ITT: Alien Games

>>387773293
It was a product of love.

>>387774209
pretty much this

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>>387774209
This exactly.
Though the devs said to 'never say never', there will likely never be another like it.

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post yfw it'll never get a sequel that improves on the game before it.

>buy game during sale
>play for an hour but too scared to continue

im a huge pussy i dont even know why i bought it

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>yfw A:I is almost 4 years old already

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>>387774832

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>>387774929
I can understand anon. But if you're a huge fan of the first alien movie, then you owe it to yourself to power through. It's a great feeling to be terrified.

This would be a great online game with a small group for multiplay. The players would have to multi- task between performing spaceship duties and countering the alien monster threat. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to everyone, one of the players is a synthetic traitor trying to aid the alien.

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>is someone there?

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>>387774989

>Time flows as water
>Rushing past us, unnoticed
>So too will we pass

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>>387773293
well if its competing against alien colonial marines, pretty much anything would be better...

>>387775325
I hope you die in pain.

Was this game even scary? I dropped it after 3 hours because it was boring af. I tend to play scary games with groups of people but none of us were feeling the game. Finally gave in after nothing happened and quit. When does the alien actually interact with you directly anyway?

>>387776292
I personally found the game to be terrifying, but I also went out of the way to immerse myself. Headphones, no lights, playing at night, the works.

>>387777193
I see. Maybe I should've gave it a chance. It's just that it was moving along so slowly and I guess we all just wanted to get on with the scares and spooks.
One game that really fucked me up was dead space 2.
Played through most of it before I got the Sony 7.1 headset. The rest of the game was just so different. The ending really got me good and I was playing in the afternoon. The whole ending sequence left me with cold sweats and my arms were actually shaking. I've never experienced anything like that before and up until this day.
Now I always suggest people play horror games with either a good surround system or headphones/headsets. If not, then they're really missing out on a big part of the game imo. Dead space 2 had amazing audio work. I honestly was nervous wondering if noises I heard were necromorphs or not, it felt so random.

Anyway, I hope more horror games release soon.

>>387773293
what was so great about crouching for many hours and waiting while alien will randomly respawn behind your back?

>>387777971
You asked when the alien truly shows up, I suggest you go through it until you get to Medbay. You're trapped in a small sector with the alien walking around, and you have to hack computers while the alien is hunting you. It's fucking terrifying.

>>387777971
I found it really easy to immerse myself within the game because the aesthetics were so accurate to the source material. Not only that, but the sound design was incredible, just like Dead Space 1/2, and the game ran incredibly well to boot.
Also, this guy >>387778151 has the right of it. Once you get into the Medbay the game really kicks into overdrive. Medbay's the fourth chapter of the game, and I felt that it did a very good job of setting up for the first encounter there in the previous chapters.

Let's not forget about Ryan "SuperCuck" McCaffery of IGN giving this masterpiece a 5.9/10.

He complained about the difficulty while playing on hard and the retard didn't even realize that the beeping of the motion sensor was how the alien knew where he was, hence why he was dying so much.

>>387778504
IGN is the Cosmopoliton of Vidya games.

>>387773293
>tfw can't play the game without having a boner 80% of the time

You ruined me

>>387776292
>3 hours
>still not meeting the alien
I'm sure you played the game...

>>387779063
To be fair, it is entirely possible to miss it. It's hard, but it can happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc1MwlTwv3E
Discuss this

>>387776292
Stop playing on easy.
Stop running in circles during the introduction.
Get paced and move forward and you'll sure run into a Xeno.

Alien on commodore64 is scarier under the right conditions.

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>>387773293
>get trough half the game
>need to take weeks off because it's so frustrating

>>387779143
What the fuck is there to discuss? The only complaint I can agree with is that the ending was a bit too long.

Why can't they recruit reviewers that at are at least somewhat good at games? This retard had the radar on while in a locker, and he was using fire against the androids.

ISIS needs to bomb IGN headquarters.

I'm playing Alien Isolation for the first time in VR... I can't see how it would be any interesting on a TV. It's pretty cool in VR, though.

>>387776292

>I tend to play scary games with groups of people but none of us were feeling the game.

That's your problem right here, games or movies, anything horror related should be enjoyed alone, it should be an intimate experience between you and the game.

I had too many good horror movies ruined by my friends, any "scary" part in the game becomes a joke because we cant stop fooling around, just the fact that you have someone else there to talk ruins the atmosphere of the game/movie.

