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That was fantastic, Mr Scratch is definitely a worthy villain antagonist for Alan, something he lacked in his initial outing. More please!
The acting in Alan Wake has always been one of my favorite aspects of the series and this video did not disappoint. Mr Scratch is one of my all time favorite villains, easily.
Hinting at future Alan Wake projects?
Noice.
I knew they said Alan Wake was "secured" as a franchise at this point, but still awesome.
I have also yet to finish American Nightmare. I have the shortest attention in the history of everything.
Noice.
I knew they said Alan Wake was "secured" as a franchise at this point, but still awesome.
I have also yet to finish American Nightmare. I have the shortest attention in the history of everything.
There's an unusual fourth-wall metagame feeling being built up by Alan Wake, I like where it's going.
Last line made me feel dumb, because in the original game when Alan said that i was pretty socked haha.
I can't play American Nightmare until I finish the DLC for the first game. I own it, but never played it. What the hell.
@JynxShot
Although it helps, you really don't have to play Alan Wake to get into this one. This isn't even canon.
Although it helps, you really don't have to play Alan Wake to get into this one. This isn't even canon.
I respect American Nightmare for its scale, polish, and subtle tweaking of the gameplay (Alan's head turning towards offscreen threats especially), but I feel like something was lost in an attempt to broaden appeal. I replayed most of Alan Wake after playing American Nightmare, and despite the faults that AN improved on, it was still much more engrossing and overall the better game.
American Nightmare simply empowered Alan too much for my tastes. No longer was swapping a shotgun for a rifle necessary since all primary weapons used a common ammo source. And the respawning ammo boxes, well, I haven't heard one person speak highly of them.
I dearly missed scavenging for supplies in the nooks and crannies of the world, due to a lack of necessity and because, well, there really weren't any nooks and crannies in American Nightmare. Numerous reviewers called AN more open-worldy than its predecessor and I couldn't agree less. Yes, the levels were open and you could visit things out of order, but it didn't do anything for the gameplay, and I think some of those reviewers forgot how large parts of Alan Wake were. You know, the ones where you needed a car to get around?
On a final note, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they'll tweak Fight 'Til Dawn in future installments so that you're forced to switch weapons. I mean, once you unlock the automatic shotgun and the Uzi, there's really no need to use anything else. Even on Nightmare difficulty, you're never really in danger of running out of ammo thanks again to generic ammo types and the bottomless ammo chest. Imagine how much better the mode would be if you couldn't pick up ammo, but had to use up what the gun came with and then find another gun.
Jesus, but my posts have gotten big recently...
American Nightmare simply empowered Alan too much for my tastes. No longer was swapping a shotgun for a rifle necessary since all primary weapons used a common ammo source. And the respawning ammo boxes, well, I haven't heard one person speak highly of them.
I dearly missed scavenging for supplies in the nooks and crannies of the world, due to a lack of necessity and because, well, there really weren't any nooks and crannies in American Nightmare. Numerous reviewers called AN more open-worldy than its predecessor and I couldn't agree less. Yes, the levels were open and you could visit things out of order, but it didn't do anything for the gameplay, and I think some of those reviewers forgot how large parts of Alan Wake were. You know, the ones where you needed a car to get around?
On a final note, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they'll tweak Fight 'Til Dawn in future installments so that you're forced to switch weapons. I mean, once you unlock the automatic shotgun and the Uzi, there's really no need to use anything else. Even on Nightmare difficulty, you're never really in danger of running out of ammo thanks again to generic ammo types and the bottomless ammo chest. Imagine how much better the mode would be if you couldn't pick up ammo, but had to use up what the gun came with and then find another gun.
Jesus, but my posts have gotten big recently...
@JynxShot
If you've beaten the campaign but haven't played the DLC, you're really missing out. It's hands down some of the best DLC any game has produced and home to some of Alan Wake's best levels. By unchaining itself from the more realistic world of Alan Wake proper, the worlds of the DLC are so much more creative and almost Silent Hill-ian in their impossible, grotesque majesty.
@StealthMaster
Debatable. For all my bellyaching about certain gameplay changes, Remedy was fucking devious with the way plot was interwoven with gameplay in American Nightmare. It allows some of the stranger elements like respawning ammo boxes and unlockable guns to actually make sense within the world. It also allows them to deny the game as canon and have that denial of canonicity itself be canon. I had the biggest grin on my face when I saw what they did. Well played, Remedy.
If you've beaten the campaign but haven't played the DLC, you're really missing out. It's hands down some of the best DLC any game has produced and home to some of Alan Wake's best levels. By unchaining itself from the more realistic world of Alan Wake proper, the worlds of the DLC are so much more creative and almost Silent Hill-ian in their impossible, grotesque majesty.
@StealthMaster
Debatable. For all my bellyaching about certain gameplay changes, Remedy was fucking devious with the way plot was interwoven with gameplay in American Nightmare. It allows some of the stranger elements like respawning ammo boxes and unlockable guns to actually make sense within the world. It also allows them to deny the game as canon and have that denial of canonicity itself be canon. I had the biggest grin on my face when I saw what they did. Well played, Remedy.
I hated Alan Wake. It just wasn't what I wanted. I downloaded and played American Nightmare anyway, since the Alan Wake series always seemed like one I should be loving, not hating...I enjoyed the hell out of it. I was shocked. I decided to give Alan Wake a second shot.
