cold fusion 33 Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 Nope, Sam Lake has already said that there's no weak plot twists like that in the story. What happens to Alan is very real... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharmingCharlie Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 If you were planning on getting this for the PC then I am afraid you are going to be disappointed. It seems Microsoft just stuck the middle finger up at their PC userbase once again :- Some games are more suited for the intimacy of the PC, and others are best played from the couch in front of a larger TV screen. We ultimately realised that the most compelling way to experience "Alan Wake" was on the Xbox 360 platform, so we focused on making it an Xbox 360 exclusive. Both Microsoft and Remedy have long histories in PC game development. This decision was about matching this specific game to the right platform http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/6978/...oming-to-the-pc Ah you can just feel the love Microsoft has for PC gaming can't you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullMetal Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 If you were planning on getting this for the PC then I am afraid you are going to be disappointed. It seems Microsoft just stuck the middle finger up at their PC userbase once again :- Some games are more suited for the intimacy of the PC, and others are best played from the couch in front of a larger TV screen. We ultimately realised that the most compelling way to experience "Alan Wake" was on the Xbox 360 platform, so we focused on making it an Xbox 360 exclusive. Both Microsoft and Remedy have long histories in PC game development. This decision was about matching this specific game to the right platform http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/6978/...oming-to-the-pc Ah you can just feel the love Microsoft has for PC gaming can't you. Aww yeah, I f*cking knew it... I love you Microsoft and all your other f*cking weak ass 'strategies'. Yes, this is business... but the way you guys are playing it is f*cking weak. And I was f*ckING LOOKING FORWARD to this game. Remedy are brilliant developers and this game is looking really good. For f*ckS sake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jelly Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 Good thing I wrote this thing off as hypeware over a year ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cold fusion 33 Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 (edited) So much sh*t coming out of that spokesperson's mouth... Meh, not that I am particularly bothered that it's not coming to the PC, any real fan of the game would know that it's the atmosphere of the game that's going to make this title, not the improved graphics that the PC would bring. Anyway, feel bad for people who don't have a 360, they're really going to miss out on this . Good thing I wrote this thing off as hypeware over a year ago. Hypeware? HYPEWARE? Have you ever played the Max Payne games? No other title I've seen has had so much devotion poured into it's gameplay, graphics, story, fanbase... Alan Wake is set to f*cking smash any other game in my opinion. (Note the words "in my opinion" before I'm flamed.) Edited February 12, 2010 by cold fusion 33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullMetal Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 You shouldn't be afraid to be flamed, only ignorant people would flame you for that. Remedy KNOWS how to bring a GOOD story and BRILLIANT atmosphere. Their games are timeless... play Max Payne (1) now and you will STILL find the game compelling, fun to play and rather 'fresh'. Yes, graphicswhores will cry about the graphics and such. Though: even then I still find the game damn powerfull. And f*ck this, I ain't buying a Xbox360. I was tempted a couple of times and I've been thinking about getting one but I got ENOUGH reasons not to. I love how they keep on sprouting BULLsh*t all around eventhough they know they're not making any f*cking sense. Just like Infinity Ward... 'IT'S NOT BALANCED FOR LEAN'... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomanViking Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 If you were planning on getting this for the PC then I am afraid you are going to be disappointed. It seems Microsoft just stuck the middle finger up at their PC userbase once again :- Some games are more suited for the intimacy of the PC, and others are best played from the couch in front of a larger TV screen. We ultimately realised that the most compelling way to experience "Alan Wake" was on the Xbox 360 platform, so we focused on making it an Xbox 360 exclusive. Both Microsoft and Remedy have long histories in PC game development. This decision was about matching this specific game to the right platform http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/6978/...oming-to-the-pc Ah you can just feel the love Microsoft has for PC gaming can't you. obvious cloak&dagger business deal is obvious. Microsoft just wants more people to buy their console -- stop denying it Microsoft! