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[Flabagast]

preloaded on ps5... unlock at 6AM ON A FRIDAY ?!??! Why not midnight
What the hell man. 30 hours

It's international release date, with the unlocking at the same time all around the globe. It will be a 12AM in EST

 

[rofif]

Karma for being the Forspoken superfan #1

Well I clearly deserve my fate lol

 

[Deerock71]

I'm going 88.

 

[Pegasus Actual]

I remember being super-invested in the original Alan Wake story, played through the DLCs as well. I don't remember any of it at this point, which leaves me strangely uninterested in the sequel, despite the original not even remotely concluding the storyline.

You can fucking bet that polygon and some other trash site is gonna write an article about that.

"Dichotomy of being a black police officer in a game named after a white man" or some shit.

Highly problematic, I will wait for a mod makes the FBI character a transwoman of color community organizer instead who rescues Alan from the hell-dimension or wherever the fuck he ended up and chides him to pay reparations in a thrilling and socially-just conclusion.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Alan Wake 2's performances are so good they are already nominees at the Golden Joysticks /s

Jesus these game awards are so cringe.

 

[demigod]

92

 

[ChoosableOne]

If my octopus senses aren't deceiving me, it won't go beyond 76.

 

[Arsic]

91-95. Fuck the haters.

 

[BaneIsPain]

83-85 sounds fair

 

[phant0m]

If my octopus senses aren't deceiving me, it won't go beyond 76.

It’ll crack 80, pending performance being completely disastrous

 

[bender]

7.7

 

[marjo]

My guess is 85+
The previews that I've seen have been very positive.

 

[Eiknarf]

Probably somewhere between 98 - 100

 

[adamsapple]

Reminder. Reviews will drop tomorrow.

I always have the safe prediction, 75~95

 

[SRTtoZ]

Anyone know when we can preload from Epic Games? I got a copy for free with my Gigabyte Aero 4070 TI. Card is sick btw. Absolutely smokes my 3070 Ti but even better its dead silent unlike the 3070 ti Founders. Quiet, cool and matches my x570_S Aero mobo.

 

[egocrata]

It will score in the low 80s, maybe 82.

I don’t care at all, because Remedy makes the best badly reviewed games this side of Alpha Protocol. I adored Alan Wake and Quantum Break, workship Control, and will upgrade my PC just to play AW2 maxed out.

 

[Fake]

75~80

 

[Represent.]

90%

GOTY nominee

 

[kikkis]

I think must be pretty sweet for remedy devs to quit work today at 4 and see the reviews.

 

[Sleepwalker]

Please be good please be good

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

78

 

[Windom Earle]

I think it will be great. I trust them a lot after Control!

 

[MatrixReloaded101]

91-95. Fuck the haters.

I hope it scores this high^

But I’m thinking it will be in the 75-85 range

 

[Feel Like I'm On 42]

After one of the devs tweeted "runs surprisingly well on consoles" I'm now REALLY worried about console versions

Seriously. If it ran so well, when he decided to make that comment to assuage people's concerns last week, Remedy could've and should've just provided some actual console gameplay if what he's saying is true.

With the PC requirements being what they are and with the way devs behave when making these comments ..there's about to be a controversy when this releases. Expect either really inconsistent framerates, hitching (like Control had when it came out of xb1x and ps4 pro), and/or the resolution is going to be lower than we hope.

Mark my words

 

[rofif]

After one of the devs tweeted "runs surprisingly well on consoles" I'm now REALLY worried about console versions

Seriously. If it ran so well, when he decided to make that comment to assuage people's concerns last week, Remedy could've and should've just provided some actual console gameplay if what he's saying is true.

With the PC requirements being what they are and with the way devs behave when making these comments ..there's about to be a controversy when this releases. Expect either really inconsistent framerates, hitching (like Control had when it came out of xb1x and ps4 pro), and/or the resolution is going to be lower than we hope.

