Finally, some sperg representation in my vidya
you play games to escape your shitty life, not to continue it even more.why the fuck do you want to see your failure in games too?
>>748692098I like his autistic little drawings he makes.>whole city around him is getting destroyed by interdimensional horrors beyond human comprehension >"hehe cat picnic :D"
>>748692434He's literally some sort of an interdimensional demigod who eats enough mold to get other people instantly turned into mush and only gets a mild trip out of it. Barely anything can really hurt him, so he is just chilling.
>>748692098BRVTAL mogging
>>748692434I liked that dragon he made out of mold and rotting garbage
>played 20 hours without upgrading any of the weapons I'm not using>only just realize last night that abberant level isn't tied to the one you're using and I was supposed to buy a bunch of useless perks for weapons I don't use to deal more damagefuuuuuuck, no wonder only my abilities were doing anything
>>748696346lmao retard
>>748692098I would play this if it was a stand alone game and not a Control sequel. Control is the only game of theirs I haven't played.
combat feels so much better with the real time weapon switch mod, they really need to turn this into an actual official feature
I'm loving this game but I truly think the melee combat is a step down.And by that I literally only the 3 hit combo. Keep everything else the same but switch that out with some gun play and I'd be happy.
>>748696651well you can play Control then, it's really good
>>748696651I did play Control and I'm not interested in it because of that since Control had pretty visuals and everything else about it sucked.
>>748696503in my defense the first game required you to invest everything into a single weapon to deal a third of the damage that throwing a rock doesalso they don't even give you a weapon swap button
How old is he supposed to be? Abducted at 10,20 years in the old house and 7 years in a coma so 37 is about right?An I assume Jessie is 40
>>748696725>>748696836Sorry meant to say only game of theirs I didn't FINISH. I did play Control but I dropped it cause yeah like the 2nd guy said everything outside of its visuals sucked.
>>74869687637 but I don't think him and Jesse have been aging at least for the last 7 yearsman spent 7 years in a coma and hasn't lost muscle mass(there's a document you can find that explicitly mentions it being weird)
>>748692304The character on the screen is not me.
>>74869687635 or 34, I think. Game happens September/Oktober 2026 and Dylan was born in 1992 if memory serves
I heard that enemies respawn after you beat one of the resonants.So do I have to actually clean out everyone and then go for resonant? Feels like that's what 'leveling up the zone' mechanic implies.
>>748696876Jesse was born in 1991Dylan was born in 1992Game takes place in 2026 so 35 and 34 respectively
While i do enjoy the game, reading collectibles is depressing, they don't get SCP at all
>>748697975Good. SCP is Discord -coded.
>>748697762Thanks.
>>748697513No, you get plenty of zone levels without being deliberate about clearing every enemy camp, the points of interest and quests in each zone give you way more.
>>748697975
>>748692098Where do you get the jacket with the hood up?
>>748697975>they don't get SCP at allno one gets SCP, not even the fags that make it
>>748696346Same. It's a stupid concept when they have resets available
anyone know what combat levels the arcade encounters are? all I get is the stupid skull icons so I don't know when I'm able to actually have a chance
>>748697975Where do you think they went wrong? For me it’s their fixation with basically staying small-scale. Basically everything supernatural has the same ballpark of explanations (Astral Realm, Resonance-based entity) and it really feels like the FBC is a very incompetent Foundation who basically got sent to their knees by the first Keter threat they came across. What I like about the SCP is how it makes basically everything coexist within a single setting, magical stuff, aliens, superscience, mutants, eldricht horror, you basically never know what you're going to get and it makes a very rich universe.
>>748700286no idea but they are one shot levels of hard
>>748697513Based and Kuromukuro pilled. Season 2 when?
>>748700331the only fucking altered items we interact with are all variants of "teleports around"
>Factory boss with Furnace God influence>It's theme is a pipe organI fucking clapped. Poor Oscar.https://youtu.be/FAOEGgFTNKk
>>748701324lol didn't even get that
>>748699741Resets are limited. Also certain weapons fit some situations better than others, so it's better to diversify at some point. You can't even unlock all upgrades to a single weapon early through grind anyway.
I'm honestly surprised how big / long this game is. I've just been wandering around each section of the game exploring a lot. Wish there was a bit more stuff to find though.
Do I need to finish the first one to play the second? It was horribly optimized last time I tried.
Why is she wearing the CWC shirt.
>>748701571Which part you did not get? There were literally a bunch of notes talking about what happened to him.
>>748697975It was made clear from the first game that "SCPs" in this world are not the same thing at all. They're not even that much of a problem, alter world events are what's bad.
>>748701791the second one will run worse for you so that's a bad reason to skip the first
>>748701874The connection between organ design and organ music.
Went to Karaoke. Great success. Only three people died.
>>748701890There's variety. Some will kill you given the chance.
>>748702124>Dylan later started a succesful podcast about pickup culture
>>748701778>Wish there was a bit more stuff to find though.There is a lot of stuff to find but you need to roam around on both ground and roof levels, listen for audio cues and look for visual cues like glimmers. Reading some files also helps.
How did the FBC not have a full blown mutiny after 7 years of FBC wagies living on hard floors, eating out of date food and being forced to fight Hiss every waking day? Surely one person would put a bullet in Pope's head and walk out the front door
>>748702927Let's say they mutiny. Let's say Jessie doesn't just kill everyone doing the mutiny. What then?
>>748696346What? Explain.I've only played 4-5h
Why is the hammer the only secondary weapon that's fun to use? It even has the cool sound effect when you charge it.
>>748703031There's a blue number in the top right of the abberant upgrade screen that scales all of your weapon/stagger damage. Each weapon upgrade you buy makes the number go up by 1-3, so you should buy every weapon upgrade you can even if you aren't planning on using them.
This mod is essential to me nowhttps://www.nexusmods.com/controlresonant/mods/47
>>748692098he look like he walked into his wife banging the plumber
>>748692304thiswhy would I play as an incel chud, thats literally my life
>>748703212I see. Thanks
Why isn't everyone at the FBC aware that it was Trench who let the hiss in in the first place? They really don't resent him enough
>>748703406I don't know what people look like, only look at people's minds and i can't recall faces.Maybe some of the devs were like this too.
>>748703778Have you forgotten how much they like the black sharpie marker?
Just finished the game. I rate it 8/10. The combat is too simplistic. They should have more combo variation like XXYX XXYY etc. I end up using XXXX most of the time because it simply does the most damage.
Finally, some school shooter representation in my vidya
>>748702927They just have that good of a screening process.
>>748704235I've done the theater and factory resonants so far. Should I do the CMD mission or the mold resonant first?
>>748692917Jesse is so pretty
>>748704235you played 37 hours in 5 days?
>>748696720gun and ball slopper
>>748704238For me it's Ned Flanders -cosplay
This studio really has to do something with the facial animations especially when idling.Everyone has a weird glassy dead-eyed stare the whole time, which clashes with the overall level of detail they're going for.
>>748704351I think mold is fine any time you've finished with factory. Ignite really helps against infection. Did the Evacuation zone first and felt like I should have done at least one of the resonants first.
>>748704549Small indie studio with a custom engine, pls understand.
>>748702124Only one died for me if we don't count greg who died before I got there. fucking greg
>>748704235>I end up using XXXX most of the time because it simply does the most damage.It doesn't and its very concerning that this is such a common opinion on /v/
>>748692740>some sort of an interdimensional demigodNo. He is pretty much still a parautilitarian conduit, just this time for the Board and he works as a sponge for those types of abilities, just getting stronger as he goes. I still think people are giving the Board a little too much doubt for being the kind of silly interdimensional goobers that they are.
>>748703456noob. not just in games but in life too. you're a noob.
>>748702927Orgs get away with a lot of shit when you give people a cool job that they can't talk about.
>>748702927I think they say in the first game that the lockdown is connected to the Service Weapon.>being forced to fight Hiss every waking daySecurity is, but no one else. Firebreak chose to fight even though they didn't legally have to.
>>748702927Only one person can open the door and that person can blow up everyone in the house with a blink.
>>748704549None of the characters in general show much emotion or interact with their environment during conversations.
after fucking around for like 30 hours on the open world map I finally did the sinkholekino as fuck
>>748704549>why does every AAA game take 10 years to come out and cost 500 million dollars?
