Remedy Connected Universe: A Full Series Retrospective

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Hey Dad,
Today, I'd like to take a look at Remedy's Shared Universe. I'll be looking at all of the games involved, Alan Wake, Quantum Break, and Control. Let's see how these games hold up, and more importantly how they connect.
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CHAPTERS
Intro 0:00
Alan Wake 1:55
Quantum Break 1:54:09
Control 2:49:18
Final Thoughts 3:46:41

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  • @YourFavoriteSon1
    @YourFavoriteSon17 ай бұрын

    Update: I'd like to note here that August of 2023, Sam Lake noted in an Entertainment Weekly interview that Quantum Break was officially NOT a part of the larger Connected Universe. Just in case you wondered after watching the video, it has been confirmed by the man himself. This is most likely due to IP issues and Microsoft owning the property.

  • @thecommentor3845

    @thecommentor3845

    6 ай бұрын

    bomp womp

  • @hotballer02

    @hotballer02

    6 ай бұрын

    They said max pain is part of the universe aswell

  • @thesadghostdude

    @thesadghostdude

    6 ай бұрын

    you should have waited so you could add in alan wake 2 lol

  • @beef-o-juice

    @beef-o-juice

    6 ай бұрын

    Alan Wake 2 basically connects Max Payne (owned by Rockstar) dulogy, simply they use other names. 100% QB is connected as well.

  • @Hailtothegun

    @Hailtothegun

    6 ай бұрын

    Quantum Break may not be "connected" by name because of IP rights, but it is absolutely connected in a multiverse capacity.

  • @EdBurke37
    @EdBurke379 ай бұрын

    The funniest thing about Alan Wake is what happened with Energizer batteries. Energizer paid to have the batteries in the have be their brand but got angry because the short life of the in game batteries made them look bad so they withdrew the deal when the dlc came out. This backfired on them because the genetic no name batteries in the dlc were just as good as the Energizer ones so it made them look bad all over again.

  • @Mawyman2316

    @Mawyman2316

    6 ай бұрын

    Lmao

  • @Ganjalf_the_Green

    @Ganjalf_the_Green

    6 ай бұрын

    This is goated ahahaa

  • @Olterior

    @Olterior

    2 ай бұрын

    Proof that marketing will throw money at anything without understanding what they are sponsoring.

  • @adamwebb8661

    @adamwebb8661

    2 ай бұрын

    @@Olterior 46:56

  • @adamwebb8661

    @adamwebb8661

    2 ай бұрын

    @@Olterior😢🎉🎉 50:30

  • @TheDoctorDoge
    @TheDoctorDoge Жыл бұрын

    I’m excited to listen to this while I’m at work son, make me proud

  • @YourFavoriteSon1

    @YourFavoriteSon1

    Жыл бұрын

    Hope you enjoy the video!

  • @ray-beam

    @ray-beam

    10 ай бұрын

    Your listening to this at work to!!?

  • @swayy1222

    @swayy1222

    9 ай бұрын

    Me too

  • @xXxMrRazorxXx

    @xXxMrRazorxXx

    9 ай бұрын

    Me three!

  • @killerwhale2765

    @killerwhale2765

    9 ай бұрын

    Me four

  • @diogo763
    @diogo7638 ай бұрын

    I like how he explained all these games and I still got out of each chapter completly lost and confused about the games events

  • @animecat3556

    @animecat3556

    8 ай бұрын

    I believe a solution to your issue would be Arson.

  • @woohoomusic5098

    @woohoomusic5098

    6 ай бұрын

    I never played Alan Wake and the entire description of the game sounded like one of my weird vivid dreams i sometimes have, which is probably exactly what Remedy was going for

  • @MrRoyVega

    @MrRoyVega

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@animecat3556 xDD

  • @rphntw1n
    @rphntw1n11 ай бұрын

    Control is a work of art and it’s a masterpiece. Maybe Remedy’s Magnum Opus. The ashtray maze alone is one of the best ideas in gaming history.

  • @LetHerWar

    @LetHerWar

    9 ай бұрын

    Idk son, alan wake is my all time favorite, maybe second place game.

  • @rphntw1n

    @rphntw1n

    9 ай бұрын

    @@LetHerWar also a great game.

  • @privateinformation2960

    @privateinformation2960

    9 ай бұрын

    Agreed, one of the best games ive played in a long time and yeah that maze is one of the best parts of it. Game wasnt long enough, and sadly the Alan Wake DLC was mostly just annoying. Havent actually played Alan Wake itself, am not complaining about that game.

