New Alien game that looks interesting:
http://www.alienisolation.com (http://www.alienisolation.com)
http://www.alienisolation.com/en_gb/media/videos (http://www.alienisolation.com/en_gb/media/videos)
IGN have a video of various staffers playing it
http://au.ign.com/videos/2014/04/25/how-scary-is-alien-isolation (http://au.ign.com/videos/2014/04/25/how-scary-is-alien-isolation)
I was skeptical, but now I'm looking forward to it
Looks bloody scary :D
Sounds good, haven't played a video game in months....think the last was Kill zone 3. A good Alien game would be a treat! Any news on new 2000ad games, I loved the Rogue Trooper game. Z
Waiting for this next month (http://store.steampowered.com/app/214490/)
http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?GID=1062 (http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?GID=1062)
Seems to be getting very mixed reviews, with many of the big sites complaining that while it starts strong, it drags on far too long and totally outstays it's welcome.
When it was first announced, I do remember thinking it sounded like the format would have been better suited to being a short and sweet, XBLA kind of experience.
Can't possibly be worse than Colonial Marines.
Wait till the price falls before buying. Sounds like an endlessly frustrating game: the game creators have apparently made it to difficult.
The Alien comes in at random and can find you even if you are hiding so once your Xenos gullet fodder it's back to your last save. You can't quick save your progress so not a lot of fun if your within sight of the phone/save option and you get killed; run/ hide/ die/ repeat means unhappy gamer.
Your weapons at best can only drive the Alien away and there are killer Androids plus humans too. £31 for not a lot of joy time. I'm waiting but I'll probably buy it eventually.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/03/alien-isolation-review-giger-game-ridley-scott
It's fair say to Ars Technica didn't care for it much...
"Find a Let's Play of the PC build, crank up the resolution, and watch someone else have a terrible time in this beautiful game." (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/10/alien-isolation-review-cold-harsh-and-unforgivable/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+(Ars+Technica+-+All+content))
Cheers
Jim
Don't think anyone's mentioned the 2000AD connection here, yet? Dan Abnett wrote this game.
http://plus10damage.com/blog/2014/5/10/aliens-isolation-gets-a-writer (http://plus10damage.com/blog/2014/5/10/aliens-isolation-gets-a-writer)
Is it as good as they say it is?
Seems pretty mixed so far but more average to positive so I still have hopes for this, although the lack of a proper save system along with too much repetition may annoy me enough to give up on it.
I very rarely pre-order games these days but I am a fan of this type of game and I got a good deal with a voucher via GMG so I have it pre-loading right now, so fingers crossed it doesn't turn out to be a turd.
Right, I'm playing the Steam version and I thought it was ready to start when it gave me a Content Still Encrypted message when I clicked on it's iconic sickly green light leaking from a cracked egg icon on my deskstop.
What's going on with that?
I might not of been so lazy and found out from the Steam website myself. but I'm exhausted from 'having my own bowels wanting to evacuate any food or drink that's reaches my stomach on and off all morning and then I had to sleep it off for the rest of the day.
There must be some bug in my food.
Anyway, Looking forward to playing this.......
Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 05 October, 2014, 07:40:38 AM
Right, I'm playing the Steam version and I thought it was ready to start when it gave me a Content Still Encrypted message when I clicked on it's iconic sickly green light leaking from a cracked egg icon on my deskstop.
What's going on with that?
It isn't released yet, you just have it preloaded and it will unlock sometime on Tuesday.
Played this for almost two hours today and was thought it was good I expected it to be with a few exceptions.
Your the daughter of Ellen Ripley who embarks on mission related to her mother's misadventures fifteen years earlier.
Soon, after you are awakened from cryogenic - sleep and need to do stuff.
Being a attractive woman in this game, I was slightly disappointed that I didn't find a mirror before finding my clothing or maybe that's hidden Easter Egg and you will notice one in the cryogenic chamber room. In fact the whole place is really. [spoiler]I couldn't find any real world equivalent to Frank Herman's -War in Totality. I was hoping to actually. [/spoiler]
You can't run too fast and jump at all. I guess, they wanted this to be less about action and more about a sedated exploration of your surroundings while you find out what's what and what is going on.
