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Finished the quest. Should've just done everything last night there wasn't that much left. Shame about Grist and the rest of the research team though. Anyways through the park checkpoint is where the mold area is right?
>>748945851Yeah
undertale section seems like nice change of pace in the late gamefor the combat I guess I wish the game progressed the enemy variety so that some of the stuff you see in early game is dropped entirely and youd need completely new approach or something
Just beat it solid 8/10 only problems i had was >the pacing was up and down>Enemies sucked ass>Story takes a nose dive at the earthbound bit and then just starts reconning shit left and right>How can Alan Wake and this be in the same universe now?
the enemy variety was absolutely pitiful, the bosses were absolute pushovers only redeemed by their visuals, combat is so fucking boring if they were trying to emulate DMC and it’s kind they should have added more depth than this it’s practically Diablo in its complexity, the RPG section near the end kills the momentum and brings the overall score of the game down, map traversal gets tiring on mopping up leftover sidequests after the main story is wrapped up, I want to suck and fuck Popeall in all? a solid 6/10, deleted to make space for Ace Combat 8 and Hellraiser
The experience is elevated by small waysYou never need to think about saving, so thats great. The experience is technically flawless, no stutter, no fps drops, no need to think about restarting the game to fix memory leak for me at least.You spend very little time looking at loading screens thanks to the streaming system.The movement system and how its matched with the world design is real smooth. They do a great job doing a different movement set indoors.
Why doesn't Dylan just tell zoe how to get out of the threshold? I know the puzzle varies but he can give her a general idea of what to look out for
what if all Fadens have wishing powersand Dylan/Jesse split because the father wished that his son wasn't a troon
also it looks like the reality altering thing that split them was localized like Alan Wake's powers because the grandmother though they were a only child>>748947018he does in the end
Dylan vs Jessie who wins in a fight
was easily the most fraudulent game released in the last decade, bitterly disappointed with Remedy
I just got Reach and exploring the underpass,taking a little break.Inferno is really fun.Also>mfw mfs really do be calling you the "other Faden" when you pull up to save them from a hiss jumping session
Thank god for the patch I can actually see Langston's face now.>>748947446I think Dylan has a way more robust kit than Jessie that would probably overwhelm her
The fuck?
>>748947628Its a reference to all those joke videos where people chase strollers down a hill for fun
>>748947658Well that was annoying.
Im very early in the game but i do have some notes, so Remedy better be reading this post>The hiss designs are boringEvery trash encounter is the most boring thing i have ever played until the next thrash encounter, bosses are cool, vibes are cool, lore items are cool, the hiss creatures are lame as fuck>Movement sucksI understand is not the same type of game as the super hero power fantasy (prototype comes to mind) and that navigating the city is gameplay on its own but holy fuck does "sprint jump dash jump dash elevate" suck balls. Its getting better as i get btter at movement but having to slowly go from one 2 story building to the 3 story building to the 4 story building to the ..... Fuck off, let me jump higher>The upgrade system should be way more concise or i shouldn't be worried about respec items to try out new weapons and skills>Agent DeVera on your ear sucks, but devs can't help themselves on giving every Link a Navi in 2026HOWEVERI just spent like 10 minutes trying to reach a place that was unreachable cause i missunderstood a map icon and that felt fine, i never got a>Focus M!message or anything i was just happily hitting my head to a wall and nobody was bothering me.QuestionDo enemies respawn? or if i clear a "zone" of a map that stays enemy free forever?Also what is the point of leveling zones?
>>748947928its a good way to introduce the idea to players head that its possible to move around pretty fastthen theres couple parkour challenge arcade machines that require similar skillset
What the hell were they thinking with the enemy variety? it feels like there should be at least triple what there currently is, it’s actually embarrassing
I love how the game was called Poject Heron in development and it's about the Hedron.
Is Hannah's audio supposed to be really low or is that a bug?
>>748945851I love this shit in Remedy games, wish it had more quests that go beyond out own dimension. I wanted to know more about the blackrock quarry, foundation, threshold etc.
>>748946771>How can Alan Wake and this be in the same universe now?Play the AWE DLC and AW2.
I like Zoe, she grew on me. It's neat how Dylan gets more sarcastic and jokey as the game goes on, because he's actually learning to banter with her
wtf was his problem?
could use with r34 of adult dylan fucking loli jesse
>>748945785I finished it but good game. Love the big fucking hammer a lot
They managed to evolve the awkward chapter complete songs from aw1 and 2 to have zoe play a track on the radio after a big event, so you can listen to it while playing the game
I don't like the telekinesis as much,in the first game you could lift ANYTHING and it came from the environment around you (throwing around dead corpses was fun).In this one it's always the same three slabs of concrete.I noticed many times red small barrels that I thought could throw for explosions but nope.Not to mention the sound effect was crazy good.
The way the Bureau treats Arish after his Patterning is really telling.The man sacrificed himself for 7 years fighting otherworldly dangers, only to be consumed and turned into an anti-FBC weapon by the same entity that he fought against, and the bureau chooses to cover this up? This sets an awful precedent. "Do your job and if it leads to the death of you and YOUR colleagues, BY YOUR OWN HAND, we'll pretend you died a hero". I understand the FBC, as an organization, doesn't pretend to care about its people but come the fuck on. I'd expect them to be at least a little bit more pragmatic on the issue.
>>748949624>awkward chapter complete songsI think they really set the mood well but AW1 did it better, where they had chapter songs play during the "credits" for a chapter/episode.
>>748948651>You got trapped in a Threshold and you talk about it like you lost your phone charger?>OH MY GOD A THRESHOLD HOLY SHIT
>>748949648Keep it until you can get the shield explode skill then switch to shield.
>>748949654>his final words to Dylan: "I was wrong about you"
>>748947964Enemies respawn each time you kill a Resonant boss, which 'resets' the zones. The point of levelling zones is listed in a sub-menu of the zone map for each area. Generally levelling zones increases the amount of those world events, more droprates, an unlock that shows specific chests, upgrades the vendors and unlocks other stuff like costumes etc. The idea is that you clear out all of the zones of all the content, then kill a Resonant, then clear the zones again to maximise zone levels. Personally I don't see the point since I've gotten most zones past 5 and I'm already overlevelled for all the enemies and flogging pretty much everything.
>>748947964>Do enemies respawn? or if i clear a "zone" of a map that stays enemy free foreverThey do and stronger after you clear a Resonant boss >Also what is the point of leveling zones?I have no idea I only know it upgrades the vendor stock
I'm disappointed we didn't get to fight the resonant or whatever it is that killed the research team. If I do end up fighting it later don't tell me.. I wonder if the dylan that went into the underpass when you start is still the same dylan when you come out
>>748949720The credits was an idea that was never gonna catch onwas it mimicking half life 2 or walking dead with the episodes or something
>>748950573It's a bit different when the game is released episodically vs. game is released whole but paced in episodes. The first ended up as vaporware way too often.
>>748949408I didn't even get to solve this properly, I just pressed a few laundromats more or less randomly and it opened.
>>748950942the hint with the extra 0 on one line and the backroom having an extra washing machine was kinda obvious
>>748951008Pretty much yeah, but I didn't even get to that point before it was over.
I remember being surprised how many rangers there were still left standing around in attention even after the lockdown and by the end of the game there were only a few :(
>>748947964>Also what is the point of leveling zones?That's how you get skill points. If you open the map it also lists what it upgrades in them. Better vendor, better loot, more loot and so on.
Do you not get command charges if you kill enemies while Ignite is active? Bummer.
>>748946938>the game does the bare minimum to not be utter dogshitGaming is so fucking dead, holy SHIT
>>748951993Have you played games recentlyunreal 5 titles have persistent issuesbethesda has persistent issuesjap titles lack features and launch without anti-aliasing to 90% metacritic scores
After beating the game I'm actually really curious about the Pattern/Hedron. It seems genuinely scared and trying to communicate something to Dylan at the end. People are saying it's something even greater than the Hiss that it's trying to fight? The Dark Place? I'm also extremely interested about what the Board's deal is in this game.Also what the fuck was Jesse doing the whole game? Off on a side quest to stop the Pattern, then loses in the final Fault, then just comes through a door after the final boss to sacrifice herself? Am I missing something? I kinda wish they had shown her doing *something* in the final boss. Although it was a pretty lame fight all up so I don't know if it really would of mattered
Pope's monologue at the end about Jesse and her in the Quarry made me feel sad bros, not even a yurifag
>>748945785Nothing. I can't run it.
>>748952541how so
>>748951993>meanwhile games of the past dropped frames all the time despite aiming cinematic framerates yet they are now considered timeless classics
>>7489457856/10 game,needs more enemy variety and combat feels good, but lacks depth, they could’ve easily added combos, you don’t even have a charged attack or delay attack for your main weapon, just basic stuff like that is missing, bosses are braindead, the deserter barely attacked me and glitched all over the place, too many arena combat encounters without much enemy variety, mold enemies are basically reskinned, ost is great, most of the characters are forgettable and boring, low budget for cutscenes and dialogue, main character is a nothing burger, I understand he’s supposed to be autistic, but he could’ve had more character development, he’s a super hero but acts like a incel, you can tell Sam Lake wasnt really involved in it
>>748952819continued cause I forgot, Dylan needs more movement abilities, maybe super jump, charge jump and maybe some sort of short flight not hover, wall running and jump punch or kick, also throwing objects around the level
>>748952819filtered
>>748952605I'm on gtx 1080.
>>748952917filtered by what? I beat the game
>>748952956The listed minimum spec is gtx 1070.
>>748953002Yet you didn't beat the game.
>>748953056What makes you think I didn’t beat the game?
Just for a while.I saw the sunrise.It brought back few memories.And faded the pain... for a while...
>>748952956have you checked out geforce now streaming
>>748953093You didn't beat the game.
>>748953018I'll be too assblasted I can't see the fancy special effects and lighting.>>748953108Nah, I can't play it, but I still have my dignity.
Just unlocked the control ability in control x control a tale of two controlgroups
>>748953259Do you feel in control?
>>748953178>fancy special effects and lighting.those are 50xx tier stuff if you want path tracingmost people settle for no RT presentation and it looks greatStill, there isnt many games Id want to play with a 10y old gpu
>>748953301He needs to Fight for Controlhttps://youtu.be/mOEgwp8P8bg?si=W7OWqyxrZZxXyKCb
>>748953301I lost control because the control boss always controlled me with 1 hp left but i switched to drill and took control
>>748953481Drill-chads keep on drilling. Hammer-chuds and Whip-simps will never know this feeling.
>zoe's mixtapei will not click on your youtube embed
>>748953650Dylan would click it. Do it for Dylan.
