What to play before Alan wake 2 question.

I see this question asked a lot on this sub and some people say you can play Alan wake 2 without playing anything before and saying how the developers said that as well. Others say you need to play Alan wake 1 and Control with both their DLCs.

At first I was going to do the first option but I am really glad I didn't do that and that I played Alan wake remastered and control with both their DLCs. Doing that made my experience with Alan wake 2 and both its dlcs a lot better and made the game more understandable.

So I would suggest for everyone to play the previous games with both their DLCs before Alan wake 2 it will really make your experience better since honestly if it wasn't for playing the previous games I wouldn't have understood what Alan wake 2 was all about.