r/RemedyEntertainment

EDIT: I JUST REMEMBERED that Turing’s Test was the same. It literally had the same issue. However, unlike Quantum Break, developers actually had an excuse. A god awful excuse though… still it seems Quantum Break isn’t the only game with this obnoxious design choice.

(*: I haven’t finished Control because I am in another city for a month so I can’t access my PlayStation. After I go back to my city, I will finish Control Ultimate Edition by playing the last main mission of The Foundation. In the meantime, I started Quantum Break.)

What the hell was Remedy thinking? Alan Wake supports subtitles for radios and TV. Control supports subtitles for radios and TV as well.

Meanwhile, Quantum Break does not support subtitles for collectibles. Seriously, what the actual fuck Remedy? What the hell were you thinking? This is single-handedly, the most obnoxious bullshit that I have seen in any videogame and it makes Remedy looks like a moron. I tell this as a person who played FF Type-0 HD and that game had better subtitle support despite its other issues.

As a person that ended up as a Remedy fan, this is just disappointing and frustrating.

Hi!

I would like to know if Control Resonant will have dlc's later, like Control and Alan Wake II had.

Guys, if you missed it, now is the time.

https://www.future-press.com/shop/the-art-and-making-of-control-25th/

I am going to pre-order Control Resonant tomorrow at my local game store. And propably Max Payne remake too. I wish Remedy the best year ever. My favorite game studio and hope we can enjoy their games for many many years.

Please people, be generous, they need it more than ever.

I will be going to the Tuska metal festival in Helsinki, which starts today and ends on Sunday. I was going through the program and noticed that Sam Lake will be joining for a discussion on Saturday 6pm local time.

From the Tuska website:

Art that changes Reality with Remedy’s Sam Lake

Both Kiki and Jussi welcome the creative force behind the Remedy Connected Universe, Sam Lake, to review how our lived reality has influenced the fictional stories he writes – and how the fantastic worlds he creates echo back into our own.

You will not want to miss this unreal session with insights into the decades of storytelling that drive Remedy’s signature blend of mystery, metafiction, and human darkness. We’ll explore why certain narratives resonate so deeply, and how there’s definitely some “Art that changes Reality”.

I will definitely try to catch that if I can!

I am slowly working my way through Remedy's games, and I like them a lot. They have this unique flavour to them: a neat balance between pulpy, campy, self-aware fun, and dark, dense, thematic richness that I find extremely compelling and totally unlike the works of any other studio.

This is just to preface that I do really like their games, so even if what I am about to say might sound more negative than I intend, just know that I am a fan, and I'm asking out of genuine curiosity.

Why does every single enemy, I believe the only exceptions are animals and the "taken objects" in Alan Wake, ramble on and on in incoherent clichés? I honestly find it a little overbearing, and the things they say a bit cringe.

It does make sense in Alan Wake: "the dark presence" works as a metaphor for artistic self-doubt, the name "Scratch" explicitly referring to the sound of covering over mistakes and regrets with a pen, violently. To my understanding, the enemies' rambling is an expression of the same thing: their endless, incoherent speech is dominated by "bad" writing, in contrast to what you find in the manuscripts, which are actually quite well written for the most part. I'm currently playing Alan Wake 1 at the moment, and while I do find it a bit monotonous, I can still accept it for what it's doing.

But why does the Hiss in Control do it too? I'm not too deep into the lore, so I'm sorry if I missed it in the mountain of collectibles, but thematically, Control is not about art, let alone writing? not the base-game at least.
I get that it's supposed to sound weird, ritualistic and creepy, but I quickly got used to it and it turned a little cringe after that.

Once again, I very much like the games, all of them, and this rambly chant is my only big gripe.

EDIT: Is the answer simply "because Alan Wake"? Does the rambling in Control really have no self-contained thematic meaning?