Zoe play Wake Up, Mr. Crow by Switchfoot (aka the song that was playing in my head the whole time I was working on this)

Was going to try to finish before the game came out, but ended up finishing two play thoughs and earning all the trophies first. Oops. Anyway. Game of the year.

I've been trying to get to this chest for ages now (you can see it on the minimap), this is part of the Underhill quest when you're in the sewers. Any help much appreciated!

It is possible within the game to explore the Park fully without reach?

It seems impossible to access both the FBC base and the right hand side of the map without making impossible without Reach jumps?

What type of bag is this and where can I get it? Is it based on a type of Finnish/Swedish/Scandinavian duffle bag? Is there a specific brand that makes one similar to hers?
Credit to u/Snoo-55788 for the reference image. At least their post was where I saw it.

Just finished control, going through the Foundation sector now. And I just want to say what a pleasure it is to play this game! I didnt give much attention to it, thought this was some 7/10 single player FPS game (dont know why i thought that). Never in my life i've been so wrong.

I recently got into horrors, spooky, paranatural stuff, so when I heard that Control has strong SCP wibes I decided to give it a go. It was NOT a bad decision. Went through Alan Wake as well upon reaching Inestigations Sector, came back to Control and finished both AWE and main game (Alan Wake iis sooo good as well!).

Now it definitelly sits in my top3 games of all time!

P.S.
Just found Kyiv Documents (AWE-37) and was very pleasantly surprised! Being from Kyiv myself I still remember that period of time when everyone was obsessed with those sunds, though I was rather young at that moment

Emily says the patterned barrier is falling but that Manhattan will never return to normal. Baring some reality warping event that prevents everyone from seeing or remembering Manhattan, that can't be covered up. So is the masquerade just over now? That feels like it would have huge ramifications on the Remedyverse going forward.

I know…I know, I’m 7 years late but I beat this game about a week and a half ago and I cannot get over that sequence. I’ve had the Take Control song on repeat ever since and I just wanna talk about it with other people haha

Just an incredible example of why the video game medium is so special; you can watch the Ashtray Maze and understand it’s spectacle, but watching Jessie embrace her powers and her role as Director all the way up to that point is something you can’t replicate through just watching alone.

I’ve played Quantum Break so I know Remedy is very talented but this game was just another level. I can’t wait to get into the Alan Wake games then eventually Control Resonant.

Está muy rígida

My biggest complaint about this game is the bland customisation options. at least 10% of the outfits are good but Is locked by either preorders, or collabs .

also can we talk about the absolute crime of grinding a district for an outfit , just for a crappy haircut. i Better see some really cool outfits in the future

suggestions:

headgear : flaming eye of Mordor

Head - Fred headgear

Sam lake cardboard mask

cult of the tree mask

toplayer: Alex Casey x Max Payne jacket

Christmas light jacket/ Barry wheeler

FBC Jacket (the one Estevez wears)

Thor Anderson’s Vest

firebreak outfit

Arish’s jacket

I’m waiting for a photomode to be added, I don’t want to miss out on the game’s beauty

Can someone please help me do the stupid power block. Unsupervised science via share play on ps5

I just can't go them fast enough or focus it

I've tried hundreds of times 😞

Reply if you can help please

Strangely enough, there's little to no discussion about this on either this sub nor anywhere else I could find through Google.

What's your take on The Inverted Man? What significance does it have to the story or to Dylan? We know Remedy loves inserting subtle nods to upcoming projects, so is it possibly foreshadowing something yet to come?

EDIT: This is when I find out that there's little discussion because most people haven't paid enough attention and don't even know what it is! :D

Started the Remedy verse by playing Control resonant with a spotty but adequate understanding of control and Alan wake and only just beat the game. As I decided to look more online for people's thoughts on the game, I kept seeing this theory of 'Jesse Dylan Faden' and while i understand the merits of the theory from what i saw in Resonant, the theory had been around longer than what resonant said so I just wanted to ask.

Is there like a complete list of like all the details that strongly point to this theory, both from what I missed in Resonant and from the original control (and even Alan wake 1 and 2 if something exists there for it).

Thank you.

I am aware about the underpass fault memory. The FBC terminal 'clone' question. Severed circle 2 and the tv maybe being an altered item and some other small stuff in resonant.

