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CONTROL |OT| Welcome to This Oldest House of Leaves
- Thread starter nihilence
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Have you fought these two yet ?
The Anchor and esseJ from the Mirror
These are fine and tense, especially as they make you use all of your available abilities.
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is there eventually any explanation for this? it's like she showed up actually expecting it...
is there eventually any explanation for this? it's like she showed up actually expecting it...
Yeah i noticed that as well. Snipers run away too when you get too close. They also wear some sort of trench coat. Not that you'd be able to easily notice at a distance
All the stories and lore about the objects is so fucking cool. Especially when you find some of them later in the game.
I want some DDLC.
Ducky DLC
I mean, the story makes it pretty clear that she's been seeking this place out for a while now since she already has familiarity with the supernatural weirdness taking place.
oh duh, of course. I've been using that more lately but haven't really noticed that the enemies turn faster
thanks folks
Considering
she has some kind of passenger who's telling her about all this and instructing her, I think Jessie's unnatural attitude is very much deliberate
It's not an inner monologue, she's talking with someone or something
It's not an inner monologue, she's talking with someone or something
the game is very intentionally playing with what 'realism' means in the context of the events it's depicting—plying the surreal, the uncanny, the representative, the abstract, in service of the story it is telling. there's a reason why so many objects of power appear as household objects with some relationship to nuclear-family 50's Americana—the bakelite phone, the old refrigerator, the carousel horse. if the game were just about the ordinary being made strange, I think it'd be a boring and underthought game (in the way that a lot of horror games are). instead, counterweighting all those quotidian objects made bizarre, the game very purposefully plays with bizarre objects being situated as somehow matter-of-course. I'm not all the way through the game, but I think the employees' regard for the 'Director' role sort of fits into that system.
people's reactions to the events around that are part of that, whether they be appropriate responses, muted responses to the outrageous, or exaggerated responses to the seemingly mundane. Jesse's own attitude toward the things around her—what she regards as odd, what she thinks is normal, the singleminded focus she brings to both 'normal' conversations and experiences with the supernatural, are very much in conversation with all of this
Not a clue where this criticism comes from. There is a ton of variation in there.
Telekinesis/Launch gives me big God of War vibes the way the item snaps back to Jesse before you throw it.
Half of this genre is stuff happening and the audience being unclear as to what's actually happening and what's normal and why characters are acting the way they are. We don't know what Jesse's deal is, or what she considers normal, and the desire to figure out why she's acting like she is given the circumstances can be a huge motivator to want to continue playing.
I think it's way more interesting than if Jesse was just constantly saying "WELL, THAT'S WEIRD!"
Just go with the flow. :)
Jesse is certainly confused when she converses with
. You get to have a good half a dozen conversations and they grow increasingly bizarre.
her brother
I've only played for about 5 hours but to work in The Old House seems to be extremely dangerous and unhealthy, to the point where you have to be absolutely fucking crazy to even step a foot in there. It baffles me that most of the FBC employees you meet sound like your everyday working people who nag about the coffee and not getting enough pay. How on earth do they stay motivated to work in such a hostile environment? "You will do the research of a lifetime and really make history... but oh yeah, there's also a slight risk of your office transforming into a lava pit without warning. So, do you wanna start on monday?"
Jesus christ, these people are more scary than the actual Hiss. I refuse to believe most of what I've seen so far. Everything and everyone is in question. There has to be a story explanation for all this crazy behaviour. Time will tell!
Jesus christ, these people are more scary than the actual Hiss. I refuse to believe most of what I've seen so far. Everything and everyone is in question. There has to be a story explanation for all this crazy behaviour. Time will tell!
Whoa, I had no idea! So cool to see Remedy continuing to work with him, McCaffrey and Hope.
Yeah that is sorta bugging me how motionless the game is sometimes
The checkpoints in this game really are bad. Why when I die after a boss fight do I have to travel all the way back to the level? It's so frustrating. Just reload the save right at the beginning of the fight. It just seems a really bad design decision.
Yeah, that's one of my gripes. It's especially weird when I've fought my way through to a room at the end of a path somewhere and there's a scripted enemy spawn and I need to fight them off and I die.
