Alan Wake II

Dlcs are on the disc. Got it for chrimbo and was looking for the code but no, installed them direct from disc. Altho not got round to diving into it properly yet

I think playing AW1 will stand to you. It's set in the same town, lots of the same characters and very similar time line.

I played the remastered AW1 recently as it was a ps+ monthly game and it's enjoyable.

But 2 is a real step up in almost every area. But I was very happy that I'd played 1 a week or two before.

Aaahh good shout about easy mode, the janky combat is the main turnoff for me so yeah, ye convinced me to get AW 1. I remember years ago thinking damn, lucky xbox, I'd love to play it. Then it comes to PlayStation and thought ah, the Internet told me it's janky, pass 😩

So Remedy, how much jank do you want in AW 1? YES!

The movement, combat, voice acting, man it's old. But, I'm already intrigued to see what happens, great little opening and introduction to the town.

Prob the best advice is to not worry about batteries or bullets. They tend to give you plenty. Blast them with the torch and then shoot. If there is a lock on setting in the settings turn it on.

It gets funner with flash bangs and shot guns.

The DLC for 2 with the waitress is like a Tarentino movie

I just started chapter 3 and thought this might be a long ass game if 10-15 chapters like modern games but Google says there's only 6 which is good news.

Yeah 6 chapters and about 2 hours each max. The 2nd dlc is class and only length of another chapter, maybe less.

Agree you get loads of supplies. Quite a few times you can just run for it to the next light checkpoint also to avoid the tedious combat

I didn't. I can't even remember if it was available when I finished the game, but even then I don't think I would have bothered with it. It felt like it'd be a long enough game to get through even knowing where to go and what to do, as you'd still have to do huge parts of the story again. It's why it's actually more egregious to me than the Riddler Trophies, because at least that's a 100% game completion to unlock the true ending, rather than having to play the game again (though it's the amount of Riddler Trophies that's the issue there).

I also never got round to playing the DLCs. Again, not sure if I'd bother, especially since I've never played Control (it's on the list to get to eventually) so that DLC would probably be completely lost on me.

The base game was great and I thoroughly enjoyed it, but not enough that I'd be clamouring for a NG+ playthrough or DLCs.

The Lake House was a decent DLC I thought. The Night Springs episodes were completely inconsequential and not really worth a playthrough. I played Control but can't remember anything about it to be honest. I don't think playing the Lake House before Control is going to make that much difference tbh.

I don't think subtle differences is enough to get me to play another 20 hr runthrough of the games.

I loved the waitress DLC (felt like a Tarentino movie) but the other two are just fine.

The lake house was good though. Didn't over stay it's welcome, but like that im not sure it added anything to the original game experience ??

There are enemies on floor 1 that you just have to run away from. You get a gun on floor two that can kill them. Just in case that's the bit that caused you to quit. Getting that gun ups the fun factor.