You should play alone, otherwise dont waste your time.

>>387774929
just keep reminding yourself that it's literally just a game

>>387779783
>I can't see how it would be any interesting on a TV


Well, playing in a dark room with proper sound system or headphones generally does wonders.

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>>387774824
where are the alien eyes?

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>>387782985
Who knows, it has sockets but clearly no visible eyes.

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>>387784151
>>387782985
Maybe they're like the "pits" in a vipers head that help it sense.

I wish Scott made new alien movies in a similar story as Isolation instead of what Prometheus and Covenant become

>>387774929
>that mission in the reactor core control
I am not easily frightened but fuck that shit.

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sounds alien makes while just walking around randomly looking for you, other games just cant compete with that

>>387779134
Not really. It has an intro thing where it jumps on a desk right above you.

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>>387784640
>go into room with eggs
>panic and shoot chasing facehugger
>mfw i hear angry screeching and heavy footsteps

I hated it, it felt like a bunch of narrow straight pathways and open rooms that are conveniently blocked off for you to follow a path. You'd walk and trigger a predetermined events and then move on. Lots of modern games rely on this so it felt like Call of Duty with an Aliens skin.

Hard to explain but I'm just not a fan of the style.

>>387784724
Well yeah, but before that the alien can totally show up. That's about 2-3 hours in.

>>387775630
That's a pretty neat haiku, anon.
>writes_it_down_on_notebook.jpg

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>>387784778
i dont agree anon but thats ok.

>>387784778
I didn't know that Call of Duty pioneered the usage of events and set-pieces in games. You have opened my eyes to-
no, fuck off. Don't be so fucking stupid.

>get used to the Allen and robot ai
>starting to feel tedious
>just start cashing in on maxed out ammo for weapons and devices
>ten minutes later game takes away all guns

dropped it right there, I'm just so tired of the stealth. if you're not feeling tense it's just extremely boring. even if the alien shows back up I don't even need the super soaker, the ai is so forgiving, and the Aldi brand bots you can literally just juke and walk past

and this is on hard too, not even normal. go ahead and shit on me for not restarting in super nightmare mode but the problem is that the core gameplay is so tedious and I don't really care about the plot at this point, not enough to spend hours more getting there

>>387785276
Nah. I can see what you mean anon. I just love the atmosphere and environment so much that I can forgive some of the worse parts of the game.

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>>387784778
>Call of Duty with an Aliens skin

a-anon no no for once I disagree

>>387773293
>How the fuck did a company like Creative Assembly create such a great horror game?

But they didn't, it was a shit game with broken stealth and mountains of padding

They hired competent people that can make the game. It's also a fact that most of the people that worked on it are not working for CA anymore.

>>387785498
>broken stealth
How?

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Is this game's single player as fun as i remember it being?

>>387785648
It's ok. Worth one play but not much more.

>>387785535
I'm not that guy, but the AYYLIUM was on a fucking leash. I had to use a mod to get the Alien to operate correctly. It could hear you from like a mile away and once you got the flamethrower you could rush everywhere and puff the damn thing away. Don't get me started on the hitboxes for the spit vents. The best way to experience the game is on Normal and even then it's still only a half decent experience.

>>387785763
>not that guy
Okay, but I wasn't asking you. Your input is irrelevant and not even on related to what I asked about.

I want a game that is like this, but in the jungle, and you're being hunted by a predator with limited gear(just so that he can't immediately stomp your guts out).

>>387785648
alien there had really good feel, wall running wherever he wants, being so fast and agile and sneaky as he should be

Anybody play Aliens: Infestation for the DS?

It's pretty short, but I had fun recruiting the different characters.

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>>387785535
>squat behind coffee table
>now completely invisible and can just stare at the alien

>>387786295
Well, I can't defend that. I've never seen it happen because I was never so brazenly out in the open like that, but I won't say it's okay.

I am enjoying this game so far. My only issue is the alien behavior on hard. On one hand I love the fact she can hear me and find me easily and her presence is always nerve wrecking. On the other hand she is always present near me and in this sense the medium difficulty is more realistic and immersive than hard, though when the alien shows up I am not as afraid of her. Since I am playing on PS4 I can't download mod to fix that. Thanks for reading my blogpost.

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Step aside, plebeians.

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>>387784828
>*does thing*

>>387786295
>making the same post in every single AI thread
That webm is literally pointless without knowledge of the difficulty it was recorded at.

