Alan Wake 2 Sucks!

[StraightEdgeJoe]

I have it on PS5 and I plan to ask for a refund first thing tomorrow. This game is jump scare the video game. It's so cheap how Remedy keeps using the same flash images on screen really fast and cranks up the volume ''jump scare'' that I have seen on hundreds of Newgrounds flash games back in the early 2000's.

AW2 wants to be a survival horror game so bad, but doesn't understand what made Resident Evil 2 remake great. I'm playing on Normal mode and both character's shoe box (aka item boxs) are completely full of health items and ammo LOL FAIL!!!! Remedy made some creepy environments but do nothing with them. It's like they made the game and said "ohh ♥♥♥♥ we forgot to do anything to scare players, QUICK make some flashes appear on screen and have the audio really loud a hundred times.....problem solved!!!"

I will see characters constantly t-posing and Saga will get stuck on the smallest items. I once had to load a checkpoint to get unstuck from behind a bed. Even had a puzzle that was unwinnable until the latest patch. This game lacks polish and will kill immersion. When it comes to steam just avoid this turd because it's not worth your time.

Just go watch the Twin Peaks show instead. Sam Lake is a HACK, stealing ideas from Twin Peaks, and a movie called Darkness Falls. Just goes to show you that this man is a one hit wonder. The only good thing he wrote is Max Payne and I'm starting to wonder if he didn't copy his friend's ideas and took credit for that masterpiece.

[NeutronVortex]

Originally posted by THE VERY REVEREND MISTER BONK:

That's OK when I switched to PC I cut my teeth on those Frogwares Sherlock Holmes / Mystery Case Files titles when I was over at Big Fish years ago so I'll probably like the clue walls.

Well, it sounds like you'd enjoy that aspect. If you want it, now is the time to get it; Alan Wake 2 is on sale now and additionally Epic has a deal where if you buy it now(either standard or deluxe) you get Alan Wake Remastered for free. This deal ends Jan. 10, iirc.

[House™]

Support. This is a bit overrated game.

[Offence]

This game is the most overhyped thing to come in recent years and it's worse than Death Stranding and i never thought i would ever say that out loud.

[THE VERY REVEREND MISTER BONK]

Originally posted by -=🗲Offence🗲=-:

This game is the most overhyped thing to come in recent years and it's worse than Death Stranding and i never thought i would ever say that out loud.

You still didn't. This is text.

[Tony]

Death Stranding was good though. Hope the release the 2 for it on PC.

[Ted]

Each to their own but man I loathed Death Stranding... I tried to like it but personally I found it to be pretentious boring nonsense. But hey, opinions are subjective of course

[Citizen Cook]

Originally posted by Ted:

Each to their own but man I loathed Death Stranding... I tried to like it but personally I found it to be pretentious boring nonsense. But hey, opinions are subjective of course

Agreed

[lancelot]

Originally posted by Schackal:

- the survival horror aspect is good, but the respawning enemies and bad inventory management (not to mention the very limited shoebox space...) makes it a chore to backtrack. Resident Evil games did this so much better, even the original ones.

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- very good atmosphere, with superb ambient music and sounds, BUT (and this is my biggest issue with it): the f.ckin' jumpscares. They are completeley out of place, and not fitting into the overall presentation of the game (long gone are the days, when Silent Hill 1-4 managed to scare the piss out of us without these very cheap attempts of jumpscares), and by the time you reach the nursing home, it becomes so frequent, it basically kills the games ambiance which it tried so hard to build up. Truly a let down.

- the end-game: oh boy, where to start. I really tried not to dislike this game, but unlike for example Control, where I have honestly enjoyed every single minute with it (first playthrough took me 60 hours), AW2 has really overstayed its welcome with its 30 hours, and by the end I grew so tired of the game, only finished it out of spite. The first time we had a chase sequence, okay fine, somewhat scary. Second time, meh, okay. Third time: come on guys, its wasn't really interesting in the first place. And by the end again running from Scratch in the Nursing Home, I just let out a sigh of desperation before turning off the game again for a couple of hours. I had to muster up my willpower to carry on with the game, and, you know, that is not a good sign. You are supposed to play games for entertainment, for fun. But AW2 was not fun at this point. But I do realize it's more on the preference side, so I'm not holding this part against the game.

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Is this game a masterpiece? No, not by a long shot. Its a decent game, almost good, but as unfortunate it is, it has some very glaring issues and to be honest, the hype had a huge part in making this game a success. I really dont think that AW2 is a masterpiece, hell, in my opinion its not even Remedy's best game to begin with. It couldnt even hold Control's towel. Which is a pity, really, it had some shining moments (personally I loved the musical part and the mini Finnish movie bit in the cinema), and the facial animations are superb, I have never seen anything like this (for the most part, for the side characters, well, not so much...).

I agree with your points, but for me the negatives far outweigh all the occasional glimpses of something good in this game.

The jump scares. Chase sequences that fail to make clear where we need to make a sharp turn. A couple of places where it's easy to miss some inconspicuous passage, and then we're stuck, the hints the game provides are quite useless. Respawning enemies weren't exactly one of the highlights of Control either, but they're so much worse in a survival horror.

How many times did we have to replace a fuse? By the third time it started to feel like some kind of a joke. Whereas Control had some excellent puzzles.

The echo points where we have to stand still and listen to a dialog. If we move too far away, the dialog resets. And we have to listen to it again from the beginning, because the dialog triggers something. It's even worse with Saga's mind place because there it's monologs, not dialogs.

People were criticizing the combat in Control for being too primitive, but then how would you describe the combat in AW2?

There are glimpses of those moments which are bizarre, dark and amusing at the same time and which were so great in Control. And instead of trying to do something at least as original as Control, they decided to make a very average survival horror.

[Leo D. Alemax]

I don't feel like this since Kojima reviewed Get Out!.

[MadAsAHatter]

I was so hyped for this game but I just de-installed after chapter 2. The story and graphics are good but the performance is bad (on a decent pc with a 3080ti) and the gameplay mechanics are absolutely dreadful. This is a walking simulator with the most stupid and boring puzzle mechanics I've ever seen in a AAA title.
I'll give this another chance in a few years once I've upgraded to a 4090 or a 5080ti.

[Many-Named]

Horrendous performance, clunky gameplay, average presentation, too many child puzzles, too much walking. Tbh I am astounded to see how overhyped this thing is, wow.

[Many-Named]

Originally posted by DigiAngel:

I'm with that one person...ran around the crime scene for 30 minutes......picked up all I could....but...then what? Eh...uninstalled....didn't realize AW2 was going to be a detective game like Sinking City. Hard pass.

Sinking City was actually good, tho (imo ofc)

[DigiAngel]

I put another 3 hours into this game...I see why it got awards...the mix of real life actors in it kinda is neat. But that's it. Way too much walking, not enough exploration with anything to discover, level reuse (one time back to back....escape this area, and then YAY escape it again)...minimal items to interact with...just super-mid game. I'd give it 4/10 and only buy it on dirt cheap sale....if that.

[Raptor]

It doesnt suck but its not great either. Its a glorified RE Clone that is at many points quite boring.

[MadAsAHatter]

I almost fell asleep sorting case pictures and walking around a map I already knew by heart from the first game. For me, it officially "sucks".