>>748705071I don't think there's a single normal person in the FBC. All of them love the supernatural and feel privileged to be part of the only group that acknowledges it exists.
>>748705596Nah, it's a skill issue not a money one.Expedition 33 had much much better face animation and was like 1/5th the cost of resonant
>>748705662Wonder what other paranatural organizations there are. There's that Chinese ministry branch and the secret organization hideouts you can find.
>>748705808E33 is Unreal-slop. Just press a button for face.
>>748705978you have blessed, the organisation that deals in stolen objects of power (cult?) and the mysterious spy ring that was keeping eyes on the oldest housefun fact, barry from alan wake 1 is a member of blessed
>>748706147>barry from alan wake 1 is a member of blessedOh they’re goobers then, I thought they were basically the Chaos Insurgency
So are we ever going to get to play Severed Circle 2, or...
>>748697975Scp was co-opted by stinky troons. Let go.
>>748706397Oooh I got itSeveredCircle
>>748704235You need to mix your combos with the abilities you get. I just got the exploding shield and i mix it in when enemies start swarming me and it feels great since after you deploy it you can explode it right away with an attack..
Am i the only one rocking the funny grey *japanese* costume?
>>748706686>Mold Minion / Spore Burst + Ignite / Inferno for AoE fire damage detonation.>People keep calling the Drill shit despite it easily having the highest damage output in the game with Ignite and Weaken stacking fire damage multiplicatively for each hit.>World Tour Tickets + Brass Dusters turning every single Gravity ability into nuclear levels of damage.>Shield can benefit from Framing Hammer for double-dipping Falter damage.>Wallet + Mother's Locket + Medical Alert Band, then ability spam until Wallet turns off.There's plenty more, but it's not like playing the game outside NG needs many of these things, it's an easy enough game until you start cranking shit up in the Assist mode.
>>748704480Sorry but I play all kinds of action games and have never touched anything sports related. the melee combat in this is just bland. (At least the main weapon is) Like I said. Keep all the abilities the same but change that
Why does Dylan get so much tougher, combat-wise, in the Ordinary RPG once Jesse shows up?
>>748705978In a Control note (the one about the disappearing Executive toilet), someone mentions spending a year in India for the FBC. Either the FBC is both Indian and American or India has its own org.
>>748708702The board is really insistent on them having to stay separatedif its true they are two halves split from one person they together might be much stronger than apart
>Langston sent Dylan a cupcake every year for bd>researches just at themYou don't hate FBC enough
>>748709459Sounds more like you don't hate Research enough.
>>748709563Full Blown Cocksuckers it's in the name.
I finished the Sinkhole, it was shit>I don't give half a shit about Zoe because she's been acting like a right cunt all game>The bossfight was easy as fuck>Coming back up the surface had 0 tension because you can just walk around slowly, there's like 1 hazard in the entire area2/10 it's genuinely embarrassingly bad when you remember how fun Take Control was
>>748709563>You're a good guy, Langston. Don't go to Oldest House tomorrow.
>>748692098This is the best game I played this year I hope it gets the attention it deserves
>>748709459This explains Emily's fat ass. She ate all of Dylan's cupcakes.
>>748709778it was at the top of steam charts and has good word of mouth, it is unironically saving remedy's financials.its also doing pretty well on ps5 despite physical having been delayed
>>748709778I hope it wins some stuff at he game awards so it has a bit of influence on action games in the future in the same way souls games did until they killed the genre. Then again Astrobot didn't revive platformers and were yet to see if expedition 33 will revive turn based rpgs
>>748704384More like handsome than pretty
Action bros how is this game?I like Ninja Gaiden and Devil May Cry.
>>748709649>>I don't give half a shit about Zoe because she's been acting like a right cunt all gameDid you immediately rush to the sinkhole? Even then are you just as autistic as Dylan? She's been pretty reasonable to him aside from some understandable trust issues
>>748692917Why does Jesse look normal here but in first game she looked like Christoph waltz?
>>748710361Its fun but don't go into it with a ninja gaiden dmc mindset its not that type of game.
>>748710443Remedy got better at face capturing and the real acctress had work done (atleast botox, dont know if surgery)
>Dylan: woah, what a sweet looking mushroom.>Zoe: Don't eat the mold.>D: I'm going to eat it.>Z: DON'T FUCKING EAT IT!>D: *moms moms*
>>748710712its a 3D metroidvania
>>748710385>Fat bitch>Immediatly threaten to shoot me after being ordered to>Stay comfy high in the tower as far away from the action as possible>Get mad at me because how dare I, an abused prisoner with years of confinment away from the daylight, who just got possessed by an alien intelligence that mindrapes basically everyone it comes across... hurt my abusers? They were only trying to turn me into a lifelong slave!>Oh but she rescued me from the sinkhole (not really) so we're palsShe can get bent, if there's a choice between saving her fat ass and letting her die I will not hesitate to let the timer run out, except possibly if saving her dooms the grade A butch bitch Pope.
>>748710334 You can be handsome and pretty, they aren't mutually exclusive. Don't let evil foids trick you into thinking otherwise
>>748704941Main problem is that is doesn't really move the needle much in terms of story/lore>darling still trapped in dark place>chester bless is completely absent>we get a bit more shit on the weird Jesse/Dylan possible split prior to the slide projector but nothing concrete. possibly related to the video game?
>>748711016zoe gets better, she is just tsundere
>>748711076>chester bless is completely absentThis was so frustrating with how hard they were teasing Chester Bless stuff with all the ARG shit they were doing.
>No Ahti
>>748711141>>748711076chester bless should be an alan wake thing because barry is a member of blessedresonant teases alan wake 3 is a thing anyway
>>748711167>I mean he's technically in it, just barely.
>>748710715she 100% got her lips done. You can see the difference from her 2019 pics to now.
>>748711221Chester Bless's whole thing is making OOP and he knew about the Hedron invasion of new york before even the FBC did. There's no way they're gonna be able to deal with him without control superpowers.
>>748711016You have to remember last time Dylan got out, it looked something like this.https://youtu.be/jZ0ECP9XN9M?si=731Y2mXNYAYVhIwYhttps://youtu.be/aUG2MIDhV70?si=CeyA1t4r6e5itjAv
Why is everyone up Dylan's ass. My boy was literally TAKEN OVER.iss everyone Just ass mad because he didn't turn into a tentacle monster?
>>748692098Welcome back Aiden Pierce.
>>748704669I did factory second, and tried to go to mold as the next progression after being told fire is good for them. Everything had skulls lol
>>748711670he had a killcount long before the hiss showed up also the vast majority of the fbc does not knownit was trench who let the hiss in.
>>748711849Upgrade your shit bro
>>748711910Already beat the game, just couldn't really go from factory to mold.
>>748710972Lol I was thinking the same the other day when I was navigating through the west incursion zone using only the small map highlights. But yeah it shares a lot of similarities with metroidvanias thats hard to ignore after playing dread so recently. Even the combat kinda reflects this you can get through with just basic melee attacks but they're so basic that its clear the game wants you to use the upgrades you get from fighting bosses or unlocking stuff to mix it up and get the most out of the system
Is the initial shitposting phase over with yet?
>>748711670He was killing people before the hiss and already had a bad reputation before the lockdown>>748711016>>Get mad at me because how dare I, an abused prisoner with years of confinment away from the daylight, who just got possessed by an alien intelligence that mindrapes basically everyone it comes across... hurt my abusers? They were only trying to turn me into a lifelong slave!>get mad at the guy that's virtually a demigod that kills people that you don't know personally enough to know his motivations or if his actions were justifiable Yes? Who wouldn't be skeptical about someone like that? Its not like she has knowledge of Dylan's perspective and only has the knowledge of what's in his file. And its not that she was angry its that she was freaked out and scared.>fat retard>>Oh but she rescued me from the sinkhole (not really) so we're palsso you did rush straight to the sinkhole
Chris Chan?
>>748712139Yeah but except for the occasional posts from guys like>>748711016. The posters here don't really bite shitpost bait and the game design and system requirements filters out most low effort shitposters
>>748696876Zoe says 34, and she had full access to his files so she would know
>>748692917Why is Dylan so fugly?
>>748712607blonde doesn't suit himbut desu I think it's cool that Remedy models the characters after the actors instead of prettying or hunking them up
>>748696720I chose the drill and pretty much only use the drill attack against large enemies because it eats through everything pretty quickly and stuns most things as well.It's more like an old school beat em up than anything else.
