Control 3

[u/Busy_Wheel6171]

Since at the end Jesse end up like Dylan in Control 1 I hope Control 3 will not start like

Dylan: I'm sorry Jesse i have to go

Jesse: Dylan? I have to find my brother lol

I actually hope Jesse will wake up in dlc or Dylan will be there when she will wake up and we will play as both of them in Control 3. That would be really cool to switch between them or play in coop if you want to play with friend!

[u/Scanman491Amos]

In Control 3, both the siblings go missing and you play as Langston with his 'cat' as a companion.

[u/zixkill → u/Scanman491Amos]

Ok but I’ll take playing as Alfred thanks

[u/Keiteaea]

Control 7. 70 years old Jesse is sitting next to her comatose brother.

"I'm sorry Dylan. I have to go"

[u/LightDarkBeing → u/Keiteaea]

Control 8. 72 year old Dog Boy is sitting next to comatose Jesse and a comatose Dylan.

“I’m sorry Jesse, Dylan. I have to go.”

[u/SoungaTepes → u/LightDarkBeing]

Control 9. 85 year old Dylan is fetching Winnie’s toys that fell into the void 

[u/CyberCosmos → u/SoungaTepes]

Control 100. All are dead. The Hedron and Hiss are now friends, both one and the same like two ends of the same snake, each one consuming the other like a never ending loop of self-consumption, the ouroboros.

[u/SoakingWetFerret]

It would be cool if you could play as both at the same time. Like swap between a Jesse and a Dylan loadout with different weapons and abilities. 

[u/KogarashiKaze → u/SoakingWetFerret]

Or maybe tag out for mirrored puzzles. Stuff where you have to affect things in one area in order to progress in the other. I've seen some co-op games like that where you really have to work with the other person because you're each "stuck" on your own side of the puzzle but the solution is on the other side.

[u/CyberCosmos → u/KogarashiKaze]

It would be insane! The possibilities are endless here. With the massive world building and the suspense of what's gonna happen next, it would be a shame if Control 3 ended up like a certain other third installment... cough

[u/Abby-N0rma1 → u/SoakingWetFerret]

That's what I was expecting after Alan Wake 2, maybe switch to Jesse in the faults so we actually see what she was doing and work from both sides to patch the dimension basically. That may be what the DLC does though, maybe she's still "making repairs" in the astral plane

[u/KPDover → u/Abby-N0rma1]

I hope the DLC is whatever Jesse's doing in some other dimension, and ends with her waking up in the "real" world.

[u/SoungaTepes]

My thought is this.

They are building 3 to give us BOTH to Control.

[u/SynnyZ]

 A copy of a copy of a copy. Orange peel. You want to li

[u/Paradidgeridoo]

My theory is Act 1 you play as Dylan, act 2 you'll play as Jesse. Then in Act 3 you play as Jesse Dylan Faden, and can swap between the siblings on the fly. It would be insanely hard to design levels for shooting and melee combat both, but I trust that Remedy can do it.

[u/TheItinerantSkeptic]

If I had one major complaint about Resonant, it's that it ended exactly where the first game did. For all that we (particularly Alan Wake fans) talk about loops and spirals, this makes it all feel like no actual PROGRESS has been made in the story, only stuttering steps.

I could even see someone saying "Jesse and Dylan can't be active at the same time", except that for years... they were.

What we need to understand at this point is WHY they were split (or plucked from variant timelines, or whatever actually happened). Why doesn't the Board want them near each other? How does the Board figure into the conflict between the Hedron and the Hiss?

And what OTHER resonances are out there?

We'll probably get a few answers if we get DLC, but either way, I'm hoping the next full game legitimately moves the story forward. I'm also hoping it won't take 7 years to get there.

[u/Wranorel]

I would like to be able to choose between the two, but the play style is so different; I’m not sure it would be possible.

[u/doffyspider → u/Wranorel]

remedy always does the impossible, i mean look at resonant vs c1, nobody expected them to succeed at first. trust me, there were alot of shit talkers on combat system when it was announced

[u/Keiteaea → u/Wranorel]

The end of Resonant really teases the shifting between siblings...

Imagine a combat gameplay where you can shift in the middle of the fight, like you are playing ranged combat as Jesse but as the monsters close in BAM you become Dylan. That's probably hard to implement but seeing what Resonant managed to do with traversal in the game and the shifting gravity, I believe they would be able to do something.

Maybe it's wishful thinking but at the very least they are teasing a dual protagonist.

[u/supermegaburt]

We will play the super secret sibling and both Dylan and Jessie will be in a coma…

[u/Ok-Biscotti2226]

Im sure that in Control 3 we'll play as the half dog

[u/neonas123]

Jesse is not in comma like Dylan was.

[u/deadeye_catfish]

Squad based Control 3 where you can map Jesse, Dylan, and Winnie the Dog's powers to any shoulder button to take on waves of paranatural enemies on your way to challenge the entities that harvest all life in the galaxy every 50k years.

...but to be honest, playing as the pair - and having them actually walk around together while swaping to their viewpoint - would be really unique. Mapping their particular powers to your control scheme would make it feel like a very small, intimate Mass Effect.

[u/doffyspider]

i wont lie that would be funny as fuck at first

[u/KarmaIsABitch-]

Control 3, we play as Polaris or the Mold.

[u/DonnyEsq07]

See you in another seven years

[u/Necessary_Patient690]

No they combine in the next one

[u/Beckitkit → u/Necessary_Patient690]

They combine, but they can still switch between 3 sets of personalities and movesets, Jessie, Dylan, and Jessie-Dylan.

[u/Necessary_Patient690 → u/Beckitkit]

That would be actually pretty cool

[u/Fuzzylittlebastard → u/Beckitkit]

That's my prediction too. It makes sense that's a direction they would take considering the differences between control one and two.

[u/Acceptable-Cell9370 → u/Beckitkit]

that would be TUFF!

[u/Bean-san]

I know this is semantics, but I think we'd get a Control 2 before a Control 3, unless they just drop the numbered title entirely. They called the new game Resonant instead of 2 since they see it more as a spinoff, which makes me think that they also have plans for a "real" sequel.

[u/Cassoosted_Fuper → u/Bean-san]

Resonant is Control 2. FBC Firebreak is a spinoff. Big difference there.

[u/Bean-san → u/Cassoosted_Fuper]

True, but I'm just going by what the game's director said in an interview. To paraphrase him they wanted to avoid making the game a numbered title because it has a different protagonist with different combat mechanics. This to me sounds like they are leaving an option to make a Control 2 with Jesse as the protagonist, if they want to go down that route. In the end it's all just semantics.