Im just too stingy to pay >60 bucks for a game. I usually watch lets plays of AAA games.
Yeah that’s the thing for me too, I’ll just buy it on sale in a few years, trying to not watch gameplays of games I’m interested in to not break it for me, made that mistake before with Horizon Zero Dawn, watched gameplays, read whole wiki of lore being sure it won’t be available in PC, few months later PC version was announced, bought it on a sale about year later, still had a lot of fun though
With no steam release I’m taking the same route. Love looking at remedy games, don’t enjoy playing them.
I wish this game scared me, but the horror is too cheap to really impact me.
Anyone have a recommendation for a good let’s play of this? Anytime I’m thinking about watching a let’s play I never know who to pick.
I’ve been watching and enjoying Jesse Cox (on his CoxClips youtube) play it. He knows a lot about the universe lore and does some explaining for people who may not be as familiar. Someone related to the game also mailed him some ARG stuff related to the game before it came out and he did a few videos on his jessecox channel for it.
Cox also isn’t obnoxious. He was part of the TotalBiscuit John Bain group that were fairly sensible and quiet channels.
MKIceandFire on YouTube. All they do are lets-plays with no commentary most of the bullshit cut out.
“Musical” mission was worth suffering through all those jump scares for me - I’m not a horror fan, but decided to force myself a bit and I must say - it’s really good.
it’s a shame that remedy don’t see any of the money if you watch the whole thing though, but yeah it’s always valid to just watch a game. it’s a testament to how enjoyable some games can be across all sections
i would say gameplay is the weakest part of a remedy game, with everything else pulling it along with how excellent it is
This is a really interesting concept. What if developers had paid or ad supported official streams? Sure most people would block the ads or continue to watch their favorite streamer, but a non-zero amount of players might elect to watch the devs play the game in an effort to support them directly. And this would just be additive revenue compared to the zero they are getting right now on streams. It might even be synergistic as official advertisement for the game and as a way to connect directly to their community. I could see it also as a way to play a game but with director commentary on, similar to how movies do it.
ad supported official streams might be enough to be noticeable amount of income for one person for a few weeks, but not really for a big company that produces something like a game.
same reason you don’t get movies/tv on youtube. money isn’t there for a company
Good point, makes sense
If you truly felt this way, you would buy it anyway and then watch the game playthrough as suggested.
The idea of watching playthough’s has some controversial facets for sure but I’m not really gonna yuck someone’s yum
Don’t you need like. 4xxx GPU to run it? I think it said my 3060 wasn’t good enough
Digital Foundry made a video about it. Basically, you need a card that supports new rendering technologies that only started appearing on Nvidia cards after the GTX 10XX series (not sure for AMD). The game actually looks good on lower graphics. Putting everything on low won’t make it look like a PS2 game. The path tracing will absolutely demolish your performance, though, but that’s to be expected because it’s insane to expect real-time path tracing to do anything else with the current hardware (think of their path tracing as a tech demo more than an actual feature).
Depends on if you want ray tracing, but running it is as low as a 2060 and even a 3060 is recommended without ray tracing for 1440 at medium, which is supposed to still look pretty good.
https://www.gamesradar.com/alan-wake-2-minimum-recommended-requirements-pc-specs/
Minimum
Graphics preset - Low
Resolution - 1080p
FPS - 30
GPU - GeForce RTX 2060 / Radeon RX 6600Medium
Graphics preset - Medium
Resolution - 1440p
FPS - 30
GPU - GeForce RTX 3060 / Radeon RX 6600 XTI’m playing on my 2080 TI, it’s playable and enjoyable. Just doesn’t look as nice as it clearly has the potential to look.
iruno, ps5 plays it fine? i don’t know what that is in pc terms tho
I enjoyed Alan Wake 2, but there’s a lot of creepiness and jump scares. Way more than the first game. Wouldn’t recommend it to anyone unduly unnerved by horror.
I can’t play horror games, I freeze when I’m scared. Thank goodness for Let’s Plays, get all the content I want without needing to demonstrate to myself that my instincts haven’t changed.
