It’s been on my ‘one of those days’ list for years now, and with Resonance out, they ran a $6 Steam sale for the original which put it in the impulse buy category. Fast forward a week and I’m out of town for work with some hotel time to kill so hooked my Steamdeck up to the TV and gave it a go and wow… I see what the hype is about.
Any non spoiler tips, tricks, or things I should be on the lookout for?
I just finished the first game this week. Super great game that I was surprised kept my attention. I’ve been in a “game funk” over the last couple years where I have not found something that kept my attention. Control did, and now I’m onto the sequel.
It’s so good but I fell out of it and really need to go back and finish it
Super late to the party…
!patientgamers@sh.itjust.works might be right up your alley!
This is my kind of place!
I own this game across five storefronts and have never paid for it. I liked it, but ran out of steam and didn’t finish.
Pay attention! Remedy is like the Twin Peaks of video game studios so paying attention to the plot as well as reading everything in the appendices and the documents uncover is vital.
Also HIGHLY recommend playing Alan Wake and Alan Wake 2 if you haven’t already. Same studio and a connected universe!
I’ve wishlisted them both as this keeps coming up!
Control’s combat mechanics are made specifically so that enemies hit you less the faster you’re moving. So picking up momentum and keeping it as much as you can is a solid strategy. Sometimes I simply run around in circles when low on health, trying to get some easy kill or find more health somewere. It works surprisingly well.
Also, Throw is OP in general. A little trick I only recently learned myself: You can pick up something from behind an enemy and have it hit them as it floats towards you.
Have fun! :)
Oh dang that’s really good to know, I’d been playing it like most other third person shooters and trying to methodically work the cover system. YOLO it is!
I stopped playing about 8 hours in. In my experience it was like that review of Pride and Prejudice that said “it’s just people going to other people’s houses.”
I just finished this a few weeks ago. Amazing game.
I felt so bad for getting this game for free on EGS that I ended up buying it when it hit Steam. That’s how good this game is.
hey, looks like a neat game, I should check this out! I’ve never heard of this game
already in your library
The best surprise!
You Better Go Now Or You Won’t Have To Run With Your Head As Your Third Leg
The sequel just keeps the fun going!
Just started this week. It’s fun and atmospheric. But I hate the darkness and screen mobbing of effects. Like it gets so bad that you can’t see shit during a fight and somehow fall down endless voids that exist for reasons.
I don’t consider what I’m about to say a spoiler, but some people might.
spoiler
There is a part of this game that is going to knock your socks off. It raised my bar for how good a section of a game could be. It’s up there with the intro to Ocarina of Time, sneaking into the second building in Into the Radius where things finally started to click but I was still scared shitless, and the lake scene in FFX, carved into my soul.
Once you’ve gotten to that part, let me know because I just like going back and forth about how incredible it is. If you get through a part of the game and wonder if you’ve gotten there, you haven’t gotten there yet. When you get there, you won’t wonder.
Spoiler
TAKE CONTROL!
I loved it, it’s a pretty unique experience. But to be totally honest, I hated it until I messed with the assist mode settings. So my personal tip, which is definitely not for everyone, is to completely customize those settings as much as you want. Some of the default combat and QOL features are way off in my opinion, and once I got over the shame of changing some fundamental settings, the game opened way up for me and I was able to get completely into the story.
The devs added the settings a year or two after the game’s release, so they must have been getting a lot of feedback.
Enjoy! You’re in for a wild ride.
What did you change? I played with mouse+kb and found it to be pretty easy tbh. Only some occasional Board Countermeasures seemed to be a bit unbalanced at the beginning.
Reload times, damage multipliers, you name it. I played it years ago so I don’t remember the exact specifics, but I came up with a sweet spot that worked for how I wanted to play.