  • @b1thearchitect401

    @b1thearchitect401

    8 ай бұрын

    Max Payne 2 is my favourite Remedy game, I think it's one of the most tragic and perfectly written stories in gaming; but I also do very much appreciate Control. I'd argue Control is a bit more uneven as I found some of the side missions and open area stuff to be a little questionably designed, probably just due to it being their first time making a larger, more open game world. But with that said, Control has some of the highest high points of any game in recent memory. The Ashtray Maze with the pumping soundtrack is one of the most memorable set pieces in any game of all time IMO! Also just the combat in general once you're near the end of the game with a near maxed out character is just pure bliss. The environmental destruction is also super underrated in Control, not nearly enough action games lean into letting you annihilate your immediate environment! Story wise Control is filled with really cool atmosphere and ideas, but really failed to get me emotionally involved like the Max Payne games. If I could level 1 complaint about recent Remedy titles (Alan Wake, Quantum Break, Control) it would be that they seem to get very bogged down by plot details, abstractions and big ideas, without taking the time do develop emotionally powerful character arcs. That's something Max Payne 1 & 2 did extremely well and why those stories hit so much harder IMO. I think if you could combine the emotional heart and soul of something like Max Payne 2 with the surrealism and mystery of Control you'd have the perfect Remedy game. Either way though, they're still one of my favourite developers in the industry. Even if their games have some flaws, they're always ambitious as hell and very interesting from both an artistic/story perspective and a technology pushing perspective.

  • @carlweaselbear534

    @carlweaselbear534

    8 ай бұрын

    Control is what got me into the remedy-virse. I bought Control because it just looked cool but fell in love with it, then I played both Dlcs which had Alan Wake, I've never been a horror game player but dude it was such a great game that I wanted to play quantum break but couldnt

  • @litneyloxan
    @litneyloxan11 ай бұрын

    Extremely underrated video. Watching all the way through while in and out of sleep with insomnia. I love these long deep dives into games with great world building lore

  • @strikefreedom7580

    @strikefreedom7580

    11 ай бұрын

    P

  • @Lunarwolf57272

    @Lunarwolf57272

    10 ай бұрын

    I’m excited for Alan wake 2 which is coming out

  • @JKKoneofakind
    @JKKoneofakind11 ай бұрын

    The other night, as I stood at the bus stop, some traffic lights spilled into the leftover rain on the pavement, causing a rainbow like gleam across the street. "Doesn't that look Lynchian?" I heard a man ask his friend at the bus stop. "Why the f- does everything have to be 'Lynchian'?" I heard the friend reply, as I stood by the bus stop the other night. "That's just some oil on the road, Dave". This. This entire story right here is, ironically enough, the most 'Lynchian' thing I've ever heard.

  • @Justin-ou5yo
    @Justin-ou5yo9 ай бұрын

    CONTAIN! Secure. Contain. Protect.

  • @clmastergamer
    @clmastergamer11 ай бұрын

    I'm glad he brought up that he didn't cover a lot of the content in Control. There was a LOT of story that was in the game. But unlike the other two IPs, they played the story differently. Opting to give you the feel of knowing what the character knows. If you wanted to know why things were happening and the world around you, You had to seek out that information on your own. So much was there, from the affects of these AWEs on the wider world, potential new IPs, the link to their being other versions of the Board as hinted at in that motel, the janitors connection to the house, and the connection of the house to the board, the world, and even the other dimensions beyond. I've played Control several times, and it is by far a loremasters dream. Even a chunk of the redactions in the files you collect can be uncovered through some sleuthing and comparing of other, seemingly unrelated, documents. It even begins to hint at what causes these AWEs to happen and how they develop based on their history and the items traumas. Including investigations into Cauldron Lake, that my son here mentioned. I'll agree that the surface level story is more basic than the other games. But it doesn't mean there's not a whole lot more going on that you can't figure out. You just need to be far more inquisitive and open-minded to very subtle clues hidden throughout the old house

  • @HeatherHolt

    @HeatherHolt

    6 ай бұрын

    I absolutely loved reading about the different AWEs and I loved the videos of the dr and the info about the two assistants and their little love triangle I think?? My favorite awe was probably the refrigerator the guy wasn’t supposed to stop staring at and then… well… he did stop. The duck was the most annoying. It’s funny bc I think SCP Foundation is overly filled with silly “monsters” but the awes in control were quite well done. The idea about an fbi-like entity cataloguing these awes is just so interesting.

