Alan Wake 2 - Tumblr Posts
"Show me the Champion of Light I'll show you the Herald of Darkness Lost in a never-ending night Diving deep to the surface"
I am living, *living* for Tumblr having discovered Sam Lake.
I love this man so much and yet I did not know him yesterday.
This is the Way.
I would add "Play Max Payne 2" either before or after playing Alan Wake 1. Sure it's rough by modern standards but it's also only 5-6 hours long and you get to experience "Late Goodbye" in its natural habitat.
(And don't get me started on the books to read and things to watch and becoming an obsessive Poets of the Fall fan, and being a Poe fan and...)
Join us.
A hyperfixater's guide to fully enjoying the Remedyverse:
- Google "Max Payne Grimace"
- Look up enough of the comic panel cuscenes from Max Payne 1 to realize all the characters are Remedy's office staff plus the band members from Poets of the Fall.
- Listen to "The Late Goodbye."
- Play Alan Wake 1. Preferably in the dark. Listen to all the music in between chapters. Wait at least a day between the main story and the DLC chapters to really let the feeling of wanting to know what happened sink in.
- Optional: Wait two years
- Play Alan Wake's American Nightmare. Arachnaphoba may vary.
- Optional: Wait four more years.
- Optional: Play Quantum Break. It's not officially part of the Remedyverse but we didn't know that at the time and it played with our emotions with Alan Wake teases for the entire damn game. Plus - Lance Reddick at his finest.
- Optional: Wait three more years.
- Play Control. Explore a lot. Read everything you can get your hands on. Bask in the nigh unrivalled glory of The Ashtray Maze.
- Prior to playing the Control DLCs, spend an ungodly amount of time obsessing over why one of them is just called "AWE" and all the possible implications.
- Play the Control DLCs
- Freak the fuck out
- Optional: Wait 4 more years
- Play Alan Wake 2
- Gush about how much you love it all to me specifically because nobody ever knows what I'm talking about when I mention these games and you guys they are important to me in a way that should probably deeply embarass me.
Of course to really get the full experience you'll need to constantly concuss yourself to the point of never knowing if Alan Wake 2 will ever exist and thus preserve the sweet agony of being a Remedy fan between 2010-2020ish.
Old Gods of Asgard music may help soothe the pain.
I am unhealthy about this game. I am losing my ability to communicate in anything other than references to Remedy games.
Me: "See, to really understand shoeboxes, you need these documents from Control as well as a home renovation blog from a decade ago."
Them: "Friend, this is a Wendy's."
I cannot stop thinking about the fact that Alan Wake II exists at all, like
I've been a big Remedy fan since I first played Max Payne but the first Alan Wake has always been my favorite of their work and to think that I've been waiting for the cliffhanger at the end of it to be resolved for over a decade now is so crazy to think about.
I still remember all the ups and downs over all that time, points where speculation about a sequel releasing were reaching fever pitch, points where any hopes were dashed and I had resigned to thinking it would never actually happen. From the time when Sam Lake said that Remedy wanted to make a sequel but the time wasn't right, and the original AW2 prototype video being released to the public, to the tease of the Remedy Connected Universe that set up both Alan Wake II and Control appearing as a chalkboard easter egg in Quantum Break, the house renovation blog that teased AW2 back in like 2013, and the collective explosion of hype that surrounded the AWE expansion for Control and the confirmation that something was FINALLY happening.
It's so insane to me. For as much as I hate Epic Games I have no choice but to be grateful for them stepping up and bankrolling something that I genuinely thought would never come, even if that means the game is going to be an EGS exclusive on PC.
I don't like to ramble for so long but this game means so much to me and I can't help it
All of material reality has basically been reduced down to a clock ticking down for NG+ to release for Alan Wake 2.
i’m still obsessed with alan wake 2 and remedyverse i just already did everything in the game and have nothing new to talk about
I really need one of my friends to let themselves be strapped down sit down and let me subject them to explain Alan Wake to them. I feel like I will have an aneurysm if this does not happen.
me trying to explain AW2 to others:
Alan Wake 2 needs DLC that is just a double feature of Lost Highway and Inland Empire you can watch in the Mind Place or the Theatre.
I'm not sure this would actually help confused people, but I'd enjoy it.
I keep telling myself I will not just fill my timeline with memes of Sam and/or Ilkka dancing, but then I go and do it again.
nothing in life matters meme jpg
every peak lord after shen qingqiu transmigrates and they cant find any traces of possession from him
Living for the Wake fans discovering The Dark Half via AW2.
THE DARK HALF (1993) dir. George A. Romero
Rose DLC goty, I finally understand what it's like to be a straight woman
Catboy!Alan, Rose gets it
The most insane lines delivered within Remedy's history of games.
Due to listening to Herald of Darkness too much, anytime I hear "So Sad," I respond with, "But True" and "So True" with "Who Knew?" It'll be stuck wedged there forever and I will live with that lol
For the bestie 😋 @laughing-gunslinger