Popular Post Abby_TheLastofUs Posted September 4, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted September 4, 2021 (edited) Alan Wake Is Getting Remastered, And It Is About Damn Time Quote Today, it was announced that Epic Games will be publishing a remaster of the 2010 Xbox cult classic Alan Wake later this fall on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation. The company had previously announced a deal with Remedy Games, the development studio behind the bureaucracy-set, blockbuster third-person shooter Control, to publish two of its projects. The first was a “AAA-Multiplatform Release,” the other a smaller game set in the same universe, which many are now assuming to be the Alan Wake remaster. For those of you unfamiliar with Alan Wake, the game absolutely whips. It follows the story of the titular Alan Wake, a Stephen King-esque horror writer, as he confronts nightmares in the Pacific Northwest. While its flashlight-based combat was a bit clunky at times, the game was deeply engaged with the sense of place and mystery it created. Its narrative played a lot with fiction, perspective, and the power of language, and it is now widely considered a classic of the Xbox 360 generation. I was a child when the game was initially released, and it was among my first “Oh shit, games can be like this?” experiences. The way it engaged with both its own text and the genre conventions it was playing with was nothing short of revolutionary at the time. In fact, I liked the game so much that one day, while I was in Barnes & Noble, I saw a copy of the game’s novelization and purchased it. Said novelization was fine! But the fact that a novelization of a game about a novelist writing and engaging with his own novels even exists in the first place is a fun treat for me. I would argue that it’s cool, weird things like that which make Remedy Games so good at making classics. Both Alan Wake and Control have gone down in the canons of their respective generations, and that’s due in no small part to Remedy Games’ mastery of producing a sense of place. These are games that thrive in the details of their settings, the just-offness of Alan Wake, the brutalist, screen-filling text of Control. There is no mainstream developer better at creating dream worlds than Remedy Games. This mastery is why I’m excited for Alan Wake to get a remaster. Normally, new coats of paint don’t actually do a ton for the games they’re hastily applied to. You get quality of life improvements here or there, maybe a better vista or two, but more often than not the game doesn’t actually benefit from the years of future technology that have since been developed, because it wasn’t built with that technology in mind. Alan Wake feels like a different story. Its reach exceeded its grasp, which is to say it was strange and ambitious and kind of broken upon release. That weirdness cemented it as a cult classic, but the technical limitations of the time definitely held the game back. I am legitimately excited to see what it looks like with ray tracing, especially since light was the game’s defining mechanic. To defeat an enemy in Alan Wake you had to shine your flashlight on them until their armour, made of materialised night, was burned away. I can see it already, lines of light cutting through the too-tall and too-close trees, dragging its fingers across the liminal black. Trying to carve the dreaming dark away, and never quite managing to hold it off. Edited September 9, 2021 by Abby_TheLastofUs 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeCheck-- Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 Absolutely about time 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrBloodmoney Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 I’ll believe it when I see it, but if true, I’ll be first in line ?? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monochrome Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 Awesome! I can't wait to replay it. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashbo Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 This was decent when I played on 360. Sign me up if it happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonaSaxPayne Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 omgomgomgomgomgomgomgomg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zizimonster Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 While this is awesome news, please... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prometheous101 Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 Never played it ,but deff interested in playing ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelestialRequiem Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 Beat it when it came out. I always assumed MS owned the IP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
communistwookiee Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 (edited) My biggest question is if it will also include American Nightmare, but I'm all in either way. Just saw OP's update. October 5th release? Guess we'll find out soon enough. Edited September 4, 2021 by communistwookiee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild-Arms-R Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 Well time to clear up my backlog. Gotta make some room. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucky0ne16 Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 this game was the reason i got an xbox to play the game, i cant wait if this is true 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abby_TheLastofUs Posted September 4, 2021 Author Share Posted September 4, 2021 People are speculating that the remaster might be one of October's PS+ games. There's no proof, just educated guesses but I could see it happening. PS5 version most likely. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gueeds Posted September 5, 2021 Share Posted September 5, 2021 Hoping it is true. It'd be nice if they add in ray tracing, but I'll be happy with just an upscale and 60 fps 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanzenchaos Posted September 5, 2021 Share Posted September 5, 2021 Man this one surely is a masterpiece. Can't wait! Quantum Break is also really good, but it's registered as a Microsoft IP so I doubt it will ever come to playstation. Still, I recommend everyone who has a PC/Xbox to try it out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EverythingOnFire Posted September 5, 2021 Share Posted September 5, 2021 (edited) Top 5 game for me. I adore it with all my heart. Having said that, I'm beyond sick and tired of remasters and remakes. We've got gems like Alan Wake because at one point, publishers were willing to take risks. Having said that, it's nice that Playstation-only players will finally be able to try it. Hopefully it will be popular enough that we'll finally get a sequel. Edited September 5, 2021 by EverythingOnFire 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XchocomanX Posted September 5, 2021 Share Posted September 5, 2021 OMG. Finally, I'll be able to play this one...if this is true lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcnichoj Posted September 5, 2021 Share Posted September 5, 2021 8 hours ago, CelestialRequiem said: Beat it when it came out. I always assumed MS owned the IP. Just publishing rights to the first game, much like Titanfall, Mass Effect, Sunset Overdrive and Dead Rising 3. They relinquished the rights for this, probably because Quantum Break didn't do as well as they hoped. At one point it was rumored MS was gonna buy Remedy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonaSaxPayne Posted September 5, 2021 Share Posted September 5, 2021 6 hours ago, Abby_TheLastofUs said: People are speculating that the remaster might be one of October's PS+ games. There's no proof, just educated guesses but I could see it happening. PS5 version most likely. this would be too good to be true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDarkBlade9 Posted September 5, 2021 Share Posted September 5, 2021 Hell Yeah! I have been waiting years for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wackt1 Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 (edited) I thought Alan Wake was an Xbox exclusive. Why the change to multiplatform? Is it something to do with CONTROL? Edited September 6, 2021 by wackt1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zizimonster Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 5 minutes ago, wackt1 said: I thought Alan Wake was an Xbox exclusive. Why the change to multiplatform? Is it something to do with CONTROL? It was, but I don't think it has anything to do with Control. Remedy Entertainment acquired the ownership of Alan Wake from Microsoft in 2019. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman223 Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 Definitely interested in trying this out after playing the AWE DLC for Control. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wackt1 Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 5 minutes ago, zizimonster said: It was, but I don't think it has anything to do with Control. Remedy Entertainment acquired the ownership of Alan Wake from Microsoft in 2019. that actually makes kinda sense now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
communistwookiee Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 3 hours ago, wackt1 said: I thought Alan Wake was an Xbox exclusive. Why the change to multiplatform? Is it something to do with CONTROL? Well as far as legal rights go, no, but Alan Wake and Control are set in a shared world, so they do have something to do with each other Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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