Remedy has always been in my heart since starting from a disk of pirated Max Payne in the early 2000-s that my father brought back. These games have always been on par with the STALKER universe for me. Before the release of STALKER 2, I have to play Alan Wake 2 and end all DLC`s. this is last Remedy game in my list. And kudos to the same lover of games on disks, I also have almost the entire Remedy collection along with Stalker. Thanks for the video, bro!
That's James McCaffrey's voice, not Sam Lake's. He did the voiceacting for Max Payne, because let's face it, Sam Lake's goofy not-that-masculine voice with strong accent doesn't really fit the character much.
@@azoman7407 Your totally right I goofed that. I forget sometimes it's James voice and not Sams since it's so interlinked with Max Payne. And RIP to the great James McCaffrey.
I've heard that Remedy took a loan from a chinese Tencent studio for theirs next projects and thay have to pay the debt in eight years... If it's true and they have to resort to such actions... than Remedy in big troubels, i'm afraid :(
I love watching guys like you discover remedy and stalker years after their release so I can see a new generation enjoying games of the past... It also makes me feel old as dirt! 🤣🤣🤣
Ah Remedy. As a Hungarian they have a special place in my heart. I have always wanted to visit Finland "one day" because of our shared ancient linguistic connection but Alan Wake 2 pushed me over the edge. I played Max Payne 2 back in the day but then forgot about Remedy. I picked up Control during Covid because I was done with Jedi: Fallen Order and wanted to paly something similar. I saw some gameplay trailers of Control back from 2019 where Jesse throws things around and I was like "aight, that is Jedi enough". When I was a teen (some 16 years ago) I was really into the paranormal and supernatural and all that but grew out of it by the time I reached 18. I knew NOTHING about Control's setting. So when it dawned on me that it's about this urban legend - paranormal stuff I felt EXACTLY like what Jesse describes in the opening cutscene: the poster on your wall falling off and seeing the real world for the first time. I felt like coming home after being away for a very long time. Really that is the closest analogy I could use, I felt like this is exactly what I've been waiting for, where my place is. And right after I finished all the DLCs they announced that Alan Wake 2 would be releasing in 2023? Synchronicity man. So yeah see you in Finland next summer!
Look at what's happening with Ubisoft right now. Developers and studios shouldn't dismiss all criticism because it's supposedly based on hate and prejudice. Developers shouldn't antagonize their customers (gamers). Remedy's community manager (Vida) seems to be a close friend of Alyssa Mercante, someone who is known for antagonizing gamers and, in my opinion, one of the most dishonest journalists I've ever seen. Unfortunately, I've seen Vida express similar opinions to Alyssa's, I recently saw an old interview with her where she said she wanted to work at Remedy because they were making a game with a strong female protagonist, she's an extreme identitarian. Yes, I think that consulting firms like SBI are a problem and that sensitive reading is just a fancy name for artistic censorship. The only reservations I have regarding SBI's influence in Alan Wake 2 are when Saga calls Alan a white asshole out of nowhere, there is no need to bring race into the game considerinng the polarized context in which we find ourselves, the other is the game's need to reaffirm every 30 seconds that Saga is a badass professional and an incredible mother, this is extremely tiring.. I don't care about the raceswap, it makes sense with who her father probably is. I love the Remedyverse and all its IPs, but I don't want to give money to those who hate and despise me, especially living in a third world country where these games are extremely expensive.
I hadn't heard of Sweet Baby inc or Alyssa Mercante until I received some disgruntled comments a while back that I spoke about liking Alan Wake II. I was completely blind to the campaign against SBI and all that jazz and I have to say that a lot of people are getting too carried away and also creating a Barbara Streisand effect around the relevance of SBI and hard left games journalists. I had no prejudice when Saga was being turned into a whiny racist with a victim mentality by the dark presence. It makes sense. Saga is fighting her insecurities and the game is explicitly saying, "being a whiny racist with a victim mentality gets you nowhere." I truly think that the hate against AW2 is grossly misdirected at the wrong people for the wrong reasons. It's FAR from being anything close to Ubisoft's "diversity" thing. With that said, I live in a third world country too, and I'm praising Remedy also for LOWERING the price of AW2 to 50$ while the entire industry is going up to 70$. Yet that's hardly ever talked about, even by myself. Lastly, I can understand not buying games that benefit people who hate you. I just think that there's a lot of intellectual dishonesty going on with that since Space Marine II was made in russia, where 20% of revenue goes to their government which applies 30 freaking percent of their spending in military. Watch Rossiya-1 for a day and see what real, seething hate looks like, I don't even have to mention their war. Boycott Alan Wake 2 because it received a consulting service from a company of about a dozen people but praise a much smaller game that funds the worst war (all because a country wanted to be more European and not russian) we've seen since WW2? No one cares about that? So yeah I just don't think that the "people who hate me" case is intellectually honest, though it could be ignorance of that country's government's deeply hateful rhetoric towards us.
