I mean, I agree that it's not good enough. Though I wanted a sequel in 2014 and still want one now, I have a mountain of issues with the game. But there's also not enough to Alien for it to be this long. Unless it takes almost half the game for the alien to appear and the first half is more exploration and character interactions.
If you like a game, but you feel that it is too long, then imagine to play 2 games of half length instead.
You're unbelievably stupid if you think all game loops and concepts would hold up for over 300 hours. All those games people wish went on for longer ended before they had outstayed their welcome. There's only so much you can do with a game copying the Alien film format and Alien: Isolation did it all... several times over. Your insipid line of thinking is what leads to the standard AAA filler content.
I wouldn't get my hopes up if I were you. Volound, the RTS nerd youtuber who covered Creative Assembly leaks about the situation at the company, had a pretty informed perspective on the chances of this turning out good.
There wasnt enough variation in gameplay to warrant all that game time. Plus playing hide and seek with an alien is tense and takes a mental toll.
That's ragebait.
Is it though? Taking it from the bottom...
Quite the logical leap there woman. Nobody said anything about 300 hours.
Crouch walking is just the abstracted gaming standard version of sneaking. The game did a fine job adapting the first film into something playable, but there's only so much you can do with the concept. You can hide from the alien, run from it, attempt to fight it off and scrounge up materials that might help you. The core experience of holding up a motion tracker and hearing the beeping come closer, of escaping the pursuit of the xenomorph, those were the best presentations of the creature in video games up until that point, and since.
Crouch-walking for quiet and invisibility at a certain distance is terrible. It looks lame, it feels lame, it's slow, it's idiotic. It makes every protagonist less cool. You call it the abstracted gaming standard, but I know it's forced because players no longer know any different. They EXPECT it. People thought Sam Fisher looked cool, so then every game needed to have it, and the thing just grew exponentially without any opposition. I know there were crouch-makes-quiet games before, but Splinter Cell made it mandatory across the medium. MGS3 remake has it for no other reason. The systems were already in place to let Snake move nearly upright. I tried to walk as much as possible in Alien: Isolation, in defiance. Mostly only crouched when I knew the alien was very near. It's actually not THAT necessary. Still annoying, still lame, but everyone you see play the game crouches more than they need to. I'd rather have a kind of tip-toe movement, even if it takes an extra button (because crouch still has to be there for access into low spaces, taking cover or hiding behind objects, going prone -- with a brief hold -- and potentially also the action: ducking under projectiles/melee, performing low attacks, rolling from falls). But not all of these games need a tip-toe alternator. Some would be fine just having the default movement quiet.
. I don't remember any issues in length or moving around. It's been a while since I played from memory the game had crouch, walk, run, sprint(unsure), prone and leaning (this should be standard in all FPS games imo) and bring back jumping FFS. This used to be staple in early 00's PC games but AAA dumbed it down for console buttons so hurr durr can play - Modern FPS games barely even allow the player to open doors as part of gameplay anymore, you move around and wait for cutscenes.
I know that you're in that phase when you think it's very interesting to observe that video games, and fictional media in general, take certain liberties and real life doesn't work quite the same. You're misconstruing it though, a friend of mine introduced me to the Thief series some time ago and to my knowledge it was one of the pioneering games in the stealth genre, and set many standards going foward. In it your visibility was lowered and you became slightly more quiet if you crouched. This was simply for the convenience of gameplay first, coming to a crawl you were rewarded with less chance of detection. There were also varied speeds of locomotion standing up so you had to judge by the distance and alertness of enemies just how far you had to take it.
So yeah, I don't consider it a flaw at all. No complaints. The tip-toe button you were talking about was already done in Thief but I think it would be superfluous for Alien: Isolation, it wasn't as mechanically deep. Walking was fine for when you were trying to be quiet enough to not attract attention but the Xenomorph wasn't breathing down your neck. Having played it on PC I'm also wondering if the more fluid console controller didn't already allow for what you're asking for, where movement isn't a binary forward or not at all but one of degrees of the joystick.
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