Maybe it’d help if they released it on Steam. I went to buy it the other day and noticed it’s only on the Epic Games store. I already made that mistake with Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and I won’t be doing it again.
Yeah, was gonna say: didn’t they go exclusive to the marketing black hole of the EGS?
Taking Timmies money doesn’t guarantee recouping your costs. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe they should try releasing it on Steam.
I will be buying this as a Christmas present for several friends.
Really, really fantastic game, and Remedy is one of the best studios in existence right now. I can’t think of many other games / studios that take swings as big as them.
Considering how well received this game was, perhaps it is more about marketing or misunderstanding the genre appeal?
I know I tuned out of Alan Wake 1 really early thinking it was going to be a boring ‘look around with a flashlight game’. I was very surprised by how fun and intricate the combat eventually got when I went back and actually played it through.
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I was certainly not expecting it to turn into a destruction derby / vehicular combat game halfway through.
And on the writing side, I didn’t realize just how funny and tongue in cheek it all is. I think Alan Wake is always a bit of a hard sell because Remedy wants to gradually build and surprise you with new things, and all their humour is super deadpan and satirical of this hard boiled story, which can combine to make it seem kind of boring at a surface / marketing level until you get into the game and realize what’s happening and how much fun they’re having with it.
I haven’t quite finished playing it. I was in some weird music video and never went back to it. Someday.
