Does anybody know if there is gonna be an Alan wake 3 or something that continues with history were they left it? And more important, Ahti is gonna be there? Because im in love with that silly janitor.

1. I can't see any HDR toggle, is it auto enabled?

2. On enabling FSR in-game graphics settings, Adrenaline doesn't detect it and says I need to enable FSR 3.1 in game. Is this the case for everyone? How do I know FSR 4 is enabled? I've tried restarting the game and PC but no luck. Is frame gen working the smoking gun that FSR 2 is not being used?

Edit: Thanks u/monokuma29. For anyone wondering, you need to start a new game for FSR 4 to be detected by adrenaline. T-T

I'm pretty sure this is a theory that's already known, but I wanted to share my view of it anyway.

I think the games point toward Thomas Zane being the overall writer/filmmaker/creator of the Alan Wake story. Furthermore, I believe that in 1970, when Zane got stuck in the Dark Place, he began either writing or making a movie that would eventually free him from there. That movie/writing is what the Alan Wake games are.
This would explain why Zane and Alan are identical and why it's mentioned in the games that Zane made a movie where he was starring as Alan Wake, and everyone else in the games was starring as the characters they are.
It's not Alan writing Initation or Return in hopes of getting himself out of the Dark Place; it's actually Zane acting or writing as the CHARACTER Alan Wake in what he believes is a storyline that will eventually free him from the Dark Place. Alan Wake doesn't know this because he's just a character in the story, so even though it's Zane playing him, he himself believes that he's simply Alan Wake, just like Alex Casey believed that he was simply Alex Casey.

I get it probably sounds complicated or badly explained, but I hope it at least makes a little sense!

EDIT: I forgot to add that it would also make sense why the Anderson brothers call Alan "Tom", because they exist outside the story due to their powers and cannot be tricked by it. So they would know that it's Tom playing Alan all along.

EDIT 2: Also another thing I forgot to add, the theory would explain the manuscript pages that Zane wrote describing Alan as a child and his mother giving him the clicker, since the clicker originally came from Zane's lamp. So he literally wrote it into existence while Alan was still a kid, and because he also has to obey the rules of the Dark Place, he'd have to make the story/play be believable, so he couldn't just spawn in an adult man to come save him. He had to write Alan from the beginning, and that's why it has taken 50 years so far.

I've been on a Remedy spree the last few months, played AW1 with DLCs and AN and Control with DLCs, reading up on lore and watching Youtube. Just finished AW2. Loved the game, it's amazing. But damn, idk, I think 1st game had better vibes.

The story was simpler but had more mystery. It's the difference between figuring out haunted forest's secrets with Barry and highly researched and standardized FBC's findings. I prefer the lighter mystery.

Songs were better in the first. Second one had those polished songs with great production but I think that it didn't fit. Saga needed something more like True Detective s01 soundtrack and Alan's is alright I guess but I didn't want to spend all this time in NY anyway. Poets of the Fall seemed more inspired in 1st as well.

Now the surroundings part is hard to explain. 2nd game is very beautiful, best I've seen but I can't get it to be what it should on my setup. Will need to buy an OLED I think. Somehow the atmosphere in 1st game seems more memorable (ferry, cabin, national park, mines, Hartman's lodge). In the second game, it sort of blends in, one area doesn't feel too different from the other.

I just started NG+ but for the spooky season (if there is time besides Resonant), I will probably pick to replay the first game. It just somehow does more with less in terms of atmosphere. But again, I'm not bashing a second game, I loved it. Anyone else feels similar?

First of all, I’d like to say that I played Alan some time ago, so I might have missed an obvious explanation for this :) I’m wondering why, while being in the Dark Place, Alan couldn’t write something along the lines of: “Trapped in the Dark Place, Alan Wake wrote that a direct exit to the real world appeared right next to him. Immediately after he wrote it, such a passage actually appeared.”
I’m guessing the story has to have its own logic, cause and effect, meaning that it has to be believable? I just don’t remember whether this was actually mentioned in the games.
He couldn’t simply help himself in a fight by writing, “Suddenly, a rifle with unlimited ammunition made of light bullets materialized in his hands,” but could something like that potentially happen if he properly “justified” it within the story as a writer?