I saw the title and said : "That is so true!", weeping gently... They're genuine. Alan Wake 2 was a risky bet. Control might be the best thing I've experienced in sci-fi. They're multi-faceted artists who embrace seriousness, weirdness & humor all at once.
Maybe they should put there future games on Steam. Steam=money, Epic=having to borrow money from Tencent, which usually marks the death of decent games from any developer. That thought has made me want a drink. 😢
It is inevitable the company will only continue to rot from inside with its woke activist staff. I still have to admit I did enjoy AW2 when I managed to ignore its pandering and degeneracies.
Remedy is such a good developer that not even Sweet Baby Inc. could ruin Alan Wake 2. Every game they make feels like a passion project, which made those “sweet baby” moments in Alan Wake 2 stick out like a sore thumb because 96% of the game is so good. Still a bummer they chose to work with them in the first place
@@manriquez1991 Off the top of my head: Saga Anderson whining about Alan and “white men” for about 5 seconds near the end of the game, the black couple at the beginning of the game whining about poIice brutality and saying “Bright Falls is just Alabama with more trees” (for reference I live in Alabama so this one kinda annoyed me lol), the same black guy writing a journal saying he can’t wait to finally write plays and movies “with an all black cast this time!”, a cop character mentioning basically out of nowhere that she has a wife, a whole manuscript page dedicated to the 2 cops who have existed since the first game all of a sudden being blatantly bigoted and RAYCIS (i think it was revealed though that this page was written by Scratch)
They are already lost, they are in the shit. I was a big fan, Max Payne, Alan Wake, Quantum Break. Control was incredibly good, but AW2 was basically a walking simulator and annoying put the picture on the corkboard "game". And then all the Sweet Baby Inc and Alyssa Mercante connections. They race swapped Saga Anderson from white Swedish woman in Quantum Break to a black woman who wears a traditional Swedish sweater to say "see she totally is Swedish and stuff". Recent comments of their Community Manager, about how gamers are bigots... I am voting with the wallet this time, not buying their stuff anymore. I'll let the "modern audience" pay and see what happens.
Well said, too bad Can't Game Right is deleting the comments he doesn't like. If I were to make a video defending a company, the least I would do is encourage open discourse......
Saga being black integrates her into the story better as it's heavily implied that she's the daughter of one of the characters who is a black man, and due to Remedy's connected universe it's heavily insuited that he's the same/multiversal version of a character from a different game who is also a black man. The race swap argument is stupid when there's a reason for her to be black in the story, and that part of the story has nothing to do with wokeness (if you believe in that crap).
Yeah, I was surprised at just how bad AW2 is. The ESG sellout stuff to the side, it's so bland. Yo, some of that live-action stuff is so cringe, I was almost beginning to feel sorry for the actors...almost
@@GregorGault Yeah, yeah, definitely got nothing to do with Sweet Baby Inc, sure... They didn't want DEI points with this one... It's because of the connected universe, just keep telling yourself that.
The Remedy of Max payne and Alan Wake 1 is not the same we have nowadays... Alan wake 2 is the most boring walking simulator ever... seems every company has to follow this trend of "cinematic" games and have gameplay as an afterthought., and as people already mentioned, SWEET baby ink (it says a lot when you have race swap). I trully hope then to do the remake as Konami is doing Metal Gear Delta.
