It’s been on my ‘one of those days’ list for years now, and with Resonance out, they ran a $6 Steam sale for the original which put it in the impulse buy category. Fast forward a week and I’m out of town for work with some hotel time to kill so hooked my Steamdeck up to the TV and gave it a go and wow… I see what the hype is about.
Any non spoiler tips, tricks, or things I should be on the lookout for?
Hey, better late than never! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Resonant is just as good if not better.
Loved Control. Currently playing through the sequel.
Control is my favorite game ever.
I only started it a couple of weeks ago and it’s one of the few games I’ve kept going with. Highly recommended it to my daughter who is loving it too.
I loved it, it’s a pretty unique experience. But to be totally honest, I hated it until I messed with the assist mode settings. So my personal tip, which is definitely not for everyone, is to completely customize those settings as much as you want. Some of the default combat and QOL features are way off in my opinion, and once I got over the shame of changing some fundamental settings, the game opened way up for me and I was able to get completely into the story.
The devs added the settings a year or two after the game’s release, so they must have been getting a lot of feedback.
Enjoy! You’re in for a wild ride.
Oh nice, I’ll dig into those, thanks!
Yeah, I’m with you on this, and wish I had done so in hindsight. The gameplay was interesting for about a couple of hours, but ultimately I think the game’s more about the graphics in the quieter moments–although as a raytracing showcase, it’s less impressive now than it was in 2019–and the wacky stuff it comes up with than anything.
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What did you change? I played with mouse+kb and found it to be pretty easy tbh. Only some occasional Board Countermeasures seemed to be a bit unbalanced at the beginning.
Reload times, damage multipliers, you name it. I played it years ago so I don’t remember the exact specifics, but I came up with a sweet spot that worked for how I wanted to play.
That’s what’s so nice about these settings. You can gradually ease up the stuff you’re having trouble with, without cheesing it up all the way.
I never got tired of the basic powers, breaking and throwing stuff always satisfying.
Also, /c/patientgamers
I feel like I’m the only person who didn’t like it? I hated not being able to figure out where to go
Didn’t like it either. It’s not really because I was lost, but for quite a while, the game is a fetch quest fest. “Go there, do that, now go there” and that’s the game. You go where you have to go. Then you go to the next place. I was bored.
I didn’t make it very far at all because of not knowing what I was supposed to do. My ADHD requires some kind of direction at the beginning of a game because I cannot retain enough information to make choices from failing a bunch of things and not knowing why.
Same reason I bounced off Elden Ring. I just don’t notice the things the designers expect me to the first 50 times I try something. It is like trying to find a thing without knowing what it is.
haha, totally feel you but highly recommend trying elden ring again after a break! It took me about 5 attempts of dark souls games over 8 or so years before it clicked, and now elden ring would be in my top games
Nah you’re not alone, one of the few games that I refunded. I think it can really push some people away pretty strongly.
For me I loved it for several hours then suddenly got bored, I thought it ended being too repetitive for me (the monochrome decors get old)
This is one of the few games I’ve played where I’m constantly hoping to find new random scraps of paper. One of the most interesting places to explore.
Every paper I’ve found so far had such a cool little story snipped, I love it
I’m still playing through this on my phone!
Oh wow. Didn’t realize it had a phone port and it shooks shockingly good
Yeah, I’m often on the road doing photography, so my phone has become my main gaming console. I’m not hurting for choice.
I’ve had it on Steam forever, but never played it when I had a PC. It runs okay on my Mac, but kinda looks like ass. I’m hoping for a good sale on Xbox so I can play it in 4K. (If not, the TV will upscale it and my old ass won’t care if I can tell the difference.)
The game is awesome, and you can customise the heck out of the difficulty settings. Can make it so you straight up don’t take damage if you just want the story. That’s wild to me, with so many games punishing people who work full-time… or perhaps they’d say it rewards the time and effort they take to learn the intricate parry/dodge systems… Not a fan of souls-likes. I love accessible gaming. Let people make it as easy or as hard as they want. Bethesda ties it to XP in Starfield — if you want it easy, you’re working for less XP. So I pick up all the guns and spacesuits and I buy the cool upgrades for my ship. I got up to level 183 on my first game, I don’t need all that.
So yeah… figure out the difficulty/accessibility settings and make the experience yours… then go own it.
You’re not late, you are a Patient gamer :D
Still in my pile of shame xD
One of my favorite games! The abilities are so cool and they nailed story and atmosphere.
One of the best games of all time. You don’t need any tips. Just explore and play. Try different guns. Try different abilities. Look around environments to appreciate how amazing the areas look.
I am definitely hyped to get home and check it out on my full PC, it looks decent on the ‘deck but can easily see it’s scoped way down
Control is fantastic! I’m really excited to pick up Resonance soon, and I’ve been trying not to spoil myself too much on it.
As for tips, a lot of things can be done in any order, so if you find yourself dying over and over to a certain encounter, go look for some side-objectives to do and level up a bit, then come back and take down that thing that was kicking your ass.
This bears repeating for those playing Control Resonant as well.
The game really rewards being aggressive. There’s a reason enemies drop health pickups where they die - keep moving and take advantage of that.
I think now that I have TK Throw I’ll try this more, seems like I can knock out a few mooks at a time with a filing cabinet
Fire extinguishers are your friend.
