Why Alan Wake 2 Is My 2023 GAME OF THE YEAR

what's up everybody Welcome to podcast now I'm Alex and in this video I want to talk about my game of the year for 2023 this is a kind of a series I just started doing really last year with a plague tale reum that won it for me in 2022 well in 2023 this shouldn't be a surprise if you watched my videos the last couple months but it is Allan Wake 2 and I just wanted to dedicate an entire video explaining why why is this my favorite game and to be clear that's all this means right it's my favorite game doesn't have to be yours can't believe we even have to say that out loud but obviously we do Allen wake 2 is different and there is a biasness there right I was really excited for this game I thought this game could be my game of the year but to be fair and to make sure you know I'm covered from all angles I have been actually very critical of games that I've been very much looking forward to like if a game that I am really excited for disappoints me you might hear it more than anything else right I just can't shut up about it so honestly yes I was super excited for this game since well years ago but let's say the beginning of this year right game comes out and I adore it but if it did suck if it did disappoint me you would have heard I would have leaned into that not for not clickbait not for clicks actually at all out of pure rage you know I'm a very passionate individual I would have been very mad so just kind of want to say that right there is you could say well Alex you've been rooting for this game all year that's true but if it didn't nail it I would have tore this game to shreds and in short it does nail it I tend to to be a person that goes for different kinds of games I do like the big AAA Spider-Man is one of my favorite games of this year there's plenty of big games the Dead Space remake plenty of games in just like October by itself I do go for the big ones I play Indies you know here and there and sometimes smaller under the radar games are also some of my favorite games of all time or game of the year but where I'm going with this is even though you know I do play a lot of AAA games I tend to gravitate towards the ones that are a little different whether that's because cuz I'm a little different or the game's a little different but that's really what I go for again you look back to last year a plague tail requium that I would consider that a triaa game it has the look it has the quality of a triaa game even if maybe it's a little bit less I don't really think I would consider it a double A and alen wake is kind of the same thing right this would be considered I think a AAA game but remedy makes it smaller there are smaller team compared to you know the massive sizes of other teams they make it for less money and the game stands out and and I guess that's where I'm going with this right Allen wake is special and Allen wake 1 was special control was special this game is special it does things you do not see in the AAA space I guess that's really what I want to say right now for this game I actually think it kind of covered all bases and it did everything it needed to do in order to make it my game of the year and what do I mean by that well to just have the big twists and turns which this game did and it had all of the lore impact that I wanted let's start there I often times talk about these kind of games you know I'm a big fan of Kingdom Hearts and I like convoluted messed up stories even if I can barely now I really try I I think I'm more knowledgeable on Kingdom Hearts than your average person I think I'm more knowledgeable on Alan wak than your average person maybe not the most but definitely more than you know the average person so I gravitate towards those games so on one hand going into Allen wake 2 I needed that that's actually where Kingdom Hearts 3 completely dropped the ball and I mean a lot of people wouldn't know that or don't care about that because you know they don't play it for that reason but Kingdom Hearts 3 in terms of the namora story right going after the hardcore facts they didn't they didn't do any of it in fact there was a huge huge disappointment for me in that game I bring that up because that is a big part of Allen wake the twists the lore the just how does this even work what is even going on in this game I needed that otherwise it's not really Allen wake and otherwise it doesn't really make an impact on me so it had that it had everything that Allen wake the game needed to have if it didn't have these convoluted story beats to me it would not have been the same game it also just wouldn't have been as good but on top of that well it was that and then more like who thought Herald of Darkness would happen right you'll never see that in a triaa game period ever they can only do that and that's special I mean to me that's very special some of those kind of moments right the herald of Darkness or the actually several like musical moments in this game there are big twists and turns you know in regards to the story but okay well you have that but you know that's not all in fact that's what Allan Wake one had now not to the scale I think the big moments in Allan Wake 2 are much bigger than Allan Wake 1 but what did Allan Wake one lack well honestly game play even visuals I think were kind of lacking at the time my opinion okay my controversial opinion this game had it all this game is one of the best looking games you'll see in modern day it really it would which is astounding considering again the size of Remedy this game is beautiful to look at any day