Fun fact. Sam lake introduced part of poets of the fall to eachother. Marko and ollie were writing a song for Max payne, so sam introduced them to markus to help produce the song. The rest is history...
That same alarm at Cauldron Lake actually first showed up in Control's AWE DLC, where Jesse was confused because somehow the alert was coming to them from the future. And they also mention an FBC agent stationed in the area that appears in the Alan Wake 2.
This is by far my favorite game ever. You can actually see how much thought and love the Alan Wake 2 team put in every single piece of detail in this game.
Alex Casey looks like Max Payne, is voiced by Max Payne and loves coffee like Max Payne because it was actually planned that Max Payne IS Alex Casey, a fictional character by Alan Wake (they started working on the game in around 2005). But in 2010 they found themselves not having the rights to use this name since the trademark was part of Rockstar back then and so they had to change the name.
This feels hastily put together? - Like Tim(e) Breaker is an AU version of Jack Joyce (and spends a while remembering his life, including Beth Wilder - who was played by Jesse Faden's actress, who shows up in the Oceanview Hotel) - Mr Door is the local version of Mr Hatch kn Quantum Break, except instead of an "everywhere in time" mysterious character he is "the one between" whatever that means. - The Valhalla Nursing Home was first brought up in Control - you can hear Alan narrate writing it into being - and you find that same page, with Scratch's edits, as you explore it. - The Twin Peaks connections are wider than just the location names. If the first game had The Lady of the Light as a counterpart to the Log Lady and Scratch as a more mental antithesis to Alan, here Scratch and Wake literally walk Agent Cooper's return from Twin Peaks The Return. Mr C. the evil doppelganger that Scratch even dresses like now, a corpse from the past showing up in the present (Nightingale vs General Briggs), a maybe dead maybe other placed love interest (Alice vs Audrey), a jillion people looking like one guy claiming to be unrelated people (Casey/Lake, Wake/Scratch/Zane/Seine) etc. - Control had the Oceanview Motel and Casino. You show the Oceanview Hotel. But the game also has Oceanview Motel & Spa (even if showing it would be a spoiler, you could at least mention it).
Most people don't have the time or memory to really wrap everything that's going on together in their heads. I don't mean that in an insulting way, more that it takes a nearly autistic level of obsession to not mess it up, and I say that as an autist
Ya know ... All this horror and tragedy will AT LEAST cure Alan's writers block lol. The unofficial character arc for Alan through these 2 games and dlcs and hopefully a 3rd Alan Wake will be Alan escaping this hell, reuniting with Alice having learned to appreciate her more after losing her for 13 years, and using what he went thru to revive his real life writing career.
I finished reading The Shining on Friday and finished Alan Wake 2 today. It was a beautiful coincidence that I was reading the former while playing the latter because the one fed into my enjoyment of the other. There are quite a few parallels, the main ones being Oceanview Hotel vs Overlook Hotel, as well as both protagonists being writers, and both getting possessed by a dark force. Another more literary reference to King's work (or literary work in general one could say) is the inner dialogue of the characters. King is well known for his thoroughly flawed yet well-written characters, and we generally get a direct point of view from their internal dialogue or thoughts, which gives us deeper insight into who they are under the surface. Hearing Alan and Saga's inner dialogue and thoughts, and us gaining a better understanding of them as characters, is reminiscent of that added perspective.
Control has Even more Stephen King in it. Jesse has all the powers of the Torrances, and Carrie. Ahti talks to Jesse telepathically to test her abilities like Halloran does with Danny
You open it in the AWE expansion. Jessie experiences something like the janitor's room loading screens and has a vision of a conversation between Alan and Tom Zane the Filmmaker. Tom Zane looks even more like Alan, but it matches a conversation in AW2 exactly, and in that scene in AW2... Jessie Faden appears to be watching them on the TV and Scratch freaks out about it. Jessie then says "Was that Thomas Zane? The poet? ...No, wait, he was a filmmaker." Actively having her memories re-written by Alan's writing.
