Alan Wake

I noticed a few texture issues in the town.

It's crazy how much they've taken influence from Twin Peaks, especially the sign, café and sheriffs office.

Alan is a really crap name for a hero.

With Alan, it’s difficult to discern what’s a threat and what’s an illusion

I find (most) of the ones that attack have a weapon in their hand(s).
But yeah I was the same. I really love both parts but I slightly prefer sagas side of the game.

Really? Good to know. That's what I did as well in the subway. Tried to burn every shadow that was there only to realise most of them weren't a threat.

Thing is with remedy games is the more ammo etc you use the more ammo you'll find when looting.

On hard it's less ammo to make it more survival horror which I prefer. But yeah if you blast through your shotgun ammo you'll start finding more shotgun ammo.

This isn't facts but after playing every remedy game and usually a few play throughs this is almost definitely true. Their lockers and drawers etc loot are not the same and depend on what you need most
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Sounds like it uses the same 'adaptive difficulty' system RE4 pioneered back in the day - always liked that.

Think it was this that mentioned it:

The Words of Power change between loads 😩

Just seen you can get this for £33 in Xbox via the Icelandic store. Seriously tempted but have only just started Dead Space and kinda want a couple more patches to land.

There's the whole fact Alan is an anagram of anal too, which was heavily referenced in the second half of American Nightmare iirc.

Liking the cheesy Europop power ballards that seem to play intermittently.

/Punches air in time with the rhythm

More importantly: play with headphones.

I'm playing in quality on PS5. There are frame drops but it's such a slow game it doesn't matter. Mind you I haven't seen how it compares to Performance. I just haven't bothered to check. Normally I'm a 60fps bastard these days as well. This is fine though.