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2021.09.12 11:48 Sir_Galehaut The Remedy Connected Universe (RCU)

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Sam Lake :"You know we love to put Easter eggs into our games.
But what if some of them were more than Easter eggs?
What if… it’s all connected?"
Now that the cat is out of the shoebox alive and well, I thought about sharing the games and extra materials that I consider to be part of the RCU.
About the RCU
Here's what Sam Lake had to say about the RCU in 2013 during a reddit AMA : ""unacomn: Why is it an ocean, and not a lake?
SamLakeRMD: It’s bigger than a lake. The lake is just a hole to get to the ocean. It’s boundless, our world is just an island in that ocean."
"McSpain: Concerning the novel "Sudden Stop" featured in Alan Wake, which is obviously a nod to Max Payne. Is it only a funny Easter Egg or did you feel you need to have some sort of "closure" on your Max Payne Character and used this to give us your version of the End of Max's Story?
SamLakeRMD: In part having fun, but there is a deeper reason as well. To me all the stories we make are connected and linked in weird ways, part of the same multiverse. It was not so much killing off Payne as establishing Wake, where he is in his career as a writer, wanting to change things."
So by 2013, Remedy already had big plans for that multiverse and it was already well engaged ; the ultimate proof is Alan Wake himself. They could have chosen to design any kind of Hero, but they went for a writer. That writer could have been a writer of horror only, but we learn that he indeed wrote the Max Payne / Alex Casey series. This is such a bold game design choice right at the beginning of this game creation, it interlace both games in a shared universe. The very same can be said with Quantum Break ; In 2012, Sam Lake released a blog hinting at Quantum Break, That's 4 years before the release of the game !
"For he did not know - That beyond the lake - He called home - Lies a deeper darker - Ocean green - Where waves are - Both wilder - And more serene - To its ports I have been, To its ports I have been. (Paul SERENE, Beth WILDER, RiverPORT)"
This blog is quite thought provoking, considering that it came from a girl living in Ordinary. It blends Alan Wake / Quantum Break / Control elements together, We can see the blog mentionned on a blackboard in Quantum Break and it was hinted at again in Control on a white board.
But there's also a mind bending Max Payne reference on that blog, this hand written sentence directly comes from the TV adaptation of Alex Casey's third novel, "Return to Sender". The context leads us to think that Emil Hartman is the one who wrote that sentence on there...
"John: The poet Pool, in his poem "Somebody's been wearing my face again" wrote: 'In this hall of mirrors/Built by liars, I am a pale reflection of myself.' I had escaped from the Pink Bird Mental Institute. I was lost in Noir York City. I couldn't find my way back home. John Mirra had made me a killer."
"Somebody's been wearing my face again", that's quite an odd title for a poem, moreover considering how Remedy promotes Alan Wake 2. That new sentence is even on their 2022 Merch: "This story is a monster. And monsters wear many faces."
Sam Lake elaborated a bit about what the extra material meant to him when Quantum Break released in 2016:
I also directly asked the question to Mikael Kasurinen in their 2020 Steam AMA and that was his answer : "There's a sense of legacy and continuity that we want to bring into each game we make. All games should look into the future but also into the past. But sometimes it is a bit harder to do when an old game we did doesn't belong to us anymore, like Max Payne or Quantum Break.
Having said that, we want people to feel this sense of unsaid connection between them. And if it's happening, it's not an accident!"
So in conclusion, even though they're remaking Max Payne 1 and 2 ; Max Payne 3 and Alan Wake will still exist. These connections can't disappear, Max Payne story includes the 3 games and the comic books while also considering the Alan Wake angle, we just can't arbitrarily ignore parts of his life.
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2021.04.17 15:05 Sir_Galehaut The Remedy Connected Universe (RCU)

