Sam Lake
Creative director of Remedy EntertainmentWikipedia
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Sep 18, 2026
Andy CortezHOST
Yeah.
Blessing Adeoye Jr.HOST
But w- I think we're at a great question, uh, place here, a great place for this question from OMG Alex, who super chatted and said, "How much is Sam Lake's absence felt, if at all?" 'Cause of course Sam not working on this as he's working on other games.
Andy CortezHOST
Dude, I, the, I think that's the amazing thing about why Remedy is so special, and keeping this team together that's been so, you know, integral to all of the, you know, success and misses over time.
Andy CortezHOST
Like, um, [laughs] when, when we were at the, the, at the Control: Resonant event in LA for the preview event, like they, w- a couple of them even made jokes about Firebreak not being great.
Andy CortezHOST
And just being, like, a, a failure, and it was like, oh damn, I wasn't expecting, like, you all to kind of, you know, take your own, a shot at your own thing like that.
Andy CortezHOST
I think that there's so...
Andy CortezHOST
That's the thing that shocked me the most, that this was not led by Sam Lake, but it's the Remedy DNA that is all throughout this experience.
Blessing Adeoye Jr.HOST
Mm-hmm.
JamesHOST
I do feel like they're letting their kookiness almost get in the way of the game.
JamesHOST
And I can't help but feel that might be because this isn't Sam Lake's game.
JamesHOST
It's another team within Remedy.
JamesHOST
I don't know if it's a younger team or something.
Danny PeñaHOST
The way how you play and everything.
Danny PeñaHOST
So I like that Remedy takes that risk Like, for example, I remember being at the Game Awards and Sam Lake was on stage.
Danny PeñaHOST
He's like, oh, yeah, this is Annihilation 2.
Danny PeñaHOST
It's a horror game.
Patrick SchweigerHOST
They were the founding members of the company.
Patrick SchweigerHOST
You probably were wondering, I didn't say the name Sam Lake.
Patrick SchweigerHOST
We're gonna get to him shortly.
Patrick SchweigerHOST
At the time of Remedy's creation, they would approach the bane of the video game industry, Apogee Software with the idea for a racing game, Death Rally.
Patrick SchweigerHOST
As the group would soon learn, dialogue would be needed, and as a group of Finnish tech nerds, the English language wasn't at the top of their hobby list.
Patrick SchweigerHOST
Insert Sam Lake.
Patrick SchweigerHOST
Called upon by his friends, Sam Lake, who was at the time studying English, came to their rescue, and as the next 30 years would show, would also become the face of the company.
Patrick SchweigerHOST
After successfully launching their first game, the crew would approach Apogee to help publish their next release, and the team would pitch two games, a spaceship shooter and a third-person shooter.
MorganGUEST
I would treat it as canon.
MorganGUEST
Sam Lake, the creative director and writer of these games, has said that it is canon.
MorganGUEST
So it's nice to kind of have some closure on that over the years.
MorganGUEST
I always treated it as canon, but kind of as just a glimpse into one of the many attempts that Alan's had at trying to escape the Dark Place.
Milo EdwardsHOST
Well, actually, on the subject of Leroy and commenting, I think...
Milo EdwardsHOST
So, friend of the pod, Sam Lake...
Milo EdwardsHOST
He did a TikTok about the Lee Ryan 9-11 incident.
Milo EdwardsHOST
Sam Lake and I share a lot of the same interests when it comes to my coffee.
Milo EdwardsHOST
And Lee Ryan DM'd him and was like, stop spreading hate about me.
Milo EdwardsHOST
No, no.
Sam LakeHOST
Hello, you little podcast, little, little diva, you.
Sam LakeHOST
It's me, Sam Lake, host of I've Had a Rose.
Sam LakeHOST
Let's talk about feelings.
Sam LakeHOST
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Mike HowardHOST
Okay.
Madeline StanleyGUEST
But Sam Lake did it well.
Mike HowardHOST
Okay.
Mike HowardHOST
So would you be interested in a game version of this?
Mark KuznetsHOST
For me, I wouldn't put Miyamoto personally.
Mark KuznetsHOST
I would put Kojima, Sam Lake, Warren Spector, maybe Will Wright, but maybe not for me because it's four, right? It's not for Will Wright.
Mark KuznetsHOST
It's for F-O-U-R comma R-I-G-H-T question mark.
Mark KuznetsHOST
Maybe Ken Levine or no. Todd Howard.
LouisHOST
guy that they got What was his name? Bill something.
LouisHOST
I can't remember, but he's a good-looking dude and probably more so like the face of Max Payne now over Sam Lake.
LouisHOST
At least we get Sam Lake still there, but I just loved that
ProducedbycosGUEST
original.
ProducedbycosGUEST
Timothy
21 MINS LATER
ProducedbycosGUEST
He had grown beyond the first one.
ProducedbycosGUEST
and that he was really sick in the first one, and that now, in this one, he's a lot less sick, but with a lot of the same strengths.
ProducedbycosGUEST
And after I realised that, I was like, oh, you know what, I think I have even more respect for Max and Sam Lake's fucking character writing, because goddamn, he knows how to do it.
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