Multiple Alan Wake eps due this year

By Ellie Gibson Published 16 March, 2010

Well, "more than one", at the very least.

Remedy's Matias Myllyrinne has confirmed that multiple Alan Wake instalments are on the way this year.

"I think it'll depend a lot on the audience, but certainly we want to - if we're successful - we want to do a large 'Season 2,' if you will, at some point," he told Joystiq.

"Right now, I'm not allowed to say what we're doing exactly this year. But we're going to have more than one episode come out this year."

As reported earlier this year, Alan Wake will be "story-driven like a TV series", according to Microsoft's Robbie Bach, and told in downloadable episodes.

"Imagine the TV show Lost as written by Stephen King and filmed by David Lynch and you have Alan Wake," he said. We'd rather have the TV show Glee as written by J. Michael Straczynski and filmed by Jerry Bruckheimer, but there you are.

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  • StooMonster #1 2 years ago

    Remedy's Matias Myllyrinne has confirmed that multiple Alan Wake instalments are on the way this year.

    I remember Valve saying a similar thing about Half-Life 2 episodes, although perhaps Remedy have followed 2K Game's route and have developed and created content but it's simply locked on disc until one presents the readies to unlock it.

  • RobertFoster #2 2 years ago

    When I read "Alan Wake", I think "delays".

    When I read "episodes", I think "Valve", and then I think "delays".

    So, win all round then.

  • yupyup #3 2 years ago

    With the amount of dev time it's taken for Alan Wake, it better have a 'Previously, on Alan Wake'...

  • Xerx3s #4 2 years ago

    So what are they saying that if I buy this game, I will not get to finish the story unless I pony up more money? If so, I think that I will retract my pre-order and pass. DLC is ruining the industry.

  • ignatiusjreilly #5 2 years ago

    So 'Season 1' will be a single, full-length game, but 'Season 2' will be made up of a series of shorter episodes? Actually sounds fine to me (if they do it right, obv) but I'm just trying to work out if I read it right...

  • mr_ruberfon #6 2 years ago

    @ Xerx3s - no, it's saying if you buy this game and like it, there will be more episodes for you to buy, if you wish. DLC is NOT ruiniing anything.

  • ignatiusjreilly #7 2 years ago

    Most DLC does no good for gaming IMO, but large 'episodes' that continue the game with new content and storylines is exactly what I think DLC should be (really they are more like expansion packs, which existed long before DLC anyway, but I'll take what I can get).

  • Eraysor #8 2 years ago

    But none of them on the PC, bastards.

  • bodypopper #9 2 years ago

    Hmmm. As long as the much delayed initial game is of reasonable length for forty notes, there's little to grumble about. Especially if subsequent episodes are cheap.

  • captainrentboy #10 2 years ago

    As long as when it's first released it's not something really daft like 4 hrs long, and it has a fully contained story arc, then I'll no doubt get it. (Unless of course it's totally trashed in all reviews)
    But if they're going the sinister dev team route and are blatently chopping bits from the tale to release later as DLC, or blatently leaving the story unfinished, well, they can suck my balls. :)

  • NewbieZilla #11 2 years ago

    I've never watched Glee, but the other two ones you mention are certainly quite good.

  • Xerx3s #12 2 years ago

    "@ Xerx3s - no, it's saying if you buy this game and like it, there will be more episodes for you to buy, if you wish. DLC is NOT ruiniing anything."

    But the only way that this would be possible would be to continue the storyline (so you don't get the full story in the game), anything else simply doesn't make sense. You don't throw out unrelated small storylines and you don't make a new storyline, that's for sequels.
    As for DLC not ruining anything, there is plenty of evidence undermining that sentiment. The most recent ones being the MW2 and Bioshock 2 dlc.

  • VibratingDonkey #13 2 years ago

    If the game ends with a cliffhanger I will run you over and break your legs off.

  • Aeon #14 2 years ago

    @VibratingDonkey, it's already been confirmed that it ends with a cliffhanger... whose legs will you break off though?... I like my legs... :(

  • Kazzahdrane #15 2 years ago

    @ Xerx3s - "But the only way that this would be possible would be to continue the storyline (so you don't get the full story in the game), anything else simply doesn't make sense. You don't throw out unrelated small storylines and you don't make a new storyline, that's for sequels. "

    Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age would like to have a word.

    As long as the game that comes on the disc is complete and gives good value, I don't have any problem with them making more episodes I can download and enjoy. i suppose there are people who believe the source code for the llatest RE5 episodes was actually written on the back page of the manual in invisible ink and only jumped onto your disc once you paid for the DLC.

    I agree devs should probably refrain from talking about DLC until the game is out because it gets people a bit paranoid about stuff being held back, but anyone who just uses the "why didn't they just delay the game and include everything?" argument just has no clue about how games development works.

  • Widge #16 2 years ago

    I do find DLC ruins a story focussed game. Something like Wipeout it bolsters it, something like Fallout 3 it feels drip fed and unsatisfying.

    Its like I don't feel like I have any massive incentive to be keen on the Heavy Rain DLC before anyone things I'm on the moan offensive!

    Understandable from the business perspective but would rather everything is kept within the game really.

  • makeamazing #17 2 years ago

    As long as the game that comes on the disc is complete and gives good value, I don't have any problem with them making more episodes I can download and enjoy

    This ^^ the game on the disk is the most important thing, everything else is just gravy.

  • Murton #18 2 years ago

    But the only way that this would be possible would be to continue the storyline (so you don't get the full story in the game), anything else simply doesn't make sense. You don't throw out unrelated small storylines and you don't make a new storyline, that's for sequels.

    Actually sideline content is the only way to go with DLC to a story driven game. That way everyone who buys the game has the same version of the story. Broken Steel for Failout 3 is a good example of this, if you bought it great, more story, if you didn't (or indeed couldn't) then your story is no longer canon as your ending isn't the "real" one.

    As for DLC not ruining anything, there is plenty of evidence undermining that sentiment. The most recent ones being the MW2 and Bioshock 2 dlc.

    Not sure how these are relevant to your point about story driven games as both DLCs feature MP content only, something which has always been criticised by games fans as it splits the player base into haves and havenots.

  • Lunatic4ever #19 2 years ago

    I dont like this whole "episode " thing...
    i want a whole game...a whole experience at once!

  • BillyBrush #20 2 years ago

    Right, and if you get a good game and a satisfying ending (I'm sure reviewers will tell you).

    Then, more is a good thing. Half Life 2 was a great standalone game, and i'm glad they did ep 1, 2 and hopefully 3

    Same re Borderlands...they made a full game, and added 3 expansions to it...which were good (well 2 of them).

    People taking the piss like EA do or Bioshock 2 has recently done, fuck up the whole aura around DLC...some of it is quite welcome such as borderlands....we don't really know if Alan Wake dlc might be the shit variety or not, or whether the game will have a satisfying ending or not....clearly that doesn't stop people assuming the worst case scenario

  • mkreku #21 2 years ago

    Is his name really Matias? Because it's usually spelled Mattias or Mathias..

  • LazyNinjaUk #22 2 years ago

    We've waited the best part of 5 years to play the original game, at the moment we just want to know there wont be any last minute release date delays. Then we can look forward to some riveting DLC =)

  • Barkotron #23 2 years ago

    "Is his name really Matias? Because it's usually spelled Mattias or Mathias.. "

    Even if you're Finnish? I mean, yes, normally I'd expect an extra double k or n, but maybe they decided to go for simplicity with this one.

    "But none of them on the PC, bastards."

    Blimey I've not been paying attention. Is Alan Wake really not coming out on PC any more? If so, bastards dey is.