@@tiagomesquita6980 It’s definitely the same company, with every game they make basically being a passion project by Sam Lake. With Alan Wake 2 they talked about wanting to make a Silent Hill style survival horror game with detective elements, that’s also modeled after A24 horror movies. That’s exactly what they did and the combat and overall gameplay in the game is way more difficult and in-depth than AW1 ever was. The “sweet baby” moments in the game bothered me but that’s because they stuck out like a sore thumb and OBVIOUSLY weren’t written by Sam Lake, the other 98% of the game was so well written. Saga Anderson was never a pre-established character in Alan Wake, but simply in a demo/concept video from Quantum Break, so I don’t really consider it a “race swap” when she was never an actual character until AW2
@@cantgameright I have played Max Payne 2 so long ago that I can't even remember the guy. So, this caught me off guard. What was his version of "finger"-ing here?
The moments in Alan Wake 2 that were very clearly “Sweet Baby” and not Sam Lake or Remedy stood out like such a sore thumb, because for the entire game the writing is so good and so believable, and then once every 4 chapters there’s like *one line* that is so forced and clearly *attempting* to be political, when Alan Wake normally could not be *MORE* devoid of politics. Disappointing that they chose to work with Sweet Baby, but it’s a testament to the studio’s passion and quality that I pushed thru the annoying Sweet Baby moments because I was loving the game so much.
Tf are You talking about? If You mean selling? is becauase of the epic games contract, that is going to be over soon, so Alan wake on steam would blow up money!!!
Why is that? 'Cause one of the main characters is a black woman? Nah mate, it's great and there's nothing in the narrative that'd make it woke. I know Sweet Baby was involved but if I had to guess, they made them switch Saga's race which is ultimately a none issue. The game's still great.
Saga's "race swap" is unfounded because Saga was written into existence by Alan Wake, and she exists in different dimensions, it's lore correct and likely related to the casting of David Harewood and Warlin Door's hinted familiar bond to Saga. The funny thing about that racist line is that it comes in the scene where Saga is being possessed by the dark presence, which makes her a whiny wuss with a victim mentality. The game is literally saying "being a woke whiny wuss with a victim mentality is how you end up in the dark place." Ffs the game even makes fun of feminists, the line "fuck the government" is celebrated, it's SO FAR from being woke. These accusations against Remedy are completely misplaced, SBI did not make the game, they were brought in for "sensitivity reading" and "character story arch" which makes sense when you realize that the Saga sounds like SBI only when she's being taken over by evil. This is all a huge nothingtaco and the wrong people are getting punished for the wrong reasons.
@@sniperspy6072 Saga was NEVER an official character until Alan Wake 2. The only time she was ever white was a non-canon demo / concept video featured in Quantum Break. She was never an actual Remedy character until Alan Wake 2
@@cantgamerightbringing race into the games dialogue was always going to be risky at best. You can argue that it was worth it I guess but you could just as easily argue that it was done in poor taste. I think it ultimately just turned many people off from the game and remedy as a whole. It appears that these consultants often affect sales negatively by injecting unnecessary controversy and pretending to represent large groups of people, but in reality they don't. They don't represent racial groups they just represent an ideology that many people don't share.
You are fucking welcome lil bro 😎
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Remedy has always been in my heart since starting from a disk of pirated Max Payne in the early 2000-s that my father brought back.
These games have always been on par with the STALKER universe for me.
Before the release of STALKER 2, I have to play Alan Wake 2 and end all DLC`s. this is last Remedy game in my list.
And kudos to the same lover of games on disks, I also have almost the entire Remedy collection along with Stalker.
Thanks for the video, bro!
Control is seriously so good. AW2 is incredible as well. And then MP needs no intro. Great video.
I love the James McCaffrey AI voice and mirror scene lol. Great video brother.
That's James McCaffrey's voice, not Sam Lake's. He did the voiceacting for Max Payne, because let's face it, Sam Lake's goofy not-that-masculine voice with strong accent doesn't really fit the character much.
@@azoman7407 Your totally right I goofed that. I forget sometimes it's James voice and not Sams since it's so interlinked with Max Payne. And RIP to the great James McCaffrey.
1:52 Oh yes, I remember. The best driver of 20th century - Mykola Pizdarenko.
