Current Events > Started Alien: Isolation again (potential SPOILERS)

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I stopped playing during a stealth part that was annoying as hell. I'll most likely try it again one day.

Bravo kid.

I also quit when the alien showed up. The fear factor and the difficulty ramped up so quickly

LeoRavus posted...

I stopped playing during a stealth part that was annoying as hell. I'll most likely try it again one day.

From what I know of the game, isn't it mostly stealth?

That game is still one of the more terrifying games. The Alien has some of the best AI. And its creepy as hell. The atmosphere is just palpable.

I think I've started and quit it like 5 times. I don't dislike it there's just some kind of jank to it. Need to buckle down and beat it

I'm hoping to replay this for my usual October game, but at this point it looks like I'll still be stuck on Yakuza 3 until Christmas.

i played for 2 hours and stopped. I.barely interacted with it and it scared me.

The androids were a lot scarier to me than the alien, and I think I finally figured out why. There's something oddly comforting about the futility of the alien. If the androids see you, your chances of escaping are actually not that bad. So if you do get seen, or even grabbed, you can have a little panic moment where you try to survive. But if the alien sees you, welp.

the alien just gets annoying rather than scary when you progress far enough in the game

One of my favorite games of all time.

What advice I can offer from experience, is sticking to a locker/cabinet until it goes up into a vent hasn't been a winning strategy. I get the sense the game wants to keep you mobile. You'll notice some debris scattered around the halls as you crawl along (when the alien is active in your area), and though they do not look high enough, if you press up close to them, they can keep the alien from spotting you as it walks past, allowing you to keep moving toward your objective.

One of the most painful chapters is 4, but that was back when I was hiding in lockers and cabinets and hoping it would just go away. Once I started playing a little more boldly, at times trailing behind it while hugging debris as I made my to the exit, I haven't had much trouble since (and this is on hard mode, even).

In areas where the alien isn't active, you can safely walk around without any worry of alerting it (just don't run). But when the alien is prowling in your area, I'd recommend crawling, and walking judiciously when the alien feels like it is sufficiently out of range of hearing you.

I'm a big horror fan and Alien Isolation has some of the best tension I've ever experienced.

But when the Alien is not around the game kinda falls apart.

That game is boring as shit

I got pretty far in before I stopped - there wasn't any reason behind me dropping it, I just got distracted by other things because it's a surprisingly long game.

I may take another run at it at some point, because it is absolutely fantastic.

I couldn't bother to finish it myself.

Gamefaqs likes to swear by it, but I found it very boring. You spend the majority of the time hiding from...not the alien...but from robots.

Game is slow.

I didn't think think the game is scary as much as it is the most stressful and tense game I've played. When the alien is around and you need to get by him and you just slowly walk to the next hiding spot gave me such anxiety.

Tip, don't crouch walk everywhere. Walking is fine (never ever sprint). So long as it's far enough away you can get places faster. Just be ready to hop into a hiding spot.

I love isolation it's one of my most favorite horror games of all time

Yeo, sprinting is a noob trap. Literally no reason to do it ever.

Great game. I think it's a bit too long and I understand the complaint of having to sit and wait for extended periods, but I like the randomness of the alien's AI and the sound design is top notch and really makes the tension palpable.

ReturnOfDevsman posted...

Yeo, sprinting is a noob trap. Literally no reason to do it ever.

Sprinting on the hardest difficulty is essentially painting a homing beacon on your ass for the alien (if it's around at the time). It's actually funny how fast you die.

ReturnOfDevsman posted...

Yeo, sprinting is a noob trap. Literally no reason to do it ever.

only if you know the game and like to tease the alien, like if you're about to get on the elevator

Can't believe it has been 10 years since its release

This was the first game I played after I got my surround sound system and it still has some of the best sound design of any game Ive ever played

hope youre playing with headphones or surround tc, its a game changer being able to pinpoint where things are moving based on sound alone

There's a few frustrating parts where going down certain hallways is just an instakill even if the alien isn't around. I wasnt a fan of how it would attempt to keep you on track using that instead of just blocking off those areas