I Can't Believe Alan Wake 2 is Finally Out 🎃 Hallowstream 2023 

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BOOOOOOO! Also, thanks xD

Thanks my dude

Well, calling for backup is an option, but who knows when they'll arrive?

@@MetalMockingjay Judging by most horror movies the backup will arrive about 30 seconds AFTER you deal with the killer, who has killed your family and friends, yourself.

*Minor spoilers*. Backup does arrive. About halfway through the game. But *Quite large spoilers* The FBC is cut off from the Oldest House, so they are extremely unprepared for just how dangerous, effective and quick Scratch is so it's still up to you to beat him.

​@@ArkaneStephanieThey were underprepared AND underestimated the situation. Lol

This and Romancelvania, they got options.

just coming here to say that!

and is Sheriff BREAKER lol

To be fair he did mention Shawn Ashmore being in Cadet Kelly when Ellen brought him up in the Party Animals stream.

Reminiscent of the Maid of Sker intro 😂

Where did you end up?

Also didn't he play Robin Hood himself on a miniseries or something? But his role as Dr. Darling was iconic.

Control 2: Controller

I did exactly the same thing

No, they have to find Alan Wake II now.

I thought they would turn the option to hide it off but apparently not

Yeah, at one point I was like OK so that is a very nude Nudesman. They weren't joking. 😂 Nightingale was slingin it like Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises during that fight scene. Only much, much grosser.

They went All-in to Wake interest in the series

I wonder if the Alan Lake is still involved in the storyline and how long it Alan Take(s) to beat the game

I switched to someone else’s stream after this one ended; they’re four hours in and they still haven’t actually played as the namesake. Combat is rare, and looks awkward when it does occur. Story is railroaded to the point where you can’t investigate obvious clues until the game allows you to (at the “correct” point of the story), and will handhold you through the -clues- “clues” it wants you to find. You’ll spend most of your time just walking somewhere, clicking on a few things and, if you’re lucky(?), getting some actual gameplay in every now and then with some simple puzzle solving or combat. It’s one rung above a walking simulator so far. Voice acting (so far) has been predominantly wooden (think Ada Wong from the RE4 remake), and it doesn’t help that the dialogue written for them is often so monumentally stupid that it’d be difficult to deliver it convincingly in the first place. They’ll often be used for exposition dumps or to pretty much speak directly to the player because the devs don’t trust the player to pick up on the blindingly obvious. The game looks fantastic & has plenty of smooth animation, but it seems the devs couldn’t find a way to take advantage of this to communicate things to the player instead of having the characters just blurt things out to them. I guess, considering how most of them fail to _behave like humans_ anyway (see: post-autopsy scene), that perhaps I’m supposed to see it as a quirky character trait. But it makes it difficult to get immersed in a game that relies on setting an atmosphere when all the characters keep talking like meta, self-inserts for the writers themselves. I guess I should be grateful that none of them have quipped “well _that_ just happened” so far And I keep ending each paragraph with “so far” because I keep reading that things get much better later on, and by god I hope they’re right, because so far I’m just left wondering what the hell they’ve been doing for the last ten years. I’m not deeply invested in Alan Wake myself, thankfully, but I can imagine this sequel being quite polarising. As long as they don’t go mega-stupid, pull a TLOU2 and kill Alan Wake (or turn him into the bad guy wooaahh surprise plot twist how subversive), maybe they’ll be safe. But, as an observer, this has been painfully underwhelming.

Booooo!👻👻

All Alan Wake puns aside, as a huge fan of the first game, it absolutely is

I thought it was just because he was real good? Also, given [spoiler], maybe he's magically good. Would love to know if the answer is actually more interesting than that.

i think that he got a head start by watching the engine driver's arm: he knew within fractions of a second that the whistle was about to blow. Game mechanics wise, I'd bet he got extra dueling cards to improve his chances of beating others. Combine that with character sheet edges and winning is actually quite likely

If you're wondering how they eat and breathe, and other western facts...

All this talk about the Orangina Haribo not only makes me miss living in Europe, as I did from Kindergarten through 2nd grade, but more importantly it’s making me crave something sweet at 11pm where I’m at! Lol!

@@gsesquire3441 ... then repeat to yourself it's just a stream, I should really just relax

There was a Alan Wake story recap video put up by Gamespot that might help you out.

Yes, time poverty is a huge factor in food choices.

@@barbararowley6077 we actually have problems in New York City now of people coming down with scurvy because people live in food deserts. large areas with no access to fresh fruits or vegetables. No grocery stores or stores that are so expensive they cant afford to shop there. Its in other places too but I know NYC has the worst and most known bad conditions. Its a fallout of the fast food ideology

Yes

It's one of the Ashmores (they are identical twins in real life)

nah you don't need too; but as all the Remedy games are set in the same universe you'll notice a ton of Easter eggs

wow you're the only comment out of so many to say anything about that, thanks!

get uBlock, they've been updating constantly to stay ahead of RU-vid's anti-adblock shenanigans

You're a bit late to make that joke.