If you know someone who has considered trying CONTROL out, now would be a wonderful time to give it a go!

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/control–ultimate-edition

assassin1513:

⚠️Control FBC ⚠️

alhena:

Thinking about the feelings I had while playing Control for the first time and I thought I’d share.

It’s probably obvious, but it really stuck with me: the characters in Control don’t communicate with each other, ever. Excluding the employees you can hear talking when you walk close, no other character has even a line of dialogue that’s addressed do anyone but Jesse.

If communication happens, it’s never shown on screen, and I think it’s incredibly eerie, or maybe it’s not the right word. It gave me an incredible sense of loneliness, as if one was trapped, without a chance to express themselves.

I don’t really know what to make of this, I just wanted to share it

assassin1513:

❇️Control Flowers ❇️

treesinspace:

Finished playing Control (2019)!

SUCH a fun game!

The Gameplay is very enjoyable imo, and I love the wacky setting and lore so much. “Normal office building bureaucratically and scientifically investigates the WILDEST and most dangerous paranormal shit” will never not be fun.

I also really enjoyed the characters (as few as there are) obviously Dr Darling is a DELIGHT my blorbo, but I also love Trench in a “Awh another dramatic noir monologue. Classic Trench :’) ” kind of way.

I wish we had learned more about the secreeeeets like what the board is and <readacted>Ahti</redacted> entity A001 and what happened to Northmoor and all that. I NEED TO FIND OUT MORE, CMON

Best moments in the game:

1) Ashtray Maze

2) Karaoke Video (Dynamite)

Funny how the best two moments in the game were a song. (The second one especially sjdjjf deserves its own post really… The way you’re so tense and hallucinating a mundane yet horrible office job and then you manage to escape and THAT VIDEO to both cheer you on and gove you some much-needed wacky energy… LOVED IT SO MUCH)

So yeah that’s my rambly review of Control (2019) after finishing my first playthrough. If you read through all of that, I salute you ;) In your hour of need, I will come to your aid, etc

orallech:

a-flappy-bat:

I am not over the Alan Wake update video …here’s the Casper Darling version :3

a-flappy-bat:

So I started another Control play through…instead of playing the other dozen of games waiting for me on my Xbox. Made it like 5 hours into Tales of Arise and I went nah, it’s been long enough to reply Control. Somehow it’s even better on the second go round. Like watching the upload with context just blew my little bat brain into Hiss goo. It’s got some super chilling qualities to it. The Hiss are still impressively creepy, more so than the Taken from Alan Wake IMO. And I’m reading all the redacted bits in the documents and filling in the blanks, trying to make sense of everything I know now, since I was completely lost in the first exposure. Like Emily’s spiel on OoP’s va altered objects makes perfect sense this time. (She’s so precious talking about science!)

Not to mention I completely forgot that Emily is Darling’s assistant, not some FBC doctor who happens to work for him. And the first two Darling presentations are actually seen by Trench and Jesse just knows about them from his hotline calls from the ‘dead man’. Trench is super paranoid right from the first hotline calls, and we hear the service weapon gunshot go off like right before Jesse steps in his office, Jesse sometimes tunes Polaris out, and the Oldest House shifts right when Jesse enters the offices upstairs before she gets to the elevator, which isn’t there until you talk to Ahti…wonderful little bits I couldn’t appreciate before! Like what else did I miss/forget? It’s sooo good.

muffinkun:

Happy 12 Anniversary of Alan Wake

a-flappy-bat:

Casper Darling starring in ‘I Believe In Thing Called Love’ I couldn’t get it out of my head.

ilikedetectives:

I need a live-action Control tv series/movie in my life

ciaervo1:

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wallcrouton:

Dooz’s Virtual Photography Archive [29/?]
↳ Control

star-spangled-bastard:

see when I first played Control I was worried Jesse would eventually have to fight Darling, but having finished the game multiple times and seeing what actually happens, I’ve always thought that if there had been a boss battle against Darling, 1) it would be a dance-off 2) this would be the music

but if there was a boss battle against Trench this would be the music

hope this helps <3

deerfests:

Trench with a t-shirt that says “I was appointed director at the FBC and all I got was voices in my head”

ciaervo1:

It took me some time to realize that the bad guys in Control are actually humans with faces and not just menacing blurs avoiding my forklift attacks.

Bread’s Game Journal 01/11/22: Alan Wake Me Up Inside (Can’t Alan Wake Up)

Ignoring my legendarily bad title joke, I’ve been getting back into Alan Wake. My best friend bought me the PS5 remastered edition for my birthday a month or so ago, and let me tell you, this game is still wild. Remedy is obviously well known for a lot of things, but I think my favorite, and something that shines through a lot in Alan Wake, is their absurd sense of theatricality.

Alan Wake, famously, is structured like a TV show. Proceeding in “Episodes” that all end with cut’s to “credits”, complete with music playing over them. As far as TV shows go, though, this is a dense one. From the start of this game Remedy is pushing the old “Developer Foresight” trop to it’s maximum limits. The amount of foreshadowing to later parts of the story is matched only by the amount of cheeky voice lines where Matthew Poretta essentially says “nice try” directly to the player.

This theatrical motif even extends into the gameplay. There’s something I’ve never been quite able to articulate about Alan Wake’s actual flow, but I can try. Everything in this game has this sort of awkward weight, stiff movement, or obsession with looking cool that I think is brilliant. I think that primarily because this is a game about a New York City writer in a tweed jacket with leather elbow pads, picking up a gun and fighting monsters. If Alan Flowed like Jesse Faden in Control, for example, it wouldn’t feel right. It’s much better that he just sort of lightly jogs through the woods, just as out of shape as I am, losing his breath after every stiff jump or ten second job.

There’s way more to talk about Alan Wake, but given that I’ve only played the first chapter tonight, I’m gonna hold off on trying to fit all that into one post. Plus, I should really start looking for Alice, you seen her? Well, let me know if you hear anything, I’d hate it if she was, say, kidnapped.

I have a gigantic crush on jesse faden

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