>>387786604
>making the same post that implies the difficulty changes the height of the alien's view cone

you think after so long someone would have found footage of it being able to see over waist high objects

Thank god Routine is actually going to happen, since the chances of getting sequel to A:I are quite low.

> Need to get past a bunch of guys
> Throw a noise grenade
> Hide as the Xeno tears them apart
> Feel guilty at hearing their screams, and the noises the thing makes, whilst begging it never finds me

>>387787828
Why is that? A spiritual successor is possible no? Or was the game a commercial fail as this best video game genre usually is?

>>387778504
Doesn't it tell you that the alien can hear the tracker on the loading screen?
What a dumb shit.

>>387779618
Bombing a building full of retards would be frowned upon even by the allah ukbahs

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>>387787871
>walk past group of guys at a fair distance
>they shoot their loud gun at me with no warning knowing there's a killer alien onboard attracted to loud noises
>calmly walk to exit hearing their screams as it tears them apart
>mfw

>Played this game over the course of 3 nights, alone, in a room with all the lights off, and with no interruptions.

Legitimately one of the best video gaming experiences of my life. I can only count a handful of games where I have felt so immersed and invested.

>>387786149
I remember that, it was pretty awesome.

>>387779143
>Clip where Xeno comes and kills you instead while the synth is choking you
I've played through the game twice, when was there ever a situation where you could encounter both? I can't remember at all, I actually thought it was a delibrate design choice to keep the two different enemies apart for changing up the gameplay's pace.

>>387787871
I was disapointed there wasn't more human enemies. They only show up a few times in the game. I wanted to sick the alien on them more.

>>387776292
>I dropped it after 3 hours because it was boring af
Wow you have the game a great chance!
>I dropped it after 3 hours because it was boring af
Actually kys

>>387784778
>t.retard

>>387786553
Imagine shooting your load in her

SPOILERS ON THE GAME UNDERNEATH SORRY I DON'T KNOW HOW TO BLACK IT OUT.

>Be playing
>enjoying
>tell my friends
>get bombared with why I should hate the game
>''The alien doesen't even look for you, it suddenly shows up on the other side of rooms'
>start playing
>get disheartened
>get to generator part
>hiding from 5 aliens

Holy shit everything in this game made sense 10/10

>>387784151
Xenos hunt by pheromones or some weird shit like that, I forget.

The skull is there because it's born from a human.

>>387773293
I really enjoyed it. I was really tense for most of the game, and damn was that escape sequence at the end when the who station is going to heck and multiple Xenos start showing up was great. My only complaint would be that it dragged on a bit in some parts and could have been a bit shorter, but other than it was great.

It actually made Alien (the movie) underwhelming for me. I'd never seen it before playing this game (Only Aliens) so I was expecting the Xenomorph to be like that in the movie but it was basically something that lurked in the shadows and picked off people through their own stupidity. I mean, when Ripley finds it in the escape pod it doesn't even attack her and just waits there until she vents the steam.

Also I was kinda annoyed that I played through the entire game without killing and didn't get the pacifist achievement because it turns out the stun rod is actually lethal on human enemies.

>>387790796
Lurk moar, newfag. Come back in about 2 years when you're not underaged.

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This fuckin game was pure horror for me.
>beep beep beep

Are there any rooms where the Alien can't show up during the chapters where it's present? Like whenever you start a new chapter when getting off a tram station are you safe there or does it show up even there?

>>387791567
I'm pretty sure that only places that're safe from the alien are obvious, designated safe zones like the one with the survivors where you get your first flamethrower.
And even then, it's not safe forever.

>>387773293
It's a great game, the thing I love about it the most is they didn't milk the shit out of it.

It's great and it was a one off.

>>387790910
It still has some extraordinary way to see, perhaps (in addition to sensing pheromones) it can detect objects and movement like the bats do.

>>387776292
>it took him three hours and he didn't even finish the opening chapter
WEW

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>>387791870
This, kek

>>387791978
>thought it was a still image
>not really paying much attention and see the eyes move
Geez anon, don't do that.

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>>387773293
You'd think that now that the dust settled people would have a more objective view about this game ?
Sure, it was a product of love, and it succeeded in being 1. A different take compared to the usual games based off the franchise (usually shooter based, Aliens or AvP circlejerks) 2. A beautiful hommage to the first movie.

But the actual game part ? Decent at best. If anything this game proves sometimes a concept that's intended for a movie doesn't work well as a game, having to play hide and seek with a good but limited AI that's either right down dumb or cheap depending on the difficulty can only entertain one for so long.

