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I was also playing Mass Effect LE as I'd never played that before but uh, those biotic abilities hit like a cold egg noodle compared to launch. (still on ME1). Can Remedy make a mass effect game? Seems like they should.
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Remedy should just make every game.
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Evil Kit posted:Health keeps you from being one shot, combine that with the mod that boosts the health recovery you get from drops and I coasted through the game. Also slamming Launch upgrades of course, Launch is just too good. Love crunching possessed office workers with a desk, then the same desk again
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Kibayasu posted:Remedy should just make every game. Remedy's Duke Nukem Forever
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I feel like seize gets underrated since people don’t realize that breaking LoS doesn’t stop the cast.
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Malcolm Excellent posted:Love crunching possessed office workers with a desk, then the same desk again spoken like true management
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Edmund Lava posted:I feel like seize gets underrated since people don’t realize that breaking LoS doesn’t stop the cast. Seize is definitely essential for the survival mode they added in AWE as well as Platform 2 during expeditions.
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Seize is the secret answer to every difficult boss, the enemy AI is set to really go after each other. Your mindless Hiss slaves won’t do a lot of damage to Tommasi or the infected Ranger captains but they’ll distract them long enough for you to find health and line up big launches.
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Also Seizing a heal orb gives you constant regen, and completely negates the health drain on other Seized enemies until the orb dies.
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I've used Sieze every now and then just for the sake of variety, but I never felt it was an actual better choice then using killing dudes. It definitely has a use, but I wouldn't call it essential.
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I just throw things at the enemy until I run out of mana and then shoot it with my pistol until I can throw more stuff. No part of this game requires deeper though than that.
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Maybe not, but you can do all kinds of tactical bullshit if you want to
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Upgrading Launch is almost a trap because it's so powerful that you really, really don't need any other powers. When you can just chuck file folders and desk chairs at every single enemy in the game and own them it takes away the incentive to experiment. Not that the non-Launch powers are very good (except Seize I guess? Literally never use it but other people say it's good) but still, once you lock in on Launch there's no reason to try anything else.
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God drat, I forgot how good most of the fights in this game are. For my middle-aged dude reflexes, I may die a couple of times to waves of Hiss spawning in, but it's always a close loss, so I jump back in willing to give it another try. When I finally come out on top, the environment is totally destroyed, health and loot are scattered everywhere, and my hands are sweating from the tension. Great game.
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I’m case you’re reading this thread and somehow don’t own this game already, it’s free for the next ~24 hours on the Epic Game Store. I’ve been catching up on this thread from the very beginning for the past 6 months or so, now it’s back to page 97 for me 
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Hello thread, I've finally gotten around to playing this game and I just want to say, the 2nd Tommasi fight is straight up bullshit.
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Keep the big thing in the middle between you and Tommasi and make liberal use of Shield which even un-upgraded will completely protect against a single screamer attack.
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Playing this game for the first time. Figured I should go get the DLC weapon form now that A Dark Place has become available, so I can use it through the rest of the main game. It quickly became apparent that this is heavily tied to Alan Wake. Don’t think I want to stop playing this and pay $30 to play a game I was never that interested in, but it seems like it might be more enjoyable if you know what happened. Should I: -Watch a summary of Alan Wake? If so, is there one you’d recommend? -Just play the DLC anyways and maaaaybe play Alan Wake some other time?
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I really like Alan Wake and American Nightmare but I think at least the original game is pretty divisive? I think you'd understand the DLC well enough without playing the game for now if you don't want to stop. Alan Wake really works if you kinda treat it like watching a TV show, playing only an episode or two at a time. Especially since it has "recaps" in between.
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Alan Wake is very repetitive and simple that makes it very divisive so its hard to recommend delaying control over when thats universally liked, and his writing showing up in Control is the lowlight of the game. There are a couple if small jokes in his DLC youd miss but you don't really need to play Alan Wake to get the gimmick. If you absolutely need to play more remedy consider getting it afterwards.
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Pretty sure both Alan Wake's are on Gamepass. Very much agree that the gameplay sucks, you get tired of 'point flashlight shoot gun' before you're done your first combat scene.
