Comment on What games did you sleep on for too long?
MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m not gonna say I slept on it, but I’ve had Alan Wake in my library for over 5 years. Picked it up on sale around the time I got Control which I really wanted to play but never got around to. Decided since that whole universe seems more interconnected and with more games than it did when I bought them (Alan Wake 2, the upcoming sequel to Control, etc.), I should just do a playthrough of Alan Wake before I finally get around to getting Control off my backlog.
Played through Alan Wake (the original, not the remake) this past weekend, and while it certainly shows its age in some areas, I had a lot more fun than I expected to. If you’re into narrative third person “shooter” games like Uncharted, Tomb Raider, or similar, Alan Wake is worth checking out.
I’m looking forward to finally getting to Control this weekend.
octobob@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Man I could just not finish the first Alan Wake. The story and setting is ok, the Stephen King-like tropes are pretty heavy handed at times but in a good way. But the controls are god awful and the game does absolutely nothing to change anything about its gameplay of “shine light at monsters and run” for the whole game. It really shows its age playing it 15 years later, just feels clunky and bad. I couldn’t care enough about the story and gave up about 3/4 of the way through. Alan Wake 2 is very good however
MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Good to know Alan Wake 2 is better. The gameplay loop of the original is definitely a bit repetitive, I intentionally played on “easy” because I knew that going in, and wanted it to feel like less of a slog.
The first 3 Uncharted games also feel like a bit of a slog in many of the same ways for me. There are too many “waves” of enemies in most of the areas and while the stealth mechanics in those games help make things a bit more interesting, the second wave of enemies always finds you immediately and forces you back into guns blazing at enemies going for first-time headshots on the NPCs because it’s the fastest way through, and if you miss the headshot and hit the body at all they become bullet sponges even if you follow it up with headshots.