Alan Wake

Died on Sunday.

AW2 has sold over 1.3M but yet to make a profit.

Remedys fastest selling game.

Both?

They seem really happy with it's sales so far so probably confident it will return a profit.

Yeah, I went back for a replay after finishing wake 2, it didn’t hold up well…

I might give American Nightmare a go after this, its a shame they didn't use the combat handling from that in this. Also sure they could of improved the combat in this but companies just improve the graphics a bit and thats it

Is the combat in 2 not as good as AN?

I hope the third game will finally complete the journey, into and all the way up Remedy's asshole.

Still got to finish the main game ffs 😭 At least I'm at the point of no return.

So AW II, only just started, enjoying walking around as Saga, only just got to Bright Falls and visited the morgue...I'm not sure about the "case board" thing, seems overly fiddly, do I have to use it a lot ?

Yeah, the case board seems to have annoyed quite a few people. Didn't bother me too much, but I would have liked to see it used a bit more as an actual puzzle. The way they actually use it might as well be automated and you can look at it as you wish.

Played the DLC when it came out the other week and thought it excellent. I really liked the way they split it into three separate bite sized episode, with each being a TV episode length (about 40-50 minutes). I played each one over three consecutive nights and it was a really good way to digest it.

The first has some legitimately laugh out loud moments and the last really goes all out on the batshit crazy stuff. The middle episode is probably the weakest, but still enjoyable and nice to see Jesse again.

Pity that they didn't manage to do all the planned episodes. Supposedly there would have been 5 with 2 of them using quite a bit James McCaffrey, but he passed away before it was completed. There is a nice tribute at the end though, with a clip of him speaking some of the dialogue that would have been used.

Not much, other than the title being The Lake House and it likely connecting to (spoilering in case people want to go in blind, but this will be obvious if you know what the Lake House is in Alan Wake 2 or read the description for the DLC)

I think I accidently just started one of the dlc's I was AW looking around (very early in game) and interacted with a tv, next thing I know I am the waitress from earlier in a café serving coffee, actually seems really fun and I love the "goofy vibe" I have just collected my supplies, i'e, guns! and I am off to the boat yard.

I have noticed a fair amount of shared lore (in main game) with Control and QB, I like it.

Yeah, I had heard they were accessible through the game. Don't know if they are particularly hidden or along the main path. There do standalone completely, but I could see them fitting quite nicely into particular moments during the main game.