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Quick Look: Control

Angry psychic orbs? Incanting, floating office workers? Hallways to nowhere? Folks, this Oldest House is out of control!

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Aug. 26 2019

Cast: Vinny, Alex

Posted by: Abby

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Control

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CONTROL WALK WITH ME

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Was interested in this but unfortunately I'll be holding off until the problems on Base PS4 get fixed. Thanks for pointing it out Alex.

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Seems kind of cool and a good weird. Shame about the perf issues but I'm sure they'll patch it. Might be a good pick up early next year once that's done (and after the rush of games). Generally loved everything Remedy has done.

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This looks like it was made for the target audience of me. SOLD

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Man I hope the framerate issues aren't too bad when I start this tomorrow on a base PS4...

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Why does she not react at all when she meets the director and gets sucked into the weird platforming world ... she just like starts going it's so jarring. Anyone would fr3ak the fuck out r

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I am very interested in this! I loved Alan Wake and like this weird moody vibe. And hearing mr Max Payne himself gave it a bonus.

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Seems like an alright game as long as you have a decent PC or beefed up console. But also a game that I will wait for it to be on sale.

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@redbullet685 Going off of Alex's twitter, you are in for a bad time.

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Not to sound like an ass, but this seems way less interesting then all the trailers and promos and prerelease stuff made it seem.

It's... a mildly competent 3rd person shooter, I guess?

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Control Alt Delete

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I thought "Astralnauts" was a clever pun.

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I really wished that the guys would embrace the MaX-Files-Payne-Peaks vibe of this instead of boiling it down to B-game shooter. :(

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Basically SCP Foundation the video game?

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finally, it seems like Remedy made a game for me.

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@eazeapeazea: Although I'd say that I appreciate other people saying they didn't think the puzzle was too difficult. (Especially Autechresaint's breakdown.) I often see videos where the player comments about how the puzzles "aren't good" but they seem sufficient to me. I can't tell if my bar for puzzles is very low or if most people just hate any kind of puzzle. I appreciate knowing that I'm not the only one who found the solution intuitive -- especially when trying to break down the game design to see what's flawed.

Maybe for the previous few hours, the solution to everything has been "shoot everything" so throwing in a puzzle confuses the player instead of mixing things up. Seems like the biggest problem was how hard it was to see the magnet cube. But they gave you the pieces and didn't hold your hand to put them together: the video telling you to contain, the safe view of the magnet socket on the wall, the power cube on your way into the room, the big door in between the power cubes.

Alex doesn't like puzzle games or (I think) Dark Souls games, so it's unsurprising if he doesn't enjoy or intuit these puzzles. I'd be curious to hear Vinny talk more about Control.

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It was so frustrating to watch them spend so much time on trapping the angry orb. It was such a simple solution. That one is not the game's fault.

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Finally, a game to satiate my desire for a LOST game!

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Edited By faridmon

Sorry to say this, but this game looks fairly drab considering the supernatural hook they are going to. Like the atmosphere and some of the mysterious vibe its giving off, but it just looks and games like a generic third person shooter with no charm.

Max Payne oozed with charm and style, sad to see Remedy like this.

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@faridmon said:

Sorry to say this, but this game looks fairly drab considering the supernatural hook they are going to. Like the atmosphere and some of the mysterious vibe its giving off, but it just looks and games like a generic third person shooter with no charm.

Max Payne oozed with charm and style, sad to see Remedy like this.

I feel the same. Remedy has changed a long time ago, I don't think we'll be getting anything like the first two Max Payne games any time soon.

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I don't get why games say they are released at a time and then come out like 10 hours after that day begins. I was gonna pick up Astral Chain but this quick look sold me. It reminds me of Prey but seems better.

The particle effects alone are worth the 60 bucks, holy shit this is beautiful and it isn't even on a PC.

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@sdhen: This. It's been surprisingly frustrating to listen to all the coverage from GB and Waypoint when no one is mentioning SCP. The often incompetent and confused people of a shadowy organisation dealing with supernatural phenomena and the small isolated stories of said phenomena is basically the same in both.

Remedy themselves mentioned SCP as an inspiration in some interview, so it's not a secret and I'm not accusing anyone of anything. Just feels weird to hear this game being described without anyone pointing it out.

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Alex calling Ahti swedish. I can't believe you massacred my boy like this.

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Managed to finish the Quick Look...and at around 10 hours for a $60 game...nope. Will wait for a steep sale.

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Looks interesting form a story and setting point of view, I never really liked Alan Wake or Quantum Break as worlds....but this seems more in my wheelhouse.

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This looks right up my alley, will have to pick it up once I clear out some of my pile of shame.