  • @Deadforge

    @Deadforge

    5 ай бұрын

    That's why you must experience all the side quests and optional stuff in control to get the full story. Even Alan Wake stuff is hidden in there way before the dlc.

  • @vjat65akvj
    @vjat65akvj11 ай бұрын

    Love how remedy keeps using the same voice actors and music artists over different games (Vinnie gognitti and Barry, Alan Wake and Dr Darling, Beth Wilder and Jesse Faden and James McCaffrey for example and poets of the falls recurrence in max Payne 2, Alan Wake and control). Remedy's games just oozes that sense of familiarity , it's like the games are bound to each other by the soul.

  • @NavyHuskie
    @NavyHuskie Жыл бұрын

    Control is the only game I've ever platnium'd. I usually don't bother hunting trophies because it's a major time investment, but I just love the game so much I couldn't help it. Absolutely stoked for the sequel. 🔻

  • @rcketfield7404

    @rcketfield7404

    8 ай бұрын

    Shout to that I’m on my way making to platinum as well lol

  • @meetyouinheaven

    @meetyouinheaven

    5 ай бұрын

    I love it so much I did it twice for the ps4 version and ps5 lol

  • @SageofStars
    @SageofStars Жыл бұрын

    2:50:25 Very small thing, but figured I'd bring it up. SCP is Secure, Contain, Protect, not Control. If they controlled stuff, they might actually be dangerous.

  • @clmastergamer

    @clmastergamer

    11 ай бұрын

    Not to mention that some items could not be controlled. It was lethal to literally anyone that tried, and must be contained.

  • @barletproductions

    @barletproductions

    25 күн бұрын

    Not to mention if it was control then scps wouldn't be a problem or threat at all lol

  • @khalel610
    @khalel610 Жыл бұрын

    I see a new video upload I click it to watch immediately. Not to mention i played both Control and Quantum Break so this is one heck of a retrospective ride.

  • @YourFavoriteSon1

    @YourFavoriteSon1

    Жыл бұрын

    Hope you enjoy the video!

  • @thecoldduvet7381

    @thecoldduvet7381

    11 ай бұрын

    You forgot to say you're proud of your son! I demand another edit

  • @jamesabernethy7896
    @jamesabernethy7896 Жыл бұрын

    I watched all of these parts as they came out and commented on them all too. Just wanted to post to boost the algorithm and just remind you how much we all enjoy your work. Even though you hit the ground running in terms of the quality of your work, you are still improving your craft. Fantastic.

  • @mercwithamouthpodcast

    @mercwithamouthpodcast

    2 ай бұрын

    All you need to do is like and select all notification and leave a comment it doesn't incorporate more..like views. Because they suck. If a person watches this 6 times or. comments 40 it should count, it did back in the day makes sense even if people just played it over and over...still watched. It's as fucked as of voting system we ultimately have 0 say in anyways.

  • @fletcher5018
    @fletcher5018 Жыл бұрын

    Always great content son im proud of you and your hard work

  • @YourFavoriteSon1

    @YourFavoriteSon1

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Dad

  • @Sm0k3turt

    @Sm0k3turt

    9 ай бұрын

    Wholesome dad moment 100

  • @cunningman45

    @cunningman45

    9 ай бұрын

    Omg my heart, this is so wholesome ❤

  • @johnparker8165

    @johnparker8165

    6 ай бұрын

    47: 47:20

  • @knugster
    @knugster4 ай бұрын

    I met you on a random street in London last year! You were so polite and nice. Thanks for being such a good creator and person:)

  • @Drawingtheline101
    @Drawingtheline10110 ай бұрын

    Son, I really appreciate all the time you put into this video. It is comprehensive and entertaining all the way through. I would like to add a cool detail to your analysis. American Nightmare's song, Balance Slays the Demon, ties into Control with some hidden lyrics. "It will happen again, in another town. A town....called Ordinary." Jesse had her AWE experience in Ordinary which I think is very cool. Otherwise, well done Son.

  • @Octoberfunforeverone
    @Octoberfunforeverone Жыл бұрын

    Son you just keep coming out with these banger and thats why your my favorite.

  • @YourFavoriteSon1

    @YourFavoriteSon1

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Dad, hope you enjoy

  • @nolantinsley7794
    @nolantinsley7794 Жыл бұрын

    Bro you are so underrated! Love long format content like this! I love Remedy verse and am thrilled that this is out there!

  • @o5-693
    @o5-693 Жыл бұрын

    Awesome work as always, gonna binge this at work.

