Control 2 Needs Better Gunplay, More Variety, And Less Pedantic Storytelling

TheGamer Writes "I am definitely one of the few people who believes Control is a smidge overrated. Hurling vending machines at ghosts will always be a good time, but I never gelled with its unusual narrative and wasn’t blown away by the Ashtray Maze like so many others. It was super cool and a worthwhile departure from the third-person shooters we were so used to seeing, but The Oldest House didn’t have nearly enough variety nor intrigue to keep me invested."

[Palitera]

I completely disagree with all 3 complains. It had near perfect gunplay (Remedy is literally the best TPS developer), the cryptic storytelling derives from the super strange universe they chose to explore and variety was fine.

[TheProfessional]

The story was awful and delievered very poorly, the map was bad with way too many bland and similar areas and there was way too much backtracking. The puzzles also sucked.

[0hMyGandhi]

Just read through some of your comments to get a sense of who you are, and came away with two things:
You are *super* negative in 90% of what you comment on.
You speak in extremes, with hyperbolic language that it's hard to tell what you consider a major issue and a trivial one.

I disagree with your assessment on Control. The story and general exposition weren't "horrible" but felt intentionally obfuscated. I enjoyed the King/ Lynchian influences in this game, I liked how the story progressed. Not a masterpiece, but definitely not "awful".

Perhaps one of the biggest highlights of this game was the world-building. I enjoyed the level design and found it incredibly inspired and unique. As someone who usually hates backtracking (and one of the reasons why I get impatient with Metroidvanias) I didn't have a problem here, but then again, that's because I enjoyed existing in this world so much. I loved the established atmosphere.

I don't remember the puzzles all that well, which is a sort of take it/leave it for me.

Obviously, everything is subjective, and I still respect your opinion, I just see so many people here and elsewhere who feel compelled to make everything sound like life or death when it's not to their liking.

There are things that can exist in the middle, it doesn't have to be either a thing to hate or love.

[Profchaos]

I thought the moment to moment gameplay was great the shooting was satisfying and the powers always felt good I didn't feel overpowered or under at any point.

The storytelling could of been better and the occasional puzzle felt more out of place and a blocker then fun

[TheProfessional]

Totally agree Professor Chaos.

[warriorcase]

I think Remedy should just do what Remedy want.

[senorfartcushion]

No, Remedy just need to not copy the Souls formula so closely.

[Levii_92]

I hated this pretentious game, i played around an hour maybe a bit more and was bored out of my mind and immediately noped the F out of there. You know now that i think about it this and Deathloop were very similar experiences.. both game when i tried them out i wanted to quit gaming afterwards.

[thecodingart]

“You should get rid of everything that gave this game its identity”.. sounds like a good idea for a successful game right ‽

[Flewid638]

It was my 2019 GotY and I agree.

[ChasterMies]

Control 2 needs more pedantic storytelling and more powers and less gun play. Goddamn website wants all games to be Goddman Call of Duty.

[MadLad]

The gameplay in control is better than the vast majority of games today, and the deep storytelling is a staple of Remedy releases.

Control also didn't shove it down your throat. They hid it around the game world for people interested. You still got a grasp on the narrative, itself, without ever searching the extra stuff out.

Go play CoD if you want just straight up action and a simple story spoonfed to you. Just saying.