


Let me reiterate that: I thought Alan Wake’s outfit was cool.

I even thought, as far as video game characters go, his outfit was cool.

Emil Hartman in the face for even suggesting that he needs help. I rolled my eyes along with him when he met Rose, a waitress at the local diner who was his number one fan. I laughed when he slagged off the kindly old radio host who wanted to interview him. The first time I played Alan Wake, in 2010, I sympathized with the titular hero. When he faces paralyzing writer’s block, he whisks Alice away to a cabin in Bright Falls in the middle of nowhere, and takes his frustrations out on everyone around him.Īlan Wake is a serious writer, and we all know that serious writers can never be happy. When he goes on a book tour to promote another best-selling novel in his Alex Casey mystery series, he’s so miserable that he drinks himself into a stupor to numb the pain. He lives in a big New York City apartment with his beautiful, doting wife, Alice. I was getting a Master’s so I could call myself a Master writer.Īlan Wake is likewise a serious writer. Technically, I still am a writer, but I was obsessed with becoming a serious writer. We can even see that they moved the UI in the game a little, with your compass, health and flashlight being much closer to the top left corner now, while your gun and ammo now sit in the upper right corner.Two things stick out after playing Alan Wake again for the first time in 11 years: This game is better than I remember, and Alan Wake is more of a dick than I remember.īack in 2010, I was also a writer. The trailer promises that Alan Wake Remastered will feature 4k visuals and enhanced cutscenes. We can see that everything looks much better and up to par with the current generation, with all of the environments and characters having far more detail, while also not taking away from anything that was in the original game. Throughout the trailer we see various scenes shown in the original Alan Wake, then watch as it converts to its remastered graphics. The trailer focuses on showing the difference between the original Xbox 360 release, which was from May 14, 2010, to the Xbox Series X|S version of the release. Throughout the trailer we get to see just how much the graphics are being enhanced for this new release. Xbox released a new trailer for the upcoming remaster of Alan Wake.
