Remedy's Sam Lake Talks About Introducing the 'New Weird' Setting with Control

Remedy's writer and actor Sam Lake (the face of Max Payne) talked about introducing the 'new weird' inspired setting in Control.

[Jackhass]

The world was a touch one-note, but it was definitely unlike anything else out there.

[FTLmaster]

I'd actually go as far as saying it was *very* one note. Was an absolute slog to play through. It was so bland and repetitive.

[NoneYuh]

I have to disagree. It was a breath of fresh air. Had a ton of fun. Especially with the power combos you could do. Loved it enough to want to plat it

[343_Guilty_Spark]

Better than Shen-Poo

[ccgr]

Look like a unique offering

[Spurg]

A bad gamble going with 505 games....and absolute bad gamble from Remedy's part

[DerfDerf]

Bad gamble? They put out a great game.

[Dark_Knightmare2]

What was bad about it? They put out a great game that reviewed well and is a goty contender

[Flewid638]

On what planet is being well reviewed and given a nomination for game of the year considered to be a gamble? lmao.

[Elda]

Clearly your unpopular opinion.

[Flewid638]

My personal game of the year. Jaw dropping at every turn with the perfect, ominous sci-fi mood.

[Hungryalpaca]

Really? Half the weapons/abilities end up being useless.

[Flewid638]

Really? That wasn't my experience.

Condolences.

[gangsta_red]

I really need to try this game

[mcstorm]

I could not get into this game. I don't know why. Loved Max Payne, Alan Wake and QB but I don't know what it was about this game but it did not grasp me and I moved on.

Going to give it another go when I've cleared my backlog though as I want to like this game as loved the others.

[Elda]

Just picked Control up at Target's Black Friday sale for only $25. I played an hour so far & the gameplay is interesting but the story & setting so far is definitely weird.

[ziggurcat]

Just finished it last night - it gets weirder.

[Elda]

I believe it...lol!! Just finished the first boss.

[Profchaos]

I enjoyed it but in small bursts as it started to feel very repetitive by the half way point.

But I picked it up to experience ray tracing at its best and wasn't disappointed

[1nsomniac]

I tried it for the ray tracing too. Now I’ve only played about an hours worth but I’m puzzled as I didn’t really notice anything other than the fact it dropped resolution down to 960p with dlss upscale to 1440p but it certainly doesn’t look like it’s outputting that. It just doesn’t look quite right. Slight reflections in the windows but can’t see how that couldn’t be done with a normal card. I even think my card/drivers might not be working properly because I haven’t noticed any real difference in any of the games I’ve played BF5 included.

My new cards nice tho. I’m hitting 100fps @ 1440p Ultra settings with RTX and DLSS enabled on BF5. So it’s smooth as silk. Not sure how much graphically better it looks over my old card though other than the frame rate increase.

[XVision84]

Use NVIDIA Freestyle Sharpening filter with DLSS. It improves the image quality by reducing the blur and has negligible performance impact.

[GrmpyolGamer]

Couldn't get into this game. Manage to get about half way through (massive chore) and put it away.