  • @YourFavoriteSon1

    @YourFavoriteSon1

    Жыл бұрын

    Hope you enjoy it!

  • @cosseybomb
    @cosseybomb11 ай бұрын

    You've made me proud son. RIP Lance Reddick

  • @LlorDrei
    @LlorDrei10 ай бұрын

    In Quantum Break, Monarch seems to be a double entendre, taken from Doctor Who. Monarch = Butterfly effect. Monarch = King, ruler. Monarch = Time Lord. Also, the black hole running the time machine hails to the Eye of Harmony in Doctor Who, a black hole that allows their time travel technology to function. The Panopticon in Control is also known from Doctor Who, from the same episode where we learn about the Eye of Harmony.

  • @theonlybilge
    @theonlybilge Жыл бұрын

    Alan Wake, Quantum Break, and Contrake

  • @SigmaGhoul
    @SigmaGhoul Жыл бұрын

    Love listening to these during my graveyard shifts! Keep up the great work son.

  • @evantorres5046
    @evantorres50464 ай бұрын

    I done watched ts like 4 times while sleeping yet yt doesnt wanna REMOVE IT OR SAY I WATCHED IT

  • @TheWolfbat513
    @TheWolfbat5138 ай бұрын

    For anyone interested in the Alan Wake Files, it actually comes with the Steam purchase of the original game as a PDF as well as the other digital extras included with the collector's edition.

  • @evellium8037
    @evellium803711 ай бұрын

    Absolutely love your content, perfect for my long nights at work. Barely found your channel and I'm already running out of videos to watch.

  • @JVSantovito
    @JVSantovito5 ай бұрын

    This was phenomenal. Thank you for all the info and analysis. This made my day a lot better. Keep up the good work, Son!❤

  • @mwheel4
    @mwheel4 Жыл бұрын

    Love your videos, son. Gives me something to listen to at work!

  • @YourFavoriteSon1

    @YourFavoriteSon1

    Жыл бұрын

    Hope you enjoy it!

  • @deohere7647
    @deohere76476 ай бұрын

    I really enjoy how you feel Alan's block In every aspect of this experience. How his struggle with it isn't just the manifestation of the enemies, but the town itself, the people in it, how Alan deals with these forces of evil, and their motivations. My take is that Alan is not a very good writer, not really, just going through the motions and playing to tropes with minor subversions in a mirror to say, JJ Abrhams for about 80 percent of the game. But at some point in the adventure he has a rebirth and the dam of creativity bursts. The entire experience becomes far more compelling, far more complex, far more interesting, and far more subversive. It retroactively also makes everything better because his creative block is an intrigal part to the story itself (as well as the creative process). Whilst I played it the first time I didn't get this, but as I've slowly digested this story over the years I've grown more and more fond of it. I can't wait to see what happens in a few hours, and how remedy continues their story.

  • @janefkrbtt
    @janefkrbtt8 ай бұрын

    "thats just some oil on the road, dave" is such a powerful response to someone trying to extrapolate meaning from nothing. i catch myself doing the same thing as dave, so im not knocking the guy. but its always nice to have a friend like that who can keep the world around you in perspective.

  • @snoophedgehog7823
    @snoophedgehog7823 Жыл бұрын

    Love the remedy universe, so hyped to watch this!

  • @YourFavoriteSon1

    @YourFavoriteSon1

    Жыл бұрын

    Hope you enjoy it!

  • @mycornflakes788
    @mycornflakes7888 ай бұрын

    i left youtube playing with a queue and your video just popped in there while i was sleeping i guess lol, ill def look at this when i have time cuz playing control confused the hell out of me. congrats on almost 100k!!

  • @johnnybrookesmusic8220
    @johnnybrookesmusic8220 Жыл бұрын

    your videos are so amazing man, cheers to the tons subs you will be gaining in the future! keep it up man big things coming for you.

  • @keatonr782
    @keatonr782 Жыл бұрын

    Just a heads-up, your chapters are still Deus Ex related 😘 But man, keep up the good work! You're my favorite new channel I've discovered recently. Loved the Silent Hill retrospective. Kept me very entertained on my long flight from Canada to Australia. Cheers man!

  • @YourFavoriteSon1

    @YourFavoriteSon1

    Жыл бұрын

    Damn, thanks for looking out.

  • @sacredfire536
    @sacredfire5367 ай бұрын

    idek how you put out so many videos that are so crazy detailed and you cover everything. i just now saw youre under 100k subscribers when i just came across you by luck on the algorithm. maybe you're a niche creator with the intellectual and super detailed way you look at these.. not even just games but entire franchises. im happy i and we all found you, son.

