Alan Wake 2: A Generation-Defining Game For PCs and Consoles
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So glad they never gave up on Wake. This is Remedy's masterpiece and an obvious contender for game of the year.
@@AnywhereMiamilove them both and this is clearly a step above
What a year for gaming!!!
IK right, I recently made a video about it and peoeple are comment its 5 out 10. Bad game . I have no idea why!
I always consider Max Payne the best game they did and it also introdued bullet time effects and a comic style presentation that is largely unmatches to this day.
Death Rally deserves some love also 🤔
@@logirex Can't wait for the remake. You know Remedy will nail it.
The game sucks. Graphics don't make a game good
Great game so far. It's PC heavy, but can be toned down to run quite well on weaker hardware. Loving it so far, about 4-5hrs in. Remedy is generally a must buy for me.
Name checks out.
@@AnywhereMiami Ya gotta give up the 1060 at some point. Things move forward. You can't expect a 300$ purchase from 6-7 yrs ago to play the latest and greatest. 3rd Gen of RTX now. 🤷🏼
Remedy don't miss. One of the best and most overlooked developers in the industry with an incredible legacy - an even more impressive feat considering how few games they've actually made.
@@AnywhereMiami Welcome to PC? Heck welcome to tech in general? So many want to hold on to their lower to mid range range hardware from 6 to 7yrs ago... If it was on the lower end then, you really think its going to be fine now? Gotta upgrade from a ps4 to a ps5 to even play these games at all now so you can expect the same thing on PC. I mean it literally happens all the time... I had gtx 280 and had to upgrade it at some point.
@@AnywhereMiami what's your point? GPUs older than the current set of consoles probably won't be able to run games designed with the current set of consoles as a baseline, and those consoles are now 3 years old.
You can get a console, or a new GPU, the crypto boom is over. For the price of a Series S you can get an RX 6600 that'll get you near-on PS5-quality settings, for a bit more than a Series X you can get a 7800XT. People have even gotten it to run at a playable 30FPS on a Steam Deck & you can pick up one of those for the price of a console as well.
You don't need to upgrade now of course, not every game is going to be pushing technical limits like this, but as time goes on, technology improves, if you want to play games that make use of it, you'll need to upgrade your hardware. A GPU that's on par with the current set of game consoles is 'not' a high bar, considering the 1060 is about 2x the performance of a PS4
Thank god for studios like Remedy continuing to push games forward as an ART FORM, both creatively and technologically. It's not just about fancy graphics and technical terms, it's about using the tech as a tool to tell a story and create an experience for the player.
Yes and also it's nice to see games made for actual adults. 90% of the stuff coming out feels like they're made for children.
I think you nailed it! This is a masterpiece of Art.
Alan wake looks incredible on XSX in quality mode. Only wish the shimmering and shadows were cleaned up just a little bit but other than that…. No complaints so far
First time I feel I am on different planet when it comes to opinion on game visuals compared to what DF is saying. For me game on ps5 looks bad because of horrible shimmering, really bad looking shadows in many places and some bad pop up.. like this is a looker but only in very few places honestly, rest is very distractingly shimmering and blured..
Play the game on a RTX 4090 like they have 😄
Im playing it on pc at max settings with RT but ni path tracing and yeah lighting can look good but i dont think i find this game that beautiful i think there are way better looking games because animation wise, character models, ambience and other things this game fall flat
@@allansolano5587i know you are bullshiting just because what you said. I have “only” 4080 and idk wtf are you talking about pal
Just wait for Alex to tell you why this looks good. Just like Cyberpunk RT.
It's full of low quality / res textures too blurry and water graphics and physix are garbage . Idk how DF tricking us to believe it's a tech master piece lol
and the errible animations
Loving the game on PC, it looks incredible. I even dropped down my settings to match consoles (at 1440p) and the game still looked good.
I did the same thing, but bumped the low settings consoles use to medium. 20 hours in and only one bug.
Why, when discussing the technical side of the game, you only talk about graphics and lighting?
