meansizzler
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What happened to this game, thought it was suppose to come out around the time Shadowrun did?
Remedy has remained vague about Alan Wake, unwilling to give any info regarding the date of its release. When asked about a release date, Remedy representatives respond, "When it's done". This has been the philosophy in Remedy Entertainment, because it gives them more control over the quality of the finished product.
In a recent interview on the GamerScore Blog, it was said that Alan Wake is slated to be released in 2008, although there wasn't a time frame stated.
The tech demo seemed really impressive whenever that was, they were talking about quad core utilisation. I imagine by the time the game comes out though we'll probably be on native quad cores which can only help with the performance of the game. Should be good, well at least pretty anyway!
I have a feeling that by the time it comes out it will look very average, that's one thing I hate about games that have graphical promise but slide over time because of development time. Early preview videos give the 'wow' factor because of visuals but that can lead to the game's ultimate downfall for graphic whores who see it at release and realise it then looks old by then.
I have a feeling that by the time it comes out it will look very average, that's one thing I hate about games that have graphical promise but slide over time because of development time. Early preview videos give the 'wow' factor because of visuals but that can lead to the game's ultimate downfall for graphic whores who see it at release and realise it then looks old by then.
Apart from the graphics though the physics did seem to be spot on. I've got no idea whether the actual game will be any good.
Hopefully they are upping the graphics from what we've seen so far though.
Despite the comparative lack of hype, or perhaps because of it, Alan Wake is one of the games for 2008 that I am most anxious to see. Like Stalker last year it has made a number of promises about its world and its action that I want to see in the digital flesh. Psychological horror action seems to a genre that developers are able to deliver with sharper and more terrifying clarity than even before, and if Stalker reminded me of anything, it was how much I like a good fright. Fingers tightly cross for Alan, this one could be enormous.
PCGH: Does the game support DX 10? Will there be a fallback for DX 9 too?
Markus Maki, Remedy: We haven't announced anything on this yet.
PCGH: Will Alan Wake as announced be a Vista-Only-Title? Will there be any chance for players with Win XP to play the game?
Markus Maki, Remedy: It is best to consider Alan Wake to be a Vista exclusive game.
It's not surprising to see, I expect it'll be the norm the most PC titles from now on.
Microsoft need a way to shift their new OS and with the relatively poor take up so far they'll want some leverage on the buying public.
I expect they'll be phasing out support for the DX9 SDK as fast as they can to force the issue.
I'm not keen on Vista, but with a little tinkering it's not too hard to get it running on par with XP and hopefully the long awaited SP1 will sort a lot of it's issues out. That said it's still not installed on my machine, and it won't be for a while yet!
I hear rumblings that this game is to be dual core only.
The tech demo was running on a quad core extreme with a 7950 GPU (which is intriguing, since I'd have expected 8800)... wondering if this will literally eat a PC as Crysis reportedly does.
I'd be surprised if it is, especially since they made a big song and dance about it utilising four cores when they did their tech demo.I hear rumblings that this game is to be dual core only.
The tech demo was running on a quad core extreme with a 7950 GPU (which is intriguing, since I'd have expected 8800)... wondering if this will literally eat a PC as Crysis reportedly does.
I'd be surprised if it is, especially since they made a big song and dance about it utilising four cores when they did their tech demo.
"So the PCMark Vantage Gaming HDD test is based on a real world scenario from the upcoming Alan Wake (streaming data off HDD in Vista)"
I read this as "at least Dual core", would make no sense to not utilise all for cores of a quad CPU, especially as they have been demonstrating good scalling accross quad cores.
Dear people,
We feel we owe you all a small heads up, and our apologies for lack of updates. This is just part of our psychological thriller, is it all real or imagined...
Seriously, yes, we're still here and working hard on getting Alan Wake for you to enjoy. Sure, we've been in development for a long time and if everything had gone perfectly smoothly there probably would be a game out for you guys to play already. But designing a completely new game can be hard, and sometimes you need to take a detour to find the best route forward.
We want to entertain you guys in the best possible way and our team is putting in every effort possible in order for that to happen. That is the way Remedy wants to do things. I'm sure you will enjoy Alan Wake when we're done.
Just follow the light...