Comments on: Alan’s Wake: Remedy Too Teeny For PC

By: rocketman71

rocketman71 — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:13:42 +0000

Aaaaaaaand this was a reply to a message way up.

That’s what I get for answering in the forum :(

By: rocketman71

rocketman71 — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:10:35 +0000

@jad:

I never played the multiplayer, so the whole GFWL, certificate thing passed me by, and I had no crashes or bugs at all. And I really can’t summon up any kind of ire against checkpoints nowadays, they worked well enough for me.

Well, to each his own. I find that many games don’t know where to put the checkpoints, and/or put them too far apart. Checkpoints are for consoles. Saves are for PCs, there’s no lack of memory excuse, only lazyness on part of the developers.

I found the gameplay to be really fun, with an interesting game mechanic, nice visuals, some fun set pieces (the protect-your-buddy-with-the-spotlight part standing out) and a hilariously goofy, campy story.

While I’m sure plenty of people have legitimate complaints about the gameplay, and that is totally fine, it aggravates me when people just jump on the whole “its a popular, mainstream title that console gamers like, which means I am required to hate it” bandwagon. Not saying that you’re doing that, but seriously, I don’t give a shit if Cliffy B. is a douchebag or a saint. The gameplay is the only important thing.

As I said, to each his own. I found the gameplay to be utterly dull, and the story laughable in the worst possible way. In any other game it would have been just barely decent. The amount of hype we had to watch made it relatively worse.

If I put it down it’s not because it was Microsoft’s poster game, it’s because I really think it was a POS, and a badly ported one at that. I own 2 consoles and I have no problem naming a lot of good games on those.

To make this post a bit more on-topic, if Max Payne came out on consoles now, a number of the same people who loved it back in 2001 on the PC would now be calling it consolized garbage. It’s a third-person shooter, with corny dialog and a (partially) regenerating health system — only mouth-breathing consolers would like anything like that!

The original Max Payne would hardly be consolized garbage, third person shooters were on the PC way before they were on consoles, the dialog was a great humorous take on noire movies, and as for the regenerating health… sorry, but you’re wrong. I distinctly remember having to take painkillers to recover health.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:12:56 +0000

Karen Traviss’ novel(s?) almost make me want to care about the Gears of War storyline. Almost. But then, she got me to care about Star Wars prequel stuff, even if it was only the clone commandos in her lovely Republic Commando series.

By: maicon

maicon — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:28:58 +0000

well, maybe in this way it could be a better game when ported to pc.
positive thinking guys, and to remember mass effect 1!

By: FunkyBadger

FunkyBadger — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:03:30 +0000

Its doubtless ammusing when people take fun games *far* too seriously.

*tumbleweed*

Anyhoo – I haven’t played GoW on the PC, but suspect the casual disdain bandied about is more of the “she didn’t dump me, I dumped her” hurt feelings of the PC ubermensch. Gears1 single-plaer was great, but its hands-down the best co-op game. The pumping station on insanity difficulty is an absolute highpoint of action gaming…

By: zaglis

zaglis — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:50:45 +0000

Whoa- still not posted- Alan Wake running on PC smoothly and with the open world feature(interesting that for some lol reasons it got cut) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3HybhZjcGE THREE YEARS AGO. 3.

By: Anthony Damiani

Anthony Damiani — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:42:14 +0000

Well, if they’ve got 50 people, and it’s not enough to support 2 SKUs, it’s got to come down to economics for them, and it’s pretty clear that Microsoft will make more money on a given title as an Xbox exclusive than a PC title. I don’t think it makes a lot of sense for us to feel slighted about it– unless, of course, they make up that insulting nonsense story about how the PC isn’t the right platform for the feel of the game.

By: whalleywhat

whalleywhat — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:05:20 +0000

I would say “console game” is a relative term. It’s obvious that Bioshock is more of a console game than System Shock 2 or Oblivion is more of a console game than Morrowind, but I doubt anyone thinks twice about playing those on a PC. Maybe it’s the lack of dirt-farming?

By: Hmm

Hmm — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:22:37 +0000

@Psychopomp
What’s better? People saying :
“my PC sucks, but there are some awesome exclusives which I want to play, so I’d better upgrade”
or
“time to buy a console and not upgrade in years, there are no PC exclusives anyways”.

Right now, many people are leaning towards the latter option.

By: AdrianWerner

AdrianWerner — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:13:54 +0000

In case of Alan Wake it’s the other way around. The whole point of not releasing it for PC is because MS is afraid it would sell TOO well, thus cutting into 360 sales

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:33:14 +0000

“People are quickly running out of reasons to upgrade their PCs anymore – hardware can’t be pirated, you’re losing an opportunity here.”

Then people would complain that they can’t play the game on their decrepit old rig.

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:29:02 +0000

“Are you seriously going to pony up $50 for a game that came out a year or more ago?”

http://www.amazon.com/Rez-Playstation-2/dp/B00005ULXM/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1266924436&sr=8-8

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg…