Control Ultimate Edition

I absolutely loved the game. After starting a lot of games in the last 6 months and never finishing any, this is the first that I actually finished. I loved the story the most. I liked discovering all kinds of hints like notes and recordings in the game, to understand the back story. I love the theme of the game secondly. I enjoyed the gameplay a lot. I liked the music.

Major tip ahead for anyone that's stuck because of a game progression bug! So far I'm enjoying Control. The first time I started the game up I noticed this learning curve and I wasn't always sure what to do or how to upgrade my character properly so I ended up being pretty underpowered and decided to start a new game. Why this game doesn't allow multiple savegames is beyond me for a game that came out so recently. Anyway, in the beginning the new game worked like it should, but as I progressed I noticed control points which where already claimed and upgrade boxes were already opened and missions I completed just wouldn't check off the list so I couldn't progress the game from beyond 45 minutes in. This made me start a new game yet again and the same thing happened again so I figured a fresh install might sort things out but it didn't. We're now a couple of days further and I'm getting reluctant to start a new game yet AGAIN, having to go through all the same boring hoops and story that's getting old by now but I did anyway. I think you can already see where this went? Right, the same friggin' problem. Googling my problem lead me nowhere so I started poking around my system to see where Control saves are stored because I found out saves are persistent on your system, even with cloud-save turned off and reinstalling the game from seemingly scratch. Here is where I solved the issue. !!!---!!! The solution: Turn off cloud saves and then navigate to your documents folder (for me I'ts c:\D:\Home\Documents\My games\Control\Saves\ and delete everything in there. You WILL lose all your progress but it's the only way to get a new game to work. !!!---!!! How this got through QC is beyond me. End-users shouldn't have to jump through these hoops and try to jury-rig their game for a solution that seems so extremely simple to solve for a developer. The game is fun, but the quality is lacking in some pretty basic stuff.

The only reason I didn't pick this game up when it was first released is because Remedy's ads, trailers, and general promotion of the game didn't do much for it except to convince me that the game was just another gimmicky first-person shooter very light on a story with little if any content detail while waxing very heavy on the bang-bang shoot'em-up (dumb) aspect of all high-rated shooters today. Anyway, the game is A++++ for me, just a great game of the kind we unfortunately don't see as often as any of us would like Most shooters today are of the "Go from A to B, being careful to blow up and destroy everything in between as you go. Rinse and repeat from B to C, C to D, D to E, and so on until everything is dead--and then the cannibals come and throw you in the pot with the Baptist missionaries they are having for a late-night snack! (J/K!)...;) You won't see anything like that in this game, fortunately! Something that popped out from the first minutes into the game--I love the options spread and layout--it's super and well organized to a near-perfect 'T'. The design is top-notch, first-rate, designed by persons who obviously know exactly what they are doing--it's nearly ideal in its logic and in the fabulous efficacy the options all seem to have, starting with the graphics option. Just the way the options are presented does so much for explaining them in the context of each other as to what they do--settings close by--and if an option doesn't logically flow like that Remedy includes some text to better explain the function. I bought the PC version, obviously--AMD 3900X/AMD 50th Ann Ed 5700XT/ x570 Aorus Master/ 4X8GB 3733MHz system ram, Win10 v2004, b21390.2025. I play the D3d12 version of the game at 4k and the game runs extremely well with max graphics options on. Highly recommended!

Purchased it on Steam and just now got the game free on GoG through Amazon Prime Gaming (get yours before it is over). Played pretty well on my new rig. Very few issues that others have been coming across.

Overall, it's a great game with a lot of content. The occasional humor in a otherwise very serious situation is something I really enjoyed. Some things I'd like to touch upon: 1. Health regeneration is non-existent. The only way to get health is by picking up health packets from enemy kills or by going to a control point (which is not possible if you're in the middle of a boss fight). There is an item you can get later that gives you health on launch hits, but that came after I already beat the main story. You WILL die a lot during fights because you get side-swiped with a big or explosion that takes you from 100% to 10% HP in an instant. 2. You lose 10% of your points/currency each time you die. This is a frustrating mechanic, especially in boss fights where beating them isn't straight-forward. For example, Hartman(?), the boss in the Alan Wake sidequests. Everything is so dark and the guy has a strong ranged attack, you will die many times until you figure out how he is beaten because his fights are a combination of shooting and puzzle solving. These were not enjoyable.