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I think it's interesting and noteworthy that Alan Wake was described before bright falls as a party hound hedonist with massive anger issues and a dark streak. After Bright Falls you have those characteristics split into Zane and Scratch, where Alan himself almost never comes off as any of those things. Yet consistently in each game, everyone who knew him before - they describe him as such.

8:48 "People hate the puzzles, Ilmo." "People love the puzzles, Jaako!"

I loved Night Springs, myself, though I think Coffee World / North Star was the weakest. Number One Fan showed off how good the combat COULD have been in AW2 if they weren't afraid to give you more ammo and more enemies like the older games, and Time Breaker actually had a TON of huge ramifications for the greater universe - the reason you probably didn't think so is not playing Quantum Break.

Alan Wake 2 is Epic Games exclusive on PC, that's the only reason I just won't buy it.

Wasn’t there some documents talking about introducing Dylan’s drawings into the mix and like them trying to recreate Wakes writing lead to everything. I wasn’t under the impression that he actually wrote this scenario that’s playing out in the lake house.

The Night Springs dlc is actually inter-spliced with the main game if you're playing it for the first time. For example: in the first "Alan" mission, you encounter a TV and play the 1st waitress episode before then continuing on with Alan's stage. I wonder if Lake House is also "in-game" like that?

Night Springs was really just made for fun, and it's hilarious. The Lake House, on the other hand, really was a horror experience and they nailed it.

Love your videos, but you should stop mentioning dumbass gamergate type shit and giving it creedence in my opinion. Doesn’t deserve the time of day

Very Pontypool-esque Edit: Just watched the entire video. Pontypooo it is

I'm shocked that the channel hasn't reached 50k subscribers. One of the best video essay channels on this site

Project IGI video essay please, DH!

Digital hauntology sounds like my life. Subscribed!!

Thank you! I always suspect that Alan Wake has become the ultimate big bad in this universe. I thought it was really f*cked-up that he wrote in Saga to his manuscript. Great analysis!

I believe it was said that Alan Wake doesn't simply create realities. A claim that he is the root cause of all of the misfortune is incorrect. He is more of a conscientious medium between reality, fiction and the future. It's something like different futures and realities bleeding into his vision, which let's him write. So he is kind of like a clairvoyant more than anything.

Robocop is not purely an 80s action movie, its more of an horror action movie, especially the first 2 movies.. So much brutatlity and disturbing scenes like the ones when they present the Robots that lose their mind or kill ppl around when they malfunction.. Its like Terminator 1, a mix of Action and some horror elements.. Gosh i wish movies nowadays had this haunting / disturbing element in some movies..

What I want to know is... What's up with that one guy at the bus stop in the intro of the game that keeps looking back at Jesse after she enters the Oldest House, should she stand still for a bit?

That blue intro screen smashing in forced me to sub instantly lmao

Bigger, Blacker, Better.

25:09 Kingdom Hearts In A Nutshell

Oh, the light

I'm glad you have warmed to horror games a little! Great video, feels bittersweet to close this chapter.

Love your coverage of the remedy games

Popping in to say I'm gonna buy Alan Wake 2 this week so I will finally be able to catch up on your videos that I haven't seen. Be well man 🤙🤘

God I loved these games, especially the second (just found it to be a much more fun videogame, and I really like the comic book art style). Really cool to see someone go into this much detail on them in 2024! I would do unspeakable things to bring this franchise back from the dead.

14:55 That’s the issue, she’s not “cool”. So there’s nothing to makeup for the “rude” part.

I do like Robocop 2, despite how wonky it is, but one thing about the sequels that bugs me is the backslide from the ending of the original. Murphy embraces his humanity after everything and he just kinda goes back to more robot again in 2. I really wanted to see more of him evolving his human side more

Robocop: Rogue City has me hooked. I bought it last week, I was worried but it's a really good purchase. The only thing I don't like is how easy it is to turn on night vision mode when your in those intense gun battles, I wish they didn't make Robo's directional joystick the same as the night vision button. Other than that, It's an amazing game.

Great writing. Thank you for this work

I didnt play the original games back in the day. I actually really like Elysium. I love the combat. I did buy Valkyrie Profile Lenneth recently and am having a good time with it. But I’m glad I bought Elysium. I get why fans of the original games feel let down. I really fucked up my early years of gaming by missing a lot of great RPG’s.

got this game during gmg's black friday sale and i love it.

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Yoo, congrats on marrying, mate. Cheers to ya both!

Lets gooooooo

i think it's generational.

Thanks a lot for the shoutout, I appreciate your kind words. The title for the Alan Wake video is a necesarry evil, nuance isn't allowed on the internet unfortunately, so if you want to express nuance, you have to present it in a hyperbolic way that gets people's attention first, then present your points after the fact. I think it's important to be critical of the things that you like, even if you are a fan of a franchise. The Darkness 1 really needs a PC release, I played The Darkness 2 but never got to play the first. I still haven't gotten out of my edgelord phase even though I'm 31 XD, I can't help it I'm a sucker for it. I enjoyed my time with The Darkness 2, it gave me a taste of that Painkiller aesthetic with different but still fun gameplay. Obviosuly the first video that got me into the channel was your Valkyrie Profile video since as a long term fan I was curious what someone who got into the franchise through Elysium would think and the results did not surprise me and were kinda interesting, we both feel the same way about it.

