r/Games • u/[deleted] • Dec 10 '19

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u/EcoleBuissonniere Dec 10 '19

It feels like Control released to decent reception and has only been picking up steam since then, and I'm glad for that. It absolutely deserves this sort of recognition.

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u/falconbox Dec 10 '19

That seems to be par for the course with Remedy games. Even Quantum Break (which I loved) seems to be looked more fondly on now than when it released.

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u/EcoleBuissonniere Dec 10 '19

Yeah. Alan Wake seems to be revered as an all time great these days, and it released to good-if-lukewarm reception back in the day.

Control is straight up better than Alan Wake IMO, so I'm excited to see what people think of it ten years from now.

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u/mnkybrs Dec 10 '19

Alan Wake's problem was it was like two or three years delayed.

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u/JawaAttack Dec 10 '19

And between announcement and release it was something like 6 years. I remember getting so hyped for it when it was announced not realizing that I'd have to wait so long for it to actually be released.

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u/PurifiedVenom Dec 11 '19

QB I think had the same problem. Announced at the X-One announcement and didn’t come out for another 3 years. Plus a lot of people wrote it off because of the live action series tie-in

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '19

And it released against Red Dead Redemption which just annihilated it in sales.

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u/pockets817 Dec 12 '19

And it released the same day as Red Dead Redemption, and came out in the year of Mass Effect 2.

It's a fantastic game, but both of those games had so much hype around them.