>>748953650You lost control
>>748952172Hedron was trying to breach through to earth through the faults. Jesse struggles to do it on her own and the faults are empty and keep pulling from her memory, so she's taking a while to really do anything until Dylan shows up and helps her. When Jesse fails, the Hedron basically fully breaks through and quasi-absorbs her. It doesn't fully pattern her or anything because she's probably too powerful, but that's what the last probes detect and help with, it sees she's in there and altering how she's stuck in the Hedron so that she can "communicate" with Dylan, which helps him resist and get sent into the game flashbacks. Killing the Hedron freed Jesse enough to use the Gap slide Dylan created in order to escape.
>>748946771>Story takes a nose dive at the earthbound bit and then just starts reconning shit left and rightDo you mean retcons? Because no, the earthbound bit is basically 1:1 to what you learn in the documents back in the first Control game about the Ordinary accident. You just get to see it by yourself.
Why wasnt this marked at allyou need to like walk up to the npc and slowly get a "talk" icon pop up and then learn of the task board
>>748954123>learn of the task boardThe what?
>>748954123Everyone is complaining about no indications for it; I'd be surprised if a future patch doesn't fix it somehow, whether it's a call from Zoe or even just showing on the mini-map.>>748954206Taskboard that gives small quests in each area. Gives a bit of source but otherwise isn't necessary unless you care about achievements.
Since the taskboard stuff is story lite repeatable stuff I think they're doing a bit where the guy looks like the fallout 4 redguard npc that tells you another settlement needs ur help
"build power" is not just a number right? i mean its not just a sum of the amount of upgrades you have but has intrinsic dmg or whatever tied to it right?Like it multiplies your dmg further the higher "power build" you have and enemies take less dmg the higher level they are blablabla
How much would I need to replay to get the Save everyone in karaoke achievement in NG+? It's just the intro and the west incursion zone fault right?>>748954414"Build Power" is an arbitrary number, "Aberrant Strength" is tied to the amount of weapon upgrades you've got and give you a %dmg increase
>>748954414Yeah, this is underexplained except in a single box that you've learned to ignore by the time it shows up. Getting any upgrade makes you stronger, no matter if it's slotted in or not, and tiers don't share resources with other tiers (besides source), so there's no reason not to do it.
I think the game has 10/10 writing overallAll the notes I found are pretty goodThe npc chatter is as entertaining as its ever been, I love the langston ghost prankYou feel each character is a real human bean
I'm doing the underpass now. Now THIS is properly spooky, this is what more of the game should have been like.
>>748954286I think just having the standard "important person to talk to" symbol would be a big improvement.
>>748954531>tied to the amount of weapon upgrades you've got>>748954547>Getting any upgrade makes you stronger, no matter if it's slotted in or not, and tiers don't share resources with other tiers (besides source), so there's no reason not to do it.what the fuck, what a remarkably stupid systemI mean, i get that its the same "weapon" so you are making it stronger overall but man that sucksGonna get on the game right now to double check the resources sharing and unlock a bunch of shit i didnt unlock cause i wasnt planning to use those weaponsTy anons
>>748954531Think so, tho I think you still need to do the fault? It's on the way anyway. Only part of the game where the unclear dialogue wheel is a big hindrace.
>>748954707it's a retarded system but it at least made the laughably easy game harder... though just by making everything tankier, so it kind of still sucks
>>748954814>not making the game harder through optionsYou didn't beat the game.
>>748954846I beat it pre patch so I'm beating it harder than 99% of people
>>748954863>I beat the damage sponge mode, mooomYou didn't beat it on hard. You didn't beat the game.
It took me embarrassingly long (until halfway through the Underpass) to realize that I already have the abilities the unlock the ability gates. Now I went back and tried opening them and some of them I can't even find because the map markers are so shit. I think one of them is somewhere deep in the patterned train area but it shows up on the Park map. A couple of other underground ones gave me quite the runaround as well.I don't know how much of the game is left but I enjoyed it overall. The combat is the biggest drag, it's okay at the baseline but there's too much of it, not enough enemy variety or approaches to fight them, and it gets real easy fast. It's at its best when you don't see the formula it uses just yet and it genuinely surprises you with some puzzles or secrets. Then you see the pattern (heh) and it kind of deflates a bit. I think the game should've had more unique weird shit, and it never should've reused puzzles (like the ones in the research stations). It feels lazy that they couldn't bother thinking of just a few more. Atmosphere-wise it's still cool though.
>>748945785cleaning up the sidequests in post-game with the portable cd player mod. Maximum comfy
>>748946771>How can Alan Wake and this be in the same universe now?
>incel-Dylan if he lifts
>>748955145Yeah first one i saw i couldnt find i ended up so mad about it i googled it and it was one you reach through a subway station later on the storyThen dont fucking show the icon on the map before then Remedy, the fuck
>>748952172As I understand it Jesse and the Hedron are both trying to stop an even greater threat but through different means. Also the Hedron is not really concerned with the Hiss, an neither is Jesse because they know Dylan's hate for them will clean up that problem.I hate the MCU comparison but these games already feel like it thanks to the Remedy multiverse stuff they're doing. But Hedron is basically Ultron, an apparent main villain but its whole argument is that it's preparing our reality for an unseen threat, and Jesse knows about it too.It's almost as if it wants to transform lower Manhattan into the new and improved oldest house to contain this thing.But we don't know what it will be yet, maybe something related to Alan Wake or Quantum Break is coming. Maybe it's the "End of Time" or "The Dark Place" affecting the multiverse? Who knows
>>748945785This game has worn out its welcome with the fetchquests that go FUCKING NOWHERE towards the end. Takes out the whole momentum and I fucking hate them for it because before the Unknown section, the game was mostly good. Even Arish felt like an afterthought.
>>748955503You could be right, but it's also that the hedron is like a nuke, Polaris that connected with Jesse in its slide was in a world that looked like very post-apocalyptic, so the Hedron is more like "yeah I can eliminate your problem, but at what cost?"
>>748955382>>748955145it's bizarre how even fucking elden ring (which had the studio's first map) had different maps for different elevations, but remedy can't do it
I'm just going to start skipping the side content and just finish the game. The combat is getting so old.And the new pattern enemies are the most obnoxious yet.Fuck flying enemies, I'm so fucking sick of flying enemies.
So has anyone found Ahti or the Former?
>>748955813Ahti is just present in the flashback/earthbound sections and he sends you a postcard at the end of the game.
My main issue with the game is that it should've spent more time on the cool space mindfuck bits and less time on boring as fuck open world where only like 3 locations actually incorporate unusual verticality in meaningful ways.
>>748952225Lesbians are pretty retarded when it comes to communicating love. They're either way too blunt about it or way too subtle.it seems to me that Pope is the subtle yet socially clueless kind of lesbian.
so we all agree the sinkhole escape while https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scUUhl6Lv8Q is playing is the best part of the game right?
Bet all the people who are upset about the unreachable breakable object icons on the map wish they had yellow paint about now
>>748952819>lacks depth>none of his suggestions add any depth
>>748954123here's your hotfix, bro
>>748955813Former is mentioned in a lore document where they say they were tracking it but with the lockdown falling he escaped their watch
this runs decently on a 9900K/3080Ti?with decently I mean 60 fps / 4K and doesn't look like a PS2 game
About a month ago during gamescom, remedy organized a community party in germany and they had gift bags for everyone that attended.They have out some really neat stuff. The FBC pin and keychain (Parautilitarian symbol?) are especially nice.I really like collecting these sorta things. To me, they have more sentimental value than something you can just order online.They also gave out the bag + t-shirt for playing the demo at Gamescom. Crazy that some people stayed in line for 5+ hours just to try the game and they ran out of shirts halfway through the day.
>>748956482Go home, Insomniac.
>>748956562If you don't mind DLSS to reach 4K then sure. Make sure to force preset K because the game ships with M and it's way too expensive to run on 3xxx series.
>>748956345Every time Yellow paint is taken away, gaymers want it back...
>>748952225It;s ok. Emily can still get that Dylan dick inside her.
>>748956641which DLSS version? I'm partly ok with upscale shit but framegen is where I draw the line, if that even works ony my GPU
>>748956578any mold?
So Ahti is chilling in Cauldron Lake?
>>748956707Only Bethesda has unlocked the real life mold tech.
>>748945785Playing Ahtibound
>>748956658Shup up faggot. Yellow paint is insulting. If a grandpa like me can play the game without yellow paint so can you zoomers.
>>748956702It ships with 4.5 Preset M, use the nvidia app if you have it to force K, if you'd rather use DLSS Swapper, then force 310.4.0.Frame gen works on your GPU with a mod, I think it's great for high refresh rate, but not to reach 60, that should be native always, yeah. But no it's not needed for your GPU even at 4K.
>>748956768Evidently you can't.
>>748956707None that I know of. Though the gamescom booth did have mold around it. Inside it looked like the thresholds where you meet Jesse, with black flooring and yellow leaves all over.
>>748956578>gamescomI went last year, do Krauts not shower? It literally smelled worse than a smash tournament during the summer.I didn't go this year but my friend, who is an indie developer told me the security was stealing from developers and holding it ransom. Wild shit coming out of there, not even E3 was that bad.>>748956741That's nice, he deserved a vacation.
This game only made me want Prototype 3 more.
>>748956741I asusme he's still chilling at the old folks home.
>>748956812I can't? I have had no problems navigating the terrain you underage shitstain. No problems with the combat. No problems with the puzzels. The game is easy on the relaxing side. Yellow paint produces shitty gamers.
>>748956793>nvidia appUh yeah I don't even use that. Maybe I'll pirate the game and see if it even runs on this old ass driver version, I haven't heard good things about any driver released after that and want to play my other games which all work fine.
>>748956895>Prototype
>>748956923Take meds gramps- You're hyperventilating again.
>>748956901Hii vent tu Holidei, Perkele!
>>748956825I did the taxi missions and oh boy, that fell flat.
>>748956953Probably does, I did upgrade to the Control Resonant drivers but I started playing before upgrading and I didn't really notice any difference.
>>748956895>>748956964>tfw set up prototype 2 today to run 4k and uncapped framerate.>it still regulary crashesWell, it was always part of the experience
>>748956840>I went last year, do Krauts not shower? It literally smelled worse than a smash tournament during the summer.I know what you mean, some really don't. It's a gaming con, and gaming is not an active hobbyand some people there look and smell like shit, it's like personal hygiene and self-care is an unknown concept to them. AC is also an expensive luxury to krauts, for some reason.
>>748957090Great, thanks for the help anon
>>748949413Consider suicide
Anyone know the music that plays in the Oldest House fault? Especially the part near the end between the elevator and the Hedron? Though it's probably all from the same song.
