You Need To Buy Alan Wake!

[selnor]

flacomeza said:

selnor said:
Great to hear it's awesome.

Metro 2033, was a fantastic game. In fact it had more atmosphere than any Valve game EVER. It had perfect feeling with great animation and awesome story. They compalin about some linear gameplay and shooting mechanics. There is nothing wrong with some linear parts to games. ( Damn reviews complain about to many open world games ). And Fallout 3's shooting mechanics were far worse than Metro's. If Metro was just a FPS then I would understand complaints against the shooting mechanic. But it's very very clearly more than just a shooter.

It would seem people in review postions are completely off the ball.

So much so, I think Metro 2033 is better than both Gears of War games.

Whats the point?

Well Alan Wake has gotten more than 35 perfect scores across the web. But some big name review sites, deteriate the review score for the game. Complaining about things that are exactly the same as games like SH 1 or 2. Resi 1 or 2. Or any other linear non variety gameplay horror game. But because it obviously has more atmosphere than any other game, and is exclsuiev they have to try and keep both fanboys happy.

Grow up reviewers. Metro deserved more praise than Gears for it's execution. I every single normal gamer that Ive heard from who played Alan Wake so far has said it's better than any horror/Phsycological game. Personally I havent played it yet.

But Edge and other reviewers need to shut their god damn superiority thing up.

Rant over.

 

Selnor, I know you really like Alan Wake, but how is it that you praise it so much, if you havent even played?

How can you say that EDGE needs to shut their superiority thing up if you don't really know exactly what they are talking about? Its different form seeing all the trailers, reading all the previews and reviews, than playing the Actual game, don't you think?

I think that saying that reviewers need to grow up based on reviews of a game that you totally like but haven't played, its irresponsible.

I personally recommend that you play the game, feel it, and the make a proper opinion. Maybe you will be right, maybe the game its absolutely amazing, the best in the horror genre and stuff, but there is still a chance that in fact its not that good, right?

Please don't take it too personally.

I havent taken it personally. :)

I understand your point.

Thats why I used MEtro as an example.

Metro got some amazing reviews. By reviewers who seemed to understand what the game was. In essence not an out and out FPS like Halo or HL2 etc. It was more a Bioshock Fallout hybrid. Therefore is going to appeal to a slightly different market than the Halo market. But some reviewers marked it right down. For reasons of off shooting mechanics ( Have you ever played Fallout 3, poor shooting mechanics ) and some linear elements. Now Bioshock was hugely linear. Bioshock shooting was not particularly great yet most reviewers loved it. Metro is the same type of game. It has atmosphere every bit as good as Bioshock. But also has better visuals to boot. Yet look at it's meta? IMO something went drastically wrong with some of the reviews.

Alan Wake looks similar. Complaints about things which arent the games fault, but more the genres fault. And in essence these are actually things that people who like the genre are used to. Basically we dont play this genre for those reasons. If people played Silent Hill for variety in gameplay they would be sorely dissapointed and rating it 3/10. So why downrate Alan Wake for having the same genre faults?

Alot of reviewers have happily reviewed the game for what it is, and for the type of people who will buy the game. Not reviewing a Phsych/horror game for say a FPS crowd.