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1. CrunkLord420 (crunklord420@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 05:02:44 JST CrunkLord420
   Beat Alan Wake 2. It was okay. The integration of real actors and high def videos getting streamed into the 3D environment was a cool aesthetic. It's more of a demonstration of graphical fidelity and experimental aesthetics rather than gameplay or story.
   
   The game unfortunately failed the woke test when it casted a black female protagonist while obliviously talking about how she's "Swedish", that she grew up in this all White-Scandinavian town, and her relatives are all white. Even the character doesn't believe this, yet never mentions race. Not once, until near the end where she makes a throw away remark cursing white people, despite playing 10 hours of bizarrely race-blind story that destroys suspension of disbelief.
   
   Honestly the best part was this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R9ywOmJqUc
   • PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 05:21:35 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer

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     @thendrix @crunklord420 I watched my brother play Alan wake 1 from a distance and the only thing I remember was "this was literally like my Stephen King novels" from the protag
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   • Terry Hendrix II 🏹 (thendrix@social.hendrixgames.com)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 05:21:36 JST Terry Hendrix II 🏹

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     It was a pass for me as it didn’t pass the sniff test. How were the skinned spline trees? Did you even notice vs more widely used proc vertex animation trees?

   • Terry Hendrix II 🏹 (thendrix@social.hendrixgames.com)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 05:21:36 JST Terry Hendrix II 🏹

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     BTW I haven’t heard a POE track since “Trigger Happy Jack” in years.

   • CrunkLord420 (crunklord420@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 05:25:23 JST CrunkLord420

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     @Pawlicker @thendrix the game requires a massive suspension of disbelief. It's okay, I appreciate what it's trying to do. I played a few hours of the first one back in the day but the gameplay/levels were too dull. It has to be weird, or it's just boring. I'm pretty sure Alan Wake 2 is weirder.
     
     Maybe it's just because I haven't played too many games on my 3090, but the game looks really good.
   • Terry Hendrix II 🏹 (thendrix@social.hendrixgames.com)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 05:26:09 JST Terry Hendrix II 🏹

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     Don’t get me wrong the universe is interesting, and I loved Control… but reading press releases it seemed like a skip to me. Hoping Control 2 or whatever that will be isn’t going to be garbage.

   • CrunkLord420 (crunklord420@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 05:26:09 JST CrunkLord420

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     @thendrix @Pawlicker I somehow missed Control was a Remedy game. I totally ignored it as some generic console fodder, maybe I'll go check it out.
   • Terry Hendrix II 🏹 (thendrix@social.hendrixgames.com)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 05:27:05 JST Terry Hendrix II 🏹

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     They have some great tech under the hood.

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   • Terry Hendrix II 🏹 (thendrix@social.hendrixgames.com)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 05:29:36 JST Terry Hendrix II 🏹

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     If you like X-files as a concept with some humor on top of the scifi you might love it. The gameplay is fun if you play the balance of “gun” vs “powers” as intended, and people that just want to play as a shooter will get bogged down. If you get it try the bundle with all the DLC. It was already cheap when I played and got that and still boot it up for reference use.

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