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Alien: Isolation |OT| 1 Alien. 1 Ripley. No Jonesy.
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Very rarely.
Shock_Wave
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I never thought about it: if we shoot the Alien what happens?
LowParry
Member
It runs away, but you've probably pissed it off.
Just finished watching Alien (Director's Cut) for the second time. I first watched it a year or two ago (I was either 16 or 17 at the time, can't remember). Didn't really get it, I got kind of lost with some of the finer plot details and thought it didn't live up to the praise it always gets. But now that I watched it again, WOW, I really loved it. And comparing it to the footage we have of Isolation, it looks like CA has really nailed the tone and aesthetic.
I don't think it will run away if you shoot it with a gun, only fire works.
The perfect Dark
Banned
Looks like an Outlast clone....
I saw a video where the person got lunged at by the alien, and he blasted it with the flamethrower and it sorta backed off.
I wouldn't think it's possible to kill the alien during the course of the main portion of the game, but it appears the flamethrower can deter it in some way and maybe damage from other things can potentially scare it off or something temporarily.
but, yeah, again, it's not a shooting game -- it's a horror game with limited combat. Which I like.
I disagree.. Outlast got boring very quickly because they had a tiny arsenal of things to do to you, since the game lacked any combat options whatosever. Alien Isolation has combat options and you can actually kill humans/synthetic enemies, either directly or by luring the alien to them. Just for those reasons the game is already a million times more interesting than Outlast.
I personally hate Alien 3 for like a zillion reasons... Not the least of which is the horribly stupid looking 90s CG they put in, making the movie visually vastly inferior to Alien or Aliens.
Now go do Alien3 Directors Cut and fall in love with the visuals and tone. It's a glorious movie that deserves better.
This game is so good. Still watching that stream.
http://www.twitch.tv/silveryne
Kinda spoilerishy now though. Really built itself up though.
http://www.twitch.tv/silveryne
Kinda spoilerishy now though. Really built itself up though.
This. The Directors Cut of Alien3 really made that movie so much better.
The perfect Dark
Banned
Don't get me wrong, I want this game to be good. It was just my first impression.
Mate, the first hour of Alien3 is fucking glorious. The themes, the visuals, the score, the questions.
IT'S SO GOOD.
Ignore the bad CG and enjoy everything it did right.
matrixman92
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thats the 360 version? looks pretty good still
-tetsuo-
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Outlast was not the pioneer
Two things about the Alien not showing up right away:
1. Has anyone here ever played Aliens vs Predator 2 on PC???? In the marine campaign you don't even see an Alien until halfway through the 2nd level (it comes out of a vent). Up until that point it was using the environment and motion tracker to build the tension.
2. Did you forget that in Alien the Alien doesn't even make an appearance until an hour in?????
Anyone watching Alien in preparation for Tuesday this weekend???
1. Has anyone here ever played Aliens vs Predator 2 on PC???? In the marine campaign you don't even see an Alien until halfway through the 2nd level (it comes out of a vent). Up until that point it was using the environment and motion tracker to build the tension.
2. Did you forget that in Alien the Alien doesn't even make an appearance until an hour in?????
Anyone watching Alien in preparation for Tuesday this weekend???
VisceralBowl
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I know body shots and the flamethrower don't harm them, but has anybody tried shooting androids in the head?
The perfect Dark
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Shock_Wave
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Yeah, I was just thinking if the firearms could be used to back off the Alien just like the flamethrower.
-tetsuo-
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The perfect Dark
Banned
The first one I played was Penumbra
Oh god, yes. Totally forgot about this game.
MarcoZombieCannon
Member
That this game provides weapons for a fighting chance is very survival horror. That the supplies show up rarely reminds me of how Haunting Ground is. You could create weapons on there but they rarely worked and it wasn't smart to make Hewie (the dog) do all the fighting either. Majority of the game is spent trying to progress forward safely.
Wow, I never thought another game like this would ever come around again. I'm sold! Time to save money for this.
Wow, I never thought another game like this would ever come around again. I'm sold! Time to save money for this.
That guy was annoying and didn't knew how to play, the two other streamers atleast know how to use a map and make some decent progress instead of running in circles.noooooooo mermaid left
Nappuccino
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It's not even CG. The alien was a puppet. The problem is that the lighting on the puppet was totally different than the lighting for the shot the put it in. That and they linger on the puppet too much.
Really it's a compositing error mixed with some poor decisions on how much to show.
But they were also very slow (only capable of walking) and clearly not impossible to loose.
Who fucking cares. There's so much other, positive stuff in that film that one should be able to overlook some bad decisions.
They've always been pretty resilient, though. In the first movie it took two people to kill one of them, and that was after several blows to the head, decapitation, a cattle-prod to the back, and a shot with the flamethrower.
Have you not seen Alien?
In Alien,
Ash the synthetic, has his head almost ripped off and he still manages to hold on to Ripley
edit: beaten
So this. The original cut is so shitty by comparison.
Shock_Wave
Member
EMP grenades should do the job against the synthetics.
Nappuccino
Member
I'd rather people get the complaints right if they're going to complain at all.
But the first half of Alien 3 is fantastic.
Just don't complain and just watch Fincher movies, OK?
oh yeah, I know that they're tough, but I didn't know they'd be so resistant to gunfire.
IceDoesntHelp
Banned
Watching Alien for the first time tonight :/
and then Aliens again.
and then Aliens again.
lol. I'm ready for this shit. So why is Aliens trash?
Wow. This looks good.
No? Why not? They're basically impervious to everything so why would some bullets bother them?
Nappuccino
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I enjoy thinking critically about things. Issues don't mean something is bad, but ignoring them doesn't make them go away either.
Stop.
No one is arguing with you. My last post was my attempt to move the conversation on.
Like that dude outside The Roxy on friday nights.
You see the death scene where two of them gang up on the player?
Oh please. There are HORRIBLY cheesy 90s CG shots of the alien when it's full body running around. I do believe they mixed in a puppet for closeups, but there's definitely some terrible CG in there.
And this is just one reason I don't like the movie. There are others, but I don't want to make the thread about dissecting Alien 3.
No, I literally just turned the stream on now for a minute. Trying to avoid spoilers but I'm quite interested in this project.