There was a trailer for American Nightmare featuring Mr. Scratch. He was confused by an accolade mentioning Ilkka Villi ("who the hell?") and announced that he hired a team of writers to provide us with more Mr. Scratch stuff. Showed footage of Sam at a typewriter as if he had been touched by the Dark Presence himself. I think there's more to this joke than a joke.
The final scene in the final Alan wake game will be Alan at a book signing celebrating his collective works, and it will be revealed every second of every remedy game was the player assuming the roles of fictional characters from fictional books... nobody believes me, but I'm convinced none of any of it is Real. Great video!
No one believes you because that would be a monumentally shitty ending. Also, for that to work, everything in AW2 (Dark Place or not), and the This House if Dreams blog, also actually all some other Alan writing about them. It'd mean that all of Alan's struggles aren't real, even.
Thanks for the love Retrocade!! Hope you didn't think I was being too critical ;) It's just so cool how many of the little easter eggs tie into each other, the more connections the more fun I find it :)
Actually discovered Poets of the fall way before i knew they had anything to do with these games. Even had one of their tracks at my wedding for the first dance. Was shocked when they popped up in the Alan Wake games only recently started playing them.
Easter eggs are just tributes to another universes rarely connected to the media they appear in. Things mentioned here are part of the plot and one universe.
Honestly this game especially the Alan sections brought back that hole Silent Hill has left in me. I’m now kinda worried about the remake. It’s gonna feel so underwhelming now after playing AW2
I’m hoping Silent Hill Townfall and Silent Hill F bring the franchise back if the SH2 remake doesn’t. Didn’t have much faith in Ascension to begin with.
I love how Sam Lake himself is an easter egg! I definitely think Tim Breaker & Mr. Door are just alternate universe versions of their Quantum Break characters. 👍- Chris
One of the more obscure Easter Eggs I found in ALAN WAKE 2 came during the first chapter of RETURN, when Alan is crawling around in the tunnels uncovering/writing the first murder. Scrawled on a random wall is graffiti saying AWE. As in Altered World Event from CONTROL.
Another easter egg is when the Old Gods of Asgard is playing on the roof of the car. That is a Stranger Things reference for sure, with the way the lights are coming too. :D When Eddie and Dustin were trying to distract Vecna's minions in the Upside down.
something that is worth mentioning about night springs is that the program was in reallity made by the FBC until the presentator was killed by an object of power or AWE (Cant remember what was exactly) that was send by the bless group, also chestter bless who appears to be his leader made contact with alans friend barry after he was opresed by the FBC (whe can read this in the apartment in the dark place) so they are involved in a lot of other cases and are probably going to be the antagonist in a future remedy game
What I think is pretty cool is that everytime you visit the Sagas thought room the deer head in the background casts a shadow looking like Saga wears antlers, too, which makes sense knowing the whole story.
I don't know if these are really "easter eggs", so much as they are homages and references. An easter egg would be the pink flamingo in the window of Logan's bedroom at the trailer park.
There is a easter egg about it in Oceanview hotel showing the dialogue between Tom Zane and dr.Darling. Darling tells Tom that he looks familiar, and Tom responds that Darling sounds familiar.
I'm sorry dude, but easter eggs are secrets, which not really obvious. Serious sam and quake had easter eggs. All your list - just bunch of refferences and obvious plot charactersr in one universe.
If you like alan wake i STRONGLY suggest you watch twin peaks if you havent,its a fantastic show that inspired shows like xfiles my other favorite show,and it has 1 to 1 inspiration to alan eake (as it was already mentioned).
I think the bathroom in the Oceanview Hotel is also very similar to the ones shown in The Shining. Especially the tub from that one scene in The Shining…
Please, make in-game dialog sound level lower next time when you talk, hard to separate sometimes, especially for non-native speakers. Thanks. Great job!
