Alan Wake 2 | Sam Lake You Hack (Affectionate) 

Sam Lake You Hack

Bricky, you hack!!!!

Hack Lame, you Sack

Have you seen Slay the Princess yet? It might be a game you could enjoy. P.s. brilliant video. First time watching your streams was when you started the remedy journey and its been glorious. Woe. Entertainment upon us

Less than 4000 subs before we get bricky's mass effect. I can't wait!

The duality of man

​@@kanati1133 the duality of pretentious game developers

⁠@@airplanes_aren.t_real Would Kojima make the trifecta of pretentious game devs?

@@sandalogaming6766 Probably.

​@@sandalogaming6766Hideko kongingles

I hope he quotes it in unrelated games

I gotta be honest, I don't understand what it means. I don't get the joke

@@EANTYcrown it means he’s cheap

Mine was NAPWISS

At this point his last name is "lake you hack"

Extremely funny joke lol but seriously though it’s not true? From other examples like Stucky from AW1 it seems like being Taken doesn’t bring up the worst but like… relays the person’s routine? Wait, that’s still funny in this case lol

@@SirBananaFunk The Taken from 1 are a lot different than 2. 1's taken are just possessed people, 2's are way different.

in Alan Wake 1 we already see Nightingale after his nights and nights of bender and overfixating on the death of his partner and catching Wake, so it's safe to assume we were already seeing a pretty terrible side of him, and being Taken doesn't bring out the worst in you, that has only happened to Alan and it was with Scratch, (SPOILERS) which was the very essence of the Dark Presence which was leaked out from around the bullet of light out of Alan's head. Being Taken means you're basically dead, your body is a drone operated by the Dark Presence to fulfill its goals. words spoken are nothing but verbal rigor mortis. echoes of the person who once owned the body, leaving their mouth without context

OMEGA THREE FATTY ACIDS ARE GOOD FOR THE HEART

@@SirBananaFunkI think you’re right, I believe I got that impression from the Bright Falls short film

Scratch would be a smear on the wall

She shows up One taps Nightingale with pierce Binds to the clicker allowing her to reset other cooldowns Gets annoyed by Scratch wave dashing around Annihilates him with triple rocks Flies out over the -lake- ocean Control point cleansed

​@@zortechme6337forgot to add >refuses to elaborate >leaves

I think she only has powers in The Oldest House

@@ballerswagbro9k611 I think that as long as she's bounded to the artifacts of power she has the respective powers, her powers don't come from the house after all, the house is the place the FBC uses as a base to contain them, taking the fact she had a connection to polaris from the projector incident(which happen outside of the house) we can assume that they work as such. The gun is just a key pass so that the house and the pyramid gods recognize u as the director.

I think its kinda supposed to

It gives me "I'm the king" vibes from Game of Thrones.

“I am a surgeon” vibes

"I'm a Witcher"

I'm a vampire! I'm a vampire!

I felt so weird hearing that cause the version of that saying I grew up with (Zu viele Köche verderben den Brei) is about porridge rather than soup, my brain immediately went "wait that's an odd way to say- huh...".

Too Many Cooks spoil the broth

Yup, it's just a direct translation of the Finnish idiom "Mitä useampi kokki, sitä huonompi soppa". They loved throwing those literal translations of Finnish stuff in the game. And as a Finn I loved all of it.

Should have told that to bunch morons who made riverdale

@@Henrypooh I see you are not yesterdays grouse's son.

Kojima is japanese Sam Lake

Kojima is japanese Sam Lake.

I'm just waiting for Kojima to be in a Remedy game now and vice versa 😂

@@Kranitoko Sam Lake already was in Kojima's Death Stranding as a random side character, so probably you don't have to wait too long xD

​@@KranitokoKojima was in Control. Lol There was a mission that was exclusive to Playstation. Lol I'm sure you can find footage of it on Yt.

Hack Ocean you Sam!

