Lake: 'Remedy is not a factory,' team fortunate to spend time on Alan Wake's debut adventure

Was just gonna say that :p

HAHAH!

You know who else is not a development factory? Polyphany. Remedy's last game was released in 2003 and polyphany in 2001.

Oh crap! JUAJAJAUJAUAJAJAJAJUAHA.

i get the same feeling, long delays are almost never a good sign, a lot of games that take forever to come out end up sucking, this looks like it might happen. I cant really place anything it's just that foreboding sense of suckage

Remedy made Max Payne.

They know how to make good games.

Was I the only one who thought Crysis sucked after it's many delays?

Remedy is from Finland.

God bless those Scandinavians.

Got them covered.

The entire game sucks because of its dodge animation.

That is such a deep argument.

In all fairness Halo, Gears and Fable were smash hits BECAUSE they were boosted by microsoft (if there is one thing microsoft can do well it's advertising). I have never personally been a fan of Halo (too colourful and dare I say it, consoley) but I liked gears, and fable. All are worthy of praise, but IMO not as much as they get. I still maintain that Halo is nothing more than a generic FPS. Watch Yahtzee's review of it and you'll pretty much get how I feel about it. Gears is much more unique from a gameplay point of view, but the setting is also a bit generic. Fable is a good, but doesn't go in depth enough for an RPG (and the co-op which it was touted for before launch sucks balls).

I'm not digging at MS for this, as nintendo is probably worse. They didn't even have to advertise Mario Galaxy and it would have been a smash hit purelly because of the fanboys (again, also a good game).

My point is, simply being exclusive is usually enough to almost double sales on that system (over what they would have been on that platform had it been multi platform). That is as long as they advertise. Killzone 2 for example didn't do nearly as well as Halo 3, but IMO should have done (it is also just as generic, although I prefer the feel a bit, and the graphics are better, no matter what the fanboys say). It did do far better than it probably deserved as well though, compared to titles like CoD4/WaW or Half-life 2, or heck even things like UT3 (which while not as good as UT2004, is still good, even in it's shitty 360 version).

*prepairs to get downvoted by fanboys of all kinds*

Color was the reason I enjoyed Halo. That and Call of Duty seem like the only colorful FPS games left. I had to sell Killzone 2 and only played a few hours of Fallout 3 before getting tired of it. Maybe I'm an old gamer, but I don't like games without color.

what? Are we playing the same CoD games? Where maps are on boats completely in gray, middle eastern cities all in sand brown color, gray office buildings, brown and gray german parliaments, brown trainsyards, brown everything?