Alien: Isolation

[Fragony]

This starting to sound better and better. I seriously doubt I will be able to cope with this.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...r-the-solution

[Jarmam]

Great article. The part with the synthetic sounds absolutely horrifying.

[Beskar]

Great article. The part with the synthetic sounds absolutely horrifying.

I had a mental image of it playing cards with the alien.
David:"When do you think she comes out of the closet?"
Alien: "Rawwhhrrr-hisssssss" *plays a full-house*
David: "Using your tail to swipe a card is unbecoming of your species."

[Jarmam]

Not quite the mental image I had - I got PSTD-flashbacks to System Shock 2's cyborgs mixed with the feeling I had for months after having watched Alien 1 for the first time. I was 7. It was quite traumatic.

I think that's why I have such a hard time taking Aliens seriously. The bloody critters are like Zerglings, lining up for the shredder in the dumbest 4 pool opener in history. There is much cognitive dissonance. This game promises to deliver much needed nostalgia :p

The only thing we have in common is the "hiding-in-the-closet"-bit, but the image of the Alien and the Synth just kinda bumping into eachother for how much they don't care about one another's presence is quite funny.

[Fragony]

Aliens only looks bad because it formula has been copied so much, at the time it was totally original. It will never make you forget the first Alien-movie, but it was and is a terrific movie. The first half before the action starts is incrediblbly suspensefull, Alien and Aliens are both incredibly awesome, just different. Aliens is obviously the better choice for a game, that is why I am so intrigued by this game, it's sounds so terrifying.

[Jarmam]

To me, it feels like two movies squished together. The excellent one with Ripley, and the other one which is a Terran vs Zerg. The only Aliens that felt truly threatening were the facehuggers in the lab and the Queen. But I guess it does come down to the formula being worn long before I watched Aliens.

Ironically, I have kind of the same feeling about Alien 4, except here it was Ripley's movie squished together with Joss Whedon's pilot mental image of Firefly. Now that was quite a feat. I will never forget the first time I saw Ripley lighting up the clone room and storming out, ending a perfect scene, until Ron Perlman peeks into the room and says some dumb two-liner to the effect of "must be a chick thing... effin waste of ammo". What a class A way of ruining your own excellence! It's actually impressive. But to be fair to mr. Whedon, he has grown as a writer and Cabin in the Woods (also a self-reflecting horror parody) is great. I recommend watching it right after Alien 4 for maximum mindblow.

Getting back to gaming: Aliens vs Predator 2 was actually awesome. I never played Colonial Marines, but assuming that everyone in the universe is correct that it's terrible it is nice to reminiscence on the greater parts of the game-genre. High hopes for Isolation!

[Jarmam]

The game is now pre-orderable on Steam. Crossed fingers for a swath of Youtube-videos of people playing it come October!