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Barely pushing over the ten minute mark

No fucking way it's been five years. I cannot be this old

Control, to me, is an archetypical AA game. Someone had an Idea, and was really passionate about making that game. And while the quality of the game may dip and waver through the playthrough, that Idea is brought to bare and you leave the experience just as in love with it as the Author.

Ahh, another Raycevick video to kick back and relax for

06:08 i actually like the delay in the indirect destruction caused by evade. It feels as if you're moving at an incredible speed and it's the shockwave carried behind you, which takes a split second longer to catch up, that causes the destruction. Kinda like a jet breaking the sound barrier. It moves forward, but it takes a little longer to hear the boom

14:44 The musical artist Poe is the sister of House of Leave's author, Mark Z. Danielewski. Her album "Haunted" had multiple songs in it that served as companions to the book. One of these songs was featured in Alan Wake. Poe stopped making music cuz of legal fallout with her label (classic music exec nonsense), but she returned to make new music for... Alan Wake II. It's the song that plays, in pieces, at the end of every Alan chapter. She and Sam Lake wrote the lyrics together and she performed it. I just find it cool that there's a strong link between Alan Wake 1&2, CONTROL, House of Leaves, Poe, and Sam Lake. A conversation between all this art and artists.

I'll admit that this game certainly had its problems, a few things that weren't thought through enough, but boy do they pale in comparison to the WORLD that Control created. I'm not someone who reads the little lore entries in videogames, but I read almost all of them in Control. It's the imaginative cosmic horror atmosphere mixed with a surprisingly good power fantasy that kept me playing. I still remember the first time I saw the Quarry, and the inside of the Ashtray Maze. So many questions, so few answers, but Jesse is along for the ride. Really fun game, extremely solid 8/10 for me, made me truly appreciate brutalist architecture

This game is $10 with the Steam summer sale. Just got it super hype to play. Idk how I've never heard of this this game is right up my alley

How in the DLC they give you both the power to break and grow crystals without makings some puzzles requiring you to break ones you grew earlier of vis versa for completion is beyond me.

Intro caught me off guard

Eerie That's the best way to explain Control's vibe. It's not horror and it's not scary but there is something there. Like there is a shadow that shows someone is standing behind the corner but there is nothing there. Eerie

35:18 Bro, you owe me so much money right now, Arish is literally my second or third fav person out of all the people you interact with. I find his attitude towards his job super relatable. And occasionally funny.

I always thought Severance could exist within Control's "The Oldest House".

We got this before Joseph Andersons Witcher 3 video

"Incentives are like gravity" that's why your mother is the *greatest* 'incentive' of all

Control is a very special game to me. It’s one of the few games I brought the DLC for, it’s one of the few games I turned the difficulty up after starting because I loved the combat so much and wanted a challenge, it’s one of the few games I say I’ll play again but don’t because I’m afraid of ruining my original experience.

"I have full Control" -John Control 2019

30:57 i think that picture is there to indicate you can break that wall. the pictures of broken walls in the game mean there is a secret behind the wall.

Your old Control vid got me to play the game, which got me into Remedy’s other games, thank you for that.

something you didn't mention, one of my favorite things to do in control has always been seizing Hiss clusters so they heal you and you have an easier time in combat and managing to damage them just enough to seize them while not killing them as fast as possible. made the combat much more interesting to me

I always thought the deal with Jesse Polaris was that Polaris was dead, she did die, but her years long presence has forever altered a part of Jesse that lets Jesse produce her own Hedron Field, mentally imaged as a version of herself that feels like Polaris.

I don't remember a problem of launch being the major solve everything ability. My memory was that whatever version of the gun I was using at the time dictated the playstyle, with launch covering what the gun couldn't. Launch could round out whatever I was doing. Levitate was also often a get me to where I needed ability, so it made the architecture even more in mind as I would consider where cover might be where walking wouldn't help. And I think the guard thing was what brought being able to do melee combat more feasible, that it could give different guns a go where I would need to worry so much about up close. I believe there was an element that soaking up damage could turn in a wide up close damage without being too left open.

loved when john troll controlled all over the controls

control was a weird surprise on how good the 3rd eprson shooting element is. usually these types of games have the most barebones boring shooting imaginable, instead this feels like an indie game with all the graphics on top of it

Control was great I loved the combat and didn't expect a game like that. The worst part that I can remember about the game was the map, takes a while to get used to.