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Alan wake is a bad game and the aw dlc for control is only really held up by the non aw related bits like the alien that came back from the moon and stuff. if you're not into it just go back to the main game and watch the final cutscene for the dlc on YouTube or something, it's just a quick peek at Alan wake 2 anyways
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I genuinely feel like the Alan Wale stuff super sucks in Control and I really hate making it a shared universe TBH. Would trade the whole DLC to have my Astral Dive Kojima armor back 
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Bust Rodd posted:I genuinely feel like the Alan Wale stuff super sucks in Control and I really hate making it a shared universe TBH. Would trade the whole DLC to have my Astral Dive Kojima armor back Id trade the entire DLC for nothing at all, I do not like Alan Wake's narrative and it touching Control is bad
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Bust Rodd posted:I genuinely feel like the Alan Wale stuff super sucks in Control and I really hate making it a shared universe TBH. Would trade the whole DLC to have my Astral Dive Kojima armor back The implication there that Wake literally wrote Jesse into existence just so she could free him from shadow prison drives me up a wall and I hope it's ignored in future games
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I don't mind that it's a shared universe, I do mind that they seem to have reduced the entirety of Control to a subplot/temporary detour in what is still primarily Alan Wake's story
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I'd happily play a crossover where jessie locks alan wake in a cell in the panopticon 
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haveblue posted:I don't mind that it's a shared universe, I do mind that they seem to have reduced the entirety of Control to a subplot/temporary detour in what is still primarily Alan Wake's story It drives me crazier than that because A) Alan Wake isn't even the author of his own story and b) the base game already retconned Alan Wake's plot slightly so its a convolution uroboros all in service of making Alan Wake the star
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I like Alan Wake on its own, and the idea of all this weirdo stuff happening in the same universe and being somewhat connected is cool. But the way it relates to Jesse? Nah. Just lol, that was a majorly bad creative decision. Really hope they back off on that stuff in Alan Wake 2
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I don’t interpret it that way at all. Alan Wake doesn’t create Jesse or write her into being, he was just a powerful enough altered entity that even trapped in the shadow realm he could reach out like a distress beacon and a powerful receiver like Jesse is the unfortunate sap who has the deal with it because his mojo locked on to her mojo. If there is a report or phone call that makes it clearer what’s going between them that I haven’t found or unlocked it.
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DaysBefore posted:Pretty sure both Alan Wake's are on Gamepass. Very much agree that the gameplay sucks, you get tired of 'point flashlight shoot gun' before you're done your first combat scene. Thanks for the input everybody, I went ahead and watched a summary video and proceeded with the DLC. Story seemed goofy but inoffensive so I’ll have to remember to come back and check all these spoilered opinions after I beat the full game. ^If it’s all about that last post I already encountered that, the first Hotline message you get prompting you to start the DLC basically says that, and I got the same impression from it that Bust Rodd did. runchild fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Jan 8, 2022 |
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Bust Rodd posted:I don’t interpret it that way at all. Alan Wake doesn’t create Jesse or write her into being, he was just a powerful enough altered entity that even trapped in the shadow realm he could reach out like a distress beacon and a powerful receiver like Jesse is the unfortunate sap who has the deal with it because his mojo locked on to her mojo. If there is a report or phone call that makes it clearer what’s going between them that I haven’t found or unlocked it. This. I really love both games and the AWE DLC, though I will say that Control is a much better game out of the two overall. But I definitely have a soft spot for my dumb goofy wannabe Stephen King
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when you are done with the game, check all the weird theories from Youtube. My favourite is Gaming Univeristy's take https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpxGcAs6OTOTh_fG3BOb4hkZgwV-lPRwq
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haveblue posted:I don't mind that it's a shared universe, I do mind that they seem to have reduced the entirety of Control to a subplot/temporary detour in what is still primarily Alan Wake's story I can't see Wake creating Jesse or the FBC because that would also require him to create the Hiss, which would be an entity that's a significantly greater threat than the Dark Presence. Maybe Wake is or isn't a great author, but that's suicidally bad writing there. Besides, the writing requires some plausible basis in reality, and if you're going to write about that level of nonsense, it had better already exist.
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Weird Sandwich posted:Hello thread, I've finally gotten around to playing this game and I just want to say, the 2nd Tommasi fight is straight up bullshit. True. Even I, the resident 'experiment with how Launch works, lol. No one's impossible to hit with it' poster still think that fight sucks.
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Holy moly the final boss fight of the AWE DLC sucks poo poo through a straw.
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site posted:wake is a bad writer even in his own game He really is. And he's arguably not even the original writer in his world Barudak fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Jan 9, 2022 |
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Alan Wake is good, sorry. Control is a better game overall, but all this whining about how Alan Wake sucks is kind of lame. Alan Wake, as a person, though? He sucks.
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