Posted on: November 1, 2020

MichiGen

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Amazing world, combat, story from Remedy

As a big fan of Remedy and their Max Payne and Alan Wake games I must say that I am very pleased by this game. A lot of storytelling is through the collected notes, however there are also some dialogues with quite interesting characters throughout the game so I must say that the Old House feels to be quite alive and gifted with interesting and funny dialogues. I love how mysterious the story is and how well connected it seems to be with the Alan Wake universe. First I have thought that this is going to be one of the low budget games with which you might feel that they lack some content or you might feel that it doesn't really have so called "AAA" production values. Howver the opossite is true here. I am playing now for more than 40 hours, there is a TON of content in this, the environment is dense, filled with stuff to collect and to do, there are quite some sidequests which you might complete accept or not, and it looks like there are many hidden secrets as well. It feels to me that I am still far away from completing the game. The environment of the levels is very well designed and the levels are quite distinct from each other and easy to remember (not forgetable). The actions and combat is something which leaves me speechless like "WOW!", I do not know if I have actually seen such a cool action in any game yet. Of course bullet-time in Max Payne 2 for example looked pretty cool, but this is several levels above that and it's not just about looking cool, it's about having access to awesome abilities which make you feel almost like a small god and really mastering the abilities, weapons and character / weapon upgrades which are at your disposal. The combat is really fluid, cool and challenging. Sometimes the difficulty might be a bit frustrating, but that only empowers the satisfaction from dealing with the enemies / bosses. The world of CONTROL is amazing and I hope more gamers will be able to discover it, I am sure you will not be dissapointed.

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Posted on: January 21, 2022

MrL

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Game breaking bug still not fixed

Game crashes at the beginning of Anchor fight. The problem is known for a long time and ignored by developers.

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Posted on: September 13, 2020

8BitChris

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One of the best of < 2019 / 2020 >

I bought CONTROL on the Epic Store earlier this year, but after it released on GOG, I just had to buy it again because it is one of my favorite games in recent years. The star of the show is The Oldest House, HQ of the Federal Bureau of Control and place of power is a simply fantastic place. Visually beautiful, surreal, sometimes non-euclidean and always providing interesting architecture as stages for the game's enemy encounters. So you are offered a wide palette of opportunities to move, cover and attack. Combat, focused mainly on mid-range, is polished in every detail, movement always feels incredibly smooth and attacks-both with your service gun and your powers-seamlessly integrate. The game plays like a charm and even challenging encounters are fun and largely fair. Exceptions are some of the bosses which can represent quite the spike in difficulty. But every enemy always follows some sort of pattern and understanding that is the key to victory. And if that fails, the open nature of the game always makes it possible to come back later after you developed Jesse further. These developments don't just focus on making your attacks stronger or increasing your stats, but also add different fire modes to your gun, add new effects to your powers and so on. In the first hour of the game, the storytelling felt a bit messy to me. The Oldest House is full of cryptic notes, documents and Jesse herself doesn't feel like providing the player with exposition either. That can be quite confusing. But as the game goes on, the narrative becomes way more clear. In hindsight, I like this approach quite a bit because not only made it the world more believable, but it also added to the impact the Oldest House and this world had on me. And this is truly one of the game's strong points. If you like the surreal, the supernatural and Sam Lake's work in general, CONTROL can be a truly < immersive / gripping / fantastic > ride.

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Posted on: December 31, 2020

Abedsbrother

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Brilliant but flawed

+ Great story, well-told + Great vocal cast + Great atmosphere - Useless crafting - Tons of back-tracking - One level of difficulty. Accept it, or quit – or activate cheats, which were added after release as a quick way to shut people up who were complaining about difficulty. - Cheap boss design. The second Tommasi boss fight is straight-up bs. - The Anchor boss is still broken. - Dark Souls’ style checkpoints. - Confusing level design. You can frequently see where you want to go on the map, but no idea how to actually get there. - Side-quests can require specific skills to complete – skills that are acquired later in the story. The game does nothing to tell you this. Try over and over to complete a specific mission, only to look it up online and discover you have to abandon it for now b/c you don’t have the right skill / talent. - Visually boring. It’s nearly all grey concrete office space. - Slow texture stream-in. Can take 30 seconds or more for textures to fully load (game was installed to an SSD). - I don’t have a ray-tracing gpu (RX 5700XT). The graphics are terrible. Reflections are badly glitched; reflective surfaces are covered in a grainy shimmer (disabling Global Reflections while maxing Screenspace Reflections helped, but didn’t solve the problem). The light balance is off; brightness is over-driven in well-lit areas, but it’s hard to see in dark areas. Even hair (for example, Emily Pope’s) is oddly grainy. (Yes, I turned film grain off.) Anti-aliasing still leaves jagged edges everywhere. Facial animations are very good, though. Been a fan of Remedy’s since the original Max Payne game. Control is another great addition to the unique collection of stories that their games tell. And it does tie in with other Remedy games (Quantum Break and Alan Wake). But even with all the talent, and the attention to detail, Remedy continue to produce brilliantly flawed games. Control is, unfortunately, not an exception.

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Posted on: September 16, 2022

zoliking

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Good ideas, bad design

Pros: - Very pretty - Good concept - Mostly delivers on the initial promise of weird - Some of the boss fights were enjoyable Cons: - Pointless CP system, just let me save normally - Punishes players for dying - Multiple actions mapped on the same key by default - The use action requires a second long key holding for no reason - Combat is completely imbalanced, launch is way OP - Which is further compounded by undisableable auto aim when using it - Combat is bland and flows the same regardless of what I'm fighting and where I'm fighting - Full of unnecessary, tedious random encounters, compounded by the previous point - Lots of boring "go to a place, press a button" types of side quests, the worst of which are the cleaning missions in Investigations where you literally just have to wander around areas to spot specific, hidden things - Boring writing, bland, uninteresting player character and NPC-s and at one point there was narration that had zilch to do with what was going on in the game - In some puzzles there's somebody nagging you every 30 seconds, essentially saying "hey, have you solved the puzzle yet?" Had to turn down dialogue volume to 0 to cope. In one instance the NPC actually started backseat gaming and telling me where to go. - Completely uninspired crafting/resource system of random drops of resources that basically differ in their names - Compounded by the fact that you get 2 weapon slots so after you have 2 guns you like you are no longer motivated to spend time and resources on building the rest - Enemy spawning is sometimes completely unfair, you open a door while routinely moving from A to B, and boom, 70% of your health is gone because an enemy appears in your face Overall: After the initial concept was set the game design team just layed back and thought it'd carry the game so they can be lazy. It shows. I do not recommend spending money on this game.

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