I can express nothing short of pure elation that you're covering this GEM of a game! Many thank.

would love to see “GTA IV: 16 years later”

Control is one of the most special gaming experiences I’ve ever had. The atmosphere is second to none

12mins in and this is your greatest video for certain. Your writing here was fucking immaculate, the way you drew parallels between breaking free from the norm through spirit and creativity, and the destructive force by which Jesse navigates and interacts with The Oldest House. Genius. Damn, is it wrong that I want everyone I know to watch this despite none of them being interested in games? Like you said, this is art.

take a shot everytime you hear the word control

A feature film length analysis of one of the best and most innovative games of the past five years? And I'm catching it on the day it's uploaded? Sure, I'll dedicate a significant portion of my Sunday afternoon to watching that.

I actually think the overpraise did more harm than good. If you go in expecting the 10/10s it got you'll be disappointed at the 8/10 it is

One of the most beautiful and enthralling experiences I've had in a game. The atmosphere, the soundtrack, the story, the VA, the tightly woven narrative, the intricate worldbuilding, and the absolutely bewitching visuals, are some of the best I've been lucky enough to experience. Sure, some of the areas felt a bit less polished and a bit repetitive, however, they were greatly transcended by the sheer brilliance and a clear product of love and care and conscientiousness that is Control. Ugh even just thinking about it makes me want to play it again.

First time playing I thought she was talking to the player which would have made it different but way cooler in my opinion.

In my corner of the world, we call this type of video a blockbuster!! Perfect for a weekend evening.

Just finished this game again a week ago and now an almost 2 hour long Whitelight video? Perfect timing

Man, I just wanted to know why I was now Director, and why I was doing basic bitch work to open doors. The game felt like it had a prequel I'd missed.

5 years! Where does time go?

"You really should play this game. I'm no longer asking." True and real

You’re the reason I played control and now im addicted to brutalist architecture especially in video games

oldest house is my favourite setting in media. it just fits my taste perfectly

Good stuff, man. Need an Alan Wake Whitelight video yesterday.

about the launch thing, it is dominant like you said, but it has one major weakness : it can't be upgraded with mods. It's better at sniping than pierce, until you've added 3 damage up mods to pierce. it's better at dealing with smaller ennemies, until you've added two damage up and a blast radius increase to surge. Yeah, it's patchwork and make 90% of all weapons mods worthless, but at less your gun is usefull/even better than launch. Also surge completely invalidate Hiss distorted, you can just levitate and blow up the entire arena until you hit it. the only down side is that sometime it won't be clear you already killed it.

Without going into terribly much detail, it's worth noting that there's an additional secret to the furnace containing a one of the best buffs in the game

played it last year, absolute blast. Just finished AW2, also the GOAT

Very glad you reviewed this! I always thought it never got enough attention. It also happens to do the very best "Star Wars" powers imitation of any game I've ever seen. The only thing missing was a light saber.

I loved control. While I had some performance issues on PS4 I got really sucked in and ended up platting it and explored everything I could. The gameplay was fun and the world created by Control was the ultimate appeal. Exploring and finding the altered items a d then suddenly finding yourself in a boss fight was rewarding. I ended up going down the plant hole early and had the very challenging but satisfying objective to get my way through that level and boss fight. I didn’t use launch as much as you implied most would, I enjoyed exploring different gun modules. While balancing with launch damage may be an issue, it isn’t an issue unique to control. A lot of games end up being shallow when a player doesn’t purposefully switch things up a bit. My biggest gripe was that the final sequence of the main game was too easy (especially with extra DLC upgrades to make you super-powered earlier) and it really needed a final boss of some sort. If you’re not the type of person to explore and engage in notes outside of where you’re directed then the game likely won’t be for you. For me, I read every single bit of the lore.

This past few days I've literally been playing control watching your old videos including the one you made about Control. This literally made my day.

One more Whitelight movie to watch. You love to see it!

I just watched your first Control video few days back, so excited to watch this tomorrow!

This game has a lot of great moments, meeting Ahti, the Finnish Tango cart ride, the Shawshank Redemption joke, and nearly every Dr. Darling video but moments like The Ashtray Maze, the AWE DLC and especially the ending make it absolute peak fiction

I tried playing it like 3 or 4 times, and every time I'd be excited to jump in but I could never get more than a few hours or less into it before I just lose interest for some reason.