It's a Sam Spiral

Sam Ocean you spiral [affectionate]

Same Lake you hack...

Could be either a callback or one of his weird janitor powers

​@@joshred1571 to be fair I have only met janitors with friendly faces.

@@joshred1571 ...or Alan writing Jesse's lines.

@@BackwardsPancake Nothing in Control indicates that Alan wrote the whole thing, just the bits in AWE DLC that he literally narrates. The only thing in the main game that is implied to be written by Alan is the Hiss incantation

Anything but deerfest

The writing is atrocious

Imagine if RU-vidrs wound up in the Dark Place lol

The difference, of course is that while "Sam Lake, you hack" has (Affectionate), "Dante Alighieri, you hack" has (Derogatory).

Truly, a rating worthy of a game with no Barry

There were some emails from Barry, 9.6/10

He has a cameo! 9.99999/10

@@harmonlanager2670 like an actual voice and image cameo?

@@GILGAMESH069 no, mainly just mentioned by Alice (she says that Barry took care of her occasionally after he moved for better work)

he wouldn't survive that long

@@jorgehenriq right, the rest of the 5 minute is just her searching for him and chucking a tree or a taken into another taken along the way

mh idk about that but maybe

The Dark Presence merges with The Hiss and it's Expansion content for Jesse. But hey, she's the boss. Can't go running around to every thematically interesting town in the Pacific Northwest to dispatch its supernatural horrors. She's got other stuff to deal with. Ya gotta delegate, y'know?

Unfortunately, she can’t be everywhere at all times, but many of the evil entities basically CAN.

So...he was technically gooning?

"Local man too confused to finish." Or Finnish, ehh? Ehh? 😏

@@RabbyBabu SAM LAKE YOU HACK!!

That’s one of the things I love about this game. So much attention to details which most people will just ignore. I love looking at all the posters on the walls in this game lol.

It's what you get for reviewing a game by going through it as a 'streamer'

Although he does say near the beginning that he did a second playthrough, so it is just him not noticing in general

​@@simmerdafukdown he did a second playthru off stream. He just didn't notice, in the end

Not everyone is going to fuck over their financials for months to make a 7 hour death stranding analysis. Bro's got warhammer to pay for.

@@PlebCentre I really did watch that video over the course of three days. My god we eat good from these creators.

Considering Poets of the Fall and Remedy’s shared story, I believe PotF would do it for free

I wonder what their monetary deal actually is. They do not do music that actively anymore to my knowledge and they were newer super big, so them being in the game does not bring visibility like having Bruce Springstree or Metallica. So they do not need extra compensation for that. I assume doing music for the game can be fun. Could the compensation be actually relatively low? They also get exposure to a multimillion audience of players + 10x that who see the videos. I hope they get paid enough :) The continuous collab with them in each game is so much fun.

Say what you will about the final cut. At least you only need to play the game again once and on any difficulty. In Max Payne 2 you needed to play the game 3 times on the hardest difficulty to save Mona

The warp makes sense, it's thought and emotion manifest without limits. The issue for me and probably Bricky too is there's a lot of weird limits and exceptions with something like Remedy's Altered World Events.

So drinking moonshine made from the unfiltered water of a giant OOP (The lake) turns you into a Parautilitarian. Good to know

​@@ShrilackI mean who doesn't like making a moonshine out of Contaminated(Posibly Paranormal) Water.

@@nore5992 I would drink it, especially if it gave me the ability to come up with a banger like Dark ocean summoning on the fly.

​@@ShrilackIs it made from it? I remember Tor and Odin saying "Don't drink the water! Only drink moonshine!" Also when Odin communicates with Saga, he tells her that the dark presence is in the water

@@Shrilack Maybe the distillation does something to the darkness in the water that gives you power instead of corrupting you with darkness. Or maybe the Andersons' still is an OOP

If anything it's a dark reflection of what could happen to Rose if she isn't careful

It’s been a will they won’t they for sure 🥲

I also thought of the game as an overcomplicated metaphor about how making things overcomplicated is not a good thing in the first place lmaooo

Zis iz le poetrii 😙🤌🏽

Had to dig out my old 10 years ago lingo to read this properly lmao

SAM LAKE YOU HACK!

