Somebody WAKE Us Up From This Nightmare! | CONTROL AWE DLC | First Playthrough | Part 15

[@SidPhoenix2211]

2:15:32 hell yeah! Nice job with the Crowd Control! More than being tough... Shüm challenges are a marathon lol. Require a LOT of sustained focus for a long time and ya crushed it

[@aureasmortem]

For Alan Wake 2, I definitely recommend listening to the songs they put at the chapter-ends. They were all produced for the game, so you shouldn't get any copyright strikes. They're all tailored to the episodes and are super good

[@lolasnormandy]

It’s so fun to hear you guys trying to figure out how Alan fits into the whole Control plotline and how much actually came from him. These games definitely make you think lol. I will say, on the Remedyverse timeline, Alan Wake’s American Nightmare comes before Control and there’s some stuff in that game that sheds some light into how Alan could possibly have knowledge of the outside world while stuck in the Dark Place, among other things. It’s definitely worth looking into, I think you mentioned looking up a playthrough. Listen to the manuscript pages from that game at the very least. Also it’s important to remember that Alan can’t actually create people/places/entities/ect. What he’s doing is manipulating/altering/rewriting reality. So he definitely has influence on events happening or how things come together, but he isn’t wholly inventing them out of nowhere. Like he didn’t create or invent the Hiss, but one of his Hotlines here pretty much confirms that he at the very least wrote the Hiss Chant. That was the Dadaist poem he wrote. I know, it’s kinda confusing lol. Personally it became a lot less confusing for me once I stopped thinking about Alan's writings as “not real” because even if he’s rewriting reality, the things are still happening with very real people involved, and once they come to pass, they are very much real. I highly recommend looking up Lady of Lore’s lore videos on Alan Wake and Control, they’re very good refreshers on how everything ties together and she explains everything in chronological order. Excellent playthrough as always, I shall be waiting patiently for Alan Wake 2 whenever you decide to play it.

[@aureasmortem]

44:22 Jesse during that recorded therapy session in the Prime Candidate area quote "The poet Thomas Zane" and the therapist says there is no poet by that name, only a filmmaker, and Jesse is like "Huh? No he's a poet" and NOW she just corrected herself like she remembered wrong...some fuckery is afoot

[@SidPhoenix2211]

Fun fact: Tom Zane (in the diving suit) used to be voiced by James McCaffrey (Alex Casey manuscript/novel page reader, Max Payne, Director, Trench). But here in this DLC... he is being voiced by Ilkka Villi, aka the guy who is the face model + live-action actor (dubbed over by Porretta) + mocap actor (dubbed over) for Alan Wake.

[@SidPhoenix2211]

3:02:35 that instrument sounds like a theremin. Check out some videos for it, its pretty cool. It was pretty big in the 60s, i think. An appropriately sorta Space Age instrument for that era. Justin Hurwitz's beautiful score for Damien Chazelle's, "First Man" (about Neil Armstrong, played by Ryan Gosling, going to the moon) used the theremin in a number of its tracks to GREAT effect. Give that movie a watch!

[@SidPhoenix2211]

32:10 this note from trench is FULL of little phrases from the hiss chant. This is definitely from back when the hiss started to take over him

[@L4ftyOne]

Soon the Max Payne 1 and 2 Remake comes out from Remedy too! Would be such a dope playthrough of yall

[@L4ftyOne]

Finally finished this finale :) Id loveeee a Metal Gear Solid (1,2,3,4,5) walkthrough from yall, so much lore! so much codec calls!

[@SidPhoenix2211]

2:28:39 Alfred Tennyson! Langston's favourite poet and inspiration for his cat's name. Also, little tidbit, you might remember the mentions of something called, "the Tennyson report". This was an anonymous report that made its way around the Bureau and no one knew who wrote it and it was quite controversial accusation that the Bureau was steering further away from its arcane foundations. Basically, Bureau was originally looking at all this parantural stuff through a lens of mysticism and respect and maybe even worship etc. But over time, Science became the primary way of interacting with these things. It all became about understanding and explaining it all away. This anonymous writer believes that they should go back to their old ways. These little hints about Langston's cat, his fav poet (the report even begins with a quote from, "Tears, Idle Tears", a Tennyson poem)... It kinda implies that Langston might be the writer. He also talks about how good he is with the Altered Items in the Panopticon and how they use rituals and certain specific sentences to placate them, which is kinda in line with this report's mission statement.

[@the.assistant.janitor]

Nice job. Playthrough Part 14 is currently missing from the playlist, btw

[@SidPhoenix2211]

2:15 yeah, i dont think that most of these people are directors. There have only been 4 directors ao far: Theodore Ash Sr. (? - July 1964), Broderick Northmoor (Aug '64 - ?), Zachariah Trench (? - Oct 29, 2019), and ofc... Jesse "Dynamite" Faden (Oct 29, 2019 - present). I do believe that Ash and Northmoor ARE among these portraits. Their Control wikia articles do have a portrait attached in the Images section. But ofc, as you can tell, there are no labels for these paintings. So I imagine they discovered who's who by looking at the game's files and checking if any of these protrait image file names had information on who the subject is or not.

[@brettbaumler754]

I would definitely recommend playing Quantum Break before AW2, certain things and characters in AW2 will make more sense if you have an understanding of Quantum Break Technically Microsoft owns QB, but Remedy still finds ways to incorporate things from it into AW2. That’s all I’ll say

[@SidPhoenix2211]

1:15:20 The Ohio slander never ends XD

[@SidPhoenix2211]

12:08 people reaching out through the hotline doesn't necessarily mean they're dead. Yes, this was the case with Trench and Marshall. But the hotline is also a line of communication with other planes of existence and the entities there within. We talk to the Board with its help, we received a message from Darling from wherever (or however) he is. And now, we get a message from/vision of Alan writing in the Dakr Place.

[@SidPhoenix2211]

Important thing to remember is that Alan Wake can't CREATE people or things. He can only use what exists, influence (and maybe even slightly alter) them to some extent. And through this, with the help of The Dark Place, he can write events that come true. I don't think that anything in this DLC implies that Jesse, or the FBC etc is Alan's creation... Just that Alan somehow became aware of these people and things, and used them to write some events in order to try and get himself out or get closer to escaping. The game does imply that Alan gave the Hiss a voice (i.e. the Hiss chant), but the Hiss always existed... It is an alien resonance from, I believe, another dimension.

[@SidPhoenix2211]

Alan Wake Me Up Inside (Can't wake up!)

[@kallemort]

Whenever you get into AW2, I'll be there.

[@L4ftyOne]

Hey, wake up!

[@vahlte]

Regarding Quantum Break, it's a decent enough action game, but it doesn't take place in the same reality as Control or Alan Wake. Microsoft also owns the intellectual property, so Remedy can't reference it too explicitly. Whether you play Alan Wake 2 first and then play Quantum Break, or do it the other way around will impact how you see each game and some key characters as in some ways Alan Wake 2 is more closely connected with Quantum Break than Control. Yet, you're not loosing a lot waiting to play it till later. I will say, it has a fairly distinct feel and story, and is a little lighter in its mood, but simultaneously a little more serious than both Control and Alan Wake (all games). If you want a break from the heavy stuff before going into Alan Wake 2, Quantum Break could be that break while still being relevant "homework". It's available on XBOX or PC (get it on Steam or something, there are issues with the Microsoft Store/PC XBOX version).

[@jenny_lee_87]

Would like to see you play: Murdered Soul suspect

[@cheuygarcia]

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