This an accurate post.

That game remains the only game to legitimately physically pain me from how hunched and cramped I got trying to make myself smaller in my own living room while playing.

Excellent game, horrifying experience.

but you'll feel like the bravest person on earth when you crawl on your belly from beneath one desk to another 3 feet away

pro-tip: he learns how your tools work the more you use them. another pro-tip: he can hear the beeping on the tracking device. Have fun!

the alien absolutely takes some mensa classes as the game goes on, so as terrifying as it is... it only gets worse >83 Enjoy!

that first time when i pulled out the flamethrower and he started walking around me in a circle right out of the flamethrower's range hahahahahahajdlsjf

Dude, the game cheats to have it help it find you

the first time he charges instead of running away from it

also!

the pc version is different

the alien version can hear your mic

also, you have to lean away while hiding or it will hear your breathing

lean/hold your breath

it's a lot

and, outside of a few scripted moments, the alien is run on fully random ai

so each playthrough is different

i'll never forget the first time rather than stalking me through some rooms via doorways it leapt in through a window it had never done before

oh fuck i didn't know that about the mic

i love that they don't tell you these things and you just have a horrifying "oh" moment

indeed!

i didn't know either as I originally played it on console

and then! LOOOL

I watched Soviet play through it

And honestly? This doesn't exactly seem like my type of horror

I'm more into silent hill style than just monster type

.me shrug

I'll give it a try anyway

I honestly can barely play it because it scares me too much ;;

the story is pretty great, at least

imo

ooh I enjoyed watching the speedrun of this game last SGDQ
Alien: Isolation by Drayux in 2:39:09 - Summer Games...

the speedrun is amazing and not scary in the least

The mic function can be turned off if that's too much for you! But yes, the AI controlling the alien is incredible.

best monster unleased ai i think i've ever seen

mr. x in the REmake2 tried, but the Alien just remains so unpredictable and terrifying

unleashed*, i meant

I like how the speedrun explains it, so that even if you don't play into how it "learns" it STILL gets smarter and feistier

... more feisty?

Words. Point is it still becomes more effective later in the game

I read an interesting article awhile back about the two different AIs the alien has, I thiiiink it was this article
The Perfect Organism: The AI of Alien: Isolation

‘Psychopathic serendipity’: the alien always find itself in the right place at the right time. what an amazing sentence

an AI for the alien restricted by what it can sense and know, and a director AI that gives it hints if it hasn't been menacing the player enough

also after playing the game you should watch the speedrun of this. it's wild

oh i gotta watch this speedrun. i didn't know it was possible

to make Alien Isolation not scary?

It seems impossible but they do pull it off magnificently. It helps when the speedrunner is a ball of positive energy and caffeine

that... or just to speed run in general

as i tend to play it by taking six hours to crawl from one desk to another 3 feet away ;p

i'm getting it even though i know in my heart i will never be brave enough to play this game

I hate hump scares lol but I know fiancé has it and wants to play through it with me. I am curious on the story?

I mean, yeah. Breaking the game to do goofy things or crazy clips (or seeing silly glitches like dancing androids) can help ease the tension

to be fair, this isn't really jump scare heavy

not in the traditional "sudden movement/loud noise" cheap jump scare

It's a ton of stealth and requires patience, and sometimes luck just shits all over you

this is more, creepy, oppressive terror

Ah okay. That might help then in me watching him play it

there are a couple of startling moments, but in the speedrun at least they're all cutscene related

honestly, you more or less always know roughlyish where the alien is

Psychological horror sort of thing is more my jam than jump scares and gore

and that's the scary part

you know it's nearby but where and how close

you can hear it hissing and walking around

other enemies can get the jump on you in the game but after the first time you learn what to look for at the least

you can see it's tail sliding around a corner

that sort of then

thing*

it can also kick open the vents to painfully slowly drop down

and the drool!

the drool

you'll hear the breathing and if you look closely... see the drool dripping

as it waits

I mean you see the drool the first time you see any hint of the alien (before the actual full alien reveal)

but yeah it's more that you can be fully aware of where it is and you just want it to GO AWAY SO YOU CAN DO STUFF

all this love for the alien - deserved - but it's also just in general a really nice game

from sound design to looks

this game is the original movie asthetically

I do feel like the game itself drags out for a LITTLE too long in the latter segments of the game, but overall it looks amazing and has a lot of story if you know where to look

it matches perfectly if that retro 80s future is your vibe

It does, i'll give it that. it feels like the game ends... 3 or 4 times

but i can forgive it for everything else being so on point

and when so many games are coming out incomplete or with endings hidden away in dlc...

which, note, none of the dlc is necessary for this!

yeah >.> It's actually nice that "it's too long" can be a complaint with it but not a big one

it's all just "fun" stuff

by fun i mean more terror 8D

who wants to play on nightmare mode

i never finished the nostromo dlc, as the first thing you have to do is crawl into the dark vents with the alien and i noped out

I actually want to watch Alien at some point. What put me off was a fear for Jonsey the cat

Mild spoiler, Jonsey lives

Jonesy? IDK how his name is spelled

uh

UHHHHHH

That... does seem odd that it would trigger that response.

maybe it's just for triggering DLC, but to be safe I'd run the program through malware and antivirus scans

The AI turned sentient and is now going to try to take over the world

AI just stands for alien isolation, i think

odds are its a false positive

asdfjk; wait is that what the freak-out is about? I thought it was freaking over trying to connect to the internet

heres another fun fact about the game: on console versions (xbone and ps4), the xenomorph could hear sounds from your real-world mic

yeah odds are the game wants to run a DLC check and windows is like "woah. hey guys"

I thought the AI standed for artificial intellifence which was why I wzs like uhhhhh

nah thats just the executable for the game itself, im pretty sure

is that a console-exclusive thing? because I caught the game on sale on steam a while back and snagged it.

this is on pc, too

ooh

you know what this sounds like a great game to watch somebody else play

as for me myself i am a weenie

well, if you don't want the funny speedrun antics to it, there are a couple of no-commentary playthroughs online too. I found one that was about 8 1/2 hours, doesn't find all the story stuff but was a good experience with minimal deaths, lots of tension and sneaking around

it really is. i first watched it via the yogscast but markiplier has a good one, too

markiplier is where i first saw it as well

oh good, mark tends to be quite entertaining for horror stuff

and space is his niche love so this wasn't one he played for gags

like say, his fatal frame playthrough

nice nice nice

ugh i couldnt watch. did he do crimson butterfly dirty >:[

yes

and you could tell he wasn't really into it

the longer the game went on

Markiplier's LP will always be my favorite, but the bias is real there. lol

i really like watching mark play horror stuff he's into

you can tell when he's only there out of obligation to his viewers and it really ruins the ride

the only thing i remember from his playthrough when i watched ages ago was when he found out that the alien could use the vents

i watch commentated let's plays for witty commentary but also for people having fun playing a game, you know? like the commentary can be as witty and the gameplay as polished if you like but if they clearly aren't having fun or don't wanna be there i tap out

that was great

same, i'm here for the people and sometimes i find a cool game

yeah basically