I am SO GLAD that I am not the only one who noticed this lol. The thing that really made it click home for me was during gameplay when Bricky noted that Zane was basically Randall Flagg.

fuck you're right

@@griffindor65 wouldn’t mr scratch be closer to randall flagg?

BRUH I WAS YELLING THIS ON MY DISCORD CALL AS I HIT CREDITS (And all my bros lost their shit)

Also, Ahti left the puddle to traverse,

Also, she has the mental clarity of an Anderson Seer Also, she is a very well grounded and analytical FBI Agent Also, she got that Momma Bear determination fueling her And also, as mentioned by another commenter, Ahti helped with his magic puddle In a way, Saga had a lot of help in getting her out of the Dark Place. Who knows if Alan's stay in the dark would've been shorter if he had allowed himself the help he needed...

@@johnernest5843alan as well isolated himself and the dark place is definitely not happy with the ending of 1 prior to the dlc

@@auskaesq I felt it was subtly implied that Alan has a complicated and dark mind. The Dark Place has such a strong hold on him because he is such a negative person. Since he was a child he dreamt of horrors and future events through the Dark Place and, in a certain way, since then he was always with his mind inside it. Not to mention the fact that Alan repeatedly stopped and restarted writing. He didn't believe he deserved getting out. Also, Door did say that he was making things harder for himself. There is probably an easier way even for normal people.

​@@delmattia96I think that too. Alan and Saga is like the opposites of the same coins. Saga is always a positive woman, trying to understand and always try to see on positive light. While Alan is very pesimist guy and its part of his character since young. He always adore a dark, mysterious and convuluting setting and stories. And this also influence his own writting, because thats how his style is as the Writter. And so no wonder that Mr Door is very angry too Alan by creating such a visceral and dark story that even bring his daughter and grand children down, and saying too Alan that you can do something better in his writting. But the way i see it. Alan is seeing writting as a meants to try to gtfo out of Dark Place and not as meants of arts and cosiderance. His style of writting lacks compasion and understanding and instead is filled with Meticoulous and cold writting as he consider this is the best way to gtfo, thats why almost nobody want to help him, because if they help him everybody will drown with him. Yet ironicaly it also why Scratch can influence him. But he is not heartless, its just his experience and fear blinded him that he also hurts other people especially Saga. And thats why in the last chapter Alan risk himself back to dark place to fix his grave mistakes.

I played Control after playing Alan Wake 2 and then watched some playthrough of Alan Wake 1. It was pretty fun to be as clueless as Saga in the game during my playthrough. The game stands on its own but I think it’s better if you play the other games too at some point.

I was actually curious if a brand new player could just jump into alan wake 2 with saga being a great character to introduce everything to. Was it truly all incomprehensible madness or did the game actually do a somewhat decent job of explaining some things?

@@casual1118 I've played Control but not AW1 and I jumped into AW2 with knowing very little about it's universe and I thought it made pretty good sense, even more on ng+ I thought they did good explaining how things work! I liked it so much I platinumed it lol

New drinking game, take a shot per Sam Lake you Hack. Let's see who ends up in hospital the fastest

@@Vinkhol Watch the Alan Wake, Control and Alan Wake 2 videos back to back and take a shot each time

@@alexscholz3438 That's just offing yourself with extra steps.

​@@WWFanatic0 wouldn't have happened if Sam Lake wasn't a hack. I think that's on him at that point.