Mark my words

Devs treat console as budget pc. They don’t optimise specially for that hardware anymore

 

[Fabieter]

Devs treat console as budget pc. They don’t optimise specially for that hardware anymore

Its sad but it's true, games are still nice on consoles but they don't hit above their weight anymore. Devs would rather focus on pc because pc players don't accept bad performance ratio as much as console players.

 

[Feel Like I'm On 42]

Its sad but it's true, games are still nice on consoles but they don't hit above their weight anymore. Devs would rather focus on pc because pc players don't accept bad performance ratio as much as console players.

So true. Console gamers have been hard done this gen between this and Sony/MS going multiplat. Esp painful to see Sony do this.

 

[Danjin44]

I havent watch any trailer for this game but I have one question........Are we gonna see Barry in this game?

 

[Fabieter]

So true. Console gamers have been hard done this gen between this and Sony/MS going multiplat. Esp painful to see Sony do this.

It feels like dev think they just need a serviceable experience on consoles than move on to further optimize pc because console gamers buy the game anyway. It was fucking sick what devs did with older hardware.

 

[Certinty]

Expecting low to mid 80s, anything about 87 would heavily surprise me.

 

[ProtoByte]

90+. The game is arthouse as fuck and has some interesting game design ideas. That's going to go a long way with critics right now. Arguably with the online gaming community that seems dissatisfied with industry output over the last 3-5 years.

 

[digoutyoursoul]

81

 

[Wizz-Art]

Got it pre-ordered for weeks. The original is my #1 game ever and I was waiting for the sequel for over a decade., I'm so glad it happened! The first one holds an 83 on metacritic so if it's arround that it would be great.

 

[Salmon Snake]

Hype levels are really high atm but still I think I'll wait for the first patches because there's bound to be some issues with the PS5 version.

Or maybe I'm just too pessimistic but nowadays games just are broken more or less in release.

My PS5 is pre loading the deluxe edition.

 

[amigastar]

Just one hour left for the reviews coming in, right?

 

[kikkis]

Just one hour left for the reviews coming in, right?

45mins

 

[amigastar]

45mins

I'm so tense how well it will be reviewed

 

[mejin]

Rumour:

Seems there is a Game-breaking Progression Bug on PC version.

Epic is sendind a save to the final boss or else no one can finish the game.

Hope it's not true.

 

[M1chl]

Rumour:

Seems there is a Game-breaking Progression Bug on PC version.

Epic is sendind a save to the final boss or else no one can finish the game.

Hope it's not true.

Reminds me Quantum Break, with that last shitty boss fight

 

[Lux R7]

Rumour:

Seems there is a Game-breaking Progression Bug on PC version.

Epic is sendind a save to the final boss or else no one can finish the game.

Hope it's not true.

 

[ulantan]

Rumour:

Seems there is a Game-breaking Progression Bug on PC version.

Epic is sendind a save to the final boss or else no one can finish the game.

Hope it's not true.

93

 

[JohnnyFootball]

My friend bought a 4090 and gave me the code. My 4090/7800X3D is READY!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Ev1L AuRoN]

I'm guessing 84~88 something in that range. I'm sold for sure.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Reminder. Reviews will drop tomorrow.

I always have the safe prediction, 75~95

Lol oh yeah? Mine is between 30-98 so yeah, I too stay in a pretty safe zone

Numbers man, numbers. The most important part of the game.

 

[Duchess]

"Higher than Starfield"

 

[Eiknarf]

Everyone’s life is gonna change in about twenty minutes

 

[kikkis]

Everyone’s life is gonna change in about twenty minutes

I know, I might be 50 bucks poorer.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

I'll be updating the OP as soon as enough reviews have been published on both Opencritic and Metacritc. In the meantime you guys can post the reviews as they start dropping.

 

[kikkis]

One thing that I have noticed, is that enemies take quite many bullets to take down, but you don't have that many to begin with.

 

[j0hnnix]

We will see how this goes. Dead Space Remake (finished original) will hold me off if the reviews and performance on console are not stellar for AW2.