>Jesse and her brother lived in a small town as kids >They lived through a Steven King story where a portal opened and the town was destroyed/swallowed by an alien dimension >Jesse and brother saved by benevolent alien "Polaris" >SCP quarantined the area, covered it up, and kidnapped her brother >SCP also captured "Polaris" >She lived on the run as a drifter until she was compelled to go save her brother and "Polaris" >Finds SCP foundation while it is under attack by different interdimensional aliens "The Hiss" >SCP is effectively a cult to a benevolent alien force "The Board" >She becomes the new SCP leader / chosen one >Brother is leader / chosen by "The Hiss" >She wins >She discovers SCP foundation also has problems with Alan Wake darkness entity
The End
I'd pay gacha money for a Slide Projector dlc where Jesse explores and cleanses procedurally generated space Black person dimensions.
There's a few errors and misunderstandings in this, but it's good enough for a no-game Ganker QRD. Also: >Jesse and her brother were one single child before the Ordinary event.
Her borther went missing she somehow tracks him to the SCP foundation equivalent of the US government. The building/[board] itself lets her in and slowly trains her to become the new director, she pushes back the hiss and uses her talking parasite to kick the hiss out of her brother.
didnt play the first dlc and the alan wake dlc is just "dude Alan wrote this whole place as an attempt to escape the darkplace."
>her talking parasite i.e. the player
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0QsHKH77MI
IT WAS THE ONLY SCP GAME THAT DIDN'T MAKE ME WANT TO SHOOT MYSELF IN THE NUTS.
I PLAYED IT TWICE.
I STILL FRICKING DON'T KNOW.WHAT THE PLOT IS.
BUT I'M JUST GOING TO ROCK OUT AS HARD AS I CAN UNTIL I DIE.
I don't see how there's any hope for Condor to be a success. Live service games live or die on their gameplay and gameplay is the weakest part of Remedy's games
You do have a couple of points but idgaf: Control was a fun enough and magnitudes more interesting game than basically every souls-like and/or 3ps since Bloodborne. I WILL buy Project Condor and gift it to my coop buddies if it ever releases
I do hope the player characters will have better designs though.
I had never heard of this. Kind of intredasted but could also be a resounding meh.
dumb frequency shits all over the house
polaris is secretly evil
darling is a memelord who ascended by fricking around with a projector camera thing
jesse is a dingus
they made AW2 but jesse doesn't show up to 1v1 the darkness herself after having beaten a HISS infused dark possessed in the form of hartman
honestly just tired of remedy's style of story telling >bro you missed the page that explained the thing in the one side room of the one wing that looks basically the same as all the other wings because it's a fricking prison >btw that note was really important and had some serious lore and explanations on it >also you didn't watch the web series/read the comics/watch the podcasts/eat sams lsd laced semen for more clarity >need to make a fricking spreadsheet to count the connections >vague bullshit so they can put anything under it and stretch the english language to it's limits
I have nothing against intricate lore but yeah, this kind of stupidly vague/open-to-interpretation writing is just annoying and lazy.
I intentionally left out "The Oldest House", "The Former", Ahti, Darling, the motivations or intentions of characters, etc because this is a QRD of the plot and not a video essay about lore and >implications. If you want to add anything please do
Yes, but in terms of the plot, the FBC is presented as in the thrall of a "seemingly" benevolent force called "The Board" which is not Polaris or the Hiss. I agree that the nature and motivations of this force are actually ambiguous
>>She becomes the new SCP leader / chosen one
is leader / chosen by "The Hiss" >>She wins
this is the plot, rest is literally just some background worldbuilding
the story in this game is so fricking bad its beyond comprehension, its like a joke or an idea that you would start from, but instead its that just that, a 1 page script for a 15 hour game
Her borther went missing she somehow tracks him to the SCP foundation equivalent of the US government. The building/[board] itself lets her in and slowly trains her to become the new director, she pushes back the hiss and uses her talking parasite to kick the hiss out of her brother.
didnt play the first dlc and the alan wake dlc is just "dude Alan wrote this whole place as an attempt to escape the darkplace."
Which plot? Before normiefication or after? Because in the beginning Jesse was >You have always been here, the only child.
And for several chapters only Jesse talks about her brother, but other characters brush it off.