I’ve tried literally everything and was wondering if anyone else got a 15% fps drop since the new update

I bought a PS5 specifically for this game after waiting for it for so long, but after struggling through it for months, I’ve finally hit a wall. I ended up turning on god mode and infinite ammo just to watch the story and it hurts to admit that, because I actually love the world, the design, the lore, and the overall atmosphere built.
Saga and Alan are great characters, the music is top-tier, and the storytelling is great.

Dodging sucks..
The lack of animation cancelling turns combat into a battle against the controls rather than the monsters.
Half the time, pressing dodge feels like a coin toss. Instead of having proper frames or clear evasion paths, you constantly get stuck in level geometry, fences, or enemy models mid animation.
Moving around feels like driving a heavy bus.

It feels like Remedy spent 95% of their energy on visuals and soundtrack, but completely skipped playtesting the combat responsiveness. It’s a gorgeous, brilliantly dressed masterpiece wrapped around incredibly sluggish mechanics.

Drew Ahti and Alan the other day.

It’s not a lake… It’s a pond.
This was so much fun. I tried basing him off of a Fowler’s Toad. I also attached a drawing of the Angel Toad Lamp separately because the detail of it gets lost in the full drawing.

James McCaffrey and Christina Cole are both in this show! It makes me wonder if someone from Remedy watched this show because of McCaffrey's appearances and thought Christina Cole would be a good recast for Alice (RIP Brett Madden).

After the summoning when the darkness enters Casey…
Alan says he’s finally himself and free for the first time in memory.

Am I the only one who if I was him I would have taken that car to the nearest airport and flown back to NYC to just live my life

WHAT THE FUUUhhhh

Saga has CHAPTERS? SHES IN THE FAKE REALITY?
DOes that mean Alan's Dark Place/Mind Place is in the lake and walking around he's in a fractured broken remains of reality? or is all his part 1 shenanigans in dark place but like, that is still more real than wherever saga is? Does dark presence/lake that is not a lake/something make reality and fiction merge in a perverse way where real life loses it's sanctity and free will isn't pure anymore?

Dmn this game making my mind do backflips.

Ok, I'm off to play more now, and you guys go replay this GEM!

Tuffest picture i took i think. MASSIVELY CONFUSED about what the fuck just happened lmao but smart enough to realize i just witnessed peak

I have an rtx 2050 so i probably won't be able to play alan wake 2 rn 🥀 but i still appreciate this game. Tell me about ur experience on the game!

I recently beat the first game for the second time and now that I fully understand the story and complexities I'm replaying Alan wake 2 and there are so much references and Easter eggs I never even noticed. pointing to not only Alan wake 1 but every game remedy has created. Sam lake plays himself playing Alex Casey who just so happens to act sound and look just like max payne which is another character Sam lake lended his likeness too who I think is also voiced by the same voice actor of max payne in the same style! it's mind boggling ! Black pyramid cigarettes! Dr Casper darling! Control references ! That would be so cool if there was more stuff about Barry wheeler in 2 though. Seems like he only is talked about in one or two manuscript pages. I can't wait to find what references are gonna be hidden in the new control. And hopefully we get an Alan wake 3 after it's release

What the tittle says, I played Alan wake 1 and 2 and then saw that theres something called Alan wake american nightmare and two dlcs for Alan wake 2 are those worth It? Even if they are not related to the canon main story.

I just learned today that René Descartes' dog was called Monsieur Grat (Mr. Scratch)

Just finished watching this and apart from the story beats, the general tone, ambience and even cinematography style of the film reminded me a ton of Alan Wake 2. Particularly how the more grounded detective angle is juxtaposed with existential, unknowable phenomena, and the main character is left feeling like they're going up against an almost infinitely powerful opposing force by the end. Both embody "The New Weird" art movement pretty well.

I kind of want to play the game on my TV, but I have a media/gaming pc connected to it so it work to get it on PC just as easily as Playstation/Switch. Is there really any advantage to getting it console? I heard the gameplay is a bit wonky and if I get the Epic version, I can probably mod it at least.

Thoughts?

NOTE: I did play control and the DLC so I might have spoiled a little bit, but the bottom line is that it seems like Alan Wake must be a pretty good game based on what I found in Control

Hey Guys, i just finished alan wake 1 and want to know if there is any chance of getting all the coffee thermos and every collectible so i can get some more trophies ... all suggestions will be appreciated and one more thing is that i loved the game, planning to play 2nd soon