  • @Sira144hz
    @Sira144hz2 ай бұрын

    I was watching 1hr of mjv animations and i fell asleep and i watched this video for 2hrs 53 mins while i was asleep all night 😭😭😭

  • @morlunknight884
    @morlunknight8846 ай бұрын

    I gotta say I kinda love the fact that the Control dlc AWE could stand for Altered World Event like AWE normally does in Control but could also be Alan Wake Expansion.

  • @TheGodKingRat
    @TheGodKingRat Жыл бұрын

    Love these videos when u put them together I can just chill as I play games and listen to them all without changing the video my favorite is the silent Hill video

  • @ThousandairesClub
    @ThousandairesClub10 ай бұрын

    *Control is actually in my Top 10 All Time list, it did ALOT of things right but one single thing wrong...and that's the predictable enemy spawn locations. Enemies should show up Anywhere, not just in scripted locations.*

  • @roldaoaguiar763

    @roldaoaguiar763

    7 ай бұрын

    this and the mini map navigation... but overall it's such a solid game, amazing work of art

  • @wendigojimmay9150

    @wendigojimmay9150

    Ай бұрын

    @@roldaoaguiar763took me forever to figure that map out ahahah.

  • @SageofStars
    @SageofStars Жыл бұрын

    Oh hey, a collection of videos I can watch all at once. Good work, son.

  • @Bloo91
    @Bloo91 Жыл бұрын

    4 hours of remedy retrospective from my favourite son? Can't wait 😊

  • @Jradz8709
    @Jradz870911 ай бұрын

    your breakdowns are so GOOD !!! . love listening to your channel :) . i still have yet to Try alan wake even though its in my steam Library xD

  • @thejustinjustin1233
    @thejustinjustin12337 ай бұрын

    Control is one of the best looking games that I’ve played

  • @Ec1ecticStyle
    @Ec1ecticStyle11 ай бұрын

    I have just gotten to the quantum break part of this video after deciding to watch it(it appeared on my feed after I decided to replay the Remedy games, go figure lol) and I'm not sure it's mentioned here but I would love to hear thoughts on it. There is actually a blog that started posting Feb 22nd, 2012(the same day American Nightmare was released) that I don't hear people talk about very often. It's called "This House of Dreams" and involves a person buying a home to renovate where they end up finding a box full of pictures of "a man in a wetsuit" and poems by Thomas Zane. Later there are even mentions of a dream with a creepy FBI agent whose badge reads AWE instead, the box disappearing and reappearing with a version of the clicker in it, and while exploring says "Nothing out of the ordinary in the town of Ordinary." It's fascinating to me to read so many threads connecting Wake to Control YEARS before the game came out. Even before Quantum when we first started to see AWE appear and things. Needless to say, I'm more than excited for the upcoming release.

  • @emmaryan6084
    @emmaryan608427 күн бұрын

    Video was great thank you earned a sub and dont beat yourself up youve done a great job snd brought joy to a lot of people hope you are well

  • @Kinos141
    @Kinos1416 ай бұрын

    I like how Remedy is basically running off of the Lovecraftian style of story-telling. From Alan Wake to Control, there are multi-dimensional beings that have to be stopped.

  • @logansummers1551

    @logansummers1551

    6 ай бұрын

    So, basically they copy someone and you think that's great?

  • @ghostredux

    @ghostredux

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@logansummers1551 they didn't COPY anyone. It's called inspiration, and everyone has them. Cosmic Horror isn't a new idea, Lovecraft just helped create it. A hundred years ago, by the way.

  • @MrRoyVega

    @MrRoyVega

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@logansummers1551 wow you're so boring and uninteresting

  • @RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus

    @RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus

    2 ай бұрын

    @@logansummers1551 I’ve read pretty much everything in the OG love craft mythos, Lovecraft was not even the only person to create his universe, he had a entire group of friends who were writers that all expanded on his foundation and concepts, like he didn’t make the king in yellow or some other big parts of the mythos, he created the foundation and without him there would be no mythos but to say it was only him is just not correct, that being said nothing in this franchise connects directly to hp lovecraft the closet thing is when max pain is fighting a guy in a club called . . . Valhalla I think where that guy uses the name of an elder god and that’s such a round about reference you might as well go hunt fallout 4 for new Vegas references. If you want to claim anyone ripped off lovecraft then go look at mtg and their “eldrazi” or “lovecraft country”

  • @pmedina31
    @pmedina317 ай бұрын

    Sacré boulot! Merci de cette synthèse

  • @Shadierspider5e
    @Shadierspider5eКүн бұрын

    "Show me the champion of light ill show you the hearld of darkness"

  • @brodysdaddy
    @brodysdaddy2 ай бұрын

    Gawd dawg Control is such a good game. I hope anyone who hasn’t played it gives it a try.