Dude keep on leaving Ukrainian Easter eggs even in the vids not related to Ukraine at all, love him
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Remedy is a public company btw. To support them and to be a partial owner of the company, you can buy their stocks on the market 😎
I've heard that Remedy took a loan from a chinese Tencent studio for theirs next projects and thay have to pay the debt in eight years... If it's true and they have to resort to such actions... than Remedy in big troubels, i'm afraid :(
I love watching guys like you discover remedy and stalker years after their release so I can see a new generation enjoying games of the past... It also makes me feel old as dirt! 🤣🤣🤣
With this new Alan Wake 2 DLC which one is coming out first, Control 2 or Max Payne 1+2???
@@theguyinthere I think they're working on both of them at the same time but Control 2 will come out first most likely.
@@cantgameright I'm more excited for control 2 but i wanna see what remedy does with the violence in the max payne games again!?!?
Ah Remedy. As a Hungarian they have a special place in my heart. I have always wanted to visit Finland "one day" because of our shared ancient linguistic connection but Alan Wake 2 pushed me over the edge. I played Max Payne 2 back in the day but then forgot about Remedy. I picked up Control during Covid because I was done with Jedi: Fallen Order and wanted to paly something similar. I saw some gameplay trailers of Control back from 2019 where Jesse throws things around and I was like "aight, that is Jedi enough". When I was a teen (some 16 years ago) I was really into the paranormal and supernatural and all that but grew out of it by the time I reached 18. I knew NOTHING about Control's setting. So when it dawned on me that it's about this urban legend - paranormal stuff I felt EXACTLY like what Jesse describes in the opening cutscene: the poster on your wall falling off and seeing the real world for the first time. I felt like coming home after being away for a very long time. Really that is the closest analogy I could use, I felt like this is exactly what I've been waiting for, where my place is. And right after I finished all the DLCs they announced that Alan Wake 2 would be releasing in 2023? Synchronicity man. So yeah see you in Finland next summer!
Look at what's happening with Ubisoft right now. Developers and studios shouldn't dismiss all criticism because it's supposedly based on hate and prejudice. Developers shouldn't antagonize their customers (gamers). Remedy's community manager (Vida) seems to be a close friend of Alyssa Mercante, someone who is known for antagonizing gamers and, in my opinion, one of the most dishonest journalists I've ever seen. Unfortunately, I've seen Vida express similar opinions to Alyssa's, I recently saw an old interview with her where she said she wanted to work at Remedy because they were making a game with a strong female protagonist, she's an extreme identitarian. Yes, I think that consulting firms like SBI are a problem and that sensitive reading is just a fancy name for artistic censorship. The only reservations I have regarding SBI's influence in Alan Wake 2 are when Saga calls Alan a white asshole out of nowhere, there is no need to bring race into the game considerinng the polarized context in which we find ourselves, the other is the game's need to reaffirm every 30 seconds that Saga is a badass professional and an incredible mother, this is extremely tiring.. I don't care about the raceswap, it makes sense with who her father probably is. I love the Remedyverse and all its IPs, but I don't want to give money to those who hate and despise me, especially living in a third world country where these games are extremely expensive.
I hadn't heard of Sweet Baby inc or Alyssa Mercante until I received some disgruntled comments a while back that I spoke about liking Alan Wake II. I was completely blind to the campaign against SBI and all that jazz and I have to say that a lot of people are getting too carried away and also creating a Barbara Streisand effect around the relevance of SBI and hard left games journalists.
I had no prejudice when Saga was being turned into a whiny racist with a victim mentality by the dark presence. It makes sense. Saga is fighting her insecurities and the game is explicitly saying, "being a whiny racist with a victim mentality gets you nowhere." I truly think that the hate against AW2 is grossly misdirected at the wrong people for the wrong reasons. It's FAR from being anything close to Ubisoft's "diversity" thing.
With that said, I live in a third world country too, and I'm praising Remedy also for LOWERING the price of AW2 to 50$ while the entire industry is going up to 70$. Yet that's hardly ever talked about, even by myself.
