Control - supernatural third person action-adventure from Remedy

[Hobknobling]

Remedy is in a phase where they have recently gone public, started a new studio in Stockholm and have deepened their ties with Epic and Tencent. Their new CEO came from RedLynx which is a one-game wonder (Trials) and I honestly am not convinced that is a very good track record for a CEO that is supposed to revolutionize a slightly stagnant company. They have been growing the studio with aggressive hiring and sadly all their non-technical positions seem to be filled with zero talent people who just fit some quota. Really not surprised about that godawful writing in the Crossfire X campaigns.

I don't think the future looks very promising for them. I predict a couple of flops and then being turned into an in-house studio for a big publisher that does some graphics programming and DLC garbage for their games. Their publisher contracts could be decent though so the financial collapse might take a bit longer than maybe for some other companies.

 

[toughasnails]

Really not surprised about that godawful writing in the Crossfire X campaigns.

The writing as seen in the vid has a very Asian feel, like something out of MGS game or some jRPG. It might as well be that Remedy was handed the script by the original Korean devs.

What makes this so bizarre is that just by looking at it, this had solid production values. It even runs on Remedy's in-house engine rather than UE like the multiplayer side. Yet everything about the actual game is either bland or incompetent, it's something that would have been panned even at the height of popularity of this sort of shooters in late 00s, early 10s...

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

Jfc this game has the most butt fucking confusing map of any game ever. How in the hell do you ever find where you need to go?

 

[Verylittlefishes]

Jfc this game has the most butt fucking confusing map of any game ever. How in the hell do you ever find where you need to go?

whoa, you are still alive!!!

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

Jfc this game has the most butt fucking confusing map of any game ever. How in the hell do you ever find where you need to go?

whoa, you are still alive!!!

I haven't drank in over a week turd, and I'm doing it out of sheer willpower. No rehab holding my hand.

 

[Bad Sector]

How in the hell do you ever find where you need to go?

Every area is visually distinct so you learn it after exploring it for a while. You can also "teleport" between major areas if you find the wierd devices that look like they were made up by some conspiracy nutjob throwing random electronic garbage together to communicate with aliens (i'm sure they are a reference to something, i just can't pinpoint what yet).

 

[Verylittlefishes]

I agree, Control's map is a mess.

 

[kangaxx]

Control's map is just a series of loops with fast travel... I don't see how it's possible to get lost.

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

This Anchor boss is bullshit and impossible. Fuckin Elden Ring never gave me this much trouble. I've died over 20 times to the fuckin thing.

 

[Cyberarmy]

It was not really that hard? Maybe unlock some other passives and weapons first?

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

Any boss fight that has infinite respawning enemies = bullshit. The boss it's self isn't the problem. It's the flying kamikaze mother fuckers who keep spawning.

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

LMAO, I can't beat a single boss in the side missions. The plant, the refridgerator, the anchor, they all bend me over and have their way with me. Never before has a shooter made me feel so old and inadequate and useless. It's hilarious.

I beat Vanquish on the hardest difficulty and completed all of the challenges god damit. I used to be somebody. I used to be a contender.

 

[Bigg Boss]

But is it any good?

 

[Ezekiel]

It was not really that hard? Maybe unlock some other passives and weapons first?

Wouldn't be that hard if he didn't play it with a fucking controller.

 

[toughasnails]

Then why not just play it with m&kb? It's a bit of a meme that TPS games SHOULD be played with a gamepad. If you are bad at or never got used to aiming on a controller, then that remains true for any game that involves precise aiming.

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

But is it any good?

Oh it's badass as all hell. It's just reminding me that I'm way past my shooter prime and it's making me depressed.

 

[Alienman]

Then why not just play it with m&kb? It's a bit of a meme that TPS games SHOULD be played with a gamepad. If you are bad at or never got used to aiming on a controller, then that remains true for any game that involves precise aiming.

He needs a computer first.

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

Then why not just play it with m&kb? It's a bit of a meme that TPS games SHOULD be played with a gamepad. If you are bad at or never got used to aiming on a controller, then that remains true for any game that involves precise aiming.

He needs a computer first.

PS4 Pro is best I can do. I'm too unedumacated for a PC at this point, and too lazy to fuck around with graphics settings.

 

[Alienman]

Then why not just play it with m&kb? It's a bit of a meme that TPS games SHOULD be played with a gamepad. If you are bad at or never got used to aiming on a controller, then that remains true for any game that involves precise aiming.

He needs a computer first.

PS4 Pro is best I can do. I'm too unedumacated for a PC at this point, and too lazy to fuck around with graphics settings.

If you really want to get sober, get a good computer. Playing all the games you have missed out on will take all your time, leaving none for drinking And if you can handle a phone, you can work a PC nowadays. Graphic fiddling takes just a few minutes mostly.

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

If you really want to get sober, get a good computer. Playing all the games you have missed out on will take all your time, leaving none for drinking And if you can handle a phone, you can work a PC nowadays. Graphic fiddling takes just a few minutes mostly.

I'm still jobless and am a broken man. The only upgrade I can afford right now is a refurbished ps4 pro. Which I'm looking forward to btw. Anything is better than this half dead turd I got. I can't even have 2 apps open at once or else it freezes up.

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

But is it any good?

Let me put it this way. Speaking purely in terms of third person shooter combat, there are the three gods of the genre and everything else is shit by comparison. I will say that Control is one of those 3 gods.

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

Cliffnotes:

-I would have sex with the main character.
-the combat is phenominal.
-don't play it on a ps4.
-I like the story even though I have no idea what's happening.
-the bossfights are assholes.

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

This Anchor boss is bullshit and impossible. Fuckin Elden Ring never gave me this much trouble. I've died over 20 times to the fuckin thing.

BWAHAHAHAHA I FINALLY KILLED THE SON OF A BITCH. I went down with him but I don't CARE!!! I BEAT HIM!

 

[toughasnails]

-I would have sex with the main character.

What would Jill say to this?

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

-I would have sex with the main character.

What would Jill say to this?

Jill knows she is my one and only. We have a Will/Jada open relationship.