Today’s game is Control. I went Anchor hunting today and did that whole questline. I can’t believe i had never done it up until that point. I would have expected me to easily have a run in with that location considering how accessible it is.
Nonetheless, I escorted the guy out. Then went back, found out i needed the levitate ability, progressed the story far enough to get it, then went all the way back to get it.
With this playthrough i’m not rushing through as much either. As such i’ve found so many references to Alan Wake that i just missed on my first playthrough. Such as this page with a narration by the man himself. There’s also a Coffee Thermos and a few pages describing people going through events similar to Alan’s Dreams.
I also found out i can pick up the projectors. There’s nothing interesting about this, i just thought it was cool. I feel like a lot of games would just tie the projectors down rather than rendering a whole extra thing for rotating them and such. It was pretty cool.
I made my way through the whole Ordinary AWE site and i’m about to head over to the Research wing to mess with the projectors. This was about the point i remember last time getting too before the last “push” and finishing the main game. So i may very well finish it tomorrow and move back to the DLC.
If you love Control, read the book that inspired it.
Read “House of Leaves”
Highly recommend. One of the best and weirdest reading experiences I’ve ever had
House of Leaves and Twin Peaks have long been on my list of things to read/watch because of this game and Alan Wake. I really should get around to it one day
I didn’t know that was the inspiration for Control. That is both one of the best and worst books I’ve ever read, everyone should read it. Just don’t make the mistake of actually trying to understand it…
Oh, uh… Don’t try to understand it you say?
puts down my fountain pen and the map of the house I was drawing
Haha, there’s a sidequest in the Foundation DLC where you have to pick up a TV as a flashlight, so you’re walking around in a bunch of pitch black rooms, except there’s a projected loop of Ahti dancing just moving across the walls the entire time.
I think i did that one when i first played it! I don’t remember Ahti but i do remember the TV and somehow that mission being a little unsettling to me
I missed this one during my DLC playthrough, I’ll have to go back now!
I played Control before Alan Wake, so didn’t get any of the reference that you mentioned. I don’t replay games much (except few exceptions, like Skyrim) but Control was really fun, might be interesting to play it again before Alan Wake 2.
I think quite a lot of it is in reference to the first Alan Wake game. Namely a page makes mention of Alan collecting Coffee Thermoses. The Thermoses were a completely optional collectable from the first game. Irc there were about 100 in the game you could find. it makes me wonder though how much of Alan Wake 2 was cemented by this point in time
Not sure how much they had already planned when the base game is made, but there’s a Control DLC linking it to Alan Wake 2, so they must have some ideas. I even played that DLC before playing Alan Wake, and that is what actually interested me in the game. As someone who runs away from all horror games I wasn’t planning to play Alan Wake before playing that DLC.
Loved the game and its premise, got me down a new weird rabbithole. It feels slightly more grounded in our reality that the SCP stuff, I could never really get into that.
I appreciate SCP for what it gave to this franchise. But it is just not for me, especially for how comical it can get at times. Not to mock it or anything or put it down, but it’s simply a different breed than what i am into
the first time I did that fight I didn’t realize there were other platforms in the room you could stand on, so like three times in a row all I did was wait for it to come around to the side I came in on, get one hit on it, and then immediately die
I loved the world-building. Craving more of it, I tried Alan Wake 2, but it’s a little too scary for my tastes 😬
I legit LOVE Alan Wake 2. Playing control has made me want to go in for another playthrough. The only thing stopping me is that i have a huge backlog right now and it takes up so much space
As someone who was too afraid to play any game with horror elements, I found watching horror game speedruns helped a lot. I end up just applying the “gotta go fast” mentality to these segments now, and I find it doesn’t hurt “immersion” that much as I wouldn’t have gotten that far to begin with.
You should try and stick with it. It is scary, but also a really great game.
Plus there’s a musical number.
I’m not kidding.
I was just mad at the detective in the beginning. “Oh, a supernatural unkillable, murderous monster went to the swamp? Let me go towards it in the woods, alone, at night.”
Please give it another chance! It’s one of my favorite games of all time. I’m not a fan of scary games outside of resident evil.
Alright, I actually accidentally got locked-in in a year-long amazon prime subscription, I’ll make the most of it and stream it through Luna. Thanks for the recommendation!
I think Remedy always manages to make their games just slightly too long to be completely enjoyable. It’s sill a great game, but the DLCs felt a bit dry to me.
I’ve always found them to be a bit short, that might just be my attachment to the media though. I’ve maybe got 8 Hours in this playthrough and i’m near the end of control so I may be going through it at a way too fast pace
I can confirm you do not NEED the levitate ability
I enjoy trying to get to places that game designers don’t want me to go, even if I’m supposed to come back to something later. I WILL try to climb on everything. It’s how I became the first person in my friend group to find all the collectible items in Destiny, and the first one to get to the top of that one mountain in the social space.
I legit thought it was just part of the challenge to get to the anchor fight with just jumping and boosting. I had to stack some things with telekinesis but I made it!
I get levitate first now. It was MUCH harder without it…
Damn, i’m a bit disappointed in myself for not figuring out you could get across without it. I love pulling stuff like that. To be honest the idea you could stack things didn’t even occur to me. That’s something i’ll have to try later
I can confirm you do not NEED the levitate ability
But it’s a pretty cool ability, so you should get it anyway.
As I said, I get it first now since the fight is so much harder without it.
Levitate also feeds my desire to C L I M B
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From what i gather you’re talking about AI. Might you be on the wrong thread? This is about the game Control