Alien: Isolation

**Fragony** · 04-11-2014, 16:30

Adore Amnesia, scariest game since the first Thief. Never been able to play it, I am an absolute coward and Amnesia was too scary. I kinda doubt that I can handle the Alien game, but I love the idea.

The King Kong game has awesome death-sequences by the way.

**easytarget** · 04-12-2014, 13:26

To me, it would quickly get tedious. The new of wandering around the ship catching all the Alien movie ambiance would wear off and I'd be left with an entire game made up of that initial experience. No thanks.

Prediction: Will not escape the creative black hole that surrounds this IP.

**Fragony** · 04-12-2014, 14:10

Originally Posted by easytarget

To me, it would quickly get tedious. The new of wandering around the ship catching all the Alien movie ambiance would wear off and I'd be left with an entire game made up of that initial experience.

Hear ya. Imho it all depends on how good the adventure-elements are, if it's a really good adventure-game where you have a nemesis always to be scared about because of what you just did it will be good. If it keeps repeating the same trick and expect us to be surprised it will suck. I wouldn't know how to make all of this work, quite the feat if they can make a good game out of this. Highly sceptical but at least it's original (well not really the Atari had a game with the same concept, scared the crap out of me). But they obviously spend a lot of money on it so they must think they are on to something.

**easytarget** · 05-02-2014, 13:18

Did I miss release. is this thing out yet?

**Gregoshi** · 05-02-2014, 14:03

October 7 of this year according to Steam.

**Fragony** · 05-02-2014, 14:28

Originally Posted by easytarget

is this thing out yet?

No it's out there. Without having actually heard it I am pretty sure I figured out how they can make it a full-length game, what is Alien without an evil coorperation who want to get their hands on it. I bet you will have to start evading human enemies as well at some point, and use the Alien to your advantage, that it will be your nemesis throughout the game, but also the only way you can survive other threats. It would make the encounters where it's just you and the Alien all the more terrifying.

**Jarmam** · 05-02-2014, 15:00

Originally Posted by Fragony

No it's out there. Without having actually heard it I am pretty sure I figured out how they can make it a full-length game, what is Alien without an evil coorperation who want to get their hands on it. I bet you will have to start evading human enemies as well at some point, and use the Alien to your advantage, that it will be your nemesis throughout the game, but also the only way you can survive other threats. It would make the encounters where it's just you and the Alien all the more terrifying.

This is a really sweet idea. We know it's gonna be about "the evil humans" eventually, so take a note from this man's book and make it great and not just cliché.

**Fragony** · 05-02-2014, 17:02

Originally Posted by Jarmam

This is a really sweet idea. We know it's gonna be about "the evil humans" eventually, so take a note from this man's book and make it great and not just cliché.

I couldn't think of anything other than that. I hope they make a version for the WiiU as well because it would be a perfect match, don't have a ps4 yet and it looks like that's going to stay like that for a while. Pretty damn costly.

**Jarmam** · 10-08-2014, 13:12

Originally Posted by Fragony

No it's out there. Without having actually heard it I am pretty sure I figured out how they can make it a full-length game, what is Alien without an evil coorperation who want to get their hands on it. I bet you will have to start evading human enemies as well at some point, and use the Alien to your advantage, that it will be your nemesis throughout the game, but also the only way you can survive other threats. It would make the encounters where it's just you and the Alien all the more terrifying.

By the way they did exactly this (the human antagonists in general, anyway) and it works perfectly. The only risk is that you start liking the Alien a bit for how effectively it can clear out a bad situation for you. But then again once it runs out of other people to hunt, it will remember you.

**Vuk** · 10-08-2014, 15:27

Wow, this actually sounds like a new game I may really be interested in. What a miracle! (esp considering it comes from CA) I love old school stealth games, and if this is anything like them, I just may buy it. (Gotta wait till I know I got a new job though, as I just lost my old one)