>>748956658they just replaced yellow paint with those gravity well things you can zip to
>>748956578any spare size 5XLB shirts left?
>>748958073You couldn't pick the size of tshirt that you got, I'm guessing there'd be some leftovers on ebay
>>748947568I imagine Jesse has the same movement stuff since she can get through the same faults Dylan can. That combined with her having a gun while Dylan is melee only makes me think she'd win by staying away and shooting him.
>>748945785The FBC are some incompetent niggas
Speaking of yellow paint this type of vagueness is really frustratingIts a low reward task board mission that takes a lot more effort because the map doesnt tell you where you need to go. Evac site reads nowhere on the mapYou cant see a diegetic map pointers anywhere like -> heres evac siteSo the only thing on the map that is close is the evacuation zone checkpoint and going there will make npcs reset at x.You just need to know what they're talking about, and you do that by googling it.
>>748958515Fun fact: I never completed a single "escort rangers" mission for exactly this reason.
Resonant feels like a very low budget game>barely any marketing material>reuse of assets>samey environments>small, literally who-tier cast>limited, boring sidequestsControl and felt like a deeper game despite them being way smaller in scale. I vividly remember constantly going "oh shit, that's neat" during Control, seeing the environments and sidequests that took place inside the oldest house. Resonant doesn't really have that.My guess is that remedy either had to make do with a smaller budget OR they had to keep tighter deadlines since AW2 released only about 3 years ago.
>>748958009>they're like yellow paint, except not at all
>>748958515Anon do you see the giant red glowing building in your image? That's the evacuation zone that is part of the main quest that says 'go to the evacuation zone'.
>>748958270>feds are clownsbased
>>748958515I never needed to google any of them thoYou just need your precious yellow paint, dear "modern gamer".
>>748945785Being a Zoe simp
>>748959063its like a generic terma building doesnt have permanent title of "evac site" that I would mark down as important to remember for later
>>748959063Gun and ball gamers don't listen to dialogue or read instructions.
>>748959184Anon... it was the literal evac site. Did you play main quest with your eyes closed, mayhaps? Or do you have the memory of a goldfish?
>>748945785>cute girlboss character falls in love with autistic virgin protagonist Kino
>>748945785My biggest problem with this game is that Dylan's open world dialogue was clearly recorded all at once so his tone when talking with NPCs often doesnt match theirs. Like they'll say something mundane and Dylan's response will be delivered really dramatically
>>748959312You know, given the retardation of the program, I wouldn't put it past Darling having Dylan fuck and escort because "uuh, he needs to be ready for every eventuality, can't have him being awkward virgin the second some AWE has a sexual element.""Fuck her ten more times, Dylan. We're not finished until you've got it all out of your system."
Next super fun escort mission>go to parking carage, well again doesnt show on map so ill just run around and hope I see one>oh theres parking>enter it>rangers resetfucking hell.
>>748959063>>748959292You dumb fucking nigger, you absolute buffoon, these quests are in every zone, and every single one of them has this problem.
>>748959528apparently left pic is the desired entrance spot, and the door is not.
>>748959530Maybe if you're a retard who never paid attention to anything lol>WHERE THE FUCK IS THIS PLACE I'VE SEEN/HEARD TALKED ABOUT A DOZEN TIMES?>AAAAH HELP ME YELLOW PAINT, I'M GOING INSAAAANEWolverine was made for peopel like you.
>alternate timeline Dylans all sounds more badass/determined than our Dylanpoor guy can't catch a break
>>748958797Not really.
>SAVIOR; DANCING ON A RAZOR>BLEEDING ON THE BLADE; I FIGHT FOR CONTROL>IT'S IN MY NATURE, I'M A HELLRAISER>TILL THE BITTER END; I FIGHT FOR CONTROL>(WE GO TO WAAAAAAAAAAR)
>>748960119And all that determination only got him killed. What a chump.
>>748960363 >"Dylan, did you just jump!?"
>>748960363For me it's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DksnpaellAEmade by the same guy that did Lost at Sea in Alan Wake 2sucks that there's no dance/musical/combat sequence in Resonant
>>748960892>HELVETISSÄ HALLANVAARA>PAKKANEN MANALAN MAILLA
for Me it's the finnish folk bop that rolled during the credits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo8VOF3hmqE
>>748961067>>748961265>make God-tier folkpop song>only play it during the creditsManalan Mailla didn't deserve this
>>748961339just mod the portable cd player anon-kun, been vibing to this shit cleaning up post-game shit all day
>eat the moldi aint eating your damn nordic psychedelic
Dr. Darling how is convincing Dylan that he has wet the bed every night for 10 years supposed to help him become a better director and why do you need to personally be the one that goes in and pisses on his blanket?
>>748961694Just trust me. My father raised me like that and I turned out fine.
>>748958797Don't really agree, Control was made on a budget too and it showed. Outside of the Quarry Threshold with the fancy sky every major area was built from fairly samey looking assets. Which made sense considering the setting, of course, but it was clearly them working with their limitations instead of an artistic expression from the environmental team.The Control series is definitely a step below AAA and thank God for that.
>>748960363Last time I felt this cool in a game was what, Doom Eternal?
why give me the choice to go hunt whichever scp i want first if you are just going to level gate them behind artificial rpg mechanics
Tip for the West incursion zone SHUM? I get killed by the plane dude and the fast dude every time.
>>748962038I see your point but there's only a couple areas that WOW'd me in Resonant. Story and environments and the general world design is lacking variety.>every major area was built from fairly samey looking assetsexactly my complaint with Resonant. I get that they can't make every environment look unique but most traversed areas are just NY blocks>in neutral lighting>with blue lighting>with rain at night>with mold>mirrored with mexico filter>subway with BF3 metro filterI would have loved to see more areas like the underpass or the astral plane. The first game had way more variety, different departments had different architecture and we had things outside the norm like the quarry and the foundation caves.
>>748962780what kinda stats do you have now
oh my god I was in a threshold. holy shiiit
it was better than AW2, which is an extremely low bar but at least it was playable, whoever decided to make a 15 hour game a 30 hour game should be shot though. Its probably a good thing remedy are going to go bankrupt very soon, holding onto sweet baby inc is like fighting for the empire of japan 20 years after the war ended
>>748955145I honestly don’t even know what's an ability gate, I thought it was like a patterned street
>>748963030t. Mia
>>748961265>Manalan mailla goes with everything
>>748963059meds
Why am I like this?
>>748963059Max Payne 1 and 2 Remake and Alan Wake 3 is going to keep them alive into the 2030s
>>748963221there aren't enough ssris in the world to think aw2 is good faggot
>>748955145>you don't see the formula it uses just yetwhich would be>enter new linear area>fight some enemies>way forward opens>exposition happens>wooow it was *mold/hiss/patterning/paranormal shit* all along>good thing dylan is immune to all that garbage>more exposition happens>woooow everyone that delivered the exposition has DIED! >report this to your girlboss FBC handler>MISSION COMPLETEI'm sure there's a quality shitpost hidden behind this but I'm not bright eloquent to fully formulate one.
>>748963315Then try a bullet, retard.
>>748963276The development for the Max Payne remakes is also funded entirely by Rockstar. It's going to be Remedy's best selling game of all-time. They aren't going under anytime soon.
>>748963030This dialogue was so kino KEK
>>748963059>it was better than AW2, which is an extremely low barbut AW2 was great?
>>748960363kino
>>748963350Nta but for what? AW2 fucking sucked, redditors love it though ofc
>>748963276>Alan Wake 3Not so sure about that one. 2 only exists because of Epic money and I don't see them wanting to fund 3.Control exceeded expectations so they ditched 505 for the sequel, can they afford to do the same with Alan Wake?
>>748963404Please ignore the schizos. They live in a threshold of their own making.
>>748963453For being a blogger retard ofc
>>748963404>>748963350you're right i forgot to get on my knees and worship niggers how could i forget aw2 was kino
>>748963463Since last year, Quantum Break and Alan Wake 2 co-director (Kyle Rowley) has been working on an unannounced game according to his LinkedIn. It's not MP1+2 because that was announced in 2022. Kyle always co-directs with Sam Lake so it's almost assuredly Alan Wake 3.
Alan Wake > Control = Control Resonant > Max Payne 2 > Max Payne > American Nightmare > Quantum Break > Death Rally > Alan Wake 2Didn't play CrossfireX or Firebreak. Alan Wake Remastered kind of sucks but not enough to warrant its own placement, it's still Alan Wake.
>>748963648YOU FORGOT MAX PAYNE 3
>>748963598Oh I don't mean it existing, that was confirmed a long time ago already, just not sure about the "keeping them alive" part. I feel like that one is only happening because they really want to and can afford to, but the one keeping the lights on will be the remake.
>>748963376>The development for the Max Payne remakes is also funded entirely by Rockstar.the IP is owned by rockstar and I'm absolutely SURE they won't let it clash with any potential GTA 6 sales. Meaning no release close to the next gen or PC GTA 6 re-release.
>>748963648AW1 wasn't a very good game honestly
>>748945785Not playing this troon slop. Just finished Metal Garden.
>>748963574How do I unsuscribe from your blog, cretin?
>>748963331I didn't mean that really, I was more talking about side content, for me exploring and dealing with weird shit was always more entertaining than the main plot.>walk into some laundromat or store and find a puzzle>get taxi kidnapped for the first time>find one of the research base puzzles for the first time>find the camera for the first timeIt feels interesting the first time but then it gets reused 10 trillion times exactly as it is. The research bases are the worst example of this, they literally just have two repeating puzzles that are configured slightly differently. The game needed less repetition and more unique stuff like this, but different every time. My point is that weird shit stops being weird shit if it becomes rote and predictable.
>>748963598>Hybridbro is directing Alan Wake 3 from home in his PJs
>>748963648despite the infinity flaws i really liked quantum break, cut the live action trash and it was a big budget game that was way more fun than most others. the time stop stuff was great fun
If Dylan can sense the future, it explains why he always distrusted Polaris. She's related somehow to the Hedron that almost hijacked his brain.Though the weird hypnotic instant-friendship thing she did on Jesse didn't help.
>>748963648For me it'sMax Payne 1 > Max Payne 2 > Alan Wake 2 > Control = Control Resonant > Quantum Break > Alan Wake 1 > American Nightmare
>>748963798>The game needed less repetition and more unique stuff like this, but different every time.Yeah it's interesting enough when it happens but making you do it 6 more times with slight variation does get boring.
>>748963704Not Remedy>>748963765I love it. Played it many times over and will defintiely play many more. Wish it had more enemy variety and had high hopes for the sequel in regards to that. Maybe third time is the charm.