Here we goooooo

You're so handsome

In before the woke mob.

Notification gang. We outchea. 🤟 Thank you for the shout-out 😊

Goddamn, that Korean commercial looks like it had been reupload 100 times

I really enjoy this game, still haven’t finished it but I like it :)

At 30 mins in he tells you he is in to men

We need more AA games like this. You can feel the passion the developers has for Robocop. Just like with Terminator.

Just finished beating the game, and now going for the Platinum trophy. It was a very mediocre experience game. Story was good, but very underdeveloped. The world itself was beautiful, but very empty. Like Vahalla, they could have put so much more stuff in their like a freaking ITEM SHOP!!! You have all these gems at the end of the game after you've buffed up Valkyrie and weapons, and then they serve zero purpose. Those could have been used to create items, new weapons, etc. And they could have had a more traditional leveling system. The combat was good, but too clunky. I wish there was a better way to cancel a combo, because you'll be hacking and slashing and can't dodge. And then after the prologue, it just becomes super repetitive with, do mission, talk to Odin, do a mission, talk to Odin, rinse and repeat. Not the worse game, but had way too much untapped potential. And the kicker, NO NEW GAME PLUS?! Like, come on, it 2024. Complete missed opportunity. 6.5/10 for me.

Great game, loved every minute of it. Definitely provides a ton of fan service, for every Robocop fan.

Excellent video you definitely need to play Terminator Resistance

his metal armor doesn't look like plastic and fiberglass like in the original movie. unacceptable! instead it looks really seriously good! "what were they thinking?!"

The thing to keep in mind about the nature of Wanted: Dead is, it's not really a Soleil game but rather a Soleil *made* game. While they were the main developer of all the content & mechanics (emphasis on were), they were not the first and definitely weren't the driving force behind the project's conception & direction. 110 Industries are, specifically then company's CEO and the game's creative director Sergei Kolobashkin (apparently, he also voices Doc character who vaguely looks like a fitter Sergei avatar). By all accounts, he was the person actively steering the development all the way to the finish line and making key decisions along the way, Soleil tasked with executing his visions using the funds and input he provided. 110 Industries is one of those Russian "digital media/entertainment" companies the local investors came to a habit of establishing over the past decade or so (after the first truly uncomfortable sanctions for Russia's invasion of Ukraine had started piling up, not so very coincidentally). Post USSR, they've always viewed the IT biz in general as one of the safer bets from Russia's thuggish ""law"" enforcement system due to the relative ease of keeping the registration and necessary assets abroad while benefitting from the cheaper local workforce. 2014 accelerated that trend tremendously, and that's how numerous ventures came to tapping Russian grey/dirty money, 110 Industries (with the staff of like a dozen people) waging literal tens of millions of dollars taken largely from local oil & gas oligarchs by February 2022. Kolobashkin was the main creative force of the company responsible both for conceptualizing the projects (brewing three or four of those for years, Wanted: Dead being the only one to break into full development) and attracting investments due to his supposed all encompassing game industry experience. The latter has been under scrutiny since 2020 investors presentation leak to Russian media, where 110 Industries claimed to have been involved in a number of very well known projects, from Hitman 2 to Hellblade to Artifact - with several cases being labelled as categorically false by people/companies responsible for their development. Kolobashkin denied the files' authenticity, however by that time he'd already referred to Artifact and Raiders of the Broken Planet/Spacelords as initially 'his developments' in 2019. That interview, or rather a ten part "gaming industry insides" video thing is pretty bonkers tbh. Basically it's a paywalled pile of several Kolobashkin's free form rambles over the hookah, produced & hosted by a long time Russian media personality/video games critic turned video producer Anton Logvinov, a somewhat volatile and icky figure even among some of his own audience. His rep aside, he may have been an undisclosed employee/contractor/partner at 110 Industries at the time, referring publicly to the company as his 'colleagues' - a description he's never elaborated on neither while recording Kolobashkin "insides" nor after. Btw, a few examples of the wisdom spewed by Sergei in this makeshift talk show, aside from falsely taking credit for other people's work: ✅casually dropping “zhyds” slur towards IO Interactive ‘not because they are Jewish’ but because they didn’t give him the branded t-shirt and a Hitman 2 promo copy; ✅passionately expressing his desire to play as a ‘black Nazi’; ✅spending the “labor unions episode” mostly complaining about LGBTQ+ and women giving feedback ‘harmful’ to developers; ✅routinely and without much prompt falling onto garish tropes (i.e. ‘gay dog groomers’ unwilling to move to seek a job) and derogatories (lots of “tyolki” [tr. cows] towards women). Sooo, yeah 👀

I just came across this yesterday, and I must say I am impressed! You got a new subscriber, now to check out your previous works. Control is one of my top five of all time, a place moved only by the sequel eventually, so this was great entry into your work.