I counted 18 but tbf after the 10th shot math got haaard

Doesn't make them any less annoying though

wat

@@oobynooby1 Pretty sure there's an option to reduce the full screen jumpscares, the game even tells you that it's in the options

​@@SaturatedSunset guess that shows they know they went overboard with the jumpscares

​@@The300Playeror that they took feedback from the playerbase. That was patched in, not there from the beginning

it takes the Twin Peaks approach to storytelling. it never ends in a satisfying way for a majority of people. there's rarely even closure to plots with side characters. there are mechanics of how things work in the series that will never be explained, and it's entirely on purpose. i love that so so much. and i don't understand the need to have everything wrapped up like it's a comic book storyline. but that's still a valid desire, i just don't get it but that's how a majority of people want their fiction to be and you can see that in nearly all popular media. i like room to imagine/dream.

@@EternalLovefield yes! Alan wake got me into twin peaks and even tho I didn't understand probably 90 percent of stuff in there it's still in my top 3 of any series I've watched in my life.

​@@EternalLovefieldI half agree, because this game will get DLC and maybe possibly another sequel. If all the questions are not wrapped up by the time this franchise ends, that is the definition of lame for me. BUT I can indulge in some deliberately unsatisfying storytelling for single instances of a story, meaning a few episodes of a TV show, or a book or movie or game of a larger series. I love it when a single semi wrapped up part of a larger story leaves me with a lot of questions, but you gotta give me my answers by the time we're done.

sure, but answers are still very very important for mystery and if you dont deliver, you basically ruined everything. you dont need to have all the answers, but atleast some major ones@@EternalLovefield

​@Exel3nce I mean there is the other side of the coin where there are countless unsolved mysteries. That is a whole ass podcast. Not that every mystery needs to be realistic, but even in real life not everything gets answered. Why are there statues on Easter island?

oh boy, you dont even know how long i have watched the projetor itself. i looked at the lens itself for so long cause the picture it projects is actually there

I didn't notice that, nice catch/apprehension/insanity

So is Brickyard actually Dr House?

You're telling me The Taken only showed up because they wanted to collab with the old gods?

Ooh, juicy! The Dark Presence always finds a way to twist and turn works of art in ways that serves it. It happened with Tom Zane in the 70's, it happened with Alan in 2010, and it makes sense that even with a whisper of a line, it found a way to manipulate Dark Ocean Summoning to bring its darkness into the real world. Great theory!

It's heavily implied he will be in the Night springs DLC of this game, so won't have to wait too too long

If the FBC doesnt hire Saga IMMEDIATELY after this they are fumbling very hard because the girl is a beast

It really feels like this is less a game and more art, but in a good way. Obviously though this is going to be a problem as not everyone sees and digests art in the same way, which is why games usually stick closer to being a game as it becomes more digestible that way.

@@julianlowrise4981 Yeah, as soon as a game is shooting for art it becomes a lot harder to hit market appeal because even if it's great art, art is VERY subjective.

But then hed have to sit through the full length tv episodes

@@nicholascordero6600And that gives him more chances to say "Sam Lake you hack![Affectionate]"

He needs to play Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne. It also has a theme of Predestination and Repeating Loops. You also have to beat the game THREE TIMES ON THE HARDEST DIFFICULTY INSTEAD OF TWICE ON ANY TO GET THE GOLDEN ENDING!... I'm still mad

I agree with this sentiment, but I think a lot of people are misunderstanding (bricky included) that this was the 2nd part of a trilogy. The heroes journey can't just skip to return, he has to go through initiation.

I disagree. This is a story that has been in the works for 13 years, having a done and dusted ending would feel off considering that every AW fan wanted more and Sam Lake wants to tell more.

Yep, pretty much this.

The ending is sequel bait, and it's potentially sequel bait in a way that will make it the most beloved part of the trilogy a la The Empire Strikes Back... And the most criticized part at the time also a la The Empire Strikes Back until that sequel comes out, because realistically it's sequel bait 13 years after part 1. Part 3 needs to nail the landing.