>>748963765It wasn't a good game but a decent enough experience. The mood and setting elevates to a somewhat higher-tier even if the gameplay is lacking.
>>748963864The controls in Quantum Break are excellent, the things holding it back are mostly level design, too much walk and talk for a game that already had a TV show to provide passive storytelling and needed none of that in-game, except of course for in engine cutscenes, those were good. And also lack of enemy variety, the very fun to use powers don't really have good enough enemies pushing you to use them in different ways.This is a constant issue with Remedy, but as someone who has been a fan since Max Payne I've been thoroughly satisfied with Control and Control Resonant in regards to that, they've improved a ton. They may still not have that much enemy variety compared to the best in the industry, but at least they're above average now, which is not something you could say for most of the company's existence.
>>748963880>Fra calls Jesse "Rosie", a real name, because they have the same problems
>>748955145Yeah that's about the time I realized I could open them too. I figured I was missing an ability, then the Underpass fault didn't give anything and I tried the ground pound and it workedVery annoying
collecting packages task is one of the hell missions with not being able to find 3rd after running around for 10minsholy shit what a waste of life
>>748964924turns out its here, under a bed, that you can not see by scanning the room except from a specific camera angle
>>748953438The first control barely works on like medium settings. There is no way this one can run without stuttering. Oh well. Can't play Alan Wake 2 either so whatever, it is what it is.
>>748965339If you can't play AW2 and Control barely works then your PC is just shit. Control runs buttery smooth on my 1660, I could even run AW2 at 720p, and FSR makes it look almost as good as it'd look natively. Resonant was a lil jank even with FSR, but it's still very much playable.
>>748945785Dodging traffic light manhattens giant butthole shoots at me
Game has so much customization yet it's all locked behind garbage requirements:>preorder bonus>geforce rewards>twitch dropsAaaand the mod to unlock paid content is banned by Nexus Mods jannies, LMAO
>>748965595Is it something important or costume shit?
>>748965595>using nexus mods in 2026you have only yourself to blame
>>748965595https://github.com/Gh0stR1pp3r/control-resonant-save-patcher/releases/tag/v1.4.1
>>748965818Too bad every alternative gets overrun by nazis and pedos and then get shut down.
>>748963782Really don't see the relevance of the picture to your comment.
>>748959312>loses contact with Dylan>goes up to blow the fucking hole he's stuck in>when it fails, blast loud music over the speakers for several days in a row, trying to reach him with comms>sounds genuinely happy when he shows up alive>starts behaving like a classic tsundere once she's given a role as his handler again
>>748959312She got me hard everytime that she talked. Wish I had a co-worker like her, it'd be insane sex.
>>748966541Also dragged Dylan out of the cube
I paused the game while I was melting elite enemies with my ignited strike + spin orbit combo and it said this
>>748965480Alan Wake 2 tells me in startup that my gpu doesn't have mesh shaders so it'll run like shit.
I kinda liked control mainly because of environmental destruction. I'm still playing it from time to time just to wreak havoc. Is it similar in resonant?
>>748969623you break a lot of misc stuff as you move through the world but you dont destroy buildings, walls or concrete pillars while exploring outdoors
>There is no reason whatsoever this game should be open world>9/10 "activities" are ubisoft tier repetitive shit padding>The ones that aren't (1/10) could have been implemented as side missions around a linear story narrative>The laughably small amount of different enemies would have seemed more varied on a linear game w/o grinding than on a game where packs end up respawning>The upgrade system had to bent over backwards with fucking itemlevel like this is world of warcraft to fit the open world shit>This game outselling its predecessor will teach Remedy the worst lessons>The vibes of the game are great, most of the writing is great, the anomalies, the rituals, the bosses, some of the npcs>Just fuck off with the open world>Fuck off you fucking snowniggers
>>748956578According to the Steam emoticons, the upside down orange guy means Parautilitarian.
Just watched the scrolling text. Gud gaem.
>>748956741Interesting, since the Alan Wake teaser had Alan and Casey walking through the snow together.
bane mask dlc when
>>748969837Cry about it.
>fire buff, 3 light attacks, executeWhy would I ever do something else
>>748970370Which weapon does that much falter on light attacks? I'm loving the cleave but the starting hits are basically just damage. Launcher on hit one is pretty cheap though so worth it.
>>748969908Black cot when? I want my Jhonny Cyberpunk
So, The Board have been a good guy all along and Jesse was wrong?>But they're parasitizing Oldest House and killed nosy negressWho give a shit? They're more tame and helpful than any other entities.
The director is literally me... no weeb friends...https://youtu.be/5SZrmWAeqbY?t=98
>>748959530Evac is shitty example for your case, its like a big part of the main quest. The worst one was in the park where you had to find molded subway, I dont think theres any pointers, I was just lucky I was there not long ago during another quest not related to subway
>>748970621Well 7 years is a lot of time. Full blown villains have been redeemed in less than that. Jesse convinced them to be nice with her butthole.
>>748970621>villain of the second game is Polaris who helped mc in the first gameI hope the board is the villain of the next game
>>748970663>yourI AM NOT THAT ANONI AM >>748958606This dickshitting fucking mongoloid >>748959063 would know better than to post his drivel if he thought about the context of what he was saying for even a fraction of a second.
>>748970482Daggers, finisher throws them in the air idk if that does anything
>>748970482All do with the ignite ability on
>>748970862the hedron in resonant is not polaris, polaris died in control 1
Now that I finished the game I guess I agree on some combat complaintsYou end up fighting a lot of similar enemies using same fire quick attacks for falter, execute combo and either having fewer things to fight, more enemy variety, different approach to combat somehow would've been nice.
>>748969971Ooh, thanks.
>>748971206They should have given you the 200% buff for kill streaks in nowhere and spawn in 5x the enemies to compensate. Also speedbuff for all atks and executions
>>748971206meanwhile chad white ass white wiggas like me had 7 summons on screen detonating the entire screen like another 9/11 had just gone downngmi + filtered
I have to laugh so fucking hard at peasants now paying 70 dollars for the shiny new big name game which is worse than gacha games in every way They are now copying gacha game design while having far worse art, characters, combat etc It's just so fucking funny that you would buy this at retail price. This is one of the worst looking games I've ever seen and very little is different from Wolverine
>>748971829Is this an llm sharty bot
>>748945785How is it compared to the first game?
>>748971891Llm would have gotten something right.
>>748971914More or less the same quality. The only thing lacking it's the Sam Lake touch. It misses the "weird" factor that the first Control had in the first game, but that aside is still a very solid game that holds up to the original. Can't wait for the DLCs.
>>748971942Post more combat webms bro I want to see more of the exciting mash one button combatCombat two orders of magnitude less complex than genshin impact Console gamers just buy and play literally anything, unthinking product golem niggers
>>748971914control is kinda budget constrained experiencethey had combat issues where its preeetty samey throwing rocks at same npcs. Npc faces had terrible lipsyncsome of the narrative is more novel, you get introcuded to the neat things in the universe and the scp elements are interesting
>>748971109The hedron in Control 2019 is not Polaris either, and P survived after the hedron died. Polaris is a resonance that was just piggybacking on the hedron like it does on Jessie>Jessie: "Hedron is dead, but you're alive. Here. In me."
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>>748972363LMAO fucking what's the point of even playing? Auto chain attacks onto floating slow motion enemy that doesn't do anything whatsoever
>Control lore discussion be like
>>748946593>undertale section
>>748972435NTA. That webm looks like DMC. If you got a problem with DMC-like combat, that's fine, but this is a DMC-like game and that's what people ask for in those games. So fuck off with your picking on Resonant in particular and go back to your gacha slop
>>748972496>not!Mother section>features Not-a-MotherBravo, Remedy!
>>748972612No it doesn't look like dmc because dmc has strict button press timing and this absolutely does not as a mainstream slop gameSo basically the enemy can't do anything and you're just lazily pressing buttons at any rhythm and everything automatically chainsGacha games have far more complex combat than this. The enemy doesn't even do ANYTHING after being parried.Of course it's also parry slop.Did you buy wolverine too? Console people just buy literally everything that comes out with zero thought The black people of video gaming
>>748972727Rajeesh, fix the shitty spacing in your bot. Makes it way too annoying to parse what it is even saying.
>>748958515If you've been paying attention to the game's you know where everything kinda is. The red building is the evac site for example. My issue is that if the rangers start fighting hiss they'll just go off on their own and stop following you essentially bricking the mission
>>748972727>No it doesn't look like dmc because dmc has strict button press timingwait you can see the button press timing in the webm?>So basically the enemy can't do anything and you're just lazily pressing buttons at any rhythm and everything automatically chainsyou fight like 20 enemies at once and the other 19 are trying to hit you, especially with aggression turned to high.>Gacha games have far more complex combat than this. The enemy doesn't even do ANYTHING after being parried.retard>Of course it's also parry slop.there is no parry.>Did you buy wolverine too? I didn't even buy resonant (but I played it, it was great)also>reddit spacing
>>748972886>wait you can see the button press timing in the webm?Do you want to make a money argument that 2026 console slopgame has as strict button timing as say dmc1?I'll take your bet, thanks. How much are you putting up? >you fight 20 enemies at onceBut he is fighting one enemy at once
>>748972856Luv them little goofballs as they run off into the minefield to fight some random Hiss straggler. At least they respawn.
>>748972727There’s no parrying in Control Resonant whatsoever. They’ve stated this before in interviews.
>>748973109>Dude riposting isn't parrying Do you take yourself seriously as a person because I do not
There's a man, he’s waitin' in a houseWhere there's an open door, but no way out
>>748969908This is what happens when Zoe dresses him
>>748973168You’re retarded. There’s no riposting or parrying.
Thoughts on Jesse wearing socks at the end when she should have been barefeet?
>>748973331Lore implications?
>>748973032>But he is fighting one enemy at onceThats how people do those player-ability combo showcase videos, fool. You dont want to have to constantly interrupt your showcase by having to dodge the other enemies every couple seconds.>has as strict button timing as say dmc1what are you even talking about, BTW? Having a delay combo after particular attacks in your one-button combo is "precise buttons"? Precise buttons means you have to be frame perfect and DMC was never remotely like that. You can dodge almost any time ffs; there's minimal commitment.Not that resonant couldn't benefit from a lot more moves like that in its light attack combo. It's one of the biggest faults of the combat
i need my yellow paint these areas suck jesses fat red futa cock to try and explore
This game is kind of awesome but The Park kinda sucks, ngl. That's where I'm at.