Although, I could walk into some objects causing them to scatter. Not every loose object will do this, including the sheets of paper. I cannot pick stuff up, unless their bits of scrap (Glowing Orange) and then I can add those to my inventory which doesn't open for me until I gained access to the room where the means to construct them into the first of many things presented it self the way to construct something from the bits and pieces.
As it was...I couldn't throw punches and kick things aside from some thing I found (And accidently wasted...) that may prove useful in face of any unknown terrors lurking around the corners.
Aside from those small things the game proves to be the visual treat to fans of the cult film. Resplendent in all it's retrograde future tech and design. The attention to detail here is astounding, right down to the individual scratches and tiny patches of missing paint or what ever they use for artificial surfacing. Stuff lying around and as I said that's only for looking at and rubbing up against, but not picking up and moving, using or putting into your inventory. I guess, that's about game balance.
As I now have a problem paying attention to what is being said and quite often zoning out. I didn't follow it that the protagonists were going to some other deep space facility and not the Nostromo. Which later sussed out had been destroyed roughly fifteen years earlier.
Maybe that's what they were looking for or it's got something to do with sudden appearance or evidence of the survival Ellen Ripley. I don't know actually, because it just went in one ear and out the other.
If your getting this.... enjoy the game.
Oh, BTW it visual treat that reminds me of Dear Esther (http://store.steampowered.com/app/203810) aside from a lack of randomness which I think won't be a part of this game.
QuoteBeing a attractive woman in this game, I was slightly disappointed that I didn't find a mirror before finding my clothing or maybe that's hidden Easter Egg and you will notice one in the cryogenic chamber room.
I stopped reading it this disgraceful point...
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 07 October, 2014, 12:36:49 PM
QuoteBeing a attractive woman in this game, I was slightly disappointed that I didn't find a mirror before finding my clothing or maybe that's hidden Easter Egg and you will notice one in the cryogenic chamber room.
I stopped reading it this disgraceful point...
Me too... :-\
Why would it be wrong to mention looking at scantily clad women...surely that's not a bad thing or have you all gone to hell :-\
I could go into it why I talk about things the way I do, but that would be going off subject.
Except for the fact that I have been single dude for most of my life.
Besides, that one line in my review is about as raunchy as it gets. The rest of it is as safe as it's beginning.
Cree-pee.
Have any of you actually read the book, let alone seen the film or vice-versa?
It's pretty creepy you know, especially how the creatures reproduce.
May be you shouldn't go near this game if you thought my post on wanting to see the female protagonist scantily clad or even possibly naked and this does happen in all games I bet you have played and enjoyed.
I will stop before I am force to make even more sense and the mods lock it down :-X
Yet, I will say one more thing about those ambulatory-peepee's and their gestating progeny........please leave by the exits already provided at the top (Mind the teeth :D) and the bottom (With Great Care:o) and not out through the chest.
Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 07 October, 2014, 12:58:56 PM
Except for the fact that I have been single dude for most of my life.
This may be related to your extremely dodgy attitude towards women.
Quote from: Spaceghost on 07 October, 2014, 03:21:01 PM
Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 07 October, 2014, 12:58:56 PM
Except for the fact that I have been single dude for most of my life.
This may be related to your extremely dodgy attitude towards women.
To be fair, this is an least a step up from his strange tingly feelings for an underage girl character in Game of Thrones.
Quote from: GordonR on 07 October, 2014, 03:38:22 PM
To be fair, this is an least a step up from his strange tingly feelings for an underage girl character in Game of Thrones.
What?? :-\
Quote from: Spaceghost on 07 October, 2014, 03:21:01 PM
Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 07 October, 2014, 12:58:56 PM
Except for the fact that I have been single dude for most of my life.
This may be related to your extremely dodgy attitude towards women.
Don't judge me based on the little bit of information you gather here about my so called attitude towards women. I had to put with dodgy attitude from other people who move around in the same circles with me in the past and a few of them have been women.