Where are the conversations about the absolutely terrible animations of the movement of all characters (opening doors, moving on multi-level surfaces), out of sync sound and lip movements, doll faces (especially in comparison with the games Naughty Dog and Detroit: Become Human), clumsy physics and the absence of a noticeable ragdoll that used to be was the hallmark of Remedy, a completely non-interactive world in which screens, mirrors and bottles do not break, city residents standing in one place and not changing their position even after we return there a few days later.
Were you paid just for praise?
Exactly I'm thinking the same
It's full of low quality / res textures too blurry and water graphics and physix are garbage . Idk how DF tricking us to believe it's a tech master piece lol
I have a very similar comment !!! So true !! I'm so confused why they doing this .. this is when people can make an argument about being shills etc cause they were hard on other games but biggin this game up
thanks finally someone who criticizes the flaws of this game, it was driving me crazy everyone talking about the perfect game
I thought i was the only one noticing that despite the glowing reviews from various techtubers, ghosting the most annoying to me graphic wise, not to mention the gameplay which felt a bit like a chore to play for me, over the top detective like story based, and the lack of reactions from characters, i get that it's basically the story Alan's wrote but it kinda reduce the immersion, it does look pretty but console defining game? really?
A "generation defining game for consoles" featuring:
- Atrocious image quality (i havent seen any game with aliasing issues in AGES yet here we are)
- laughable pixelated shadows
- a good amount of pop in
- zero foliage interactivity (i remember DF criticizing Horizon 1 on PS4 for this, but here, now, no biggie)
- questionable performance
- Junky mediocre animation
- some of the poorest SSR in the business...
Meanwhile Spiderman 2, features extensive ray tracing features for every mode out there, it is an open world game that streams its entire world and all of its assets at blistering speeds, has impeccable image quality, full freedom traversing the 3d space, exceptional textures, almost zero pop in, interactive foliage, unprecedented animation and great lighting.
PS: Dont come with crap PC elitist comments here. We all know AW2 on PC features great raytracing features and such. My comment aims directly at including consoles in "generation defining game" title tag that DF claims. For PC maybe it is. For consoles it is laughable to claim this thing is a generation defining game with the crazy graphics issues it has. I have never played a game with aliasing on PS5 and never one with such horrible IQ and shadows... those are BASIC gfx things...
I'm on pc with 4080 and I can tell you are right..very medicore graphics
Even on pc it's shitty textures , too blurry and they tried to cover it up with volumetric fog . Water physix and animations are garbage . It's just another nvidia rt and pt showcase just for lighting , not the textures and graphics
Would love an alan wake film or show. Preferably directed by david lynch.
It works best as a game
I've noticed a trend of shit talking about this game comes from everyone assuming the entire game is like the first few hours up to the point where you play as Alan. Then you have all the other dipshits who haven't played it speaking for that.
Gsme looks good but on consoles has major anti aliasing issues which completely break the image quality. It looks good but best graphics ever? No. Cyberpunk still has that title by far at least in the pc space. Its also not just about graphics but art direction and cyberpunk has this beat by a mile in that aspect as well...
True cyberpunk path tracing with 4k textures mod kills alan wake .
Alan wake on consoles is way better than cyberpunk on consoles. The lod distance, draw distance, main character shadows, bugs(even after 2.0) suck ass on cyberpunk
@@arijeetroy2772i find cyberpunk to be a better looking game to my eyes on ps5 than this game it does have some good spots but the animation, the models, the facial expresions they are really meh in alan wake 2 like shadows are the worst part of alan wake 2
The light and shadow design are miles better on AW2
@@arijeetroy2772 Cyberpunk is an open world game, though, whithout loading screens. Alan wake is a linear game with loading screens. As far as technical achievments go, Cyberpunk is by far still a king, especially taking in account that it came out 3 years ago.