>>748696720I did get the upgrade that lets you throw rocks specifically to feel a bit like in the first game again.
>>748711407>You can see the difference from her 2019 pics to now.yeah, it's a shame she bogged herself. looked so cute in quantum break
>>748712914Its weird how remedy games are the only games where actors for character models don't bother me
>>748704480Stop forcing your stupid meme.
>>748713353Might be that they treat them as actors and it's not just the "look, it's that famous person you like!" shtick other studios pull
>>748692304I come here to laugh at stupid autists. So this game is for me. Also as a bonus, it makes stupid autists get mad to talk about it.
>>748704459The game leaked days before release.
>perkele p, boss ordered me to make a whole bunch of child characters for the ordinary section, i don't want to do it>lets make a earthbound clone insteadThat's the mindset that keeps budgets from exploding, based remedy
The exploration in Resonant is severely lacking compared to the first game. It feels very on-rails despite it being open world. You have areas that you can discover and roam through but there isn't really a reason to want to go off the "main" path, unless you wanna find maybe a resource box or a flavor text/lore dump.In the first Control, you could get lost for hours just doing sidequests or general exploration. You had control points that you could activate if, they were infrequent enough to make you want to find the next one. You could find a door that leads to some area that connects to a place you already discovered and it all clicks together. Resonant doesn't really have that, unless it's what the story calls for.
>The entire section after the last faultholy fucking kinosurely they can’t keep this level of kino up
Things Resonant dropped the ball on:Northmoor should have escaped and go nuclear on New YorkHow the FUCK did the Former do nothing after the Board was imprisoned in the Aberrant? Afraid of the Hedron? Did Jesse lock the Board in the Aberrant because of Former?The Hiss can't handle the Hedron or was the Hiss from Slidescape-36 also a weakened individual?Where the fuck is Ahti? Did he know about the Hedron and bailed out of fear?The Blessed?The Secret Organization XIII?Where is the Service Weapon? Jesse doesn't seem to have it.How come Zoe does not want to have sex with a virgin dick the moment she discovers it?Where the fuck is Darling!? I am NOT going to play Alan Wake. EVER.
>>748714345>get lost for hours just doing sidequests or general exploration. You had control points that you could activate if, they were infrequent enough to make you want to find the next one. You could find a door that leads to some area that connects to a place you already discovered and it all clicks togetherironically that's how i'd describe my experience with Resonant. at 22 hours I've dicked around more with side quests and door navigation than the main story
>>748700331I think the "Resonance saga" is mostly over. Dylan is in control of the Hiss. I doubt they will use another Hedron ever again, even though the patterning is one hell of an excuse to make outworldly level designs.
>>748715231The game implies the various spy hideouts you find is allied to FORMER, its logo is the hint
>>748692098You know i think the designs for the Hiss are rarely talked about, they're pretty underrated.They all have genuine fucked up body horror designs to them that almost kinda don't fit the game in some ways, but maybe that's the point. Way better than the first one since they're still mostly humanoid in that one.That said it is pretty disappointing when we have an entire new resonance faction with the Patterning and we have no new enemies from it, all we got from it are the bosses.
>>748715435Wait, logo? I assume I had found all Organization XIII locations because Dylan finally talked about them to Zoe but didn't see any logo.Holy shit... Found them through sheer exploration because I did not notice any logos
>>748692098i can literally picture those busted hoes in the writer's room screeching "EEEEEE he's so perfect!!!!" as they crafted this docile emotionally stunted goober
>>748715681
>>748715604Been saying from the first one but Control should have leaned a bit harder on the horror side of things. The AWE expansion made me halt a few moments out of uncertainty, even if there wasn't really anything to be scared on the other side.The Patterning does have unique enemies but they are all forgettable.Combat isn't really this game's forte.
my enjoyment of this game skyrocketed once i replaced whip with hammer, should had picked it from the start.
>>748692098>Coolest looking outfit in the entire game>stuck as a PS5 exclusive preorder bonusWhat the fuck were they thinking
>>748715831Wtf... I remember seeing it but never made the connection with Former and the eye.
>>748715932lel I started with the hammer, and later I was getting ganged upon so I bought a reset point and picked the whip because it hits enemies around you. I guess no matter what weapon you pick, you'll eventually wish you'd pick something else
>>748715932>>748716024This is true but only because all weapons suck ass. The only cool thing is getting the just frames right for the guaranteed critical hit on the last Whip attack but you only get that upgrade when you're about to finish the game.They dropped the ball hard on the combat dept.
Only just beat the furnace Resonant and I got a question. Am I fucking retarded or was I thinking too hard on the first Taxi puzzle? I know I was meant to look for something different with them but on the last one I had no clue what was different so I just brute forced it.
>>748715932I went for whip ended going to hammer because I was getting my ass kicked by the big headed guys then went back to whip after the mold enemies kept kicking my ass with my slow ass hammer. Near maxed out whip is pretty good though
>>748716228The street lights the one without any blinking lights is the one you're supposed to take. The last one did trip me up though because I swear all the street lights were blinking until one wasn't anymore
>>748715960If you're on PC you can change a line on the executable with a hex editor to get itit resets if you update the game though
>>748716270>my ass kicked by the big headed guysReally? The big heads are super easy for me since I just get the perfect dodge buff and shit out damage with the dual blades and fist combo.>>748716373Fair enough, I was thinking too had and thought I needed to find a clue to use the phone for some dumb reason lel. The game is pretty fun, but yeah stuff like that I'm just a bit retarded with like the puzzle you do for Langston with the radio where I felt like I was just brute forcing THAT one too.
>>748716228they're specifically the type of puzzle that break your brain but once you see the answer you feel like kicking yourself over not seeing something that obvious
Just finished>Combat6/10>Story7/10>Writing4/10>World design10/10>Overall 8/10Great game. I expected mid combat. I just wish there wasn't so much forced comedy and no feminized writing (e.g. Zoe's entire character)
>>748716539Yeah the game seems to have a ton of those which is pretty nice. The laundromat one really got me since I thought I needed to figure out a pattern only to figure out it was just a map of the room and which machines to turn on, made me feel so fucking retarded.
>>748716470it won't fuck up your save or anything right? What line is it?
>>748715435Former's logo is an upside down pyramid. How else does it imply that it's linked to former>>748715231I think the Aberrant is the service weapon. It's linked to the board, and the first game implies that the service weapon can change form (e.g. excalibur). Obviously the game would've been better if the aberrant was Former's version of the service weapon, like some people were thinking
>>748716889it modifies the exe, not your saves. but make a file copy just in caseon hex editor search for 025F6D44then find the sequence 2D 78 5F 02change that 2D for a 05, leave everything else as issave, exit, run the game. outfit should be in wardrobe
>>748717092The uside down pyramid is The Board.
>give in to the Hiss>they turn you into a moving geometric shape that experiences constant physical pleasure equivalent to an endless orgasm, forever>this is supposed to be bad, somehow
>>748716524>The big heads are super easy for me since I just get the perfect dodge buff and shit out damage with the dual blades and fist combo.It was more that I wanted a way to deal with them fast since having to keep up with multiple of them targeting me off screen with early game health was kinda annoying>The game is pretty fun, but yeah stuff like that I'm just a bit retarded with like the puzzle you do for Langston with the radio where I felt like I was just brute forcing THAT one too.The langston one tripped me up too and I was brute forcing it until I remembered he said it was finnicky and he kept mentioning directions. The puzzles are intentionally like that though so don't beat yourself up they're not hard but they're designed to make you stop and pay attention to the environment. Just wait until you get to the subway
>>748717301I think it's the "murdering anyone that isn't infected" bit that is bad, anon. Also the fact that the Hiss also seems to try mentally breaking and abusing the people it attempts to draw into it if Jesse's experience with the Hiss is anything to go off of.
>>748697975It's more similar to RPC in trying not to get too many things that cancel each other because then there is not much point to do anything.
>>748717310Fair enough, for my build I can just shit out a few flame blasts now and get their Falter meters to max for easy room clears. But the early game health pool is super fucking limited I'll agree, especially when you're going against the floaters that explode.
>>748692098Dylan did nothing wrong. Fuck Arish, fuck Trench, fuck Darling, and fuck the FBC.
