Comments on: Alan Wake: Stirs In Sleep

By: BJ Blazkowicz

BJ Blazkowicz — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:51:07 +0000

I read “working hard on” wrong.

By: Real Horrorshow

Real Horrorshow — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:21:56 +0000

I’m going to break with the pack and say that I hope the game IS DX10-only.

Long story short, the reason the differences and performance of DX10 compared to DX9 seems so underwhelming is because there’s never been a DX10 native engine yet. DX10 is a total rewrite from DX9, and what most developers are doing (DX9 with 2 DX10 features stapled on sloppily) is really selling DX10 short and ruining it’s reputation. SOMEONE has to a DX10 engine exclusive game eventually for the sake of prograss, and it can’t be done soon enough. Alan Wake hurry your ass up!

By: Mattress

Mattress — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:45:54 +0000

Alan Wake’s premise sounds great, evoking memories of Twin Peaks and Christopher Nolan’s Insomnia. But this game has being gestating for so long now one has to wonder will the finished product arrive as a marvelously executed and polished computer game, or will the studio collapse under the pressure of final, final deadline and cut a myriad of features and deliver a Alan Wake cut short?
Here’s hoping the former…

By: Dreamhacker

Dreamhacker — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:27:10 +0000

They better drop Vista if they know what’s good for…well, any game-company wanting to make money, at all.

By: Sax

Sax — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:30:47 +0000

Well, its been Vista/Dx10 and 360 exclusive since Microsoft is publishing it.

By: Erlam

Erlam — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:35:54 +0000

Please not Vista only. I’m struggling with XP, let alone that.. thing.

By: JulianP

JulianP — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:01:34 +0000

Boy do I wish that they’d drop the Vista exclusivity. Otherwise it’s going to sell like… like… fresh goat testicles.

By: Noc

Noc — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:14:25 +0000

On the bright side, maybe it’s just in Development Purgatory? Visits there aren’t supposed to be permanent.

By: Monkfish

Monkfish — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:09:34 +0000

Ahh… Development Hell: there’s no place like it.

At this rate, Alan Wake will be announced as a Windows 7 exclusive title, never mind Vista. ;)

By: Sax

Sax — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:18:11 +0000

If I remember correctly… it was the same with the first Max Payne, so no reason to worry.

By: Chris Evans

Chris Evans — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:55:48 +0000

Well its a good thing I have Vista insalled on my PC :D

By: theapologist

theapologist — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:18:08 +0000

I like Vista. It’s pretty, and it’ll run Alan Wake. Yay!

Oh, and Halo 2. Meh…