Thoughts on this game?

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Very underrated. Legitimately the scariest game I've ever played. Falls a bit off in the hive mission and on but still great. Even the levels without the xeno were good.

2 and a half hours in and it's still empty halls with angry dudes and keycard hunts. A game shouldn't bore me to death and take hours to actually start. Not my cup of tea.

>>384939531

it's outlast in space: padded up to the tits edition

would have been okay if it was like 5 hours long, so by the time you learn how to break the shit AI it'd be over, but instead it just drags oooooon

>>384939531
really good game.
the first part is goty.
the end is too long.

>>384939531
best alien game we got so far and one of the best western horror games in genral.
do you like alien? do you like scifi horror? go play it.

>>384941015
outlast is a generic, low effort spook house simulator. comparing it to alien isolation, a game that a lot of care and attention to detail went in, is silly.

>>384939841
"Something's amiss"

>>384941270
nigga it's the same shit, one just has a higher budget but still fails to make the gameplay any good

>>384941461
Nigger what horror games even have good "gameplay"? I mean gameplay is a pretty broad definition dude, what exactly are you even referring to when you say that? I found exploring Sevastapool pretty damn intriguing, coupled with the seamless turns to horror it was very memorable. Please atleast list some horror games with good "gameplay"
>inb4 re4, basically a action game
>inb4 dead space, shoot a blob of meat 10 times and then spam stomp on it

It was amazing for two hard playthroughs but I can't bring myself to play it again. its pretty joyless.

>>384939531
Love it. I was incredible immersed thanks to the awesome visual and sound design. My only complaint was that it was a couple hours too long

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>>384941986

games where the enemy can see over waist high walls

Currently playing it in hard with the unpredictable alien mod. Shit is tense

>>384940797
This. But I played five hours and it was still nothing. It's a walking simulator, anon. The story isn't even worth it. Don't waste your time.

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>>384941141
>do you like alien? do you like scifi horror? go play it.
Alien is my favorite movie. I love sci fi and horror. I even own the game. And I've never played it.

Maybe I should correct that.

>>384942203
>posting a webm without any context towards the difficulty
I mean fuck that could be very easy for all I know where you can walk right on the tail of the fucking thing. Webm's pointless without knowledge of the difficulty. Game has 4 options by the way.

>>384942469


list a game where view cones are affected by difficulty

it's great. The main flaw is that it is too long and drawn-out. There are too many false climaxes

>>384942637
Literally the game we're discussing, I mean fuck even Outlast has it.

>>384942432
damn Kawakami does look like Ripley

>>384941461
>nigga it's the same shit, one just has a higher budget

so are hamburgers and still there's a big difference between mcdonalds and a real burger restaurant.

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>>384942745
>Literally the game we're discussing

>>384939531
It should've been a third shorter and the end just keeps throwing random problems at you to extend it. Getting captured by the airlock flat out should not have happened.

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>>384942432
then leave this thread immediately for your own sake and start playing.

>>384939531
Zero interesting mechanics, shitty narrative, dead environments (in an interactive manner), boring instakill peekaboo "boss" roaming the empty levels, androids that make Thief zombies look interesting... overall an absolute piece of shit of a game.

Oh and an enticing crafting system. What could I possibly create next? Throw more components at me, designers!

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>>384944075
>'I watched alien for the first time last year and it was super boring' - the post

>>384939531
>games semms fun
>style is amazing
>too much of a chickenshit to play

S-should i kill myself?

>>384945775
If you don't enjoy being scared, don't play it. The joy from the game doesn't come from the crafting or sneaking or puzzles (they are easy) but from being scared. Sometimes dealing with the androids too.

I really liked the clear influences of late 90's FPS games like Duex Ex, Thief and System Shock.

>>384945775

Game isn't that scary. Just stressful and unnerving. At least at first anyway. Once I realized I could run when I was far enough away from certain enemies the game lost a little of its scare factor.

>>384939531
pretty cool for about for the first two thirds or so, looks great too

>>384945775
when in doubt the answer is yes

>>384946225
>>384946353

I got scared but enjoyed the story of Prey, Dead Space(s) and bioshock
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>>384939531
Good fun but drags a little towards the end

>>384939531
Game that overstays its welcome.
Its a 8/10 easy if you play it until you get bored of it.
A 5/10 if you force yourself through the whole thing.