>>748717171Oh yeah hehe
>>748717095Sweet, thanks anon
>>748716228The first taxi zone (Central?) took me the longest even though by the 3rd puzzle I knew to look for the odd one out. All the other zones I did first try.
>>748717575The retconning of Darling to be evil was a negative of this game
>>748717732>retcon
>>748704459I played 45 hours and I got in on release. This is normal, whatever life you're living is not. Step your game up
>>748715892>Control should have leaned a bit harder on the horror side of things>he hasn't played the AWE expansion with the dark presenceanon, you missed out
>>748717732>Keeps Dylan held in a cell in the FBC for years purely because he's a strong Parautilitarian after the FBC fucking kidnaps him>Creates eerie, soulless cartoons meant to keep Dylan in line and not do anything they don't want him to do >Entire program he was in was meant to groom him to become a Director which is a fucking hellscape of a job>Becomes best buddies with Thomas Zane, a guy that was gonna sell out Alan Wake so he could come back to life >Experiments that Dylan was subjected to were obviously deeply traumatizing since he ends up fucking killing people after a while, Darling doesn't do shit to stop said experiments that are torturing a childDarling was always a faggot, anon.
>>748717732Most of the prime candidate stuff was in the original. It was always a fucked up program that Darling ran. It's only in Resonant that the mask comes off.
I'm going through that building in the evac zone and this bitch is talking all cunty towards Dylan>Your file is full of murder>people don't change Dylan>you bad evil white manI'm sorry, is Dylan responsible for his murder rampage? What is this shit. Everybody was licking Jesse's pussy in Control as Jesus Christ 2. Dylan as usual is the white male punching bag. If this guy was Jean Grey >OMG she had to do what she had to do for X Y ZShe wouldn't even need HISS as an excuse for her murderous behavior.
>>748717732Retcon? It was always the case that he fucked up Dylan by trying to groom him into being the next Director. Darling was a bastard for what he did, but he still ended up doing the right thing by saving as many lives as possible with his HRAs. That’s what makes him an interesting character.
>>748692098so is Dylan a genius or did being locked up make him retarded?
>>748718126>I'm sorry, is Dylan responsible for his murder rampage?I mean, a bit. Even before the Hiss fucked him up he was killing researchers in the FBC which while they did deserve it, that's still murder and it's one of the reasons Dylan is working as hard as he is in Resonant to make up for it.
>>748704886People will say that mashing one button is the most efficient method and then complain that enemies take too long to die and that the game is unbalanced and too hard later on and fail to see the connection.
Any guy that storms into a another man's college lecturer unannounced calls him an idiot and takes over his class is obviously an asshole
>>748718204He was locked up and experimented on since he was a kid, with zero real human contact that wasn't just other researchers poking him like a lab rat. He's completely socially stunted.
>>748718126Nobody knows that Trench let the Hiss in, and Zoe especially doesn’t know how bad it was for Dylan growing up. Later on you can talk to her in the tower about what it was like to be possessed by the Hiss, and Dylan basically describes it as waking up during surgery because the doctors fucked up the anesthesia. He was awake and aware of what was happening, and felt everything, but couldn’t do anything and was basically just a passenger in his own body. She seems genuinely apologetic after that.
>>748718204His only form of entertainment was Threshold Kids. It’s a miracle he isn’t a babbling lunatic.
>>748704509Makes me think of James in Silent Hill 2
You couldn't really blame Dylan if he turned into murderous psychopath after what FBC did to him.
>>748718259The first one was an accident because they kept trying to get results out of him. Carla and the others were because he was sick and tired of being treated worse than an animal.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pBK_nfvSMw
>>748718449Even during the start of the game, Zoe was one of the only people aside from Hope that wanted Dylan to be kept alive and be used to help, so it's more likely that Zoe is just understandably high-strung over everything happening.
>>748718626He didn’t even let the Hiss in. That was Trench’s fault.
>>748718642Yeah but you forget that Zoe doesn't know the truth behind those incidents. As far as she knows Dylan is just a guy that killed FBC researchers and let the Hiss into the Oldest House, there's not a lot to trust which is why everyone treats him like a freak.
>>748692917They both look like spergs honestly
>>748718803Aren't they the same person?
>>748702124I only killed two hah!
>>748692917lord farquaad?
UNKNOWN
>>748713330>I'll come back for you.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DaF4hLXEhH8/damn the actor actually sounds like a schizo IRL too, and here I thought he was putting on the performance of his life.
>>748696725I was going to play it, but when I saw manjaw feminist protag with a low-cut top and no cleavage I noped the fuck out
>>748715960Isn't there a code you can enter to get the pre-order cosmetics?
>>748719013Wow anon you're so based
>>748718912unsure, desuin control dylan does mention he had a dream where he was an only child named jesse dylan. in resonant there's a bit where he loses his memories of jesse and thinks of himself as an only child, until he forces the memory of jesse back inso it's a bit like the tom zane/alan wake situation. there's still plenty of room if sam lake that hack decides they're the same person and it'll make sense with all the info we have, but could also take it in a different direction that also works
>>748718971Not really, lots of actors have said similar things about playing villains and how fun it is since you can really cut loose compared to how rigid playing a protagonist or heroic character can be.
>>748715960Bizarrely, there's also a china exclusive outfit. Anyways the best top is the varsity jacket.
>>748718912>>748719191There's also that bit in the prologue where Dylan and Jesse are switching places rapidly and seeming to physically be torn apart in the little flashes you see.
>>748719304there is twitch drops people missed too and a newsletter as well there is a fuck load of locked cosmetics people cant get unless you get a cracked version and edit the files for it
>>748719350also at the end when you've killed the last hedron, it switches between dylan trying to save jesse and jesse trying to save dylan. just like how in aw2 it switches between alan pointing a gun at tom and tom pointing the gun at alan...
>>748692917finally they made her look like her va
>>748704235Now you can sell it second hand
>>748719304Oh yeah, isn't there a code for this one too?
>someone made a on demand combo finisher changer on nexus modsFuck yes im pairing this with weapon swap mod
>>748718019And when Dylan failed, they tried to get any information out of him that could help them kidnap Jesse so they could make her into P7.
>>748704384her VA btw, she cute
>>748719550EV172-LN211-PL279
>>748719534The Tom shit in Alan Wake still fucks me up bad to the point I still don't know for sure if Alan isn't a creation of Tom or if Tom is a creation of Alan. I still think the guy Alan shoots in 2 was just the American Nightmare version of Scratch though.
>>748692098uh is it selling more than the first one with the ugly woman?
>>748719534Every para-utalitarian we know off seemingly has multiverse dopplegangers.Trench, like max payne/alex casey lost his wife and daughter and has the same voice actorJesse is beth from quantum breakalan wake, zane and darling are implied to all be versions of each otherDylan is the odd one out, being a copy of a copy of a copy
>>748719868its selling well and is topping the steam charts, control 1 and alan wake 2 were killed by epic jailits selling decent on ps5 too despite physical having been delayed
>>748718961Even in AW2 they don't interact. Could have been a cool little nod to Quantum Break
>>748711167i miss that lil niga
>>748719532>there is a fuck load of locked cosmetics people cant getAre the codes single-use only? Are they in any way tied to your account?
>>748718961SAM LAKE YOU FUCKING HACK MAKE QUANTUM BREAK 2 ALREADY
>>748719887>alan wake, zane and darling are implied to all be versions of each othernigger are you for fucking real? where is it >>>>>impliedthat Alan/Darling/Zane are each other?I can sorta see it with Zane and Alan but where does Darling fit into all this?
>>748720107the chinese one you can still get with a code its not single use
>>748719138Yeah I know. Imagine playing feminist womyn games lmao
>>748720197He can’t. Microsoft owns Quantum Break.
>>748720204https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDfVUsjNOLs>you look kinda familliarcould just be a joke, but its remedy
>>748719982alan woke 2 was killed by a black woman replacing alan in his own game
>>748709059>file about a disappearing toilet>mentions indiaThe jokes write themselves.
>>748719263I'm talking about his voice and cadence, not what he's talking about.
>>748720414Its been years, why are you still fighting the culture war, the context of your pic is sagas darkness possession talking, abusing her self doubt
>>748703084I like Extend. The perfect charge mechanic is really fun.
>>748719623I did this so I can use Concussive Beatdown into Uppercut Surge. Remedy should've just given us a primary fist weapon type
>that fucking cat questLangstom is the best part of this game
>>748720541of which she then immediately after goes "wait no that's fucking retarded I don't believe that" and goes back to working to help Alan and save her kid.
