Alan Wake 2 vs Alan Wake - Physics and Details Comparison 

it will get a pass saying its a 2023 game

At the time it only ran 540p on the 360. Still looks good.

The remastered version is even better

It's getting really old for me (even RE4 from 2005 is better done), it makes me want to like the second one even more, there's no photo, Alan Wake 2 thousand times better. Well, I see that it's the remastered version of the first, but the original version, damn it.

Underrated? Are you fucking joking?

graphics is underwhelming as it required a beast pc the forest level design doesnt seem interactive. bushes doesnt move too many clipping

@@SEEMEEGaming love it or hate it with every console gen games demand more CPU GPU power. imagine what gona happen after ps6. games getting too expensive to produce now and dev don't have time to optimize games for every pc config.

What's with the grammatical inconsistencies here?

​@@Ajstyle48 It's called criticism. the game needs to be optimized for every pc it should be That's what a good port means and well optimized when the developers are fully dependent on the DLSS feature and ray trace. where the normal audience doesn't even care. what about the raw performance of GPU every gamer from console to pc wants a better-optimized game

Too bad AW2 has neither survival nor horror =(

@@BesAdvanceIt is a literal story driven survival horror game by the definition of the word.

@@BesAdvance too bad you’re part of the below average intelligence section of the population

@@lemonf6859 if I call a chicken a horse it won't magically turn into a horse. That's how world truly works.

​@@BesAdvancelolol what do u call survival horror then? Alan Wake 1 is not survival horror in the lease but AW2 hits EVERY moniker

That's because Control has a far more simplistic environmental design, in CONTROL you walk through office areas most of the time, in Alan Wake 2 you have thick forests and cities

@@RanielEber Calling Control environments simplistic... is just wrong period that game environments may not be very diverse but are very complex, full of well optimized geometric detail and even generous destructibility and just because Control has no big forests and doesn't happen on a big city, in no way that means it is less complex than Alan Wake 2 and btw nor that explains why Alan Wake 2 is so heavy on performance. I have played games with big forests and big cities before that run way faster, for example Kingdom Come Deliverance, Mafia 1 and 2 remake, Crysis 3, Far Cry 3, Dead Light, etc, etc. The fact is Alan Wake 2 uses way more heavy RT based lighting effects (apparently even with RT off in the menu, what is strange...) and geometry techniques (mesh shaders, similar to UE5 nanite tech), and despite all these top of the line graphics techniques, it imo hardly looks tons better than Control. To know what I mean, just look at Far Cry 1 versus Crysis 1, those two games have 4 years of time between them, the diference between them graphically imo is massive, is night and day. Control and Alan Wake 2, also have 4 years of time between them, now, will you really tell me, that the jump in graphics between this later games, is the same/at the same level than between Far Cry 1 and Crysis 1? IMO hell no.

One of the worst arguments ever constructed. We've used examples like these in our ENG106 course to look at logical fallacies. Thanks for adding to that pile lmao. If you want, when I have time, I can go through and list out every fallacy by name - so you can understand why your argument cannot have a response, and why you should rethink your approach to computer graphics.@@Argoon1981

Yea optimisation is catastrophic... You can't even play in Native resolution without RTX...

@@Argoon1981the thing with Far Cry and Crisis is different. That was when technology was new. Back then graphics improved rapidly with every year. We have slowed down a lot in the last five years and so. It’s small refinements every year now instead of big leaps

Better than Gay-Man 2

@@gaminghedgehog6384 bro shut up, spiderman 2 is fire.

@@eagle6161 ok insomniac fanboy

@@gaminghedgehog6384You're just jealous it's not Xbox

​@@eagle6161bro it is so hard for me to get into it. I love the combat but it's not enough to keep me engaged

Saga's part was amazing too, especially the overlaps.

I actually loved the contrast between their chapters an I loved Saga's survival aspect and Alan's stealth.

@@user-wc4gi2ck8p Worst part in my opinion. Less Saga, more Alan.

Nah@@LSK2K

@@user-wc4gi2ck8p yeah

would you say you need to play 1 to appreciate 2?

@@user-yc3ki2sq3eI chose to play one before starting 2 and it’s a great game and fairly short. If you can’t afford / buy both then I would say go straight to AW2, but you could miss out

Cringe

No spiderman 2 game of the year

​@@MichaelDoesLife do the Trump impression. Its all your good for

Mario and Zelda sucks.

@@wtfgames8374 Absolutely not it's just more of the same from the last 2 games same graphics same city. Not GOTY material in my opinion of course not saying you can't have fun with it just not GOTY. Judging from what I have seen it will be between BG3, Tears of the Kingdom, and Allen Wake 2.

agreed, i have been trying to enjoy aw2, but it just doesnt have that awesome vibe aw1 did. and its combat mechanics flipping suck.

the later on enemy varieties in AW2 are alot better than AW1.

I agree with everything except that part 2 is good...

