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Well, I definitely will be buying Red Dead Redemption when it comes out and I don't know.....I'm not to big on these types of games (half sandbox games as I like to call them).

I think it looks really cool and even the story (from what I know) seems very interesting......but I'm just not sure I would buy it. I was the same with Arkham Asylum, I played the demo, said I was definitely going to buy it then just lost interest.

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Hmmm... is your avatar an actual picture of you.... or is it from somewhere else?

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Happy Alan Wake Day everyone. Hope you're not all just playing Red Dead Redemption :sad:

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Picking it up after work! Can't wait!

Except that I have to finish Metro 2033 first and watch Lost. :sad:

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I know - this is very unfortunate for the state of gaming. People would rather have a sequel than an original Stephen King book come to life :sad:

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Picking this up after work, but I think I'll tackle RDR first.

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Excellent. Good thing you're out east because it'll still be only 7pm for me when Lost is over for you!

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I got mine from Amazon this morning. I won't really get a chance to play until Thursday though. I chose this over Red Dead Redemption; this looked far more interesting :)

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It's not that, RDR just has more legs. AW is more of a rental. I usually only read Stephen King novels once, but I still watch Deadwood, Young Guns, and The Magnificent Seven as the fancy strikes me.

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I plan to play both tonight. RDR while it's light out, then switching over to Wake when the sun goes down.

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RENTALS ARE KILLING THE GAMING SPiRIT! WITHOUT PEOPLE BUYING GAMES THE DEVS DON'T MAKE MONEY PREVENTING ORIGINAL GAMES FROM BEING MADE!

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I bought both, but only because Amazon dropped the price of Alan Wake by $10 and offered another $10 gift card on top of it.

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My copy from Amazon has arrived. However, Red Dead takes priority...as does Mass Effect 2...as does Lost tonight.

So yeah, I'll post my impressions of this in a couple of weeks probably. :sad:

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I bought this today as well, don't know when I'll be able to play it. Sort of a strange "Spring Cluster" of good games these next couple of weeks.

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No worries, man, I don't waste money on renting either. I'll borrow it from someone that has bought it. That should unwad your panties.

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I picked up my pre-order earlier this morning, but won't start playing it until after dark.

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I probably won't get to it until this weekend.

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Waiting for my LE. It would probably be delivered tomorrow. :(

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Silly mod, Split/Second isn't a sequel, more of a spiritual successor to Pure. ;)

Like Suprmallet, I did order AW today because of the $50 + $10 credit. Still waiting on the credit though.

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I was going to get this at TRU but they didn't have it. Is it really short?

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I am in love with the limited edition. Box that looks and feels like a hardcover book, a soundtrack that is actually on a CD instead of a download code, a bonus DVD, and a 150+ page book about the storyline.

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I'd like to read all that supplemental material... would be cool

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Just did the quick tutorial/dream sequence. Love the atmosphere already.

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Same here.

Also, i won't be using the Gamestop avatar code for the female shirt. If anyone rocks a female avatar PM me and you can have the code.

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In order to boost street cred and encourage sales of the game within certain target markets... i instead bought: アランの航跡

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Finished Episode 1. Pretty awesome stuff so far!

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Aren't you glad I didnt tell you about the licensed music? ;)

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Yes....I hope the rental market doesn't destroy this Microsoft published title that thus far has featured prominent in game advertising from Microsoft, Verizon, and Energizer. I can tell they need all the help they can get. :lol:

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Don't forget Ford.

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Remedy's a pretty small developer and their last game Max Payne 2 was released way back in 2003. Something had to fund the 7 years working on Alan Wake :shrug: :)

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Yeah, only two tracks in so far, and I can already see how much thought they put into the music selections. That's why I'm waiting to finish the game before I listen to the soundtrack CD. The jukebox in the diner just makes it feel more like a real place.

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According to the unscientific poll that is my friends list, RDR must have outsold this game 20:1. No one was playing this last night.

*I* would have played this last night, but Best Buy chose not to pull my pre-order off the shelf and instead sold it and every other copy to people who just walked in off the goddamn street.

I have to wonder if having the reviews hit 2-3 weeks before street date was a mistake. People were stoked when the reviews came out, then they had to wait 3 more weeks...

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I bought both and will play both but Alan Wake is a game that you need to block out a chunk of time and immerse yourself. RDR is a game i can pop in and screw around for 15 minutes and be done. I will probably play RDR more often because of that but Alan Wake will definitely be played and enjoyed... just like the Mass Effect games.

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Not as big of a mistake as releasing on the same day as RDR IMO. I have both sitting there and have been enjoying Alan Wake but still had a really hard time putting it in over RDR last night.

With the 3 week lead in they gave the full retail release version with press folks they obviously could've planned for an earlier release. I gotta think that would've been better for them had it come out any of the previous two weeks.

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They must have been afraid of Iron Man 2, for some silly ass reason. I even saw more people playing Split/Second than Alan Wake yesterday.

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Here I thought Corvin was the only one playing Split/Second :)

But yeah, when I logged in I was the only one playing Wake. I hope it's successful, I've enjoyed what Remedy has done.

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:lol: I figured I was myself.

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Picked this up last night, but probably won't be playing it for a while. I can already tell that RDR is going to be too hard for me to put down. At least I have another great game to look forward to playing after I finish RDR.

I'd say it was a pretty big mistake by Remedy releasing this the same day as RDR. Should have released this 3 weeks ago when reviews started coming out.