>>748973168He used the "push" ability right as the enemy was about to hit him. Not a combo and nobody expects you to use it like that (most don't even know you can); it just looks cool. It's meant for pushing multiple enemies at once into walls and off ledges
>>748973421>Thats how people do those player-ability combo showcase videos, fool. You dont want to have to constantly interrupt your showcase by having to dodge the other enemies every couple seconds.Oh, so you can't actually do big combos in the gameplayWhat is the point of doing them then? LMAOWe are talking about the button press window is obviously 3 to 4 times as long as dmc probably because of the target audienceHow much money are you giving me? Why do you want to make losing bets on principle
You wet your bed again, anon.
7/10 game but it went down to a 5/10 after the pixel rpg shit
>>748973492>nobody expects you to use it like thatExcept that it's obviously programmed in to be used in that way? What are you even talking about? It's slop. People who buy stuff like this are lost
>>748973032In terms of strict input I'd say getting dodge offset right in Control Resonant is more strict than any singular input in DMC games, simply because you need to avoid the dodge attack but you can't wait too long or you miss the window and it'll reset your string. Definitely more strict than any pause string in DMC.Which is not to say that the combat as a whole is more complex or anything of the sort, it's because DMC gets so much more complex that individual inputs can't be. I guess MAX Act is stricter but you hardly see or use anything that requires it or it'll fall apart, it's usually more of a nice to have than anything. If you get EX instead of MAX you'll do your combo the same way.
Pls ignore the bot.
Post your Dylans
>>748973572>What is the point of doing them then? LMAOto show off the player combat abilities and how good you are at executing them? Have you really never seen a clip like this? Also you can execute them circumstantially without dodging depending on the threats around you (obviously). It's just unlikely you can do a 25 second combo without one of them attacking you (obviously). It would be a very bad thing if they just waited for you to finish.>We are talking about the button press window is obviously 3 to 4 times as long as dmchumoring your outrageous claim: yeah delaying your 1-button combo for a whole second takes so much fucking skill compared to delaying it for 1.5 seconds. As if anyone would ever even delay it that long except for perfect timing of the last hit or something. retardPS: god damn you're such a stupid fucking weeb, I bet you play nikke and spend half your allowance on it. And then you try to call other games slop lol
>>748973632>Except that it's obviously programmed in to be used in that way?I think they would've mentioned something about it in the tutorial dialogs for Push if it was. I've never seen anyone do it until that webm
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>>748974071Where did you get the glasses?
>>748974369Vendor sells them, I think the one in the initial district?
>>748974369I think they're just the reading glasses. One of the colors is red lenses
The game is amazing, the goty for sure. I just wish it was a bit meatier and had a few more side quests with freaky shit.
>>748974293>tfw you're on your way to scalp pokemon cards from Wallmart and this guy stands on your way
>>748974071Dylan is about to turn the body camera off, isn't he?
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>>748974890Most quests in this game are very 5/10. This will become most apparent on a repeat playthrough. For ever karaoke quest there are 20 fetch quests, laundry lists, hannah and heidi tripe, or repeat puzzle quests that wear out their welcome.
>>748974601uhmmm that's playstation exclusive sweaty can I see your loicense
>>748975178*Hannah and Heidi KINO
>>748971829Yeah, I pirated like 5 remedy games I thought were okay. So I gave them money this time. Alrdy finished it, no buyers remorse.
I loved the game, but I wish it had something like the Ordinary AWE from the first game, a big ass mystery thing they build up over the game but don't actually show you. The few mentions of the Not-Mother and Dung Monkeys were just so evocative. Control is at its best when it tells you just enough to make you go crazy for not getting any answers.
>>748975241my dog ate it
>>748976274And let me guess she can teleport too?
>>748974071I'm the highwayman
Enemy variety was greatly improved from the first game but it still wasn’t varied enough for an open world game. It needed one more enemy faction aside from hiss, mold and hedron.
I wonder if itd be better to mod some of the combat out where the intention is just grinding resources and map levels.You know, the markers for kill stuff around x, tasks about going to a place to kill couple heavies. Maybe even stop the respawning after killing a boss. Remove shields from enemies just so those encounters take fewer repetitive hits to complete. Then more of the experience is doing pretty fun exploration, narrative, seeing cool environments.
I think this game is a masterpiece and will become a cult classic in a few years. The only complaint I have is the lack of enemy diversity, which for such ultra polished game is a bit mindblowing how they didn’t notice this. Even a few enemy reskins would make a difference.Everything else is top tier.
>>748977267>>748977319Is the enemy variety really that bad?
>>748970621>>748970862From everything I've gathered, The Board in its current form really seem like usurpers of some kind trying to cling onto the power that they have. If you take into account everything, The Former, Jesse binding The Board to Dylan and constantly being in need of someone to clean up the Astral Plane, doesn't really seem like it's a lot of power.There's definitely something going on, but I highly doubt that they are outright villainous, and after all the interactions The Board had with Dylan, it'd really fucking suck if they turned out to be the big bad, because The Board this time around was fucking hilarious.
>>748977352The combat encounters dont evolve much over the game.You see a lot of the same mold enemy group with a heavy and flying thingThe same hiss enemy group with big head heavies, flying enemy, and fast ground enemy. And hedron enemies later on that are visually different but act similarly to how you deal with flying enemies from mold or hiss group.
>>748977352It is, It introduces just an enemy type down the line that basically is resistant to raw damage but not to status effect. But aside of that the enemy variance ends after you've visited the first area and the park. At least the bosses are really good.
>>748977352It's not just bad, a lot of them overlap.
>>748974071I wanted him to look like Chainsaw Man but in every cutscene he just ended up feeling like Shinji, which fit better I guess lol.
>>748973452You WILL navigate without handholding and you WILL enjoy it.
Other parts of the game are potential goty tier but the combat drags it down so it likely wont win anything major at geoffs awards. Best narrative/art direction? Innovation is accessibility perhaps.
Im about to fight the 2nd revenant, well the 2nd for me i imagine you can find them in different ordersANyhowAfter i beat it the whole map resets? it gets repopulated by shitters again? Do they scale up in level afterwards or do they respawn at the same level?fucking hate open worlds
>>748975046He looks more like a fed than a police officer.
>>748978058Shinji, Denji, all the same really.
>>748978532Your objective isn't to clear the zones, man. Yeah the enemies do respawn, that just means you have more opportunities to level up zones which isn't a problem at all. You can't really max out the zones in your first playthrough anyway so there's no need for you to worry about that.
>>748978860i dont know what maxxing the zones mean nor do i give a fuckim just dreading the shitters respawning and having to clear shit again, cause the combat on this game suck donkey balls>you dont have to reclear, just keep running and jumpingYeah i do and i will but there are chests and probably i will have side objectives in the future that require me to retread zones i cleared alreadyim reallyreally disliking the fucking combat, every arena is "how do i finish this the quickest" i have 0 interest on exploring the weapons or the skills just by how stupidly toothless the enemies arewhateverSorry for the rant anon, i appreciate the answer
They should make a horror Control game from the perspective of average FBC agent dealing with some horrific AWE and other bullshit.
Be honest with me bros...do you REALLY think we're gonna get DLC or another Control game in the future? Them not bragging about the sales numbers is kinda worrying me...
>>748979406The fact that they didn't announce yet 1 milion sales is a bit worrying, but at the same time the Max Payne remakes might make sure that Remedy will stay afloat for a bit longer
>>748979101anon... https://store.steampowered.com/app/2272540/FBC_Firebreak/
>>748979787Same for the 2nd Alan Wake 2 DLC. It's essentially a FBC agent going through the horrors of a FBC facility. And it's great.
Here's my feedback>Combat is way better than the first Control and the enemies are good by themselves, though the lack of variety is a bummer.>Someone at Remedy needs to be tied to a chair, slapped in both ears, and locked in a room with a playback of "SEARCH QUESTS ARE NOT FUN" on loop while some intern hides their phone and bicycle lock key somewhere in the building. >Most side quests rewards are really fucking underwhelming even from a simple story perspective, not helped at all by how you'll mostly remember the big, all-areas quests and they're often the suckiest>They should never have reused the Hiss as a main villain or use the Hedron so soon again, it makes the universe a lot smaller than what you'd normally intend with a faux-SCP
>>748979406>>748979681I hope you’re enjoying Wolverine 2
>>748971109Polaris is separate from the Hedron(s) and is still alive in Jesse (in fact it's heavily implied to be the only reason the Patterning doesn't casually oneshot her like it does anything else). She seems to be a third type of resonance entity but still opposed to the Hiss.
>>748971914Given that it no longer has jesses fat ass front and center, i imagine its worse
I just realized that the Hiss and Hedron are supposed to represent demons and angels.
>the ghost girl picking on Langston dad died in the evac zone and her picking on him is all a desperate cry for attention to run away from her griefYou have to save and fix her Langston>>748979406Its all my fault. I should've bought it but now they're stuck at 999,999
>>748980972This yet another parallel between Jesse and Dylan that makes them polar opposites.
Will Dylan have sex soon?
>>748945785Waiting for Alan Wake 2 to go on sale so I can play that first.I'm not spending more than 30 dollars on either of these.
>>748981493at this point only if Zoe gives him some pity sex, because she doesn't see him more than a friend (still willing to wingman to help him get some once they get out, but still)
I don’t know why people here are praising the musical numbers so much, so far these are absolutely the worst ones I played through. But in fairness I only played Control, Alan Wake 1, and American Nightmare. Still, these musical sequences had styles and rythm. I think the problem is easy to trace. Musical sequences only work if>You completely take control (heh) away from the player and you're basically playing a clip in the middle of the gameSee : Champion of Light. Definitely pretty memorable, though in big part because it was ridiculous. On a more related example, Dynamite sung by Darling. You're betting the players will enjoy the break and that you've correctly identified the emotion they would resonate (heheh) with.>You put the character in a action-heavy sequence that looks impressive but is simultaneously very hard for them to lose inThis is a power fantasy within a power fantasy. You really only want to give the appearance of a dire threat, because failing too much causes frustration and nothing makes a failure more frustrating than it already is than a cheerful "pump it up!" song. For example, Children of the Elder Gods in AW happens when you're under attacks by hordes of Taken, but you have Barry, lots of ammos, and I think the stage is even rigged to help. In Control you get the Ashtray Maze which makes it clear fighting the enemies is not encouraged as the way opens itself regardless and the House will even physically protect you by locking some Hiss behind walls. In all case you want to keep the rythm going. The second killer (the first being frustration) of these musical numbers is your character running into a wall, physically. The absence of physical movement. Constant motion is required.
