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
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 missed this one during my DLC playthrough, I’ll have to go back now!
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 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.
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 loved the world-building. Craving more of it, I tried Alan Wake 2, but it’s a little too scary for my tastes 😬
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 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…
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
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.
Maybe, then maybe not.
My 74 year old friend used it to generate an appeal to his insurance company after being denied. He won.
And young people are using it to do their homework for them. Leaving them with a degree but no functional knowledge.
So is that valuable?
It’s valuable in the moment you use it. but ultimately you loose the ability to generate value on your own.