A kid or two kids find an interdimensional noise polygon. One of the kids is taken to a clandestine government facility and the other searches for the other kid for seventeen years and finds the facility once a separate interdimensional noise has decimated it. A triangle appoints her a bureaucrat and a janitor oversees her for a while until bored. The facility is a living tree, the foundation is nowhere and every employee was hired specifically for being neurodivergent. She takes several detours around a doctor's wonderland and a writer's chicken scratchings, has the polygon killed, finds that the other kid likes the interdimensional noise #2 better than hers, so she puts him in a coma. Some time later she takes a trip to a cave, where she finds another two, who thought the triangle is full of shit, kills one and the other one is also dead or had turned into another triangle in the Executive Sector sixty years ago and breaks out during the final fade to black. At least he better have, if they want actually cool characters in the sequel in addition to the criminal mastermind, who'll be the antagonist.
Also the main story is excessively simple, while everything interesting and complicated is in the oodles of documents of world building.
Control is a narrative piece created by Dr. Darling, a man who became trapped within the Dark Place upon discovering it. Control's meta narrative exists as a tool for Zane and Darling to escape the dark place. Alan Wake it/himself is a failed creation of Zane's as method for him to escape. Zane meets Darling in the dark place, and they work together to create Control, which will be their method of escape in Control 2. Only Sam Lake knows how the frick any of this actually works.
Yeah no, Sweetbaby aren't going to allow Remedy to diminish their female lead into playing second fiddle to the machinations of the men in the universe.
>little girl and brother are talked to by an extra-dimensional being contained(?) in an object (a projector) >little boy is kidnapped by secret SCP alalogue organization >little girl grows up, called by the force that talked to her as a child (as well as the organization) to the organization's building >building turn out to be an infinitely old extradimensional entity tied into a lot of mythology >girl get job from janitor (also an extradimensional entity) >almost every worker is infected by another extradimensional entity >rest of the game goes here
really good game tbh. too bad the sequel is going to be wokeshit, Jessie was a good character.
>Certain abilities auto target even with a mouse >There's a lot of abilities so you will likely find it hard to juggle them AND aim effectively on a controller
I played it on both. Mouse was best by far in my opinion. You simply don't want to be worried about aiming and if you boil the game down to "spam the throw ability ONLY" it's much less fun.
[...]
If you play with Mouse+KB you have more neurons freed up from wrangling sticks to think how to combo abilities and use your full arsenal.
TK is pretty op when fully maxed out, but it's far from able to deal with everything on it's own. The Weapon with headshot mods +the TV/oven upgrade is an excellent and often necessary complement to the TK.
>Certain abilities auto target even with a mouse >There's a lot of abilities so you will likely find it hard to juggle them AND aim effectively on a controller
I played it on both. Mouse was best by far in my opinion. You simply don't want to be worried about aiming and if you boil the game down to "spam the throw ability ONLY" it's much less fun.
[...]
If you play with Mouse+KB you have more neurons freed up from wrangling sticks to think how to combo abilities and use your full arsenal.
>Certain abilities auto target even with a mouse >There's a lot of abilities so you will likely find it hard to juggle them AND aim effectively on a controller
I played it on both. Mouse was best by far in my opinion. You simply don't want to be worried about aiming and if you boil the game down to "spam the throw ability ONLY" it's much less fun.
Same as for Max Payne. Either is viable, because the only weapon that matters is TK.
If you play with Mouse+KB you have more neurons freed up from wrangling sticks to think how to combo abilities and use your full arsenal.
dumb frequency shits all over the house
polaris is secretly evil
darling is a memelord who ascended by fricking around with a projector camera thing
jesse is a dingus
they made AW2 but jesse doesn't show up to 1v1 the darkness herself after having beaten a HISS infused dark possessed in the form of hartman
honestly just tired of remedy's style of story telling >bro you missed the page that explained the thing in the one side room of the one wing that looks basically the same as all the other wings because it's a fricking prison >btw that note was really important and had some serious lore and explanations on it >also you didn't watch the web series/read the comics/watch the podcasts/eat sams lsd laced semen for more clarity >need to make a fricking spreadsheet to count the connections >vague bullshit so they can put anything under it and stretch the english language to it's limits
They can be frustrating if you can't adapt nor don't come prepared, but they're not that difficult. The boss gets raped by the TK shield, for ecample. The big mistake was having them all be pretty much the same. They would've been much better and have any replayability if the areas and missions had been procedurally generated.
Not sure why, its seems like a game I should love, but I just don't.