Did you know that there was this women who was working behind the counter at the canteen inside this swimming pool complex down south of the border. She was kind of hot looking, swarthy complexion with long dark hair. Looked similar to
Selma Blair (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_Blair) without actually being her. Yet, she had a overly snobbish attitude and this really came to the fore when I tried to order something that had been written on the chalk board behind her. She just rudely informed me that they don't have that (
Chicken Schnitzel Roll (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schnitzel) and this happened every time I asked for that dish and her tone of voice indicated I just asked her for personal sexual favours involving dogs, horses, snakes. I swear, despite her obvious hotness, I never even attempted to flirt with her. What's even stranger is that she paid me two dollars not to touch her car as she stopped at the light where I worked on the intersection wiping down wind screens down the road from where she worked. I couldn't really see us getting together in particular way, shape or form. I just wanted my German styled chicken roll with tomato and lettuce. Besides that years were very rough on me as I had been out of work and had to sell my
Ford Falcon Utility and was without shelter.
That wasn't the only time, I had problems, with female relatives, girlfriend of close mates while sharing a house with them and I have just been plain unlucky with women my whole life and Have plans to fix this as I don't want to leave this life a lonely old man.
Although, I did once make out with this girl at local night club roughly twenty years ago. Aside from a some heavy petting and groping with some lip sucking, tongue wrestling. I didn't any anything untoward towards her (She wasn't underage either being a year older than I was!) while feeling pressed into hopping into a taxi with her to go back to her place and just talk for bit before calling me another taxi to take me home. Sure my flesh was willing, but I was trying to be more of gentleman and didn't force myself on her or even ask for it. For some reason she was stand offish next time I met tried to meet up with her a fortnight later after I had got this rather embarrassing haircut. She didn't an to see me again and said that what ever happened between us was nothing to any more friendly about. She was a looker too. Well stacked and like a younger
Bette Midler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_Midler)[/b] I'm regretting not doing the deed with her that night I went back to her place to her place and this has been plaguing my mind for years.
Aside from one other close encounter with another girl on a nude beach and the many times I had what ever pass's for physical relations with a various masseuse's, lap dancers, strippers and hookers, but not within the last eleven years.
Women for the most part just ignore me unless I do something drastic.
I still consider myself to be the near virgin at my forty two years of age.
My real problem is that I'm not the most girl's ideal guy and at that I don't talk to them much based on the fact that I can't find a lot of common ground between them and me and I was always shy.
Despite my violent leanings, I haven't been that known to handle females of any type violently. Despite those dodgy ideas I printed up on the forum about phycotic females wielding weapons and needing to be dealt with lethal force. Although that was one time I had to take dangerous measures while being forcefully removed from a Brothel by the almost the entire female staff and this one who looked and felt like she used steroids. Nobody was seriously hurt, except for my pride and my wallet which was empty at the time. The reason for my removal. The sex workers always demand money up front and while I understand that companionship always money or a night out or marriage. I would prefer something less sleazy and now will solemly refuse to visit any of those establishments now and in the future in favour of something more old fashioned.
Yet the flesh isn't so willing these days and no I find girls even harder to relate to.
I'm working on a better way of dealing with the fairer sex as long as they stay that way :P
... ...
Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 07 October, 2014, 05:55:21 PM
she paid me two dollars not to touch her car as she stopped at the light where I worked on the intersection wiping down wind screens down the road from where she worked. I couldn't really see us getting together in particular way, shape or form. I just wanted my German styled chicken roll with tomato and lettuce.
Why didn't I read this thread before? If Dan Abnett's written this, is Ripley's kid called Beverley Vitornott (http://www.ripleys.com)?
Apologies for going right off subject, but this was over some comment about the leading female character in this game we should be talking about this....
On the Torrens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien:_Isolation)
I really love the retro-rib shaped upholstery on the some of the walls. Kind like having vinyl cushions on the walls and they are a more caramel colour in
They are white in the cryogenic-chamber room and caramel coloured around the dining area. If memory serves.
I did make error in my commentary on the game video I'm trying to upload right now. After looking through a log at a computer terminal with list of the Nostromo's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(film)) crew.
Thinking that Yaphet Kotto's character was Harry Dean Stantons' and that the latter was the Chief Engineer while former was his offsider. Although it seemed Yaphet's character had a more dominant personality than Harry despite how badly I read who I thought they were and what their position on the Space-Tug-Ship actually was. I got it wrong and it turns out that Parker's (Yaphet) dominance was asserted by his position over Brett (Harry) and I thought after some abrupt transition where Amanda Ripley finds herself alone on the other ship/facility/terminal. Thinking that it was the Nostromo that that had self destructed fifteen years earlier. I admitted my mistake towards the end of the video I'm uploading now.
