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Today Microsoft announced that Remedy’s “psychological action thriller” Alan Wake will be receiving new content in the form of downloadable episodes.
Microsoft executive Robbie Bach stated, “Imagine the TV show Lost as written by Steven King and filmed by David Lynch, and you have Alan Wake. Story-driven like a TV series, Alan Wake will be told in episodes, with even more episodes available on Xbox Live after its launch this year.”
Microsoft did not mention how soon we can expect the episodes, or how many there will be. The company also neglected to mention the price point for each episode and how much content will be contained per episode.
Alan Wake is currently slated to arrive on the Xbox 360 this spring. At one point a PC version was planned, however Microsoft and Remedy have been rather tight lipped about it.
Source: Shacknews.com
There’s nothing I hate more than pre-release announced (and sometimes finished!!!) DLC.
Hello Heavy Rain! At least if you pre-order it at Gamestop, you get that DLC, but it’s still really sleazy to me.
I too hate pre-release DLC. ERG!
I also dislike pre-order content that you cant get later on.
I gotta agree with both Chris and Jordan here. It’s just so annoying to hear announcements like this. Makes me lose respect for the developers at times.
Dragon Age was the same story. Thankfully I pre-ordered a collector’s edition before it was too late. I ordered it from EA, as I absolutely hate GameStop.
@ All the commenters above — especially given that this game has already been pushed back multiple times, due to “wanting to make sure it is bug-free and polished”. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
yeah my interest in the game is waining by the moment, when did we breed this feelingit is alright to release an incomplete game and then charge us to complete it.
So…. it’s probably going to end up costing us well over a hundred dollars to play this game in its entirety? Remedy can suck a camel dick.
As long as the game’s good, I really don’t care if they’re nickle and diming me.
In my day we bought a game, finished it, and moved on. Imagine applying the concept of separately selling a continuing story to other forms of media. I hate the idea of buying a book without an ending and having to ditch out more of my filthy dirty dollars for an end to a story.
I think it’s kind of hypocritical for the same people who rant and rave at how good things like GTA’s DLC was, to then see a developer saying “we want to deliver that same experience” and you all act is if, they have said “We’ll give you the character creation menu for $60, then another $20 per 5 minutes you play.”
Wait until the game is out to criticise, for now, try and stay positive perhaps, you never know, the game might actually be good.
This isn’t about the game being good or not – it’s a matter of principles, and how the gaming market is devolving into a cash-grab. Give us the game as you would make it, and we won’t be bothered about having to shell out for extra DLC. But breaking a single game up into sections and selling them all separately is bloody ridiculous in my book.
@paul
staying positive? what is this alien phrase you are using
Just don’t see much point in criticising plans for episodic content with the game as if that’s a bad thing.
It doesn’t take much to see “oh my good lordy, Dragon Age expansion? Can’t wait!” or to see GTA DLC listed as potential game of the year in some categories, yet another game is planning the same idea and everyone dumps on it as if they said “We plan to contain a sample of our bowels with every edition of the game.”
If the game is good, you’ll probably want extra content. It’s possible, all they are doing is planning that extra content. If you’re saying they should put it all together in one game, fine, but when do they stop? When do they stop developing content for it and release? If this is a product that they believe can run with for a long time, without episodic content it’ll end up as Duke Nukem Forever and just never be released.
@paul
its more the fact that this game is about 6 months away from release and they are already trying to shill dlc. You are right, if the finished product is awesome then wanting to play more will ensue. if the game however is average, and then the dlc slowly gets better than average i will be sat there thinking ‘why the hell did they not put their time into making the initial game good then on focussing on dlc’
Dlc is the new sequel, you can make more money and eek out less with less innovation with dlc than would be expected in a whole game but it feels that dlc is just becoming this as standard poorly concieved thing.
Dlc is the movie release video game of the twentyteens