Polygon: It felt like Alan Wake 2 was coming. Remedy even created a functioning internal prototype. But then the game, like its fictional protagonist, simply vanished. Here's a look at the game that almost was.
Yeah, it looks like this demo ended up being the foundation for 'American Nightmare'... the 'rewriting reality' mechanic has a very Quantum Breaky feel, so perhaps this getting 'cancelled' was for the best?
How do you know exactly? If you read the interview Remedy is already talking about there next project with potential publishers also he indicates that Phil is 100% behind him so you never know when this can happen. I hope this comes to Xbox One the one two combination between Quantum Break and Alan Wake can be fantastic for this generation on Xbox One.
@MichaelLito79 Because from what I see in this Demo,Alan Wake 2 had similar looks and perhaps ideas from what we know today as "Quantum Break",that's why I think the game got canceled,if it's gonna be made,then I'm sure lots of what we just saw in this demo is gonna get scrapped for new original ideas to freshen-up the Alan Wake game.
I wish Remedy had the capacity to create two AAA games at the same time because while i am super pumped for Quatum Break, i would also love a sequel to ALan Wake.
I hope after the release of Quantum Break, Microsoft would greelight the development of Alan Wake 2.
Did you read the Eurogamer artice in the credit URL?
"When shown the prototype, Microsoft passed on the project in favour of Remedy's current undertaking: part-game part-live action series Quantum Break.
"They have been really supportive about Alan Wake and [Xbox boss] Phil Spencer has been awesomely supportive when it comes to Remedy and Alan Wake along the way," Lake concluded."
It is common knowledge that Remedy Games are a very small indipendent team (around 50) and are very happy working with Microsoft. So even if they pitched Alan Wake 2 to another publisher, they wont even have the manpower to make it happen until Quantum Break is finished. I doubt that would even happen anyway and that is what my comment is trying to state.
Microsoft should have funded this if there is one thing they need is games and great exclusive ones like this. I'd have bought a console for this, alongside sunset overdrive halo collection and quantum wotsit.
Why always a 'new' sequel? Episodic content please. I own Alan Wake for my modest PC - which runs and looks very nice, so, why not just instead give us more variations based on the already stellar mechanics via dlc? An sequel doesn't always need to be built from the ground up these days.
More like, it was not enough mainstream for MS, not enough 'running-and-gunning'. Grabbing up exclusive timed DLC for all them shooters was more important.
so I loved Alan Wake, but I also felt it was a bit samey toward the end. Enemy variations were limited and so far this demo seems like it is just an iteration on the original ... it doesn't feel like a big leap forward for the game just a nudge forward. Its not a horrible thing mind you but I don't know.... kinda want a different look / vibe to it I guess. And they really need to improve that character model imo.
This is very very old, if they were to make Alan wake 2 for the Xbox one then everything will look way better and so will the character models and envenvironments.
You raise a good point. I think more than anything I want to see some color and variety to the environments. I know the setting is supposed to be dark and moody but many, the drabness of it all just kinda wears on me. That said, after watching the whole video I would be down for Alan Wake 2 no doubt.
I'm ready
I wish Remedy had the capacity to create two AAA games at the same time because while i am super pumped for Quatum Break, i would also love a sequel to ALan Wake.
I hope after the release of Quantum Break, Microsoft would greelight the development of Alan Wake 2.
Microsoft should have funded this if there is one thing they need is games and great exclusive ones like this. I'd have bought a console for this, alongside sunset overdrive halo collection and quantum wotsit.
I want 2 so bad :{
this would be a great sequel to have on xbox one, please bring it!