Alan Wake Remaster Oct 5th

I'm in the camp that enjoy it. Been playing this a bit this morning. And just to be a geek I played some of the 360 version to compare. All bull aside I'm finding this hard to recommend if you already have the 360 version. Flipping between the 2 versions and apart from the resolution increase I'm not bowled over by it.

If you find this cheap somewhere then go for it, but you're not missing much if you get the 360 version.

Sigh. I bought it anyway. I need to stop doing this. More games than I have time to play them goddammit. I think the final nail on my willpower coffin was the fact that I remember quite liking all the voice over shit and I'm kind of in the mood for that kind of King-esque shit just now.

Well yes, my backlog is just stupid these days but, yeah, I'm weak. I also have given two games a try this year (Doom Eternal & Sekiro) that I didn't get on with first time and loved them, so I'm hoping it'll be third time lucky with this. Now my expectations are in check. Part of the reason I didn't get on great with it first time is that I thought it was, well, something else. But it's an action game, and I'm going to treat it as one now. It gets an extra couple of points already because it's in the same universe as Control.

Yeah me too. Could be a nice precursor to another run through.

I'm not even sure it'd be worth it on PC. The old version can already be made to run at 4K60 with relatively old hardware.

I had a quick look last night and it seems fairly decent. I agree that it doesn't look like a massive visual overhaul but just nice and sharp with some updated models and I actually quite like Alan's new face. I think I'm actually looking forward to skulking around the woods in the dark for a week or so. I don't actually think I ever did the DLC parts either when I owned it before.

I certainly wouldnt of paid top dollar for it, but I picked up a code on Eneba for about £8, so certainly cant grumble.

I enjoyed the game on my PC at the time. Im not expecting much in ways of visuals upgrade over the PC version tbh. I just have the benefit of easy couch play now.

I can't remember him at all. I think there's big parts of the game I don't recall actually. All I remember is Barry wrapped in Christmas lights.

I cracked and picked this up last night.

I’m guessing they’ve given the textures a polish but if I didn’t know better I probably wouldn’t notice that they’d even done that much. Not that playing older games bothers me. The most dated thing has got to be that wooden run animation though.

The narration being even cornier and more pulpy than I remember is a big bonus. It was always one of my favourite things about the game.

The vehicle bits haven't aged well

Forgot there were dirving bits. I am actually enjoying the combat this time around though, much to my surprise.

That was my issue. I went into it expecting something more slow burning, less linearity and more daytime interaction with the environment etc. So I was always disappointed to be in the woods at night after a cutscene. Now, because I know what is going to happen, I'm better prepared and more open to enjoying it for what it is, as opposed to what I thought it would be. Had the same issue with both Sekiro and Doom Eternal, kept wanting the games to match my expectations as opposed to playing them for the games they were.

Bollocks. Borked my save. I do hate it when there's just one autosave with no way of going back to the previous one. Going to have to restart the chapter because I foolishly ran out of flares just before the game decided to save. I was about 90 mins in as well.