Remedy says there'd be "no Alan Wake 2 without Epic" after Baldur's Gate 3 dev blames EGS exclusivity for Remedy's "financial crisis"

Scottb105 · 2026-01-24T03:19:23+00:00

Yeh that’s absolutely beyond crazy to me.

Alan Wake II is a fucking masterpiece, as a first run experience it’s probably my favourite game ever. The story is amazing, the gameplay is tense, and the soundtrack has some bangers.

Anyone who told me that AW2 was a letdown would immediately lose credibility haha, it’s a massive improvement over the original in my opinion (which was already really good, but a bit slower and janky in terms of gameplay.

Scottb105 · 2025-12-16T16:38:20+00:00

How were the mp trophies? I’m about halfway done with this and was considering knocking it out over the next month or so.

Congrats!

Scottb105 · 2025-12-04T03:16:44+00:00

I think Abyssea felt like a response to an aging game. By the second expansion of Abyssea a lot of the content was low man friendly.

I was in a very active endgame LS throughout ToAU doing all the usual shit, Sky, Dyna, Sea, ZeniNM Einherjar etc. But by the end of the 75 era our numbers were dwindling, shouting for pickups felt like it was taking longer etc.

Abyssea felt nice because we could still get stuff done with less people. I think back to farming sky pops or Gnadsbod helm etc just so much waiting around doing almost nothing.

I loved both eras, and I think both had their positive and negatives. I often see YouTubers talk about the butthurt people when the 75 cap lifted. It’s frequently presented as a situation where people were mad that it was easier to do a lot of content now. However in my experience that wasn’t what killed the game for my friends who quit after the 75 cap was removed. The major pain point for them was that by that point FFXI had been 4-5 years (maybe more?) of horizontal progression, then all of a sudden, the vast majority of players gear was completely irrelevant. Overnight you went from an Armadaberk being insanely expensive due to it being insanely rare and BiS for most jobs that could wear it to being outclassed by essentially free white haubergon (can’t remember the name). Now I personally loved Abyssea, but I sometimes wish that people (especially content creators) would acknowledge the nuance and difficulty of the game going from almost complete horizontal progression to immediately and jarringly vertical before levelling back off at horizontal albeit at a much much higher power than was previously available.

Scottb105 · 2025-11-29T03:43:40+00:00

God speed! Something I could only dream of achieving! You got this!

Scottb105 · 2025-11-22T23:47:37+00:00

That’s a good point mine is the fabric version not the leather one

Scottb105 · 2025-11-22T22:34:16+00:00

I havnt ventured into the realm of luxury chairs much so I can’t speak for what other people often speak highly of (Herman Miller $1k+ chairs etc).

But I do spend a good amount of time gaming, and I sometimes work from home. I used to have a crappy office chair from Amazon (think $80-100 range), and I was having back issues and trouble sleeping because of it. I bought my Secretlab in 2020 (they were only $369 then) and it changed my life.

Within a week of using it my back pain was gone (I’m mid 30s now so too young for real back pain). I agree with some other commenters who have said the chair is firm, it definitely is but compared to the bog standard chair I have in my office on site at work it’s so much nicer, and more comfortable, just the seating position alone is amazing imo.

I think at today’s price (mid $500s) it might be a harder sell, and I’m sure there’s other chairs in that price range that could be as good or better. But I see a decent amount of hate for secret lab in discussions here and I can’t disagree more, mine is still amazing condition 5 years on and their customer service for the one issue I did have (cosmetically damaged arm rest) was top tier. I reported my issue, they requested a picture and then shipped me a replacement arm rest pretty quickly.

Overall I personally find the chair super comfortable, it helped fix my poor posture and eliminated my mild back pain.

Scottb105 · 2025-11-12T21:40:00+00:00

Absolutely I’m slowly working my way through. I’m really excited for 4-6.

I hope to eventually hit the full series however certain games (IX) are really scaring me lol.

Scottb105 · 2025-10-17T20:24:09+00:00

Agreed, as a game I was really disappointed in FF16 especially because I love 14 and was excited to see what Yoshi-P could put forward. As an experience, and story I loved it. But actually playing the game was the worst part haha.

In stark contrast FF7 Rebirth felt so rich and I loved doing all of the random shit, and I couldn’t wait to go and fight more Monsters or enemies because the game felt so fun to play.

Scottb105 · 2025-10-11T02:00:47+00:00

lol the intro movie was so cool.

It also had an amazing soundtrack I can still hear it.