@@SubNaturalZ I should specify. The "Alan Wake" story will be a trilogy, the rest of the universe will obviously continue with things like Control 2 and whatever else they wish to tell. Alan Wake is their way of telling The Hero's Journey, a 3 part way to write a story.

Lmao There's a Remedy-Verse youtuber I follow that, in a Q&A collab, said something like "I will try to answer your questions, but don't ask about Tom Zane. I have nothing there". Like, the only things we are certain of are: - The original Tom Zane's soul is in a pocket world with the original Barbara ( "This house of dreams" Blog) - The Diver in the first game was the Bright Presence inhabiting the original's body ("This House of Dreams" Blog) - Between the first game and the remastered something happened, in world, to rewrite Tom Zane from a poet to a Film-Maker - This change has gradually taken effect even on strong people like Jesse and, finally, on people that knew of him like Alan at the beginning of the Final Draft ( "A fictional poet once said ..." ) - The Andersons and Ahti always called Alan "Tom", but Cynthia didn't even mention them looking similar. - From the AWE DLC and onward Tom Zane has been played by the same actor of Alan Wake. I don't know. I can't think of anything else that is *Certain*.

​@@delmattia96I'm certain that Zane serves two purposes, one is for world building (there is always another mystery), and second is for future games/DLCs. Same goes for Door, too, actually. And for Barry, and all those "paranormal" groups/cults. Besides, Remedy setting is in general very mystique, full of either not fully explained or even fully unexplained phenomena. Control alone presented a whole bunch of both of those, and it's a game about a bureau of *professionals* trying to deal with it; yet, even they can't find nearly enough answers

It could also be a way to give some closure while continuing the overall story. Sam's loop also reminds me of Max Payne 2 which has a similar theme of Predestination and Repeating Loops

Wait until he plays Max Payne 2

He's effectively running 2.5-3 games at once. He's playing the game, then he's running OBS with all that entails, then he's recording all that at the It's a lot, especially when you're dealing with games that will be used for benchmarking graphics cards for the next few years, if Control was any indication.

@@MrSJPowellcan confirm a game normally at 100+ fps when doing all three drops to drastically lower then 60 to 40

It really doesn't, 10 ish minutes of new material is not an exaggeration. You, in fact, just seen most of it simply by finishing the video. It is so lame.

Same!

I completely stumbled onto his channel just by having auto play on, but I’ve been devouring Remedy content for months so that made sense. Saw his Control video first and didn’t get it until I realized that a) Sam Lake you hack is a loving joke and b) he’s completely new to the Remedyverse. I like his way of phrasing things and his sense of humor and this video cemented that he’s a good egg even as a disagree of his final verdict. So he made a subscriber out of me, let’s get him to a million 🥲

Just go through KH in release order and it makes it a lot easier to understand. The problem is people either going chronologically, meaning all the slowly built up complexity is thrown at you all at once, or people skip games not knowing they exist.

@@gunnarschlichting9886 I’ve played the KH series in release order (even when they had games on other platforms looking at you Chain Of Memories) still doesn’t make sense. I still don’t know what a Kingdom Hearts is.

@@wolffster25 So there's the original Kingdom Hearts that is the source of all Hearts and was accessible before the world broke apart and nearly was destroyed and became the fragmented worlds we visit in game. This is the blue one, and the one Old Man Xehanort is trying to forge the X-Blade to gain access to. The Kingdom Hearts from KH1 and KH2 (the yellow ones) are imitations/artifical Kingdom Hearts, made from the Hearts of Worlds that fell to Darkness in KH1 and from the Hearts of people released from Heartless destroyed by the Keyblade in KH2. They aren't the "real" Kingdom Hearts, but they still have incredible amounts of power in them. In the same way that regular Keyblades are weaker imitations of the original X-Blade, the Kingdom Hearts in KH1 and KH2 are weaker imitations of the original Kingdom Hearts.

Control 2 will fucking slap I just know it. The earth will fucking move!! So ready 🎉🎉