Funny thing about Harry Dean Stanton's characterisation of Brett was this web comic called Alien : Age Eleven (http://alienage11.com/). The author/illustrator (Who said he works as professional in this area on a casual basis!) John White who admitted he was never allowed to see the film at the time he started the unofficial comic book. At the age of 11 and had used information gathered as well as photos from the official novelisation and the famous H.R. Giger - Xenomorph art-book. He admitted that he got the Synthetic character Ash (The original Bilbo Baggins - Ian Holm and Brett confused and when I asked about this. He joked that he then named the character Brash. You can read about this error on his website. (I linked this above.) It's totally cool.
He did a Star Wars VI: A New Hope web comic called Star Wars : Age Seven (http://starwarsage9.com/) written and illustrated by himself at the age indicated in the title.
Although, both works were not quite finished at the time and he filled in the gaps most recently and I could see he's very talented and worthy of working for ToothAD.
The first friendly face on Sevastopol and it's Irvine Welsh. Who would've expected that! :)
Ouch! :lol:
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I now officially have no idea WWTF is going on in this thread...
The novelist?
It's him, right down to the Scottish accent :)
(http://i994.photobucket.com/albums/af70/alexr2222/IrvineWelsh_zps9d4d37f4.jpg) (http://s994.photobucket.com/user/alexr2222/media/IrvineWelsh_zps9d4d37f4.jpg.html)
Irvine would kill for those cheekbones and lack of chins ;)
Quote from: ThryllSeekyr
My real problem is that I'm not the most girl's ideal guy and at that I don't talk to them much based on the fact that I can't find a lot of common ground between them and me...
Far be it from me to judge, and I'm partial to a bit of Civ V myself, but if that's the case then perhaps you should spend a bit less time playing video games?
I can see John Goodman playing Thryllseekyr in the movie :o
Quote from: Alex on 08 October, 2014, 10:28:08 AM
It's him, right down to the Scottish accent :)
(http://i994.photobucket.com/albums/af70/alexr2222/IrvineWelsh_zps9d4d37f4.jpg) (http://s994.photobucket.com/user/alexr2222/media/IrvineWelsh_zps9d4d37f4.jpg.html)
So, that's the guy who wrote
Trainspotting and he's Scottish....so :-*
Games got some mixed reviews in states but more favourable in English media.its costing a staggering €75 here in Ireland for Xbox one and ps4 so I'll play the waiting game before purchasing.thryllseeker has hit overload from prog 1900 it seems.
Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 08 October, 2014, 12:56:31 PM
Quote from: Alex on 08 October, 2014, 10:28:08 AM
It's him, right down to the Scottish accent :)
(http://i994.photobucket.com/albums/af70/alexr2222/IrvineWelsh_zps9d4d37f4.jpg) (http://s994.photobucket.com/user/alexr2222/media/IrvineWelsh_zps9d4d37f4.jpg.html)
So, that's the guy who wrote Trainspotting and he's Scottish....so :-*
So I would imagine it is much more relevant to this thread, section and entire website than your lack of fucking.
Quote from: Satanist on 08 October, 2014, 01:21:57 PM
Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 08 October, 2014, 12:56:31 PM
Quote from: Alex on 08 October, 2014, 10:28:08 AM
It's him, right down to the Scottish accent :)
(http://i994.photobucket.com/albums/af70/alexr2222/IrvineWelsh_zps9d4d37f4.jpg) (http://s994.photobucket.com/user/alexr2222/media/IrvineWelsh_zps9d4d37f4.jpg.html)
So, that's the guy who wrote Trainspotting and he's Scottish....so :-*
So I would imagine it is much more relevant to this thread, section and entire website than your lack of fucking.
Okay then.....yep but you should know why I went off on that tangent and came back again.
Anyway, is his likeness used in one of the games or this one or is this just a character that happens to look a lot like him and if it's really that person, then why?
What is the relevance of that aside from the beginning of
Prometheus being filmed in
Scotland ::)
To take the STAGGERINGLY controversial step of posting something about the actual game itself in this thread...
