Current Events > How scary is Alien Isolation?

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Cause apparently the Xenomorph AI is really fucking good and will cause me to shit myself
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How have they not made this into a vr game.
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It was boring imo
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I enjoyed it but I ended up dying a ton
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It overstays its welcome but it does a superb job of bringing back the slow burn dread of the first movie.
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It's about as scary as a gaming experience can get. Especially if the alien catches you, since you have to watch the final moments of your death from a first-person perspective.
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the atmosphere and tension/mood are fucking spot on. i found myself thinking "oh shit oh shit oh shit" a decent amount during my playthrough.
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It's not very scary but it's tension is fantastic.

Well at least for the first half, it is too long and gets samey. But its a rock solid game.

Despite some flaws the AI for the Alien is genuinely quite good and it makes traversing the ship feel like you're one wrong move away from dying. Something few horror games manage to pull off.
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Is it considered canon to the film series?
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The fact that they use late 70s ghetto computers like the original movie somehow makes the game feel a lot creepier.
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Orthopox12 posted...

Is it considered canon to the film series?

Yes.
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The Admiral posted...

Orthopox12 posted...

Is it considered canon to the film series?

Yes.

I think Ill pick it up
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My only beef was the reliance on non-alien enemies. It was fun at time to lure things to the alien, but I wanted a more one on one survival experience.
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Orthopox12 posted...

The Admiral posted...

Orthopox12 posted...

Is it considered canon to the film series?

Yes.

I think Ill pick it up

And I'll add in that it actually does a great job of universe building, really fleshing out what it would have been like to live in that world if you were a random person.
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Orthopox12 posted...

Is it considered canon to the film series?

Doesn't really matter considering it's pretty unrelated.

However it is incredibly faithful so there is no reason for it not to be
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Pics_nao_plz posted...

Cause apparently the Xenomorph AI is really fucking good and will cause me to shit myself

It's not "really fucking good", its "really fucking rubber band-y". game is alright, tense at times but tbqh the androids are so annoying it became unplayable to me

I agree about the VR comment tho, that would be nice.
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You play as Ripleys daughter right? I remember in Aliens when she is woken up its revealed she had a daughter who passed away already. Im def interested in seeing her story.
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juicebox4 posted...

It's not "really fucking good", its "really fucking rubber band-y".

Well yeah but the game wouldn't go anywhere if you could just leave the alien behind in the first room and never see her again

The point is while the alien is in the area it's dynamic and realistic enough that you can't instantly outsmart it like the braindead AI of most video games. You actually have to use effort.

game is alright, tense at times but tbqh the androids are so annoying it became unplayable to me

You can just run past them. The Android parts are super easy, so much so I'm not sure why they are even there.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

You can just run past them. The Android parts are super easy, so much so I'm not sure why they are even there.

Can't do this on the harder difficulties. You actually need a strategy to bypass them.
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The Alien is a fucking chore to deal with. It literally follows you into every single room so it just turns into a game of move from one closet to the next. Would be a much more intense experience if the Alien fucked off every now and again.
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Orthopox12 posted...

You play as Ripleys daughter right? I remember in Aliens when she is woken up its revealed she had a daughter who passed away already. Im def interested in seeing her story.

It's actually a sad story (the movie-verse that is)

Originally the script was that her daughter was going to be alive. Then Ripley was going to call her at the end of the movie and as an old lady she was going to be really angry at Ripley for "abandoning" her.

But they scrapped it and re-wrote it so the daughter was already dead and died just before Ripley woke up.

AND THEN they cut the entire scene from the movie which pissed off Sigourney Weaver and destroyed the set up for why Ripley is so obsessed with Newt.

A really weird and sad story, typical of the alien franchise.

It was clever for the Isolation game Devs to pick the daughter as a character to play with because it meant they could play with the universe and yet not fuck up any canon
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Game is really damn good. More tense than scary like others said, but it is really fucking tense. Goes on a bit too long, but that's my only big complaint about it.
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The Admiral posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

You can just run past them. The Android parts are super easy, so much so I'm not sure why they are even there.

Can't do this on the harder difficulties. You actually need a strategy to bypass them.

I was about to respond but then saw who it was.

Chicken posted...

The Alien is a fucking chore to deal with. It literally follows you into every single room so it just turns into a game of move from one closet to the next. Would be a much more intense experience if the Alien fucked off every now and again.

Erm, the alien does fuck off every now and again. At one point for quite a long time.
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Chicken posted...

The Alien is a fucking chore to deal with. It literally follows you into every single room so it just turns into a game of move from one closet to the next. Would be a much more intense experience if the Alien fucked off every now and again.

