Be Excellent To Each Other

The P.T. Demo has that effect on me. I haven't got through it, because every time I put it on I play for 10 minutes tops before thinking "fuck this" and turning it off. Something about it properly gives me the willies.

SQUEE!

I don't know how they'll fill an entire game with sneaking about but from the ten-odd minutes I played today I'm getting this DAY ONE. The Alien is, no lie, perfect.

Well, d'uh. Ash makes a big deal about that.

Who's Ash?

I geddit!

(Sorry, still half asleep)

"I won't lie to you about your chances, but... you have my sympathies. <smug shit eating grin>"

Review embargo lifted about an hour ago

RPS : http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/10 ... review-pc/

Escapist : http://www.escapistmagazine.com/article ... ion-Review

Guardian : http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2 ... CMP=twt_gu

BTW last line in the Escapist review (by Jim Sterling above) is the same as the post before this :-)

Some gameplay :

Sounds fantastic. Could be the Killer App that means I get a new console!

That sounds like something that would piss me off in minutes. If there was still such a thing as Blockbuster then I'd be hiring it out for a few nights. Don't fancy spending the best part of £50 to look at some pretties and then ditch it in frustration, though.

Its quite a strange set of reviews because they all admit the same flaws in the game but some people just go with it and say its great and others hold it up saying its terrible.

The flaws from what I can see are :

The Alien can one hit kill you if it finds you - other AI can take down health but if your unlucky and get into its path and dont get away your dead
The Aliens AI is 'random' , so it can randomly appear at the wrong point and kill you or turn round and open the one door that your hiding behind and your dead - tough luck
The Enemies AI is pretty random as well so they can also 'get lucky' (although thats not a 1 hit kill so you can fight back against them)
Checkpoints can be quite far apart so you spend a long time sneeking to get close to the next checkpoint and die (also checkpoint saves are not 'instant' so if your killed while the save is not yet completed you will go back to the last checkpoint)
At 10-15 hours for a playthough the main complaint (for some) is that its too long (?) , or at least the game seems slightly drawn out
At higher difficulties you will just keep dying over and over again (at least one of the negative reviews the guy started on 'hard' cause he's played lots of FPS's before and then the seemingly 'unfair' to him chances of the AI made it all very frustrating
The Alien 'rubber bands' to you , so you cant really get miles away and be 'safe' (tie this in with the random AI and this seems to be the main complaint)
The Alien is unkillable

The pluses are that most people are saying it *is* scary
It is 'true' (as it can be) to the source material
The graphics / animation are great
The sound FX are great
The 'feel' of things is very like the movie
It really does try to do something different / unique

It's about 80% last time I checked meta critic

At this point for alien fans, that is a revelation.
I don't think anyone is expecting a 10/10 title

I for one was hoping for 7/8 out of 10
I knew there would be some dumb robot level filler
I guessed there would be glitches

But all the reviews I've rad so far haven't made me cancel my preorder....

Review round-up with scores:

http://www.vg247.com/2014/10/03/alien-i ... he-scores/

What!

What?

Malc

For cheaps here:

http://www.thegamecollection.net/alien- ... n-ps4.html

Despite my reservations I'm tempted at that price. I'll be able to ebay it off before I pitch the controller through the telly without losing too much money.

See if this still works first.

It was too late anyway but that voucher no longer seems to be working.

OMFG it's glorious.

For the first twenty minutes I truly felt like I'd stepped onto the Nostromo and was wandering around. The audio in particular is amazing.

I'm fucking irritated that I have to go to sleep right now, let me tell you.

looking forward to hearing more of your thoughts on the title, as a massive Alien fan.
I think a lot of the flaws might be forgivable. Unfortunately my copy is (i trust) at home, but I am away from home at work in *shudder* Scotland

I have ordered this for the PS4.

I love it. I love it, I love it, I love it.

The fucking alien is terrifying.

GazChap, how are you not playing the shit out of this?

I imagine that playing it with that Technohat of yours would be hideous.

In a good way.

Oculus support for A:I was only a prototype/press demo, and didn't ship. Although some people are trying to hack it back in, with varying degrees of bugginess.

If it was built in my credit card would be taking a bit of a hit right now.

After A:CM, I decided to wait until reviews started appearing before buying it

And now, I can't afford the fucking thing. Perhaps ironically, because of the Technohat.

That's not irony.

I did say "perhaps."

How ironic!

Like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife.

Lots of people wish for a knife when he's around.

I'm happy with a spoon.

World's loneliest post.

WARNING THIS GAME HAS NO AUTOSAVE.

Apparently modders have now succeeded in re-enabling the Rift mode, complete with positional tracking.

I'd best stock up on boxer shorts!

It does, but they're pretty far apart.

Installed, played about an hour, pants metaphorically saturated.
Graphics are nice, atmosphere is undeniable. Scared to play further and see the alien

Had my first encounter with the Alien last night. It killed me. After reading this article I have knocked the difficulty down to Easy as they reckon that equates to normal on most games. And also because I find that endlessly replaying difficult sections really destroys any sense of immersion as you can't help but see behind the curtain a bit and get too familiar with the game mechanics.

Right from the menu screen with the Alien theme playing... oh, man.

(I caved and bought this yesterday via GMG, only to find out a few hours later that Jem, having spotted the exchange between Grim... and I earlier that day, had been out and bought it for me as a surprise. D'oh)

Christ, I nearly bought it for you too.

...and has spent a significant amount of time since contemplating reinvesting in a desktop so I can nick it back off you and play it myself.

Now all I need is some money

If someone was going to purchase this, what versions does the hive mind recommend? The console version, to be played “at arm’s length” on a big TV while lounging on the sofa or “up close and personal” playing on a monitor with headphones (PC obviously)?

I think it's definitely an up close and personal game, not withstanding the fact that apparently the console versions have graphical tearing glitches etc. too.

Just play it on mine, it's half-term soon remember

Not having both versions it's hard to comment. I've got it on PC, because it was cheaper, and I just bought a spangly graphics card.

I'm really enjoying it sat on the sofa in the dark with proper surround sound. PS4 version looks great to me, stunning in fact, the lighting, the smoke effects, beautiful. For some reason some of the cutscenes are a bit choppy but in actual gameplay it's fantastic.

That doesn't help me with all the other times I want to play games and can't.

Certainly looks the part on the PS4. Main issues are a few more jaggies than I'd like, and the cutscenes get pretty damn choppy at times. It's running at 30fps, and it drops frames every so often, but usually when it's loading up new sections. Far from game breaking.