You should also watch a recap of Control’s AWE DLC if you haven’t played that, since it resolves some of the plot threads from the first Alan Wake and sets up AW2.

Just loaded it up. The title screen has “The Final Draft” above “continue” and once selecting it, has a difficulty option. So yes.

I wish people would actually lock up their guns as they claim they do. Just that one time could be a disaster. It’s a good thing Reeves didn’t come home unexpectedly. 

I think he was referring to Reeves’ 3-gun training. That’s with real guns. I’m not saying the guy could jump into a SEAL unit or anything, but he’s better trained in how to use firearms than 99% of the population, and certainly better than the many regular people who manage to use guns in self defense.

He’s trained to look like a bad ass on screen. Which is a skill and an intense work out but it doesn’t often translate to real world martial arts skills.

As much as I enjoy the Game Awards, I have to agree with lot of things that both you and Kotaku pointed out.

I’d say Remedy are the ones standing head and shoulders above the rest (in term of the ads part of the award I mean). Of everyone here, only Remedy convinced me to play one of their games (in that case Alan Wake 1 cause I’m not gonna play the second before playing the first).

I don’t see her as a straightforward heroic character. I see her as a deeply traumatized one. That’s what’s driving her denial of her past. She both recognizes the need to defend herself but refuses to acknowledge why. I guess I don’t see the show idealizing her as much as you see feel they are doing. Maybe at some…

Hmm. I can see some of what you mean. Like the daughter, just barely seems to care that her father was just electrocuted right in front of her. (and unlike the review, I did not read that scene as comedic at all. It was horrifying. I thought he died.) For the kid, Mommy says it’s fine, so it’s fine. Can I go get a…

Why not just subtitle the game what it really is? GTA 6: the Florida Simulator

Those social media ”short’ clips are parodying real life viral videos. I remember the “Karen” with two hammers destroying a car of her neighbor viral video.

The GTA series has always had a keen eye for satire of American culture. It will be interesting to see what they can come up with on the vapid social media sewage fire of a reality we now live in.

I get what you’re saying, but it was a funeral, so maybe extra candles.

I think a parody of DeSantis is more likely, because it would be less controversial and more locally relevant. Plus they could make fun of him for free advertising when he inevitably attacks the game.

I’m deeply curious if they incorporate a whole parody Trump &/or Mar-a-Lago or if they just decide to steer clear of that angle. On one hand, it seems like a missed opportunity to do nothing with it, on the other, they may not want to deal with fallout from doing so.

“adding to the sense that this is a wild, absurd reflection of our own world”

Much like Florida.

They did.

1) changing cultural mores. Things in the past are certainly different from now. You might also remember western games getting pilloried for sexual content—for instance the now infamous GTA San Andreas hot coffee mod kerfuffle.

It is a fetishized image, but that’s also what a lot of advertising is. That very likely won’t change because it’s how advertising works on people. It’s a vision of a dystopian future, not a future where everyone is tolerant and understanding of each other.

Nah, the GRMM universe is a merch juggernaut.  HoD is safe since it’s a loss leader.