RCU Wiki - https://www.reddit.com/RemedyMysteries/wiki/index
Sam Lake :"You know we love to put Easter eggs into our games.
But what if some of them were more than Easter eggs?
What if… it’s all connected?"
Now that the cat is out of the shoebox alive and well, I thought about sharing the games and extra materials that I consider to be part of the RCU.
About the RCU
Here's what Sam Lake had to say about the RCU in 2013 during a reddit AMA : ""unacomn: Why is it an ocean, and not a lake?
SamLakeRMD: It’s bigger than a lake. The lake is just a hole to get to the ocean. It’s boundless, our world is just an island in that ocean."
"McSpain: Concerning the novel "Sudden Stop" featured in Alan Wake, which is obviously a nod to Max Payne. Is it only a funny Easter Egg or did you feel you need to have some sort of "closure" on your Max Payne Character and used this to give us your version of the End of Max's Story?
SamLakeRMD: In part having fun, but there is a deeper reason as well. To me all the stories we make are connected and linked in weird ways, part of the same multiverse. It was not so much killing off Payne as establishing Wake, where he is in his career as a writer, wanting to change things."
So by 2013, Remedy already had big plans for that multiverse and it was already well engaged ; the ultimate proof is Alan Wake himself. They could have chosen to design any kind of Hero, but they went for a writer. That writer could have been a writer of horror only, but we learn that he indeed wrote the Max Payne / Alex Casey series. This is such a bold game design choice right at the beginning of this game creation, it interlace both games in a shared universe. The very same can be said with Quantum Break ; In 2012, Sam Lake released a blog hinting at Quantum Break, That's 4 years before the release of the game !
"For he did not know - That beyond the lake - He called home - Lies a deeper darker - Ocean green - Where waves are - Both wilder - And more serene - To its ports I have been, To its ports I have been. (Paul SERENE, Beth WILDER, RiverPORT)"
This blog is quite thought provoking, considering that it came from a girl living in Ordinary. It blends Alan Wake / Quantum Break / Control elements together, We can see the blog mentionned on a blackboard in Quantum Break and it was hinted at again in Control on a white board.
But there's also a mind bending Max Payne reference on that blog, this hand written sentence directly comes from the TV adaptation of Alex Casey's third novel, "Return to Sender". The context leads us to think that Emil Hartman is the one who wrote that sentence on there...
"John: The poet Pool, in his poem "Somebody's been wearing my face again" wrote: 'In this hall of mirrors/Built by liars, I am a pale reflection of myself.' I had escaped from the Pink Bird Mental Institute. I was lost in Noir York City. I couldn't find my way back home. John Mirra had made me a killer."
"Somebody's been wearing my face again", that's quite an odd title for a poem, moreover considering how Remedy promotes Alan Wake 2. That new sentence is even on their 2022 Merch: "This story is a monster. And monsters wear many faces."
Sam Lake elaborated a bit about what the extra material meant to him when Quantum Break released in 2016:
I also directly asked the question to Mikael Kasurinen in their 2020 Steam AMA and that was his answer : "There's a sense of legacy and continuity that we want to bring into each game we make. All games should look into the future but also into the past. But sometimes it is a bit harder to do when an old game we did doesn't belong to us anymore, like Max Payne or Quantum Break.
Having said that, we want people to feel this sense of unsaid connection between them. And if it's happening, it's not an accident!"
So in conclusion, even though they're remaking Max Payne 1 and 2 ; Max Payne 3 and Alan Wake will still exist. These connections can't disappear, Max Payne story includes the 3 games and the comic books while also considering the Alan Wake angle, we just can't arbitrarily ignore parts of his life.
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2021.01.01 20:23 Sir_Galehaut The Remedy Connected Universe (RCU)

RCU Wiki - https://www.reddit.com/RemedyMysteries/wiki/index
Sam Lake :"You know we love to put Easter eggs into our games.
But what if some of them were more than Easter eggs?
What if… it’s all connected?"
Now that the cat is out of the shoebox alive and well, I thought about sharing the games and extra materials that I consider to be part of the RCU.
About the RCU
Remedy keeps using the sentence "It's all connected." "All : used to refer to the whole quantity or extent of a particular group or thing."
Here's what Sam Lake had to say about the RCU in 2013 during a reddit AMA : ""unacomn: Why is it an ocean, and not a lake?
SamLakeRMD: It’s bigger than a lake. The lake is just a hole to get to the ocean. It’s boundless, our world is just an island in that ocean."
"McSpain: Concerning the novel "Sudden Stop" featured in Alan Wake, which is obviously a nod to Max Payne. Is it only a funny Easter Egg or did you feel you need to have some sort of "closure" on your Max Payne Character and used this to give us your version of the End of Max's Story?
SamLakeRMD: In part having fun, but there is a deeper reason as well. To me all the stories we make are connected and linked in weird ways, part of the same multiverse. It was not so much killing off Payne as establishing Wake, where he is in his career as a writer, wanting to change things."
So by 2013, Remedy already had big plans for that multiverse and it was already well engaged ; the ultimate proof is Alan Wake himself. They could have chosen to design any kind of Hero, but they went for a writer. That writer could have been a writer of horror only, but we learn that he indeed wrote the Max Payne / Alex Casey series. This is such a bold game design choice right at the beginning of this game creation, it interlace both games in the same fictional universe right at the start and establish that link for us. The very same can be said with Quantum Break ; In 2012, Sam Lake released a blog hinting at Quantum Break, That's 4 years before the release of the game !
"For he did not know - That beyond the lake - He called home - Lies a deeper darker - Ocean green - Where waves are - Both wilder - And more serene - To its ports I have been, To its ports I have been. (Paul SERENE, Beth WILDER, RiverPORT)"
This blog is quite thought provoking, considering that it came from a girl living in Ordinary. It blends Alan Wake / Quantum Break / Control elements together, We can see the blog mentionned on a blackboard in Quantum Break and it was hinted at again in Control on a white board.
But there's also a mind bending Max Payne reference on that blog, this hand written sentence directly comes from the TV adaptation of Alex Casey's third novel, "Return to Sender". The context leads us to think that Emil Hartman is the one who wrote that sentence on there...
"John: The poet Pool, in his poem "Somebody's been wearing my face again" wrote: 'In this hall of mirrors/Built by liars, I am a pale reflection of myself.' I had escaped from the Pink Bird Mental Institute. I was lost in Noir York City. I couldn't find my way back home. John Mirra had made me a killer."
"Somebody's been wearing my face again", that's quite an odd title for a poem, moreover considering how Remedy promotes Alan Wake 2. That new sentence is even on their 2022 Merch: "This story is a monster. And monsters wear many faces."
Sam Lake elaborated a bit about what the extra material meant to him when Quantum Break released in 2016:
I also directly asked the question to Mikael Kasurinen in their 2020 Steam AMA and that was his answer : "There's a sense of legacy and continuity that we want to bring into each game we make. All games should look into the future but also into the past. But sometimes it is a bit harder to do when an old game we did doesn't belong to us anymore, like Max Payne or Quantum Break.
Having said that, we want people to feel this sense of unsaid connection between them. And if it's happening, it's not an accident!"
So in conclusion, even though they're remaking Max Payne 1 and 2 ; Max Payne 3 and Alan Wake will still exist. These connections can't disappear, Max Payne story includes the 3 games and the comic books while also considering the Alan Wake angle.
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