GI:In one of the classiest moves in recent memory, Remedy's creative director Sam Lake has taken to video to answer fan cries for a new Alan Wake title. The news isn't great, but the delivery strikes the perfect chord.
No no no, I didn't say it was a bad thing, just that with MS if it dosent sell well like Gears or Halo it's not worth supporting. They just give up on things and move on instead of having a little faith in the developers to improve the game.
Just in case some of you haven't read the article(not speaking to either of you two personally, just trying to get my comment closest to the top as I can to let people know),
you can get the entire Alan Wake Franchise on PC (the collectors edition of Alan Wake and Alan Wakes Nightmare AND the soundtracks) for just 1 dollar.
Isn't the lack of new IPs is what people on N4G is constantly bashing MS for? Now, all of the sudden we see Remedy new IP, Black Tusk new IP, Ryse, all funded by MS and it is a bad thing? Com on son!
You are nuts, MS gave them all the funding for one and told them to take their time with the game. They also allowed them to focus on a new IP instead of telling them they have to make a sequel.
Well to be fair, Remedy does own the AW ip so if they really wanted to make an AW 2 they can always do a kick starter or get some other big publisher to publish it.
I think that Remedy just wanted to go a new direction and not Milk a franchise...wish this would be a standard in the gaming industry and one of the main reason I love David Cage and his games.
AW was great but the way it ended was perfect and making another one would feel dragged on.
Plus lets wait until E3 for some QB game play before we dismiss this game - for all we know it might still be in the AW universe :)
No it has not but being that it was showed at a MS event and Remedy are too small to publish its own games...I think its safe to say that MS is the publisher and will be a one year XB1 exclusive and later ported to the PC.
Plus MS and Remedy have a deal where Remedy keeps the ip name for the game MS is publishing.
If some other company like EA or Ubi was publishing the game you would have seen there name pop up somewhere.
Im prety sure you all have misrread what I've wrote and took it in a completely negative way. Did not mean to offend, I just was trying to say MS should of supported AW as a franchise instead of getting remedy to make a new IP
Love big nuts
PS. Some of the name calling was uncalled for
Again you are twisting my words I want new ips after they finish up and conclude Alan Wake which needs a sequel to finish off the story
I have no idea why so many people have disagreed with you, Mr_Nuts. Alan Wake was an amazing game, and I would love to have the story expand on the end cliff hanger from the first game.
That's a shame, but I think it's more important to get a new IP out at the launch of the Xbox One than to do a sequel. Also, it's nice to hear the original Alan Wake has gone on to sell over 3 million copies since launch.
That is a success in every sense of the word, hopefully they can go back to crafting Alan Wake 2 for the Xbox One down the road a bit. Remedy are master storytellers though, so I'll definitely be paying attention to Quantum Break.
There's a pretty decent Alan Wake sale going in XBLA currently. I just picked up American Nightmare for 320 MS points. Everything else is priced pretty cheap also.
I loved Alan Wake personally. Thing is, it was never going to be a blockbuster hit on the level of say, CoD. It's a game that requires a little more brainpower rather than twitch game play. I'm a huge Stephen King fan and the game just spoke volumes to me from the opening screens. It makes me kind of sad to think that the more expensive these games cost to produce, the less we'll see real risks being taken in terms of exciting content and new, quirky stuff. It's the reason why so many games are starting to feel like riffs on what's already been proven to be successful. Case in point, the action-ified Dead Space 3 and Resident Evil 5 and 6.
Coming off of the first Dead Space game, I was a little disappointed that the scares weren't up to that level when I finally got my hands on Alan Wake but the game was still worth every second I spent with it. I loved the overall vibe of the game, which was very much in line with Twin Peaks and other works of David Lynch.
Translation: MS didnt want to fund a games development which wasn't going to sell and gave us another chance to make a new IP
Typical MS eh, why dont Remedy go multiplatform. I want AW2 so badly
Remedy stopped on the second game again.. I like new ips but i wanted to see another canon alan wake badly..
So if ms push out sequels it is bad. If the push for a new iPhone it is bad. Lose, lose.
Cool insightful video. I wish every game developer would do this on a regular basis. It means so much more coming from their mouths.
That's a shame, but I think it's more important to get a new IP out at the launch of the Xbox One than to do a sequel. Also, it's nice to hear the original Alan Wake has gone on to sell over 3 million copies since launch.
That is a success in every sense of the word, hopefully they can go back to crafting Alan Wake 2 for the Xbox One down the road a bit. Remedy are master storytellers though, so I'll definitely be paying attention to Quantum Break.