A quote from Steven King along the lines of, "The horror you don't know is the horror people keep thinking about," starts off Alan Wake. Then it better not explain shit that's going on. Immediately, deep down, I knew the game wasn't going to follow it's own setup.
What follows is 10 minutes of blistering running from darkness, shooting the fuck out of dark dudes and it was all a dream. In reality Alan Wake is a prick and having recently played Deadly Premonition and Mass Effect 2 made it not worth my time. If I am going to playing someone for another ten hours I better like listening to him talk. The voice actor was given no direction so every line Alan Wake is said with a forceful don't bother me tone. A man says, "Oh I know your work and if I could have an interview on my radio show..." "Hey don't tell anyone I'm on this island."
He then proceeds to walk into a dinner that has a cardboard stand cutout of him by the door. Why does a diner in the middle of nowhere have a cardboard stand of a writer who came to the island to get away from his writer's block? I don't know! I quit the game and decided to go play Deathsmiles! Alan Wake is sitting in my mailbox waiting to be sent back.
Then I started this blog! Inbetween games I'm actually playing I'm going to start making a list of games I think you should play. Who is you? Anyone that is playing video games. It's going to be a mix of historically important games, incredibly fun video games, and video games that man, get you thinking. I think video games are still an incredibly immature medium and that we truly haven't had a great video game yet. I'm not sure I can explain that thought more. I will say Silent Hill 2 is the closest we've gotten.
This list is partially made because I would be interested in a list like this. Or a series of articles as such. I'll try not to stick a game out there without writing some words about it. My original plan was going to be to have pre-written 5 articles before I started this blog. But it's 6:30AM I haven't slept and Alan Wake's writing was terrible. Unless the point was to be playing a fucking asshole.
Game idea: Alan Wake, but instead of his wife disappearing, it's him. Then you have control of the wife and get to decide whether to look for him or not. Game ends when you decide to leave the island.
Right I've got my instant coffee over here, it's tasteless. I'm going to click publish on this post and then set back and think if I'm going to start making this list.