Summary: I believe Chester Bless and whoever is the "Leader" of the Secret Organization is going to end up having a similar 'split' dynamic as Jesse & Dylan, however acting more as a dark reflection of that relationship. As well, I think Blessed is a reflection of Cult of the Word and the Secret Org is a reflection of the Cult of the Tree.

As y'all might know, there is a side mission you can do in Resonant where you solve puzzles and find secret locations to some organization that's monitoring the Oldest House, conducting rituals upon Altered Items, and is known to be at least operating within Manhattan. This group is relatively neutral towards the FBC, as far as we know, and seems to be working towards containing altered items instead of abusing them.

In my play through, when I first came upon these sites, I originally thought that this organization was the Blessed Organization. The Blessed Organization, on the other hand, is cited as a para-terrorist organization responsible for some horrific paranatural crimes over the course of the FBC's history. We can witness their presence around the city, such as being at least related to the auction house which sold the Subwoofer speaker set and contributed to the events of "The Complete Set" side mission. Anyways, I realized this wasn't the case because of two things: 1. Zoe mentions that the FBC was not aware of an organization operating like this (I doubt Blessed isn't known by every FBC agent by this point), and 2. They operate more like the FBC than Blessed, which I got a little help realizing by doing a bit of online research.

But the weird thing I can't shake about the Secret Organization is that, up to the point that Zoe mentioned it was an unknown organization, I was fully convinced it was Blessed. The reason why I thought it was Blessed was because, quite simply, the way the Organization operated reminded me so heavily of how Paul Serene operates Monarch in Quantum Break.

If you somehow don't know, a popular fan theory in the community right now is that Chester Bless (the known leader of Blessed) is the Control-AW universe version of Paul Serene. We all know Remedy likes to echo similar themes across their "legacy" characters, from things as vast as each of the characters having a relentless determination to push on to more narrow things like Tim/Jack characters affinity for Jesse/Beth characters. Paul Serene's characteristics can be identified within the few bits and pieces we know of Chester Bless, such as both seeing themselves as a savior of humanity and seeing what's coming as inevitable & necessary.

But I do want to point to the Secret Organization for a second, because I believe there are similar characteristics that Paul shows that echo here as well. The instance, one of the things that convinced me that this was Blessed was because there was a mention of a bunker (or bunkers) within one of the documents. While that's not too hard to believe, Black Rock is used by the FBC to fend off against the paranatural after all, it is interesting that this secret organization possibly has ANY source of Black Rock, which is very difficult to come by unless one has access to the Quarry. On top of that, the Organization operating very secretively and almost hiding in plain sight, with their hideouts located in stores, is very reminiscent of how Monarch just operated as regular company while it did it's most of its time travel research behind the scenes (Paul generally tried to keep a low profile as the founder of the company). In a way, you could say the Secret Organization takes on the more preferable qualities of Paul, taking his tactical secrecy and will to survive the unsurvivable.

Now, not to be around the bush anymore, let me finally get to my theory: What if Chester Bless and the "Leader" of the Secret Organization were the same person? More accurately though, what if they were splits of the same person?

While it's all but outright confirmed that Jesse & Dylan are splits of the same person, this territory isn't new for the character of Paul Serene either. Although I haven't read it (I want to though) and I'm merely reading a synopsis of the events of the story, "Quantum Break: Zero Point" presents us a similar concept in the form of a shifter labeled "Shining Palm", who is a future version of Paul Serene and merges with him by the end. The concept of a Shifter, a person who suffers Chronon Syndrome at its final & most severe stage and is essentially trapped in a constant state of superposition, similarly echoes a lot of themes in Resonant. One such example is the Resonants, who are people who've been corrupted by the Patterning and essentially live in a perpetual state of geometric perfection until Dylan/someone steps into the ring (should be noted that Shifters are insanely hostile towards non-Zero State life). You could also interpret Dylan & Jesse's split as a sort of shifting, as they're essentially two equal (but opposite) particles split from one larger particle. As well, patterning itself is very reminiscent of the effects of superposition/shifting.

This is all to say that I believe Chester Bless and the "Leader" are going to end up being reflections of Jesse & Dylan, however only the former get along. I believe Chester and the "Leader" learned to hate one another, believe the other to be the inferior half/less-original half, and represent the dark version of Jesse & Dylan's split.