of the week right at any time whether you're playing a saga or whe whether you're playing as Allen but it's also a good game one of the things that was lacking with Allen wake 1 was the gameplay was the wave based kind of you know mentality of it and just way too much of it and also the gameplay itself wasn't all that amazing this one now this is not the greatest gameplay game I've ever played in my life this is not the greatest gameplay game I played in 201 23 in fact it's probably not even the top five but it was absolutely serviceable and I would say it was way above average I would say this is a great game honestly it's very much copying Resident Evil if you've played Resident like the newer ones if You' played Resident Evil you've played the how that feels for Allan wck and that's not a bad like you know there was a little bit of me going into it where it's like all right well you going to make it your own I mean they made it their own a little bit you know I guess in terms of the flashlight right or Shining it and then shooting but yeah the feel the camera look the inventory a lot of that stuff is straight up ripped from and which doesn't make it the best in fact you could then say Resident Evil 4 you know would beat it in that department you know in gameplay but I didn't need that to be the best you know part of Allen wake 2 I think the story is legendary I think the acting is topnotch I think the writing is extremely good I think again the twists and turns and big moments that you just don't see in AAA games all of that is in Allan Wake and then okay well what's the last part well the game actually has to be you know somewhat fun at least to play and that's really the one big uh negative one big like massive thing that kind of pops up with Allen wake 1 not here um I again I wouldn't say it's the greatest thing ever and it's not even the greatest thing of this year but it did what it needed to do and I think or at least I hoped that it would have you know brought more people in right because there's so many fans of Resident Evil and you know this game definitely feels like that I I think theore is too much for you know some people to kind of jump in but yeah I mean this game like I said Spider-Man I love a lot of the games that came out this year high-i rush that's how you kind of know I guess the kind of gamer I am right Hi-Fi rush and we just did a live stream yesterday where I went through my Game of the Year Awards went through the nominees all that stuff high-fi Rush would be like a top three game of the year so you can kind of see okay well Alex likes you know bigger games to maybe make make an impact right but they also are a little bit different and not saying that that's better or worse you know if Starfield is your favorite or Spider-Man you know like these really big the ones that are directly in front of your face they're very hard to miss that's awesome you know I mean this is this is simply mine and I've always gravitated towards that stuff right like the gravity rushes of the world those games are awes I mean that's I don't know why that just popped into my head but it did games that are triaa they are big they are out there they're heavily promoted right and talked about but they're just a little bit different those are kind of the games I I you know get into and like I said said Spider-Man's up there high-fire Rush Dead Space you know Resident Evil there were there were dozens Dead Island 2o like actually even that game is extremely good there were dozens of awesome games this year um now was it hard to choose no like once I beat Alan Wake high-fi Rush was my game of the year until Allen wake came out that's that's what I would have said and and that's I guess what I'm saying right now Allen wake beats it simply for I guess my expectations right it did what I needed it to do and I put a pretty high like I raised the bar for it you know and I needed it to reach my high bar I needed this game to fulfill because I played the first one when it came out so I needed this game to like match right all these years of waiting and I haven't been like pacing back and forth and and some fans have some fans have really been much more eager or waiting for it more than I have but specifically the last couple years specifically this year and then like the last couple weeks last couple months you know leading into it I had a huge bar you know for expectations for this game and it did it and I feel like that's kind of hard because you know sometime I mean that's a maybe a negative of me like I do put high expectations on certain things at least and this game did it so congratulations to alen wake 2 hopefully you guys enjoyed this like I said this is my kind of second annual thing I did it last year just a whole video of why plague tail reum was my game of the year you know if I had to choose it would actually be very tough because ream freaking rocks but Allen wake rocks I don't actually know which one I would say glad to say what's my favorite game of the last two years that would be such a tough choice between the two on one day I'd pick one on the other day I'd pick the other uh so we'll do it again next year hopefully we got you know a really good game because these last two have been excellent so let me know what your game of the year is in the comments would love to see it make sure as always you're subscrib to the channel Bell icon turned on and I hope to see you all on the next one

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Length: 9min 55sec (595 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 24 2023