>Control
Did we play the same game? Some of the best lore-building and environmental theming around, paired with some cool mechanics?
Sure, the combat got repetitive but this was hardly something to "just sell GPUs"
Did we play the same game? Some of the best lore-building and environmental theming around, paired with some cool mechanics?
Sure, the combat got repetitive but this was hardly something to "just sell GPUs"
The lore was annoying to listen to; whenever I wanted to listen to an audio log, I had to stop playing the game and watch the exact same video of a man smoking and being mysterious.
The cool game mechanics were basically just the gravity gun from Half Life 2, which came out over 20 years ago.
It did have some cool environmental set pieces, but overall I just found the game too pretentious for something that was basically a rip off of the SCP wiki.
Crysis' system requirements at launch were so far above what most people had that I'll give you that. Control wasn't that way at all.
> Some games are sold just so the end user can enjoy exercising their new GPU and monitor.
Being used “for benchmarking” and “being sold just” for that purpose are two very different things.
It was a good looking game at the time, but remember it originally came out on PS4/Xbox One and that version did NOT have raytracing.