Alien: Isolation Review - Structural Perfection
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It'll be interesting to see whether this actually outsells Colonial Marines or not.Jimothy Sterling said:
HA HA HA who am I kidding? The only people spending money right now are the rich. That's why the Preorder Culture exists at all. It's not because gamers are too stupid to wait for the reviews. It's because everybody's broke EXCEPT the whales!
Glad to hear they seem to have pulled it off. I'll definitely get it... at some point. Endless backlog. Still, over the course of the development, a lot of negative news came out; glad to see the developers got it right. One thing, though: How friggin' obvious is the main character as a Ripley knock-off? She looks so similar. :-D
I'm not going to buy the game...but not because I doubt Jim, its simply because survival horror does not appeal to me.
BUT I felt like I wanted to share congratulations to the Alien fan's who finally have a good game after the utterly awful Colonial Marines.
BUT I felt like I wanted to share congratulations to the Alien fan's who finally have a good game after the utterly awful Colonial Marines.
Since the copy he reviewed was stated to be provided by the publisher, they might not have included that content. He also in one of his Jimquisition episodes came across as very annoyed they had something that seems important to the story locked in pre-order DLC (at least that is how I took his position).Scorpid said:
For me I am very torn about this game and its why I wish companies still provided demos even if they were after the games release. Right now I won't buy it before a major sale on Steam because from the various reviews I have read the game is either going to be something I love to play or loathe that I bought and I can't see to find out which way its going to wind up being.
I've never really played an Alien game or watched any of the movies. The premise of this game does sound interesting to me though.
And I'm also kinda glad to see this doesn't seem an absolute train-wreck like the last Alien game.
And I'm also kinda glad to see this doesn't seem an absolute train-wreck like the last Alien game.
As Jim is an Alien fan I trust him the most to make the judgement on whether or not an Alien game is good. I mean broken is one thing, but I think if this game captured the spirit of the first film than I think I will be a happy customer.
IGN was really low and I actually didn't want to keep reading because it just sounded like the kind of people who don't like the source material very much, criticizing it for being the way it's supposed to be. I remember IGN complaining that they wondered how much of the 20 hour game time they had spent hiding in lockers, but I think if you're a survival horror fan, that's not a bad thing necessarily. Also Polygon had a pretty low score, but it also seemed like they weren't exactly fans of the genre.
The game looks good. the people who's opinion I value on the subject say it's good. I will play it, and I hope I like it too.
IGN was really low and I actually didn't want to keep reading because it just sounded like the kind of people who don't like the source material very much, criticizing it for being the way it's supposed to be. I remember IGN complaining that they wondered how much of the 20 hour game time they had spent hiding in lockers, but I think if you're a survival horror fan, that's not a bad thing necessarily. Also Polygon had a pretty low score, but it also seemed like they weren't exactly fans of the genre.
The game looks good. the people who's opinion I value on the subject say it's good. I will play it, and I hope I like it too.
WRONG!!softclocks said:
The primary purpose and obligation of video games is to raise the status of women. If it fails to do that, it fails.
Im wondering which difficulty jim played on? Ign played it on hard which the game reccomends and didnt like it too well. Jim what did you play and do you also recommend hard??
Bleh between this and Shadows of Mordor that's 2 games I didn't care much about before but I'm now really interested in playing.
Way back when Isolation was previewed I said I disliked the idea of an invincible antagonist, if the player is lucky/good enough to be able to set a trap for the alien and kill it with makeshift weaponry, then it should be allowed.
I stand by that, especially if there's flamethrowers in the game (normally the Alien runs away from the flames but what if you were to setup a room as a trap leaving it with no escape routes?), you should be able to kill the Alien.
Heck even hiding in a small room like Newt did should be an option even if it leads to boring gameplay.
But other then disliking the idea of an invincible foe, I'm liking everything else I hear about this game.
Way back when Isolation was previewed I said I disliked the idea of an invincible antagonist, if the player is lucky/good enough to be able to set a trap for the alien and kill it with makeshift weaponry, then it should be allowed.
I stand by that, especially if there's flamethrowers in the game (normally the Alien runs away from the flames but what if you were to setup a room as a trap leaving it with no escape routes?), you should be able to kill the Alien.
Heck even hiding in a small room like Newt did should be an option even if it leads to boring gameplay.
But other then disliking the idea of an invincible foe, I'm liking everything else I hear about this game.
What I originally wanted was the Colonial Marines I waited 6 years for, that never really arrived and then Isolation was planned and it kinda gave me hope, then they showed it to be an Amnesia type game and my interested shot down to zero, I wasn't really a big fan of Amnesia and I like other types of Horror games but not the Amnesia types so I'm going to pass on this and sigh because I'll probably have to wait another nigh 6 years until I finally get the Aliens game I want that isn't a staple from another game.
Though horror isn't exactly my favorite genre, I am happy to see another actually GOOD Aliens game. I had almost given up on it.
I'm not sure why I don't like horror any more. I grew up watching and loving horror and splatter flicks. I loved games like Clive Barker's Undying and Silent Hill 2 to bits. It's not that I can't take the pressure; I can. It's just that I don't enjoy it like I used to. I still really enjoy some horror-ish things, like Dark Souls, but I think that's because of the sense of adventure rather than plain old shit-your-pants terror.
I'm not sure why I don't like horror any more. I grew up watching and loving horror and splatter flicks. I loved games like Clive Barker's Undying and Silent Hill 2 to bits. It's not that I can't take the pressure; I can. It's just that I don't enjoy it like I used to. I still really enjoy some horror-ish things, like Dark Souls, but I think that's because of the sense of adventure rather than plain old shit-your-pants terror.
After a friend cautioned me about the game today, I am just wondering how far you got into the game? For I am being told I will enjoy the first ten or so hours of the game, but after that it feels like there was publisher meddling and it hurts the second half of the game, for the game feels like it reaches a conclusion about halfway through and then continues.
From what i've read the PC port is also great, it can run @1080p144fps! (Which is something that you don't always see unfortunately, which is why i own a second monitor, a higher-res IPS one)