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Day 77 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Today’s Game is Alan Wake. I finally got a chance to finish Chapter 1 on nightmare mode.

It was surprisingly easy. If you look at my ammo you’ll notice I still have a ton of Shotgun rounds. That’s because I conserved Ammo and fled when I could, hoping to use it in the fight against Stucky. Turns out though, Stucky went down in a couple Flare Gun Shots and took all the other Taken with him.

I also got stuck wandering around in the woods for a while, as it turns out I took a wrong turn. Those woods are like a fucking maze.

The photo I chose for today was of the Gas Station. It felt appropriate as the End of Chapter 1, since that’s where I chose to end my gaming session for today.

I’m going to continue with Chapter 2 tomorrow hopefully though, as it turns out I still have my Alan Wake II save from when I thought I deleted it because it ate my Steam Deck’s battery alive and I’m a few chapters into that, so I’d like to make parity with them before playing parallel (assuming I don’t end up changing my mind).

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shenanigans! Today is day 77. ;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh shit. You’re right. I’m surprised it took me this long to make this mistake

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It's all good! I do really enjoy seeing these when they pop up in my feed so thanks for posting them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I‘ve had this in my library for many years (Steam sale pile lol) and also started it recently. I‘m really bad with horror games so I don‘t play it much, but I think the ingame atmosphere held up really well while the cutscenes are super uncanny valley territory. I‘m hoping to 100% it eventually.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I found after the first episode it becomes much less horror and far more Thriller (if that makes sense). I don’t believe it ever relies on cheap tricks like in your face jump scares to scare you, so a lot of the thrill comes from the action. The atmosphere definitely adds to it though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Is this the original release or the remaster?

Turns out the remaster has a terrible bug affecting AMD CPUs that makes enemies, NPCs and the terrain flicker like crazy, the workaround on PCGW did nothing for me, and it never got patched AFAIK, so I ended up replaying the original...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How much of AW2 do you remember? I strongly suggest starting over so you have everything fresh in your forebrain - it's a game that wants you to pay attention to detail. Same reason I advocated for playing only it in the other thread and not both in parallel. Though you seem to have an impressive capacity for keeping track of multiple story-games at once (something I can't even begin to relate to) so your mileage may vary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I like to keep journals for my game which is (part of) what helps me keep track of all my games. Though, at your suggestion I might hold off, especially with how I forgot how short the first game is (I can probably clear an episode a day, unless nightmare mode suddenly ramps up in difficulty, which I wouldn’t be surprised if it does)