So glad they never gave up on Wake. This is Remedy's masterpiece and an obvious contender for game of the year.

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.

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.

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

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.

8:27 i was not ready for that huge coffee cup

I really like how the Series S version came to be. Truly great

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.

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.

It's funny, Alan Wake's Angel lamp looks a bit like a Games awards trophy. But maybe it's my imagination.🙂

Would love an alan wake film or show. Preferably directed by david lynch.

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

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.

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.

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..

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...

I was pleasantly surprised while playing it, that Quantum Break absolutely ties into these ganes as well... Sbeaky sneaky Remedy...

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.

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

Yes , generation definig yet it can't even render a wet road less blurry than 2012 games.

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

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.

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)

Accepting FSR and DLSS, I can already hear the rustling jimmies of a certain popular tech channel 😆

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)

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.

I haven't finished the first one yet, it's too scary!

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.

After 20 hours into the game, yes, the best graphics in gaming history.

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.

The game is meant to be played on PC. Remedy is one of the few out there who focus exclusively on PC Next-Gen gaming first, with the console getting the port. For so many years, it's been console port, after console port being sent to pc, and it's been a disaster. Finally, we get a game that shows off what the PC can do, and it blows away the consoles.

“Path Tracing- Feel the Photons.” Should be Nvidia’s new slogan.

God, this game makes me SO hyped for Control 2. Remedy has a perfect recipe for greatness here

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.

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?

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.

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

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 game sucks. Graphics don't make a game good

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?

Playing it on the ROG Ally and it runs really well at 900p resolution with FSR balanced.

I wonder if they updated cyberpunk 2077 with mesh shaders whether we'd see improvement and how much?

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

I think Caĺlisto protocol was very gpod looking game also

Maybe I didn’t hear this, right… Are you saying there is path tracing on the console versions?

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.

I am getting around 73 FPS in Alan Wake 2 with my 7800XT at 1440p native.High settings.

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.

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.

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.

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...

People changed their tune REALLY QUICK after launch….

fun to hear Alex speaking German 😂

Alan Wake 2 > Spider-Man 2

FSR 2.0 isnt that great here but overall Fantasie game on PS5/SX/PC

Premium underwear makes me explode. Great ad.

love it on my 3080ti looks sick and the game itself is awesome horror game

Death Stranding and Alan Wake 2 are decade defining for me. Everything else pales in comparison.

I'm enjoying the game. But, this is some overhyped nonsense from DF. 😑

Alex got a new hairstyle and his voice changed. When did cuzz's voice get this deep?

Great game!!! Last Of Us + Resident Evil + Blair Witch = Alan Wake II

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 😢

Lords of the Fallen on PC shows AW2 how it's really done

An rtx garbage bag is still a garbage back. It just shines slightly better than other garbage bags.

This game is awesome. Specially for twin peaks fans😊 My personal GOTY!

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

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

"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.

Just to clarify: 10900K 5 Ghz all cores with 4.7 Ghz Ring and RTX 3090Ti can deliver stable 4K30 without framepacing issues most of the time at High Settings DLSSQ+RT Lighting Low only+RR and 4K60 at Optimised DLSSQ without RT. It's not that bad but also a little bit too much considering how 3090Ti perfroms in Control - 4K60 High DLSSQ+High RT. I'd love to see at least 15-20% boost in further updates.

Has DF looked in to the deminishing framerate the longer you play ?

It really is a great game. It’s smart and mature. At 4k DLSS quality it runs above 60 fps on a 4090. I do wish I could have played the path tracing mode more but it’s just too demanding to be enjoyed.

Just finished and starting my second playthrough, such a great game! Soo immersive, they really got it right.

How is this a masterpiece its literally a walking simulator with extra brave black pixels

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?

It sounds weird to say but I was playing before and I’m to return to it; last of us part 2. And all I can think is if it is the case as to it being remastered like how much. With much of the moments in Alan wake 2; the density made me think about how realistic it is but at the same time I couldn’t shake the feeling that last of us part 2 looks while worse not far off from the game. Looking like it’s (Alan wake 2’s) performance mode while delivering a cleaner (and higher? Can’t remember exactly) image overall with more intense combat. This is especially notable with the matching frame rates on PS5. So it makes me curious, how much better would a remaster look? If it rivals Alan Wake 2’s visual quality while delivering 60 fps then that really shakes things up especially if there’s a PC release. With a potential PC release in mind how much visual fidelity could it then push and could it push beyond Alan Wake 2? I say this also in context of playing Spider-Man 2 recently as well and that is insane for what they’re pushing on PS5

>People are anti FSR I haven't played a single game where it looks as good as native in motion :/ always a ton of flicker or artifacts, including Alan Wake II, and my friend who have a 3080 said the smudging is even worse with DLSS vs FSR...

I assume Alex has a cold? His voice is completely different 😂

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

Been playing alan wake 2 on ps5 quality mode and it looks amazing and a lot of times photorealistic, for me it's right there with the best looking games, in my opinion like Spider-Man 2, last of us part 2, plague tale requiem, and a few others, I also thought that COD MW2 looked incredible especially in the campaign mode, can't wait for the third one, yeah sure I could nitpick, but overall I think it's incredible how far games have come in their looks

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

Fantastic game

No photo mode??? Why Remedy, why??? No GOTY for you

It's a good game but. I do think yall skip over the tech issues .. such as the cpu limitation in the forest.. the shimmering and corruption with post processing is at low ( if it looks that bad .. why even have a low option) and there is some more optimization this game can do cause yes it has nice details but Def not as interactive and a showcase as control was. This game is overhyped technically and I want remedy to have some urgency in the performance patches on pc etc . Want to enjoy the damn game the way it should be

imagine overhyping a game just because it looks good bro this game is generic asf

Intel UHD 630 gang 😅

Excellent game

While the pc master race is crying and struggling to pick a setting to be happy with. I’m just playing this slow paced masterpiece on the series x in quality mode and have just been completely pulled into the world. Such an amazing game.

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

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.

Not convinced yet. Being stuck in the game because I didn’t place the pic on the board…the janitor which I just saw in Control…mmm…great atmosphere but strange, maybe that what it’s meant to be, a strange game.

What happened to Alex voice? It's not his voice :D strange

This isnt a " clip" Df i enjoy it though 😂

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.

honestly aside from the characters control was a ore fun game.

Praying for a physical release.

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.

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....👎👎👎

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.

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 KZfaqrs. You’ll get way more views