>>748981919So far I remember three musical numbers in Resonant and they all failed to be as memorable.>The one when you get the Gravity power and climbs out of the fault. You had the powers for two minutes and you're likely to misjudge the timing or your orientation, hitting walls and even maybe turning around. All of these things kill the flow. You also get attacked by enemies, making you hesitate between killing them or running away. Because you probably do the fault pretty early on you can’t exactly dispatch the mobs with a flick of your basic combo and so the rythm suffers.>The sinkhole escape. Neither a clip nor a power fantasy. You simply follow the light flickering, constantly stopping to adjust and readjusts yourself. A musical number where you control your character should make you wish for it to be longer. In the sinkhole it’s easily a minute too long. And by design you are always stopping, readjusting your route, going down wrong ways... there's no rythm>Fight for Control. Why? Okay the Unknown is great when you come in, and the start where the Board tells you to jump is great, but when the music start it's really up to you to find something to do with it, so you end up just finding a random pod of mobs to whack, which is not particularly impressive or difficult at that point in the game.
>go run around the city kill 3 tumors to unlock a riddler puzzle room that then requires you to read three notes to get 1/3 of an hp upgradeyou fucking what
>>748978058Hadron is the Eternity Devilhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymQ3wEIq84Y
>>748982365if this was 2004 there wouldn't had been a reward in teh first placeit's about teh Journey(tm). l2 appreciate the craft lil bro
>>748981919>>748982013Genuine shit taste.
I got the platinum trophy so I'm done with the game. My last trophy was the 30 relics one and just before I went off to farm I remembered you can just reset your weapon investments. Fucking altered image.
>>748981493Surely he has more chances than Jesse now LMAO
>>748982013>>748981919A fair assessment. The only good musical parts are in remedy games that Sam Lake was heavily involved in, which for Resonant is not the case.
>>748983065Lesbian sex isn’t even real sex.
>>748983065I will give Jesse the sex even though she's unconscious (the best state for a woman to be in)
>>748981919the musical number in Control 1 when she put on the headphones is still my favorite thus far
>>748977352I would say it does deserve the criticism but worth saying it's above average. The main issue to me is more that a lot of enemy types end up working interchangeably as fodder, and also that they throw everything at you from the faction relevant to the area, so the "theming" is kind of weak and encounter design doesn't really shine through, encounters tend to not be memorable.I think the amount of enemies is comparable to Doom Eternal and you'll never see anyone claiming that game has an enemy variety problem, let alone a major problem. So they could definitely solve their issue without just increasing numbers.
please tell me the artifact you get at the end of this long ass camera sidequest is broken as fuck. Nothing can be worth this grind
>>748979406DLC no, or it would have been announced. It would have to really blow their sales expectations away to warrant revising their roadmap. Another Control is very likely even if this doesn't do amazing.
>>748985895>Another Control is very likely even if this doesn't do amazing.what makes you say that?
>>748981919You're describing why I did not care at all for Ashtray Maze or Champion of Light. There's nothing impressive about holding forward to listen to music. It's as interactive as Uncharted platforming.Fighting my way out of the parking lot was more exciting, even if not particularly iconic.
>>748985625No, but the bonus artifact you get for pre-ordering (or beating the game) is definitely OP. I literally beat the final boss perfect dodging projectiles and spamming mold turrets.
>>748986032Fully owned and self published, they make a lot more money on each copy sold for this one than any other game they've ever released, so they're very invested in making sure it stays alive if they can. The new CEO also specifically stated that his mission was to make Alan Wake and Control as profitable as franchises as their quality deserves to be, or something along those lines.We're at least getting an Alan Wake 3 and a Control 3, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if they wrap up any loose ends for both and start something fresh after, which would be quite welcome too, I'm ready for something new. Games take too long to make and a trilogy is like 15 years nowadays.
>>748972447I really wish it hadn’t stayed so tucked away in its own little corner. It felt like Alan Wake 2 cracked the universe wide open, but barely anything substantial carried over here. Sure, we got that winter teaser hinting at AW3, but with zero sign of Mr. Door or any setup for the "rebranded" Quantum Break they’ll inevitably tackle down the line, it mostly felt like a rehash of Control that barely nudged the overarching plot forward.Also, I’ll eat my hat if Control 3 doesn’t end up having dual protagonists. It begs the question: who’s the actual copy, Jesse or Dylan? Jesse explicitly wished for their parents to disappear back in Ordinary, what if Dylan himself was just another manifestation of a wish?
>>748987189What if they fuse together again, and we play as Jesse Dylan Faden?
>>748987493either you'll be insta-swapping between the two like a gacha game, or you'll have both playing alongside each other and will be able to swap like in the FF7 remake games
>jesse no longer is a frail fag
dylan*
>>748988102or is like aw2
fucking kek he sounds like a 60 year old yakuza member
I just finished it. 8.5/10, I don't understand the reviews that gave this game a 7 or lower, wtf? It's better than the original game, and I loved the original. The setting, level design, movement mechanics are so well done, I just loved moving around the map even if the combat was relatively lackluster and repetitive. Most games have repetitive combat, I don't understand the gripe. But the world building, lore, atmosphere, even the characters are good and Dylan is a great character even better than Jesse. I loved how they developed him and Jesse and their backstory. I really hope it sold well enough, the budget said it needs like 3-4 million units sold lifetime to make up for the budget and break even, it's just not fair man. I want more games like this and they always fucking struggle while ball and gun bullshit makes billions. This is the kind of game that needs to be made and we need more of.
>>748988319haven't played AW2 yet
>>748988418>the budget said it needs like 3-4 million units sold lifetime to make up for the budget and break evenfucking how? It only cost 30-40 mil to make right? That's cheap as fuck for AAA standards
>>748988736That's just what I read on wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_Resonant#Development>Remedy estimated that the game would need to sell between 3 and 4 million lifetime copies to reach a 100% return on investment.
>>748988826that's a shame, heard AW2 also sold pretty well below expectations
>>748988690Honestly, you should just jump in. Combat/mechanics are pretty basic, it plays like a light version of old-school Resident Evil but the story is where it shines. It captures that uncanny, weird atmosphere from Control, and if you love Twin Peaks, you’ll eat it up.The format is something I see them replicate in Control 3: after the opening acts, it opens up into a Side A / Side B dual campaign that you can swap between whenever you want until the two sides converge.
>>748989095Saga is a shit character that should’ve been scrapped all together, and James McCaffrey‘s final role was wasted on this game.
>>748989263let me guess, because she's black and a woman?
>>748988164>You a ping-pong, Sheperd
>>748953901>It doesn't fully pattern her or anything because she's probably too powerfulPope theorizes that Jesse is seen as a Hedron-entity by other Hedrons because of Polaris.>>748955503Hedron is just there to destroy the Hiss, there's no indication that it's fighting anything else. The only greater design it seems to have is finding a vessel to exert its power more optimally, which is revealed to be Dylan.Also the only two threats left from Alan Wake are Mr. Door and Scratch x Darling. The Dark Presence was destroyed.
Found the mold, ate the mold, but the quest skipped phases and now I can't even find the entrance to the FBC place I was supposed to enter to find clues about the mold... It's kinda cool when games do this where you can skip steps if you do it out of order but I wanted to do all the steps... Now the game just wants me to eat all the mold...
>>748989354It’s because she’s uninteresting and bland. There’s nothing memorable about her. The game wouldn’t have lost anything if they replaced her with Casey instead.
>>748989354sure
>>748989509You can just ask around about the mold anyway.
>>748988319Would work if it was a more action/heavy version of that with switching on the fly at any moment and required more puzzle solving between dimensions or something. Could be cool.>>748989263>James McCaffrey‘s final role was wasted on this gameThat was a bit of a shame, I was super hyped for Casey's role in the game but he was kind of a shit character. RIP
>>748989553Casey being the MC would have been a lot cooler for sure. I don't mind him not being the playable MC at all and I don't HATE Saga (though she is really bland), but since they decided to make Casey his own person, having the game fully commited to developing that person would have made it more interesting.I love what they did taking Dylan from plot device to fully developed character here but with Casey it was a miss.
>>748989629Now the new teaser seems like they’re doing more with Alan and Casey working together, which make’s Saga look like a completely pointless character.
>>748988915Yeah, because they made it an epic store exclusive.
>>748989629>>748989789They could’ve even kept Saga as one of the main characters, but made Casey a playable segment where they let you rampage against the Taken like Max Payne, complete with dual wielding. I wanted to like this game. It was one of my most anticipated games that year, but it was such a disappointment filled with missed opportunities.
>no katana primary form to go alongside the preorder trench coatgay
>>748989865She got deputized in the FBC, so it was unlikely she'd be working with Wake on anything. Her relation to door and being able to will through different dimensions fits the FBC better anyway.
>>748988736>That's cheap as fuck for AAA standardsSony blowing 300 millions on making AAA garbage doesn't mean they're setting any standard on how much budget a project needs to be successful.Alan Wake 2 cost Epic 70mil (50 dev + 20 marketing) and it only started making money a a year after release, which is not good business.Remedy owns the Control brand and I imagine they're being very careful with budgets and further planning since they funded half of development.
>>748990140Which was a moronic decision.
I've never been stuck behind walls in games as often as I did in this.I guess it's hard to playtest when the floor is everywhere.
>>748990320>moronic decision.Timmy Tencent paid for development, of course he's gonna want it on his store.
>underworks
>>748945785So who's more powerful Jesse or Dylan? Or Alan?
>>748990320Full funding in exchange for store exclusivity in a single platform and you keep all the rights to a game that nobody else has been interested in funding in the past 13 years is one hell of a deal. Unless you think not having the game would be a better choice, in which case fair enough.
>>748990437Doing business with Sweeney is like making a deal with the devil. You’ll get what you want at first, but it’ll only fuck you over in the long term.
>Control 2's full production began in February 2025.[9] According to Remedy's annual report published in March, this phase is expected to last between 15 and 26 months, with a team size ranging from over 75 to 200 employees.Not bad for one and a half years of full dev time.How likely is that they allocate some of this time to DLCs? Remedy really likes to do soft reveals of their next games in their expansions:Control teased AW2AW2 DLC teased Resonant
>>748990484Alan.
>>748945785Never installed. Never will. I'd rather eat a fat guy's crap.
>>748990623Resonant is already teasing AW3 with the tv Easter Egg.
