Control - supernatural third person action-adventure from Remedy

[Infinitron]

Alan Wake crossover expansion:

 

[grimace]

Will there also be a new Poets of the Fall song to go with this AWE-some Interactive CGI movie Experience?

 

[Verylittlefishes]

nah, it won't save this disaster of game
Control is really akin to Stranger things series, something that wants to be CULT, NOSTALGIC, COOL and FUN, losing in every category.

 

[hpstg]

Isn't PS NOW streaming? Were you playing it with input lag?

That depends on the title. I think PS3 games are streamed and PS4 games are downloaded on the console.

The console peasant's arsehole is so stretched out at this point that stuff like that doesn't even touch the sides.

Someone with a PC talking about stretched assholes of people who can play this with the $300 machine they picked up in 2013.

 

[Sodafish]

Someone with a PC talking about stretched assholes of people who can play this with the $300 machine they picked up in 2013.

 

[DalekFlay]

Someone with a PC talking about stretched assholes of people who can play this with the $300 machine they picked up in 2013.

If the Digital Foundry framerate analysis is anything to go by, I'm not sure you're "playing it" necessarily.

 

[hpstg]

If the Digital Foundry framerate analysis is anything to go by, I'm not sure you're "playing it" necessarily.

Just another $1,500 and you can unlock the 60fps option!

I also have a PC, and I'll spend a lot of money on it to get some games running properly. That doesn't make consoles a stupid choice, and neither they are as expensive as most people think, especially if you play the waiting game (like you should do on PC). You never get the same performance for the same cost on a PC, and this next generation the gap will be even larger.

 

[Sodafish]

You never get the same performance for the same cost on a PC, and this next generation the gap will be even larger.

That's all well and good, but the point is consoles are designed to do a single thing to an "acceptable" standard of quality: play games. With PCs there is almost no limit to what you can use them for. The main use of the processing and display horsepower in my PC is for high end photo editing and video/audio playback, but it's nice to also be able to handle the latest games with aplomb (on the rare occasions something catches my eye these days).

 

[hpstg]

That's all well and good, but the point is consoles are designed to do a single thing to an "acceptable" standard of quality: play games. With PCs there is almost no limit to what you can use them for. The main use of the processing and display horsepower in my PC is for high end photo editing and video/audio playback, but it's nice to also be able to handle the latest games with aplomb (on the rare occasions something catches my eye these days).

This is true. The PC is also vastly superior on what you can use for input, (even for the purely gaming side), is upgradable etc. I was talking about it strictly as a mainstream gaming system.

 

[DalekFlay]

I also have a PC, and I'll spend a lot of money on it to get some games running properly. That doesn't make consoles a stupid choice, and neither they are as expensive as most people think, especially if you play the waiting game (like you should do on PC). You never get the same performance for the same cost on a PC, and this next generation the gap will be even larger.

I'm not bashing consoles in general, I'm bashing Control on consoles. 30fps cap for a shooter is already poor, and then Control has consistent drops to the low 20s in combat with it even going down to the low teens at times. That is what I'd call unacceptable performance, and it's more about Remedy being shit console developers than any kind of slight on Sony or whatever. As Sodafish said, consoles should offer mainstream gamers a plug and play acceptable experience, and Control is a game where they do not do that.

 

[Belegarsson]

Releases August 27th on Steam, September 10th on console and the other store.

 

[Gerrard]

If at first you don't succeed...

 

[ADL]

I got this for free in a GeForce Bundle on the Epic Games Store but I'd buy this again with the DLCs.... If it came to GOG.

lol

 

[Villagkouras]

Pc won't receive next gen patch? Or is it already next gen? Which means next gen is in 2019.

 

[DalekFlay]

I got this for free in a GeForce Bundle on the Epic Games Store but I'd buy this again with the DLCs.... If it came to GOG.l

I got it free too, but I bought the DLC pass. First DLC was pretty good, so hopefully the second is as well.

I'll re-buy on GOG someday in a $10 or less sale.

 

[Metro]

Will buy it in a bundle. Fuck Sweeney and anyone who takes his bribes.

 

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[orcinator]

Oh right, this is coming out.

Skipped through the video, there's going to be a light gimmick (obviously) and maybe one new enemy type if that thing at the end isn't a boss. It still takes place in the notSCP HQ so you're going to be fighting a lot of boring zombies with guns even when the last part takes you to StephenKingsville.
Maybe it won't suck.

Did the previous expansion have anything to offer by the way?

 

[Mortmal]

Did the previous expansion have anything to offer by the way?

Two weapons mode one to break some rocks one to "create" and spawn rocks at fixed areas. Not the most ambitious extension and quite short but still worth playing.

 

[kangaxx]

Coming to Steam today apparently.

Is it worth a punt (spoiler free pls)?

 

[ADL]

DRM-free

 

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[kangaxx]

My curiosity got the better of me and I bit...

I'm enjoying it so far - it's uncomplicated but it has a nice original Max Payne feel (which stands to reason). The shooting is pretty satisfying, and the psy powers are fun to use. AI is dumb-ish, but enemies are pretty much zombies so it makes sense I suppose. The setting and atmosphere are well done IMO (although I already quite enjoy weird David Lynch style stuff like this). Ray tracing looks nice with the old 2070 Super in full flow too!

That said, if I had to play this on a console with a gamepad I think I'd have committed hari kiri by now.

 

[orcinator]

Rebuccaneered it for the Alan Wake expansion.
The throw power is even more OP than I remember, the first encounter was against a bunch of basic zombies but I just mashed E and killed everything with absolutely no effort. Wonder if faster throwing was some upgrade or I simply thought you needed to wait a bit for the object to be drawn towards you before you can toss it.
Edit: you do have to wait a split second but it is faster than I remembered.

 

[Riskbreaker]

kangaxx
So what is it that is Lynchian about this thing?
Not bashing the game - haven't played it, I'll probably get it at some point given that I enjoy Remedy's stuff - but other than some aesthetic touches this is feeling more like some Syfy channel show, or at best like something like Fringe.
Is this like with Alan Wake, where the game was hailed as playable Twin Peaks whereas in reality the similarities were only surface deep and the game was basically a playable (post accident) King novel?