8:27 i was not ready for that huge coffee cup
😂 neither was I
and he didn't lift it up that high to take a sip so there's definitely a shit ton of coffee in there
I couldn’t stop laughing when I saw it
😆
It's funny, Alan Wake's Angel lamp looks a bit like a Games awards trophy. But maybe it's my imagination.🙂
I have just took down Cynthia that old hag😂. Let me tell you that underwater basement with Path tracing is somehow more claustrophobic. Great game..
It's almost 2024 and we barely have games that use the next gen features of the Series S|X.
Most games are just using the raw speed of the SSD, upscaling and a little ray tracing. A few games are starting to use UE5 features. We're lucky if any game uses VRS much less SFS or Mesh Shaders.
Based on how things are going, the next gen consoles will be revealed when games finally start using current gen features.
....what next gen features of the x/s are you speaking of?
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Mesh Shaders: I can already see the ammo console war grunts are making now
Yes , generation definig yet it can't even render a wet road less blurry than 2012 games.
Same with faces. Anything than more than an arms length and it the faces are all blurred out.
PC players: I hate how consoles hold back gaming. Pc MaStErRaCe
Also PC players: Why can't my 7 year old GPU run this game at 4k 60fps. Trash 😢
I really like how the Series S version came to be. Truly great
If the game looks good on medium settings then great, because when you replay it in three years with a new GPU you'll put everything to maximum and it'll be even better than you remember.
Not sure why this game is getting so much praise. I have a 4090, 64gb of ram, 13900k and this game is so buggy I don't want to move forward until it's fixed.
This is the buggiest game I may have ever played. It feels like the media outlets are almost lying about this game. It's very weird.
imagine overhyping a game just because it looks good bro this game is generic asf
And doesnt look that good in the overall game only some scenes most of the game is just flat same as games like lords of the fallen or immortals of aevum those games had places that looked amazing but most parts looked flat and generic
@@allansolano5587you talk like someone that haven’t players the game. But to say this game looks flat sounds like a troll or just someone that only saw few gameplay trailers and made up his mind.
@@kukuricapicaAll trolls never played the games they hate... Everyone know.
I mean... This is digital foundry
my gtx 1660ti handled it beautifully, no complaints, ofc it was not top notch image quality or performance but given the age and specs of this card, i was amazed how much the game managed to squeeze out of it
i love Alan Wake, but am i the only one who thinks The Last of Us 2 on PS4 is 10x more impressive? Don't forget fluid animations too.
Yes, played both and only Stevie wonder or bocelli could say they stay in the same league graphically .
Best looking game on pc yes, but I wouldn’t say it’s the best looking game on consoles.
Yes, the lighting is good, but the shimmering, aliasing, low quality shadows, pop ins..etc takes it down a few notches. For consoles, at least on Sony’s machine, I say Forbidden West looks better for PS5, not to mentioned it runs better as well.
Rdr 2 takes that my a mile imo
No it is NOT the best looking game on PC. Jesus Christ, wtf are you people talking about? Stop lying to yourself.
No no no Alan Wake 2 is the best on Xbox and you can’t take it 😂
I haven't finished the first one yet, it's too scary!
I've been playing on performance mode on ps5. The wooded area's look great, but inside of buildings or in the town there's a lot of shimmering on glasses, or other objects that dont have great anti-aliasing. There's also level of detail issue where the pop in is constant at close range. Comparing this to Horizon Forbidden West, AW2 easily falls below what HFW did visual wise.
Story wise it's been amazing though.