I have it!
AND IT'S ACE! Very atmospheric stuff. I've literally only JUST seen the Alien, and it was a pants sh*tting experience! Really good stuff indeed. I actually felt liek I needed to stay in one spot in the game and not move or do anything AT ALL. That's how great and palpable a threatening presence the alien is.
Quote from: HdE on 08 October, 2014, 10:36:52 PM
I've literally only JUST seen the Alien, and it was a pants sh*tting experience! Really good stuff indeed.
Yes, but was it naked and did you fancy it?
Quote from: King Pops on 08 October, 2014, 11:15:16 PM
Quote from: HdE on 08 October, 2014, 10:36:52 PM
I've literally only JUST seen the Alien, and it was a pants sh*tting experience! Really good stuff indeed.
Yes, but was it naked and did you fancy it?
:lol: :lol: There needs to be a like button.
Wow. I thought the Sims thread was bad but then I discovered this gem.
I feel secure enough in my earthbound sexuality to say that, YES, the Alien WAS naked (seriously? Ever seen thaat thing in clothes? What's it supposed to wear? A hawaiian shirt and surf pants? :p) and, as far as insectile, nine foot death dealing biomechanical critters go... no, I didn't fancy it.
Do you know those thing are what we might evolve into or have evolved from.....
So, they're naked and they're us!
Quote from: HdE on 09 October, 2014, 02:46:50 AM
I feel secure enough in my earthbound sexuality to say that, YES, the Alien WAS naked (seriously? Ever seen thaat thing in clothes? What's it supposed to wear? A hawaiian shirt and surf pants? :p)
A hat and a cane, dude - a hat and a cane!!
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aVZUVeMtYXc
So off the topic, is the game good?
There's a game!?
I thought Alien: Isolation was just a general description of the thread....
;)
Quote from: Jon on 09 October, 2014, 10:00:35 AM
There's a game!?
I thought Alien: Isolation was just a general description of the thread....
;)
Well played, sir!
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Please make this thread go away. The giggles don't make up for the unpleasantness.
Quote from: TordelBack on 09 October, 2014, 10:30:00 AM
Please make this thread go away. The giggles don't make up for the unpleasantness.
chiaroscuro, dude chiaroscuro.
What have malevolent movie reels got to do with it?
Crew Expendable is a great adrenaline rush. A quick 'arcade' experience.
The main game is much like the film, slow paced at first but once the Alien makes it's appearance you really start to feel under threat.
It's amazing how much of a constant feeling of dread you get when you know it's around.
So far it's good fun and scary in equal measure.
I apologise for any unpleasantness that came from any of my commentary, but some of you have admitted that the aliens are naked and that could mean you also understand there whole method for reproduction which as always been shown uncensored in each of the films is very explicit.
Quote from: King Pops on 08 October, 2014, 11:15:16 PM
Quote from: HdE on 08 October, 2014, 10:36:52 PM
I've literally only JUST seen the Alien, and it was a pants sh*tting experience! Really good stuff indeed.
Yes, but was it naked and did you fancy it?
Neither phallic nor yonic enough for me.
Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 09 October, 2014, 12:26:35 PM
I apologise for any unpleasantness that came from any of my commentary
Now, y'see,
that's more like it...
Quotebut
And
that, right there, is where you went wrong. There's great big hole of skin-crawling creepiness. You're in it. You dug it. Stop digging.
Jim
I'm a couple of hours into this and so far I am enjoying it.
just a couple of minor niggles so far, the save system sucks, can we please go back to games letting us save where we want and having multiple slots please. Also, having the game drop to my desktop because my screensaver kicks in when I'm watching a longer cut scene is a bit of an immersion breaker.
I don't so much mind not being able to jump but seeing corridors blocked by a row of knee height packing cases that a toddler could step over feels a bit stupid.
Minor whinges aside though the game is great, I love the overall design and the sound and lighting are great. No quick time events either (so far) although making the player pointlessly press combinations of keys to perform some actions is a bit of a baffling feature.
Quote from: Rog69 on 10 October, 2014, 11:59:11 AM
I'm a couple of hours into this and so far I am enjoying it
The thread or the game?
