Posts by -HP-

Boom, beat it! Stellar fucking video game!

Control culminates in this moment, gameplay, music, level design, the whole package, really badass:

Spoiler Spoilers ahead, seriously, you'll want to experience this in your own playthrough, don't be a cunt!

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Damn, that's some good shit. All I needed to watch to sell me on the movie.

I unlocked all of Jesse's powers, once you have all of the game's toolkit at your disposal, the combat becomes so damn fun! Juggling your throw power to break shields, then using a gun to hurt the enemy, possess him so he fights for you, proceed to fly around and shoot down the rest of the enemies and finish the last one with a stomp from above is really satisfying.

Now that I'm approaching the mid of the game, the writing gets even weirder, and not always necessarily in a good way. Funny enough, I find the main protagonist Jesse, incredibly stale and boring. The constant stoic stance she externally puts out contrasts with her vulnerable internal monologues and narrations, a lot, which sounds pretty good on paper but it makes her character very hard to follow at times. A lot of things just happen around her, and she accepts it without question or much fuss, for instance being made director of the Bureau in the beginning of the story. Same can be said about most characters, for such a good story, Control's characters are very one dimensional. It borders on parody of what they're trying to be, but I question if that was written and directed on purpose or not.

Going back to the overall story though, it's really good. It tries to be this blend between twin peaks and x-files.

The level design is really good, just enough direction that you mostly always know where you are, and the feeling of being lost is still there. Loving the metroidvania still design / map, was a really nice surprise that makes the game feel bigger than it is, but it certainly works.

The graphics and physics is is definitely what carries this game for me, and what makes me come back. You can deffo see Tadao Ando's influences everywhere, and this engine lends itself perfectly to that architectural style. Love the brutalistic nature of the architecture, and the big gradients in the lighting.

Some of the environments are so damn good, environments mild spoilers ahead:

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Really enjoying the game so far. Shame I don't have a PC to run this with rtx, looks legit, and the PS4 has some perf problems during intense firefights.

Damn, an article on Kotaku worthy of reading. What is this.

Lul

Best physics since HL2

I don't know why but something feels very fishy on that switch port, even putting the bethesda online auth aside.

My fav classic doom games console port, is still the BFG edition on the PS3.

Quote from Radu

1 hour ago, Radu said: Played an hour last night. First impression is good. Initial combat feels responsive and satisfying. UI and menu are clear and blend into the theme of the game. I'm curious to see the overall design of the world.

Yeah, Epic store. The best of all the stores.

I came here to post the same. The lighting and render quality has a "texture" to it that I've never seen before. To see the world dynamically shape shift and the lighting / bounce respond to it in real time is really impressive, especially to see it being done on a 6 year old console.

Have no idea wtf is going on with the story, deffo the weirdest writing to come out of sam lake's head, but I'm curious to see where it'll go.

I'm just playing it on the PS4 pro, tired of PC gaming shenanigans. Sue me.

Aye, it's reviewing really well, not that it matter much these days.

Was gonna pick it up anyway. My copy is in the mail...