Today, on February 28, nearly five years after Control’s initial launch, Remedy Entertainment, the team behind the Alan Wake, Quantum Break, and Control series, released an announcement regarding a deal between them and 505 Games, detailing a full transition to Remedy acquiring full rights to the franchise. While Remedy Entertainment previously developed the game with 505 Games having publishing, distribution, and marketing rights over Control, this latest transaction converts this authority to Remedy, giving them full rights over Control, Control 2, and their upcoming multiplayer game currently under the code Condor.
Oh nice. I loved Control, so this is comforting to see!
So they have full Control now.
ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
THIS HURTS YOU
“Baby, baby, baby, orange peel.”
Fuck yeah. Remedy has just been killing it and having Control fully under their umbrella is great news.
The team behind the Alan Wake, Quantum Break, and Control series…
Proceeds to leave out Max Payne.
“Look how they massacred my boy”
As someone who loves the first two Max Paynes, and enjoys the third; the series should be left alone. With the way Max Payne 3 ended, there’s no good way to revive that franchise.
Mona comes back alive again.
Look at the games Remedy have been making since splitting from Rockstar.
I really enjoyed Control and the Alan Wakes for the plot and narrative decisions. That’s who Remedy have become, story focused with emphasis on world building. MoCap actors, FMV segments, parallel world building via audio logs and journals, etc while keeping the lessons learned from the Max Payne series for the gameplay combat loops.
All the Max Payne games are mechanics centric; tight gunplay and bullet-time combat. They also have decent-to-solid plots, but I didn’t replay MP2 dozens of times because I wanted the Mona-Max arc’s dopamine hit, nor pathfinding through NYC apartment mazes. Nimble combat against formidable and fair AI is the core part of that series.
It wouldn’t be what you want it to be, and that’s okay that it’s in the past. Remedy have worked an EU and are leaning into that instead, and have done well consistently.
I play Max Payne (2 is my favorite) for the story, characters and game play. They’re all great. I think I disagree with just about everything you’ve said.
Funny as hell, it was the most horrible thing I could think of.
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For what it’s worth they are working with Rockstar on remastering Max Payne 1 and 2
I wonder what folks’ reaction will be. Will they pull a GTA Definitive Edition and fuck it up with a bad AI uprez? Will gamers still feel entertained by a one-note gameplay mechanic? I love MP, but I recently replayed 1 + 2 and they feel quaint by today’s standards. The bullet time thing would be a nifty little tech demo in 2024.
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The banks
Remedy is publicly traded on NASDAQ Nordic, they can issues shares or debt for the money. But they’re probably going to buddy buddy with Epic Games again
Well then, if that asshole Sweeney is involved, I won’t be playing this game for a decade until it gets a sensible release. Which is a shame, because the first one is such a gem.
How did you play the first game? It’s not 10 years old yet.
I think the implication is that they would not buy it if released only on Epic. Neither would I if it came out as an Epic exclusive.
505 not being a New Mexican business bothers me in my sleep
505 is one of the weirdest publishers to me, and probably the publisher I have played the most games from if I don’t include series with tons of games in them. Payday 2, Journey to the Savage Planet, Terraria, Backbreaker, Don’t Starve, Sniper Elite V2, How to Survive, Rocket league, Brothers. I can’t think of another publisher who has put out that many big games from different IPs.
Proof that Indie and AA is some of the best gaming in the live service and micro transaction era.
Good. Now get rid of Epic Fail Games.
“TAKE CONTROL” -Old Gods of Asgard
This sounds nice
Good for them. Now please release future games on steam.
Tim Sweeney has an infinite money hack called “Fortnite” and he uses it to get exclusive games
Seriously. I want to play Alan Wake 2, but not if it’s on Epic’s store.
Epic funded that and allowed them to take the risk. In that case they’re the good guys, so I don’t see the point in being a hardliner about their store. Use Playnite if you are adamant about having all your games in one launcher!
There are… other means available
Remedy deserves the purchase though the game is fantastic, epic drama aside, but I hear ya.
I used those other means but would like to give them money for a fantastic game.
Asian Wake 2 will likely never come to another platform. It’s published by epic games. Not a timed exclusive situation.
I’d like to play this game.
So play it. Support the developer. I’m staunchly anti epic, Alan Wake 2 has been my only exception.
Asian Wake
🤦
I’d be happier if they release on GOG
I will fully support this once they release GOG Galaxy for Linux. Which is never.
I’ve ever used GOG Galaxy, so I don’t know what it offers, but Heroic launcher has worked for the GOG games I’ve played.
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God yes, fuck Epic
Well this means they’ll almost certainly make it EGS only
Hope this means more releases on gog.
Hope they can get quantum break too
Quantum Break was SO good. I’ll die on that hill. I want more of it.
You can tell they’re laying groundwork for the remedy verse with Alan Wake 2, including Quantum Break
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With Tim Breaker (played by Shawn Ashmore, aka Jack Joyce) in the dark place, dreaming he’s living whole other lives. Plus Mr Door/Mr Hatch
:::
Clearly looked like Mr Door was meant to be Lance Reddick, IMHO… Sadly we lost him :(
Great story and really cool atmosphere but dogshit gameplay lol.
Control was such a nice surprise. I hadn’t heard anything about it and just grabbed it on a whim in some sale and I loved the game from start to end.
That clock bug. Sigh.
