Control is so damn good, but this article is pretty goofy. I get it, can relate, but it's just a weird thing to write an article over.
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I Stopped Playing Control Because i Don't Want it to End (Kotaku)
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I can empathize with this, even if I don't do the same. It's like when you're reading a particularly engaging book and you see the remaining pages dwindle away. It's the knowledge that the world you fell in love with has to come to an end. So I get it, even if I don't get it.
Played it through on the X, finished the game and then went through on the Pro. Getting the Platinum and then I'll play it through again on the X.
Incredibly absorbing experience. Ashtray Maze not being re-playable is a crime, best gameplay moment of the gen.
Incredibly absorbing experience. Ashtray Maze not being re-playable is a crime, best gameplay moment of the gen.
It's why I never really advance the story in BOTW too deep...always want something to be able to go back to lol.
Weird, for this game I kind of rushed it cause I wanted to finish it. The atmosphere is super unsettling and not comfortable, so staying in that world (by myself in a house) just made me uncomfortable. Really odd to apply that "don't want to finish it" to this game, I could see that with games that feel comfy.
Same. The latest for me were The Boys and a japanese TV Show called business man vs alien.
I binged both shows hard, but last episodes? Nope. It has been almost two months and I'm yet to watch them.
lol...same for me. Repetitive, boring encounters. Generic weapons and abilities, too. Only the setting/story seemed kind of interesting, but even that was sort of a rip off of other media
Funny, I was going to make a similar thread before this Kotaku article. Control is one of those super rare games that I just don't ever want to end.
Bioshock 1/Infinite and the Mass Effect trilogy evoked similar feelings for me.
Bioshock 1/Infinite and the Mass Effect trilogy evoked similar feelings for me.
So if I'm playing a 40 hr RPG, and purposely stop and put the game down right before the final dungeon, suddenly it becomes an 80 hr game? A 100-200 hr game?
I have a friend who to this day hasn't played The Ringed City because he doesn't want to run out of new Dark Souls.
This makes no sense at all, you prolong it by doing all collectibles, getting plat. trophy, replaying on harder difficulty or setting limits like melee only, etc
Luckily there's is plenty of DLC coming or way!
If a guy told me this, I would say "You're too deep for me" and then I would ghost him.
Can't relate. I like the catharsis of finishing a piece of media, regardless of its outcome.
The again, I also regularly replay games that I enjoy a lot.
The again, I also regularly replay games that I enjoy a lot.
I've definitely been playing Control in short chunks because I want the experience to last longer, so I get where Gita is coming from. It's a fantastic game.
I completed Control twice, then on Saturday I finally started Gears 5.
Finding it VERY difficult to not go back and start Control play thru #3.
I feel sorry for people to whom "the act of discovery" is the be all/end all of playing a game. If I love a game, I just play it over and over and over and over. No doubt the first time through with its pure "act of discovery" can never be repeated, but re-playing and mastering a game you know and love is rewarding in its own way.
Finding it VERY difficult to not go back and start Control play thru #3.
I feel sorry for people to whom "the act of discovery" is the be all/end all of playing a game. If I love a game, I just play it over and over and over and over. No doubt the first time through with its pure "act of discovery" can never be repeated, but re-playing and mastering a game you know and love is rewarding in its own way.
I understand the sentiment. I was really bummed out when I exhausted Chrono Trigger's story content, and the epilogue of Red Dead 2 is still waiting to be played.
I do that all the time. Most games I own are 3/4th finished. Their is a small window where a game is good enough for me to keep playing, yet not so good I don't want to finish it.
Games like Just Cause, Mad Max, and DQ Heroes are in that window.
Games like Just Cause, Mad Max, and DQ Heroes are in that window.
Well at that point, the entire game takes a hard nose dive. He isn't really missing much.
I've been doing that with Sekiro for months
Just boot it up and run through it, sword fighting
That's really disappointing to hear
And the friends we made along the way
I've been playing Breath of the Wild in tiny little spurts every couple months for the last year basically for similar reasons. I started nearing the endgame and began rationing myself and focusing on side tasks. I still haven't finished it. Every month or two I dive back in for a couple days and make progress on a few side tasks while ignoring the main task.
Though with BotW2 already in development and Link's Awakening coming soon maybe it's finally time to get it done. Maybe.
Though with BotW2 already in development and Link's Awakening coming soon maybe it's finally time to get it done. Maybe.
This makes a lot of sense to me. If it's a game I've been waiting on for a super long time and is a sort of "one and done" kind of experience, I often will purposefully play it slowly. I could go and marathon some game I've been anticipating forever in two days, but then it's over and it's back to waiting for the next thing. Similarly this can happen for a game I super love but are clearly super short experiences.
Like when Kingdom Hearts 3 came out, I tried not to just rush through it, since it'd been so long since I got more of that.
Also, somewhat strangely, if it's a game I wanna do a lot of side stuff in, and am enjoying, I'll wait to do a lot of that before I finish the main story. Finishing a game often results in me losing a lot of desire to play the side stuff in it.
Like when Kingdom Hearts 3 came out, I tried not to just rush through it, since it'd been so long since I got more of that.
Of course this kind of messed it for me because stuff only happens in the last 3 hours of that game. URrrrrgggh.
Also, somewhat strangely, if it's a game I wanna do a lot of side stuff in, and am enjoying, I'll wait to do a lot of that before I finish the main story. Finishing a game often results in me losing a lot of desire to play the side stuff in it.
Had a friend who did this with Ocarina of Time. Just didn't want it to be over, so they stopped playing, which to me just would feel worse since you're leaving something incomplete... and if you ever did come back to it years later, you'd probably forget most of the details that led up to that point, making the end feel not as good as it would have in the moment. Anyway, different strokes I guess, but that just isn't for me. :)
As long as there is sequel to look foward to, I don't have this problem. I'm in my second playthrough and I can take it slow and enjoy it even more than the first time. And knowing that there are at least two more main DLCs coming makes it much easier. It would be harder if I knew that was it and I would never explore new places in the Oldest House.
Never really understood this. I like the closure and to see a story through (good or bad) to the end to reflect and get that sense of accomplishment.
Yeah okay, I understand the sentiment. Control produces a pretty specific and perfect kind of mystery that tickles my fancy greatly. This is the only game since ever where I actually read and listen to all the damn collectibles. Not playing the game at all seems like a stupidly dramatic thing to do. But I do understand people who want to live and relish the mystery of the story and setting, and try to prolong any explanation and conclusion as much as possible.