To be perfectly honest I do feel like the game is a little slow. Not to say I don’t like the game, because I do like it, I just think it is a bit too boring. (Thats one of the problems I had with Control) it just felt slow paced and awkwardly boring. Like one mission would be 30 minutes and the next would take 2 HOURS. Not to mention having to go into the mind scape and put the answers together just to progress. ( I have mixed feelings about that, I like it but also think it’s a bit too repetitive) I do like the game, it got me a few times with its creepy atmosphere and jump-scares, not to mention that one part of the game playing as Alan and the music starts.( you know the scene) it made me laugh. In summary I find the game a little boring but still fun to play, like playing with a Lego set and then putting it away and never touching it again. (A 7.6/10)
Not really easter eggs at all, by definition. Just a super nice explanation about how the stories tie together. misleading title :(, but still a very good video explanaing the story.
I dont even like horror games but i LOVED Alan wake 2
Fun fact. Sam lake introduced part of poets of the fall to eachother. Marko and ollie were writing a song for Max payne, so sam introduced them to markus to help produce the song. The rest is history...
That same alarm at Cauldron Lake actually first showed up in Control's AWE DLC, where Jesse was confused because somehow the alert was coming to them from the future. And they also mention an FBC agent stationed in the area that appears in the Alan Wake 2.
This is by far my favorite game ever. You can actually see how much thought and love the Alan Wake 2 team put in every single piece of detail in this game.
Alex Casey looks like Max Payne, is voiced by Max Payne and loves coffee like Max Payne because it was actually planned that Max Payne IS Alex Casey, a fictional character by Alan Wake (they started working on the game in around 2005). But in 2010 they found themselves not having the rights to use this name since the trademark was part of Rockstar back then and so they had to change the name.
Am i the only one who remembers that wierd show "TWIN PEEKS"😅
This feels hastily put together?
- Like Tim(e) Breaker is an AU version of Jack Joyce (and spends a while remembering his life, including Beth Wilder - who was played by Jesse Faden's actress, who shows up in the Oceanview Hotel) - Mr Door is the local version of Mr Hatch kn Quantum Break, except instead of an "everywhere in time" mysterious character he is "the one between" whatever that means.
- The Valhalla Nursing Home was first brought up in Control - you can hear Alan narrate writing it into being - and you find that same page, with Scratch's edits, as you explore it.
- The Twin Peaks connections are wider than just the location names. If the first game had The Lady of the Light as a counterpart to the Log Lady and Scratch as a more mental antithesis to Alan, here Scratch and Wake literally walk Agent Cooper's return from Twin Peaks The Return. Mr C. the evil doppelganger that Scratch even dresses like now, a corpse from the past showing up in the present (Nightingale vs General Briggs), a maybe dead maybe other placed love interest (Alice vs Audrey), a jillion people looking like one guy claiming to be unrelated people (Casey/Lake, Wake/Scratch/Zane/Seine) etc.
- Control had the Oceanview Motel and Casino. You show the Oceanview Hotel. But the game also has Oceanview Motel & Spa (even if showing it would be a spoiler, you could at least mention it).
Most people don't have the time or memory to really wrap everything that's going on together in their heads. I don't mean that in an insulting way, more that it takes a nearly autistic level of obsession to not mess it up, and I say that as an autist
@@colbyboucher6391 yes, they don't. But people putting together videos about easter eggs should, because that's what the whole thing is about?
Ya know ... All this horror and tragedy will AT LEAST cure Alan's writers block lol. The unofficial character arc for Alan through these 2 games and dlcs and hopefully a 3rd Alan Wake will be Alan escaping this hell, reuniting with Alice having learned to appreciate her more after losing her for 13 years, and using what he went thru to revive his real life writing career.
Also in 3:01 the singer also play the character Vladimir Lem in the first game which is honestly so cool how long they been collaborating together
I finished reading The Shining on Friday and finished Alan Wake 2 today. It was a beautiful coincidence that I was reading the former while playing the latter because the one fed into my enjoyment of the other. There are quite a few parallels, the main ones being Oceanview Hotel vs Overlook Hotel, as well as both protagonists being writers, and both getting possessed by a dark force.