Definitely the shimmer brought me back to the PS3 days haha still quite a looked though and that story is insane
The problem with shimmering is they use FSR 2 and is a terrible use of it also the game uses low post processing on consoles so aliasing in some thins is very noticeable the popping just comes with the territory even at max settings on my pc i see some wierd popping the game is great but technologies aside like mesh shaders and path tracing i dont see the praise in fidelity of the game even at max settings i feel like ive seen way better looking games that run way better than this
@@allansolano5587i doubt that you are telling truth then. I play everything maxed out, with Vsync on and use DLLS RR + Native DLAA. I haven’t seen anything close to CGI fidelity like this. The sheer density or RT shadows in the forest the almost unbelieveble horror NYC. Do yourself a favour and turn off the flashlight sometime, really see what PT GI looks like. I have thrown the flashbang destroing all the chairs in rituál and then proceded by burning my flair then unloadint my shotgun on the taken…my gf standing behind me just asked me if she could join me. Maybe play for a little bit and get to the devil and then tell me that this looks like other games
It's full of low quality / res textures too blurry and water graphics and physix are garbage . Idk how DF tricking us to believe it's a tech master piece lol
@@paranikumarlpk yeah dont know what they are smoking with this one. AW2 on consoles looks absolutely mediocre.
People that hate on DLSS seem to always be in 2 camps. They've never used it before, or they're die hard AMD fan boys. They don't realize how foolish they sound.
19:40 I can confirm that everything in that game is handled in the same world and most of it are loaded in half detail and some were only floors. I was playing as Saga in the late game almost near the end (SPOILERS FROM HERE ON: in the dark place, going up from the caldera station to the water fountain) and encountered a bug where the world were not properly loaded and i fell through the unloaded floor immediately. You can immediatle see all the levels and everypart of Alan version of the dark place below the map. The game does not reset to last check point due to how the devs set up the game so players can't fall of a ledge thus they don't need the falling and die logic.
I landed on one of the Oceanview Hotel level in coridors off near the ballroom. and it's exactly the last state as SThe shadows are there at the ballroom, but none encountered anywhere else and they don't say "Wake " or "alan wake". Suprinsingly, loop level mechanics or the non-Euclidian part of the world doesn't work properly, or maybe the game logics weren't loaded because it's Saga version of the dark place. If tried to leave the level through the doors, the screen flashes briefly like the game tries to teleport Saga, but the doors won't open. Saga also plays "locked door" animation but doesn't say anything about locked doors.
Maybe you can replicate this while saving the game a little before caldera station right after Saga picks up the clicker and shining bullet, and move the game from SSD to slow HDD. Then reload the game and proceed.
edit: added some details about the map
Edit 2; How ever i didn't see the Mind place anywhere under the map.
So rather than saying medium....lets call it as it is ....gorgeous, ultra gorgeous/phenomenal and best (and then 11 because 11 is one higher than 10)
I was pleasantly surprised while playing it, that Quantum Break absolutely ties into these ganes as well... Sbeaky sneaky Remedy...
I think Caĺlisto protocol was very gpod looking game also
Alan Wake 2 > Spider-Man 2
Alan Wake 2 is definitely winning game of the year. Baldurs Gate is good but its just a game, AW 2 is an art piece
Accepting FSR and DLSS, I can already hear the rustling jimmies of a certain popular tech channel 😆
"I wish that coffee cup had realistic reflections"
Said no gamer ever. Meanwhile, we still have utterly braindead AI, static environments and lack of interactivity with NPCs in almost every single game. At least Nvidia is getting a fuckton of money out of all the sheep.
People don't really want smart AI, because they would need to be smart themselves in order to handle it.
I'm thankful that my mid-range rx 6600 got mesh shaders otherwise I would be unable to play Alan Wake II on low settings
😅 . Thank you so much Remedy for making our dream come true and hopefully Control would be released in the next two years.
meh...great graphics but copy paste Re2 meh gameplay, loved the first one much more.
I'm enjoying the game. But, this is some overhyped nonsense from DF. 😑
I think people are more worried than angry when they see DLSS or FSR being used in a new game. Mainly because this feature is advertised as a boost to performance meaning that your GPU could last longer but when you spend 500 dollars on your new graphics card I don't think people would be especially happy given that they will start to think their investment is losing value really fast. Yeah the game looks gorgeous but damn some games aim for the moon when it comes to graphics. Hey don't get me wrong I think upscaling is great for consumers but honestly is Nvidia's Job explaining to people why DLSS is better than native resolution but as I see it they didn't.
ok, nice looking game. but I played 4 hours now and it is so slow. cutscenes after cutscenes. you just walk and then cutscene. if this is the future of games, I'm out.