>>748692098So is the action good and well designed? I love all the weird lynchian flair that Sam lake throws into these games but how's the gameplay if I enjoy character action, is it competent? I don't mind putting on assist and increasing enemy aggression and damage, just want to know if it's good combo slop
>>748720519He sounds normal though...>>748720678It's funny how the guy with arguably the hardest and most stressful job in the FBC is the only motherfucker that's actually normal aside from like Arish.
>>748720713>just want to know if it's good combo slopCould be better. You can tell it's their very first time making a game of this sort.
>>748720713It's incredibly basic and easy, but it's serviceable.
>>748720338If time is meaningless in the Dark Place, maybe this happened ages go from our perspective and Alan Wake is their collaboration: Darling's voice and Zane's body making a third person that'll help them escape eventually
>>748720713Download the combat overhaul mod. It adds stuff that should've been in the game to begin with
>>748720774>>748720862That's a shame. It looked flashy but easy. Reminds me a bit of nier automata.>>748720964Looks very good. Not sure why this isn't in the game already, some staple features
>>748720713There's a surprising amount of depth, but it struggles due to the open-world nature and the finely tunable assist settings meaning you can't get a good curated difficulty level to make full use of its systems (it can flip flop between too easy or needing to cheese).
Gotta admit the game grows on you. First couple of hours I was pissy and irritated, but I kept feeling compelled to come back to it.
>>748720414>>748720541>>748720694I have seen this exact sequence of posts word for word more than 3 times nowwhat the fuck, are you all bots?
>>748720713It's an Action RPG, closer to Kingdom Hearts than DMC. But you can still do some fun stuff, it's pretty free-form.
>>748721298Are you not?
Games are healing
>>748721298>I'm a retarded niggerfaggot that's upset over something from a vidya release almost a decade ago and if you call me retarded YOU'RE the problemKill yourself, faggot.
Transxisters... not like this...
>>748721375The environments aren't too hard to find the intended path but it is nice that I actually find myself exploring to find stuff in the game and opening my map occasionally.
>>748721348Neat
>>748721375Yellow tape however...
>>748721375Normalfags are going to be filtered so hard by underpass
Is Jesse the bad guy now that she's a government agency director in this one or nah
>>748721375bullshit yellow signs said dont eat the mold
>>748721348>tfw still leveling the skythe and the hammer and just got ingnite from the factory
>>748721836No.
>>748720541>darkness possessionWeird way to say melanin.
>>748720541>why are you still fighting the cuck far-leftist takeover of gaming? Just give up and let them ruin it foreverlolThe context of the pic is they replaced Alan Wake, a white man, with a black woman who uses "white" as an insult in his own game
>>748721836Her motivation has been and still is Dylan’s well being.
>>748721909>>748722160Sick, I'm excited for it to finish downloading now. I liked her character a lot in 1/the AW2 DLC & hate when sequels make the MC the bad guy for le shock value
25 hours in, i'm getting huge hogwarts legacy vibes from this (derogatory). It's a downgrade in every single aspect from the original. These steam tourist fucks haven't played the og and it shows
>>748722243Yeah, she's just going rogue as a natural conclusion of Control and the DLCs, she still loves her brother and wants people to be safe.
>>748722270
>>748702124Got every single one correct except the last one, picked "laugh" because I couldn't read all the options fast enough. Dylans line delivery made it worth it though and the single guy dying because of that blunder made it even funnier.
Played for about seven hours, got bored, uninstalled it. I might go back in the future and try to finish it. It's about as boring and "fun" as the first game, which I also dropped after about 5-10 hours. The overhauled combat isn't enough to make it fun, and the combat is still pretty mind-numbing. You can get some cool powers and do different builds, but ultimately 1-2 builds are so broken that you might as well just use that one. >>748704459That's like 7 hours a day? He might not have a family or obligations. He could be unemployed or work from home. You don't know how much free time a person has. I have a full-time job myself, but I live alone and when I come home, I have a good 8-10 hours of free time before I go to bed. I could easily play 7-8 hours of a video game each day if I really wanted to do so, but I don't because I get burned out and bored.
>>748706413And then what? do nothing while they destroy everything else? Like they've done the last decade? This has to be stopped or there'll be nothing left of western entertainment.
>>748697975>don't get SCP at allFor the best. After they purged all Gears-related stuff to sate their troon bloodlust, no one should ever consider that shit site as an example in any capacity.
>>748692098I got to a part where the only available dialogue option was "Thank you for yelling at me."
Get in the robot Dylan.
>>748723812I'm not gay but Darling is cute
>>748723812he fell off hard
>>748723898and he has the body of a bona fide hunk to boot
>>748723812You know, black rock coated giant mechs would make for a good weapon against the hiss.
>>748723898I wonder what his workout routine looks like>Roberts, I need you to supervise the P6 experiments while I go bench press
>>748724183There is something that makes you something that bulks up quickly: mold. Sweet, delicious mold. You want those gains don't you?
>>748723930Or so his haters would like you think
>>748724354Fuck off, mold.
>>748724354Fred never eats mold and he's the best agent out there.
>>748724354
FBC stacys are choosing to eat moldchads over joining hisscels its so over. Its hypergamy all over again
>>748724545I love fred
One persistent insanity is launching the game being a pain in the assWhy cant I just double click the icon, then it loads, then it goes straight to menu screen. Why must I click other stuff or wait for something mysterious.
>>748703406Jesus, i just Platinum Trophy'd the game less than two hours ago and i never noticed how huge Dylan's head was the entire time.This is either an over sight or an artistic choice because Dylan is meant to look like a big fucking baby in a suit/a prisoner of the FBC in the first game.
>>748723812I cannot believe how evil they made him in this new game. Everything we saw in the original game was just performative.
>>748697975Is it a LOD bug or just lightning? I swear to god his cheeks are rounder most of the time
>>748726137Artistic choice. Jessie's head was fucking huge too in the first control. Zoe's head is kinda big too. If I had to assume its probably to accommodate for the over the shoulder view or something
>>748715231Darling probably Patterned and became a new Hedron off-screen back during Control (2019). Emily directly states the Hedron in Resonant was encapsulating Manhattan in order to transform everyone in it into it's own kind. The Pattern barrier around Manhattan is basically just a giant Hedron egg shell.Completely agree that Northmoor should have got out and started causing shit. But at least there is a note at the end of the game specifically mentioning that his containment reactor is beginning to fail. The Oldest House might be getting permanently abandoned soon.
I love how some FBC agents have random conversations going on as you're moving trough the field. I bet most people missed on 90% of those.
his head size is fine come on guys
I don't think they should let me choose red.
>>748711076>>darling still trapped in dark placeOh, that's where Caspar ended up? Is that explained in the Alan Wake DLC for the first Control?I only remember hearing and reading that he nebulously "disappeared" across the two games and was going to ask in the threadAlso:>Darling being banished to the shadow realm is a bad thingAfter what I've seen in this game I think he got off easy
>>748727785>Is that explained in the Alan Wake DLC for the first Control?Nope, it's in the free DLC for Alan Wake 2.
>>748720541>Its been years, why are you still fighting the culture warthats a retarded comment, the culture war was created by tourist leftists that inserted their gay racist feminist political ideology into games when it has nothing to do with it which then fragments the playerbase and destroys franchises and studios have you not seen what just happened to halo studios? you think that happened out of chance? i ask you google 343 manifesto and ask yourself why a feminist in charge of a halo studio tried to lie and state their studio name was called a character name instead and why their game failed, its because of everything ive stated we are 10 years deep in this dogshit and these fucking retards still have not learned even with the meltdown of the entire gaming industry into a few studios now i hope it was worth it lmao
>>748720713absolutely not.setting aside that you literally have only two combo chains XXXX and YYYY, the entire combat is a boring loop of juggle>ability spam>recharge ability meter with X/Y. feels more like playing a fucking mmo than an action gameyour only defensive tool is dodge which can be cancelled into from anything.they try to spice it up with buffs and ailments but those don't actually change the core loop.
There's anon he's posting in a board where there's an open thread but no way out.
>>748727785The Dark Place is pretty fucking bad though.
>>748718012You "missed out" on his very next sentence. Retard.
>>748721457like this?
