Mon, Jan 16, 2012 | 10:24 GMT
Remedy developing “groundbreaking” AAA console project
Remedy’s posted a job listing for what it says is a “groundbreaking” AAA console project.
The Finnish studio posted the listing on its website, looking for a gameplay/AI programmer, with the successful candidate working on the internally-made engine that powered both Alan Wake and XBLA effort American Nightmare.
Besides American Nightmare, the only confirmed project on the studio’s books is the PC release of the original Wake, being self-published by the company.
There’s no suggestion on what this project could be. Right?
Thanks, Gamerzines.
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Posted in: Action, Development
Tags: alan wake, remedy
18 comments
#1
Maximum Payne
16/01/12, 10:43 am
I’m just happy they didn’t closed.
#2
YoungZer0
16/01/12, 10:48 am
“New game by Remedy”
Yeay!
“Probably Alan Wake 2″
Neay!
#3
mojo
16/01/12, 10:54 am
max payne 3?
scnr
#4
The_Red
16/01/12, 12:43 pm
@2
Correction:
“Probably Alan Wake 2″
Hell Yeay!
#5
OlderGamer
16/01/12, 2:35 pm
@1 +1
#6
ManuOtaku
16/01/12, 2:47 pm
#1 and #4 +1
#7
Joe Musashi
16/01/12, 2:48 pm
Great! Only 6 years to go before they release it then. I wonder if it’ll have a protagonist with a stupid wordplay-based name.
JM
#8
roni1175
16/01/12, 3:43 pm
Digger HD
#9
Malmer
16/01/12, 4:28 pm
Please let it be Alan Wake 2! Loved the first game and consider it one of my personal top five games this generation.
#10
Kabby
16/01/12, 5:40 pm
Groundbreaking? Does this mean it’s on Kinect? :/
#11
fearmonkey
16/01/12, 6:05 pm
Next Gen game – Alan WAKE 2 ftw.
#12
Ireland Michael
16/01/12, 6:12 pm
I love how 90% of the replies in this thread are people wanting a sequel instead of an actual new game.
And this is why we get Call of Duty every single year.
Hey, I loved Alan Wake, but I’d rather have a completely new experience over a single changed one any day.
#13
fearmonkey
16/01/12, 6:20 pm
@12 – That’s great, yeah I can truly see how a sequel to a game that wasn’t really ended properly would be just like the Call of Duty yearly sequel. I guess you were unhappy about that Star Wars Episode 5 and 6, when everything was so nicely tied up at the end of episode 4.
Some of us like sequels and trilogy’s, do you want one episode of a TV show and say, lets watch something else?
#14
DSB
16/01/12, 6:23 pm
I don’t know about that. There are quite a lot of good sequels out there. Portal 2, Arkham City, Just Cause 2, Uncharted 2, The Witcher 2 etc. etc.
Throwing everything away and starting over isn’t always a good thing. I don’t think anyone has been dying for games like Hunted, Enslaved or Homefront.
I’m not saying being original is bad, but it’s not so black and white. Ultimately it’s down the industry’s ability (or lack of same) to back a winner, original, sequel or otherwise.
I think it’s a lot worse that publishers insist on taking old trademarks and then changing everything that made them special to begin with. To me that’s a lot more like choosing not to give a new IP the chance. The games have nothing to do with the old ones, they’re new IPs in every sense of the word, but they aren’t allowed to exist as such.
#15
The_Red
16/01/12, 6:50 pm
@14
I gotta disagree on the Enslaved part. While the gameplay was mostly meh, the story, the characters and the world were more than interesting. They deserve to have a follow-up which probably will never happen.
#16
fearmonkey
16/01/12, 7:17 pm
@15 – Enslaved was actually a very cool game, a friend bought it and I enjoyed watching him play it.
#17
The_Red
16/01/12, 7:35 pm
@16 Agreed. It had flaws but the overall experience was rather great (Though I mostly played and finished it for 2 lovely central characters).
#18
mojo
17/01/12, 2:41 pm
fully agree with 14.
the rapeing of old ips is getting out of hand this gen.