Control Developer Says No Game Is Doing What Remedy Is Planning; Design Included Some RPG Elements

Remedy reckons that no game is doing anything like Control. Sam Lake also confirmed that the design included some RPG elements.

[ccgr]

Fresh is good!

[Imalwaysright]

Fresh is a must in this industry. Let's hope that they deliver on their words.

[KaiPow]

I'm more excited for the Metroid elements. Maybe RPG just refers to unlocking upgrades?

[Chris_Wray]

It's a high statement, one that will have to be seen to be believed really. It is true what they say though, once you are chasing a trend you're already behind. It's rare that you see a game that comes second or third actually be the top of the pile.

[mandingo]

Looks too similar to quantum break for me to call this game anything new. Though I did enjoy QB.

[Movefasta1993]

QB minus the live action crap and destructible environments? I'm hyped.

[CrimsonWing69]

Yea, we'll see.

[secrettalkshowhost]

Yea, I can tell this is a bog standard third person shooter. It just has some elements that look unusual in trailers, but turn out to be buisness as usual when they actually show the game being played. You've got a weird transforming gun made of blocks but then of course when the developers actually showed the game you find out it transforms into a shotgun and pistol. So it's the same old shit as every other game ever made.

The developers said they're doing a " juxtaposition of the real with the surreal:" I know what that means because I've heard this crap a million times before: you'll spend 95% of the game in office corridors with the remaining 5% comprising those MC Escher sequences, which will inevitably be brief, linear scripted sequences where you're basically just forced to look at background art while someone says "blah blah blah mysterious dialogue blah blah blah."

[HylianMigz]

“No one is doing this” every game developer

[cfc83]

I'm not hyped for control because i completed quantum break. It's the same to me as the whole battlefield 1 and battlefield V thing.

[ProjectVulcan]

Game is a repackaged Quantum Break. Least original and least interesting looking Remedy title I have seen in all their history.

[Rimeskeem]

Control looks like what Quantum Break should have been.

[rdgneoz3]

Guessing they never played the PS2 game called PsiOps. Literally first thing I thought of when I saw the trailer.

[eddvdm]

In a way Remedy brought some innovation in its every game, but not REALLY new mechanics - which what we need more than never.

Games keep coming (mostly) more of the same. At best a spin here or there, but same mechanics for almost ever now. Anyone who played games for 20+ years like myself will remember how games used to impress with new mechanics.

Remedy, specifically, coated most of its games with good themes/stories, but gameplay-wise they were extremely boring IMO. I couldn't finish any of them besides Max Payne 2.

[masterfox]

just don't downgrade the game Remedy please, the footage shown in this E3 was superb.

[Larrysweet]

Yea okquantumn trash cough cough def only ones focused on crap

[EDKICK]

A unique and atmospheric SP made by a studio who knows how to make a good story. Can't wait for all the gamers who beg for games like this online to not buy it just like Deus Ex, Prey, Wolfenstein, Dishonored ect ect.

[AK91]

I doubt that statement is true but I'm very excited to see more of this game and eventually play it.