Alien: Isolation

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I hate you more everyday, sneddon.

I feel your pain man!

So hyped.

The only thing i question is if we will feel "cheated" because, however good we will be with the weapon we will eventually find, we will not be able to kill it before the mandated epilogue.

I is excited!

Just listened to an Italian journalist that is at the GDC: he's saying it's the real deal, the real Alien experience everyone has always waited for. That it's really scary, people in the demo room were screaming from time to time.

He also says something that makes it sound like there's a "hold your breath" feature when hiding at a close distance from the Xenomorph... true?

http://www.joystiq.com/2014/03/19/ove…olation-sounds/ 

Yeah when the Alien stalks close to the hiding lockers you have the option to lean back and hold your breath.

Quote from blackdog

Just listened to an Italian journalist that is at the GDC: he's saying it's the real deal, the real Alien experience everyone has always waited for. That it's really scary, people in the demo room were screaming from time to time.

He also says something that makes it sound like there's a "hold your breath" feature when hiding at a close distance from the Xenomorph... true?

ALLLLL ABOARDDDD

Ok, resistance is futile at this point. I've jumped on the hype band wagon. I swear Pogo and Marks, if you disappoint us I'm going to sink that island.

We can only make it look pretty

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/03/23/pre…on-horror-game/

I really reaaaaally want to believe in this game and I'm still hopeful but reading RPS's preview turned my hype down somewhat.

I know it's just one review and they should always be taken with a grain of salt but a lot of the issues he raises are what I'm afraid of with a game like that... But I believe!

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Ok, resistance is futile at this point. I've jumped on the hype band wagon. I swear Pogo and Marks, if you disappoint us I'm going to sink that island.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/03/23/pre…on-horror-game/

I kind of believe the preview. It'd be really difficult to do what this game sets out to do (believable Alien AI which never feels annoying when it pwns you), but time will tell.

I played the demo a while back and I enjoyed it. It's just one small slice of the game primarily featuring the Alien, so of course it's going to get less intense when you replay it over and over. I think the tension in the game resides in not knowing when/where the Alien is going to appear.

I shared similar concerns with the Alien AI too.

Fucking artists, don't even play the game they work on. Pfft.

assuming liam works on Alien

I play my level

But maybe it doesn't have an Alien in it. Who knows. Maybe it has 9 Aliens in it. Maybe 50. Maybe you play AS the Alien.

Speculate.

Don't worry Liam, every artist in the industry refuses to play the game they work on.

Sometimes Will, I think that designers follow the exact same train of thought

FEEL THE BURN!

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Don't worry Liam, every artist in the industry refuses to play the game they work on.

OFT, never understood this, it's like the hardest thing to get them to play the game. And yes by saying 'they' I'm lumping all you arty types together, but have yet to be proven otherwise that this is the case In my experience the only time they do play the game is about 2 weeks before it's released and then they delight in coming to tell all the designers everything that's wrong with the game that there is no longer any time to do anything about. You bastards.