I've heard many people credit Control on here but having just finished it I can't say I see where much of the praise comes from. I expected it to be an evolution of Quantum Break but in the end I found myself thinking it was actually many steps backwards.
Quantum Break's story was far better, more interesting, had better secondary characters and actually felt like a story being told. I'll admit I wasn't a fan of the last level and the TV episodes sucked but as an overall story it wasn't bad at all and ended in a manner I was fairly happy with. Meanwhile, Control's starts off interesting then eventually follows a boring pattern of more bullshit occurring in different sectors dragging out the story yet not adding much to it. Don't get me started on the end of Control either, comes out of nowhere and is very unsatisfying.
Gameplay wise I was disappointed with Control as well. Even though I expected far more powers at Jesse's disposal, the worst part is given the game only has one default difficulty, you don't even have to use most of them to progress. Throughout my playthrough of the story and almost all the side missions, I rarely ever used the levitating skill and shield in combat, simply because I had no need to, just throwing stuff around and shooting was good enough. With Quantum Break on the hardest difficulty you were forced to use all the powers at your disposal, which was great because of much cooler and varied they were. You could have so much going on at the same time in Quantum Break with all the powers, not so much in Control.
Last point is that Control's environments were so much better with a better mix of places. I know all of Control takes place in a building and they did a good job of making it fairly diverse, but lacking outdoor environments, daylight and what not is something I can't say I enjoyed very much.
Anyone else feel the same here? Not to say Control isn't good or that Quantum Break is great but I was definitely disappointed.
Quantum Break's story was far better, more interesting, had better secondary characters and actually felt like a story being told. I'll admit I wasn't a fan of the last level and the TV episodes sucked but as an overall story it wasn't bad at all and ended in a manner I was fairly happy with. Meanwhile, Control's starts off interesting then eventually follows a boring pattern of more bullshit occurring in different sectors dragging out the story yet not adding much to it. Don't get me started on the end of Control either, comes out of nowhere and is very unsatisfying.
Gameplay wise I was disappointed with Control as well. Even though I expected far more powers at Jesse's disposal, the worst part is given the game only has one default difficulty, you don't even have to use most of them to progress. Throughout my playthrough of the story and almost all the side missions, I rarely ever used the levitating skill and shield in combat, simply because I had no need to, just throwing stuff around and shooting was good enough. With Quantum Break on the hardest difficulty you were forced to use all the powers at your disposal, which was great because of much cooler and varied they were. You could have so much going on at the same time in Quantum Break with all the powers, not so much in Control.
Last point is that Control's environments were so much better with a better mix of places. I know all of Control takes place in a building and they did a good job of making it fairly diverse, but lacking outdoor environments, daylight and what not is something I can't say I enjoyed very much.
Anyone else feel the same here? Not to say Control isn't good or that Quantum Break is great but I was definitely disappointed.