That's exactly what I mean. just a few moments to breathe so I can properly explore is all I'd like. I get why they made it the way they did; the constant sense of dread is realistic to the source material, but for a game it becomes exactly like you said; a chore.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

I was about to respond but then saw who it was.

Yes, it's someone who just beat this game on Nightmare two months ago and knows what he's talking about. Was a wise move for you not to talk yourself into a corner again.

Chicken posted...

The Alien is a fucking chore to deal with. It literally follows you into every single room so it just turns into a game of move from one closet to the next. Would be a much more intense experience if the Alien fucked off every now and again.

It pretty much does, though. The alien will generally be in the same part of the station as you, but it will rarely drop down from the ducts unless you're running around or making a lot of noise. You don't even need to crouch everywhere like some people think, just normal walking is fine for most of the game.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

The Admiral posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

You can just run past them. The Android parts are super easy, so much so I'm not sure why they are even there.

Can't do this on the harder difficulties. You actually need a strategy to bypass them.

I was about to respond but then saw who it was.

Chicken posted...

The Alien is a fucking chore to deal with. It literally follows you into every single room so it just turns into a game of move from one closet to the next. Would be a much more intense experience if the Alien fucked off every now and again.

Erm, the alien does fuck off every now and again. At one point for quite a long time.

And its a breath of fresh air when it does happen. But those are scripted story events. Outside of those, it sticks to your ass like glue.
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Chicken posted...

And its a breath of fresh air when it does happen.

If you sayso

Personally I found that The bits without the alien where way too easy. The Androids were so easy to just bypass, even on Nightmare you could just easily run past them.

Maybe it was breath of fresh air in the sense that the game stopped being tense or a challenge but I kinda liked the challenge and tenseness. And the game was overlong as it was

I feel like you could cut those parts out and lose close to nothing.

Maybe they should have introduced new hazards or something, like smoke in the room made it hard to breathe but didn't effect androids
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the frequency it shows up make it less scary and more frustrating. had they made it show up a LITTLE more seldom (think Lisa in P.T.), my reaction would be more "oh FUCK! fuck fuck fuck!" as opposed to "ugh, for fuck's sake.."

anyway still a decent game.
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Do yoy ever encounter any human enemies or do you just fight androids? I mean I could get if shes not a homicidal killing machine like most protagonists in games. I wish more games went the Breaking Bad route and made killing a choice with consequences.
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Orthopox12 posted...

Do yoy ever encounter any human enemies or do you just fight androids? I mean I could get if shes not a homicidal killing machine like most protagonists in games. I wish more games went the Breaking Bad route and made killing a choice with consequences.

Do you really want people to spoil that for you?

If so

You do encounter humans. Some are friendly, most are hostile. The game has an admirable mechanic where the humans tell you to back off before attacking you, but its kinda flawed as they attack so fast anyway you don't really have a chance to do anything other than kill them or sneak past them

As well as that, the humans make so much noise that the alien is rarely far behind and massacres them all.

But its mainly Alien and his Android bros. Humans are few and far between as they should be

No consequences for killing them tho
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I hated the few scripted kills. There's a point where instead of blocking off a hallway, they make it so if you attempt to use a certain path the alien pops out of nowhere to instant kill you. There's no way to know that before it happens and there's often no way the alien could actually get there from the last point you saw it.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Orthopox12 posted...

Do yoy ever encounter any human enemies or do you just fight androids? I mean I could get if shes not a homicidal killing machine like most protagonists in games. I wish more games went the Breaking Bad route and made killing a choice with consequences.

Do you really want people to spoil that for you?

If so

You do encounter humans. Some are friendly, most are hostile. The game has an admirable mechanic where the humans tell you to back off before attacking you, but its kinda flawed as they attack so fast anyway you don't really have a chance to do anything other than kill them or sneak past them

As well as that, the humans make so much noise that the alien is rarely far behind and massacres them all.

But its mainly Alien and his Android bros. Humans are few and far between as they should be

No consequences for killing them tho

That didnt spoil too much, hopefully less humans means less seeing repeated charecter models? I could care less if all the androids looked like Michael Fassbender.
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Jiek_Fafn posted...

I hated the few scripted kills. There's a point where instead of blocking off a hallway, they make it so if you attempt to use a certain path the alien pops out of nowhere to instant kill you. There's no way to know that before it happens and there's often no way the alien could actually get there from the last point you saw it.

Are you sure about this?

There are certain areas where the alien is scripted to be out of the ducts patrolling, but no scripted kills that I remember. The closest thing is if you pass under a vent that the alien is hiding in, but there is always drool dripping from it. I agree that the alien seems to get to those points rather quickly, but those are still random and are avoidable if you just don't pass underneath.
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Burgess posted...

How have they not made this into a vr game.

Investment versus return.
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