Forum Overview :: Alien: Isolation

It's fun, and I'm really liking it. by Worm 10/09/2014, 5:40am PDT I haven't played enough Thief to say how much it's like Thief, and any kind of comparison to an old loved franchise naturally will get people upset. You put out torches, sneak around, steal/kill secondary objectives. Ultimately it's a lot less rough around the edges than you'd expect. It's nothing groundbreaking, but I've enjoyed the little I've played of it so far. There are some jumps that are hard to judge and others you think you need to hold up-sideways on but that'll leave you just tantalizingly short, there's no reliable way to hang from ledges that I can find but that's fine because it would be sort of game breaking if you could do it anytime you wanted, and all the "bonus XP" objectives are huge pains in the ass. Though the game has quickload and quicksave so it cuts down on a lot of the irritation of experimentation. I never saw any banner ads and I didn't care who the studio was because it looked fun. After seeing some subtitle typos and weird lighting issues during cutscenes I looked it up and wasn't surprised to see Cyanide Studios. The graphics are alright and it runs fine. Though I do have a 7970, so I'm probably far overspec. I feel like everyone is so fucking hormonal about games anymore that it's not even worth saying I find something fun, and easier to just let people edge closer and closer to suicide while playing Dota and Lol. I think it's a lot of fun, for what it is. I like the story even though it's about a protagonist with amnesia being told to his captors as he's being interrogated. I'm sure someone could find a million problems with it if they wanted, but I'm not seeing them. Good graphics, good voice work, good score, alright story(it may get better or worse), and fun gameplay. It's actually a little reminiscent of Fable in setting. You might be better served just by replaying DX:HR in a pacifist run, but this felt worth taking some money out of my TF2 hat nest egg.

I am not having any fun with it. by pinback 10/08/2014, 6:13pm PDT     I thought its reason for being was a pants-shitting Oculus Rift experience. NT by Fullofkittens 10/08/2014, 6:39pm PDT     It looks exactly like Outlast by fabio 10/08/2014, 7:45pm PDT     Rather than buying the 50 dollar stealth game where you're a girl. by Worm 10/08/2014, 11:11pm PDT         Re: Rather than buying the 50 dollar stealth game where you're a girl. by TAFKAM 10/09/2014, 4:35am PDT             It's made by Cyanide studios by fabio 10/09/2014, 5:05am PDT             It's fun, and I'm really liking it. by Worm 10/09/2014, 5:40am PDT                 They made the competent Aarklash: Legacy by Lurker 15954 10/09/2014, 8:12am PDT                     Spiders is the bad one by Lurker 15954 10/09/2014, 8:16am PDT                     Watch your GPU temp with that one! NT by Mischief Maker 10/09/2014, 8:39am PDT                     Bullet points! by Lurker 204958 10/10/2014, 5:31am PDT                         What is this Goblin game? No idea what you're all talking about. NT by Mysterious Stranger 10/10/2014, 6:22am PDT                             I need a fucking answer now, dicks. NT by Mysterious Stranger 10/10/2014, 10:25am PDT                                 Styx NT by dick 10/10/2014, 11:20am PDT                                 Re: I need a fucking answer now, dicks. by TAFKAM 10/10/2014, 11:45am PDT                                     Oh. You all had mentioned it, in fact. I have been a fool. by Mysterious FOOL. 10/10/2014, 6:10pm PDT                         Some things I don't like by Lurker 204958 10/10/2014, 9:25pm PDT     You get to go back and do EVERY level in reverse by Lurker 15954 10/16/2014, 9:02am PDT         Yeah I took a break when I got to that part as well. by Worm 10/16/2014, 10:48am PDT             You're doing EVERY level over again. No exception. by Lurker 15954 10/25/2014, 3:09am PDT                 Now this is 10/10 to me because I love giving up! NT by Worm 10/25/2014, 6:35am PDT     Hmm. by Eurotrash 10/21/2014, 1:46pm PDT         I finished it, it's pretty good. by Eurotrash 11/05/2014, 12:13am PST     It's a piece of shit. by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/20/2017, 11:05pm PDT         For this particular game, I think the fixed save stations are best because atmos by Eurotrash 05/21/2017, 3:39pm PDT             Agreed, BUT, it should save after I complete a mission. by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/21/2017, 3:42pm PDT     Alyern Isolatiom by Rafiki 08/14/2020, 10:59am PDT         "Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth" is the only one I think that killed you. by The Happiness Engine 08/14/2020, 3:56pm PDT         Like coming out, it gets better by Rafiki 08/16/2020, 1:57pm PDT             Awesome! Can we articleize it? NT by Mr. 3000 08/16/2020, 8:42pm PDT