Max Payne / Alan Wake / Quantum Break / Control

[Iammadmak]

Hell yeah, my profile pictures becomes relevant again

[parker]

right after waking up and before I clicked on this thread I listened to part of the soundtrack for the first time in a while

[parker]

Are jake gyllenhall and keanu reeves also playing alan wakes in this thing

[Dracko]

Remedy Entertainment

[tt_zop]

Excited for a sequel but idk am I unreasonable for being a little off-put by them sharing Dev duties here?

[Father.Torque]

I mean who knows. Remedy are the kind of crazy people that might flourish with someone else tamping down their worst excesses. But in general yeah I like their games and they have a very special alchemy that it seems like it would be easy to disturb.

[BustedAstromech]

Alan Wake and Quantum Break were co-developed with Microsoft, including Redmond-based writers, designers, and producers. Same goes for their work with Smilegate.

If this is their goal,

“I’m now proud to confirm that the bigger-budget Control game, also known as Codename Heron, is Control 2, a full-blown sequel to our award-winning game Control,” says Tero Virtala, CEO of Remedy.

probably the big area to co-develop is art assets, including characters, environments, cutscenes.

[Mr_Mechanical]

Maybe get rid of gun modifiers being lootable drops from mobs and make them just regular upgrade trees with more unique/weird/game-rearranging ones being rewards for exploration, puzzle solving and winning boss fights.

Keep the inventory management part though with swappable modifiers and a hard limit of one or two equippable at any given time for each weapon. Maybe put it all on an alt weapon wheel type hud menu so they can be pulled up and swapped out on the fly and you don’t actually have to manage an inventory screen.

Definitely keep all the powers and add new ones too.

[captainlove]

Honestly if they can just be a bit more generous with health drops and not force the player into minmaxing their tiny health bar I’ll be happy.

[Dracko]

Just forget about it

[swarm]

FABINO

[Dracko]

Alan Wake 2 – Official Gameplay Reveal Trailer

[parker]

FBI agent SAGA ANDERSON

[parker]

merciless father time marches on

[parker]

Alan Wake 2 is putting story above all

As you’ve probably already heard, Alan Wake 2 will be a survival horror game, rather than the action game that was the series’ original, and the team at Remedy had quite specific reasons for it. Part of that is a response to the original Alan Wake’s reception - there was some “dissonance,” as Rowley put it to me, in the amount of combat Alan Wake featured considering its apparent focus on narrative - but it’s also just a better fit for the story of Alan Wake 2 itself.

“Horror gives us a slower tempo,” Lake said. “Less combat, through the whole experience, meaning that we can spend time on building it up. And then the actual combat is a bigger event, which means we can add strategic elements, resource management into it, and make it really intense.” And then because there are fewer encounters, he continued, that means you’re able to have a wider variety of enemies and boss fights as well.

In the demo that played out in a few ways. We spent the entirety of our time with FBI Agent Saga Anderson, the series’ new co-protagonist, who explores the forests of the pacific northwest with her fellow agent in search of a mysterious foe: a dead man named Nightingale, who’s come back to life. There were a range of mechanics - deduction, via Saga’s “mind place”, a kind of metaphorical, pins-on-the-wall conspiracy cabin, where you literally piece together your gathered clues by pinning things on a classic conspiracy corkboard or rearranging photos and scribbled ideas - or puzzle-solving through finding switches for generators or collecting items of note from the environment. Rowley, in designer mode, describes this as giving the player “more verbs to do interesting things in the game.”

Oh Hell Yeah Pimp

[Father.Torque]

This game is the greatest parkerbait ever devised

[VastleCania]

garth marenghi’s “mind place”

[iguferon]

The frogwares-remedy synthesis is too powerful for the average gamer’s mind

[Mr_Mechanical]

Hrrrmmmm one more reason to join the current gen it looks like.

[swarm]

Sam Lake mod for Max Payne 3

Miss Max Payne's original face? This mod puts Sam Lake's mug in Max Payne 3