6:46 i would but if i tried to run this on my current hardware..... Les' just say either it would fail to boot, I'd take out electricity for a week on my entire street or i will become 'Oppenheimer destroyer of worlds' which ever comes first

i was not expecting another control vid from you!, but as always... illl always apreciate another vid from this channel, and more remedy love! the callback to the og vid with the music was so good!

Can't help but think reducing enemy numbers would solve the launch issue. Do away with arena fights and indulge in the open world concept, have enemies spread along the Oldest House, following the path you are travelling on. That way you come across them and gain the ability to position yourself more easily than in the current form of combat, ergo: "Oh fuck, launch, launch, launch!!!" Which would therefore increase depth, as you are able to perform the mechanical depth, i.e: See a hiss at the end of a corridor and sneak through the offices beside the corridor, then barreling a launch through it and the other hiss patrolling with it. Also though, yeah. Abilities need balancing, and the Service Weapon does too. They should all be viable forms of attack that don't pointlessly stun you for a second like melee does, or slow you down when using the shield, making them feel awful to perform.

Genuinely one of the coolest sponsors I’ve seen on a KZfaq video for a while. Not just one I haven’t heard of before, but damn, it would have saved me a ton of time in managing video files back when I was making videos. Will check them out if I ever manage to start creating stuff again!

One thing that I really appreciate about Control is that there aren't any invisible walls. The entire lack of artificial impediments is what makes navigation and exploration so gratifying.

these vids r so well written and entertaining and insightful, im able to watch 1 or 2 hour vid on a game ive never played cause theyre so well made i want to make videos like this myself one day

Wow! I just finished this game last week after remembering your video about it! And i just finished rewatching your video about it yesterday! Absolutely perfect timing. Much move ❤️

Wake up babe, Whitelight just posted

We need Control 2.

The problem with getting lost in this game wasn’t just that you had to try and navigate using the signs in the oldest house, it was that the map suffered the same problem as the textures and wouldn’t load half the time. Even when it did load, the map was poorly designed. I loved control but it was a technical disaster at launch much like quantum break

"I know I will remember this game as better than it is, but when I go back I won't be disappointed" is such an perfect assessment of the quality of this game

There's something about Remedy's games... They never hold me until the end.

I had 3 problems with Control: 1. Many of the side quests were more interesting than the main plot. Like for example the mission with the guy having to watch a fridge without blinking and then being forgotten by his supervisors? Peak SCP situation. 2. The ending was super anti-climactic. Essentially just a horde mode. Super unsatisfying. 3. The SCP research entries were executed really badly. Usually good SCP stories would redacted words which you could then replace on your own and come to your own conclusion. The entries in Control were often filled with redacted bars. So you would start reading and then quickly realize that you just wasted your time looking at black bars which do nothing for you.

What a great video. I usually tap out of your longer videos, but this one had me hooked.

I went and played through the game again due to you releasing this video and now I am back to complete the video. Thanks Whitelight, I forgot how much I enjoyed this game and its world. Such a beautiful game.

You may be late to the game, but I always love your analysis

I somewhat recently gave Control another try after a while of people saying it's so good, and I found it just ok. Found the combat to be meh, wasn't really a fan of any of the characters, worst thing for me though was the constant 400% zoom onto the MC face, it happens like every 4 seconds and it was always useless thoughts. Not to mention some face models just look terrible. I can't remember who it is, but one of the guys looked like he was just an Alien in disguise, I thought it was going to be some reveal he wasn't human or something

Whitelight this is awesome. Your first Control video was the first time I watched you, back when I was looking for a reason to play through this game. I was recently mulling over the idea of replaying it years later, and what do you know 😉 keep on being awesome

I will say the most important thing about Charge is that it forces flying enemies to dodge the shot, so you can grab and launch the rocket at them at the same time. One shot and one launch instead of two charges that need to be timed out.

if this game was as good as it is the first 2-3 hours the entire way through, it would be a generational game, unfortunately IMO it just ends up being kinda forgetable, but still very much worthy of a playthrough if someone reading this hasnt. The art direction, gunplay, and animations are so good and a breath of fresh air from other third person shooters.

I just don't understand why Remedy can't escape from the claustrophobic box of third person shooter gameplay. Control is a world of magic and mystery, and aside from the one magical attack that you spam over and over you get... a gun. Why can't they be as creative with the gameplay as they are with the world?