>>748990484Alan is a reality bender but Dylan is clearly way more powerful than Jesse
>>748990484me :)
>>748990484For all intents and purposes, it's likely that Alan accidentally created the Hiss by writing a poem, and we already know he set the plot-points of Control into motion via a Nightsprings script. Alan doesn't have the same brute-force fighting power that Jesse or Dylan has, but it's obvious his abilities are much more broad and universal. The Dark Presence also seems to be far smarter, powerful, and insidious than either the Hiss or Hedron.>>748990623Seems unlikely that Resonant will have DLCs since there's not teaser for them in the base game. AW2 had the Lakehouse and Nightsprings teasers in-game, Control had teasers for Foundation and AWE in the base game as well. The only thing Resonant has are those weird spy bases and maybe playing as Jesse inside her own head or something, since she's apparently conscious.
>>748990787>Troll is a literal shit-eating scatologistThey don't send their best.
>>748990809The teaser is such a nothingburger, it may as well not exist. I think it's just a shitpost by sam lake.
>>748990815In their games, but since Dylan got most of Jesse's abilities, maybe Jesse got some of his in return.
>>748991053>AW2 had the Lakehouse and Nightsprings teasers in-gameThey were announced before release and only the lake house was hinted at in the main game.How are the expansions, btw? I liked AW2 but never got around to trying the DLC:
>>748991110>Alan Wake 3>AW3>AWEIt could be nothing, but it's rare they throw these things in for no reason.
>>748991421that would be so reddit if they actually went with that
>>748991395They teased Night Springs with the theme song if you had the deluxe version with the OST, it was listed under Chapter Themes.>How are the expansions, btw?Nightsprings is fun.Lake House is probably the best DLC they've done, a really strong mix of Control and Alan Wake.
>>748977414i really liked how much personality they had in the last fight, esp when they called me a retard
>>748991663>They teased Night Springs with the theme songoh right, I remember that. The song had no excuse to slap that hard.I'm gonna try the DLC as I really miss alan wake now that I'm done with Resonant. The next remedy game seems so far away
at underpass rn, section kinda cheeks
She loves him
>>748971914the side stuff was a lot better in the first game. liked the oldest house as a setting more as well. resonant doesn't have as much weird shit like the ocean view motel or the section of the house that was filled with clocksmain story and characters in resonant are tons better though
>>748991497You’re Reddit.
>>748990623>>Control 2's full production began in February 2025.[9] they definitely used gen AI for stuff then because this game is too huge for ~150 employees over 1.5 years
>>748992463Nah, quite a few of the city assets are re-used from AW2 and almost all the FBC assets are from Control. The only thing that's really brand new is the enemy types, some of which were also in Firebreak.
>>748990809More a DLC that will then tease AW3 just like the Alan Wake DLC for the first Control did. Basically also that DLC is a bit of an insane thing of its own as well, it references this 14 year old ARG. Where a woman from Ordinary, Maine. Found a toybox in her own new home that had Thomas Zane stuff and in her dream an "AWE" agent showed up. https://thishouseofdreams.blogspot.com/2012/03/shoebox-dream.htmlSam Lake is one hell of a wild ride.
This whole game feels anime as fuck despite being produced by westerners, not surprising given a direct evangelion reference i guessDylan would be quite more handsome if the game was done by japs though
Darling is evil.
I think my favorite new enemy is that flying gasmask hiss that shoots 4 lasers
Who were these guys? Doubt its bureau
>>748993465I thought it was the Blessed group at first but I think they're a foreign country's equivalent to the FBC
>>748992168>implying Dylan would get a gravestoneTrue love
>>748992463Remedy has been using the same engine since Max Payne and updating it in-house with a very low turnover rate. I imagine they're extremely efficient compared to garbage fires like Insomniac, Square, Blizzard, or CDProjekt who just constantly sandbag themselves.
>>748993029>spending all day thinking of shit that could literally trigger DylanTo be frank Trench was quickly losing his mind. But betting all on Dylan turning out great was pretty dumb.
>>748992168
>>748994287sexual intercourse with a hymen press for the purposes of procreation with zoe
>>748945785I'm collecting the taxis, I think there's only one or two zones left. Sometimes navigating this game is headache inducing, especially the western incursion zone with all the map turning and such.
>>748947504>I need attanshunHere's your (you), you little skank.
>>748950942The right row (from the entrance) of washing machines counts as two.
Can you not remap skills without using a reset? A wanna chain mold with inferno but having a button press inbetween that is annoying
>>748956482Bub, I...
>>748994052He’s like Gendo, but dumber.
>>748994736nvm I'm an idiot that only used common sense after I wasted a reset
>>748994982Resets aren't really that rare anyway.
>>748992028the astral plane part is pretty cool though. This is the first time I get Control 1 vibes since the beginning, it really needs Sam Lake man...
>>748947446Powerlevels in Control are weird because lorewise parautilitarian power is the shit but in gameplay, mostly you see people chucking cars and masonry at each other. Granted, in Control 1 Jesse was throwing things around hard enough to fuck up the building-sized FORMER. But also parautilitarian powers doesn't seem to be purely physical. It's never suggested Dylan can level buildings with the Aberrant and its big finishing moves seem to be mostly the Aberrant conjuring implements, but he beats the shit out of Resonants who can just blow up swathes of Hiss like what Polaris did in Control on steroids.It is unclear, but personally I think in terms of power the siblings are roughly comparable. Based on the Board's endorsement and the fact Dylan sure as hell doesn't know how to do what she did before the game started, I think Jesse has better raw powers. But the Aberrant is probably the better weapon since just walking up to the Hedron and killing it doesn't seem to have been an option for Jesse.I'd still bet on Jesse in a fight, though. Not because of her powers but because she has a fucking gun that she can turn into a rocket launcher with instant transmission (if she put that one Fra upgrade on it) and Dylan isn't more agile than elite Hiss mooks or Third Thing!Hartman.
The finisher for the collective was really brutal. Usually it feels like Dylan is a lot more gentler with resonants aside from Artist. Guess he just really wanted to put them out of their misery. I was hoping Underhill would have something to say after you basically did half her job for her but unfortunately not. unrelated but does anyone else like seeing spoilers blacked out in these threads? Feels like reading an FBC file
>>748949654Same old Bureau, eh? They also covered up that one guy who tried to whistleblow on the rock guys only getting aggressive after the Board showed up.>>748952172My interpretation of the Hedron's ramblings was that the greater threat it was there to fight WAS the Hiss, that it's even worse than what humanity knows about it. I mean think about it-yeah, the Hiss is getting mega-bullied in this game but that's a Hiss strain cut off from that slide dimension hellscape. There could be entire universes subsumed by the Hiss. I saw the Hedron as being like a soldier with PTSD who is determined to conscript civilians, simply because the alternative is the Hiss spreading all over reality like wavelength AIDS
Reading this thread really makes me realize that a lot of people didn't play at least the Alan Wake 2 DLCs.>>748995908The Hedron, as also stated in the 3rd episode of Night Springs, Alan Wake 2's DLC it's just some alien giant waeapon, that if it used, yes it destroys your enemies, but it has the equivalent power of an atomic bomb. That's why for example in Control Resonant when they go to the slide where Polaris is in and connects with Jesse, it looks like a red desert, because the hedron destroyed the threat but at the same time it destroys everything around it.
>>748996228I didn't finish Lake House, couldn't stand it anymore. I did play through all of Night Springs but hated it.
>>748994973Should have invested more into the cloning program.
>>748990484My thoughts on Jesse/Dylan powerlevels are here >>748995610. Alan is weird because him and the Dark Presence (which AW2 confirmed is literally just his bad vibes made manifest by the Dark Place; you literally see it chasing him like a giant basedjack or BOB's form in Twin Peaks as a big screaming storm. It can't even catch up to a middleaged writer on foot lmao) are way, way worse at fighting than they are at reality warping (since the Dark Presence can just reshape reality into Alan being the bestest writer ever when it gains control in reality, while the Hiss just mindfucks people and even when it shows up in person somewhere it just paints the town red). The Dark Presence is defeated by a literal deus ex machina plot bullet (which I guess is also the baby form of the Light Presence from AW1?) Alan bumblefucked his way into finding, and NG+ after the first timeloop.In other words, I fully believe Dylan and Jesse could beat Alan's ass in a fight, but theoretically Alan could write a story where they never fight at all and have reality conform to that...if he's willing to stay in the Dark Place. Or pull out the Clicker and make a plot device happen. Tbh the real reason Alan can't win against Jesse and Dylan is because he's a wannabe Stephen King hack writer, he LITERALLY cannot think in terms of powerlevels so he will NEVER write a story where he can beat Jesse and Dylan, who he wrote to save his dumb ass after he fucked up reality trying to write his way out of the Dark Place with horror stories instead of a dumb sappy romance.>>748995772I don't blame Dylan, that thing is fucked even by Resonant standards. He just wanted to make sure he hit all of it whereas the others are mostly human-shaped.
My personal GOTY. Followed by Saros. The more I think about it, combining the lore / world of Control with the gameplay mechanics of Saros / Returnal would be pure kino. The games are already pretty similar even in terms of movement mechanics. It would just work so wellIt's been a pretty good year for single player game enjoyers like me. PragmataCrimson Desert (not my thing, but point stands)MewgenicsHalo Campaign Evolved (wasn't that bad)Resident Evil 9Saros007 First LightPlague Tale LegacyBlood of DawnwalkerStar Wars Zero CompanyControl ResonantOnimushaSilent Hill Townfall (haven't played this yet, it's on my backlog as is Onimusha)Ace Combat 8 which I just started todayGalactic RacerCastlevania OoT RemakeGoW E-Day which I want to play but not nowthen just next year in Jan-Feb we gotMetro 2039Tomb Raider Legacy of AtlantisMetroid RavenousFableExodusnu GoW Laufey (yes I'll play this idgaf)FFVII Revelationand that's just the first few months, more shit will be announced at the game awards I'm sure.
>>748995619The thing is that the FBC are not experts on Parautilitarians at all. Northmoor was considered to be extremely powerful, but could only bind a few items at a time and could barely toss shit telekinetically. Meanwhile Alan keeps accidentally re-writing reality.Jesse, Dylan, and Wake are all significantly beyond what the FBC has studied, and they don't understand anything about them. A lot of Jesse's power also comes from Objects of Power and powers granted to her by the Board/Former, whereas Dylan's is just innate (he can float without binding the TV) because he simple remembers that he can fly. He also has no Polaris or other entity to defend him against the Hiss and yet he can resist it freely, the only other character that can do anything like that is Alan with the Dark Presence. It's like he's capable of doing whatever he needs to do autonomously.The Aberrant is also significantly more powerful than the Service Weapon, and it's likely that way because of Dylan. On paper it's just a piece of the Nail that Jesse bound the Board to and used them to wake him up.
>>748996512Sir? Your Mina the Hollower?