It has the combat gameplay of like Infamous 2 which I love, the lore dumps of something like Fallout which I love, and the 3d metroidvania layout of something like Dark Souls 1 which I love, but something about it didn't click. Might have been the enemy spam and how bullet sponge they felt at times. The generally same looking environment (dark and industrial) got draining too, but the areas that looked different were cool. Its been years since I played it, might do a second playthrough but on the lowest difficulty to just leisurely absorb the story/atmosphere.
When the protagonist was young, she and her little brother discovered the slide projector, an anomalous object which allowed them to enter other worlds. After an event which still isn't explained to the end of the game, their entire hometown is wiped out, with only the two of them surviving along with the projector. Both kids are adopted by the not-SCP foundation and put into a program to groom the next leader: One being raised in captivity, the other being monitored all her life. Meanwhile, the director of the not SCP researches the slide projector. He's corrupted by the hist, an evil entity which can possess people. Convinced that the lead researcher is corrupted by an evil entity, he goes postal. Flooding the entire facility with hist, locking down all sections, and shooting himself in his office. Meanwhile, the head researcher, who has been looking into an "anti-hist" entity, kills himself in a way that is not explained even after the game ends, so that his knowledge and biometric access can't be abused. The protagonist arrives, aided by an unseen voice. Nothing of any real interest or importance happens besides finding out all the previous information. End of the game: Protag finds out she's been infected with the anti-hist all this time. She beats the Hist's ass and disinfects her brother and becomes director of the not-SCP foundation. The game ends with a GAAS "well, now you wait for more updates to the story!" stinger that they never actually updated.
The one and only story DLC changes the entire story to, "Lol Alan Wake just made it all up. None of it was real."
I didn't even know that Investigations and Foundation were DLC until recently. They are shown as DLC in my library, but they don't have their own pages. It's hard to believe that Remedy regularly puts that whole package on a 75% discount.
>the oldest house >isn't actually the oldest house in existence
There's no reason to believe it isn't, even if it's a title. If the Yggdrasil thing turns out to be a red herring and it's the Finnish world tree due to some things having Finnish names in the House, then the Oldest House would actually be evil. This makes a certain amount of sense, because much of the Oldest House falls into place, when you abandon obfuscating Bureau nomenclature and realize it's a haunted house.
Strong female lead, completes a difficult mission that many men failed to do, with her strength and independence.
I don't know, I dropped it after like two hours when I realized I had likely seen all the game had to offer.
Scp but steven kings
The plot is so forgettable that I frankly don't remember anything other than the mc searching for someone missing.
>Jesse and her brother lived in a small town as kids
>They lived through a Steven King story where a portal opened and the town was destroyed/swallowed by an alien dimension
>Jesse and brother saved by benevolent alien "Polaris"
>SCP quarantined the area, covered it up, and kidnapped her brother
>SCP also captured "Polaris"
>She lived on the run as a drifter until she was compelled to go save her brother and "Polaris"
>Finds SCP foundation while it is under attack by different interdimensional aliens "The Hiss"
>SCP is effectively a cult to a benevolent alien force "The Board"
>She becomes the new SCP leader / chosen one
>Brother is leader / chosen by "The Hiss"
>She wins
>She discovers SCP foundation also has problems with Alan Wake darkness entity
The End
Thanks.
I have to admit I didn't get it any of this during my playthrough.
I'd pay gacha money for a Slide Projector dlc where Jesse explores and cleanses procedurally generated space Black person dimensions.
There's a few errors and misunderstandings in this, but it's good enough for a no-game Ganker QRD. Also:
>Jesse and her brother were one single child before the Ordinary event.
>her talking parasite
i.e. the player
Based.
>Jesse and her brother
I was confused about this. Is it for sure or a theory?
Is ANYTHING for sure in the CONTROL world?
Yeah, that The Board sounds cool.
Basically
but it's also heavily implied, if not outright stated, several times throughout the game.
where its implied? its been ages since i last played the game
Aside from Jesse as well as Dylan being curiously gender-neutral names, both the Board and Dylan tells you this.
Didn't Remedy say they are working on control 2 and also a multiplayer title?
Yes
I don't see how there's any hope for Condor to be a success. Live service games live or die on their gameplay and gameplay is the weakest part of Remedy's games
You do have a couple of points but idgaf: Control was a fun enough and magnitudes more interesting game than basically every souls-like and/or 3ps since Bloodborne. I WILL buy Project Condor and gift it to my coop buddies if it ever releases
I do hope the player characters will have better designs though.