Reminder than Alan is responsible for a lot of what happens in Control. He at least contributed to the existence of The Hiss along writhing about everything that happened in his DLC, which included Hartman and the destruction of Investigations, and Trench letting The Hiss in and killing himself was one of his earliest Bright Falls episodes.
You can have a loyal cat that will protect you from anything OR you can have a cool karaoke machine
Hmm
So what do you guys think about Oscar? The common consensus I've seen online is that the furnace followed him down into the sewers and merged with him patterning happened. But I don't think that's true or what happened. Given the notes and audio recordings we find in the factory along with the other resonant entity notes I think its more likely that his paranoid obsession with the furnace following him caused him to pattern. Judging from the artist and the dancer the common theme from I've seen so far from patterning and resonant is that it happens to people extremely dedicated to something and Oscar's obsession would fit the bill. I also don't think it would make sense for the furnace to follow him and merge there's no area in the factory that shows signs of the furnace manifesting there and molten lava trails imply that Oscar turned in his campsite tried to cool himself off in the pools and then isolated himself after killing those workers. And as we've seen from his campsite its not big enough to have held a furnace. I think the theory that its a merger is coming mostly from people who never played the first to encounter the furnace and probably think its humanoid
>>748692098HEIDI... WHERE ARE YOU?That entire plot arc was disturbing.
>>748728365Not as interesting with the way they retconned his ability in 2. It was a lot more exciting to realize this during Control 1 when the first Alan Wake was all we had.
>>748728651Oscar is not hungry enough to be the Furnace.
so how involved was sam lake with this one
>>748729175he didnt write nor direct
>>748727785In AW2 we see Darling in a black room, he isn't sure where he is but he has a radio and it tunes to Alan Wake reading a manuscript page. But could be Darling is stuck between dimensions and just getting signals from the Dark Place. But in Final Draft you see him meet Tom Zane, who proposes they work together to find a way out. Unless Tom Zane can hop dimensions and its in-betweens, they're both in the Dark Place.
>>748729175Doesn't seem to be involved at all. At least officially, I'm sure they asked him a billion questions considering it's his connected universe thing so he needs to at least have some involvement on where they're taking it, but the creative director was Kasurinen.
Kino
i like how everyone explaining story is redacting it not to spoil it like we are in the game reading the notes from the fbc lmfao
>>748707242Based. Do you think Mold Minion or Sport Burst is better btw? Spore burst on the surface seems better but minions could be fun too.
>>748730770honestly I thought it was the worst boss in the game
>>748730926Pretty tho. I think this fight was worse though. Nothing interesting. Bitch just spins. At least I had to move around the arena on all planes in the mold boss fight.
>>748702124>shirtless Dylan>BALD shirtless DylanCursed.
Did I miss something with the Furnace boss? It said something about Sever but all I really did was attack his side and use Drill for Weakness spam.
>>748730770OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH>tfw stuck in 1080p-land
>>748711167Still on vacation/preventing the Dark Place from voring the world alongside Alan.
>>748730873Minions combined with Inforno blasts carried me through all the later game challenges where I still hadn't figured out I needed to pad my Aberrant values with useless upgrades
>>748731274Does it look much different?
I'm glad they moved away a bit from Darling being entirely a quirk chungus and showed that hes actually a legit mad scientist, but I dont know if they made him too much of a dick>>748709804>Jesse typing at a CRT monitor.jpg
>>748731394I assume you also cranked up the FOV, but when I was playing the game, I never realized the "lines" formed concentric circles.
>>748717732>retconDarling was always horrible. You and everyone else just think he's cool because he sent Jesse a supportive music video.
>>748731446>spoilerThey didn't. They retconned how quickly Trench started going off the deep end to justify Darling's frantic "YOU CAN'T MAKE MISTAKES!!!leleventy!!!" approach. For whatever reason, Remedy are resistant to just letting Darling be the monster he clearly is.
>>748731448>the "lines" formed concentric circlesWhat the heck are you talking about bro?You better not be huffing Mathematics back there
>>748729653>>748730053Kasurinen says Sam was involved in the development of the game, just not as much as he was with Control 1. Lake also confirmed he did work on Resonant and is even credited as Creative Producer for the game deferring to Kasurinen as the head honcho for this one.
>>748731524My bad, nigga! U rite, u rite. It's actually (((echoes))).
>>748731082She's a simple fight, but her boss theme carries hard. I wish the mechanic where you had to stay in the spotlight close to her was there for the whole 2nd phase.
>>748731519Having Darling be 100% good or evil is fundamentally the lamer option in my opinion. He's best in this grey area where he's totally willing and able to do awful things to people like Dylan and view it as nothing that bad if it means something great can come of it.
>>748731448>I assume you also cranked up the FOV, but when I was playing the game, I never realized the "lines" formed concentric circles.No, I wasn't even aware you could. At the intro to the boss it starts a little zoomed out then immediately zooms into this.
>>748730926That was the DancerMainly because it had the bones to be a really great souls-like boss, but lacked abilities and was tuned pretty badly imo
>>748717732He was always a piece of shit in the first game. You just see him performatively present for the Bureau in the first game's videos.Playing as Dylan in this game, you KNEW it was going to delve into how much abuse Darling, Trench, Roberts and the rest of the staff were going to give him. Nobody expected it would be like 9/10 every Dr. Darling video though.
>>748720197>*laughs in Microsoft*
>>748731446when you beat the game you get one last video from Darling addressed to Dylan. I wouldn't say it excuses him or makes him forgivable, but goes a long way into showing he's at the very least remorseful of the choices he made
>>748726654I don't think they will abandon the Oldest House. It's end of the world scenario if some of the shit in the panopticon got out... But it also can't be only place on the planet with world ending shit so it could happen.I just like that a tree is the Oldest House because our ancestors lived in trees. Makes me wonder if neanderthals could be responsible for the creation of objects of power/altered items or they were too retarded.
>>748724354>Dylan: Mmmmm, mold
>>748725101Too bad they killed Fred off screen between games. At least his ghost makes an appearance.
Ok, so unless Underhill's research pays off, the world is pretty much over, right?The mold undoubtedly got into the sewer system or a river.I wanted Control 3 to deal with something but I just can't see how if they don't kill off/control the mold in one of the expansions.So mold/Underhill expansion but what is the other one? Former? Northmoor? Jesse (very unlikely)?
Any wants or predictions for DLC?>Where ever the hell Former/Ahti are>Options to refight Resonants with more mechanics/overhauled tuning (it was one of the biggest criticisms of the game so I can imagine they'd be keen to address it)>More of a return to the Oldest House, Northmoor revenge arc
>>748732109I haven't finished it yet but doesn't the pattern barrier prevent anything from getting back out?
>>748731148The bosses are really shit. Western studios really can't make interesting enemies. It is all just fodder.They should get classes from Capcom and Fromsoftware on how to make boss fights. Armored Core 6 still wipes the floor with every single game released since.
>>748732301Once the Patterning is dealt with, the barrier falls. Which means the Hiss and Mold are free to spread. Especially the Mold since it didn't get weakened.
>>748732301>I haven't finished it yetBro, I'm going to give you a real spoiler. No memes. Are you ready for this? It's going to blow your mind.You kill the thing causing the Patterning. It's the final boss!Crazy, right? Never seen a video game do that before.Don't worry, the border lingers a bit after to justify post-game content.>>748732109Pretty much. I didn't really pick up any strong teaser vibes from any of the content, but Former/Board, Chester Bless, and Jesse Dylan Faden are unresolved plot points that WILL be resolved eventually. There's also the possibility for a second Alan Wake sequel teaser DLC.
>>748732301The barrier will eventually crumble since Dylan killed The Hedron
>>748732362>Matias, Son of Ahti: Forgive me, Father... >Heh, guess you were always by my side *second phase*
this game is really meant to be played on high enemy aggresssion
>>748732189We know where Ahti is. He's in Bright Falls and/or the Dark Place.
>>748732465More like>Perkele! One more mess to clean up. The things I do for free.
It just hit me. There is a fuck ton of plumbing in the Underpass but not a single mention of Clog. What the fuck?
>>748732450Fuck Alan Wake. Give me Quantim Breaker.
>>748732648OH SHIT! The Hedron messed up with spacetime! PERFECT lay up for Quantim Breaker 2!
some people are are hisstrionic
>>748732109Mold basically wants to replace Humanity in this game or live alongside us, its implied it envies our existence and is trying to birth itself coincidentally through the Hedron Patterning to create duplicates of people. The Heidi/Hannah quest was fucked in this game by the way.