Quote from: Rog69 on 10 October, 2014, 11:59:11 AM
....making the player pointlessly press combinations of keys to perform some actions is a bit of a baffling feature.
Ah, the thread.
:lol:
Quote from: Rog69 on 10 October, 2014, 11:59:11 AM
just a couple of minor niggles so far, the save system sucks, can we please go back to games letting us save where we want and having multiple slots please.
The mind the public telephone styled save point. I think they're quaint and I was thinking they're kind of like
ATM's (Bank Machines located on the sides of various buildings, mostly outside banks or in side shopping malls. Where you can withdraw your money from or check your bank account!) and I would be surprised if that could be another one of they're functions aside from being a place where you c an save your game;)
I think it's one of those things that make this game attractive and a little more challenging if you believe that not being able to save anywhere you like is a difficult hurdle.
At least this doesn't have the same save system as
State of Decay where it will save your game automatically at random times and never when you want it to at all.
BTW I have been playing at toughest difficulty where I think I can only save my game about as much as I have these special points left over or something like that. Anyway, on my second/third go, I got as far as meeting the [spoiler]hostile bald-head Scottish fellow who looks like that well known author and where he took the female lead to his place of abode in the ventilation system.[/spoiler]
What has this thread become?
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Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 10 October, 2014, 02:42:41 PM
Quote from: Rog69 on 10 October, 2014, 11:59:11 AM
just a couple of minor niggles so far, the save system sucks, can we please go back to games letting us save where we want and having multiple slots please.
The mind the public telephone styled save point.
I really meant
DON"T mind the public telephone styled save pointS.
Another game is currently installing from
Steam....
hardly wait for this one!
Quote from: von Boom on 10 October, 2014, 02:45:59 PM
What has this thread become?
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Let's turn this into a GIF party.
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Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 10 October, 2014, 06:20:39 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 10 October, 2014, 02:45:59 PM
What has this thread become?
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Let's turn this into a GIF party.
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If you insist....
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Quote from: Hawkmonger on 10 October, 2014, 06:24:42 PM
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This. Is. Awesome!!!
Funny thing is, that's not even the weirdest thing posted on this thread
Played a few hours of the story and also the 2 Ripley Edition DLCs, and absolutely loving this. It's just fantastically well put together and does an amazing job of capturing the atmosphere of the movie. It's relentlessly tense, and can be pretty difficult, but errs more on the side of satisfying once you get better at evading the alien.
The art and sound design are stunning - probably the most terrifying and intense section of the game so far had literally nothing happening, just some astonishing sound design and score work adding up to a whole lot of creeping dread.
The main thing I'm impressed with though is how committed it is to the slow burn. Most games/movies would throw an alien encounter in early on (and it must have been tough to pitch the game like this), but this follows much closer to the pace of the movie than that, meaning you have an exceptionally long time for the unease to build up before it starts putting you under real threat. Once it does you never really relax again because you know you're never far from the creature. My one small gripe is that once you aquire the flamethrower it's a bit too easy to send the alien packing, which takes away from the fear somewhat. The ammo is quite limited but not limited enough to deter you from using it.
Still got a lot to play through (apparently it's quite a long game) and really itching to get back into it.
I've actually started again from scratch, seeing as my PS3 told me there was an update (which has fixed some annoying, noticeable bugs - like Samuels prodding buttons on a previously invisible hand held device.)
It's big on atmosphere, for sure. They've nailed the aesthetic. I've had my first encounter withthe Alien twice now, and it was JUST as terrifying the second time around.
I really think this provides the sort of Alien experience a lot of movie fans have been pining for for a while. The chance to go toe to toe (or rather, AVOID going toe to toe) with the slavering beastie itself? Unmissable.
Quote from: Goaty on 10 October, 2014, 06:34:35 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 10 October, 2014, 06:24:42 PM
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This. Is. Awesome!!!
Who smarter the one who's part of hive mind or the brute who obviously is only skilled enough to use tech it may have never designed and created the exotic hard ware?
They both seem retarded to me :lol:
Now here is the
Good Game Reveiw - Alien Isolation (http://www.abc.net.au/tv/goodgame/video/default.htm?src=/tv/goodgame/video/xml/20141014_2030.xml&item=05)
I'm stuck in this game at the moment.
