Alan Wake
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Wasn't Alan Wake supposed to be an Xbox 360 launch title?
Its just been getting pushed back and pushed back again so many times, it makes you wonder if they actually intend to release the damn thing.
Earliest trailer on Youtube is this one :- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6YGK-jmjrA posted 2 years ago.
After this amount of time, it's either going to be a very impressive game, or a huge let down for the people that have been following its progress for so long.
Its just been getting pushed back and pushed back again so many times, it makes you wonder if they actually intend to release the damn thing.
Earliest trailer on Youtube is this one :- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6YGK-jmjrA posted 2 years ago.
After this amount of time, it's either going to be a very impressive game, or a huge let down for the people that have been following its progress for so long.
I think I'm about the only guy who hadn't heard about this until maybe a month ago. Apparently everyones dead excited. I'm not sure why, but the Bandwagon is a warm comfortable place to be, so I'm jumping on it.
Yay! Alan Wake!
Yay! Alan Wake!
I've been following this game since...when did they announce this thing? 2005? It's developed by Remedy and I'm a huge fan of Max Payne 2 sooo...yeah. I'm excited.
I think it's actually going to get released this year. There have been rumblings about an announcement at GDC and as long as they've been working on it they MUST be at near completion.
I think it's actually going to get released this year. There have been rumblings about an announcement at GDC and as long as they've been working on it they MUST be at near completion.
Well, I'm intrigued, but I'm going to have to see some gameplay before I can really say anything... are there any details on how it plays?
I won't spoil the surprise for you, but just listen carefully for the Specification of the PC they are running it on; and weep.
http://www.alanwake.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1216
After reading through that FAQ from the official forums, it seems to me like its going to be Silent hill crossed with Grand theft auto.
Big open world you can run/drive about in, with a whole supernatural thing going on when in dark areas/night time. ( based on the part where it says 'Light will weaken or hurt Wake?s enemies, and creatively taking advantage of any and all light sources within Alan Wake?s grim world ought to be one of the interesting aspects of play.' )
After reading through that FAQ from the official forums, it seems to me like its going to be Silent hill crossed with Grand theft auto.
Big open world you can run/drive about in, with a whole supernatural thing going on when in dark areas/night time. ( based on the part where it says 'Light will weaken or hurt Wake?s enemies, and creatively taking advantage of any and all light sources within Alan Wake?s grim world ought to be one of the interesting aspects of play.' )
They only had a 7900GTX in there though, and if the game is going to be purely based on CPU power, then its going to run like crap on anything less than a quad core ( see GTA4 ).Uncompetative said:
Max Payne was great, and the guys at Remedy do extremely good work, but going Vista only with Alan Wake is total BS courtesy of Microsoft Game Studios. Show of hands - who believes the game would not work perfectly fine on DX9?
This is more of a guess, but I wouldn't be surprised if MGS' politics have interfered with the schedule as well, and Remedy could have had AW out on the PC already but MGS has it on ice until the 360 port is done. If the game is really as hard on processing power as they say, it makes sense that it would take ages to shoehorn into the 360.
This is more of a guess, but I wouldn't be surprised if MGS' politics have interfered with the schedule as well, and Remedy could have had AW out on the PC already but MGS has it on ice until the 360 port is done. If the game is really as hard on processing power as they say, it makes sense that it would take ages to shoehorn into the 360.
I was just about to comment on this, I thought the trailer/first info for it pointed Alan wake to be a release/close to release game. They must've screwed up big time in development.xenus87 said:
At first when I heard it was a DirectX10 exclusive, I instantly disliked it.
Any alleged DX10 exclusive has been a big bowl of bullshit and cream (Halo 2, Crysis etc.) everytime they release one.
But my hopes of Windows 7 coming out with DX11 thus me avoiding VISTA completely is giving me some more hope about it.
Any alleged DX10 exclusive has been a big bowl of bullshit and cream (Halo 2, Crysis etc.) everytime they release one.
But my hopes of Windows 7 coming out with DX11 thus me avoiding VISTA completely is giving me some more hope about it.
Read two bolded parts, backwards (the last one first) and answer me this:CyberAkuma said:
How could I've play Crysis and finish it twice (and Warhead) if I didn't play any game on Vista, ever? Don't spout misinformation.
Also, there is a Dx10 for PC. But the downside is - PC with XP and Dx 10 works worse than Vista with Dx10.
No, I did not try this out. But my friend did and it works.
Crysis works in DirectX9, but it was marketed as a DirectX10 game.
Quite simply, if you wanted the highest graphical setting (Very High), you needed alegedly DirectX10 to have those effects. According to CryTek and MIcroSoft, those effects are only available on their spanking brand new DirectX10, and according to them DirectX9 wouldn't be able to display those at all.
A hacked demo later [http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2007/10/easiest-mod-ever-enables-directx-10-features-in-the-crysis-demo-on-xp.ars] showed that both Crytek and Microsoft are full of shit in every sense of the word.
This is sadly not the first [http://shinakuma.gametrailers.com/gamepad/index.php?action=viewblog&id=263660] time Crytek uses downright false claims to support a new piece of hardware to market their games.
Sure Crysis did work in Windows XP, but according to CryTek and Microsoft, DirectX10 had some magical fairy dust that made the game look and run prettier.
Also, CryTek and Intel advertised [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CD-mJMB7Lw] heavily how Crysis would use Quad Core and run better on that hardware when in reality, it was just a big bag of bullshit [http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,2209093,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532]
I know this post is entirely offtopic, but I just wanted to clearify and support my claims.
Quite simply, if you wanted the highest graphical setting (Very High), you needed alegedly DirectX10 to have those effects. According to CryTek and MIcroSoft, those effects are only available on their spanking brand new DirectX10, and according to them DirectX9 wouldn't be able to display those at all.
A hacked demo later [http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2007/10/easiest-mod-ever-enables-directx-10-features-in-the-crysis-demo-on-xp.ars] showed that both Crytek and Microsoft are full of shit in every sense of the word.
This is sadly not the first [http://shinakuma.gametrailers.com/gamepad/index.php?action=viewblog&id=263660] time Crytek uses downright false claims to support a new piece of hardware to market their games.
Sure Crysis did work in Windows XP, but according to CryTek and Microsoft, DirectX10 had some magical fairy dust that made the game look and run prettier.
Also, CryTek and Intel advertised [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CD-mJMB7Lw] heavily how Crysis would use Quad Core and run better on that hardware when in reality, it was just a big bag of bullshit [http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,2209093,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532]
I know this post is entirely offtopic, but I just wanted to clearify and support my claims.
Huh? You can play Crysis on dx 9 just fine.CyberAkuma said:
Also, it was a fun game. Not the greatest in the world, but certainly a lot better then the credit you're giving it.
EDIT: You wrote your above post before I pressed Post, apparently
This is an example of a game that's never coming out - it's been around since the 360 hype days of 2005 and still hardly a peep about it. Like All Points Bulletin and Huxley.