Alan Wake 2 wasn't very good

[bulldog0890]

I'm not sure where all the praise is coming from. i kind of didn't like it much at all. the action was somehow worse than the first game, and the plot was basically a worse budget david lynch nonsense. it also didn't resolve a damn thing even after all these years, which is giving me flashbacks to shenmue 3. And I feel like the shoehorning in of the FBC and stuff from control didn't really add anything to this either

[GodisanAtheist]

Always an issue with a sort of cult following, you have to somehow please both the hardcore fans as well as the newcomers to your game.

A lot of what I've read sort of says AW2 does worse on the already mediocre combat and does more (but not always better) on the first game's better than average narrative.

Sounds like a pretty standard experience.

[Killy, the Explorer]

Watched 2 hours of it. Almost no gameplay, bad and constant dialogue/monologue, characters behave like aliens, mind place gives the FBI agent somehow all the right answers with little to no information assembled... graphics looks really nice though, but if its only that there is always YouTube to watch it.

So maybe it somehow gets better after that 2 hour mark (which I highly doubt) but that would be the time I requested a refund, would it be purchasable on Steam.

[WolfEisberg]

Originally posted by Killy, the Explorer:

mind place gives the FBI agent somehow all the right answers with little to no information assembled... g

That is because Saga Anderson is a seer, the first song after the first chapter tells you this about Saga, she has supernatural ability.

[Foulcher]

Action was worse but on the other hand the first one was too superficial in its lore and narrative

I felt like the game was running in the woods 80% of the time and the manuscript was too vague. I completed it again before playing AWII and the last chapter was terribly long and boring.

AW II is a piece of art with complex construction and crafting. I like the post chapter exploration and characters (you couldn’t explore anything especially the city in AW1). And also the surreal feeling and complex symbolism, mixture of live action, etc.

But yes in a way it can feel like a good movie but average to mediocre game. I played on story difficulty after trying normal. But AW1 was not that a good game too, it was average, just a little bit better.

[Bagheadt]

I actually enjoyed the game before you get to play as Alan.

I just finished the part where you go through the subway, and god it was boring. Just puzzle after puzzle with barely any combat encounters at all...

I honestly almost fell asleep and i'm not liking the way they tell the story at this point either.

[JD]

This game is so boring and so broken. Thank God I got a refund. And all the praise about the graphics ... even at 4K ultra it looks like a 1998 game.

[WolfEisberg]

Originally posted by Face Diaper:

This game is so boring and so broken. Thank God I got a refund. And all the praise about the graphics ... even at 4K ultra it looks like a 1998 game.

Your last part of your sentence there tells everyone that you opinion here cannot be taken seriously at all.

[Almaz]

Originally posted by Face Diaper:

This game is so boring and so broken. Thank God I got a refund. And all the praise about the graphics ... even at 4K ultra it looks like a 1998 game.

try getting a working pair of eyes

[Davaretta]

Yeah, the game is absolutely terrible. Why do we suddenly need gunplay? The idea was to kill shadows with a flashlight and other sources of light. That made the first game unique. The Mind Palace thing is just cumbersome and annoying. Who greenlit this gameplay?

The writing is the worst part, right off the bat they are kissing her ass like she is the only FBI agent with a functional brain. Oh Saga, you are so smart, oh Saga, you are so much better than all of us, we are putting you in charge of everything just because you are you! Sickening pandering that was clearly inserted by the racist jackasses they hired to botch this game.

The dialogue with the guy at the transformator house just had me rolling my eyes. WE GET IT, SHE IS FINNISH ánd BLACK, Halleluja.

I turned this tripe off after 2.5 hours. Didn't even get to see Alan.

[MrTank]

I think otherwise. it is not a perfect game or so called "Masterpiece" but i think the presentation is very good and unique to make player feel in the atmosphere. The combat and its mechanic i think it is good enough. The pacing and number of combat is also well done.
Yes. I agreed that the amt of items is considered quite alot compared to RE2/3. The shoe box storage is limited in space unlike RE2 /3 storage box.. feel abit awkard..

Story wise. I can;t comment fully becoz i still in progress playing. I at alan wake: Act 7: Mask. So far i enjoy e story and pacing. With story-based game, i think it is good to keep the combat small and limited to fully enjoy the atmosphere and story.
I think AW2 is similar to death stranding. I think only ppl who are more patient and not combat hungry players like myself will appreciate such game more.

Lastly my own personal preference, i will like prefer a more attractive female lead character such as Jill.V in order to enjoy more and eye-candy.

Overall i still regard AW2 is a good game.

[Almaz]

Originally posted by MrTank:

ILastly my own personal preference, i will like prefer a more attractive female lead character such as Jill.V in order to enjoy more and eye-candy.

no wonder from your profile

[TheBattleForUranus]

Meh. I liked it more than AW1. Opinions are great.

[Bagheadt]

Originally posted by MrTank:

I think otherwise. it is not a perfect game or so called "Masterpiece" but i think the presentation is very good and unique to make player feel in the atmosphere. The combat and its mechanic i think it is good enough. The pacing and number of combat is also well done.
Yes. I agreed that the amt of items is considered quite alot compared to RE2/3. The shoe box storage is limited in space unlike RE2 /3 storage box.. feel abit awkard..

Story wise. I can;t comment fully becoz i still in progress playing. I at alan wake: Act 7: Mask. So far i enjoy e story and pacing. With story-based game, i think it is good to keep the combat small and limited to fully enjoy the atmosphere and story.
I think AW2 is similar to death stranding. I think only ppl who are more patient and not combat hungry players like myself will appreciate such game more.

Lastly my own personal preference, i will like prefer a more attractive female lead character such as Jill.V in order to enjoy more and eye-candy.

Overall i still regard AW2 is a good game.

It's pretty clear that you've never actually had a girlfriend in real life

[hannibal_pjv]

Matter of taste! I think that AW2 is superior compared to AW1, but I also think that BG3 is better than BG1 or BG2… Games develops and AW2 is just a crasy audiovisual mix. I like it more, because it has less fight, it has more exploring, it has more humour it has deep atmosphere.
So if you are looking for ”boring” Fiat person monster shooter you don`t like AW2… it is completely different from those games. So it depends on what kind of games you like or not like. I love Twin Peaks and maybe that is why I like Alan Wake games the AW2 in special.

There are about 5 or six games that can win GOTY this year…

Zelda, most popular, so most likely to win
Hogwards Legasy, the most popular fransise, so also very near to win
BG3, super popular fantasy rpg
Alan Wake 2, incredible looking next get audio visual experiment, with good music and good, but really whacky story, most likely too strange and wrong genre to win though
Starfield… could win with Old merits…. But BG3 does everything it does so much better… so maybe not

A couple of more candidates, but not likely to go above these 5… BG3 did take allmost all Golden joystic awards, but it is little different from GOTY…

[haplo]

I’m on Chapter 8 now and I can’t believe how much yapping, “puzzles” and walking back and forth there is instead of actual gameplay i.e. combat.

Running around an apartment turning on a bunch television sets is not gameplay modern devs.