I'm at the place where you can catch those shuttles to some places and two of them are powered down and might need fixing. The only thing I have found is a panel you can rewire. I've tried doing stuff with this, but it doesn't appear to make any difference.
I caught shuttle to engineering section and encountered three or four hostile men with guns and hid and moved away from them. I then had to return and ended up knocking one of them out from behind and took all his gear. While caught the shuttle back to hub-station where I am stuck not attracting the attention of the other guys. The A.I. who sometimes that bad....they were all firing their weapons on the back wall. Their back were turned while doing this and made my escape that much easier.
I came back later to see what I could do and see if I could finish them off taking the rest of their gear, but they were all gone.
Has anybody finished this game. I am now stuck.
I'm not sure if I should try harder before asking for help.
Game of the year for me.
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This. Is. Awesome!!!
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I was put off this by a couple of average reviews, however I trust my 2000AD brethren more and will get this at the weekend!
Pete - I think you'll get along with it just fine!
I'm really NOT a gamer, but this was too intriguing to pass up. I actually went and read the infamous IGN review and found it to be pretty flawed in ts understanding of what the game is meant to provide.
Want to experience pants-wetting terror as you try to stay hidden from one of THE classic movie monsters of all time? This is the experience you're after. It really is PROPERLY scary at times.
My only issues at this stage are that I would have liked a little clearer direction interms of what I'm actually supposed to DO at any given time. And there ARE a few bugs that crop up from time to time (so be sure to patch your game early on if you get it.)
Otherwise, I love it. I just wish I had time right now to actually PLAY it!
That's me finished it in just over two weeks. I thought it was brilliant, really loved it.
I didn't find it too long, the Alien threat was pretty much constant in one form or another and there is a pleasant surprise in the form of a playable section (around the middle of the game) as a character recites a story which Alien movie fans will love to see :)
Its a toss up between this and Evil Within for my halloween game. Tough choice for me as they both got very mixed reviews.
Alien gameplay reminds me of Outlast which I thought was fantastic and Evil Within is compared to RE4 which I also loved.
I think I'll just go with whatever is cheapest at the time as I just cant decide.
Really enjoying the game so far but the latest Nvidia drivers have messed it up badly for me, the game crashes on most level loading screens now, which is really annoying with the way the game's save system is implemented.
There are a lot of people reporting this on different forums too, so if you are a member of the master race playing this I would hold off on updating to the latest drivers if you already haven't.
Apparently rolling back to the 340.52 drivers will fix this, just about to do it now.
I had to remove all my Steam games including this one. Because my hard drive needed the space.
I still have the game saves (For all games) safely stored somewhere.
Got Alien: Isolation last night, just £10.69 on Humble Bundle! As but didn't play it yet, so finally play it tonight, and wow, graphic so smooth on my laptop, and so far at start I got flare, still scary, will there be worse to come? as never been feelings that scary for long time!
Far worse to come.its fucking terrifying on hard.
I finally managed to upload one of A.I. videos I made, but you won't be impressed....
Jus the Menu (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXxroM9CBmU)
The longer ones involving actual game play are coming soon.
Quote from: Zenith 666 on 14 March, 2015, 10:21:26 PM
Far worse to come.its fucking terrifying on hard.
I don't even know how you would do that. I played on Normal (or whatever the default is), and there are sections I had to redo ten or fifteen times, especially near the end.
I found it just tough enough on 'normal', but will definitely give the harder setting a try at some stage.
It was an intense game though- I won't be going back to it for a while.
There's a nightmare difficulty as dlc with a broken tracker no health ammo or flashlight indicator more aggressive crew and androids and a Alien that's faster and more adaptable.i said I played it on hard I didn't say I finished in about half way through it yet most of the time I'm cowering in fear.
Been watching at just a small part of, but largely listening to two or three of these while looking at a another webpage.....
Alien Isolation - Boarding Sevastapol (#2) with Hannah & Kim! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDG4FqRThOA)
I would love to know how they do that, have them selves miniaturised at the right bottom of the screen in the foreground of their own gameplay videos.
I have tried to do this myself, but not sure how to use the software properly or wether I'm using the right type for this.
