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Alien: Isolation |OT| 1 Alien. 1 Ripley. No Jonesy.
- Thread starter VisceralBowl
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SuicidalSteve
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Middle of the day with a lot of us at work/school still.
I posted yesterday that I know of at least two Gamestops here that had midnight releases, so either pre-orders were strong for Alien or the NBA release (or a combo of both).
Anyone go to a midnight release?
Alcoholikaust
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The Cowboy
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Dang it, dead - got trapped in a tube with only 2 exits.
Gotta say, i really would like a 1 death = save deleted ultra hard mode with no hud or map.
1 locked and the other with 3 people with guns behind it.
Gotta say, i really would like a 1 death = save deleted ultra hard mode with no hud or map.
digoutyoursoul
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Correct
Sexy
JigglesBunny
Banned
After everyone saying that the first Alien encounter in the main story was a slow burn, I decided to wait until tonight to tackle the story and just play a little bit of Crew Expendable last night.
I didn't get far at all but opening the door to MU-TH-UR 6000 hearing those beeping noises made me giddy like a little boy on Christmas morning.
Solideliquid
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So I'm still trying to decide if I want to get this or not (probably wait for steam sale) since Evil Within is coming next week. I had a question. Why cant you kill the alien with a gun or flamethrower? They did it a ton in Aliens.
Is it a special alien? If the answer is a spoiler then I don't want to know lol.
Is it a special alien? If the answer is a spoiler then I don't want to know lol.
Garrett Hawke
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Is my ps4 fucked or do the cutscenes run at REALLY low frame rates? Like... 15-20ish?
HoopzBarkley
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I think people were saying it was just the first cutscenes that did that.
I did but I think most of the people were there for NBA.
Miss.Selfdestruct
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Don't worry, about an hour> into AI, you already know more about this story than you ever did reaching level 20 in Destiny.
ScaryBrandon
Banned
I hope so man I want a sequel already... But it's not looking good shadow of mordor had 30k in the middle of the night when it unlocked.
plagiarize
Banned
I didn't want to deal with the tutorials etc last night, and did the same thing. Just finished Last Survivor too. So fricking tense.
I'll dive into the single player proper tonight, but they did a really good job on the pre-order DLC. The original cast and the attention to detail are both spot on... and the ship after you turn on the self destruct system... all the steam, all of that stuff... this a great looking game.
Miss.Selfdestruct
Member
Just get PS3, it's really not bad and looks better than the screenshots you've seen.
CloudyTuba
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I did something similar. I played about half an hour of story and then I had to go to bed so I started a very quick game of Last Survivor. I say started because the moment I heard footsteps I ran into a locker and then quit the game when the alien walked into the room. Nope'd right out of there.
Won't have time to play again until tomorrow afternoon but I'm going to need diapers. Back to campaign mode.
unknownhero
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man, I felt like a scrub during the
I died around nine times.
first stealth section
bonesmccoy
Banned
No spoilers about the alien below, but a possible plot/setting one:
No marines or military-grade weaponry on Sevastopol, at least not that I've seen after 2 hours in the game.
Me too, and I was being so careful. Or at least I thought I was.
Garrett Hawke
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So far I've had two cutscenes and both of them have had it :/
Visualante2
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I'm really not having fun with this stealth section in Seegson comms. There's several enemies walking around with guns and apparently I have to sneak past them?
So I just started to play the game and have some technical questions:
- The Ingame AF kind of sucks, I set it to Bilinear and force 16xAF in Nvidia controls, is that the way to do it?
- Any chance for better AA? Ingame options don't seem to really work. Should I set it to SMAA 2xXT and try downsampling as much as possible?
- Which FoV are you guys using? I set it to 55 so that I still can see my character and keep the claustrophobic effect.
- The Ingame AF kind of sucks, I set it to Bilinear and force 16xAF in Nvidia controls, is that the way to do it?
- Any chance for better AA? Ingame options don't seem to really work. Should I set it to SMAA 2xXT and try downsampling as much as possible?
- Which FoV are you guys using? I set it to 55 so that I still can see my character and keep the claustrophobic effect.
abracadaver
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I have no idea how to avoid those assholes after I collect the broken decoder or whatever it was. They spot me as soon as I enter the room. Alien is nowhere to be seen. This is already annoying the hell out of me. Stuck here for at least 30 minutes now. WTF am I supposed to do?
Shock_Wave
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Just completed 4 chapters and so far it's been pretty awesome.
- The sound design is probably one of the best've ever seen.
- The android's AI occasionally seemed a little dumb.
- I´ve no ideia how the combat system is, completed all chapters without alerting anyone.
- The cutscenes need an urgent patch, the drops of framerate are very very big. It breaks the immersion.
- The atmosphere is perfect.
- The misson design is very simplistic which I like in this kind of games.
- Love the slow pace of the game.
- The voice act is not bad but it should be better.
Now I'm ready for the big boy.
- The sound design is probably one of the best've ever seen.
- The android's AI occasionally seemed a little dumb.
- I´ve no ideia how the combat system is, completed all chapters without alerting anyone.
- The cutscenes need an urgent patch, the drops of framerate are very very big. It breaks the immersion.
- The atmosphere is perfect.
- The misson design is very simplistic which I like in this kind of games.
- Love the slow pace of the game.
- The voice act is not bad but it should be better.
Now I'm ready for the big boy.
wookieofdoom
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Has anyone played the Nostromo content yet?
TheJollyCorner
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Anyone actually bothered trying this on Easy?
If so, is the AI just ridiculous?
If so, is the AI just ridiculous?
Jack Scofield
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I pre-ordered this game on Amazon, so I should get the Crew Expendable content, right? Does it come as a code in the box?
CambriaRising
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Anyone interested in a free Crew Expendable code for the Xbox One version? I have an extra, just send me a PM.
plagiarize
Banned
A little... but not to the point of distraction. Lambert and Ripley sound just the same.
DJSebolski
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How is Crew Expendable DLC?
therealminime
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Sigourney Weaver doesn't sound all that different and does a decent job, but the other five sound really, really old (which they kind of are), and pretty bored.
UnrealEck
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Yes. The voice acting is superb.
plagiarize
Banned
I loved it. I haven't played any of the campaign. Both the DLCs are relatively short, but you'd expect that if you're familiar with the scenes from the movies they are based on. The attention to detail is amazing.
Put it this way, I got killed about an hour into the game on easy as I happened to walk into the path of a flashlight for an enemy that happened to turn as I snuck past them (quite far away too). It gave me no chance to correct my error.
The game is great, by the way. Very old school.
Wait, what now?
wookieofdoom
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How long is it?
The game is so exciting, that it causes this poster to shed their clothes while playing, hence the Freudian slip. I see no problem with this.
evilromero
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Interesting you put Predators below the very cheesy and boring Predator 2 and AVP, though I enjoy both. I guess it's pretty easy to clump those three together as middling Alien movies when you have shit like Requiem and Resurrection to contend with.
Mine would be: Alien, Aliens, Predator, Alien 3 (good movie, shit Alien movie), Predators, AVP then Predator 2. Resurrection and Requiem are just unwatchable.