Lastly, I can understand not buying games that benefit people who hate you. I just think that there's a lot of intellectual dishonesty going on with that since Space Marine II was made in russia, where 20% of revenue goes to their government which applies 30 freaking percent of their spending in military. Watch Rossiya-1 for a day and see what real, seething hate looks like, I don't even have to mention their war. Boycott Alan Wake 2 because it received a consulting service from a company of about a dozen people but praise a much smaller game that funds the worst war (all because a country wanted to be more European and not russian) we've seen since WW2? No one cares about that? So yeah I just don't think that the "people who hate me" case is intellectually honest, though it could be ignorance of that country's government's deeply hateful rhetoric towards us.
Sweet baby Inc is a boogeyman for people that never see black people due since that requires going outside
Max Payne is not that fun when you don't know about the dynamic difficulty and how it works, I got pretty pissed off when I found out about it.
I saw the title and said : "That is so true!", weeping gently... They're genuine. Alan Wake 2 was a risky bet. Control might be the best thing I've experienced in sci-fi. They're multi-faceted artists who embrace seriousness, weirdness & humor all at once.
Maybe they should put there future games on Steam. Steam=money, Epic=having to borrow money from Tencent, which usually marks the death of decent games from any developer. That thought has made me want a drink. 😢
It is inevitable the company will only continue to rot from inside with its woke activist staff. I still have to admit I did enjoy AW2 when I managed to ignore its pandering and degeneracies.
REMEDY is the last standing company for me❤
Afteter alan woke well i don't just hope they didn't mess control 2.
Control has become one of my favorite games of all time, right there with the Mass Effect trilogy. We definitely need to protect Remedy at all costs.
Cant wait for ALL of there games to be on gamepass,
i'm anxiously waiting for that film/tv adaptation of Control and AW
yep
Max pyane remakes release date? And trailer release date?
2:04 i instead finish whole game on phone xd
We need Kane & Lynch 3
Remedy is such a good developer that not even Sweet Baby Inc. could ruin Alan Wake 2. Every game they make feels like a passion project, which made those “sweet baby” moments in Alan Wake 2 stick out like a sore thumb because 96% of the game is so good. Still a bummer they chose to work with them in the first place
Wich moments? ( I'm being serious) Cause i did not notice nothing
@@manriquez1991 Off the top of my head:
Saga Anderson whining about Alan and “white men” for about 5 seconds near the end of the game, the black couple at the beginning of the game whining about poIice brutality and saying “Bright Falls is just Alabama with more trees” (for reference I live in Alabama so this one kinda annoyed me lol), the same black guy writing a journal saying he can’t wait to finally write plays and movies “with an all black cast this time!”, a cop character mentioning basically out of nowhere that she has a wife, a whole manuscript page dedicated to the 2 cops who have existed since the first game all of a sudden being blatantly bigoted and RAYCIS (i think it was revealed though that this page was written by Scratch)
What's so bad about any of those things?
Finland! 🇫🇮
They are already lost, they are in the shit.
I was a big fan, Max Payne, Alan Wake, Quantum Break.
Control was incredibly good, but AW2 was basically a walking simulator and annoying put the picture on the corkboard "game".
And then all the Sweet Baby Inc and Alyssa Mercante connections. They race swapped Saga Anderson from white Swedish woman in Quantum Break to a black woman who wears a traditional Swedish sweater to say "see she totally is Swedish and stuff".
Recent comments of their Community Manager, about how gamers are bigots...
I am voting with the wallet this time, not buying their stuff anymore. I'll let the "modern audience" pay and see what happens.
Well said, too bad Can't Game Right is deleting the comments he doesn't like. If I were to make a video defending a company, the least I would do is encourage open discourse......
@@jozsefmatruczki I haven't deleted any comments that aren't obvious spam. Please understand that UA-cam has a comment filter of its own.
Saga being black integrates her into the story better as it's heavily implied that she's the daughter of one of the characters who is a black man, and due to Remedy's connected universe it's heavily insuited that he's the same/multiversal version of a character from a different game who is also a black man. The race swap argument is stupid when there's a reason for her to be black in the story, and that part of the story has nothing to do with wokeness (if you believe in that crap).
Yeah, I was surprised at just how bad AW2 is. The ESG sellout stuff to the side, it's so bland. Yo, some of that live-action stuff is so cringe, I was almost beginning to feel sorry for the actors...almost
@@GregorGault Yeah, yeah, definitely got nothing to do with Sweet Baby Inc, sure...
They didn't want DEI points with this one...
