Alien: Isolation

[-HP-]

[Mazy]

Finally finished it, it's not a bad game but I find it pretty damn hard to love it. The peak of the entire game is still the medical facility, which only makes me wish that the game had been perhaps 4-5 of those kinds of moments and experiences with some traversal, exploration and minor human/android encounters to bind it together. I can't help but keep hitting on this over again and again, but to me it feels like they've got most of the building blocks in place to make the perfect Alien game, but stretched themselves thin and just didn't manage to fit it together in an elegant and seamless way, and to use the cliché then they went for quantity over quality. It's still the best Alien game ever, but it could've been so much better.

[Taylor Swift]

i must say... this game can be confusing u dont know where to go sometimes

[Izuno]

Finally finished it, it's not a bad game but I find it pretty damn hard to love it. The peak of the entire game is still the medical facility, which only makes me wish that the game had been perhaps 4-5 of those kinds of moments and experiences with some traversal, exploration and minor human/android encounters to bind it together. I can't help but keep hitting on this over again and again, but to me it feels like they've got most of the building blocks in place to make the perfect Alien game, but stretched themselves thin and just didn't manage to fit it together in an elegant and seamless way, and to use the cliché then they went for quantity over quality. It's still the best Alien game ever, but it could've been so much better.

 

I still haven't played it yet due to childhood Alien viewing trauma (see earlier post in this thread) but this really makes me wonder what the mod scene could do with this game....  just sayin..

[blackdog]

You making me so much wanting this game T_T

[-HP-]

Oh, mod support. That would be amazine....

 

We need a online petition, lol.

[blackdog]

I was reading probably no sequel because it sold only 350k. Is that possible, that little?

[TheOnlyDoubleF]

I was reading probably no sequel because it sold only 350k. Is that possible, that little?

People are scared to be scared

[Mazy]

I was reading probably no sequel because it sold only 350k. Is that possible, that little?

 

http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=alien%3A+isolation&publisher=&platform=&genre=&minSales=0&results=200

 

It's not that VGchartz is a 100% accurate, but usually they seem to be in the rough ballpark, and those seem like some pretty dire sales a month after release for a production of this size (I'd guess it's at least 1 mil to break even). So, yeah, wouldn't surprise me if a sequel is off the table based on this. I really hope not tho, like I've said previously then there's enormous potential in Isolation for making a much better sequel.

[-HP-]

Wtf, for real? I asked the guy at my local gamestop how Alien was doing and he said it was doing so well they actually sold out on that specific store.

[Sprony]

When a new sequel to an established franchise releases the Internet goes crazy with hate about milking it, lack of innovation and so on. Still, it sells millions of units. But when something original comes a long, such in case with Alien, it's praised all over but it doesn't sell well enough. Humanity, fuck off!

[PogoP]

I wouldn't trust VGchartz guys.

[KoKo5oVaR]

I dunno i should have a sort of plastic trophy with my name on it for 1 million sales of rome 2, unfortunately i left before and i don't have anything to put on my chimney, mark should know

[marks]

I wouldn't trust VGchartz guys.

 

Doesn't look that far off the numbers I've seen tbh.

[FMPONE]

I wonder if it will outsell Colonial Marines?