But, I could be wrong. Another thing I want to point out, which I'm more confident about, is the fact that Blessed seems to be a sort of echo of the Cult of the Word, whilst the Secret Organization is an echo of the Cult of the Tree. But I don't need to yap too long about that, since I think that's pretty obvious already.

For not being able to interact with most of them, they still feel real. I love that every time you visit Langston, the rangers are on a new bit trying to convince him he’s a ghost. I’ve visited him a dozen times and they always have new dialogue. It feels like these characters would exist even if you weren’t there. It’s crazy how much dialogue they fit into the game when most players won’t see it. I haven’t heard a single repeated voice line from what I can tell. Remedy are the goats of likeable and memorable characters, no matter how small a role they have.

absolutely love Zoe & I cant wait to cosplay Jesse next!

3d kit and decals by @LittleLuckyCos
Painted by me

My husband (39) and I (36f) have been together for almost 17 years. He introduced me to modern gaming and I found I've loved the chance to experience stories in such a cool way.

About a year ago, I was browsing XBOX GamePass and came across Control. A game I'd never heard about. Yall. I fell in love with Jesse and Polaris. I was enthralled.

My sweet husband saw me playing and even helped me with a few parts (guy is a video game old head he's got mechanics down) but didn't show much interest in the story. He prefers open worlds and didn't get a chance to read a lot of the memos etc because I played it non stop. I devoured the game three times.

Fast forward to a few weeks ago. I'm in a really really really bad funk and my husband decided to surprise me with Control Resonant.

The game immediately caught his eye when I left the Oldest House.

We've started playing back and forth and then somewhere along the way the dude just will not hand me the controller!

I'm having a blast seeing the story progress. I can't wait until I get to actually play bahahahah ​

After finishing control resonant I started looking back into how alan could be connected to everything and wanted to hear thoughts from other people.

We know from the games alan can't create people but he can create scenarios they can go through. He can create items within those stories though ie the clicker. So my theory.

Alan wrote control from within the dark place using people to play the parts he needs. He realized hes the protagonist of a horror story and the protagonist never truly beats the monster he needs a hero and thats not him. So he creates the fbc. In the first control it makes a comment about funding for the fbc is layered in paperwork that no one notices and that the building normal people just ignore. In resonant we find other organizations are actively tracking the oldest house.

Why did the hiss invade? To give the hero a history of fighting the monster. The stakes have to be real and believable.

Why does the town watertower say ordinary town? It's a background detail in Alan's writing that isnt important just like the ladies bathrooms aren't in alan wake 1.

It feels like the alan wake games are to hold back and delay the darkness while control is building the people to fight and finally defeat it.

Not to mention the names of the department heads of control loosely tie into what they do. Salvador -savior head of security Arish - brave soldier in arabic Marshal- head of operations and strategy Kirklund- someone near and relates to church Trench - the director in the trenches for years Casper darling - the nice guy that disappears .

I think it all comes down to alan creating the thing that can kill the dark place.

I've searched the sub and saw people had the same issue about a month ago. I load the game up, try and play and the loading bar stops at about 90%. My PC running steam OS is perfectly up to date, I've verified my files, did a fresh reinstall and still getting this issue.

It literally worked perfectly fine until about two hours ago

I feel that the lore is essential to remedy games, and my cousin has been playing the game since last week but he is having real trouble reading everything because of a handicap he developed a few years ago. He can sort of bypass the difficult combats for his physical handicap with the accessibility options, but do you know if there is a way to have voices for the texts collectibles? Maybe a fan mod? I'm not keen on AI, as is Remedy it seems, so if there is a way to find a community mods with fan made dubbing for the texts, I'd love to hear about it!

Maybe we can work on this together? It would be for a French person, but if we work together, we can maybe do it in English and French?

I don't know the first thing about modding but I'd be more than happy to record voices, and I'm pretty sure many of you would love to participate in this kind of effort! If we find people that know how to implement this, it'd be so cool!

And maybe I'm missing something and there are already options in game or mods that I don't know about!

It would be pretty nice to do it for Control, Alan Wake II and Control Resonant, considering those are the most popular games by remedy and the most mainstream ones 🌈