Alan Wake 2 is pure genius. One oౠf the most substantial games to push the medium forwards and bridge the gap between gaming, story, movies, and immersion. It🍰's interconnectivity across remedy's other games are perfection. It's one of those games that gets everything right and yet it's an obvious passion project. It Further proves the importance of an independent creative team, not aiming to check the boxes on subscription models, micro transactions, live service, and every other problematic trope dragging the industry down.

I do agree if it was an exploited loop hole, that it's their right to revoke. However, I do not agree whatsoever with the state of digital ownership across all platforms. I can't tell you how many games across mobile and PC that has been revoked, disappeared, vanished, taking my money and ownership with it. Buying movies through ISP's you lose them if you change provider, if they lose rights, whatever. We own less and less, yet pay more and more. I remember when consumers held all of the power in the markets, yet now it's steadily been legislated away from bought and paid for errand boy politicians, caring exponentially more about their personal wealth accrual, and their owners/donors agenda. As much as I want to see cloud gaming nullify the need for consoles and games taking up physical and digital space, the premise of that becomes more shaky, seeing as how we hold so little rights, power, and own less and less of what we purchase. This needs to change, and the only way that happens is by paying attention to legislation being voted on, candidates platforms and past voting records, voting in people that actually stands to represent our interests, instead of playing the sa🍸me tired games that's led to this moment in world history.

The remedyverse is phenomenally amazing. I loved the time breakers night springs "episode". It was wild transitioning 🎃between all o🧸f the different game styles. The night springs DLC overall was a little janky, if you didn't play it episodic throughout the main game. Going straight into it from the DLC tab breaks the magic IMO.

I gotta say I completely agree with the artic🌠le. Even Tim's way of dressing recalls Jack Joyce. If anyone hasn't played quantum break, they should. 🌳It's a genius mix of gaming and entertainment that served as the precursors to control's gameplay and Alan Wake 2's interactive cinema style. It also largely gave a lot of early concept design for Alan Wake 2, that basically laid out the story ideas, through background content.

I can't wait to see what control 2 will be like and add to the multiversal shenanigans. The remedyverse reminds me a ton of Stephen King's the Dark Tower. There's a l🦹ot of story constants that applies here and has been pulled off to perfection.

Yeah well, anyone incensed by diversity, other races being represented, other groups having coequal representation, aren't generally the sharpest tacks to begin with. That's not my opinion, that's a proven sociological and scientific occurrence. Prejudice is the vehicle for psychological stunting. Calling it "pandering to the left" makes it equalitive to "I base my entire identity and ideology upon parroted talking points eroding the fundamental stability of society and the nation, force fed to me through television, social media, podcasters..♏.etc, but can't be bothered with organically accumulating knowledge, nor formulating my own ideological divides".

These same people generally ෴fails to realize that the billionaires that owns these media outlets, digital agents, and so forth, are using these idiotic culture wars to erode basic worker's protections, consumer protections, and generally everything else that prot𒉰ects and helps everyone that isn't born into wealth. Packaging this to be about "rooting out threats " it's actually really about billionaires and corporations seizing power, and exalting themselves above everyone, while stacking the odds even further in their favor.

America was founded upon being a multicultural, multi faith, all inclusive nation. That's literally enshrined in the Constitution, alongside a huge statue in the New York harbor unequivocally welcoming all to o෴ur shores. America's founding treaties that legitimized us to the rest of the world, blatantly stated this, along with pointedly proclaiming we are not a Christian nation, but a nation of many faiths, bacℱkgrounds, and cultures.

One of the benefits of what the founding fathers enshrined in the structure of this country, was freedom. No one is forcing you to buy nor play this game. If it so insul📖ts you, then don't play it, forget about it, because that's how freedom works. What is being done to them over something so mundane, is the anthesis to freedom. It's fascist at the very least.

Ray tracing is pretty wicked. You should look at the half life 2 RTX mod that's coming out, and it drastically transforms the 🅠visuals, realism, bringing the game into 🍸the current generation.

It's not a deal breaker for me though. I'll Indiana Jones and the great circle on my gaming laptop with an RTX 4070 and it's gorgeous. I'll play it on my ROG ALLY, with those settings dialed way down and it's still an amazing game. It's not as pretty, but it's not ugly by any stretch whatsoever. Frankly I'm amazed the ally can play that game as well as it does. Es♏pecially with the insane system requirements.

I'm currently playing ghost song. ꦺAt first I really didn't like it, and I'm a huge sucker for sci-fi Metroid likes. Ghost song has a bit of an identity crisis, in that it's very sci-fi and has to have been built from a Metroid type engine, but has a ton of melee centric bosses and enemy types. The𓆏 combat system is really strange in how you balance out overheating as a mechanic between melee and gun. It's really grown on me but takes getting used to, experimenting to find your optimal balance. But I do love the equipment loading system. You can have a build that perfectly suits your play style.

It's a very strange but very cool game. If at first 𓄧you don't like it, stick with it, I promise it'll grow on you as you progress.

Biogun really needs to be on this list. It's absolutely phenomenal and the best sci-fi Metroidvania out at the moment. It's really a perfe🍬ct MV.