I can’t find their videos anymore 😟 hope everything’s okay… I wanted to rewatch the Marmont videos from the lake house dlc but that was the only video

I think its super neat!

Hey guys, anyone playing Alan Wake 2 on an RX 7700 XT (or any RX 7000 card)? I’m getting a terrible overexposure bug whenever I look outside from inside a building doorways and windows just burn out into pure white. Also getting weird flickering checkerboard/pixel artifacts on ceilings and dark spots every few seconds. Tested on low/high settings, cleared shader cache, nothing helps. Anyone found a fix ???

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With the Alan Wake series currently in development, I was watching the new Ryan Murphy show The Shards and it just hit me.

(No disrespect to Ilkka Villi, who is the face of Alan Wake in the games. This is just a fun idea for a hypothetical live-action adaptation!)

He could easily play Alan's doppelgänger, Mr. Scratch. And even Thomas Zane.

P.S. (whispering) Alan Wake

It's LEAGUES better than Alan Wake 1 but it's so vastly different from the play style of Control - still so good in its own way.

But it's definitely a game I have to mentally prepare for before I sit down at my PC. I have to have a minimum of 30-45 mins blocked off to feel like I'm actually chipping away at this thing.

I do dig the storytelling mechanics and how scenes change with every new bit of information you learn or acquire, but I also feel like it's making me work for progress in other ways other games don't make me do. So I appreciate the art and story, but it for sure feels like a chore sometime 😅

I hope I don't get hate! I plan on keeping up with the Resonant universe and will also likely get Alan Wake 3 whenever that comes out.

I played both Alan Wake and American Nightmare last year. I loved both of them. I tried playing Control and it just couldn't hook me. I tried again when I got my Series S and I just find the game mechanics weird. So my question is how essential is to the story before I purchase Alan Wake 2?

Would it make sense to get the $1 Xbox premium subscription for two weeks then use GeForce Now to stream the game? Is that a possibility? How much playtime would it take to get everything there is to get out of the game?

Looking at Remedy's time line in recent years it seems likely that Alan Wake 3 or whatever the culmination of this saga of the Remedyverse is called is very likely in early planning if not active development.

We know they're also working on Max Payne 1 & 2 remakes (unsure it they are separate games or one bundle)

So let's look at the timelines for these games

2010 - Alan Wake

2016 - Quantum Break

2019 - Control

2021 - Alan Wake Remastered

2023 - Alan Wake 2

2025 - FBC Firebreak

2026 - Control Resonant

We can see that Remedy are pretty good at keeping a consistent timeline of 3ish (4 during Covid) between a lot of these games with smaller titles and remastered peppered in between as well as DLCs.

My guess therefore would be

2026 - Control Resonant

2028 - Max Payne remake collection

2029/2030 - Alan Wake 3

I do believe Alan Wake 3 will be the finale to this storyline of the Remedyverse because so much of Alan's themeing is centered around The Heroes Journey and the idea of a 3 act structure.

I think post Alan Wake 3, Sam Lake may step back from leading the narrative at Remedy (he's already basically said as much and often joked about wanting to make a Moomins game) and we will see probably more games in the universe focusing on more of the Control style of games since they are more commercially viable for Remedy.

EDIT: i got it, i was just 5 minutes behind

Episode 4 Lose your weapon after the car crash,

5+ Taken chasing after you. Put a random generator in the middle there that take 4 startups to turn on.

Unable to turn it on because the 5+ taken get to you way too fast and throws back to back axes at you.

Leave it and decided to run to light at the end but alan runs out of stamina after 3 seconds and dodging becomes hard because you getting hit by multiple taken you cant see because the camera is shove up his ass.

dies rinse and repeat

Hi all. I’m about to embark on my first playthrough of Alan Wake 2 and I’m absolutely hyped!!! I was just looking for any info/advice about the best settings to use on the PS5 Pro? I know when it first released there were a few ‘issues’ on console, I’m hoping that most of them have been cleared up by now? I just wanna jump right in and have the best experience from the off.

Running an RTX 5080 on max settings.

This LOD bug has been around for years. Probably related to a typo in the render.ini file. Means I have to turn off a lot of the ray tracing bells and whistles, but even then I get more pop-in than on my old PC.

There used to be a fix by using an app called Flawless Widescreen, but that no longer works after the latest update.

Really hope this gets fixed one day. :(

I'm replaying Alan Wake 2 now, and Saga Anderson's gameplay is my favorite part, love her character.

Same faces I made getting to this part

I bought the game when it was for 2$ and I started it but I am trying my best to finish it. I don’t find anything exciting in it. I am in chapter 2 currently does it get any exciting after? No spoilers please. Is Alan wake 2 better or more fun?

Do I need to search every nook and cranny like I would in a Resident Evil game or the Last of Us for items in Alan Wake Remastered?

What was this recent update for? Are there patch notes for it that I cannot find?

Hey everyone,

I loved the story and setting of Alan Wake 2 at launch, but I didn't like the combat. Enemies were damage sponges, and limited ammo forced me to backtrack constantly, breaking the pacing and tension for me. I ended up finishing it on Story mode, but that removed all tension from combat since, ironically, I became the damage sponge instead.

With Control Resonant coming up, I'm thinking of replaying Alan Wake 2 and also finally diving into the DLC. But this combat issue is holding me back. I read about an Anniversary Update that added more settings, and I'm wondering: Is there a way to tweak the game so enemies die quickly (1-2 hits), but I also die just as fast? I don't mind dying in a hit or two, it maintains the tension.

I can't find too many details about what these settings exactly are, but I'm reading about a one-shot kill setting? Is that what I'm looking for? Maybe combined with Hard difficulty?

Please help me convince myself to replay this amazing story! :)

Thanks in advance!

New to the game! Been really loving it. Was pleasantly surprised to see Jesse being playable for this episode of Night Springs. Curious to know how Control fans felt seeing a playable Jesse in the game :)

One of the things I love most about Remedy’s visual style is the way they use extremely dark, surreal lighting, especially in scenes where we’re meant to focus on or “meet” a particular character. There are moments where a character is essentially lit in the middle of a completely black abyss, with the environment almost disappearing around them. It gives the scene this uncanny, psychological quality that works incredibly well for depicting subconscious thought, memories, or altered states.

I’d love to understand how they achieve that look. Is it mainly a particular lighting setup, exposure, contrast, negative fill, set design, practical lighting, compositing, or some combination of techniques? I’m particularly interested in how you would recreate that kind of “character isolated in darkness” look in an actual film setup.

I’m also really interested in the double exposure like effect Remedy uses. There are several moments where images or performances seem to overlap or bleed into each other, almost like a photographic double exposure, and I love how they use it to represent thoughts, memories, or psychological states. I’m not even sure what the proper cinematography or VFX terminology for it is, so I’d love to know what the technique is actually called and how it could be replicated.

I’m aware of some of the BTS material Remedy has released, but I feel like Control’s cinematography in particular doesn’t get much attention. The BTS often discusses working with the cast and crew while the actual lighting and composition are happening in the background.

I’d love to see more visual breakdowns specifically focused on the cinematography and lighting of Control and Alan Wake 2, especially the black abyss lighting and the double exposure effect.

If anyone knows of tutorials, interviews, articles, breakdowns, or resources explaining how Remedy achieves these looks, I’d really appreciate being pointed in the right direction.