Remedy is in control
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Amid a bleak landscape, the studio behind Alan Wake has found a way to survive and grow, all while staying weird.
  • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
    15·
    2 days ago

    Alan Wake, Quantum Break, Control, and Alan Wake 2, are all some of my all time favourite games.

    Going to wait for the next patch before trying out FBC Firebreak, but I’m excited and can’t wait for the Max Payne remakes and Control 2.

    • RabidStork@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Good idea waiting on Firebreak. I’ve dabbled thanks to it being included in the PS+ Extra tier and have some thoughts. It’s clearly a Double-A or even Single-A if that exists game that feels like a fun side project while Control 2 is in the works. There is fun to be had in it especially if you can get friends involved but it isn’t a game with staying power. I feel like I’ll keep it installed for a while and play a few rounds every now and again, checking on the patches, and just using it for a fun romp with no commitment. It is certainly light on content and buggy though so a few patches wouldn’t go amiss.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I keep playing it just because it’s something to do, but I feel it really misses the mark of what the Control franchise should be about. The world is interesting. It told interesting stories within the confines of a single player game. Firebreak doesn’t seem to have a story at all, and the action is pretty average with the same mininal enemy variety as Control. It also does not feel like a game from a company like Remedy; it’s half-cooked and janky. It works but it’s not quite polished.

  • pogodem0n@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    Love how Remedy’s game styles is right up my alley. I really hope somewhat niche nature of these games does not deter their success.

  • leave_it_blank@lemmy.worldEnglish
    73·
    2 days ago

    I played Control the first time without problems.

    The second time my save games got messed up after doing the first mission for the janitor. Seemed my old cloud save games fucked it up. It became a mess.

    The third time I deleted every cloud save, and it worked. Then, after ten hours the game crashed. And I lost three missions. And a lot of progress. None of the auto saves fixed it.

    Dear Remedy, I have a PC. With a hard drive. I have room for thousands of save games. Let me fucking save my game myself!!

    I had good memories of Control, but now my memories consist only of frustration. Why don’t Devs put in a reasonable save system in their games?

    • 星守る犬@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Cloud saves? I just played the game a month ago (Steam version) and the game has no native cloud saves. Is this an Epic Store thing?

      However, I do have the problem where the game randomly freezes. It seems to be a known issues for years that is still not fixed. :(

      • leave_it_blank@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        Gog, it has cloud saves there. Also I should have written a script to copy the save files every twenty minutes or so in the background. Would have saved me after the crash I guess…

      • leave_it_blank@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        Thanks, but that’s what I did the third time after reading about that problem. I guess it was the crash that time that screwed with the auto saves.

    • Supervisor194@lemmy.world
      English
      41·
      2 days ago

      I had the same complaint about Deathloop. If I’m playing the single-player only version, then why do I have to restart the loop if I suddenly have to quit? And why does the game warn me that I will lose all unsaved progress? You literally can’t save!

      • leave_it_blank@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        God, I hate shit like that! When it makes you wonder if you can quit the game because it’s late for example. Does it save? When did it save last? That’s just asshole design.

        I’m playing Prey at the moment, it has quick saves aside of regular manual saving. It’s so comfortable!

      • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        It’s been a while since I played deathloop but I seem to remember you can only save the game certain times, I think only when you’re in the tunnels and time has passed.

        • Supervisor194@lemmy.world
          English
          21·
          1 day ago

          Yes, when you make it back into the tunnels, the game considers it a finished loop and advances to the next day segment, which is sort of like a save point but you can’t save your progress during a loop and come back to it. When you make it back to your “save point” at the tunnel and the day advances, if you hit escape and exit the game, the game is all “Are you sure you want to do this? All unsaved progress will be lost” - as if there were some further action you could take, but there isn’t. It’s like they had a save function in at one point but decided against it, then never fixed the exit verbiage.