I had never heard of this. Kind of intredasted but could also be a resounding meh.
I have nothing against intricate lore but yeah, this kind of stupidly vague/open-to-interpretation writing is just annoying and lazy.
I wonder if they're still going to work with SB on this? If so it's a no sale for me.
>SCP is effectively a cult
Yes, yes, very good....
>to a benevolent alien force
lol
>"The Board"
LMAO
I intentionally left out "The Oldest House", "The Former", Ahti, Darling, the motivations or intentions of characters, etc because this is a QRD of the plot and not a video essay about lore and >implications. If you want to add anything please do
"Add"? Subtract. The FBC is just "a cult to an alien force".
Yes, but in terms of the plot, the FBC is presented as in the thrall of a "seemingly" benevolent force called "The Board" which is not Polaris or the Hiss. I agree that the nature and motivations of this force are actually ambiguous
>>She becomes the new SCP leader / chosen one
is leader / chosen by "The Hiss"
>>She wins
this is the plot, rest is literally just some background worldbuilding
the story in this game is so fricking bad its beyond comprehension, its like a joke or an idea that you would start from, but instead its that just that, a 1 page script for a 15 hour game
Her borther went missing she somehow tracks him to the SCP foundation equivalent of the US government. The building/[board] itself lets her in and slowly trains her to become the new director, she pushes back the hiss and uses her talking parasite to kick the hiss out of her brother.
didnt play the first dlc and the alan wake dlc is just "dude Alan wrote this whole place as an attempt to escape the darkplace."
Which plot? Before normiefication or after? Because in the beginning Jesse was
>You have always been here, the only child.
And for several chapters only Jesse talks about her brother, but other characters brush it off.
A kid or two kids find an interdimensional noise polygon. One of the kids is taken to a clandestine government facility and the other searches for the other kid for seventeen years and finds the facility once a separate interdimensional noise has decimated it. A triangle appoints her a bureaucrat and a janitor oversees her for a while until bored. The facility is a living tree, the foundation is nowhere and every employee was hired specifically for being neurodivergent. She takes several detours around a doctor's wonderland and a writer's chicken scratchings, has the polygon killed, finds that the other kid likes the interdimensional noise #2 better than hers, so she puts him in a coma. Some time later she takes a trip to a cave, where she finds another two, who thought the triangle is full of shit, kills one and the other one is also dead or had turned into another triangle in the Executive Sector sixty years ago and breaks out during the final fade to black. At least he better have, if they want actually cool characters in the sequel in addition to the criminal mastermind, who'll be the antagonist.
Also the main story is excessively simple, while everything interesting and complicated is in the oodles of documents of world building.
troony fights other monsters
Control is a narrative piece created by Dr. Darling, a man who became trapped within the Dark Place upon discovering it. Control's meta narrative exists as a tool for Zane and Darling to escape the dark place. Alan Wake it/himself is a failed creation of Zane's as method for him to escape. Zane meets Darling in the dark place, and they work together to create Control, which will be their method of escape in Control 2. Only Sam Lake knows how the frick any of this actually works.
Yeah no, Sweetbaby aren't going to allow Remedy to diminish their female lead into playing second fiddle to the machinations of the men in the universe.
Sweetbaby Sneed Is Dead RIP
SCP but not half as gay
>little girl and brother are talked to by an extra-dimensional being contained(?) in an object (a projector)
>little boy is kidnapped by secret SCP alalogue organization
>little girl grows up, called by the force that talked to her as a child (as well as the organization) to the organization's building
>building turn out to be an infinitely old extradimensional entity tied into a lot of mythology
>girl get job from janitor (also an extradimensional entity)
>almost every worker is infected by another extradimensional entity
>rest of the game goes here
really good game tbh. too bad the sequel is going to be wokeshit, Jessie was a good character.
Was thinking of playing this on PC. Should I use controller or K+M?
Same as for Max Payne. Either is viable, because the only weapon that matters is TK.
TK is pretty op when fully maxed out, but it's far from able to deal with everything on it's own. The Weapon with headshot mods +the TV/oven upgrade is an excellent and often necessary complement to the TK.