Whole series of these following their entire play through the game. The first one is just Hannah reviewing A.I. - Crew-Expendable with some random guy. I only found one of the later ones they made and what that one for a few moments not knowing where they were at all and then tuned out (While still listening to their charming commentary!) in case it would spoil the rest of the game for me. Then I heard one of go on about the Space-Jockys and tried locate the web page again to catch a glimpse from their talk of them, I'd say there was something different about them and it was only when I managed to find their page that one of them was talking the protagonist through some caves while suited up in one of cricket-pad space suits.
I was only watching that page fro a sec before I switched to another page and then lost it all together after accidently deleting it. Obviously a spoiler. but their commentary was most interesting at that point.
I could find that exact page with out sitting through all of them after that.
Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 15 March, 2015, 09:54:53 PMI would love to know how they do that, have them selves miniaturised at the right bottom of the screen in the foreground of their own gameplay videos.
Green-screen (chroma-key) curtain behind them, and a video-mixer that supports it, like X-Split. :)
Hard is intense, but enormously satisfying. Glad I played on Normal before moving up to that though.
Did a no deaths playthrough for the achievement but didn't do that on hard, I'm not that mental!
Oh crap, Alien: Isolation on sale for £8 on Steam now!
I love this game but it's kicking my ass.had I been on the Nostromo I'd have died before Kane.Save system causing me biggest problem in that I keep forgetting to save.Modern games have been bloody spoiling me with their auto saves.
Quote from: Zenith 666 on 27 March, 2015, 12:01:41 AM
I love this game but it's kicking my ass.had I been on the Nostromo I'd have died before Kane.Save system causing me biggest problem in that I keep forgetting to save.Modern games have been bloody spoiling me with their auto saves.
Save every time you see a save point...and don't, as I did, assume that you're safe when doing so. The alien can pop up and spike you a new one in the few seconds it takes to do.
People are still talking about this and playing it? Awesome!
I had my first chance in ages to sit down and play it for a bit mid-week. I'm still not even halfway through, and I'll admit that every time I clap eyes on the Alien it's still terrifying.
Currently playing through a section where the Alien has just dropped through a ceiling vent as I'm trying to find my way into a locked infirmary. What makes this so stressful is that the area has literally nowhere I can hide save for a few lockers and containers. There are no doors anywhere I can lock to keep the bastard at bay, and I could literally run into it at any moment. Simple things like that really ratchet up the tension.
In efforts to preserve my manliness and convince myself that I'm NOT reduced to a trembling wreck by a bunch of pixels on a screen, I've taken to apeing this comic whenever it's clear I'm about to become Xeno food:
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Quote from: HdE on 27 March, 2015, 06:51:17 PM
Currently playing through a section where the Alien has just dropped through a ceiling vent as I'm trying to find my way into a locked infirmary. What makes this so stressful is that the area has literally nowhere I can hide save for a few lockers and containers. There are no doors anywhere I can lock to keep the bastard at bay, and I could literally run into it at any moment. Simple things like that really ratchet up the tension.
It's one of the most intense sections of the game- prior to obtaining the flamethrower (and ability to make the creature temporarily retreat).
There's a trophy for completing this section without dying- I only managed on 'easy'.
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******HERE BE SPOILERS*******
You have been warned
Once the first Alien is flushed away, (after a bug that meant I couldn't trigger the cutscene to end the level and had to redo the ENTIRE level) the pace does drop somewhat. I found the last 1/3 a real slog. The nest was cool, though. But yes, this game is harder than a diamond coated daystick.
Damn I've got the dreaded black screen that comes out of nowhere. Looks like I can't play A.I due to Hardware/software issues. No cure on line as far as I can tell. Boo! Thought it re created the atmosphere of the original Alien film brilliantly. Enjoy it folks.
Quote from: IAMTHESYSTEM on 02 April, 2015, 08:10:04 PM
Damn I've got the dreaded black screen that comes out of nowhere. Looks like I can't play A.I due to Hardware/software issues. No cure on line as far as I can tell. Boo! Thought it re created the atmosphere of the original Alien film brilliantly. Enjoy it folks.
You can reload at the previous mission and replay through from there.I know for a fact that there is a gamebreaking bug around mission 15/16 and only reloading from previous mission can you continue playing.only just received the flamethrower.love this game but hard is actually HARD.