Today's game is some more Control. I started the Foundation DLC today for the second time. Let me tell you, i forgot how much this cube puzzle pisses me off. I tried to do it once i got far enough that i could. Went and tracked down what i thought was all of them, then spent maybe 30 minutes trying to place them correctly. Only to find out i was missing one. I don't know if it got knocked off the cliff on accident or what but i couldn't find it. I had just given up and decided to move on though.
Seeing the Nail is really pretty. It's one of the most memorable parts of this DLC to me because of the area surrounding it. It gives a really pretty view. If i remember correctly too, as you progress it will get taller which will be fun to watch.
I ultimately didn't get as far as i would have liked with this one. As the enemies somehow feel harder. I suspect it's the melee guys now being there to close the gap. So it means a new threat to deal with. I'm trying to avoid touching the difficulty settings though so i'll try something else instead to get through. Maybe a different weapon loadout.
How did I know this was Control? I just looked at it, and my thought process went, "that's weird, maybe it's Control".
I'm really beginning to regret giving up on it. I didn't get very far, either. And now I can't remember where I started or how far in I got. Steam says I own Control Ultimate Edition and that I have 1.5 hours on record. So, not very far at all, I think.
What's funny is, I don't have a PC anymore. I have Macs. And Control is Mac compatible. So I really don't have any excuse to not install it. I think I'd rather play it on Xbox (I have a Series X), but I don't own it up there. Like Cyberpunk 2077 is Mac compatible, but it looks and plays like ass on my Mac (M2 Pro, 16GB RAM). I think my computer is roughly equivalent to an 11th or 12th-gen i5, but the Apple GPU is a bit better than the onboard one on an Intel chip. But it's no replacement for a dedicated GPU, like a Radeon or GeForce card.
I'm installing it now, but I won't have time to play it right away. I need to see if it's playable on my computer. There's also the issue of Apple removing Rosetta (their translation layer for the previous generation of Macs) next year, so if Control isn't built for Apple Silicon (i.e. if it's built for Intel Macs), it won't be playable in macOS 28. So I may have some stacked reasons to seek it out on Xbox.
As a side note, Noita is a pixel simulator (so very CPU intensive!) and it runs perfectly on my Mac via Heroic, which is emulating it via WINE, or something like that. It ran on my last PC, which was a 4th gen Xeon with 16GB of RAM and a 3GB Radeon 280. It's not for everyone. It's a roguelike, and it's very hard to master, and I honestly don't think it's been beaten yet. There are multiple win conditions (and I've achieved the easiest one, lots of people have), I just don't think they've all been found. Look it up — if it's your kind of game, you might do well with it. If you like to look up games from streamers, FuryForged is one I watch on YouTube who covers the game, mostly focusing on the mysteries surrounding it.
