Alan Wake's DLC & American Nightmare | Serious Highs and Serious Lows 

Epic gave me the ultimate edition a while back, I should really play it lol

I might have to finally play it.

Hope you review palworld soon….would love to see you enjoy yourself in that realm of possibilities.

Best SCP like game out there

The main character in that game has a very focused and refined mind. This can be seen in their use of telekinesis. An ability which requires focus, clear spacial awareness, imagination and visualisation. The protagonist of control. Jane Control, sister of the villains mobile phone, John Control. Shows us exactly how much thought and focus she holds. By ripping bathtub sized chunks of floor out of the ground and playing bowling. With her dusty ex coworkers acting as the pins. Genius. No. More. Big Brian. (Controls a great game!, I'm glad you included it in this series of videos. Other than the 'STATS' and some grinding/balancing. Brilliant all around.) -Edit- autocorrect on this phone played a couple of pranks on me, just fixed the Grammer.

Gottem

Dang bricky liked this 🤣

It's not a dlc... it's an expansion

@@lolusuck386 In my days we called them add-ons. Separate games still tied to the original in all things. Like Tiberium Wars with Kane's Wrath or Dawn of War 1 and 2

​@@steelbear2063 why did that "in my days" sounded very 👴🦯

I like it when he says he's Alen Wake, and totally waked all over those guys.

😂

"It's waking time"

when and how tf did this meme even start, and why is it so funny to so many people? To me this crap just suddenly appeared in every comment section out of nowhere

@@rysirion_9102 blame Morbius for that

He's trying to keep Gianni from conquering the Brickyverse since he has already taken over the retro shooter universe and has several other universes in his sights.

Gianni was in this? I must’ve missed it

@@marinenukem 2:45

Especially in the context of AW2, where I'm convinced that "Tom Zane" is just another Alan who wished he could get the Bright Presence back, and then Tom Zane went and wrote Alan Wake's American Nightmare as a sequel to Tom the Poet

Remember how it's ssi that Alan wrote a couple of episodes for Night Springs? Maybe that's what it was, his early works.

*storm approaching intensifies*

Time stamp?

@@lorddukealayeneclipse331718:33

That's not Bury the Light, that's Barry, the Light

​@speed_queen thank you!

Here is a TLDR - Paligarism BAD. No need to watch or rewatch a 4 hour video, mate.

​@@diamondhamster4320 But hbomberguy makes it so funny

Half of the video is talking about other guys so in actuality it's like 2 hours if you'd rather only watch that half

when they say "just one more video and I'll go to sleep" but they pull up Harris B. Guy

​@@diamondhamster4320Very confused by the tone of this comment, are you just saying 4 hours is way too much for a video or that he spends too much time trying to make a single point?

I also think this is why the fanbase has as much affection for AWAN as they do (apart from the genuinely awesome Mr. Scratch scenes). For a while, it seemed like this was all the Alan Wake we were gonna get. Between Microsoft tasking Remedy with Quantum Break and that heartbreaking Sam Lake announcement video, it looked like Alan Wake 2 might never come to be. AWAN wasn't great, but at least it was more Alan Wake.

@@jacobchandler7642 More than that, it's just _fun._ The first game might not've been but I actually legitimately enjoyed playing AN Arcade Mode.

@@jacobchandler7642 Lotta people, like me, also just didn't mind the writing as much. Maybe Bricky understands the reasoning behind it. Maybe he just doesn't think it landed, but for me it did, even though horny chick was annoying and uncomfortable. I got the issue. Mr. Scratch is a sort of inhibition/id/satan possessing Alan figure and this is a chick I think that is implied to have been manipulated by her, I think she eventually comes to her senses. In that vein, yeah obviously it's gonna be an incredibly uncomfortable experience. But I get why Bricky didn't like it and such. Then again, maybe I just have a soft spot for Remedy even though I never played the original Alan Wake (Missed my opportunity) I enjoyed Quantum Break even though it was bad, just straight up. And I enjoyed Control although I never beat it because halfway through trying to 100% the metroidvania style stuff, it wiped my save (not the games fault, eff you microsoft). That being said I've not been comfortable touching Wake 2 because of the increasingly weird circumstances around it and it being a potentially mid and unfulfilling sequel. But maybe Bricky will be my way around that.

