ALAN WAKE

[Darth Caedus]

Picking the game up this weekend, can't wait to play it

 

[ViperSRT]

This is one of the best games I've ever played. Can't wait to continue the story in the future. I've played through it a bunch of times and love each play through...minus those damn thermoses

 

[Darth Caedus]

SWEET, Gamestop just lowered the Limited Edition to $62

Arg, it's listed at $79 again, it was lowered in price for like an hour and I was goign to order it when I got home.

 

[Devil_666]

"Ok this is just too weird. YOU'RE Weird."

I like Leo Getz.. er.. I mean Barry.

 

[Biojex]

Yay more Barry in the DLC

 

[Darth Caedus]

LOVING the game, just started Chapter 2 and I'm already sucked in.

BTW, I wasn't able to get the limited edition (they were sold out everywhere) so if anybody wants to sell their ALAN WAKE FILES, let me know, I really wanted that

 

[Darth Caedus]

Just started Chapter 6 last night, didn't want to put it down and it was already like 2am I'm getting ready for a major mind **** ending from what I've read. Can't wait to finish playing

 

[Biojex]

I can't wait for the DLC to come out, I wanna dive back into this world again and enjoy the new achievements

 

[MercWithAMouth]

I think imma wait till all the DLCs are released and then buy the game

 

[Darth Caedus]

Just beat and it it was one of the best single player campaigns I've played in a LONG time, can't wait for the DLCs

 

[Biojex]

I think imma wait till all the DLCs are released and then buy the game

if you buy the game new you get the first DLC for free, just in case you didn't know

 

[MercWithAMouth]

if you buy the game new you get the first DLC for free, just in case you didn't know

Really? hmmmm I think you just sold me

 

[Darth Caedus]

So thinking about the game again, I can come to two conclusions:

Spoiler

Zane was the first writer to use the power of the lake to try to bring back his wife Barbara. As we know, what came back wasn't Barbara, but the dark presence wearing Barbara's face. The presence now had an external way to leave the lake and try to make itself larger and escape the "limitations" of the lake. To do this, it needed writers/artists/etc to use their imagination in order break free.

When Tom found out that his wife wasn't Barbara, he cut out her heart, which to him was full of darkness, and jumped into the lake, in his suit, to be the presence of light for anybody else fighting the dark presence (I know this is all speculation, but it makes sense to me). There was always balance, since the darkness escaped the lake, Tom was the balance in going into the lake; he was also the light to Barbara's dark.

Barbara kidnapped Alice to manipulated Alan into writing a story in which the dark presence was able to leave and be free, but Tom used his light to wake alan up from writing it and set him on his path. With the help of Cynthia Weaver, Tom left clues and helped Alan on his way. (Don't know if Tom created Cynthia Weaver or just manipulated her, but she doesn't seem to like him for putting her in the position of Lamp Lady) As the game tells us, Alan, along with Tom and Cynthia's help, "defeated" the presence with the clicker.

Now Tom shows up to talk to Alan...yada, yada, yada...he gets Mr. Scratch to take the place of Alan and he stays behind in the darkness to finish his book.

NOW, here are the two conclusion that I'm stuck on:

1) Alan was a real person who gets lured to Bright Falls by Dr Hartman/Dark Presence in order for him to write the story that will allow the dark presense to escape. Tom Zane, who sacrificed himself to stop his on creation (barbara) from escaping, helps Alan along the way to finish the story that he started (alan says that Tom was mistaken to make it a happily ever after story, there had to be balance). Alan swaps places with his wife, again the balance, and he finishes his book.

OR

2) Alan was a creation of Zane's all along. Zane made a mistake in trying to bring his wife back and accidentally created Barbara-Darkness that now wants to escape. Since he sacrificed himself to be the light in the darkness, he needed a way to stop Barbara. Since he had to power to create her in the first place, he needed another creation to stop her. So he created Alan to do just that. The evidence that I think supports this view is the clicker. HOW would Tom know about the clicker from Alan's past? HOW would he know the future and know that Alan needed the clicker to stop Barbara? It just doens't fit, unless Tom can see the future, but I doubt that.

Sorry, rant over, this amazing game just makes you think

 

[jonny88]

SWEET, Gamestop just lowered the Limited Edition to $62

Arg, it's listed at $79 again, it was lowered in price for like an hour and I was goign to order it when I got home.

$79 is way to much for a game, plus the needed DLCs.

 

[VALVOLINER]

The new DLC "THE SIGNAL" Is available from today July 27th

Just beaten "The signal" in 1 Hour and 45 minutes.and I must to say: Great Chapter!!

-More dificult and challenging than the "regular" chapters, even on normal dificult, some areas could become in a real pain in the ass

-Some new graphics effects like the ink fog shadows ??, some new filters but all the stages, elements and enviroment are recycled from the regular chapters (with minor changes of course)

- New gameplay things taken from the last chapter "Departure)

- This is the most surrealist and crazy chapter ever, and continues the end of the main plot (Man this is like a nightmare world! )

Edit: 200g points in achievements,
-New collectibles; 10 Alarm Clocks and character cardboard silhouettes

 

[Darth Caedus]

Can't wait to play the DLC...from what I have seen, it looks amazing.

 

[Sup3rman]

dl this tonight! douns great! especially cause its free!

 

[Biojex]

I played the signal last night. It was fun, had some really weird parts and some fun combat sections.

 

[Darth Caedus]

I plan on playing it either tonight or tomorrow, looking forward to it.

Does it actually advance the story or is it just an addendum to the actual game???

 

[Biojex]

I plan on playing it either tonight or tomorrow, looking forward to it.

Does it actually advance the story or is it just an addendum to the actual game???

It advances the story a little. It clears up a bit of where Wake is and gives a bit more character to Wake. Doesn't go much beyond that. The combat sections and the craziness is the draw here