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SmoochyPit, do gaming w Alan Wake II Has yet to Recoup Development and Marketing Expenses; Tencent Raised Stakes in Remedy to 14%

I should buy it, I loved control and I love the recent resident evil games

AutoPastry,

As someone who also loved those games, I’m confident you’ll enjoy AW2 as well

rljkeimig, do gaming w Alan Wake II Has yet to Recoup Development and Marketing Expenses; Tencent Raised Stakes in Remedy to 14%

I would have bought it if it hadn’t been an Epic exclusive. Maybe when it releases on Steam.

GammaGames,

Agreed. I loved the first but I’m not going to install epic for one game

sfera,

What about something like Heroic Game Launcher? I’m not advocating for Epic, just pointing out that alternatives exist.

bitfucker,

So to compensate for a poor service that is epic game launcher you have to turn to oss solution maintained by the community thanklessly while still giving epic the 25% cut of your sale? I’d rather not give epic any money at all

sfera,

As I previously said, I don’t advocate for buying from Epic. But if it happens that you have some games from their Store (for whatever reason, like ones you got for free) there are alternatives to their client.

GammaGames,

I primarily play on TV and VR so big picture is already my interface of choice

Edit: does it even support Steam? They’re not advertising it on the FAQ:

Support for launching games from the Epic Games Store and GOG

Telorand,

You add the game in Heroic, and it has a menu option to add the game to Steam. There’s another setting that will do this automatically, once the game is installed.

GammaGames,

That makes sense 👀 how’s that thumbnail db looking nowadays

Telorand,

SteamGridDB? Fantastic, especially now that the Steam Deck is part of the ecosystem!

GammaGames,
Luvon,

I use playknight, though I still don’t buy from epic.

Play knight gives me an overview of all humble keys I haven’t used as well as gog, steam, epic, etc.

Just helps me make sure I don’t buy a game on sale that I own

sfera,

Playnite? I would love to use it if it would support Linux.

Luvon,

It looks like Linux support is going to be actually actively looked at again soon with playnite 11, so there is still hope

github.com/JosefNemec/Playnite/issues/59#issuecom…

bread,
@bread@feddit.nl avatar

I’m sure there are many who share that sentiment. I tend to forget games even exist if they’re Epic exclusive.

teawrecks,

I have to assume they did the math and concluded an epic exclusive was still the more lucrative option.

Midnitte,

I doubt it will since Epic is the publisher…

applepie,

Rich dudes got a pissing match... although Gabe did no wrong!

Telorand,

Epic CEO is just salty he didn’t come up with the Steam Deck concept first.

mp3,
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I’ll wait for the GOG release, I have Control there already.

ReversalHatchery,

Do you think this one will be there too, with tencent in the picture?

hornedfiend,

I don’t particularly hate epic,but ~90% of my games are on steam,so I don’t really install the rest cause I don’t need to.

that being said,I will buy it when and if it comes to steam. if not,oh well…

emptyother, do gaming w Alan Wake II Has yet to Recoup Development and Marketing Expenses; Tencent Raised Stakes in Remedy to 14%
@emptyother@programming.dev avatar

Its music level released on YT gave it a lot of exposure. If even that wasn’t enough, what hope do we have for an Alan Wake 3 or Control 2 without a crappy tacked-on monetization scheme? Because thats always next if a singleplayer game series doesn’t make as much money as the publishers wanted it to.

chloyster,

The headline is kinda misleading. Yes it hasn’t recouped costs yet, but they sound confident it will. It’s the best performing Remedy game ever released

Edit: misleading maybe not the right word. “Doesn’t tell the full story” is probably better

lightninhopkins, do gaming w Alan Wake II Has yet to Recoup Development and Marketing Expenses; Tencent Raised Stakes in Remedy to 14%

I enjoy the story, the combat is annoying though. When you get injured and can no longer see it’s silly. I liked the combat in the first one more.

teawrecks,

That’s wild. The combat in the first one felt mind numbing to me. Just constant padding with the same flashlight/gun combo over and over and over.

Telorand,

I dropped the first game specifically because of the “combat.” I’d give Alan Wake II a try if it was a different mechanic.

teawrecks,

I haven’t finished it yet, but AW2 is a dramatic step up in the entire experience. They still “pay homage” to the original combat, but there aren’t nearly as many enemies. If you’re familiar with the Control story and like that universe, I’d say it’s a must play.

