Alan Wake - The Writer (DLC) - Out Now - 560 Points

Just done Episode 5. Brilliant. Loving every minute of this now. Shame it'll be over so soon.

And it's over. Thank god it didn't end in a stupidly difficult and inappropriate boss battle.

And that's The Signal done. Bloody hell. Glad they tied up all the loose ends.

Started this toniiht after getting it, like 3 weeks ago. Quite like the hour or so I played of it.

Having to collect batteries for the flashlight though, really? What is this, 2004?

chalkitdown wrote:Started this toniiht after getting it, like 3 weeks ago. Quite like the hour or so I played of it.

Having to collect batteries for the flashlight though, really? What is this, 2004?

The batteries never run out though. Unless you over charge the flashlight.

Not once did I run out of batteries or ammo, while I'm at it.

I'll tell you what I hate doing in this is, collecting flasks. A major irk of mine when it comes to story driven games, having to break off the story and find the poxy things. Now, I know some of you'll will say, 'do that on the second play through', never going to happen. Never play a story driven game straight after

Plus, I like getting achievements. Grr, just a hate of mine in games, collecting gooseberry fool for the sake of collecting gooseberry fool

Gandalf wrote:Not once did I run out of batteries or ammo, while I'm at it.

You obviously didn't play it on hard 8-)

Floex wrote:I'll tell you what I hate doing in this is, collecting flasks. A major irk of mine when it comes to story driven games, having to break off the story and find the poxy things. Now, I know some of you'll will say, 'do that on the second play through', never going to happen. Never play a story driven game straight after

Plus, I like getting achievements. Grr, just a hate of mine in games, collecting gooseberry fool for the sake of collecting gooseberry fool

I missed one.

One.

Holy damn, nearing the end of this now. It's been brilliant, and it's long!

My favourite moment was:

Remedy has "great" ideas for Alan Wake 2, would stay MS exclusive

This DLC is pretty hard! Throws you right in there. I suppose it's because it doesn't ask you which difficulty to play on that makes it so hard, I played the main game on Normal, with the middle difficulty being Hard. So this is probably defaulted to Hard.

I'm trying to like this, really I am but man this is one boring game. I'm just had with, walk, walk, walk, enemy jumps out, kill, walk, walk, walk... Tha's the game, nothing more. The set pieces are really flat and seems reminiscent of other games in that regard.

The manuscripts, are strawberry floating awful, I have given up on reading them. I've lost who each character is and don't care in the slighest. Chapter 3... boring mineshaft, too much hand holding. That 'puzzle' in the mineshaft :fp:

This game is 4 years to late. I'm going to plow through it and sell it straight on. Such, such a disappointment

Floex wrote:I'm trying to like this, really I am but man this is one boring game. I'm just had with, walk, walk, walk, enemy jumps out, kill, walk, walk, walk... Tha's the game, nothing more. The set pieces are really flat and seems reminiscent of other games in that regard.

The manuscripts, are strawberry floating awful, I have given up on reading them. I've lost who each character is and don't care in the slighest. Chapter 3... boring mineshaft, too much hand holding. That 'puzzle' in the mineshaft This game is 4 years to late. I'm going to plow through it and sell it straight on. Such, such a disappointment

You must be dead behind the eyes.

Just started Alan Wake today after getting it from Aaron on the cheap!

I seem to be running out of ammo an awful lot, am I missing something here? I am on the second chapter heading to Lovers peak I'm on normal difficulty and seem to be getting raped!

JiggerJay wrote:Just started Alan Wake today after getting it from Aaron on the cheap!

I seem to be running out of ammo an awful lot, am I missing something here? I am on the second chapter heading to Lovers peak I'm on normal difficulty and seem to be getting raped!

Your eyes, you need to use them.

Seriously, look around for ammo it's all over the place!

Photek wrote:
JiggerJay wrote:Just started Alan Wake today after getting it from Aaron on the cheap!

I seem to be running out of ammo an awful lot, am I missing something here? I am on the second chapter heading to Lovers peak I'm on normal difficulty and seem to be getting raped!

Your eyes, you need to use them.

Seriously, look around for ammo it's all over the place!

Yeah, seriously Jigger, even on hard there was far too much ammo

I must be near the end of episode 4. It's interesting. I'm enjoying it, but I do find some things frustrating. Collectables. They ruin the pace of the game. Sure I don't 'have' to get them, but I like collecting the manuscript pages, I have all but a few on my levels so far, god knows where the ones I haven't got are as I scour the landscape. I think the collectables ruin the pace of the game.

"I need to meet with the kidnapper as soon as possible. No wait, actually I'll scour the landscape for strawberry floating Coffee Thermoses. I'm looking for pages, but strawberry float it, I'll steal what I can in my magic pockets."

Another problem is the combat. At times its a bit gooseberry fool. Especially as you have no real way of knowing something is behind you. I also seem to be armed to the mummy strawberry floating teeth most of the time and finish levels with enough ammo to take down a small country.

Oh, and on stereo the audio needs work. I find I HAVE to have subtitles on to compensate. This is a problem across most games though.

Yeah my obsessive compulsive need to wander all through the woods for collectibles is annoying me too. When last I played I was probably towards the end of chapter 3 and enjoying it. However I think I would have preferred the free-roaming game this seemed to be when it was originally announced.

Memento Mori wrote:Yeah my obsessive compulsive need to wander all through the woods for collectibles is annoying me too. When last I played I was probably towards the end of chapter 3 and enjoying it. However I think I would have preferred the free-roaming game this seemed to be when it was originally announced.

Find the person who is supposed to be a game designer and listen to his rants. It gives away some clues. :shifty:

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