The most annoying and difficult aspects for me were the complete lack of resources and how much more aggressive the alien was. Nightmare just barely gives you what you need to survive. I remember there were a few select sections of the game where the alien would not fuck off and give me some breathing room.
Yep, exactly.
I feel like I gave the tools available a fair shot but I loathe "unreliable" scenarios in games. I guess it's more horror that action x does not always yield outcome y but from a pure game perspective, I just thought it was frustrating and ultimately boring because the AI so transparently does its "nope lol" thing. I'm in the minority there I think but I tried several times because goddamn the world is gorgeous and the whole intro sections is cool.
A game based on a movie franchise in most other cases is a prime example of the industry's creative bankruptcy. That Alien:Isolation isn't is further evidence of the love that went into making it.
Get your courage together, push your chest up high and plow through. Join us in the platinum suite. The harder difficulty is a thrill ride.I didn't have the ballz to play on hard, so no platinum for me
I actually tried the AI mods on PC as well when trying to give it another shot. It plays differently but still mostly results in that corny haunted house feeling where, at least to me, ultimately most player decisions and use of consumables feels superficial because there's always an actor behind thevset waiting to go BOO! GOTCHA! arbitrarily.
They should've made it where it died but it's acid would kill you if you're shooting it point blank.
Disagree. It would defuse a lot of the tension and "flight-or-fight" mode. Imo your weapons inventory acting more as a temporary "repellent" was a good design choice.
Yeah but it comes at the cost of continuity with the movies where the alien is not gun and shotgun proof.
Yeah, it would have been amazing...
That team (Survios) made Creed: Rise to Glory for VR, which is one of the better-regarded VR games, and took steps to give you the experience of being "Rocky". There's hope! Time will tell.
You’re thinking of the flamethrower. That repelled the alien away.
I'm thinking of both. Yeah, the flamethrower would effectively ward it off while the shotgun was useless. It made you feel vulnerable.
Sure, it's one decent VR game, but you know, virtual reality games today are kind of the equivalent to the handheld console adaptations of the 2000s and early 2010s - where you could kinda get away with making what in a home console environment would be a very barebones experience because "hey, it's a handheld game".
Speaking of mods, is there any sort of checkpoint mod or anything? I know it sort of defeats what they’re trying to do, but one thing that still puts me off of this game is how brutal the checkpoints are, and how much progress you can lose when you die. I’d be much more willing to play through it if I could lose less progress after each failure.
Go wash your mouth young man! Such things are not to be spoken.
In Alien 1 it's stated that nothing could kill it. They changed this for Aliens to get shooting action in there. It was originally never intended to be killed easy with gunfire.
I must be one of the few people that loved Alien and hated Aliens. Alien was serious psychological horror. Aliens was just a goofy Hollywood action movie.
I still enjoyed Aliens, but it sure can't beat Alien for it's pureness and less Hollywood style indeed.
Those movies are like two different universes to me, in one universe I love Alien the most, the other I love Aliens the most, and for other reasons.
What was Ash basing it on that it can't be killed? He also called it a perfect organism which is obviously questionable. I think Ash's admiration for the Alien clouded its judgement.