I love this game, the gamplay, the setting, the mythology, the art choices, even when you get to a new place you get the name front and center is badass

Man, you're writing is delicious.

I hope you do Arkham Origins instead of just finishing with Arkham Knight

WE GET 2 FUCKING CONTROL REVIEWS BEFORE WE GET 1 ARKHAM KNIGHT REVIEW WTF

I’ve played through it twice but you’ve convinced me I shall play it again.

Played for free on ps plus a few weeks ago. Was absolutely blown away by the physics interactions and immersion. Game only suffers from enemy variety, repetition and some navigation confusion but a must play

Boring, tedious combat and below mediocre shooting is what drags Control down. It's not a worthy Max Payne successor in any shape or form.

I never understood why people loved this game so much. The artificial difficulty with the combat was unbearable. So much so that I uninstalled the game before I even finished it. Just throwing tons of enemies at you, who all attack in different ways is not “difficulty”, it’s just cheap, frustrating, and uninteresting. I didn’t enjoy just being bombarded until I died over and over again. Not fun.

I never felt a desire to skip the audio logs. Not even on multiple playthroughs. I love and cherish every moment of this games universe.

I actually really liked control. I sorta slept on it because I thought Jessie looked uncanny. Played it and felt super good flying around throwing concrete at dudes. Very fluid and fun combat

a good single sentence description I've found for control is "control is as deep as an ocean and at times you don't realize the ocean is even their with how shallow it is" control feels like a game that needed to be in the oven for another 6 months to a year to smooth out its rough edges

I dont think you ll see this comment but just know that 26 minutes into your video, i paused, i bought the Game and started playing it. See you after i finish! And thank you for showing me this game.

It takes a certain kind of introspection to be able to go back to a piece of media one said was bad to take back almost every take and first impression they had. Respect.

Great analysis with a lot of points I haven’t heard made elsewhere

I just got into bed for the night after downloading and playing Control for the first time in years…and this video pops up in my recommended 😊😊😊

Oh man, I had no idea I’d been waiting for this one for 5 years.

my fav way to play Control is with a mod i found on Nexus that lets you assign all 5 (or 6?) of the service weapon variants to the number keys (like every other shooter ever made)... the gun play felt much more complex and dynamic when i wasnt restricted to the vanilla setup of having to pick just two of the gun types to run in your loadout... being able to hot swap between the shotgun, pierce, full auto etc on the on the fly per engagement feels so good i'm honestly surprised Remedy didnt ship that way

No way I just finished watching your original video on Control 4 days ago and this drops

Still love control. Remedy knows how to tell a good story AND have good gameplay. It may not be on the level of metal gear solid in terms of gameplay and stuff to do, but at least, it's good AT what it does. I can't say the same for a lot of games nowadays.

1 DAY AFTER I FINISH CONTROL HE DROPS THIS SO GLAD BESTIE

tbf to the former, the first time it met jesse, she was newly appointed by it's enemy the board AND she was trying to exorcise it from the fridge. the 2nd time was the same. but in the foundation, there are hints that the former is watching and so it knows jesse isn't 100% on board with...the board. that time, it just waits patiently and only fights you if you start fighting first. all that, plus ash's notes and observations about the board and northmoor, it makes sense to me that she would be willing to hear the former out

Whitelight uploads are like birthday presents

3 playthroughs and multiple years of playing this game and 45:50 this is the first time I even learned that Pierce goes through the environment. I’ve just never used it enough to learn that…now I can’t wait to hop back in and play around with that mechanic. I thought it only went through multiple enemies.

CONTROL stormed my top 10 for favorite videogames ever, in a time when I was sure It would never happen again, because I was trapped in my nostalgia, seeking new way to enjoy videogames like I did when I was a teenager, just one more time... To be faire Dying Light had already done it, kind of, but it was isolated and so many years prior, in between Just cause 3, Halo 5 and Fallout 4 had broke my hopes... As a ansolute LOST addict, a fan of Prototype, a lover of Quantum Break this game was tailor made for me, since then I discovered Breath of the Wild and Disco Elysium came to me and broke into my heart forever, but CONTROL will remain as the one who reignited my flame.

One of the best games I've played in recent years; the setting and premise are just too good. I love it.

You know you're getting old when the years later for a game you recently played comes out. With recently being like 2 years ago.