Alien: Isolation

[Ezekiel]

It's okay. Anniversary review is shallow. There's so much to dislike about this game, I only scratched the surface two three pages back, yet he could barely think of anything. Think I never did mention how far too generous the crafting materials and resources are on even the higher difficulties and how boring it is that nearly all of 'em are just thrown or placed as mines, but on the highest difficulty IIRC some become TOO rare and the alien becomes too much of a satellite. Should have let you make your own difficulty by adjusting each of the parameters: alien, items, HUD (whose absence is annoying on the highest because the level design doesn't really have a natural flow like those of the better survival horror games of old). Old tech comes off as more stupid than in original movie. Interacting with devices feels like playing with dumb toys. He's also wrong about the difficulty. Only so hard if it's baby's first stealth game. I mostly didn't wait like the original reviewer apparently did, I progressed as the alien searched. Story was shitty.

Wanted a sequel as much as anyone, for a time, but fans make me wanna be the contrarian by overrating it significantly.

 

[Alienman]

I find it frustrating that no gun in the game can penetrate the skin of the alien, when a 9 mm blasted the head of one to small pieces in Aliens.

 

[Ezekiel]

I find it frustrating that no gun in the game can penetrate the skin of the alien, when a 9 mm blasted the head of one to small pieces in Aliens.

Yeah, if they wanted this, shouldn't have put guns in the game. So goofy. But they were very liberal with the alien. It's much bigger than in Alien and Aliens and doesn't stand the same. Stands like a dinosaur instead of a hunched over human. Look at the feet.

 

[Alienman]

Yeah, if they wanted this, shouldn't have put guns in the game. So goofy.

Yup, it makes no sense.

“Ouchy, human toy hurt, I better run”

Why not just kill the pesky human, if you are immune?

 

[Ezekiel]

The aliens being very difficult (and dangerous, because of instant-death acid) to kill would have been pretty cool. So much vital resources and alerting of other aliens that it's still mostly smarter to stay hidden. Mostly. Could use environment to destroy them as well. A crusher press, a molting factory, containers dropped...

 

[Beowulf]

 

[Konjad]

10 years to reach early development?

 

[Ezekiel]

10 years to reach early development?

It was the new movie and Sega's interest in bringing back IPs following the success of Streets 4.

 

[ferratilis]

This time, IGN will give it a 9/10, but it will be shit.

 

[Alienman]

Looking forward to what the Xenomorph will look like by a dev team consisting of fat women with purple hair.

 

[Ezekiel]

Looking forward to what the Xenomorph will look like by a dev team consisting of fat women with purple hair.

Do we have a recent team photo?

 

[Alienman]

Looking forward to what the Xenomorph will look like by a dev team consisting of fat women with purple hair.

Do we have a recent team photo?

Not sure, but the canceled game Hyenas does not fill me with confidence.

 

[orcinator]

It's going to keep copying horror game trends and copy those 1 hour long "do chores then see a jumpscare" games that subsist solely off vtubers.

Which isn't that different from the original but maybe A:I 2 will only be 5x longer than it should be instead of 10x longer than it should be.