Must not be a Sony fan
Generation defining? How there is nothing new or innovative here. This game is just The Evil Within a little Silent hill mixed in. Don't get me wrong it's an enjoyable game but so we're the previous horror games before it. It's just The Evil within with better graphics and I'll give it does have a unique story but that's about it.
After 20 hours into the game, yes, the best graphics in gaming history.
on PC or console ? I couldnt imagine I could see graphics like that in just 2023 compared to 2020 The Last of Us P2 or RDR2, that's a big gap in just 3 years
@@oceanedetotes on a 4090, dunno how it look on consoles but most said it is only a small downgrade.
Knew the game would look amazing. Was a bit worried with those system specs seeing as I have a lil 3060ti and a 3440x1440 21:9 monitor, but even at low/medium with DLSS balanced it looks incredible. I am usually wary of anything below DLSS quality, but I suppose the polygon count and resolution of all textures is high enough that I barely even notice an image quality difference dropping down to DLSS performance.
Absolutely loving the game. I'm a lover of the weird and esoteric, and once again, remedy did not disappoint.
I just finished the game this morning with my gf, we played it on 1080p, everything on low settings so we got a 60fps through it all and my god, what an amazing game.
Cant wait to play it again with better specs, although it was already an amazing experience
Like I said in the other DF video, The weird shimmering effects on consoles looks terrible. I would rather they focused on other aspects if this was the only outcome. At least tone it down. I understand for future console releases things will be different but that’s years away.
My PC is capable of doing low settings at 30 fps, but I'm gonna get Alan Wake 2 for PS5 to have 60 fps. Remedy's done excellently, based on what I've seen online so far.
I am getting around 73 FPS in Alan Wake 2 with my 7800XT at 1440p native.High settings.
My 3080ti struggles with ray tracing on. The smoothness without it is so nice anyways. Still wish I could do it while keeping it smooth.
what i realy loved too was not only the graphics and the scaremoments but the suprising music tracks you hear after a chapter.. So great music.. thats something what is overlooked in this game.
Death Stranding and Alan Wake 2 are decade defining for me. Everything else pales in comparison.
If the future goes ray tracing in particular path tracing AMD cards will be done. This is why it wont happen. The best amd cards are so far behind the nvidia cards on heavy rt and path tracing its not even funny. Plus nvidia will get better at this tech meanwhile amd arent even releasing a high end card next gen 🤦. Amd need to get better at rt.
Just finished the game, wonderful experience, looks great on PS5 in performance mode too! (in practise I couldn't notice differences between performance and quality, aside from the framerate going from good to bad)
The game isnt that impressive to me, am I missing something? The visuals ain't as impressive as what everyone is saying, atleast not to me. They're not trash but not as impressive as most seem to think.
Im the same, I just dont get it. Cyberpunk path traced is looking better to me and is open world on top of that.
@@melonytoni9016 cyberpunk's path tracing is dope but the graphics themselves look dated to me but in high res. Cyberpunk 2077 has always looked 2 gens old to me.
It's full of low quality / res textures too blurry and water graphics and physix are garbage . Idk how DF tricking us to believe it's a tech master piece lol . And yea graphics are out dated in cyberpunk. It's just a show case for ray tracing and path tracing
It feels like there's some kind of like PR campaign going on for it. The video parts honestly look more like Are You Afraid of the Dark than David Lynch. I like some of the creative ideas, but the pacing is even slower than a PS1 game and the technical issues are FAR worse than Cyberpunk at launch. I had a gamebreaking bug 13 hours in.
@@paranikumarlpkcyberpunk 2 gen old 😂... (that means ps3). You haters are hilarious.
FSR 2.0 isnt that great here but overall Fantasie game on PS5/SX/PC
im not well of but i save for new hardware tend to upgrade every gen console or pc i dont care about old cards and console if you love gaming you will find the cash upgrade your hardware people and anyone thats got a problem with that i dont care lmfao
Premium underwear makes me explode. Great ad.
