So I finally finished Alan Wake.How shall i say this, I was underwhelmed.Let's start with the good stuff: I love the light and then shoot system. *The story is the reason you want to keep playing.* this was very important

negatives I encountered:

every place in the woods looks the same and looks like it was meant for the wii. I mean what have those guys been doing? only pimping the vids?And those birds gaaah, yes i know you want to put in a little differentiation but god those birds are boring, only  encountering them once was fine.Driving is fun but why those huge distances, filler ftw.And please don't steal my ammo each time, or atleast spread it out and not all at once. Scripted, comon suprise me, you know baddies gonna come when you move past there. Horror? no

convince me why i should play nightmare difficulty

honestly people had high expectations, seece and selnor had countless threads about how its going to have the best graphics and how its going to be a killer app. they were all disappointed.

I was not disappointed with AW. It is one of the better games this gen.

Um. Alan Wake is the only game that I give 10/10.

It's also the best Lighting, environments and weather effects of any game out there. 

2ndly, the OP is so far off the mark saying that the woods environments could be done on the Wii. That is a blatant troll statement. As those visuals for the scenery have not been surpassed. 

The only reason Alan Wake was ever downed on graphics was due to character models and some daytime textures. All the stuff the OP downs on Digital Foundry and most people said it was the best on. So I'm not sure what this very late article is trying to achieve.

Well I loved it.

I like nice graphics but they only need to be good enough to impress I'm not a fan boy who sits infront of their PS3 or Xbox with their penis in their hands while they watch E3 coverage.

The best bit about Alan Wake for me was the story. I mean you could figure out what was going to happen but thats Ok. All stories vary from one central theme and this was no different.

Finding the pages and knowing what was coming was a lovely touch.

That said, once played, I agree it has minimal replay value, but to be honest I feel that way about nearly all my video games.

nope they weren't

Neither was I. Easily a 9/10 for me. That's actually better than I excpected.

Graphics are also great, it's just a shame that Remedy doesn't let us use a 720p resolution...

dont lie selnor, if you go back to the thread you evens aid that you were disapointed.

What?

No I didn't.

Seece reviewed the game for VGC and gave it 9 something. 

I put my own Review up of the game on this very site. And it was the first time I gave any game a 10 this gen. How do you explain the following article I wrote? On 21 of May 2010. 

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=109755

you had a thread which will counts the amount of times a reviewer says "alan wake has the best graphics" we have see this gen. after a week of reviews you came and said its i was wrong, it doesnt have the best graphics this gen. you didnt say that you were disapointed but when someone has such high expectations and in one department those expectations are delivered. then that person will be disapointed.

i dont know if you remember but their was also a thread for the meta critic score, and you and seece predicted it would get in the 90s. i dont remember the exact values.

Yeah I said I was wrong that " Other reviewers " didnt give it best graphics of the gen. 

How does that show I was disappointed?

I also remember the Meta thread to. Do you know that for whatever reason over 20 perfect scores are missing from Meta for Alan Wake? 

Anyways, my personal opinion of the game surpassed it's hype. And it's the best game of the genre by far. It's quite wrong that mainstream media give Resi 5 above 90 and not to Alan Wake. When it's clear Resi 5 disappointed everyone. Hell go through my Live friends and you see everyone with about 90 Gamerscore for Resi 5. But over 500 for Alan Wake. Shows that people never bothered finishing Resi 5. 

Alan Wake achieved what it set out to do. Make me hooked. Also to many reviewers were way to harsh on the graphics side of Alan Wake. 

Many ( I'll use IGN as an example ) said the lighting was the best out there. Said the effects were the best out there. Said the open world draw distance was amazing. They only had some gripes with some low res textures on some daytime scenes and some low poly characters with odd lipsyncing. Now knowing the game as I do, those things are minor compared to what the game has graphically. Yes Alan Wake 2 will undoubtedly fix these grpahics as Remedy have an extra 30% power to play with on their engine for Alan Wake 2. It will be very much like Uncharted 1 and 2. 1 was about as good as the rest around with some hiccups in graphics. 2 ironed them out and found the balance with the same engine. That in essence is how Alan Wake 2 will pan out.

Anyways. Alan Wake had an amazing story, awesome tension and fantastic visuals. It had me glued from start to finish and Silent Hill and Resi need to take note. Because Remedy beat you guys.