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GarageGothic · 06-01-2010, 03:27 PM

No mention of Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy? Never before or since have I seen such a promising game go so rapidly downhill in its second half.

More recently, Alan Wake - probably a decent action game if that's what you're looking for, but what a wasted premise. Hey, let's make a game about an author with the ability to rewrite reality - then have him shoot zombies in the woods for the next ten hours! (To be fair, apart for the discarded open world idea Remedy never promised more than they delivered - yet a lot of the disappointment expressed in various appears to stem precisely from the huge and, as it turns out, unfulfilled, potential offered by the setting and storyline).
To me the most fascinating and quite unexpected outcome of Alan Wake's failure to connect with part of its audience is that their disappointment has boosted interest in the technically inferior Deadly Premonition, panned by most critics, but as it turns out much closer to what the disillusioned Alan Wake fans envisioned that game to be.

06-01-2010, 03:27 PM	#18
GarageGothic Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Denmark Posts: 168	No mention of Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy? Never before or since have I seen such a promising game go so rapidly downhill in its second half. More recently, Alan Wake - probably a decent action game if that's what you're looking for, but what a wasted premise. Hey, let's make a game about an author with the ability to rewrite reality - then have him shoot zombies in the woods for the next ten hours! (To be fair, apart for the discarded open world idea Remedy never promised more than they delivered - yet a lot of the disappointment expressed in various appears to stem precisely from the huge and, as it turns out, unfulfilled, potential offered by the setting and storyline). To me the most fascinating and quite unexpected outcome of Alan Wake's failure to connect with part of its audience is that their disappointment has boosted interest in the technically inferior Deadly Premonition, panned by most critics, but as it turns out much closer to what the disillusioned Alan Wake fans envisioned that game to be. Last edited by GarageGothic; 06-01-2010 at 04:23 PM.