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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?
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!
Have you ever tried buying a key to save some bucks (because you're a fucking cheapskate), redeem it...only to get greeted by "you already own this game"?
Then I usually gift the key to my bff. She thinks I'm such a generous nice guy, but sadly I'm just a dumb fuck that buys twice. Too often.
And I have learned nothing from it. Once I even bought the same key AGAIN the next day. I would actually save money buying directly on steam...
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.
Super late to the party...
!patientgamers@sh.itjust.works might be right up your alley!
This is my kind of place!
Take! Control! (it will take a while to get there and understand)
Until Resonant that that was my favorite music sequence in a game. Still is, but Resonant has some great moments like it. Honorable mention to the Rayman Legends music levels.
Alan Wake 2 has an amazing music sequence, but those Rayman Legends musical levels really were bangers.
My favorite Eye of the Tiger rendition
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!
It's so good but I fell out of it and really need to go back and finish it
The sequel just keeps the fun going!
Control is my favorite game ever.
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 own this game across five storefronts and have never paid for it. I liked it, but ran out of steam and didn't finish.
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.
You Better Go Now Or You Won't Have To Run With Your Head As Your Third Leg
If you’re playing with a controller, don’t be ashamed to go into the optional settings to make aiming easier. I absolutely suck at fps games on controller, the aim assist was crucial for me to enjoy playing. I’m glad I did because this game is amazing!
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.
Damn, I've had this game sitting at 0 hours played in my library for a while now. Worth giving it a shot it sounds like?
10/10 never had this much fun in an office building
Huge recommend to bump that 0 up, yeah. I’m having a blast!
It's in my top 5 games of all time. One of very few games I've played through multiple times. I love the universe, lore, design, characters, feel and everything else. And it's still one of the best looking hames ever made IMO, and one of the few games who used RTX almost perfectly.
Loved this game. Loved Alan Wake 2 even more! Definitely give it a try when you have the chance. AW1 Remastered holds up as well if you haven’t played it.
I only started it a couple of weeks ago and it’s one of the few games I’ve kept going with. Highly recommended it to my daughter who is loving it too.
Loved Control. Currently playing through the sequel.
I heard it's a spooky game, but is it spooky in Silent Hill way or Prey 2017 way?
I find the comparison to Prey very fitting. To me Prey was even a little scarier.
FWIW, I'd urge you to give it a try. I generally don't like "horror horror" games and I loved Control. The best TV parallel for me is neither x-files nor twin peaks (though the vibe is undeniably Lynchy) but rather "the lost room" from the early noughties, which is also worth a watch if you haven't seen it and happen to like control's vibe.
Edit: forgot to add, I loved Prey 2017 as well and control is WAY less scary. Once the abilities click, Jesse becomes an unstoppable whirlwind of ripped concrete and office furniture. This is by design, the spoiler is in the name.
Spooky like the X-files. Creepy, but still primetime tv.
Hey, better late than never! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Resonant is just as good if not better.