@@jackbishop8610 Yeah, I think Bricky is a little harsh on the writing and combat fronts in general. To each their own on that. But I agree with you about the woman at the drive-in. To me it was pretty clear that she was enthralled by Scratch, while also having brief moments of clarity where she is fighting back against his influence. Just go back and talk to her after turning the lights on; that makes it pretty obvious that she was just affected by the darkness, much like Rose was in the original. Also, it's a shame that you haven't dived back into playing the Remedyverse games. What's turning you off from AW2?

@@jacobchandler7642 Don't want anymore Sweet Baby Politics shoved in my face after God of War Ragnarok(Which was pretty good in spite of it but could have been so much better) and Spider Mid 2.

Darling is peak

According to Sam Lake, Alan was supposed to be terrified but playing it cool in the first game. He's clearly lost all of that cool since.

Dr. Darling is the man.

It's hilarious how everyone else who plays this game is confused about Nightingale as he just seems to be a crazy drunkard and shoot Alan for no reason or motive, but Bricky think he lands right.

was nightingale from the bureau?

@@syrusalder7795No, however he was persuaded (by the Dark Presence, IIRC) that Wake was responsible for his partner’s death when he was FBI.

​@@syrusalder7795 He's ex-FBI. Read the Alan Wake Files if you want better insight on him (if you got Alan Wake Collector's Edition on Steam, there's a PDF of it in the game's install folder).

The hidden message is: “It will happen again, in another town, a town called Ordinary”. Now that’s how you do foreshadowing

It was a refernece to something else, not foreshadowing Control. There was actually a fictional blog/blogger tie-in called The House of Dreams that was about the dark presence spreading to the town of Ordinary. It was setting up one of the 'abandoned' Alan Wake 2 ideas, so when it came to Control, they reinterpreted some of the loose ends, ideas and names.

@@BenM.Davies As true as that is, they definitely had the idea of Altered World Events down already

Alan Wake 2 doesn't have Dark Barry so it's pointless to play tbh

​@@kapkant6197 but it has schizophrenic musicals

I'm so glad that I haven't been spoiled with the game. Like I've seen no spoilers or random gameplay on RU-vid shorts it's gonna be fun to play it when it's a little cheaper

​@@markussakkinen7878oh is that the excuse for it being a walking sim

@@chillhour6155 dark ocean summoning and herald of darkness make it worth it, actual peak

Sam Lake said that Alex Casey is supposed to be Max Payne, they just didn’t have the rights. All the noir scenes with Alex Casey are Max Payne.

Damn right. If I played the DLCs as an adult instead of as an 11-year-old, that TV would've hit incredibly differently.

Yeah. AN got a lot of leeway on the grounds that it at least provided (what could be interpreted as) a somewhat positive, if esoteric, conclusion to the base game's cliffhanger, where the franchise otherwise seemed to be completely dead. And it's gameplay was a genuinely nice step up, too, especially considering that the base game was above-passable for the time (even if it has definitely aged terribly by modern standards).

"If you enjoyed the combat in AW 1..." Not freaking likely.

​@@addison_v_ertisement1678Speak for yourself, I loved it and the changes they made to it for AW2 is what made me skip it. Loved AW1 and wanted nothing to do with AW2, watched it on RU-vid instead

Oh yeah my name got changed to whatever that is. Oops

You are only talking about what works for you instead of looking at the objective qualities of the game and making actual arguments as to why it was good.

Thank you for saying what exactly I have been thinking, I love you man. American Nightmare is 100% overheated, I played it first in 2023.

It does, in fact, nosedive, and I say that as someone who _loves_ Remedy.

@@colbyboucher6391 Well that's a shame, the part I stopped at was after the mission where you have to sneak past those orb creatures and then you have to go find her sibling (I think). At that point I was already feeling a bit meh with things so I put it down for a few days, and then a few days became forever. I didn't really expect it to get any worse

It sure is an fps counter of all. Time

Correct

1. *mald 2. A game isn't dilefined by how much you like it. It is objectively bad.

It's not magically good just because you like it.

@@addison_v_ertisement1678 OKay? that being said, I disagree on the quality regardless. At least, I have a hard time being as hard on it.