>put Alfred in the crackGo get em champ
>>748722373>Jesse goes rogueKino. Makes sense considering how the Board is revealed to be pretty shifty in the Foundation DLC for Control. Is Former in Resonant?
>>748733045Not giving any spoilers, anon.
>>748732189DLC would likely be Oldest House or Panopticon with Emily and Langston to deal with Northmoor. Its unimaginative but its cheap because the assets already exist.Personally want a Slide Projector DLC though. Like sending Dylan directly into Slidescape-36 to the Hedron dimension just to fuck with them.
>>748732729What a killjoy
>>748732450Didn't read your spoiler but I get the gist but then again its not far fetched for me to assume the barrier could stay up or something the old house stayed under lockdown after you finished the first control
>>748709459Not everyone in the FBC is a morally bankrupt monster. Just most of them.
>Darling: The phychologist told me I'm somewhat of a Father figure to Dylan now>I never wanted kids. I'm going to fuck him up now.
>>748717732Darling is an incredibly flawed man that did horrible things to Dylan, but also ended up saving a lot of lives.
>>748718126Underhill and Marshall weren't fond of Jesse.
>>748732648>>748732701Can't because Microsoft owns the IP, but yes, Hatch/Door and the guy that was played by Dylan's actor in the demo reel or whatever (TIME BREAKER!) will be coming back eventually.I don't think I caught a single reference to Door in all of Resonant. Huh.
>>748733101They already have a villain for the slide projector they can use with the Not Mother in the temple
>>748733045>revealed....in the Foundation DLCBro, were you not paying attention in the base game? You understand the Board MURDERS everyone that they reject for the directorship, right?
>>748732189Ahti is LITERALLY Ahti, the Finnish Water God.
>>748733419There's lots of things that murder people in FBC. Whats one more to the pile.
>>748733292Gendo Moment
The Board being snarky assholes the entire game and then it being revealed that they're throwing a tantrum because Jesse basically trapped them in the Aberrant and put them into Dylan like a Diablo Soulstone is so neat
>>748696346They did a terrible job explaining the systems I find the whole upgrade tree needlessly confusing
>>748733353I was genuinely shocked Underhill became a pretty based character.>"The FBC (Emily specifically) won't allow me to fuck with the Mold with the sole expressed purpose of KILLING IT ALL TO SAVE HUMANITY? Fuck it, i will just leave the FBC then."
>D: Thanks...for yelling at me>Z: Anytime, Dylan ;)hot
>>748696346There's a single loading screen tip that mentions it but yeah it's a bit opaque.Like - do any of the weapon upgrades that purely mention stats (e.g the dual wield primary crit buffs) and not the weapon themselves also apply when you're using another weapon type while that'ss active? How about when that's not active?
does this game do away with the scp facility setting? i liked that stuff alot
>yfw you realize Alan Wake is literally Sam Lake trying to write himself out of the shitshow that is the remedyverseKino
>>748733805>that's my fetish
>>748732729
>>748733665I don't remember that ever being "revealed", just kind of being obvious based on the Board's behavior and their noted absence from both the Oldest House AND the Astral Plane.Did I miss something?
>>748719191>>748719350There’s also bits in the not!Earthbound bit that hints at it; Dylan has a mattress on the ground, Jesse has a proper bedframe, and if you look around you can find mail from their grandmother that says “Hey the fuck do you mean /both/ kids???”
>>748733353Marshall had no beef with Jesse, and died ~5 seconds after they met.
>>748720338Did Darling just wish Zane into existence?
>>748734185I guess that's true. I took it as such when Pope dialogue says they disappeared around the same time Jesse did - I assumed prior that they were just talking to Dylan like they'd talk to Jesse and were still around doing other stuff, not that they were trapped in the Aberrant
>>748734185You can start a dialogue with Pope about it and Dylan can try to tell her that they're in the Aberrant now only for the Board to tell him to shut up and don't inform "strangers/stakeholders" of their predicament/flip-flop in probably one of their most viscerally whiny moments. It essentially spells it out if you hadn't already pieced it together by then.
>>748734617I got that scene. I kek'd. Fuck the Board, can't wait to team up with Former to hostile takeover them.
>>748734213Does that make Dylan trans if he remembers being a girl before becoming a boy?
>>748734986Isn't the point that neither of them do, because they were given memories as if they always both existed? If anything it's the opposite - they're the male and female split apart
>>748734986>>748735114Considering their fabricated birthdates, either "yes" or "Jesse was the 'original'".
>>748697975This game was written by some lady instead of Sam Lake. The lore and humor are both a step down from the first one
>>748692098
>>748735337neither jesse or dylan were the original, if you go downstairs at a certain point in the rpg you can overhear the mother saying "THEY are not our children"
>>748735114>My name was Jesse Dylan Faden
>>748735694Obviously, hence the double-quotes. However, their true child had some sex.
Dylan is totally justified killing literally everyone in the FBC
>>748736404jesus fucking christ
>>748736404Hope we get to stab Darling.
>>748736404Darling is a huge asshole.
>>748736551Who was in the wrong?
>escaping the sinkholeKINOOOOOOO HETGEM AS THE GAYS CALL IT.Give them all the award geoff
Also its nice to see she's still about
>>748738145>becoming a fedFate worse than death
>>748738145theres a meme about game development where repeat showings of recurring characters is somehow appealing to players
>Langston invites Dylan to his poetry night and wants to throw him a birthday party
>>748728769Read the resonant file for the boss maybe they did merge or maybe the furnace just left the oldest house because there was no one there to feed it
>>748736404It looks like trench infected by the hiss intentionally primed Dylan to be susceptible to hiss
>>748736404that's the second worst thing the FBC ever did, only after banning hot dogs
>>748738145Everyone you rescue in the game basically becomes emergency FBC personnel. Its pretty wholesome.
Hotdogs are overrated anyways. Casper Darlin HERO saved everyone AGAIN. He even saved your tastebuds
>>748738350>Langston in Control 1>Jesse desperately wants to get away from him>He constantly harasses Jesse with long winded speeches>Langston in Control 2>Dylan strikes a friendship with him>Turns out Langston was always celebrating Dylan's birthday sending him cakesNever been wronger about a Remedy character until Langston. He always had your back throughout the game.
>>748738821I feel bad now for walking out on his incessant talking during the AWE expansion (but I also really wanted to find the thing that used to be Hartman). After Resonant I kinda want to go back there and actually listen
>>748738779How are you getting internet in the Dark Place, Darling.
>>748736404What in God's name...
only 1 death at karaoke, woo
>>748701856>an object of power could be the sonichu amulet
I really liked that 2D RPG segment, interesting way to show the story of Ordinary. the slide projector was the best part
>told zoe that Matthews died earlier>get the prompt again for some reason while doing the threshold side quest >mix him up thinking Matthews was the wilson guy forgetting all about that side quest>accidentally snitch on Matthews and get him written up and possibly firedwhelp
WHIIISSPERS OF A CALLLLING. FRRROOM ANOTHER WOOOORLDDD!!!!!
Will he show up in the next game?
>>748692917wtf they fixed her face?
>>748692098I like this game but it's missing that creepy vibe the first one had
>>748720541Kek I see you're new to leftoid writing. They're always subtle at first>durr context durr possesed durrOh, anon... how gullible are you
Jesse/Dylan r34 status?
-Jesse and Dylan were originally one person, split by the "Severed circle 2" game.-The Board is aware of this and tried to keep them apart.-Former escaped the Astral Plane and is planning something.-There is a secret, international, organization out there trying to remove powers from altered items-There is something worse than the Hiss, or the Hedron, coming toward Earth.-Dylan quasi went back in time and created the "Gap" slide explaining the discrepancy between Jesse saying there was 9 slides, but Dylan saying there was 8, in Control 1.There, there's all the spoiler you need for Control Resonant.
>>748739750Darling: You couldn't possibly stop Dylan! You don't have that dog in you!Neil:
>>748739870Being trapped in the pit was kinda scary and suddenly being told it's been 6 months is insane. Then the underpass time fuckery shit is wild. Also the not mother stuff has a chance to be scary.
