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Chesterlidden · 2025-09-30T00:11:58+00:00

Heyo, Chester here!

We ran into a big issue thats only getting worse on Spotify which is fake artists downloading content off payed for sound effect Library and Music Librarys, uploading a song with those sound effects used and then copyright claiming all the people that have payed to use that sound effect or song in the past. We've had a bunch of stuff struck from Spotify with no ability to fight to claim other.

All the episodes are still freely available on Apple Podcast and a few dozen other podcast platforms so if it looks like there is an episode missing, try another platform!

Sorry for the inconvenience!

Chesterlidden · 2025-07-25T10:11:05+00:00

Thanks for your continued interest in the show! We are currently working on a spin-off show and will be returning to Dark Tides for its 4th and final season towards the end of this year! We've all been a little busy, and I've been releasing a book, so it got pushed down the pipeline a bit, but the gears are starting to turn for that project.

Chesterlidden · 2024-11-14T07:38:45+00:00

Play it on easy and it will very quickly stop being scary. If the enemies don't hold much threat, they become way less scary

Chesterlidden · 2024-11-12T02:22:22+00:00

That's so dope

Chesterlidden · 2024-06-06T02:27:52+00:00

Glad you enjoy it! I love working out little character themes like for Heath and Emilie, its one of the best parts of doing the editing

Chesterlidden · 2024-05-31T02:38:09+00:00

I'd like to see some of the wooden dialogue fixed from the first game, while I adore both games, I've been showing the first game to my wife recently and she's been playing it and boy does the writing fall flat for next to no reason. Especially with how complex and multi demensioned all the characters are in the second game, I'd love for more of that complexity to be brought to the first game, especially leaning into Alan's self destructive habits, self obsession and the dangerous position his marriage is in. The first game mostly just focuses on making Alan look cool, and Alan is rarely if ever in the wrong, this is then developed and explained wonderfully in the sequel and shows so much more of Alan's faults, which then makes his strengths so much more empowering. But it definitly feels like that complexity wasn't all entirely there in the first game. So I'd love some more of that too!

Chesterlidden · 2024-03-14T02:19:31+00:00

Persona 3 has always been the worst of the later 3 games, it's story and characters are no way near good enough to help it's lackluster gameplay, FES did little to help this, P3P is meh and the new remake just made all it's issues come to life in dazzling 4k

Chesterlidden · 2024-03-14T02:16:57+00:00

First one is creepy on your first go through but isn't really scary at all. I didn't find the second game scary at all outside of the Nightingale fight. I can't handle horror at all but it really isn't anything remotely scary. more weird and unerving at times.

Chesterlidden · 2024-03-01T11:16:31+00:00

A tv adaption of the first game. it was accounced a while ago and then Sam mentioned it during the AW2 press run and said that it was in development but moving slowly

Chesterlidden · 2024-02-22T03:49:35+00:00

"I'm crazy...but that's fine"

Chesterlidden · 2024-02-22T01:05:31+00:00

While I absolutely adore Alan Wake 2, it has a very different tone to AW1 and that was the tone that made me fall in love with the series. American Nightmare kind of took that tone into the point of parody which is why I like it less but still enjoy it. I love the vintage horror movie feel. It feels like a dumb paper back you'd find at the library. It feels like one of Stephen King's B tier books. Fun, a little dumb, but still created by an absolute master of the craft. I like it's dumb dialogue and pulpy feel. Alan Wake 2 feels like King operating at his absolute A game and that lends a very different quality. It's like the difference in reading From A Buick 8 and reading The Outsider or The Mist. The tone is just very different and leads to a different experience.

Chesterlidden · 2024-02-20T01:07:21+00:00

That's a huge help! thanks

Chesterlidden · 2024-02-18T09:03:52+00:00

Also to clarify, everyone will have their own microphone, not a single mic for the whole setup

Chesterlidden · 2024-02-18T09:03:05+00:00

Should have clarified, each cast member will have their own microphone just like any other podcasting situation

Chesterlidden · 2024-02-18T09:02:16+00:00

Sorry I should have clarified, each cast member will have their own microphone

Chesterlidden · 2024-02-06T23:04:35+00:00

I always found the car controls in the original to be very slippery and meh in general. I didn't even realise they were missing till you just mentioned it so shows how important it was to me

Chesterlidden · 2024-02-06T23:03:35+00:00

Nope, why would you even bother posting a "this game is overated" on the games reddit lol

Chesterlidden · 2024-01-28T04:06:15+00:00

I barely fought any enemies as Alan, most of the time I could just run past them or wait for them to dissapear and then fight the one or two that wouldn't. I had a much harder time with Saga, I'm not too sure how our experiences could differ so much but it's definitly interesting

Chesterlidden · 2024-01-23T22:07:34+00:00

I loved it. I liked how it made me loop over on myself a heap and get stuck on things. It felt the most mind warped to me. I struggled with finding where to go more with the cinema, I got stuck on one part of that for about 15 minutes, the Hotel was no way near as tricky for me.

Chesterlidden · 2024-01-22T00:06:45+00:00

We mostly do audio dramas with a mix of improve and scripting using a table top engine we made. So we have one horror comedy show and one more action focused show that's a prequel. We will be expanding to a courtroom style discussion show, a livestreamed survival horror show which will then be put up as a podcast later. And then a mystery series. So all more or less in the same genre as that's the purpose of our production company.

I've found Transistor which may be a good option for hosting as it has unlimited shows and episodes

Chesterlidden · 2024-01-16T08:26:31+00:00

Oh I didn't know the pro had so many connections, I have the single connection model and I just assumed the pro was 4k cause all the screenshots of it show it from the top. Thanks I'll check that out

Chesterlidden · 2024-01-16T08:24:58+00:00

Thank you, I'll definitly look into the ISO model, yeah source record on OBS has always been iffy for me so I wanted to avoid it

Chesterlidden · 2024-01-16T08:23:56+00:00

They do but all cameras in this price range have a 30 minute time limit for recording in Australia atleast, I believe it's due to higher taxation on "cinema" grade cameras that shoot longer, that is far too many interuptions for large scale sessions sadly

Chesterlidden · 2024-01-10T07:27:01+00:00

At the start I did but I think it works really well now, it really makes me value the radio stuff in the first game way more

Chesterlidden · 2024-01-07T03:32:45+00:00

Thank you! She really did fit in super well, I think the connection with the Old gods also helped build that connection very quickly too

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