An rtx garbage bag is still a garbage back. It just shines slightly better than other garbage bags.
People changed their tune REALLY QUICK after launch….
The people and their quick changing, DAMN YOU!!!
fun to hear Alex speaking German 😂
So their hyping a game that their audience "statistics" seems interested in but there is some issues that aren't getting addressed. So basically DF is telling their audience what they think they wanna hear? This game runs like dogshite for the visuals we are getting. DF really thinks this is the best looking game of the year? Really? Its not even a good game. And this Mesh Shader BS. We know they are using primitive shaders on PS5 to run Alan Wake 2 successfully so every PC owner with Radeon cards is getting shafted by this. Think about that. They run primitive shaders getting parity with Mesh shaders on PS5 but refuse to extend that to PC owners that have Radeon cards that do not support Mesh Shaders. Not to mention ALL Radeon cards since VEGA support primitive shaders. We aren't talking about "OLD" cards either. People that bought their 5000 series cards in 2020 alongside RTX 2000 cards should not be excluded when the above primitive shaders option is available AND being used by the DEV on this release.
I think people just get a little annoyed when they spend a lot of money on a card that’s sold as a 1440p card or 4k card and then you have to rely on upscaling to get what you thought would be done natively. I’m not anti dlss at all but I want it to be a bonus, not a requirement. Or at the very least it should be something I have to rely on after the card is several years old. In the end DLSS and FSR still aren’t perfect technologies and native is usually still the best option if possible.
The hype on this game is puzzle. The graphics are ok but the story and gameplay are just mediocre.
Everyone mad in the comments 😂
DF should of said the game sucks and remedy should close. Maybe they’d get the ole “hey it’s not bad” just go play your 3 games you stroke off and let us enjoy a variety of games and have an adult conversation. DF how dare you praise a game and hard work. You should make a hot take and crap on the industry like 9 out of 10 or more RUclipsrs. You’ll get way more views
Redditors freaking out about literally nothing? That's never happened...
Guess. I need to shift to Remedy vs Konami, Capcom, NRS. Tired of PC being an afterthought. Just need to wait for it to come to Steam
Cyberpunk 2077 with path tracing easly kills alan wake in graphics..df overhyping this big time
Having 65 hours in Cyberpunk Path tracing, I totally disagree.
lol nope
Path tracing in Cyberpunk RT is as good as in AW2, but the geometric density and RT shadows are much higher in AW2. Cyberpunk is open world game mind you so there has to be some cutbacks. Also transparency and reflextions are much higher quality in AW2. I’m not sure but it seemed to me that every object in AW2 have some sort of reflective quality unlike Cyberpunk RT. I’m waiting for Alex’s review that will explain why is AW2 best looking game right now. Oh I’ve almost forgot but AW2 features Nvidia physX and destructible environment.
It's full of low quality / res textures too blurry and water graphics and physix are garbage . Idk how DF tricking us to believe it's a tech master piece lol
@@paranikumarlpk yes even the textures and geometry not looking so great at all
“Path Tracing- Feel the Photons.” Should be Nvidia’s new slogan.
Shame the IQ and performance is garbage on PS5, hardly gen defining there or maybe it is considering how poorly most games this gen have looked and performed.
Intel UHD 630 gang 😅
I wonder if they updated cyberpunk 2077 with mesh shaders whether we'd see improvement and how much?
Alan Wake 1 was a masterpiece for it's time not repetitive at all I dont know what this guy says . Also in my opinion Alan wake 1 is much better game overall from 2
Maybe I didn’t hear this, right… Are you saying there is path tracing on the console versions?
God, this game makes me SO hyped for Control 2. Remedy has a perfect recipe for greatness here
Control 2? Is that happening?