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA3Freak-2001 Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 What a load of crap, to be honest though the last game footage I saw last year the game looks more like a more simple and linear console game closer to say Silent Hill. Nothing wrong with that sure but somehow I feel the kinda game they were making in the beginning has taken a back seat to wanting to appeal to more gamers and thus more of the moola for Microsoft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creed Bratton Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 I don't even care about this anymore. There are plenty of titles for PC coming out and if Alan Wake is not one of them so what? All I care about at this moment is Mafia 2 and SC: Conspiracy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oc student Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 Aw I was so hyped about this, when I first read about it, what was it? 3 years ago......? So does MS ever lie? I hope so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunrise Driver Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 (edited) Who need this game if we have Mafia II in May? Anyway this M$ statement says nothing about PC version. They said that the game will be exclusive to the 360. Nothing more Edited February 13, 2010 by Street Mix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creed Bratton Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 Who need this game if we have Mafia II in May? Anyway this M$ statement says nothing about PC version. They said that the game will be exclusive to the 360. Nothing more Jesus Christ......... Exclusive for 360 means it will only be released for 360 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunrise Driver Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 (edited) They didn't said "PC version has been cancelled", just "AW is an exclusive game to X360". I heard the same so many times: GTA IV, GTA EFLC, Mass Effect, Lost Planet, GeOW, Fallout 3 DLC ("PS3 will never get the DLC blah blah") etc... Edited February 13, 2010 by Street Mix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharmingCharlie Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 Oh come on street mix stop being so pedantic, I can play the list game to := Halo 3 Halo Wars Halo Reach Fable 2 and 3 Gears of War 2 Forza What do all those game have in common ? I will tell you, Microsoft has control over them. They have the say so on what platform those games appear on. Now you may not have noticed but Microsoft doesn't mind selling PC gaming down the river to prop up their xbox. In fact they have publicly said they are quite happy to sell PC gaming down the river to prop their xbox up. The games you listed :- GTA 4 - not owned by Microsoft and was just Rockstar being an arsehole. GTA 4 DLC - timed contract Mass Effect - Owned by EA so they have the say on what platform it appears on. Lost Planet - Again timed exclusivity and it appeared on the PS3 as well. GeOW - yep but we never got GeOW 2 did we Fallout 3 DLC - erm it was never exclusive to the xbox 360, the DLC was released on the same day. The fact is Microsoft have final say on Alan Wake and they will not let it come to the PC. You can go "ha exclusives mean nothing" I am telling you this one does. It is kinda comical to think that Sony is now doing more on the PC games wise than Microsoft is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jelly Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 Hypeware? HYPEWARE? Have you ever played the Max Payne games? No other title I've seen has had so much devotion poured into it's gameplay, graphics, story, fanbase... Alan Wake is set to f*cking smash any other game in my opinion. (Note the words "in my opinion" before I'm flamed.) We'll see. In any case it doesn't matter any more, does it? Microsoft made the game irrelevant. I'm just glad I stopped caring about it before they did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA3Freak-2001 Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 Who cares if it does eventually make it to PC? It's obviously clear that MS have steered Remedy into molding the game into a console game. Remember the technical marvel it was hailed as back when it was first announced, the lighting system, the day/night cycle, crazy physics(remember the tornado video running on unreleased pc hardware) etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 So many people whining about it not coming out on PC anymore. I read youtube comments about how much it sucks now because it's not coming to PC anymore. Wow, chill the f*ck out. If you want to play it THAT bad and don't want to buy a 360 then surely you have friends who own a 360? Borrow it? Play at their house? Rent a 360? I want to play PS3 exclusives but I'm not whining about it even though I've wanted to play GoW3 for a long f*cking while. Anyway, this game looks pretty nice. The story looks dark and disturbing, and I love the Max Payne games. I'll definitely give it a GameFly rental on release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA3Freak-2001 Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 Sure quite a few people are whinging because they do not have or want a 360 to play one game but most real PC gamers are upset because the game has been morphed to work better on a console by Microsoft's request to prop up their 360 portfolio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nlitement Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 Well, Remedy's been developing this much longer than they'd been developing Max Payne, so it'd