  • @LlorDrei
    @LlorDrei10 ай бұрын

    The harnesses in Quantum Break may have been taken from the 2010 Warehouse 13 episode, Time Will Tell, with H. G. Wells showing her Imperceptor Vest, allowing her to move so fast that time seems to stop or slow around her. This also fits in with the next game, Control, and it's Warehouse 13 atmosphere.

  • @TwoWholeWorms

    @TwoWholeWorms

    9 ай бұрын

    Oh mate, I _loved_ that show. It was sorely underrated, and I love that it has QB's lead's brother in it, heh. H.G. is prolly my favourite sci-fi character out of any show, she was a truly flawed character who had a core of goodness inside her. I would _love_ a _Warehouse 13_ game, but it'll sadly never happen. Could you imagine ziplining around that thing with Saul Rubinek going "WOAH WOAH WOAH, BACKTRACK A SEC! There's something wrong here" then looking for the missing artifact as the trigger for the missions, which I guess could be literally done in any order? The set-up alone has so much potential.

  • @tonyalmodovar7629
    @tonyalmodovar76296 ай бұрын

    I love the way Son retells stories. I watch all his videos on games I like nowadays.

  • @RJRedtail
    @RJRedtail7 ай бұрын

    I'm looking forward to your Alan Wake 2 review almost as much as the actual game

  • @michaeljohnlee8036
    @michaeljohnlee803611 ай бұрын

    I love this universe because it feels like a darker version of Dirk Gentlys. Good job Son

  • @PartyPinda87
    @PartyPinda87 Жыл бұрын

    Love your content keep it up champ!

  • @Idleshot
    @Idleshot9 ай бұрын

    When brightness falls, The Night Springs to Life

  • @violettheshadowfan
    @violettheshadowfan9 ай бұрын

    seeing as how alan wake (character) is a stand in for the studio it makes sense that he would have written max payne, or alex casey

  • @KingT1._
    @KingT1._24 күн бұрын

    I’m always waking up to these videos

  • @DanbalCuadrado

    @DanbalCuadrado

    24 күн бұрын

    Me too 😹

  • @jojoeljefe
    @jojoeljefe9 ай бұрын

    played control during quarantine but a lot of it slipped my mind definitely have to play it again

  • @LlorDrei
    @LlorDrei10 ай бұрын

    Jessie taking control in... Control... seems to be an homage to Max Payne 3, from the moment he shaved his head as the first, small, step in taking purposeful control of his life, and the world around him.

  • @dman1988
    @dman1988 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks! Absolutely love Remedy!

  • @FreakyBarberStuff
    @FreakyBarberStuff Жыл бұрын

    Son, I have been watching you from day 1. You have impeccable taste in games. I raised you well.

  • @Ash_Gaming43
    @Ash_Gaming435 ай бұрын

    Son, good job. I'm proud of you, keep it up 😊

  • @psd906
    @psd90610 ай бұрын

    The astral worlding in Control has many synchronicities.

  • @ShadeofGaz
    @ShadeofGaz8 ай бұрын

    I remember playing one of the first areas in Alan wake that was open world. And I didn't do shit but get the mission fines cause I was so scared. Wish I had another copy to slow play it

  • @blahblahgdp
    @blahblahgdp8 ай бұрын

    imagine just writing for SCP for fun then hearing that Control does everything better.

  • @yuno_k
    @yuno_k10 ай бұрын

    Really great games all of them but I do think they add too many enemies in some portions of the games. Its like they think the player would get bored from walking around empty forests or hallways so they just throw a bunch of enemies at you which gets annoying

  • @HeatherHolt

    @HeatherHolt

    6 ай бұрын

    Yeah I can agree with this. Sometimes I am just enjoying running around the spewky forrest. Let me be. The train yard was a particular annoyance I recall.