CharlesReed, do gaming w Alan Wake II Has yet to Recoup Development and Marketing Expenses; Tencent Raised Stakes in Remedy to 14%

I'm convinced they would have done so much better if it hadn't been Epic exclusive. I know more than one person who won't play it on PC because of this.
It's a great game otherwise.

chloyster,

It also likely wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t an epic exclusive (they funded it). I do wish they could have gotten someone else to publish it of course, but I’m thankful the game exists at all, it’s really outstanding

SRo, do gaming w Alan Wake II Has yet to Recoup Development and Marketing Expenses; Tencent Raised Stakes in Remedy to 14%

Epic

kembik, do gaming w Alan Wake II Has yet to Recoup Development and Marketing Expenses; Tencent Raised Stakes in Remedy to 14%

Too spooky for me

Megaman_EXE, do gaming w Alan Wake II Has yet to Recoup Development and Marketing Expenses; Tencent Raised Stakes in Remedy to 14%

This made me realize I haven’t played it yet. I looked up the sales prices and realized why. It hasn’t really gone on sale for a price that I would be comfortable paying. I loved the first one back in the day. I haven’t tried control yet. Might give that a go in the meantime

Hazmatastic,

Control is fantastic if you like the Remedy vibe. Not checking it out would be doing yourself a disservice, I think.

Megaman_EXE,

I’ve heard really good things about it. I think it’s on ganepass right now so I should probably give it a go

spacedogroy, do gaming w Alan Wake II Has yet to Recoup Development and Marketing Expenses; Tencent Raised Stakes in Remedy to 14%

It also didn’t release as a physical copy. New digital releases in the UK at least are always pretty expensive, whereas with physical copies there’s at least a chance of a small discount from a retailer.

jeffw, do games w [Updated: Epic Statement] Major Epic Leak Hints at Unannounced Games Coming to Epic Games Store
@jeffw@lemmy.world avatar

TL;dr: a bunch of code names for games and speculation. Still fun to think about

scrubbles,
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Shocking: Game company is making games. More at 11

Ashtear, do games w [Updated: Epic Statement] Major Epic Leak Hints at Unannounced Games Coming to Epic Games Store

The Square Enix ones mentioned in the article are nothing earth-shattering–the Final Fantasy XVI PC port and what’s most likely the Final Fantasy IX remake. FF9 was part of the previous Nvidia leak.

PunchingWood, do games w Ghost of Yotei Will Feature a Less Repetitive Open World

Good, it’s the one thing that kept me a long time from finishing the game after chapter 1. I only wrapped up the main story last week, after not having played for like 2 years lol. The main story of the game isn’t even that very long actually, or at least chapters 2 and 3, and the open-world content got repetitive very quickly.

Coelacanth, (edited ) do games w Ghost of Yotei Will Feature a Less Repetitive Open World
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Thank fuck, that’s definitely one of the game’s more detrimental flaws. I hope they also work on varying their quest design more, as well as mixing up the tone of the writing and acting more frequently.

I enjoyed the beautiful locations, solid combat and often great boss fights, but the game in general was too monotone for me to be truly captivated by it. Towards the end I felt worn out by it, having to mentally steel myself to even finish it. I get that the serious samurai trope is what they’re going for, but while that might work in a 2-hour movie it becomes incredibly one-note over a 50-hour game. Kenji alone is not enough to break up the flow with some variety. Especially with the gameplay being very repetitive too - so many missions are simple walk-and-talk, ride-horse-and-talk and go-to-spot-kill-mongols.

Katana314, do games w Ghost of Yotei Will Feature a Less Repetitive Open World

I’m always surprised Ubisoft gets so much flak when other developers are doing much the same thing.

That said, my main annoyance with Tsushima is: You’re not a hero. 99% of side quests end with the people you were helping ending up dead, and possibly some other nameless NPCs rescued. It just feels tragic.

It’s a perpetual issue where it’s easier to code in 20 more enemies than 2 or 3 more innocent, living people to have conversations with.

B312,

Mostly because Ubisoft was the company to start this shitty trend, with everyone else being a trend chaser

PunchingWood,

That doesn’t really explain why Ubisoft got shat on for it, while Ghost of Tsushima often got praised into oblivion. I constantly found myself thinking that it could’ve just as well been a Ubisoft game, just with less content.

B312,

I think it’s mostly cause of the really good gameplay, rather than the open world.

Alexstarfire, do gaming w Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done'

I think that’s been obvious for a long while.

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