Another more literary reference to King's work (or literary work in general one could say) is the inner dialogue of the characters. King is well known for his thoroughly flawed yet well-written characters, and we generally get a direct point of view from their internal dialogue or thoughts, which gives us deeper insight into who they are under the surface. Hearing Alan and Saga's inner dialogue and thoughts, and us gaining a better understanding of them as characters, is reminiscent of that added perspective.
Control has Even more Stephen King in it. Jesse has all the powers of the Torrances, and Carrie. Ahti talks to Jesse telepathically to test her abilities like Halloran does with Danny
very interesting that the ocean view motel in control has a unopenable door with a spiral on it…
Ahti has a key
You open it in the AWE expansion. Jessie experiences something like the janitor's room loading screens and has a vision of a conversation between Alan and Tom Zane the Filmmaker. Tom Zane looks even more like Alan, but it matches a conversation in AW2 exactly, and in that scene in AW2... Jessie Faden appears to be watching them on the TV and Scratch freaks out about it.
Jessie then says "Was that Thomas Zane? The poet? ...No, wait, he was a filmmaker." Actively having her memories re-written by Alan's writing.
@@colbyboucher6391interesting
I swear this "same lake" guy thinks he is the main character
😂
He is tho 😂
There was a trailer for American Nightmare featuring Mr. Scratch. He was confused by an accolade mentioning Ilkka Villi ("who the hell?") and announced that he hired a team of writers to provide us with more Mr. Scratch stuff. Showed footage of Sam at a typewriter as if he had been touched by the Dark Presence himself.
I think there's more to this joke than a joke.
If it wasn’t for Lake we wouldn’t have Max Payne, Alam Wake, Quantum Break, Control, or Alex Casey. He can act like the main character all he wants 😂
There’s a couple of notes at the station mentioning a secretary named Lucy and a. officer cooper, that’s an Easter egg you missed
The final scene in the final Alan wake game will be Alan at a book signing celebrating his collective works, and it will be revealed every second of every remedy game was the player assuming the roles of fictional characters from fictional books... nobody believes me, but I'm convinced none of any of it is Real.
Great video!
No one believes you because that would be a monumentally shitty ending. Also, for that to work, everything in AW2 (Dark Place or not), and the This House if Dreams blog, also actually all some other Alan writing about them. It'd mean that all of Alan's struggles aren't real, even.
Would have been cool for you to mention that Casper Darling is is the actor that does Alan Wakes voice.
no it wouldn’t
Thanks for the love Retrocade!! Hope you didn't think I was being too critical ;) It's just so cool how many of the little easter eggs tie into each other, the more connections the more fun I find it :)
And he was Will Scarlet O'Hara in Robin Hood Men in Tights
Actually discovered Poets of the fall way before i knew they had anything to do with these games. Even had one of their tracks at my wedding for the first dance. Was shocked when they popped up in the Alan Wake games only recently started playing them.
Easter eggs are just tributes to another universes rarely connected to the media they appear in. Things mentioned here are part of the plot and one universe.
If you have a keen eye you can spot an easter egg referencing the game Alan Wake from 2010.
Where. I have no memory of it. Did I forgot/miss something?
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Nice video
Thanks
Honestly this game especially the Alan sections brought back that hole Silent Hill has left in me. I’m now kinda worried about the remake. It’s gonna feel so underwhelming now after playing AW2
I’m hoping Silent Hill Townfall and Silent Hill F bring the franchise back if the SH2 remake doesn’t. Didn’t have much faith in Ascension to begin with.
@@Arthus850 I'm sure the game will be okay maybe a 7/10, but yea it's realistically not competing against this game or the RE remakes
I wouldn’t say these are Easter eggs, remedy games are in one universe
I love how Sam Lake himself is an easter egg! I definitely think Tim Breaker & Mr. Door are just alternate universe versions of their Quantum Break characters. 👍- Chris
One of the more obscure Easter Eggs I found in ALAN WAKE 2 came during the first chapter of RETURN, when Alan is crawling around in the tunnels uncovering/writing the first murder. Scrawled on a random wall is graffiti saying AWE. As in Altered World Event from CONTROL.
