Alan Wake (360)

[Eton Rifles]

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Well at least he is not denying it. only a couple of months away.

[Flawless]

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Small update from Remedy

Dear people,

We feel we owe you all a small heads up, and our apologies for lack of updates. This is just part of our psychological thriller, is it all real or imagined...
Seriously, yes, we're still here and working hard on getting Alan Wake for you to enjoy. Sure, we've been in development for a long time and if everything had gone perfectly smoothly there probably would be a game out for you guys to play already. But designing a completely new game can be hard, and sometimes you need to take a detour to find the best route forward.

We want to entertain you guys in the best possible way and our team is putting in every effort possible in order for that to happen. That is the way Remedy wants to do things. I'm sure you will enjoy Alan Wake when we're done.

Just follow the light...

[Flawless]

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Tidbit from the latest issue of Edge: "Soon to be unveiled in dramatically different shape to that of 2006 when it already looked stunning, Alan Wake promises a technological tsunami to rival, maybe even surpass, Crysis. That hasn't come easily though, or quickly."

[Spectre]

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It's refreshing to hear "soon to be unveiled" but who knows what that means?!

Whenever it comes out, I'm fairly confident that this game will be really good. Remedy knows how to make fun games.

[Flawless]

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Finnish gaming magazine

It's our great pleasure (we're on fire, really) to announce that, after two years of silence, Alan Wake is going to be showcased by Remedy in the form of a new trailer.

The trailer can be seen during the premiere weekend of the film Max Payne in Finnkino theaters across Finland. While Max Payne's official premiere is on October 17th, the trailer will be shown in an advance screening of the film no later than on the 15th of October.

The trailer will include brand new gameplay footage of the long-awaited, Microsoft-published Xbox 360 title.

Stay tuned for more information on the game later in the week...

[allBthere]

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looking forward to it.

One thing I hope hasn't happened is that they scrapped what they had and made everything new and different. If it's a completely different game w/ the same name, that's not cool.

I liked what I heard from the early descriptions, and thought the screens were really cool too.

on a side not, finland is cool.

[Flawless]

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It's probably going to be different in some ways. Remedy's Markus Maki posted an update on the forums back in August and while he didn't come right out say it, he certainly hinted at there being differences.

Dear people,

We feel we owe you all a small heads up, and our apologies for lack of updates. This is just part of our psychological thriller, is it all real or imagined...
Seriously, yes, we're still here and working hard on getting Alan Wake for you to enjoy. Sure, we've been in development for a long time and if everything had gone perfectly smoothly there probably would be a game out for you guys to play already. But designing a completely new game can be hard, and sometimes you need to take a detour to find the best route forward.

We want to entertain you guys in the best possible way and our team is putting in every effort possible in order for that to happen. That is the way Remedy wants to do things. I'm sure you will enjoy Alan Wake when we're done.

Just follow the light...

As long as the story and setting are the same then I will be happy. I don't really care so much if Remedy moved away from a free-roaming world.

[Flawless]

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Lead writer for Alan Wake was on a podcast in Finland and somebody translated parts of it.

What's taking so long?

• We want the game to be good, it takes time.
• Relatively small studio even though we have hired more staff.
• Our expectations are high and we want to meet them.
• Our team is ambitious.
• Doing open-ended games is hard.
• If everything worked out the first time, it wouldn't take so long (Trial and error).
• Competition is hard.
• After Max Payne we thought that it would be easier, but for example, technologically things have gone forward really fast.

What was ready when you first showed the game in E3 2005?

• Concept, vision, technology, game world, game engine.
• Actual gameplay in prototype-state.
• We were showing people the idea, vision behind the game (they were still looking for publisher at that time).

Has the game changed?

• The vision behind the game is still the same.
• Gameplay mechanics lives and changes throughout the development cycle as we test and try new stuff.
• We are trying different stuff to find the perfect Alan Wake game
• For example, the bullet time feature in Max Payne was perfected just months before the game shipped.

Trailer

• The basic idea behind the trailer is to show an atmospheric trailer and a glimpse of how the game looks today and to remind people about the game
  -"Hands-on gameplay stuff" coming a bit to the future, we don't want to show it "just yet".

Alan Wake's storytelling

• Lot of cinematic and plot elements to be included as part of the game.
• Trying to be much like a modern TV series.
• Thriller, atmosphere is a bit like in Max Payne, has it serious side but some humor as well.
• Totally different type of story and genre than in Max Payne.
• Crazy people and strange stuff going on in the village where the game is taking place.

Structure

• Goal: same type of experience you get from a season DVD box of a TV series.
• The game is divided into episodes.
• Pacing, development of plot is structured the same way.
• Cliffhanger moment at the end of an episode.
• We want to have players to get the feeling of "just one more episode and then I'll stop playing".
• The ending leaves some things open for a sequel but ties up the main plot, just like in TV series.

[Flawless]

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[ThaGenecyst]

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http://www.alanwake.com/

^^^ new trailer and screenshots and homepage

[Flawless]

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Gametrailers has it up. Bring it Remedy.

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[Holic]

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Looking good, hopefully we see it release in 2009.

[ThaGenecyst]

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[bigfnjoe96]

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Needs game now.... Must have the precious......

[ThaGenecyst]

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^^^Remedy says this is fake but I don't know.. same flashlight, jacket, forest, and pistol found in Alan Wake screenshots?