Alan Wake, Quantum Break, Control, and Alan Wake 2, are all some of my all time favourite games.
Going to wait for the next patch before trying out FBC Firebreak, but I'm excited and can't wait for the Max Payne remakes and Control 2.
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2025
62 points (97.0% liked)
Games
40038 readers
1235 users here now
Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.
Rules
1. Submissions have to be related to games
Video games, tabletop, or otherwise. Posts not related to games will be deleted.
This community is focused on games, of all kinds. Any news item or discussion should be related to gaming in some way.
2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil
No bigotry, hardline stance. Try not to get too heated when entering into a discussion or debate.
We are here to talk and discuss about one of our passions, not fight or be exposed to hate. Posts or responses that are hateful will be deleted to keep the atmosphere good. If repeatedly violated, not only will the comment be deleted but a ban will be handed out as well. We judge each case individually.
3. No excessive self-promotion
Try to keep it to 10% self-promotion / 90% other stuff in your post history.
This is to prevent people from posting for the sole purpose of promoting their own website or social media account.
4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts
This community is mostly for discussion and news. Remember to search for the thing you're submitting before posting to see if it's already been posted.
We want to keep the quality of posts high. Therefore, memes, funny videos, low-effort posts and reposts are not allowed. We prohibit giveaways because we cannot be sure that the person holding the giveaway will actually do what they promise.
5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW
Make sure to mark your stuff or it may be removed.
No one wants to be spoiled. Therefore, always mark spoilers. Similarly mark NSFW, in case anyone is browsing in a public space or at work.
6. No linking to piracy
Don't share it here, there are other places to find it. Discussion of piracy is fine.
We don't want us moderators or the admins of lemmy.world to get in trouble for linking to piracy. Therefore, any link to piracy will be removed. Discussion of it is of course allowed.
Authorized Regular Threads
Related communities
PM a mod to add your own
Video games
Generic
- [email protected]: Our sister community, focused on PC and console gaming. Meme are allowed.
- [email protected]: For all your screenshots needs, to share your love for games graphics.
- [email protected]: A community to share your love for video games music
Help and suggestions
By platform
By type
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
By games
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
Language specific
- [email protected]: French
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Good idea waiting on Firebreak. I've dabbled thanks to it being included in the PS+ Extra tier and have some thoughts. It's clearly a Double-A or even Single-A if that exists game that feels like a fun side project while Control 2 is in the works. There is fun to be had in it especially if you can get friends involved but it isn't a game with staying power. I feel like I'll keep it installed for a while and play a few rounds every now and again, checking on the patches, and just using it for a fun romp with no commitment. It is certainly light on content and buggy though so a few patches wouldn't go amiss.
I keep playing it just because it's something to do, but I feel it really misses the mark of what the Control franchise should be about. The world is interesting. It told interesting stories within the confines of a single player game. Firebreak doesn't seem to have a story at all, and the action is pretty average with the same mininal enemy variety as Control. It also does not feel like a game from a company like Remedy; it's half-cooked and janky. It works but it's not quite polished.
Love how Remedy's game styles is right up my alley. I really hope somewhat niche nature of these games does not deter their success.
I played Control the first time without problems.
The second time my save games got messed up after doing the first mission for the janitor. Seemed my old cloud save games fucked it up. It became a mess.
The third time I deleted every cloud save, and it worked. Then, after ten hours the game crashed. And I lost three missions. And a lot of progress. None of the auto saves fixed it.
Dear Remedy, I have a PC. With a hard drive. I have room for thousands of save games. Let me fucking save my game myself!!
I had good memories of Control, but now my memories consist only of frustration. Why don't Devs put in a reasonable save system in their games?
Cloud saves? I just played the game a month ago (Steam version) and the game has no native cloud saves. Is this an Epic Store thing?
However, I do have the problem where the game randomly freezes. It seems to be a known issues for years that is still not fixed. :(
Gog, it has cloud saves there. Also I should have written a script to copy the save files every twenty minutes or so in the background. Would have saved me after the crash I guess...
Can't you just turn off Cloud Syncing? You can disable it on GoG, at least.
Thanks, but that's what I did the third time after reading about that problem. I guess it was the crash that time that screwed with the auto saves.
I had the same complaint about Deathloop. If I'm playing the single-player only version, then why do I have to restart the loop if I suddenly have to quit? And why does the game warn me that I will lose all unsaved progress? You literally can't save!
God, I hate shit like that! When it makes you wonder if you can quit the game because it's late for example. Does it save? When did it save last? That's just asshole design.
I'm playing Prey at the moment, it has quick saves aside of regular manual saving. It's so comfortable!
It's been a while since I played deathloop but I seem to remember you can only save the game certain times, I think only when you're in the tunnels and time has passed.
Yes, when you make it back into the tunnels, the game considers it a finished loop and advances to the next day segment, which is sort of like a save point but you can't save your progress during a loop and come back to it. When you make it back to your "save point" at the tunnel and the day advances, if you hit escape and exit the game, the game is all "Are you sure you want to do this? All unsaved progress will be lost" - as if there were some further action you could take, but there isn't. It's like they had a save function in at one point but decided against it, then never fixed the exit verbiage.
I would hope so. I mean, they made it. It'd be weird if, say, Bungie was in Control. 🤷♂️