That poor guy in front of the fridge
Thanks anons.
np
KB+M
>Certain abilities auto target even with a mouse
>There's a lot of abilities so you will likely find it hard to juggle them AND aim effectively on a controller
I played it on both. Mouse was best by far in my opinion. You simply don't want to be worried about aiming and if you boil the game down to "spam the throw ability ONLY" it's much less fun.
If you play with Mouse+KB you have more neurons freed up from wrangling sticks to think how to combo abilities and use your full arsenal.
Wake.
Alan Wake.
I'm ddrroowwnniinngg.
dumb frequency shits all over the house
polaris is secretly evil
darling is a memelord who ascended by fricking around with a projector camera thing
jesse is a dingus
they made AW2 but jesse doesn't show up to 1v1 the darkness herself after having beaten a HISS infused dark possessed in the form of hartman
honestly just tired of remedy's style of story telling
>bro you missed the page that explained the thing in the one side room of the one wing that looks basically the same as all the other wings because it's a fricking prison
>btw that note was really important and had some serious lore and explanations on it
>also you didn't watch the web series/read the comics/watch the podcasts/eat sams lsd laced semen for more clarity
>need to make a fricking spreadsheet to count the connections
>vague bullshit so they can put anything under it and stretch the english language to it's limits
Just ignore the defense side missions. The game likes to spawn a swarm of suicide hiss right near the targets and it's an automatic game over.
hello, frick the jukebox missions
goodbye
Glad to hear I'm not the only one who feels this way.
They can be frustrating if you can't adapt nor don't come prepared, but they're not that difficult. The boss gets raped by the TK shield, for ecample. The big mistake was having them all be pretty much the same. They would've been much better and have any replayability if the areas and missions had been procedurally generated.
Not sure why, its seems like a game I should love, but I just don't.
It has the combat gameplay of like Infamous 2 which I love, the lore dumps of something like Fallout which I love, and the 3d metroidvania layout of something like Dark Souls 1 which I love, but something about it didn't click. Might have been the enemy spam and how bullet sponge they felt at times. The generally same looking environment (dark and industrial) got draining too, but the areas that looked different were cool. Its been years since I played it, might do a second playthrough but on the lowest difficulty to just leisurely absorb the story/atmosphere.
When the protagonist was young, she and her little brother discovered the slide projector, an anomalous object which allowed them to enter other worlds. After an event which still isn't explained to the end of the game, their entire hometown is wiped out, with only the two of them surviving along with the projector. Both kids are adopted by the not-SCP foundation and put into a program to groom the next leader: One being raised in captivity, the other being monitored all her life. Meanwhile, the director of the not SCP researches the slide projector. He's corrupted by the hist, an evil entity which can possess people. Convinced that the lead researcher is corrupted by an evil entity, he goes postal. Flooding the entire facility with hist, locking down all sections, and shooting himself in his office. Meanwhile, the head researcher, who has been looking into an "anti-hist" entity, kills himself in a way that is not explained even after the game ends, so that his knowledge and biometric access can't be abused. The protagonist arrives, aided by an unseen voice. Nothing of any real interest or importance happens besides finding out all the previous information. End of the game: Protag finds out she's been infected with the anti-hist all this time. She beats the Hist's ass and disinfects her brother and becomes director of the not-SCP foundation. The game ends with a GAAS "well, now you wait for more updates to the story!" stinger that they never actually updated.
The one and only story DLC changes the entire story to, "Lol Alan Wake just made it all up. None of it was real."
I didn't even know that Investigations and Foundation were DLC until recently. They are shown as DLC in my library, but they don't have their own pages. It's hard to believe that Remedy regularly puts that whole package on a 75% discount.
It isn't? I'm still not done with the Foundation.
>the oldest house
>isn't actually the oldest house in existence
There's no reason to believe it isn't, even if it's a title. If the Yggdrasil thing turns out to be a red herring and it's the Finnish world tree due to some things having Finnish names in the House, then the Oldest House would actually be evil. This makes a certain amount of sense, because much of the Oldest House falls into place, when you abandon obfuscating Bureau nomenclature and realize it's a haunted house.
Random shit, there's no plot
Something something paralel dimension something something pistol is actually mjolnir
*shrugs*
i'unno
I got this game for free on the Timmy store. Is it worth installing the Timmy store launcher for this?
isn't there a replacement for epic' launcher? i think it's called legendary, don't know if it still works
Oh, I didn't even know about it. I'll definitely check it out, thanks.
Zombie apocalypse at MIB headquarters but with sound instead of virus and no real character arcs to speak of.