After I had finished hysterically laughing at the $30 price tag for Microsoft's "Games on Demand" version of Alan Wake, I went to EB Games and bought the Special Edition for $10. I loved it. I don't know what changed, but I loved it. Maybe because I now knew what to expect? I don't know, but like I said before, Remedy can now count me in as an Alan Wake fan...Just don't be so greedy with your digital version pricing.
I never understood the thinking that goes into the pricing of many of these companies games when buying them digitally. These companies scream and cry that the used game business is hurting them (its not). They never stop bitching about it. Yet, they expect us to pay anywhere from $10 to $30 more for digital versions of their retail games when compared to the price of the actual game at a retail store!?
No wonder everyone buys used and pirates games. These assholes are saving a ton of dough by releasing their games digitally, and instead of passing ANY of those savings onto us, they instead ask us to pay a shit ton MORE for something we won't even own. It's so absurd it's laughable, and its the very reason why I have no sympathy for them...None at all. They are digging their own hole, and then complaining when no one wants to come and play in it with them.
How about treating your customers with a little respect, and pricing your digital versions of your games CHEAPER than what I would pay for it at an actual store. Ya know, don't be greedy, souless, manipulative ass fuckers for once. And maybe, just maybe, I wouldn't have to drive to the store to buy your game used if I could get it at a reasonable price on my couch. But no, that would make too much sense, wouldn't it?
After I had finished hysterically laughing at the $30 price tag for Microsoft's "Games on Demand" version of Alan Wake, I went to EB Games and bought the Special Edition for $10. I loved it. I don't know what changed, but I loved it. Maybe because I now knew what to expect? I don't know, but like I said before, Remedy can now count me in as an Alan Wake fan...Just don't be so greedy with your digital version pricing.
I never understood the thinking that goes into the pricing of many of these companies games when buying them digitally. These companies scream and cry that the used game business is hurting them (its not). They never stop bitching about it. Yet, they expect us to pay anywhere from $10 to $30 more for digital versions of their retail games when compared to the price of the actual game at a retail store!?
No wonder everyone buys used and pirates games. These assholes are saving a ton of dough by releasing their games digitally, and instead of passing ANY of those savings onto us, they instead ask us to pay a shit ton MORE for something we won't even own. It's so absurd it's laughable, and its the very reason why I have no sympathy for them...None at all. They are digging their own hole, and then complaining when no one wants to come and play in it with them.
How about treating your customers with a little respect, and pricing your digital versions of your games CHEAPER than what I would pay for it at an actual store. Ya know, don't be greedy, souless, manipulative ass fuckers for once. And maybe, just maybe, I wouldn't have to drive to the store to buy your game used if I could get it at a reasonable price on my couch. But no, that would make too much sense, wouldn't it?
I loved Alan Wake and its subsequent DLC, but I absolutely hated American Nightmare. It had lost that sense of suspense and horror, you just murdered everything like it was a fly you needed to swat away. And could the spiders have been more of a let down? They built them up starting in the first level with the manuscript pages and when you finally encounter them, they are tiny and you can kill them with the f-ing flashlight. It seemed like a poorly thought out hodge podge that I paid way too much money for. The observatory level felt like I was playing a quest out of WoW. (go turn three valves each with a subsequent wave of enemies then come back.)
In short, American Nightmare took all of the good parts of AW out and added in a bunch of bs.
In short, American Nightmare took all of the good parts of AW out and added in a bunch of bs.
i felt this was pretty shitty and hokey for the first half, but after awhile it kinda grew on me. I never felt the ydid alan wake properly the first time aroudn tho, i got pretty far, but it wasnt scary at all......i wish they did more with that writing dynamic, as knowing what was coming never got me on edge beyond the first time. it was the equivalent of a friend telling me what was next, or a walkthrough online (not that i use those lol) and actually decreased the atmosphere for me. That said it was still handled well enough outside of that, and adds variety to the gaming scene, which I feel we are in desperate need of. Neat approach for this kind of response as well
this is truly terrible. Sorry, but I am not about to cream myself over some fourth wall meta game bullshit when the characterization is as obvious and the tone as patronizing as it is here.
@gnosis: Are you a writer?
Writer's are the only people I know who come off as such a pretentious twat. For a videogame ad that was great so get over yourself.
Writer's are the only people I know who come off as such a pretentious twat. For a videogame ad that was great so get over yourself.
@gnosis: Are you a writer?
Writer's are the only people I know who come off as such a pretentious twat. For a videogame ad that was great so get over yourself.
Writer's are the only people I know who come off as such a pretentious twat. For a videogame ad that was great so get over yourself.
I played Alan Wake with a friend and thought it was good overall, with some excellent moments -- though I'm still disappointed they moved away from the originally planned open world. I think I'll give this one a shot.
Havnt played this yet, im saving it for a bit. But this video made for compelling viewing. Also, can't help but imagine that's what Dale Cooper could of been like had Twin Peaks carried on.
To fellow Fins: Is it just me, or does Mr. Scratch really look a lot like that guy from the Sonera commercials?
@TheChosen: It's the same guy. Makes watching those commercials really hilarious.
Also, my first post on destructoid. Woohoo.
Also, my first post on destructoid. Woohoo.
This is so awesome.
I loved Wake and American Nightmare. Scratch really made American Nightmare something very special, such a good villan.
I loved Wake and American Nightmare. Scratch really made American Nightmare something very special, such a good villan.
Walking into an old tattered shack and hearing nick cave and the bad seeds quietly chattering through an old radio was one of the best moments ever.
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