I respawn and then I'm all like "Well.. Do I need to go back and kill those guys? Are they even still there? Did I miss anything?"
That, and the silly load times sometimes.
She has an otherworldly entity inside her head. Also, she mentions at one point how all the weirdness actually feels right to her for some reason, "how the world should be".
Finished the story and still have a few random missions to finish. Think my biggest gripe are upgrades. I couldn't upgrade the standard mode of the gun before finishing the story, since I was missing 2 of the House Memory items. Then got like 11 of them during the final fight.
That is not really when you want your first upgrade on that.
Otherwise loved the story and setting, and the abilities are fun as hell to play with.
That is not really when you want your first upgrade on that.
Otherwise loved the story and setting, and the abilities are fun as hell to play with.
One gripe I have is only being able to have three personal mods and only one or two gun mods when they drop CONSTANTLY.
yeah i assume certain stuff is dropped by certain enemies/in certain places but it would be good if the game told you that.
so i finished it just now
it just seemed to end really suddenly? i don't feel i followed much of the plot to be honest, hmm.
I would love if vidaisonline or Thomas Puha could comment on this, but I imagine they might not be able to, and that's okay.
But I can't stop thinking of why they named Dylan and Jesse P6 and P7 respectively.
Am I going crazy here or yall see the same thing too?
But I can't stop thinking of why they named Dylan and Jesse P6 and P7 respectively.
In the game, Dylan (P6) was brought into the FBC because his abilities were very promising, so much promising that they were trying to train him to become the new director. But we find out that it didn't work, as Dylan wasn't really fit for the job. Then we discover that the next one they were hoping to pursue for that position, was Jesse (P7) and she does indeed become the new director excelling at her job.
For those who don't know, P# is also how Remedy name's their projects. Control is P7, and I believe Quantum Break was P6.
So, P6 was a candidate they had a lot of faith and put and a bunch of resources into but didn't really pay off how they were hoping, so they moved on (like Quantum Break) while P7 is the candidate that was successful as their future director (like they hope Control will lead Remedy's new direction). I think that's the analogy they are making here
Also, another fun fact is that the actor that portrays Dylan, Sean Durrie, was initially cast as Jack Joyce, Quantum Break's main character (the first demos we ever saw were with him on the role) before the role was recast and Shawn Ashmore took it.
For those who don't know, P# is also how Remedy name's their projects. Control is P7, and I believe Quantum Break was P6.
So, P6 was a candidate they had a lot of faith and put and a bunch of resources into but didn't really pay off how they were hoping, so they moved on (like Quantum Break) while P7 is the candidate that was successful as their future director (like they hope Control will lead Remedy's new direction). I think that's the analogy they are making here
Also, another fun fact is that the actor that portrays Dylan, Sean Durrie, was initially cast as Jack Joyce, Quantum Break's main character (the first demos we ever saw were with him on the role) before the role was recast and Shawn Ashmore took it.
Am I going crazy here or yall see the same thing too?
Yeah I agree. I don't know if I did something entirely wrong (very likely I started out upgrading all the wrong things and used up a plentifull supply there) but it would be nice to know.
It didn't feel like a story that would be handily concluded from the get go. They mention having to clear out absolutely everything Hiss to lift the lockdown. Not sure I can see myself clearing everything - at least not before getting confirmation that it might finish the story.
I love how SCP this is, but I'm glad it's not actually adapting SCP stuff. Prefer figuring out Control's mythology and story
Yeah not too bad. Thankfully you don't need all of the collectables and the game has enough upgrade points with some to spare. Toughest for me were some of the bosses killing me quick while I was trying to work out their patterns.
anybody know what you get from completing the bureau alerts? Is it just the mats from killing enemies?
I don't recall any pop up or anything suggesting i received anything for doing them
I don't recall any pop up or anything suggesting i received anything for doing them
Is there an easy mode I've somehow set this game to? People are saying the 1st boss is a difficulty spike
but I didn't even realize it was a boss. I literally just hid behind something and shot them to death when the guy was reloading his projectiles. What were people finding difficult there?