Darkwood is the most unsettling game I’ve ever played.

Weird West was kind of charming to be honest. It didn’t fully get there compared to the heights of Dishonored, but I had a good time with it.

Man, I would love to go some day. Thank you for sharing!

The STALKER games do this for me, STALKER Anomaly does as well (although you gotta mod that). The Metro games too, if you want something tighter and more cinematic.

Waking up to a world cup day without Cabo Verde in it anymore.

I don’t feel it in games as much, but I still haven’t found any film critic whose tastes match mine since Roger Ebert passed, so I kind of know what you’re feeling. Having that one person you trust completely is so good.

Another horrible reason to despise Trump and his cohorts? Add it to the pile I suppose.

Researchers used A.I. and photo editing tools to create this digital reconstruction of the older victim’s escape.

What has the world come to.

Very cool!

Patent trolls are absolute scum of the earth.

Alan Wake 2 is the only title I ever bought on Epic too. Do not regret it, despite my dislike of Epic and EGS. My desire to support Remedy was magnitudes larger than any desire to protest Tim Sweeny.

Fellow Ninja Gaiden enjoyer? I like it.

Those are some wild numbers! As someone who hyperfixates on one thing at a time and can’t keep track of multiple things at once I can’t even imagine what your gaming style is like. With 150+ games and averaging 3 sessions a day I’m guessing you play three different games every day?

Different genres, but Pathfinder, Football Manager and Deep Rock Galactic all make sense to me as a single “player type”.

If gameplay is your concern then AW2 is miles ahead of the first game. It’s a very competent survival horror game in its own right, on top of all the Remedy stuff.

If you didn’t like the story then, well I dunno. It’s not like it gets less convoluted.

It’s not happening. Alan Wake 2 was not just a regular Epic exclusivity deal. Literally every other publisher refused to touch the franchise. Epic didn’t just publish it, they fully funded its development. Given these circumstances, I can’t imagine it ending up on Steam in the foreseeable future - if ever.

If you can’t allow yourself to hold your nose and make an Epic account just pirate it at this point. It’s an absolutely phenomenal game and not worth missing out on over attempting to show Tim Sweeney the middle finger.

You’re not necessarily selling me on it with that comment, but I’m glad you’re loving it! 😅

There are 2 pretty massive Alan Wake easter eggs in Quantum Break actually! Sam Lake and co were working on ideas for the sequel in the background even when the publisher weren’t interested.

Also I think the integrated TV show in Quantum Break taught Remedy a lot of valuable lessons for live-action work, that you can say they then perfected in Control and (especially) Alan Wake 2.

Is Returnal as hard as they say? I’ve heard good things, but I’ve also heard it’s incredibly unforgiving and hard. I’m a little scared I won’t be able to finish it.

Glad I didn’t stay up for that. Felt kind of… meh? I haven’t gone through and watched all the trailers but not a whole lot of announcements that made me really excited. Felt like the last couple of years were much more stacked in terms of reveals and trailers.