It's because of the connected universe, just keep telling yourself that.
The Remedy of Max payne and Alan Wake 1 is not the same we have nowadays...
Alan wake 2 is the most boring walking simulator ever... seems every company has to follow this trend of "cinematic" games and have gameplay as an afterthought., and as people already mentioned, SWEET baby ink (it says a lot when you have race swap).
I trully hope then to do the remake as Konami is doing Metal Gear Delta.
@@tiagomesquita6980 It’s definitely the same company, with every game they make basically being a passion project by Sam Lake. With Alan Wake 2 they talked about wanting to make a Silent Hill style survival horror game with detective elements, that’s also modeled after A24 horror movies. That’s exactly what they did and the combat and overall gameplay in the game is way more difficult and in-depth than AW1 ever was.
The “sweet baby” moments in the game bothered me but that’s because they stuck out like a sore thumb and OBVIOUSLY weren’t written by Sam Lake, the other 98% of the game was so well written.
Saga Anderson was never a pre-established character in Alan Wake, but simply in a demo/concept video from Quantum Break, so I don’t really consider it a “race swap” when she was never an actual character until AW2
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Is he talking about Mona by any chance?
Uhhh, yes... But he used "fingered" very liberally 😂
@@cantgameright I have played Max Payne 2 so long ago that I can't even remember the guy. So, this caught me off guard.
What was his version of "finger"-ing here?
@@sharif47 he just pointed at her
@@cantgameright 🤦
They better stop working with Sweet Baby.
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The moments in Alan Wake 2 that were very clearly “Sweet Baby” and not Sam Lake or Remedy stood out like such a sore thumb, because for the entire game the writing is so good and so believable, and then once every 4 chapters there’s like *one line* that is so forced and clearly *attempting* to be political, when Alan Wake normally could not be *MORE* devoid of politics. Disappointing that they chose to work with Sweet Baby, but it’s a testament to the studio’s passion and quality that I pushed thru the annoying Sweet Baby moments because I was loving the game so much.
@@ZacTheFirst which parts?
@@ZacTheFirsteven nudity is woke in Alan Wake 2.
It is now sweet baby company. Alan Wake 2 was a woke disaster.
Tf are You talking about? If You mean selling? is becauase of the epic games contract, that is going to be over soon, so Alan wake on steam would blow up money!!!
It's literally the best game ever made
Why is that? 'Cause one of the main characters is a black woman? Nah mate, it's great and there's nothing in the narrative that'd make it woke. I know Sweet Baby was involved but if I had to guess, they made them switch Saga's race which is ultimately a none issue. The game's still great.
They got to stop race swapping main characters and writing racist dialogue. Sorry I can not support a racist company.
Saga's "race swap" is unfounded because Saga was written into existence by Alan Wake, and she exists in different dimensions, it's lore correct and likely related to the casting of David Harewood and Warlin Door's hinted familiar bond to Saga. The funny thing about that racist line is that it comes in the scene where Saga is being possessed by the dark presence, which makes her a whiny wuss with a victim mentality. The game is literally saying "being a woke whiny wuss with a victim mentality is how you end up in the dark place." Ffs the game even makes fun of feminists, the line "fuck the government" is celebrated, it's SO FAR from being woke. These accusations against Remedy are completely misplaced, SBI did not make the game, they were brought in for "sensitivity reading" and "character story arch" which makes sense when you realize that the Saga sounds like SBI only when she's being taken over by evil. This is all a huge nothingtaco and the wrong people are getting punished for the wrong reasons.
@@cantgameright stop deleting comments coward
@@sniperspy6072 Saga was NEVER an official character until Alan Wake 2. The only time she was ever white was a non-canon demo / concept video featured in Quantum Break. She was never an actual Remedy character until Alan Wake 2
@@cantgamerightbringing race into the games dialogue was always going to be risky at best. You can argue that it was worth it I guess but you could just as easily argue that it was done in poor taste. I think it ultimately just turned many people off from the game and remedy as a whole. It appears that these consultants often affect sales negatively by injecting unnecessary controversy and pretending to represent large groups of people, but in reality they don't. They don't represent racial groups they just represent an ideology that many people don't share.
can't wait for max payne 1and 2 remastered