better be REALLY good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 And in the grand scheme of things it is just a game and it is just business. Honestly I don't see a problem with owning a 360. I game on my PC and my 360. Love them both. And pretty soon I'll get a PS3 for the Blu-Ray player and the exclusives on there such as Heavy Rain and GoW3 as I mentioned above. It's not like 360's cost a lot anymore. You can get one for a little over a hundred bucks if it's used. Or buy a nice shiny new one for 300, who really cares if it's money in Microsoft's pocket? It would be if it was on PC also, Games for Windows would release it. Unless you're a pirate like that and steal it. I'm shocked at how many people are upset about them making a game exclusive to the console like it's a huge fiasco when most PC gamers have to use Windows anyway to play games because of compatibility. It's the same company...I guess I don't understand the huge problem here. So you can't mod it or play it on PC, well f*ck that just means it'll be easier to play it on the 42" LCD. Anyway, what was this game originally supposed to be? I didn't follow it very much, I rarely do with games anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creed Bratton Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 Who cares if it does eventually make it to PC? It's obviously clear that MS have steered Remedy into molding the game into a console game. Remember the technical marvel it was hailed as back when it was first announced, the lighting system, the day/night cycle, crazy physics(remember the tornado video running on unreleased pc hardware) etc. Yeah that was weird because they were actually hyping the game for PC and advertising Quad Core CPU's. There are people who bought a Quad Core because of that, and that's what I call a scam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exkabewbikadid Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 I'm shocked at how many people are upset about them making a game exclusive to the console like it's a huge fiasco when most PC gamers have to use Windows anyway to play games because of compatibility. It's the same company...I guess I don't understand the huge problem here. So you can't mod it or play it on PC, well f*ck that just means it'll be easier to play it on the 42" LCD. FYI I have my pc connected to a 46" set and play games at 1080p which looks better than the consoles. I don't know why PC gaming still has the stigma of a nerd sitting in a dark corner playing on a 14" CRT @ 640x480... The irony is that being the same company and all, M$ shoots itself in the foot every time it pulls a game away from the PC. Most home users only need Windows for gaming. Without gaming, a Linux box or Mac can do anything a Windows PC can do. But home users aren't really the cash cow that the enterprise world is, which is all that M$ really cares about. Their pockets are so deep that they'll happily destroy PC gaming and lose a few home users if it boosts their xbrick profits. The real problem for PC gamers is that there is less and less justification for buying new hardware when games keep getting taken away from the platform. This leads to less sales of gpus and cpus, but what the hell do AMD and Nvidia care when their it's their hardware in the consoles that's making them money. It's the same old story though. The PC leads the way in innovation only to have each new generation of consoles drag it down until they become too outdated at which point the PC briefly takes the lead again only to have the next round of consoles come along and hinder progress once more. This is all moot for me this time though. I lost interest in Remedy when they handed over the Max Payne franchise to Rockstar devs, so Alan Wake really doesn't appeal to me anymore, especially when development has dragged on for 5 years. Dryspace 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unopescio Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 A small innocent looking town that an outsider visits only to find it abandoned, and by night the town transforms and is inhabited by monsters? Where have I heard this before... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomanViking Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 Yeah that was weird because they were actually hyping the game for PC and advertising Quad Core CPU's. There are people who bought a Quad Core because of that, and that's what I call a scam. ^so true. Oh OnePiece, is it Silent Hill? It's not a remarkably original setup, it never was. Stories of empty villages with monsters at night have been told since forever The only way that modern stories can be original is how it's presented/directed, because every basic story has already been told. Xcommunicated, I see your point about PC gaming, but as I play on PS3 I can't completely relate --- but just know that I read it, and I sympathize. I am jealous of Sims 3 tho. Honestly that is the only recent PC exclusive that I noticed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creed Bratton Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 (edited) I am jealous of Sims 3 tho. Honestly that is the only recent PC exclusive that I noticed. Don't be jealous. It sucks. Edited February 14, 2010 by GTAvanja Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 I'm shocked at how many people are upset about them making a game exclusive