Alan Wake Is Coming Home

[Andy Chalk]

Alan Wake Is Coming Home

It's now official: Alan Wake is coming to the PC.

What was Alan Wake [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/114730-Alan-Wake-PC-Rumors-Gather-Steam] to the PC. It may be old hat for the Xbox 360 crowd but its long and convoluted development history and eventual move from the PC to 360-exclusivity gives this long-awaited arrival a little added significance.

Alan Wake has been around since May 2010 for the 360 so the story should be familiar enough by now. Best-selling author Alan Wake goes on vacation with his wife to clear his writer's block but ends up trapped in a nightmare: his wife has disappeared and pages to a manuscript he can't remember writing keep turning up and coming true.

Remedy wasn't terribly forthcoming with details [and how much more there is to say about a game that's been kicking around for almost two years is a valid question] but the PC version of Alan Wake will include both DLC releases, The Signal and The Writer, and will come out sometime in early 2012, right around the same time that Alan Wake's American Nightmare hits the Xbox Live Arcade.

And after all this time, what's the feeling about this among the ranks of Clan PC? I'm kind of a Remedy fanboy so I'm pretty excited [and I also won a long-standing bet about it, so booyah for that], but is Alan Wake too far past its prime to matter? Is there a reasonable hope that a change to a new platform will translate into a better experience? And perhaps most important of all, are we happy to finally get a crack at it, or are we too annoyed that it took this long to care?



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[koroem]

Good or bad, I will buy this game. I support the move back to PC. Everyone else should too.

 

[Andy Chalk]

Yeah, I'm in. I wish it had been a PC game right from the get-go, and I wish Remedy hadn't been forced to water down its original plan in order to squeeze it onto a console, but I've waited this long so I'm not going to give up on it now. And hey, it's an opportunity to make a statement: if you make it, we will buy.

 

[Yopaz]

So I already got this game game on Xbox, but by god I am getting this on PC too. Great game and I would love some mouse support.

 

[DaxStrife]

Finally! This is a game I would have scooped up eagerly if they had just put it out on PC in the first place. Part of me wants to snub it for Remedy's attitude towards us PC gamers, but that would still send the wrong message.

 

[TheComfyChair]

Wasn't remedy always pro-PC? they basically hinted that microsoft had threatened to cut funding if they continued a PC version. Remember, MS was on a warpath in 2006-2009 trying to shut down all PC development to make their 'ickly 360 the 'bestest' platform. They failed. Now PC is even bigger. Mwahahahaha and so forth.

 

[Beautiful End]

Alan Wake Is Coming Home

The heck is up with that title? Its not going to a service named home, and its actual home is the 360. THis is just random.

I think it has to do with the fact that Remedy was always a developer that leaned towards PC releases.

Having said that, I completely agree. Alan Wake, the game, was originally released for the 360. That makes it a 360 exclusive so far. That makes the 360 its home.
Capcom released Dead Rising 1 for the 360 and its sequels for both eh PS3 and 360. That makes the 360 its home even though Capcom releases all sorts of titles for all platforms. Kinda like that.

 

[RA92]

Alan Wake Is Coming Home

The heck is up with that title? Its not going to a service named home, and its actual home is the 360. THis is just random.

Well, Remedy was originally a PC dev (3DMark, Max Payne 1 & 2) and Alan Wake was supposed to be a PC sandbox survival title. But when MS started to fund them, they forced them to keep it an XBox 360 exclusive, which is rather typical.

OT: They better really throw in the DLCs for free.

 

[McGuinty1]

Alan Wake Is Coming Home

The heck is up with that title? Its not going to a service named home, and its actual home is the 360. THis is just random.

He's referring to the fact that it was originally supposed to be released on the PC and was supposed to be a showcase for all kinds of DX10 goodies on the then-new Vista (this would have been around the time of those infamous screenshots promoting DX10 which completely oversold its abilities, especially the Flight Sim X one that was obviously a Photoshopped 'artist's conception'). It was also originally supposed to be open world, which I am glad they decided to scrap because it only would have detracted from such a narrative-focused game.

e;f;b

 

[RA92]

Alan Wake Is Coming Home

The heck is up with that title? Its not going to a service named home, and its actual home is the 360. THis is just random.

Well, Remedy was originally a PC dev (3DMark, Max Payne 1 & 2) and Alan Wake was supposed to be a PC sandbox survival title. But when MS started to fund them, they forced them to keep it an XBox 360 exclusive, which is rather typical.

OT: They better really throw in the DLCs for free.

But its still like calling the release of Halo for Mac as "Halo coming home". It makes no sense unless you're a delusional fanbo- oh.

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No need to be so rude. I wasn't necessarily saying that the terminology was correct, just the rationale behind it. In fact, the originally planned PC version was very different from the console version, as it was supposed to be a sandbox survival game.

 

[Baresark]

I'm on the ropes. I can't support a company that is only throwing the game onto a platform for more money because they were so lackluster with console sales. They had the PC version ready, and then they didn't release it.

On the other hand, I wanted to play this game.

I am definitely going to have to wait for reviews, and it better offer something besides a couple of free DLC packs for our time and a price that will most likely be twice what the 360 version runs for.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

And perhaps most important of all, are we happy to finally get a crack at it, or are we too annoyed that it took this long to care?

Honestly, I'm just tired of this sort of bullshit because we know what's going to happen; unless the PC version miraculously manages to outsell the 360 version someone is going to start crying "PIRATES!!!!" and use it as an excuse to be even bigger dicks to PC gamers.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

And perhaps most important of all, are we happy to finally get a crack at it, or are we too annoyed that it took this long to care?

Honestly, I'm just tired of this sort of bullshit because we know what's going to happen; unless the PC version miraculously manages to outsell the 360 version someone is going to start crying "PIRATES!!!!" and use it as an excuse to be even bigger dicks to PC gamers.

Quit your bitching, the Ps3 still doesn't have a version. Give me one good reason why that is any different.

Give me one example where poor sales of a game with a delayed port to the PS3 has resulted in a developer throwing the skirt over their heads and declaring that PS3 users are all scum.

 

[ph0b0s123]

Will buy it if it is not just an after thought port of the xbox version. Depends on how much they are doing for the port to PC. Will with and see if it supports more than DX 9 etc.