Game gets repetitive fast once you're past the first few hours, and it really, really overstays its welcome. There should be a limit to how many encores you're gonna throw to delay the ending before you get your player real frustrated. More isn't always good. Add to that the slow walking "cinematic" sequences that get old fast (although we could definitely argue the Derelict one was justified) and really, you might realize the game isn't as godly as everyone makes it out to be.

Shame the story was also just pretext to recreate as many lookalike scenes from the movie as possible (biggest contender being a whole subplot about going to have a talk with totally notMother just because)

TLDR ; Amazing love letter to Alien, mediocre game.

Xenomorph is one of the best designed horror monsters hands down.
Nigga is both fucking scary and aesthetic

>>387789447

Off the top of my head there are two sequences where you have to jank around a Joe to get to one of those giant computer terminals with lasers on the side while an alien is also in the room

>>387776292
I can actually relate, because while I enjoyed the game, I can understand that with a game like this it's sort of a requirement to feel the atmosphere. It had a fantastic atmosphere imho, matched the first movie almost exactly. Being "scary" relies on immersing yourself in the atmosphere.
To tell you the truth though, it ain't exactly scary, unless the alien surprises you. It's more about pressure and being afraid of the thing coming because you know what happens then.
The thrill of a chase essentially.

>I dropped it after 3 hours because it was boring af
That's essentially the intro and you probably proceeded with a slow a peace. This game is long.

>When does the alien actually interact with you directly anyway?
The first major encounter is when you reach the medbay and talk with a doctor.

>>387785648
It was good, but nothing beats AvP1 and AvP2.

>>387773293
they stole another game's idea.

What's with the amount of newfags in these threads today? I swear this is getting out of control.

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>>387784778

>Call of Duty with Aliens

>>387789447

>Joe talking to the Xeno
>"What are you?"

>>387773293
>How the fuck did a company like Creative Assembly create such a great horror game

Get a bunch of people that understand what was good about the original Alien, add in access to film sounds and production material, and add to that an understanding of PC game development.

Bang. Alien Isolation.

>>387776292
The game begins in San Cristobal medical centre.

>>387782985
His body is technically an eye.

Anyone who thought Alien Isolation was less than brilliant (except occasionally in the AI, human AI was especially bad. Voice acting was also sketchy, and there was that fuckweird bug with the custcenes on PS4 when it first came out) are literal, actual retards.

>>387785648

a game with great potential ruined by being incomplete and poorly tested.

an AVP game absolutely cannot have bad netcoding and bad matchmaking, it was dead within a year.

>>387785648
Alien and Marine campaigns are okay, but I remember the Predator being fun as fuck.

>>387779908
I find it better with friends or family. If they're goofing off, then they probably weren't interested to begin with. Scary movies and games are two different things though. Scary movies only have maybe 1-2 jump scares that actually get you. The enticing thing about scary movies is the story, what's happening and finding out why along the way.
Games on the other hand immerse you more since you're controlling everything. It grips people more in a sense.
Anyway, I never had problems playing scary games with a group. It simple, one person plays until they physically scream or flinch from playing and they pass the controller along. Groups silent most of the time other than when telling each other what we think is going on and such.. I totally understand where you're coming from but compared to the games I played during that time it just wasn't doing it for us. I had the dam controller for 3 hours. Other games start to scare from the beginning to the end, scare after scare. All we were getting was glimpses that the alien is there repeatedly and we just wanted the dam thing to chase us already. I'll just take the word from all the anons here that it's a long strung out game. Maybe I'll visit it again later on by myself.

>>387791870
Well sorry for wanting to understand and get immersed more about the game by reading documents n shit. Documents in horror games tend to give some good info about shit that's going on.

>>387789447
>Xeno does not assault Joes and vice versa
what a shame, would love to see some rugged Joes kicking alien's ass

>>387799260
Nice try bud, I read the computer docs and still saw the Alien within the first hour.

>>387794502
That Joe doesn't attack you though.

>>387798926

just like the alien movies, it's not the encounters themselves that get you but the ongoing tension of hiding and escaping from an unseen enemy.

the whole point is NOT seeing the Alien because seeing it means you're already dead.

>>387778504
What a fucking moron. Alien Isolation is a labor of love and it shows. If you want to play Alien the movie, play this game. Note I said ALIEN, NOT ALIENS.