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I really dislike how Remedy games look since Quantum Break, graphically average with terrible performance, which i assume is due to loads of reflections which look broken and blurry, with heavy TAA smudging out whatever quality might be there.
The gameplay of QB wasn't great either, the abilities did their jobs but weren't satisfying to use, and aiming never felt like it was working well.
Add to that face scans of popular actors, making uncanny valley as obvious as possible...
Unfortunately due to the same or similar engine and design going on here, i just can't get interested in it.
I'm betting the PC version is strangely as demanding as QB was, it's also Epic exclusive which means i can't even try it, but even then my interest doesn't reach much past about £15-20.

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This game looks dull. Shame.

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@castiel said:

It was so frustrating to watch them spend so much time on trapping the angry orb. It was such a simple solution. That one is not the game's fault.

I hate critiquing gameplay since this a quicklook and doing so after the fact is nearly pointless but that room that Alex was in was nearly the same style of trap room in a ton of different games where you have to trap an unkillable enemy. Alex was just leading it back out before it steps into the room.

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I was really looking forward to both the Quick Looks for this and Ancestors since they both seem like really interesting games, but having now watched them it's becoming really hard to take the Beast crew's opinions on them seriously when it feels like they're not even paying attention to the games they're playing.

And by what metric would this be considered a B game???

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@wobblysnake said:I was really looking forward to both the Quick Looks for this and Ancestors since they both seem like really interesting games, but having now watched them it's becoming really hard to take the Beast crew's opinions on them seriously when it feels like they're not even paying attention to the games they're playing.

And by what metric would this be considered a B game???

Could not agree more!

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I completely do no understand people saying this looks drab.

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The setting and world of this game seem super rad to me, big ol concrete science building full of old tech and mysterious weird orbs. Hell yeah. Too bad it's apparently basically unplayable on a regular PS4.

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Vinny vaguely points it out but this game does have a pretty good je ne sais Psychonauts.

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@citizenjp: Likewise. It's got a very Fringe/Lost/Inception/Counterpart vibe.

I personally love this kind of setting.

I'm *hoping* it'll run fine on the base XB1...but 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Something what's shown about the protagonist in this QL seems kinda... I don't know... off? Generic? She doesn't seem very interesting considering the nature of the game and world they set up.

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I don't know why but almost no content I've seen of this game sold me on this, but this video somehow has done it and now I am the proud owner of this video game. I can't wait to throw rocks at things soon. I am totally in love with the graphics here and don't see how this is a B game unless you mean bad ass.

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I'll check it out when they release it on a proper store. Hopefully it'll be patched a lot by then, and cheaper.

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Poor choice of console but I can't get behind calling this a B game, I'm a few hours in and obsessed!

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Seems pretty good. I could get into this. I'd love to know the performance on my Xbox X.

I love the telekinesis sound effects. Kind of Harry Potter esque?

Also, based on other sites reviews and impressions, this is far from a B game. Some people are blown away by this. Seems like GB isn't as impressed by it? Wouldn't be the first time.

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I wonder if any other wrestling fans heard Metallica in their head at 41:52.

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The handgun sound effect is driving me crazy. I have heard it somewhere recently a lot. If ayyone can help I'd be very grateful.

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Genetic control, information control, emotion control... battlefield control. Everything is monitored and kept under control. War - has changed.

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So after buying this game and getting over the motion controls and playing it on a PC max settings at 4k (no RTX but most people aren't getting consistent fps with it anyways) I have to say this is hands down game of the year for me so far. This game is just so much fun to walk around and punch the damn walls, desks, whatever - everything explodes into a massive amount of destructible objects and due to the nature of the Old House it always returns back to its original position. It also helps that it is probably the most beautiful looking game I've seen so far.

I just spent an hour waltzing around an office destroying every table, chair, window, wall, column - just because I could.

Also, everything about this game is AWESOME. Even the combat feels good. I hope you can get a ton of upgrades though because seeing "Common" drops with a % is making me already feel way better about this purchase.

This game rules. I don't think it will be surpassed until Doom Eternal but what a awesome game. I hope more people play this game and really see it for what it really is, but maybe like the Old House that is the point - people are deceived into thinking this is not as good as it actually is. It is incredible and I can't stop wanting to play more of it, which never happens.

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@adamcboyd: They did this version cause Alex wanted to review it on pretty much the worst possible choice and then complain about it. And for whats its worth i have a rtx2070 super and this game runs great and looks freaking fantastic, the rtx effects really help drive in the immersion. And its not a tech demo for ray tracing, at least 80% of people playing this will never even see the ray tracing. Its just the first game to utilize all aspects of ray tracing so it gets more attention.

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I'm a few hours into this on PC and it is just the fucking coolest thing.

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@sirdesmond: yup once you start pulling debris out of the fucking wall and throwing it through a line of 10 desks and having a GRAVITATIONAL pull of objects around you as you walk around is so amazing. Honestly all I can do is think about playing this game. I was halfway through john wick 3 and was so bored I turned it off to play control, I'm glad someone agrees "coolest fucking thing" is how I feel playing this. I even just love shooting normal dudes I don't see how anyone can dislike this game lol.

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IT'S PAYNE!