It’s been on my ‘one of those days’ list for years now, and with Resonance out, they ran a $6 Steam sale for the original which put it in the impulse buy category. Fast forward a week and I’m out of town for work with some hotel time to kill so hooked my Steamdeck up to the TV and gave it a go and wow… I see what the hype is about.
Any non spoiler tips, tricks, or things I should be on the lookout for?
hey, looks like a neat game, I should check this out! I’ve never heard of this game
already in your library
Have you ever tried buying a key to save some bucks (because you’re a fucking cheapskate), redeem it…only to get greeted by “you already own this game”?
Then I usually gift the key to my bff. She thinks I’m such a generous nice guy, but sadly I’m just a dumb fuck that buys twice. Too often.
And I have learned nothing from it. Once I even bought the same key AGAIN the next day. I would actually save money buying directly on steam…
You Better Go Now Or You Won’t Have To Run With Your Head As Your Third Leg
The sequel just keeps the fun going!
Just started this week. It’s fun and atmospheric. But I hate the darkness and screen mobbing of effects. Like it gets so bad that you can’t see shit during a fight and somehow fall down endless voids that exist for reasons.
I only started it a couple of weeks ago and it’s one of the few games I’ve kept going with. Highly recommended it to my daughter who is loving it too.
Control is my favorite game ever.
I don’t consider what I’m about to say a spoiler, but some people might.
spoiler
There is a part of this game that is going to knock your socks off. It raised my bar for how good a section of a game could be. It’s up there with the intro to Ocarina of Time, sneaking into the second building in Into the Radius where things finally started to click but I was still scared shitless, and the lake scene in FFX, carved into my soul.
Once you’ve gotten to that part, let me know because I just like going back and forth about how incredible it is. If you get through a part of the game and wonder if you’ve gotten there, you haven’t gotten there yet. When you get there, you won’t wonder.
No spoiler but when Ahti gives you headphones, put some real headphones on.
Take! Control! (it will take a while to get there and understand)
Until Resonant that that was my favorite music sequence in a game. Still is, but Resonant has some great moments like it. Honorable mention to the Rayman Legends music levels.
Loved Control. Currently playing through the sequel.
Damn, I’ve had this game sitting at 0 hours played in my library for a while now. Worth giving it a shot it sounds like?
10/10 never had this much fun in an office building
Huge recommend to bump that 0 up, yeah. I’m having a blast!
Absolutely. Even if the story (which IMO is fantastic) isn’t up your alley the gameplay alone is worth an experience.
I heard it’s a spooky game, but is it spooky in Silent Hill way or Prey 2017 way?
FWIW, I’d urge you to give it a try. I generally don’t like “horror horror” games and I loved Control. The best TV parallel for me is neither x-files nor twin peaks (though the vibe is undeniably Lynchy) but rather “the lost room” from the early noughties, which is also worth a watch if you haven’t seen it and happen to like control’s vibe.
Edit: forgot to add, I loved Prey 2017 as well and control is WAY less scary. Once the abilities click, Jesse becomes an unstoppable whirlwind of ripped concrete and office furniture. This is by design, the spoiler is in the name.
Spooky like the X-files. Creepy, but still primetime tv.
I find the comparison to Prey very fitting. To me Prey was even a little scarier.
Much closer to Prey.
It’s in my top 5 games of all time. One of very few games I’ve played through multiple times. I love the universe, lore, design, characters, feel and everything else. And it’s still one of the best looking hames ever made IMO, and one of the few games who used RTX almost perfectly.
Hey, better late than never! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Resonant is just as good if not better.
If you haven’t played Alan Wake, it takes place in the same universe.
How creepy/scary are the AW games? I’m digging Control a lot but it’s definitely stressing me out at times!
It can be creepy at times, but mostly it feels like an 80s-90s triller/mystery. Spooky, absurd, and weirdly comfy.
Oh nice okay, I can roll with that, thanks!
Fuuuuck I need to finish this. Fell off the wagon HARD.
