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[Alastor3]

So far, Joyce seems kind of vanilla, maybe even boring. He’s no Wake and he’s certainly no Payne – the weird, psychological wonkiness of those guys is gone.

This is scaring me.
I also don't like that actor, he look so bland.

 

[CrazedArabMan]

wasnt there a song in alan wake from the Poets? Yeah there was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tA2d4DWdGw

I was talking about hints before the games came out, of course they were in AW and AN, I mean they are literally the Old God's in the game.

 

[qa_engineer]

Most compelling game from the Microsoft camp.

 

[Movalpolos]

This game looks really really off. Looks like it is the animation. Looks terrible actually.

Yup. Completely agree.

 

[BeforeU]

Game looks dope, remedy will deliver.

Those graphics on high end PC will be god like.

 

[petethepanda]

The "vanilla" thing is my biggest concern as well. Hoping the character has some kind of hook and they're just holding it back. I could see it being the kind of situation where he starts to break down over the course of the game.

 

[many places]

Looks right up my alley. I really need to buy Alan Wake and play through that before this comes out.

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

The gameplay looks awesome. Visuals are pretty bananas. I do like you play as both Jack and Serene, even though Serene's parts are more limited.

So far, Joyce seems kind of vanilla, maybe even boring. He’s no Wake and he’s certainly no Payne – the weird, psychological wonkiness of those guys is gone.

Yeah, so this is probably the one concern I have right now. Ashmore is a good actor, I have no problems with casting, but they haven't shown him to have any sort of psychological edge or characterization beyond 'handsome, gruff hero'. It's a shame, especially since this is involving time travel which should be mind-bending, and they have a great actor. But, it might be too early to leap to conclusions. One thing that Remedy does is create great characters, so I'm sure that there's more to Jack than meets the eye.

I hope he stands up to these two:

 

[Peterpan]

Hopefully his character develops, even if the main character is boring, hopefully the characters around him aren't. I trust Sam Lake.

 

[pixellated_man]

Looks so good. Still the game that will force me to get an Xbox one (by christmas if I decide to hold off my purchase of PSVR) at some point in the future.
Don't have a pc powerful enough to play this and prefer console gaming anyway.

 

[Nessus]

Why would you hire Dominic Monaghan and then have him do an unconvincing American accent?

 

[ForsakenLotus]

Looking pretty damn cool. I'll admit, I'm just not buying the live action stuff, but I really dislike it 95% of the time in games. Hopefully, if/when I play this I will be pleasantly surprised or the rest of the game will make up for it.

 

[Fahzgoolin]

The animation transitions look jarring. It's like he's at full sprint or barely moving. Didn't seem to be much in between.

Of course these are journalists playing, who are notorious for making great games look bad.

 

[reKon]

It quite literally wouldn't be possible, ever, for any system, to handle destruction like that in complete realtime with reasonable performance, the calculations would likely melt the machine. The impressive part is how they control it as well as the scale of it. It's impressive regardless of the fact that prebaked. The distortion combined with the actual destruction is incredibly impressive. That's what I mean by more dynamic.

this gameplay preview makes the game look fun. Can't wait to pick this up on PC. Based Microsoft

 

[derFeef]

The animation transitions look jarring. It's like he's at full sprint or barely moving. Didn't seem to be much in between.

Of course these are journalists playing, who are notorious for making great games look bad.

I dunno, looks pretty fluid here. But I think I know what you mean, when he starts aiming there is a "pop" tot he zoom and not a real transition.

 

[SlickShoesRUCrazy]

My iPad Air 2 can't handle the first page. Safari and chrome both crash every time lol.

 

[Chaos2Frozen]

In terms of TPS this is the most exciting game coming up, no offence to Uncharted but I'm all about that sci-fi super powers.

That being said I don't feel like it has the Remedy uniqueness in the writing? At least not compared to Alan Wake's. Maybe it's something that would shine through in the full package. But the powers are definitely cooler.

Also, and this is very important, does anyone know if Poets of the Fall would be making the theme song??

 

[Peterpan]

The Dome. fi videos, make the game look like a generic cover based shooter . If I saw those first I would be disappointed. He plays it like a cover based shooter. I'm sure on higher difficulties playing behind covers like that will get you killed, similar to Max Payne 3 on higher difficulties.

 

[derFeef]

The Dome. fi videos, make the game look like a generic cover based shooter . If I saw those first I would be disappointed. He plays it like a cover based shooter. I'm sure on higher difficulties playing behind covers like that will get you killed, similar to Max Payne 3 on higher difficulties.

Yeah it's pretty bad, don't watch those. Anyway, if he would play like that later on he would get smacked pretty fast.

 

[Crossing Eden]

I dunno, looks pretty fluid here. But I think I know what you mean, when he starts aiming there is a "pop" tot he zoom and not a real transition.

A lot of the combat animations are on point but some of the things look off considering just how good the visuals look. Mainly the out of combat walk cycle.

Other than that, looks pretty good.

 

[...Scatter...]

I dunno, looks pretty fluid here. But I think I know what you mean, when he starts aiming there is a "pop" tot he zoom and not a real transition.

I need this in my life.

We're going to get this, Uncharted 4 and Persona soon. Can't wait. Year is looking interesting for gaming.

 

[justgames7604]

really enjoyed how those enemies that can time dash dodge and get up-close so fast and often. The AI looked as though it still thought the player was behind cover and was focusing on it then got hit by a couple of bullets and dashed out of the way and returned fire. Looked very impressive.


gonna pre-order for xbox and play on pc. looks really good. especially the ai.

 

[L4nnist3r]

so, are this videos Xbox or PC?

