So this game is trying to straddle the line between Silent Hill and Heavy Rain? Sounds interesting, but I'm not the biggest SH fan, so I'll hold off for the reviews.

Honestly I don't know where all the 'hype' for this game has come from...

It doesn't look all that special and it's not like we haven't seen a third person action/horror game before. I couldn't care less about when this game releases and would rather have had Remedy give us another solid Max Payne title.

What do they exactly mean by story-driven? Is this PR speak? Cause I'm pretty sure almost video games have a story that is revealed as you progress through the game.

The hype for this game comes from two places:

1) It was one of the first 360 games announced.

2) It looks cool? I dunno. That's my reason for being hyped about it. It can look like [insert game here] all it fucking wants. Still looks sweet.

I don't see THAT much hype coming out of it but, you know, that's me. In fanboy circles perhaps bit they're dellusional anyway. The game could walking for ten minutes with fucking Nickelback playing and then credits and they'll still defend it so long as it's theres.

I would wager getting hyped for this game (just as with most any other game) is surely setting yourself for a disappointment. Go in with reasonable expectations and you are likely not to be disappointed. At least that's how I'm looking towards this release.

Well, this is why this tendency for like mandatory DLC bugs my shit. This is certainly a story-driven game, so, they're pretty much announcing here that the game you're going to be spending 60 big ones on is incomplete. What kind of shit is that?

I don't mind DLC if it's like an expansion pack, with a new area, with an extended sidequest, or something of intrigue that's fun, or with an entirely new narrative like the GTA ones, but for the DLC to be a continuation of the story reeks of being strung along for months twenty bucks at a time for content that should just be on the fucking disc anyway.

In this case, since Remedy has been working on this game for like 5 years, I bet the DLC is all the stuff they have cut out, or re-worked from the game's development cycle. Rather than leave these portions on the cutting room floor - Remedy probably said "Hey, lets just ship these off as DLC later on! Money in the bank bitches!!!"

Well, Alan Wake is technically Season 1 of an entire franchise, so I always assumed that the game ends on some kind of cliffhanger (enough to tie up loose ends, but vague enough set up another 'season'). I'm not sure if continuing mini-episodes would work in this case though. With something like Mass Effect, then I could see it pan out (BioWare missed a trick first time around), but I don't know if enough people will stick around for Alan Wake after they finish it.

I'll buy the DLC if it's a bridge between games, but if it's missing content or slotted in-between levels, then I won't pay for it.

I've been hyped for this game since I was that trailer they released last year. This is my type of game

This game is so gonna fuckin' dissapoint. I can feel it.

I guess this pretty much means that this wont be coming to PC, thank you Microsoft.

This game continues to piss me off. First they seem to have turned it more into an action game than it was supposed to be, the last E3 trailer made it look like the Alone in the Dark remake, not a kind comparison. Then they take away the PC version, assuring I will probably never even play it despite my love for Remedy's games. Now they are joining the ridiculous DLC before the game is even done movement.

The gaming public has really fucked itself with DLC. It was a nice idea at first, mini-expansion and the first expansions period on consoles. I liked the idea. Now we have $10 map packs, no expansions at all just mini ones and DLC announced and worked on before the game even freaking comes out.

And it's all your fault gamers, you support this crap. You said "oh, free multiplayer maps like we have always got? Nah, I like paying for them!" You said "this game looks awesome, WILL IT HAVE DLC? I NEED TO KNOW NOW!"

You've fucked us. Thanks.

Stupid fucking idiots. God.
WE DONT WANT A TV SHOW-MIMICING GAME!! Get it through your heads publishers/devs.
We want a fucking complete 100% epic journey in a single player game. We dont want to play 1/5'th of it, be done in 4 hours, then sit for 5 months until we get the following 4 hours of perhaps-awesome-but-still-over-in-an-evening gameplay.

A really really good singleplayer game, that is 100% from start to finish, is awesome.
But these episodic bullshits, they arent worth waiting for. Its not worth waiting for 5 months for a 4hr episode that doesnt even have a proper ending.
So sick of this.

@Mighty Heman
"HAHAHA! this game looks like ass compared to Heavy Rain. And the sad thing is I used to think this was one of the best looking games of all time. now it looks like if should be called 'American Shenmue'"

Oh wow, you actually think Heavy Rain looks good? Every time I see something from Heavy Rain I just get the impression that I am watching a rubber mask move around on the end of a broom.

I won't comment on the Shenmue part, mostly because I don't know what the hell it's supposed to mean.

what does this screen cap of luke wilson and jean reno have to do with anything?

Bitches, this game has been under development for 10 decades. Do not start telling me about DLC, bastards.