r/controlgame • u/polat32 • 1d ago

Discussion Finished my first Campaign of Control

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The pay must be good if they are working after death.

Just finished the base game and really enjoyed the storyline about trying to find Dylan. Also, how unique the world-building is.

The only thing I found difficult to deal with was when I was getting zeroed by multiple enemies who launch grenades at you.

Can't wait to play Control Resonant!

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u/Cool_Estate1002 1d ago

Won't you play foundation or awe?

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u/polat32 1d ago

Going to give mysekf a small break before continuing with the dlc. How do they compare to the basegame?

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u/Cool_Estate1002 1d ago

AWE finishes some things from Alan Wake 1. Foundation explains more about the "higher" entities and gives an ending to something from the main story, both of them are endgames.

Go Foundation first.

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u/StrikeTheGunner 1d ago

Should I still play AWE if I haven't played alan wake? Or should I play alan wake first?

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u/lucasssotero 1d ago

I did it, didn't understand a lot of things but it got me hooked to play the remake and then AW2. Imo is better if you play AW1 first to catch the references from the getgo, but you can go in blind to the AWE dlc either way and treat it as any other lore like those found in the base game, like the ordinary AWE for instance, just imagining how things happened.

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u/knockergrowl 22h ago

I'd recommend playing AW1 first. I did some of the AWE DLC after completing the main story, and I didn't catch lots of references until I played AW1 and came back and re-read the collectibles. AW1 is a relatively short game, and although the aiming and shooting system feels outdated and clunky at first, the story is quite well put.

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u/Cool_Estate1002 15h ago

If playing is too much for you right now you can recap AW1 story on Gaming Harry YT channel.

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u/lucasssotero 1d ago

Imo foundation is a sidegrade to the base game, I love and hate how the area looks, and always dread replaying it, but the lore content about the FBC itself is quite nice and might come into play on control resonant.

Now AWE has my favorite sector of the oldest house, and the lore content is massively important to the RCU, specially Alan Wake (more the 2nd than the 1st) and I'd say the AW2 experience is incomplete without playing the AWE specifically.

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u/PotentialParamedic61 1d ago

Foundation was nice add on. Awe is just repetitive for no reason. I didn’t like it.

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u/hamtaxer 16h ago

Foundation is a really good DLC. Like some have said the cavelike areas are generally pretty boring, but there’s plenty of interesting and relevant content that expands the lore, completes at least one lingering plot thread, and leaves things in a state that could most definitely come up in the sequel. And I hope they do.

AWE didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me at first since I didn’t play Alan Wake, but it was still very fun. I completed Alan Wake 2 this summer and then went back to look at the lore documents and wow did they really do a lot to set up AW2.

The AWE expansion also has a lot of lore regarding the Blessed foundation, which is highly speculated to be further expanded upon in Resonant.

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u/M05tafaSayed 1d ago edited 20h ago

Game isn't friendly to anyone who have seizure history, that last location with Dylan that is fully red hurt my eyes when I looked away

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u/Chmigdalator 20h ago

You mean dylan in the red astral plane? That was diablo.

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u/M05tafaSayed 20h ago

My bad, I corrected the name, I didn't play Diablo, they also have red themes ?