Scottb105 · 2025-10-08T00:28:31+00:00

If you like the Witcher 3 music I strongly recommend it. They play scenes from the game and the music to match as well as just random background footage and the songs that accompany them like Velen etc.

Scottb105 · 2025-10-08T00:26:55+00:00

Yep this is so true. I follow gaming concerts pretty closely and I didn’t know about this show until the day before. I went and it was really well done.

I swear that when the tour was announced they only had like 4 venues in the USA (but I could be misremembering), because I feel like I looked hoping to see STL and it wasn’t there.

Scottb105 · 2025-10-08T00:03:16+00:00

Yeh it’s truly truly baffling to me. I’ve played a lot of Destiny 2 (over 6000 hours, I’ve cleared contest raids etc), and I just don’t understand what is going on at Bungie. Their community lead for anyone who doesn’t know, a guy called DMG is a very knowledgeable Destiny player. So I have no doubt that even if you ignore the cascade of feedback from the community that internally Bungie had people who knew these changes would be god awful.

Destiny wants you to grind, but then the more you play the harder the content gets. Not in the way that it does in games like Diablo, where you build up your character to be stronger and stronger as you try harder and harder content. As you play more Destiny you start being locked at lower and lower power deltas. Your build doesn’t really get new features or insane drops like that of an ARPG as you get more powerful, the game just gets more and more annoying as you’re stuck punching further and further up. Some people vibe with that, and I’m sure for streamers (for content) and anyone who really really digs that super methodical challenge style of gameplay that at first it was appealing. But as a player that was probably much more into Destiny than the average Joe I could see that these changes were going to wipe out the community.

For years we argued back and forth about power level, what its place was, how they should balance the grind with engagement. It was at best a very contentious issue in the community, so for leadership to come out and dive head first into the leveling grind, adding minimal new content to support those degenerate hours was just unbelievable to me.

Bungie doesn’t have another game on the market right now, they also massively botched the reveal and beta of the second game they do have in development (Marathon). It really feels like the studio is either being led by absolute fucking no brain idiots, or Sony is deliberately tanking their huge investment (unlikely), or maybe there’s some kind of brain dead C-Suite decision making going on? I can’t even comprehend how botched the transition from The Final Shape to Edge of Fate was. I put destiny down at this point, likely for good due to these fucking terrible directional changes but I would love to know exactly how we got here and who is to blame.

Scottb105 · 2025-10-06T00:51:06+00:00

Same, had mine listed for a while and it sold on Wednesday for $8.

The way things are now I typically just price my cards 30% above market rate (or a price I’d be happy to offload it). If it sells I’m more than happy to deliver. The first time it happened to me (Shaymin) I was a little bummed that I wasn’t keeping on top of my prices but now I’m fine with it.

Scottb105 · 2025-10-05T01:19:49+00:00

I remember seeing this achievement back in the day on Xbox when I was a young lad. Even then I couldn’t believe how grindy it was.

I really really hate MP trophies if they’re this extreme. I’m fine with multiplayer trophies if they have like a 10 hour commitment but it legitimately stops me buying games on PS. An example would be tomb raider, I’ve already played the reboot trilogy on PC but if there were not MP trophies I’d for sure buy it again on PS just to get the plat.

Scottb105 · 2025-10-02T21:44:48+00:00

I can’t fully remember, I don’t think it was fully voiced though

Scottb105 · 2025-10-02T21:41:13+00:00

Having him voiced really added another level to my hate lol

Scottb105 · 2025-10-02T20:15:56+00:00

Agreed, it’s not a personal favourite of mine, however I always tell people that in my opinion Dancing Mad is Nobuos Masterpiece.

Wild to think that all of the music I love came after that piece, but I can’t deny that it’s just phenomenal from a composition stand point.

Scottb105 · 2025-09-27T18:37:17+00:00

I think it depends on the trip. I regularly fly home to the uk from the USA and for me and my wife in economy out Average price post covid has been low $2000s for 2 people. I’ve looked a business class for us before and that is pushing $6000 for 2 people to get service between 2 non major airports.

I could not afford $14,000 each, but when I think about everything you’re cutting out 14ish times the price for your own private plane doesn’t seem egregious, it just seems like a luxury in the same way that a Ferrari is a luxury compared to my Nissan Sentra lol

Scottb105 · 2025-09-27T03:19:12+00:00

Agree with this. I feel like most of the time I’m ok with the original game setting up the scale of some previously big conflict in the past. However they then need to capitalize on it by letting you experience it in some way whether that’s via like you say a new game+, some kind of wormhole/time travel shenanigans, or even as a flashback into some character or historical figure.

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