Posted on: December 31, 2020

Abedsbrother

Игр: 1021 Отзывов: 27

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

Владелец игры

Игр: 56 Отзывов: 9

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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Posted on: January 16, 2022

kathyrollo

Владелец игры

Игр: 19 Отзывов: 3

Confusing to the point of frustrating

The story and gameplay mechanics is enough to keep you going. The gamepad controls using XBOX Series Controller are great and movement is easy. Can't comment on keyboard/mouse. The world of Control is confusing but they went a bit too "realistic" and made the game actually confusing. It was hard to enjoy at certain times. There is weak cognitive correlation in the game where it is difficult for the player to identify which action results to what. You are left guessing what to do more than half the time with vague and poorly worded missions. Some items needed to complete a mission are ridiculously hidden beyond the line of sight and there is no natural way for the player to look towards that direction. Whether the game devs thought they were being clever or not, it was unnecessarily frustrating for what's supposed to be a simple side-mission (i.e. Burn the Trash). It wasn't even a "puzzle". The item placement was just simply stupid. The game has very poor navigation aid and the map greatly adds to the confusion with no identifiable legends to mark different floor levels in the same area leading you to go around in circles for a good amount of time. For anyone looking for a game to chill to, this is probably not it. Losing 10% of money every death also makes it a game with lots of grinding. If you're not willing to dedicate the time to it, you will likely be heading to YouTube a lot.

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Posted on: November 13, 2022

antihippie

Владелец игры

Игр: 199 Отзывов: 52

A buggy Mess

It pains me to say that you should stay away from this game even at a sale price. There are good ideas here, ruined by a publisher that simply does not care about consumers. The concept of the game is based loosely on the SCP collection, in that it centers around a secret government agency that hides the various anomalies and strange objects that threaten reality. The main character finds the agency, and its bizarre headquarters, The Oldest House searching for her brother, who was kidnapped when they were children. Grpahically, the game is nothing special, but it has solid voice acting, plot development and progression, which can make the player excuse a lot. There are some truly inexcusible problems, however. First, there's the dispicable practices of the publishers. Control was originally released as a finished product. Then, out of the blue, it was re-released with DX-12 support. Those who bought the original, and the expansion, were simply told to buy the new release if they wanted what should have been done in a patch. Worse yet, the game was buggy upon release and most of those bugs either simply haven't been addressed, and more bugs have cropped up since. So on top of a cynical cash grab, they can't even be bothered to hammer out the problems of the original. Instabilities abound. Some of the boss battles have terminal bugs that will either crash your computer or make it so that you cannot complete them. The publisher has not addressed any of these. You can spend a few hours hunting around the internet for various fixes, but honestly, it's not worth it.

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Posted on: March 1, 2022

diaugupul

Владелец игры

Игр: 300 Отзывов: 14

Incredible

Loved it from top to bottom. Really satisfying combat, rewarding exploration and beautiful level design. You're mostly doing the same gameplay-wise for most of the game but it works because the presentation is impeccable, the world remains intriguing even after finishing the game, and basically because it's FUN. Also played both expansions (and 'Alan Wake' before to get the full context). 'AWE' was very mid - more of the same but nothing special. 'The Foundation', though, is great. 'Control' at its best. Compelling mysteries, an awesome action set piece, cool new location, and two new traversal/combat abilities. Way better than AWE, and a proper epilogue to the game. As a caveat, I'll say that I've played both DLCs more than half a year after finishing the main game, and I lost some of the combat flow and mechanic muscle it required, so I switched on 'immortality' and never looked back. You still take damage, and if you're like me, you'll still feel like you're about to die, but you don't, so you never loose progress. Completely enjoyed both pieces of DLC thanks to this, so I recommend doing so if you are in a similar position.

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