyway, I mean we're talking of folks who like jumping mushrooms, collecting stars and speedy woodland animals.

 

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Nearing the end now myself and got to say, I truly thought at this late stage of the year that Baldurs Gate 3 was a shoe-in for my GOTY but Alan Wake 2 has been exceptional, unique in gaming in multiple ways and its going to give me some increased deliberations on Dec 10th when it comes to deciding what my GOTY is

 

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Reminder this game is £26 or so in a few days when Epic SF sale starts.

Also remember that the Epic 33% voucher can be used multiple times, should be a few crackers that we can get with hefty discounts on

 

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Anybody else think the game is boring for the first few hours it takes too long to get going.

Not me, mind you I do like narrative heavy, strong lore, high immersion titles, so I'm into this sort of thing

 

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I dunno if you red my review above, but yeah that sounds pretty much similiar to how I felt, 6/10 for sure, I REALLY felt like it was going to be my GOTY for the first like 19 hours and this coming from someone that HATES the original, so I was very impressed for those first 19 hours, IIRC I was around 23-25 hours I forget now.
Yeah I felt the same about the profiling/case board stuff near the end, I also was really disappointed with the lack of levels, it was VERY reused, having spent a lot of time trekking back to each area trying my best to find as much as I could, I started getting annoyed with some stuff and just looking it up on YT. I hate when it gets to that point as it takes you out of the immersion/ruins the fluidity/my enjoyment.

The plot was a big let down in the 2nd half wasn't it, and the ending was pants, basically nothing happens. It reeks of cash in DLC/Sequel, and that Dancing level can GTFO big time! Literally felt like a P take and insulting the immersion/progress/severity up till that point and then winding the momentum for just silliness, I also feel some cutscenes are well acted and some are pants.

Personally would have rather this all just been Saga and her own thing, I did all of her stuff 1 after the other bar the bits where it did switch to Alan, then did all his at the end, what an anti climax. 6/10 for me too!

I guess, in a way, you could look at that as quite the success. You HATED Alan Wake 1, so maybe would have given it, what, a 1/10 or a 2/10, so Alan Wake 2 getting a 6/10 from you is quite the improvement. One could take that and extrapolate it to someone who thought Alan Wake 1 was a 4/10 or 5/10 might then consider Alan Wake 2 to be a 8/10 or a 9/10.

I loved AW1 and I've thoroughly enjoyed AW2, dont think I'd go as high as a 9/10 for it but its easily an 8/10 for me. Isnt going to knock Baldurs Gate 3 off my GOTY but for a while it was pretty close.

 

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Obviously the fan boys will fight these points to the death, but I will give anything a chance (even twice with AW1, replaying it straight after finally playing Control back in sept for the first time) and yes this is very good 'in places' for a game that's original is pants, but it's not 'that' good, yet could have been. TLOU1-2/UC4 destroys this HARD.

I never got on with TLOU, the bit I played was just too cliche ridden for my tastes so for me AW2 destroys TLOU HARD

I have heard many good things about UC4 though but havent played it yet, I should get round to trying that one out at some point.

 

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Slightly off-topic so I apologise in advance but I just installed this on egs and the installation doesn't show in the windows add or remove programs, or control panel uninstaller.

Is this normal for games installed on epic? I know it's not a massive issue as it can be uninstalled from the launcher but just wanted to make sure there's not an issue somewhere.

Yeah it doesnt show on mine either so no issue there

 

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The new expansion out tomorrow:

And just as it happens I am shooting a wedding all day!

Cool, so we get to play as Jesse from Control , nice !

 

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£19.99 too much. Even free I refuse. Bring it to steam for £19.99 and they can have my money

Dont think it will ever come to Steam, not as its a solely Epic published game, trying to think if any solely Epic published game has come to Steam before and I cant think of one