>>384942958
always though it was weird how amanda looks nothing like her mother

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>sound of alien entering and exiting the same vent five times in a row while you're trapped under a desk

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good tension on the first playthrough and fantastic sound design and aesthetic, hope it gets a sequel

>>384939531

I freaking loved it. The atmosphere is top notch. The devs did a great job on bringing the Alien universe to life.

I never got passed the first encounter, when it drops out of the vent and scampers off, because I am a sloppy dripping pussy.

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>can't cancel animations for cutting open metal panels
>hear alien busting out of the ceiling the exact second you take your blowtorch out

>>384939531
I can absolutely understand why it's divisive. It takes a long time to actually get started. The Alien can be cheesed with the flamethrower, especially on lower difficulties. It starts to feel very samey thanks to backtracking and repetitive gameplay.

However, despite all this I fucking love the game. It can throw you into the most tense situations and I genuinely found a thrill in outsmarting and outmanoeuvring the Alien. The environments and soundtrack are also stunning.

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Bought it during the PS4 sale for €12 (my PC is shit) and I legit can't play it because of how scary it is. The design on those fucking Working Joe bots is nuts.

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>Start is slow
>Really good atmosphere
>Cue angry dudes with guns
>Dull but fine
>Lorenz Systems lobby
What the fuck was that? I ran downstairs in panic and saved, thinking I could then plot out my move from the bottom of the hall. But no. It practically meant fucking game over if you crawled away in silence instead of trying to go around them straight away.

After a few tries I decided I wasn't going to waste hours on that shit and googled it and ended up dropping the difficulty to Potato and just hitting them with the fucking wrench. Immersion/atmosphere completely ruined and it's now been 6 months and I still haven't felt like playing it again.

>>384950262
I remember being pissed that there were androids and that the alien wasn't the sole threat like Alien. Turned out those fuckers were just as scary. Glad to be wrong.

>>384950529
I think you just suck anon. I had trouble there first, you gotta experiment.

can't wait for the mod to fix vr support

Big disappointment. I was excited for it but the game is long straight corridors with scripted events. That's it. Boring.

>>384950709
On hard they had too realistic senses to the point where you actually could not get up to the lobby again without them instantly spotting you as soon as you tried to go up the staircase. Googling lead to someone mentioning trying to distract them with the comms or some shit but I honestly had no interest in even trying.

The thing is, I wanted a horror game, not a shitty stealth game. Of course they go hand in hand in that you do sneak away from whatever monsters you're trying to evade, but humans aren't scary. It's like playing a Metal Gear Solid without any of the interesting gameplay. Fuck that.

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>>384942203
try that on normal or hard and see how easy it is then faggot.

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>>384947640
>Run straight into 2 humans
>the alien jumps down just feet away
>run through a door like balls while the alien kills the other humans
>get into a locker
>alien breaks it open

>>384939531
Loved it, but I'm a huge fan of Blade Runner/Alien/Predator. That shit is my star wars/star trek.

>>384951070
>scripted events
What scripted events? The Alien is completely random with its own A.I.
So how is it scripted?

>>384951070
>scripted events
Its not scripted.

>>384952923
While I actually do like this game, that guy is right. And the ayy cant see you over waist height even on Nightmare mode.

>>384952923

But I did

Unpredictable Alien mod made me enjoy the game much more. One of the least enjoyable parts of vanilla game for me is the ridiculously short invisible leash that the alien is roped to you with

I know it's meant to increase the tension by always keeping the alien close by, but I thought it had the opposite effect of making the encounters too frequent, so after a while they end up more frustrating than tense

having the alium pretty much freeroaming the level at any given time made strategy more necessary in stealthing your way past it

Bad game everything about it is slow and plodding
crafting shit makes no sense
AI is dumb and abusable (tedious rather than fun)
they tried a system shock like approach where you backtrack a bit but every floor looks so similar you never get the sense you are in a different section and there really isn't anything to explore it may as well be completely linear instead.
the good points are that it looks and sounds great and the alien has never looked better in a videogame
>>384942203
>>384952923
that actually works on every difficulty
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>>384954560
The alien is heavily scripted