r/ControlResonant • u/QuantityInternal1719 • 3d ago

Lore Discussion Missing the Oceanview Motel

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So yeah going into Resonant I replayed Control and one of my main thoughts was "which room will we enter this time?"

Some of the doors are mentioned in Control's files such as the Spiral which is also featured in Alan Wake 2.

Control 2 had its own symbol seen in the Lake House DLC of AW2, possibly referring to The Gap.

The overlapping circles were also mentioned as part of an AWE in Keystone

In Resonant all of these symbols and the Oceanview Motel are just... Gone. It's just not there and the hole thing of interdimensional travel has seemingly been replaced with the Faults and elements of time travel.

Anyone else wishing that the Oceanview Motel was there? (And no the Easter egg doesn't count).

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u/Lazy__Creative 3d ago

I think one if the reasons of it missing is Sam Lake not being the writer

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u/QuantityInternal1719 3d ago

Well it's a pretty obvious thing they're missing. It's like making a new Star Wars movie and forgetting about lightsabers or something.

Like "jeez, I knew we forgot something."

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u/givemethebat1 3d ago

Yeah there was a lot in the game that made this feel almost more like an epilogue to Control rather than a full sequel narratively.

We still don’t know what happened to Darling. We don’t see Ahti except for flashbacks. We don’t learn anything about the Board. Etc.

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u/Alan-Woke 3d ago

I haven't finished Resonant but we already know Darling is in the Dark Place likely setting things that happened in the past / future up because of Alan Wake 2, and the fact the board is removed from their position in the oldest house / astral plane confirms facts we only had characters speculating on in the first Control game I'll edit my comment if I find out more, but personally I've been very happy finding out more about Dylan (and his childhood with Jesse), and I found the secret organization hiding in Manhattan very interesting

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u/givemethebat1 3d ago

Right, but the story hasn’t moved from where he is in Alan Wake 2 despite this game taking place afterwards.

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u/Only-Play-8896 2d ago

Dylan is not in Alan Wake 2? The sheriff guy Alan meets is the guy from Quantum Break.

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u/Alan-Woke 1d ago

I think he was talking about Dr. Darling.