alan wake ending thoughts(spoilers)

i dont mean to bring the other ending that is pissing people off into this. (cough*me3*cough) With alan wake speaking about how thomas zane wrote the ending of his wife dying, and he had to go back to the cabin to change the ending to departure. was alans death not written in departure, or was the story meant to be chaged from the begining.

the ending of Alan Wake has pissed me off ever since i beat it months ago, with the "its not a lake, its an ocean" i was like "BUT I SAW THE EFFING LAKE"

the ending of Alan Wake has pissed me off ever since i beat it months ago, with the "its not a lake, its an ocean" i was like "BUT I SAW THE EFFING LAKE"

laliberte11

I think the original ending was extremly good.

It's been a couple years and I forgot my theory but from what I remember:

Alan is possessed by the darkness, and smiley took his place in our world.

The male cop is also possessed (don't remember if the waiter girl is too, was she in the shadow at the ending scene?)

The lake/ocean may be a way to expand the world of the darkness itself, making it more global or something...

The ending was quite annoying since firstly, I hadn't a clue whether Alan had died, and secondly, what was up with the need to shoot the words to make them into the objects? I didn't fully follow the ending and some of the story, but I also have no idea about this ending you're talking about :S some explain...:roll:

Just beat this a few days ago and thought the ending was just fine. I actually liked it more than the plot itself (which just seemed a little on the dull side and dragged like a horse throughout the whole game).

Personally a lovey-dovey happy ending would have just made me sick and would have just felt completely meaningless. I think the supposition that you can't achieve victory without cost is a good one - helps make the story more interesting. Liking the dlc story more than the original game atm.

As to the original question: Basically the darkness wanted to use Alan to finish a story in such a way that it would be freed from the lake - and later on wanted to kill him because he knew too much. Alan with help from Zane (who had trapped the darkness in the lake but died in the process) got the idea to finish the story on his own terms - but at great cost to himself. Had Alan died along the way to the cabin or gotten too greedy when writing the ending prolly the whole village would have been lost and the darkness would finally be free.

As to the lake is an ocean thing I'm pretty sure it's not refering to it's physical properties - but to it's immense magical power (which has nothing to do with the darkness).

I love this game oh so much!

I liked AW:AN, but only because it had alan in it, the game itself wasn't good. A lot of lost potential and the manuscript pages were a joke.