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Grown Adult Coward: 'I'm OK With Just Watching Alan Wake II' - Aftermath

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Goronmon@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://aftermath.site/grown-adult-coward-im-ok-with-just-watching-alan-wake-ii

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  • QubaXR@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    With no steam release I’m taking the same route. Love looking at remedy games, don’t enjoy playing them.

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  • Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Im just too stingy to pay >60 bucks for a game. I usually watch lets plays of AAA games.

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  • a_fine_hound@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I wish this game scared me, but the horror is too cheap to really impact me.

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  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I wish I could play it, but I don’t think my PC could handle it, being right at the edge of minimum specs. Has anyone played it on a 2060? I can live with 1080p and no Ray Tracing but I’m scared of sub-30 FPS.

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    • beefcat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      it is ok on a 2060. the high minimum spec is not because of performance, but because older GPUs do not support mesh shaders. that is why it runs ok on a 2060 while being unplayable on the much faster 1080 Ti

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    • Hurmeli@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      From what I’ve read it runs just fine on min spec. They made them very conservative.

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      • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Forgot to mention I have a gaming laptop. So not equivalent of the 2060 in performance, although it contains the mesh shader support so it won’t literally refuse to run. But seeing as the desktop variant is minimum spec I’m not optimistic.

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  • KidDogDad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Anyone have a recommendation for a good let’s play of this? Anytime I’m thinking about watching a let’s play I never know who to pick.

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    • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think Welonz is great. She’s played Alan Wake 1, Control and the AWE DLC before so is well familiar with the story and always pays close attention to story games.

      I’ve been hesitant to buy it out of performance concerns and have been watching her instead.

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    • Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      MKIceandFire on YouTube. All they do are lets-plays with no commentary most of the bullshit cut out.

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    • Pheonixdown@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve been watching and enjoying Jesse Cox (on his CoxClips youtube) play it. He knows a lot about the universe lore and does some explaining for people who may not be as familiar. Someone related to the game also mailed him some ARG stuff related to the game before it came out and he did a few videos on his jessecox channel for it.

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      • Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Cox also isn’t obnoxious. He was part of the TotalBiscuit John Bain group that were fairly sensible and quiet channels.

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  • quain@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Musical” mission was worth suffering through all those jump scares for me - I’m not a horror fan, but decided to force myself a bit and I must say - it’s really good.

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  • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    it’s a shame that remedy don’t see any of the money if you watch the whole thing though, but yeah it’s always valid to just watch a game. it’s a testament to how enjoyable some games can be across all sections

    i would say gameplay is the weakest part of a remedy game, with everything else pulling it along with how excellent it is

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    • CosmicSploogeDrizzle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is a really interesting concept. What if developers had paid or ad supported official streams? Sure most people would block the ads or continue to watch their favorite streamer, but a non-zero amount of players might elect to watch the devs play the game in an effort to support them directly. And this would just be additive revenue compared to the zero they are getting right now on streams. It might even be synergistic as official advertisement for the game and as a way to connect directly to their community. I could see it also as a way to play a game but with director commentary on, similar to how movies do it.

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      • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        ad supported official streams might be enough to be noticeable amount of income for one person for a few weeks, but not really for a big company that produces something like a game.

        same reason you don’t get movies/tv on youtube. money isn’t there for a company

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    • Ilflish@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you truly felt this way, you would buy it anyway and then watch the game playthrough as suggested.

      The idea of watching playthough’s has some controversial facets for sure but I’m not really gonna yuck someone’s yum

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    • HiddenLychee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Don’t you need like. 4xxx GPU to run it? I think it said my 3060 wasn’t good enough

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      • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m playing on my 2080, it’s playable and enjoyable. Just doesn’t look as nice as it clearly has the potential to look.

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      • micka190@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Digital Foundry made a video about it. Basically, you need a card that supports Mesh Rendering, which only started appearing on Nvidia cards after the GTX 10XX series (not sure for AMD). The games actually looks good with lower graphics. Putting everything on low won’t make it look like a PS2 game. The path tracing will absolutely demolish your performance, though, but that’s to be expected because it’s insane to expect real-time path tracing to do anything else with the current hardware (think of their path tracing as a tech demo more than an actual feature).

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      • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        iruno, ps5 plays it fine?

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      • snooggums@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Depends on if you want ray tracing, but running it is as low as a 2060 and even a 3060 is recommended without ray tracing for 1440 at medium, which is supposed to still look pretty good.

        https://www.gamesradar.com/alan-wake-2-minimum-recommended-requirements-pc-specs/

        Minimum
        Graphics preset - Low
        Resolution - 1080p
        FPS - 30
        GPU - GeForce RTX 2060 / Radeon RX 6600

        Medium
        Graphics preset - Medium
        Resolution - 1440p
        FPS - 30
        GPU - GeForce RTX 3060 / Radeon RX 6600 XT

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  • farcaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I enjoyed Alan Wake 2, but there’s a lot of creepiness and jump scares. Way more than the first game. Wouldn’t recommend it to anyone unduly unnerved by horror.

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  • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I can’t play horror games, I freeze when I’m scared. Thank goodness for Let’s Plays, get all the content I want without needing to demonstrate to myself that my instincts haven’t changed.

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