>>748996228I don't see the DLC lore as mutually exclusive with Resonant. Resonance entities are really alien to humans and in the text game Hedron was cooperating with Jesse and Tim to fight Mr. Door; the Hedron Tim initially found was just doing stuff in a way that made it look and seem like an inanimate object to Tim. Also I imagine different Hedrons have different powerlevels since they made a point in Resonant of highlighting the Hedron Jesse found was at the end of its life cycle, however that works
>>748996517Mostly agree, the problem with figuring out Control powerlevels is that nobody actually knows what the hell is going on. Except maybe the eldritch entities that speak in slam poetry, voice clips or jargle purple monkey floopy Dublin snake oil.>innateAre we sure it's all him? Given he woke up because Jesse slammed the Aberrant into him, I assumed a lot of his powers came from binding it like an OoP. I'm not sure I'd definitely say it's more powerful than the Service Weapon (it's still a gun you can shoot FORMER or other eldritch horrors like the Third Thing to death with) but it IS pretty goddamn powerful if I'm right and, finishing moves aside, it's the reason why Dylan can copy the powers of Resonants he beats. >On paperWell, OoPs tend to result from paranatural entities coming into contact with regular stuff (like that photo someone took of Ahti) so I just assumed the Aberrant is a buff one because Jesse crammed the Board into it
>>748996702didn't play it, but sure add it to the list.Either way, even if none of these games are 10/10s, it's been a fantastic year for single player gamers
>>748996427A lot of it it's explained also there. Same for the Hedron and why Polaris was the way it was. Because:You either use the Hedron as a weapon of mass destruction or you link with its energy, just like the Hiss. You just have to handle it and do not let it consume you. Basically what Jesse managed to do with her link up. The fact is that Control Resonant does its best to not recall back all the precedent games because it lacks the Sam Lake touch, it can be considered a good thing or not. But at the same time, it feels more self-contained that leaves all of this stuff unexplained. >>748996707Because that portion of the story it was made by Alan Wake, but still a lot of stuff are very in lined to what Resonant has shown to us. And yes very likely the Hedrons are all different, but the point is still the same. It's a weapon that will defeat your desired enemy. (Jesse wished that her parents should just disappear, what did Polaris do? With its destructive power it made every parent in the City disappear. Showing once again, that yeah it's powerful but it has a massive destructive power.)
Literally one of the most reddit games in existence. >le quirky girlboss characters who constantly put the male protagonist down for some shit he couldn’t control, despite literally kidnapping him as a child and ruining his life>if it was a female protagonist, they would constantly be praising her instead>LE HECKING SCIENCE documents everywhere>enemies are le weird for the sake of being le weird and gaining reddit points >the only male NPCs are just some blubbering fat pussy retard nerd and le evil white man who hates you and is a drunk>le you have to pet the dog side quest>religion? Not a single mention of it anywhere. Here’s more le epic science jargon documents instead >le quirky office humor everywhere that only a retard HR worker would find funny
>>748997279That’s a man.
>>748996961>I assumed a lot of his powers came from binding it like an OoPDr. Darling's research shows repeatedly that Dylan can't bind OoPs, so unless Jesse forcibly bound it to him somehow, who knows. What we do know is that Dylan repeatedly manifests whatever he needs in the moment when he receives the right motivation. Even the post-game examination of the Aberrant claims that it just becomes whatever he needs during combat.>if I'm right and, finishing moves aside, it's the reason why Dylan can copy the powers of Resonants he beats.I wonder if Dylan simply has the ability to store and Resonant Lifeforms in general. He absorbed the Hiss without the Aberrant and was using its powers freely in the first game, we know he pushed out Polaris and at the end of the game after killing the Hedron he just flat-out refuses to be pattered. The Board doesn't help with any of this, they're in panic mode the entire time. In fact they actively tell him he can't do most of the shit he does for the majority of the game.Stuff like this makes me think Dylan is just fundamentally more powerful than Jesse, just less driven and confident in his abilities.
>>748955931So you wanted it to be an on-rails interactive narrative, and you decided to share it with other people. May I suggest buying a PS5?
>>748997029The hate for Remedy's games always comes off as so desperate, it's weird.
>>748997441Counterpoint: Dr. Darling is a fuckup who doesn't know what he's doing either.
>>748997629Tbqh nobody understanding paranatural is kinda staple of the series if not the genre. SCP, backrooms, all have subpar scientists endlessly cataloguing measurements and details, rarely understanding anything they find. Trying to make the unfathomable fathomable in vain.
>>748991949Alan not being playable in any of the AW2 dlc annoyed me
>>748997629I don't disagree, but when it comes to research he's usually pretty thorough thorough, and their understanding of binding OoPs is also pretty consistent in both games. Dylan himself also never binds a single OoP, he can't even operate the Slide Projector in the flashback.
>>748997508You are stupid as fuck if you don't see middle ground between a shitty open world and on rails segments
>>748997842>Laine about to flip out
>>748945785This game is so fucking good. And Sam Lake wasn't involved at all. Coincidence?
Kino...
>>748993465>>748993557Their symbol in the document you can find kind of looks like the Former, no? Makes sense that he would act as the board for a new organization that does kind of like what the FBC does, while also keeping an eye on them and monitoring the lockdown. Wasn't he implied to be free at the end of Foundation? Though I guess not necessarily free from the Oldest House, just the Astral Plane.
>>748997768Huh. That's a good point actually. Honestly I initially thought the Board was doing the power copying because of how they seemingly muscled into the Oldest House and seemingly hijacked the Id. But actually parautilitarians all having different specialties would explain why Alan is a much worse fighter but a much better reality warper, and Tim/Door seem to be more about multiverse travel.I wonder what they're going to do with Door? I hope it's not going to be as straightforward as "he's a well-intentioned multiversal-level villain who will be defeated by getting talked down by his daughter" as Tim's DLC made him out to be, especially after the Old Gods seemingly cooperated with him to help out Alan.
>>748945785Do you think it was awkward when Zoe took 34 year old Dylan's virginity?
>>748997441>Dr. Darling's research shows repeatedly that Dylan can't bind OoPs, so unless Jesse forcibly bound it to him somehow, who knows. What we do know is that Dylan repeatedly manifests whatever he needs in the moment when he receives the right motivation. Even the post-game examination of the Aberrant claims that it just becomes whatever he needs during combat.Because Darling fucked up on how to force the power out of it. Dylan was just a shy and a sensitive kid. When he was a child because he was feeling secure together with Jesse, he was able to fight out the dung monkeys that were his former classmates. Darling fucked up by changing the method and being more abrasive and distant from him and the tipping point was Roberts. That guard straight up was beating up Dylan and he pushed him to the edge but in a different way. Just out of rage and he couldn't control his abilities.
>>748996512My top 3 so far are this, Mina the Hollower and Beast of Reincarnation, not necessarily in this order. Still want to play Onimusha and Pragmata.
>>748997928it gets crazier than this have fun anon
>>748959312>Friendzones him post game:(
I wish the flowing physics on the rain coat was better. Its all aura until you start moving
zoe's va is cute as hell
>>748945785trying to finish borderlands 4 so i can uninstall it and make space to install control
>>748988826>to reach a 100% return on investment.Doesn't that mean making as much profit as the game cost to develop on top of breaking even? Meaning break even would be half of that, 1.5-2 million.
>>748998050>I wonder what they're going to do with Door?Based on the Time Breaker DLC it seems like he's ambiguously evil by virtue of paranoia. He claims someone is hunting down the other versions of himself in other realities, so he tries to head off the events that would lead to his own demise by watching and interferring with them.>>748998079Parautalitiarns, outside of Dylan, can intuitively bind OoPs without any knowledge of how to do so. Dylan was unable to bind them even before Darling abused him, it's one of the first things they tested.
>>748998847Yes, but what I am saying Dylan always had it, but it had to be ignited somehow. Darling just chose the wrong way.
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>>748999067Oh I see what you mean. Yeah, I agree, Darling likely pushed Dylan's abilities down and crushed his potential. I do wonder where they'll go from here with him, now that he's realized his potential and is an acting agent of the FBC. If/When Control 3 happens, I feel like they've upped the stakes and the bar.
>>748994736I programmed controller backside button macros to access two more skills. Works pretty well as long as they don't need to b>>748994952e hold to function(such as shield).
>>748999432>an acting agent of the FBC*consultant*
>>748998045The timeline doesn't really match up for this org being founded by the Former. There's that document talking about how the FBC has been tracking him inside the oldest house and how he only escaped when the lockdown fell. The former couldn't have created this entire organization within the couple days since. Especially with the barrier around the city.
>>748999594Oh right, kek. Funny that he has all the training to be Director but they refuse to give him any real authority. When the game opens and Zoe asks him if he has all the required training and he just keeps saying yes I chuckled at the realization that being in the P6 program effectively makes him the opposite of Jesse, who knew literally nothing at the start of her game.
>>749000000Holy checked.
>>748999868>he only escaped when the lockdown fellIn that case yeah, can't be related.
>>749000000Wasted would be an understatement
>>749000000Resonant GET
>>748999868I seriously thought Former had something to do with the Bright Presence from AW1 until AW2 spelt out for me it was just some bullshit Alan made up, Jesse thinking Former hinted it needed her to rescue someone really made me wonder
>>749000000>Funny that he has all the training to be Director but they refuse to give him any real authority.the director is chosen through the object of power which is the gun, but that is confusing since the board has multiple objects of power now with the metal pipe thing he has
>>748981227>>the ghost girl picking on Langston dad died in the evac zone and her picking on him is all a desperate cry for attention to run away from her grief>You have to save and fix her LangstonDid I miss a side quest or something?
>>749000736Yes, but Pope is currently the sole Acting Director after Arish got Resonanted, you'd think she'd appoint him as Acting Co-Director or something.
>>749001186No not a quest I'm talking about the two fbc agents that stole Langston's chair and teases him about ghosts
>>749001228Its funny to think that the situation in Manhattan would probably be unsalvageable if Jessie didn't set up the who co director autonomous chain of command thing with pope before she left. Genuinely how has the FBC functioned for so long with some of the stuff or lack thereof in place. Before Jessie it seemed like anytime a director got compromised that was just it and they were fucked.
>>749001228yeah but that felt like a im just stepping in to fill in for operational type shit until a real director is chosen otherwise the oldest house rejects them so its more pseudo than that i think dylan will have to take over for control 3 but who knows they might go for someone from the org spying on the fbc instead? maybe a resonant itself or jesse inside that domain and all levels are just complete upside down kaleidoscope insanity or insane worlds like the slides?
>>748946771AWE obviously
>>748996228It's funny how even the lore Youtuber videos on the subject don't meaningfully clarify things.I hated Alan Wake 2. Didn't even finish it. Not pirating it again just to play the DLCs.