How

Creo que está mal... creo que han utilizado la versión Remastered

No

@@Franku40keks why not?

Maybe cause comparing them wouldn’t reveal anything that interesting. It wouldn’t show an evolution over the years. Nothing to be gained except for an inevitable battle of the fan boys in comments is all you”d get. For most people, we look at both games and think “wow yeah, they both look great” and move on. Going into massive detail to determine which is superior is just pointless.

Modders will do it.

big compliment

Downgrading* Unity and Catalyst is better than mirage in everything.

no they would have made 13 games in 13 years

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Fantasy stuff is much stronger in 2. Specifically when you're playing as Alan. It's got some MGS2 vibes with some insane twists. The agent is also very good. Her name is Saga, I was skeptical at first cause it looked like some social justice worker. But she stole the show and gave one of the best performances I've ever seen in a game.

Perspectives can be quite diverse… I uninstalled AW1 because the combat and gameplay was basic, unoriginal and cumbersome… it didn’t help that I had just played Quantum Break and Control, two of remedy’s best combat systems. This was slow, painful and pretentious so I uninstalled after 6 hrs. AW2 is their best works yet because they built on everything good and removed everything bad like the long combat levels that got in the way of the story. This one is all about the story, which I think is a better decision because Alan Wake and Saga aren’t action heroes. They’re not Max Payne or Jack Joyce or Jesse Faden… so excessive combat just makes it feel I’m playing a Resident Evil knockoff. They went full creative on storytelling… given how intriguing and EXCEPTIONALLY CREATIVE their story and storytelling techniques are compared to “Alan wake slow and cumbersome combat”… this was phenomenal

​@@alphamineronCompletely agree on it all. I barely got through AW1 just for the story, but the gameplay was so janky. AW2 really took the best from all their games imo.

@@alphamineron While I still like AW2, I don't think "everything" is "good" in it. The dodge mechanic is pretty terrible, the Mind Place stuff is simplistic and tedious instead of rewarding, and whereas AW1 had too much combat, AW2 doesn't have enough of it and often feels like you're just walking to the next piece of narrative exposition. Since AW2 is the "new thing," too many people are still in the honeymoon period unwilling to critique its obvious flaws. Remedy is one of my favorite developers and even I feel like the amount of praise is somewhat unearned in many aspects when it comes to AW2. The praise is so over-the-top that I feel like people have become unable to critique things they like and pretend what they like is flawless.

@@stuckintheinbetween No it isn’t about being unable to see the flaws, it’s about being able to see through them… at the bigger picture. Didn’t I already say the gameplay used to be 2/10 and now it is 5/10? They also shorten the combat sections, which is a good choice because the system is 5/10 and it’s not the point of the game… Alan Wake isn’t an action hero, the focus should be on story and that what it is. The combat sections just break the flow, it is very much like a Life is Strange game but better with combat and other mechanics. Point of seeing past to the bigger picture is, maybe some people don’t want to linger on the flaws as a compensation towards Remedy as a studio. They truly are exceptional, and the only AAA studio with a passion for games rather than money. Alan Wake 2 and Balders’ Gate 3 is probably the only big games that launched like they should, COMPLETE ON DAY ONE. No broken launches, no incomplete, half-promised or scammed features - “StarField” Games like Starfield make FAR MORE MONEY, and have an army defending what is objectively a trash game. So when an actual good game like Alan Wake 2 comes, maybe we can balance the industry a little instead of cherrypicking flaws and bashing the studio THAT IS TRYING TO MAKE GOOD GAMES… instead of cash grabs like other studios?

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I don't love part 1 but even I know it's waaay better than 2.

I think it's digital only

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Ils le maitrisent tellement qu il faut une RTX 3080 pour pouvoir y jouer convenablement. Et en parlant d evolution, Alan Wake 1 etai de base un monde ouvert qu ils ont retransformé en "niveaux" pour facilité le fil de l histoire (la carte du 1 est énorme en caméra libre). Alan Wake 2 est un jeu a couloir avec des murs invisible a chaque coin de niveau, c est scandaleux par rapport à l ambition du premier opus. Et niveau fun, meme si c est des jeux orienté narration, on meurt d ennui dans le 2 comme c est pas permis.

Agreed remedy tried to remake re2 in alan wake

yes, that put words to my thoughts. it does look better than alan wake 1 (although honestly, not by much). but it also looks kind of cartoony and too colourful and definitely has that samey ue5 look to it like every other game all just the damn same.

obviously not all games, don"t be blinded by nostalgic lot of old games feels same too.

Alan Walk 2

Nope

Nope but you can fast travel to recent locations you’ve been too

@@Justsomerandomdude397 There aren't that many locations, just 3, and there is no on-foot travel between them so I wouldn't call that fast travel. It would have been fast travel if you could do it between safe rooms, but you can't.

@@LordShrub I mean it’s better than nothing hell i think it’s a good thing for some people that may have missed some stuff