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Alan Wake Goes Episodic Gaming with Season One
Alan Wake Goes Episodic Gaming with Season One
There were no information about Alan Wake, the new game of Finnish Max Payne developer Remedy Entertainement, for a very long time. Lead writer Sam Lake made an important announcement for everyone who's still interested in the ambitious horror thriller. Alan Wake will be an episodic game (surprise, surprise). No, not in the Sam N' Max or Half Life 2 sense with short downloadable episodes. It's much more comparable to Eden Games' Alone in the Dark: the story is split up into episodes each with cliffhangers at the end. Thus, the retail game Alan Wake is to become season one of the "Wake series" with plenty of episodes to play.
Sam Lake also said Alan Wake wouldn't be all alone during his scary journey, there'd be sidekicks. Alan Wake was announced at E3 2005, but in the last time (or even years) Remedy grew very silent about the title. A new cinematic trailer is to be expected soon.
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At least there are new information about the game ... Well, in my opinion we always knew the game could become very cinematic (perhaps too cinematic) so the episode plans of the developer are not a big shock for me.
I think it's a good move. Episodic gaming is the way to go for cinematic-oriented games. Not many people would like to play a Shenmue nowadays that didn't support the format of episodic gaming and the ability to skip certain parts of it if you are stuck somewhere. Eden Games did that right (and many other things wrong) with their Alone in the Dark. Remedy is heading into the right direction with this gaming approach: gamers invest less and less time into finishing games.
Thank you Jörg and Leonard!!!
Interesting! +10 EXP for making Top-News, +10 EXP for making First News with your contribution.
But it isn't as good, if it's released like Half Life Episodes.
No, no! They won't release the game in short episodes of five hours. There will be one game (that maybe takes 20 hours to play, we cannot know) which is not divided into acts like a rpg, the parts are more like episodes of a tv series like 24. But the game Alan Wake you'll buy for around 40€ will tell the story of a whole season. Like you'd buy 24 Season 1 (don't know if even that ended with a cliffhanger;-))
No, the end was an end in 24.1
I think this should work fine, I am looking forward to actually seeing the game sometimes. Before I am old, that is. Oh, this would mean up to 20 more years of waiting, s##t.
So will they still keep freedom of movement "Questionmark"
Good question. It is yet unknown if you are able to choose the order of the episodes.
It's good to hear from Alan again, but I have to see if I'm still interested in the format when the game comes out.
What I don't understand is, why games nowadays try to copy the format of TV-Shows, games are much more succesful in terms of revenue. What games should copy from the silver screen is the ability to convey emotions and captivate the audience. Nobody watches TV-shows just because they are 'episodic'.
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