Game oozes with Twin Peaks, X-Files and Twilight Zone. Comparisons that people love to throw at video games but Alan Wake actually lives up to it.
I just hope they keep the music.
That Poe song hits hard.
I just hope they keep the music.
That Poe song hits hard.
Epic exclusive means I'll probably never play it. At least I still have the original on Steam.
I hope Alan Wake 2 isn't epic exclusive too.
I hope Alan Wake 2 isn't epic exclusive too.
Yeah I probably won't play it on PC too, maybe I'll buy it on PS5.
It's all but confirmed. Epic Publishing is working with Remedy on two games. The remaster is one of them. The sequel is very likely the other. Also, both games on the deal are part of the same franchise. So yeah.
It would be interesting to see how new players view this game. Lots of people (including myself) absolutely loved it at release. Presentation was great. Gameplay was repetitive. Experiencing it after Control may not be as positive.
Alan Wake is the reason Control exists. Control is a natural evolution of ideas Remedy experimented regarding cinematic storytelling in games for Alan Wake.
I haven't played Alan Wake after initial release. So looking forward to remastered version.
Alan Wake is the reason Control exists. Control is a natural evolution of ideas Remedy experimented regarding cinematic storytelling in games for Alan Wake.
I haven't played Alan Wake after initial release. So looking forward to remastered version.
Considering their two-game deal invovle the same IP, it is likely the case. Tim Sweeney basically own these two games.
If that's what it takes to finally get a sequel then then I'll happily accept it.
Not completely true.
One of the key points of Epics publishing is that Developers retain 100% of all intellectual property and full creative control of their work. In theory, the publishing deal can end at some point, or subsequent games / versions could go elsewhere. There is also nothing preventing Epic from publishing on anything, be it Steam, Stadia, XCloud, whatever.
It depends on the specifics of the agreements they've made.
Well, than one can hope The Sweeney will be a lot more generous for this particular deal.
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Given that Remedy put in the money and effort they did to regain this IP and the rights to the first two games, there's no way they've signed it away again. Whether that means a Steam version ever happens is of course another case altogether and I certainly wouldn't presume one is only a year away while Remedy are still working on other games for Epic.
Yep
Likely on PS for myself or wait till it's in a bundle or super cheap on EGS
A remake really doesn't point to a sequel for me. If anything it tells me the original didn't sell enough for them to justify a sequel but they felt comfortable enough with a remake. I know remakes can often point to a sequel being in the works but I'm not getting my hopes up with this particular niche game.
Given the fact that they likely fully funded this remaster, plus the sequel, Epic could have just asked for an exclusivity period on PC of arbitrary length, like 100 years.
Yeah, entirely between the developers and Epic's publishing team what they've agreed upon.
Epic's publishing specifically gives cover of up to 100% of development costs, from developer salaries to go-to-market expenses such as QA, localization, marketing, and all publishing costs. Then after that cost is re-couped through sales, the developer gets at least 50-50 share of profits
Or the trailer is coming later this week! It happens sometimes. Not really worried.
Depends if Epic starts putting their games there. Since this will be their first from the Epic Publishing branch, we have no idea.
It's explicitly a remaster, vs a remake. Think Shadow of the Colossus not Resident Evil 2.
They confirmed all the platforms in the letter announcing the game. They're the same ones in the thread title.
Really happy about this. AW is probably my favorite Remedy game overall, and even if the combat is much simpler than Control's, I actually never got tired or bored with it - warts and all. I'm okay with them not updating the gameplay for this version, and I just caution anyone coming from Control not to go into this anticipating something similar when it comes to its action.
I own Alan Wake digitally on the Xbox, but if this version is priced right I could see it being a day 1 purchase for me. Curious to see how much of a remaster it is. Would have preferred a remake, but I guess their talents and time would be better spent elsewhere.
I own Alan Wake digitally on the Xbox, but if this version is priced right I could see it being a day 1 purchase for me. Curious to see how much of a remaster it is. Would have preferred a remake, but I guess their talents and time would be better spent elsewhere.
Yeah I just used the wrong word. Point remains. I'd be absolutely stunned if they were actually planning to do a proper sequel.
It's all but announced at this point, between the Epic deal and the way Control: AWE ended I am very confident it's happening.
Edit: Also! Control started out as an Alan Wake sequel and morphed into something else during development. You can get a sense of what was planned from the whole 'This House of Dreams' thing.
Remedy said they had two games in development with Epic on the same franchise. One was smaller scale (the remaster), the other was bigger (the sequel). AWE also basically confirmed it. It's happening.
Curious to hear what's actually different about this when the original is already on Steam for $15. Wonder if it's missing the licensed stuff that forced them to delist the original for a while.
Great news!
But i'm not sure of what a remaster on PC even is. It already looks pretty good and i guess they won't change the engine to something more modern.
But i'm not sure of what a remaster on PC even is. It already looks pretty good and i guess they won't change the engine to something more modern.
It's a separate title, not DLC for the original. They came out years apart. Maybe we'll still get it, but I wouldn't expect them to remaster both games at the same time (or hold back the release of the first until both were done).
I think you can change Alan Wake for Max Payne or Quantum Break and the sentence would still be true. Remedy has that identity ever since the original Max Payne. Of mixing games with other types of storytelling. Control feels like the culmination of that effort, and it may be more thematically similar to Alan Wake than the other games, but I feel they are all part of the same trend, the same DNA.
I wish I liked American Nightmare. What I enjoyed about it was that it was more Alan Wake, but I had more issues with it than the original.
Yeha after all these years of waiting especially. Kind of seems like they wanted to beat an announcement at the Sony event, where it was rumored cuz maybe they thought it would get unfairly overshadowed?
Watch them be this remaster and a remaster of American Nightmare.
I had always wanted to play Alan Wake but haven't owned an Xbox since the original but I now have a Series X.
After finishing the Control AWE DLC on my PS5 I grabbed a copy of Alan Wake for $10 on mercari last week and now this happens.
Suppose I will just hold out for the remaster.
After finishing the Control AWE DLC on my PS5 I grabbed a copy of Alan Wake for $10 on mercari last week and now this happens.
Suppose I will just hold out for the remaster.