I actually never noticed that Tim Breaker is the same person as Wesley from The Rookie and I love both this game and the show XDD
Another easter egg is when the Old Gods of Asgard is playing on the roof of the car. That is a Stranger Things reference for sure, with the way the lights are coming too. :D When Eddie and Dustin were trying to distract Vecna's minions in the Upside down.
something that is worth mentioning about night springs is that the program was in reallity made by the FBC until the presentator was killed by an object of power or AWE (Cant remember what was exactly) that was send by the bless group, also chestter bless who appears to be his leader made contact with alans friend barry after he was opresed by the FBC (whe can read this in the apartment in the dark place) so they are involved in a lot of other cases and are probably going to be the antagonist in a future remedy game
The actor who played Dr. Darling is also the voice actor of Alan Wake.
Great video
What I think is pretty cool is that everytime you visit the Sagas thought room the deer head in the background casts a shadow looking like Saga wears antlers, too, which makes sense knowing the whole story.
These are not Easter eggs, these are references. Maybe you should look up what an Easter egg is.
I don't know if these are really "easter eggs", so much as they are homages and references. An easter egg would be the pink flamingo in the window of Logan's bedroom at the trailer park.
Forgot one thing Dr.Casper Darling is the voice actor for Alan Wake.
There is a easter egg about it in Oceanview hotel showing the dialogue between Tom Zane and dr.Darling. Darling tells Tom that he looks familiar, and Tom responds that Darling sounds familiar.
I'm sorry dude, but easter eggs are secrets, which not really obvious. Serious sam and quake had easter eggs. All your list - just bunch of refferences and obvious plot charactersr in one universe.
At this time, you have 665 subs…
“Neighbor of the Beast” 🤘🏻
These aren’t easter eggs. They are main plot points.
Does the Control stuff count as easter eggs if the FBC is such a big part of the game's story
Sorry bro but I think you need to change the name of the videos this isn't Easter eggs, just "curiosity" things
If you like alan wake i STRONGLY suggest you watch twin peaks if you havent,its a fantastic show that inspired shows like xfiles my other favorite show,and it has 1 to 1 inspiration to alan eake (as it was already mentioned).
RIP James Mcafree
I think the bathroom in the Oceanview Hotel is also very similar to the ones shown in The Shining. Especially the tub from that one scene in The Shining…
Definitely
None of these are easter eggs
I loved Controlbleed
Please, make in-game dialog sound level lower next time when you talk, hard to separate sometimes, especially for non-native speakers. Thanks. Great job!
Thanks for the tip!
Also quantum break get a Easter eggs
A lot of these are integral to the story, not Easter Eggs
To be perfectly honest I do feel like the game is a little slow. Not to say I don’t like the game, because I do like it, I just think it is a bit too boring. (Thats one of the problems I had with Control) it just felt slow paced and awkwardly boring. Like one mission would be 30 minutes and the next would take 2 HOURS. Not to mention having to go into the mind scape and put the answers together just to progress. ( I have mixed feelings about that, I like it but also think it’s a bit too repetitive) I do like the game, it got me a few times with its creepy atmosphere and jump-scares, not to mention that one part of the game playing as Alan and the music starts.( you know the scene) it made me laugh. In summary I find the game a little boring but still fun to play, like playing with a Lego set and then putting it away and never touching it again. (A 7.6/10)
Tim(e) Breaker :O
how has it sold?
They said it succeeded, but haven't released any numbers
@@RetroCade77 well that's good I really hoped it would do well
Hiw did you not mention that in control there are files about the thermos 😂😂
Not really easter eggs at all, by definition. Just a super nice explanation about how the stories tie together. misleading title :(, but still a very good video explanaing the story.