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?
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I only just played it as well! (At least the main story and one DLC, not entirely done). I also like it a lot. The whole SCP atmosphere is fun, and I loved Ahti especially.
Tip: You should do the quest “My Brother’s Keeper” earlier rather than later. I tried doing all the side quests first, but got a little stuck because I was missing something.
Tip: If you bought the DLCs (for example if you got Ultimate Edition), one of them starts rather randomly so if you start seeing Alan Wake, you’ve entered the crossover DLC. You can do it in between or after the main mission, it doesn’t hurt to do it early. The other DLC starts after the last main quest of the main game.
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Control is my favorite game ever.
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.
Take! Control! (it will take a while to get there and understand)
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.
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?
Huge recommend to bump that 0 up, yeah. I’m having a blast!
Absolutely. Even if the story (which IMO is fantastic) isn’t up your alley the gameplay alone is worth an experience.
Read/watch everything. Maybe after dealing with an object of power, there’ll be a slightly redacted memo about it. There’s inner office politics in other memos.
The world building is absolutely amazing if you choose to be patient and read everything you can.
Yeah I’m usually not a lore guy in games but man, this game did it amazingly well.
I just completed Control Resonate and I was happy to see they kept that level of detail in the sequel.
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.
I haven’t played either but from what I know of them much more toward Prey, yeah
Much closer to Prey.
That’s better, thanks
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.
Hey, better late than never! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Resonant is just as good if not better.
I miss the Service Weapon honestly but I am still very much enjoying the more melee focused gameplay.
This is one of the few games I’ve played where I’m constantly hoping to find new random scraps of paper. One of the most interesting places to explore.
Every paper I’ve found so far had such a cool little story snipped, I love it
If you haven’t played Alan Wake, it takes place in the same universe.
How creepy/scary are the AW games? I’m digging Control a lot but it’s definitely stressing me out at times!
It can be creepy at times, but mostly it feels like an 80s-90s triller/mystery. Spooky, absurd, and weirdly comfy.
Oh nice okay, I can roll with that, thanks!
Alan Wake 2 is much scarier but in a tension that keeps on building and building and that you never feel prepared for when shit hits the fan kind of way rather than a jumpscarey kind of way.
I am 100% not a horror game fan but the Alan Wake games are still in my “everybody should play these” list. 2 is probably in my top 10 maybe even top 5 list of all time favourites.