Overall I enjoyed the game. Some of the puzzles suck (soda fountain yellow tape) but it was overall way better than I was expecting. Combat is pretty good, you definitely feel overpowered in the last two areas though
How the fuck did Darling end up in the Dark Place of all places? When the Hiss invaded, he was locked inside the Oldest House. Did he somehow manage to open a doorway to the Dark Place in order to escape?
>>748740227we don't know yet. if there's an alan wake 3 we might find out because of tom zane but who knows. they like answering one big question, throwing doubt into another two, and leaving you with three new ones
>>748740227I can't remember any details from the first game because it's been so long, but there's no mention of it in Resonant as far as I saw and I was pretty thorough
>No Dylan getting Aberrant armor that counters resonance. But the Aberrant is easily the coolest thing I've ever witnessed. How he shakes off, breaks, or snaps the stick after not attacking. Kino.
>>748737979Maybe Darling just doesn't like hotdogs and prefers pizzas but he's a tyrant and wants everyone, especially those that do no want to, eat pizzas.
>>748740227>>748740297>>748740327iirc aren't the oldest house and the dark place linked with one another through the astral plane/oceanview?
Is there ever an explanation for how Dylan killed all the people in his cell? Can he just make people die with his mind or did he kill everyone by destroying the glass?
>>748739302>OoPs gain their powers through the collective perception of people of said object>the Sonichu amulet is considered to be very cursed and will bring bad luck to you>considering that there's multiple Sonichu amulets made, and any subsequent one that is, that means there's multiple OoP Sonichu amulets that fuck you up if you wear them.
Time to throw rocks
>>748706397but we already didJesee's sprite was so cute
So far it seems like a 9.2/10 game, except combat is merely fine.
so do we like zoe or nah
>>748740745Nope. The closest thing we get to an explanation is that Dylan apparently doesn't remember much of it and Darling extra-drugged him that day, then lied on the after-action reports about it.
>>748741401I really like her, I think her and Dylan's growing relationship is really cute.If Pope and Jesse can be all but confirmed a couple, I hope they could do the same with Dylan and Zoe eventually
>>748714345>In the first Control, you could get lost for hours just doing sidequests or general exploration.It's same here though?After getting out of Old House at the beginning I spent like 15 hours doing side quests, world trials, found a bunch of enemy spy bunkers etc.
>>748692434Shill
>>748721664Missing the point.
>>748741401>FBC bitchNah, get fucking mold'd, idiot
>>748741345No, SC2 had a sword. A real sword, not whatever poser shit the Service Weapon does.
>>748741770But anon, Langston is part of the FBC!
it just plays music?
>fuck you arish *gouges eyes out and gets arish fired* That was satisfying
>>748742095Probably yes, tried a bunch of things but nothing worked.Also got plat so it's not a part of the shit that needs solving.
I would rather be hiss or mold instead of being 40 copies of myself fused together into a big circle
>>748692098I wish the game was longer with more fucked up zones and more big resonant bosses.Atmosphere and lore were great.
>>748742605imagine the circle jerk though
This is just sad man
game looks so boring to playtheres so much yappingthis is nothing like control 1 to me atleast
>>748742859>looks
>>748742970? i can have an oppinion on someone playing itand it looks super floatythe "world" being ny streets and roofs looks boringthere's so much dialoguethe story feels super disjointed like a kojima game but without kojimai liked the first control but this one just looks... off anon, that's my opinion
Once you’ve been to prime candidate training you’ll never stop wanting to beat the FBC to death with your bare hands
>>748743024>? i can have an oppinion on someone playing itYour opinion is as worthless as a twitter tranny's opinion on Persona or Resident Evil.
>>748743118as is your life yet you're still here
>>748743024Imagine a game you played urself, immersing urself into the story, world and forming muscle memory to its systems for 20h+ and enjoy the experience.Then someone who watches asmongold play it for a while tells you its shit. Thats you
>>748743171Go back to whatever hole you crawled out of that convinced you your opinion is worth anything when you just watch other people play games like a fag.
>NOOOOO YOU CAN NOT NOT LIKE A GAME SIR NOOOOOholy shit you fucking faggots are retarded
>>748743024>? i can have an oppinion on someone playing itSure.And I can tell you to fuck off with your shitty memes and hot takes about game you didn't play.Isn't freez peach wonderful?
>>748741896Langston has been dead for seven years, Anonymous!
>>748743289>reddit spacing>thinks watching a streamer play something makes his opinion as worthwhile as people that actually play the gamesFags like you are the reason why everything fucking sucks now because you act like your opinions are worth hearing and retarded devs listen to you instead of people that actually would play the games.
>>748743289>I WATCHED 5 MINUTES OF RANDOM LET'S PLAY, HEAR ME ROARNO U
>>748743349SHUT UPSHUT UP NO HE'S ALIVE HE'S ALIVE AND SENDS ME A BIRTHDAY CAKE EVERY YEAR
>>748692098>your sister is revealed to be a lesbian in the endingyou people tricked me into buying this woke shit
>>748743583retard
Why are chuunis like this?
>>748740078>suddenly being told it's been 6 monthsWasn't it six hours? Or is there another pit later? I'm thinking about the sinkhole after you set up the CFD.
I like that they made a video about Darling having a meltdown over the icecream when it could have easily been another letter.
>>748717732The people replying to this are dumb. Darling wasn't evil in the first game. He was a giddy little researcher who fucked Dylan up because he was too much of Science man, trying to figure out Dylan through experimentation and by the time through trial and error he had worked through his ignorance he had fucked Dylan all up. It was a believable dynamic and wasn't done out of malice. He had science blinders on looking at P6 as some problem to solve instead of a person.
>>748743862Easier to think I'm retarded and misremembered, no way Manhattan would hold out for 6 months. Yeah 6 hours.
FLoaty combat, ridiculous dialogue everywhereThis games a downgrade from part 1
>>748743583New shitpost dropped
So the next game after the max payne remakes is the Alan Wake Christmas special?
>>748744434Alan Woke 2 was a flopthey need to put their money on Payne
>>748744513Without the VA there wont be a new one the remakes will be bad mark my words
Kind of a wasted opportunity to not give a fitmatching outfit leather jacket and jeans combo.A bomber fashion would also go hard.
Holy shit the Oldest House fault with the Hedron reveal was kino as hell. I beat it last night and I'm thinking of replaying it. How far back do the saves in this game go? Never tried scrolling down. I played for maybe 30 minutes afterwards.
>>748735461they hide this fact and it's a cunt movethe game is... fine, but things are severely lacking in the story department, especially if you're coming from AWII and some of the subquests are cringe as FUCK, like this one >>748701856
>>748735597heh
>>748744805I really quickly bored of AW2, it just wasn't for me. I finished the first game but the combat was just so boring. The detective board thing just killed any enjoyment I would have had from the second game, not for me
>>748744953maybe try it again when ur older
>>748744982I'm too old for boring walk around hold button on clue bullshit. give me fun combat or i'm not interested
Having a lot more fun with the knives than the glaive
>>748744953AWII isn't the best game ever, but its writing is a noticeable step up from compared to most Remedy games, but even in the older ones there is this idiosyncratic tone/ voice that is present, and it's safe to say it's Sam Lake's influence.The point is that this game has almost none of it, it coasts on the foundations of the first game, but it misses the unique voice.It's just... normal for most of the time. There are some impresseive setpieces, but they are more Marvel-tier than what I'm used to with Remedy.
>>748744054He kidnapped a ten-year-old and locked him underground.>scienceHow does falsely telling somebody that their sister abandoned them further the cause of science?>some problem to solveSeeing a person as an object *is* evil. No justification for it can be good enough.Even in Control 1, Darling was a capable, intelligent adult who looked at a traumatized orphan and thought, "I can exploit him to get what I want." That's the same thing every abuser thinks. The only difference is that Darling dressed it up in academic language so he could get away with it.
>>748744578Jesse got all the coolness genes.
Jesses hair in c2 looks uncool tho
>>748745739her whole outfit is retarded
>>748740542The Dark Place is inbetween all universes. So it's more like the Oceanview is as present there as anything else. Darling most likely just yeeted himself hard enough out of reality that he ended up in the primordial quantum soup.
>>748739925Jesse/Dylan+Emily r34 status?
>>748738821>LangstonHe's a bro, i never understood the hate people had for him in CONTROL 1
>>748741401I detest tsundere generally, and this sort of overtly leftwing girlboss variety in particular.I like her voice, though.