 

[justgames7604]

so, are this videos Xbox or PC?

xbox by the looks of it. Someone confirmed it before I think.

 

[Ninja Sharingan]

Lmao at people who are questioning remedies ability to make an awesome action game. I guarantee this game will feel great to play.

 

[Ishida]

Some people see downgrades. I see one of the best looking games around, up there with the order and uncharted 4 or even better in some regards.

... C'mon now...

This game looks fucking fantastic, and it has some of the best visual effects in a video game. But let's not get crazy now.

 

[zsynqx]

... C'mon now...

This game looks fucking fantastic, and it has some of the best visual effects in a video game. But let's not get crazy now.

Let's not get into this again.

Are there any unedited clips of cutscenes? Interested in the quality of writing/acting in the game.

 

[Bornstellar]

... C'mon now...

This game looks fucking fantastic, and it has some of the best visual effects in a video game. But let's not get crazy now.

That's not at all crazy.

 

[Guerrilla]

Looks stellar, can't wait to get my hands on it!

Just judging by the gifs though, the videos are probably a bit too spoilery. How does the transition between tv-show and game look? does it feel out of place or does it feel seamless?

 

[Alienfan]

I don't know, given how crazy Alan wake and Max Payne got, I don't think anyone can really doubt remedy at this point. Of course they are holding back stuff

 

[Blutonium]

It annoys me that I can see the obvious polygon edges on the black characters bald head

Let us hope the PC offers some silhouette tessellation for such instances.

Do yourself a favor and go watch the Wire

 

[KurtSloane]

Looks good, hope the powers aren't too overpowered.

Noticed a lot of screen tearing in all those videos, would be going for the PC version over Xbox.

 

[Bornstellar]

Looks good, hope the powers aren't too overpowered.

Noticed a lot of screen tearing in all those videos, would be going for the PC version over Xbox.

Screen tearing has apparently been fixed since the preview event this footage was taken at.

 

[derFeef]

Looks good, hope the powers aren't too overpowered.

Noticed a lot of screen tearing in all those videos, would be going for the PC version over Xbox.

That was a bug and has been fixed, according to a dev.

 

[tattooed_dwarf]

I wouldn't have minded seeing Monaghan as protagonist, I always enjoy his performance, no matter how bad movie.

 

[texhnolyze]

Sorry but I still haven't watched any of the gameplay footages and most of the trailers, I hate spoilers. Is this game pure linear or there are some forms of open world area with side quests like RotTR?

 

[TheKeyPit]

Lmao at people who are questioning remedies ability to make an awesome action game. I guarantee this game will feel great to play.

My thoughts exactly. Remedy is going to deliver a great action game with an axcellent narrative, combined with innovative technologies and a vision to try new things like the integration of a tv show that will let us see through the eyes of the villain.

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If anyone doesn't like action games, move on, this one's definetly not for you. If you like 'em, get ready to play a great third person action game delivered by Remedy Entertainment.

 

[silva1991]

Those gifs "kreygasm

the main character looks like Wayne Rooney with a better hair transplant

it's based on Shawn Ashmore

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

Game is beautiful.

 

[Jumeira]

Not only beautiful but the best gunplay I've seen. Next evolution of Max Payne. Actually floored with how great the guns feel judging from the videos (Gamesradar). Remedy really are the Gods of 3rd person shooting. The way the world contorts and fractures then normalises is pretty spectacular.

 

[nelsonroyale]

Lmao at people who are questioning remedies ability to make an awesome action game. I guarantee this game will feel great to play.

Max Payne, definitely. Alan Wake...I found the combat pretty clunky. Mainly because of the horrible 'get tired after five seconds' mechanic. Don't make your controllable character have severe chronic asthma...

 

[Bornstellar]

Game is beautiful.

Yo - this isn't a photo?

First look I thought it was.

 

[Miles Quaritch]

The gameplay looks awesome. Visuals are pretty bananas. I do like you play as both Jack and Serene, even though Serene's parts are more limited.



Yeah, so this is probably the one concern I have right now. Ashmore is a good actor, I have no problems with casting, but they haven't shown him to have any sort of psychological edge or characterization beyond 'handsome, gruff hero'. It's a shame, especially since this is involving time travel which should be mind-bending, and they have a great actor. But, it might be too early to leap to conclusions. One thing that Remedy does is create great characters, so I'm sure that there's more to Jack than meets the eye.

I hope he stands up to these two:

Worth mentioning, but the old lead seemed more in line with Wake and Payne.

At least what we saw of him. He had that look, Ashmore just can't sell it. He's too dull.

 

[Psyrgery ES]

Agree.

The first protagonist (the one from E3 reveal) had a lot more character

 

[Jb]

This looks like such a dynamic and fun TPS, I hope it doesn't get slammed by critics for not having a tons of systems on top of it or an open world filled with side quests..

 

[derFeef]

Worth mentioning, but the old lead seemed more in line with Wake and Payne.

At least what we saw of him. He had that look, Ashmore just can't sell it. He's too dull.

I also preferred vanilla Jack.

 

[Twin Tails]

Was disappointed when they switched MC. True Jack looked and felt real with his deliveries. New Jack looks dull and fake.

 

[orichalcos]

I want raw or gamersyde videos.

 

[Dictator93]

Do yourself a favor and go watch the Wire

Hah. Yeah, the actor's name escapes me since I have never seen the wire. I have seen nhim elsewhere though I believe.

Was disappointed when they switched MC. True Jack looked and felt real with his deliveries. New Jack looks dull and fake.

Funny how that is, considering I am pretty sure the old MC was not done from a scan?

 

[derFeef]

I want raw or gamersyde videos.

Good chances we get good quality footage from the preview event as people are allowed to direct capture there.