We're good to go? Yeah. Start the shit, dude. Dude, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Hey, welcome to four player podcast. It is episode 169, May 17, 2010. I'm your host, Nick Henderson. We got the audio stuff back. I am joined to my left by Travis Granger.

Travis Miles Granger.

Do you want me to say anyone name?

Travis Miles. I'd like to believe I have a badass name, so yes. It is. It's pretty badass. And across me is Brad Simon. Hello. Hello. Not as bad asses. I figure out what it is with my thing. What? What's that short? my my headset is picking up my talking

that's good right that's what it's supposed to do

yeah but see i'm not used to that What's that short? My headset is picking up my talking.

That's good, right?

That's what it's supposed to do.

Yeah, but see, I'm not used to that because my other one never did that because it was broken.

Wait, so you can hear it. You can hear yourself through your...

Well, if I blow, I can hear.

No, you're not supposed to hear yourself.

You're not supposed to hear yourself.

That doesn't...

I can make it. I can turn down your volume on your ear.

No, don't touch anything because your volume fucks with me. Yeah, your volume fucks with us. Hey, by the way, I'm David Lowe, but did I kick you off for a player podcast? No, I'm not on there yet. Okay. Do I need to sign out? Oh, yeah, yeah, you probably do. Oh, I see. Yeah, my chest starts moving.

Okay, we've got an interesting show for you today, guys.

We have some impressions to talk about, primarily of which we're probably going to Yeah, yeah, you probably do. Oh, I see. Yeah, my chest. Wait, wait. Okay, we've got an interesting show for you today, guys.

We have some impressions to talk about, primarily of which we're probably going to be discussing a lot of Alan Wake. But only the first chapter, right? Well, storyline-wise, we'll discuss the first chapter. Mechanically, we can discuss pretty much the whole thing. That's the truth. I'll look over that. I mean, the mechanics don't really change.

The first chapter is pretty much...

Oh, actually, I thought we just stay away from story stuff pretty much all the other.

No, we are. We are... Well, there's a few points about story, the way they approach the story that I would like to make. I'm not going to spoil anything, obviously. But there's a lot to be said about the way they do the story in that game. That is... That, okay. Let me kind of start off by saying thank you to Remedy for a... Remedy and Remedy. Are we mentioning how we were able to get that? No. So thank you Remedyne. Thank you. Just say, thank you Elizabeth. Thank you, Elizabeth. PR representative. You know we're big when we have... You know we're big when we have public relations. Well, no, I think that's one of the things that helps is when you say, hey, when it's, when you go, hey, I'm part of this show. I would like you to send me a game versus, hi, I'm the PR representative for this podcast. They would like you to like a couple of the game. That does sound much more professional.

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