  • @Xenodyne
    @Xenodyne Жыл бұрын

    I have a lot of thoughts regarding the AWE DLC. I actually really enjoyed the story of Control, and the links to Alan Wake that were existing in the game prior to the DLC were tantalizing. Since you played it a little later; the Containment Center always had the Alan Wake references, even prior to the DLC. Seemed more of a wink/nod, I think the Object of Power is "the" typewriter. However, I didn't really like that Jesse became a character that Alan had written. Knowing more about the Remedy library/shared universe helps to ease that a bit frustration a bit, but it still felt kinda cheap. Alan just created this superhero woman to save him from the lake. I think him sending Max Payne to the FBC was him testing the boundaries of his ability to influence or interact with the world. He was able to write an authority figure like a detective, but could he write a new director that would have access to all of the secrets and power needed to break him free? This also makes me care a bit less about saving Dylan. Instead of a character, he ends up as an objective to be conquered. If he doesn't show up alongside Jesse in Alan Wake/whatever is next, I bet he just gets written out and we never see him again; unimportant to Alan Wake's escape. Final thought about Control as a whole. I didn't realize until the AWE DLC that all of the audio logs with Trench had *SIGNIFICANTLY* more information than they played in the snippets during the game. I was a little mad when I got all the way to the end only to realize I missed a chunk of the story while it was relevant.

  • @swayy1222
    @swayy12229 ай бұрын

    Loved the video your scp facts need some touching up tho hahah

  • @GodOfWarConnoisseur
    @GodOfWarConnoisseur9 ай бұрын

    This was a very compelling Wakean story

  • @vicount3944
    @vicount3944 Жыл бұрын

    FInally a great video! Thank you!

  • @astercast
    @astercast Жыл бұрын

    Proud of this one son you’ve done lots to remedy my pain

  • @azmaininkiyad8467
    @azmaininkiyad8467Сағат бұрын

    it has to be the 20th time I woke up to this video playing in the background

  • @TevyaSmolka
    @TevyaSmolka Жыл бұрын

    i had no idea remedy games were all connected.

  • @HELLO_KORO

    @HELLO_KORO

    10 ай бұрын

    Same

  • @TevyaSmolka

    @TevyaSmolka

    10 ай бұрын

    @@HELLO_KORO indeed

  • @wildcardbitchesyeehaw8320

    @wildcardbitchesyeehaw8320

    9 ай бұрын

    The video including Quantum Break is a bit misleading. Only Alan Wake and Control are IPs owned by Remedy so they're the only ones that they can have be set in the same universe. QB and Max Payne are just connected to them in spirit, so to speak

  • @TevyaSmolka

    @TevyaSmolka

    9 ай бұрын

    @@wildcardbitchesyeehaw8320 gotcha

  • @Drizzlla
    @DrizzllaАй бұрын

    Max payne 3 is one of my favourite games of all time and I have played through it so many times just for fun. Now I play through it to honor the great James McCaffery. Rest in Peace, you will forever be missed and will forever be the one and only Max Payne 🙏🏻❤

  • @freshjnew
    @freshjnewАй бұрын

    I love the junctions. You know Paul has tried an infinite number of options in an infinite number of combinations. Thats why you get these choices. He's in a loop and keeps going back again and again to try something different. Im sure at the 3rd junction he probably just executed Jack and that caused everyone to die. Maybe he's tried actually just working with Jack. I think the thing this game is trying to tell us is that everything is predetermined. Also Jesse is a vibe. Just a girl with a gatt flying around zapping demons. 😂

  • @whendarknessfalls6969
    @whendarknessfalls69699 ай бұрын

    American nightmare created the object of power projector for Control.

  • @bornwisedistruction
    @bornwisedistruction8 ай бұрын

    Max Payne could be linked in this universe as he has some interesting events tied to that slow motion effect could Max have hold of a object of power and not be aware of its ability's effecting his life this could be great if it were and make for a blockbusting reason to revisit in new installments!

  • @YEETUSDAFEETUS

    @YEETUSDAFEETUS

    7 ай бұрын

    nah I feel like Max's story is done he's had his arc he deserves to rest although I like the object of power idea cause he eats painkillers like candy and should've died a few thousand times over by now lol

  • @TwoWholeWorms
    @TwoWholeWorms9 ай бұрын

    Ah, fuck, I'd forgotten that Lance Riddick had died. I was always hoping they'd give his character some pay-off from the end of _Quantum Break._ :/ The Ashtray Maze in _Control_ might just be the best 10 minutes of gameplay I've _ever_ played, that game is _fantastic._ I can't wait for the follow-up.

  • @dinglebingus2625
    @dinglebingus262511 ай бұрын

    Thanks for this because a lot of the interconnectivity really confuses me

  • @stoogface
    @stoogface11 ай бұрын

    I hope I will be able to listen to my (future) kids passion projects as much as I listen to you

  • @Paulog2003
    @Paulog20033 ай бұрын

    Super literate man, super educated. Professional level documentary series here!