to the console like it's a huge fiasco when most PC gamers have to use Windows anyway to play games because of compatibility. It's the same company...I guess I don't understand the huge problem here. So you can't mod it or play it on PC, well f*ck that just means it'll be easier to play it on the 42" LCD. FYI I have my pc connected to a 46" set and play games at 1080p which looks better than the consoles. I don't know why PC gaming still has the stigma of a nerd sitting in a dark corner playing on a 14" CRT @ 640x480... The irony is that being the same company and all, M$ shoots itself in the foot every time it pulls a game away from the PC. Most home users only need Windows for gaming. Without gaming, a Linux box or Mac can do anything a Windows PC can do. But home users aren't really the cash cow that the enterprise world is, which is all that M$ really cares about. Their pockets are so deep that they'll happily destroy PC gaming and lose a few home users if it boosts their xbrick profits. The real problem for PC gamers is that there is less and less justification for buying new hardware when games keep getting taken away from the platform. This leads to less sales of gpus and cpus, but what the hell do AMD and Nvidia care when their it's their hardware in the consoles that's making them money. It's the same old story though. The PC leads the way in innovation only to have each new generation of consoles drag it down until they become too outdated at which point the PC briefly takes the lead again only to have the next round of consoles come along and hinder progress once more. This is all moot for me this time though. I lost interest in Remedy when they handed over the Max Payne franchise to Rockstar devs, so Alan Wake really doesn't appeal to me anymore, especially when development has dragged on for 5 years. I can do that too, but it'd require me to wheel over my PC desk ten feet instead of turning on a console. Honestly I've always preferred consoles just because it is easier. There's no worrying about requirements, no need to upgrade hardware when you can't play that new game coming out. To have a PC run and look as well as the consoles, you have to spend more than the consoles cost. It's just how it is, and I think that's why they've been slowly dying out. There will always be PC for MMO's and badass PC exclusives from Blizzard, I can't wait for Diablo III. Everyone is just going with the cheaper more accessible deal. Why spend a grand on a killer gaming PC when we can get a PS3/360 for 300? I love PC gaming, and I love console gaming, but I prefer console. And if people upgraded their PC's to quad-core just for Alan Wake, I'm sure they've used the quad core processors for more than enough other games and/or programs. I haven't even been following the game because last I saw was a pic in someone's signature that looked like jungle sh*t, unless that was a different game. I don't really have any hype over this game, besides the fact of how awesome Max Payne was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullMetal Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 I don't want to start a flamewar but the argument of PC's costing so much (or atleast: PC's that meet or slightly 'outdo' the PS3/Xbox360 are too expensive) argument is void in my opinion. I bought my PC two years ago and it outpreforms the 'current gen' consoles in any way possible. Heck, you don't NEED to spend 2000 dollars on a PC... you can and you'll have the 'top of the line' rig. Heck, you'll be enjoying gaming in a totally different way. Though, good money you spend on a Xbox360 or a PS3 'setup' isn't much cheaper than a PC setup. Anyways; eventhough I prefer PC gaming over console gaming by a long shot, I'm not a person that 'hates' consoles. I love playing on them aswel and I would probably own (both) of them if my situation would let me. Though seeing as a PC is more usefull all around (and I prefer PC gaming) the choice wasn't that hard. Also; the effort you put in a PC comes back... the effort you put in a console is nothing, and you receive nothing back. The thing you have to do is pay... pay and pay, especially with the brilliant Xboxlive services. Funny how I always thought how brilliant consoles were with splitscreen gaming only to realise that splitscreen gaming is as f*cking dead as Adolf Hitler. And don't dare to bring up the argument 'then you play online'. I always considered consoles as the brilliant platform to enjoy your 4 player messing around in any game... But this is going way offtopic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 I don't see how the argument that PC's don't cost very much is possible. Maybe not average sub-par chokers. To have a top of the line model that you build yourself be outdated in a year or two, is pretty damn expensive, man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icfriend Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 Apparently the game STILL isn't even finished after 5 years . The writer at Remedy is still working on the story to make it fit in with a future sequel. Alan Wake article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oc student Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 Microsoft thinks most ppl have a PS3 and a PC to get the most games me thinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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