@@buckiesmalls No not yet, but I meant more like when it does happen. If it happens
@@buckiesmalls yes, but still early development. 3 years away at least
Just because DF focuses mostly on visuals and game technology, doesn't mean you can spoil the fact that Max Payne is in the game, I know people might've guessed that was gonna be the case because is a remedy game but still....if you're gonna discuss story have a spoiler warning both on the title, description and before touching the subject....👎👎👎
He’s been in all the marketing materials, he shows up at minute 5. Relax.
You been in a cave?
Max Payne is not in the game
love it on my 3080ti looks sick and the game itself is awesome horror game
Question for the people who have playes both burning shores and alan wake 2? Is it truly leaps and bounds beyond burning shores like they are making it out to be - texhnically
What a boring game, boring combat and crap gameplay. This game wants to be a movie and doesnt want to be a videogame. A waste of time and money…
Tissue? Would be like me running under a doom game and crying about it for what doom is
Might be why they used real live action. Skip through the cut scenes and just wanna shooty shoot adhd monster sugar rush. This isn’t CoD
Cringe
Disagree completely
my trusty old 1060 is still going strong in the majority of games that I play. Though it has started showing its age a little around the time NFS Heat got released and now Street Fighter 6 and stuff say minimal 1070 and its gonna get "worse", I am not mad however as this is how it should be. As a matter of fact I dont expect any of my GPUs to last as long as this one did. 40 series super might just come at the right time for me to finally upgrade and kiss my happy lil fella good night, it served me more than well in all these years
No photo mode??? Why Remedy, why??? No GOTY for you
Playing it on the ROG Ally and it runs really well at 900p resolution with FSR balanced.
I just finished Spider-man 2, and right off the heels of that game, Alan Wake 2 just looks like a hot mess full of distracting screen-space ambient occlusion and FSR artifacts by comparison. I wish that all PS5 games could be held to Insomniac standards going forward but I know that's not gonna happen
Let's be honest - it's really one team's zealots who are the more vocal abut being against upscaling tech, and their team just happens to be the worst out of all 3 GPU companies at current upscaling tech, total coincidence though I assure you
Upscaling tech is great, I think, but my concern is that it's going to end up enabling devs to be lazy with their game optimization and depend on upscaling to take it's place.
In othet words, we will lose any advantage upscaling gives, and we will have inferior graphics as a result.
That changes nothing. Also, why people on amd gpus should accept the fact that they are playing inferior version of the game?
@@nanenab8744 I agree, AMD users should direct their ire towards AMD toward making FSR IQ better, this way FSR isn't the inferior experience and version - upscaling tech obviously isn't going away so pretending like it is is an exercise in futility
@@EdR640 they can do both.
Alex got a new hairstyle and his voice changed. When did cuzz's voice get this deep?
See previous video
I assume Alex has a cold? His voice is completely different 😂
See previous video
Great game!!! Last Of Us + Resident Evil + Blair Witch = Alan Wake II
Guys hey, anyone get this granular/this static like textures on their AW2 on PC? I got 7900xt, native res 1440p and this texture thing happens where shine lights on leather, wood props. Not on road textures or other places but especially in the resort/hotel in main area, I got this terrible texture and I can't get rid of it?
Turn off film grain
@@nou4605 already tried, no joy
This isnt a " clip" Df i enjoy it though 😂
Game is a total boredom.
Not everything is call of duty and Fortnite with senseless shooting. Grow up and play adult games for once.
"Adult" games, what a twat, let people like whatever they want. This fake sense of superiority from playing "mature" games is laughable, see how successful is Nintendo on all ages. Games are for having fun.
@@polonoiseLook at this twat dictating what an entire artform is for. Games are for whatever the creator intents. This game is for a specific audience, not fitting that audience, this chump declared it "total boredom".
The guy you're calling a "twat" just matched their tone.
I really don't understand all the "masterpiece" comments. This game looks so incredibly bland and unnoteworthy in every aspect - from the gameplay to the graphics. Not bad. Not good. It just exists.