  • @CreepyBEEF
    @CreepyBEEF10 ай бұрын

    Alan Wake is just living in a horror version of the Oingo Boingo Brothers book

  • @ImMarcusLive
    @ImMarcusLive2 ай бұрын

    I’ve never heard of these games. Please make more videos so I can find out about them.

  • @doublel.l.
    @doublel.l.4 ай бұрын

    I left my phone on yt when i went to sleep woke up with this on😂😂

  • @Shift_Salt
    @Shift_Salt7 ай бұрын

    Portal and Half Life I believe were hinting at sharing a connected universe but yeah most examples I can think of where games shared a universe but weren't necessarily the same series don't go that far beyond hinting at it with small details and maybe potentially having cameos for characters between series.

  • @takoshihitsamaru4675
    @takoshihitsamaru467510 ай бұрын

    So, first time watcher, let me just say; holy shit! I really loved what Alan Wake did with its story and mechanics when I first played it on the 360 years ago, I next played and quite enjoyed Quantum Break despite how others felt about it, the visuals were stunning and I enjoyed the story it told and how it told that story. It wasn't until I (very late to the party, mind) played through Control in 2022....H O L Y F U C K. That game was a revelation for what Remedy was capable of. And now I am stupid excited for Alan Wake 2, Control 2, Vanguard whatever else they have up their sleeve. I absolutely adore how well put together this retrospective/analysis video is, how you go through each game piece by piece, throwing in intelligent nods to culture, history and art. Bravo!

  • @wildcardbitchesyeehaw8320

    @wildcardbitchesyeehaw8320

    9 ай бұрын

    Quantum Break is a decent game, but I'm glad it can't legally be a canonical part of the shared universe, the vibes just don't match Alan Wake and Control and it just kinda generally feels like the least Remedy of all Remedy Games. Doesn't even have any music from Poets of the Fall

  • @takoshihitsamaru4675

    @takoshihitsamaru4675

    9 ай бұрын

    @@wildcardbitchesyeehaw8320 It's undoubtedly more sci-fi than anything else they've done, but I can still see it being part of the more natural world of Remedy's universe, the world in which Alan Wake predominately takes place in.

  • @BasementDweller_
    @BasementDweller_3 ай бұрын

    Thank you for explaining this Son.

  • @AndTheStoryGoes
    @AndTheStoryGoes7 ай бұрын

    Damn, son, this is some tight content

  • @legend4646
    @legend46465 ай бұрын

    Doubting your writing followed by "the shadow cuts deep, somewhere below the abdomen but not quite below the waist. some days you wake up with a flashlight and other days you don't." is incredibly ironic. love your style man

  • @skitsogaming
    @skitsogaming11 ай бұрын

    any one notice how big the security guys head is in the control portion of the video? Was it always that big ? I love control 1 of top ten games. and damn good video.

  • @theonlybilge
    @theonlybilge10 ай бұрын

    38:35 Adam Wake

  • @officebatmanthetank1043
    @officebatmanthetank1043 Жыл бұрын

    Great work son. I’m proud of you

  • @lynxAlwarren
    @lynxAlwarren9 ай бұрын

    Sorry to be that guy but SCP Stands for Secure, CONTAIN not Control, Protect.

  • @tito1094
    @tito10947 ай бұрын

    Man I just watched the whole thing today. This is one of the best pieces I've seen on KZread. Subscribing immediately. I really enjoyed the breakdown of each game, the way the thoughts are organized, how everything is explained in detail. 10/10

  • @phinoxford8741
    @phinoxford8741Ай бұрын

    Love this video

  • @andrewmcdowellmillenial4209
    @andrewmcdowellmillenial42099 ай бұрын

    If you had some retrospectives for star ocean oh god I would watch them

  • @aesirhog4811
    @aesirhog48118 күн бұрын

    The first Alan wake also basically had a tv live action show. A few like 40 minute episodes that I think acted as a prequel (if I remember right) based around some side characters (not Alan) and just further set stuff up.

  • @Antux269
    @Antux2695 ай бұрын

    I watched the video cuz I remember playing through Quantum Break but couldn't remember a thing about the story and didn't want to replay it, and great job you perfectly talked about the game's plot. However something is still not clear and hopefully someone can answer me, how does Beth dies in 2010 if there's an older version of her?

  • @HeatherHolt
    @HeatherHolt6 ай бұрын

    “There was a fish in the percolator!” IYKYK

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