It’s gorgeous and ambitious. Very creative. Audio is top tier too. Just viewing some gameplay compressed through your phone would any game be special or a masterpiece? This is why we can’t have nice things 😂
How can DF hype such a buggy mess of a walking simulator?
They hyped spiderman 2 that was full of bugs.....
I smell a big check.
Alan Wake 2 has the worst Trophy List I ever seen. Who's the one in charge of making it? 0 Gold Trophies, 1 Silver Trophy, and 65 Bronze Trophies. Someone should be fired.
As a trophy hunter who enjoys completing games 100% before I move on to the next game, I'm playing this game on my backup account because I don't want this shameful trophy list on my main account 🤣🤣
Playing this on my PS5 dont see anything amazing about the graphics. nothing at all, Looks good but i can even dare to say this looks like a game possible on ps4 just running at a higher resolution on ps5. Dont play this game with headphones if you want to sleep in the night.
😅 Basically, nothing is impressive, even If game is totally photorealistic then somebody will say: Oh it looks normal, nothing special" 😅 This game is miles away than 90% PS4 games...Im so curious what is impressive game for You graphicly 😅😅😅 Is this even possible to impress You?. Anyway.. just joking a little, Greetings from Poland!😅
just comparing to last of us part 2 is not really impressive. i will tell you i was blown away by horizon ps5 and rachet and clank. just a few example that i felt a true generation graphic looked like. @@NextgenPL
@@eduardmc What I'm starting to not like about this generation is after getting so used to clean looking games that were cross gen, devs are now pushing the PS5 harder, resulting in dropping resolution and image stability. I played the Last of us part 2 on PS5 and it's like God this game looks and plays amazing on PS5. Same with Horizon Forbidden West and a bunch of other PS5 exclusives.
But then even in Spider-man 2 the hair can sometimes look amazing with only one person on screen but with multiple the hair became shimmery and pixelated. With Alan Wake 2 on performance mode the shimmering is there on glasses objects or other with bad anti-aliasing. Plus the pop in is pretty noticeable at some parts at close range.
I guess that's where a PS5 Pro might come into play though.
@@eduardmc When comparing to the last of us 2, then Yes, Alan doesn't seems like big leap, but TLOU 2 was looking above PS4 generation, too good for those times:) ps Ratchet and Horozon are indded more impressive than Alan overall...
This game can't run in full quality on a ps5 and you say that's a ps4 game... 😂 🤣 😅
I like the comentary. Thanks for the video! For people that like this genre, they will love this game. Would be interresting to see how many units this game sells. While not up there (yet at least) with the likes R2R2, BG3, Bioshock, Eldenring, Civ 5 and Witcher III on Meta... it is generally well recieved. I look forward to playing it. Wonder if I should be finishing CONTROL first? They related?
Control and Alan Wake are tied together. I'm not spoiling anything from there as Control is something you should absolutely play.
This game kinda sucks. First remedy game I didn’t love. Yeah there’s some cool visual things going on but control and quantum break did it better. Also you don’t even get to play as Alan wake for half the game 😂
Completely unpolished game. Rushed the release in order to cash in on Halloween. Encountered so many bugs on PS5 that required me to reload the game and destroyed the immersion. PS5 performance mode is bad and doesn't hold a stable 60 fps. Combat is boring. Microstutters when environments are loaded or player is teleported, e.g. in the Oceanview Hotel entry when he get's "turned around" in order to always run out of the hotel or later in the sewers when Saga runs in circles. Microstutters always occur when the model is reset... Also there are some bad lighting in the game as well. When revisiting the police station the whole basement is bright blue even though there are no light sources and when turning the flashlight on the rooms become darker. And the flashlight in general is bs. The light intensity of the flashlight is way too bright when things are up close. Whatever ... Story is cool even though you can smell the plot twist miles away
How is this a masterpiece its literally a walking simulator with extra brave black pixels
This game is awesome. Specially for twin peaks fans😊 My personal GOTY!
Fantastic game
The photons, the hyperlative of digital sony and the same superlatives ban from microsoft games. They are mediocre at best