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Yeah it does seem odd considering both consoles have a Blu-Ray drive so space shouldn't be an issue

Fairly sure the cutscenes *are* prerendered, which makes the choppy framerate even more bizarre.

The cutscenes are all pretty awful too. Badly directed and written, with weak acting. Worst part of the game.

for the rift lads

http://www.pcgamer.com/alien-isolation- ... p;ns_fee=0

3hours in, it's terrifying.

I never thought I'd see the day when there would be another good Aliens game (after the original AvP).

Full five-way platform face-off now up at Eurogamer - http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digit ... n-face-off

SUMMARY -

PC is the definitive version of game, delivering the highest quality visuals at a steady 60FPS on relatively modest hardware. XBox One/PS4 get very close in terms of image quality but lose out badly on framerate, targeting 30FPS and failing to consistently deliver it.

The PS4's performance in particular is cause for some bemusement, considering its powerful GPU, leading to speculation that the low-powered AMD CPU cores are letting it down.

360/PS3 both have an admirable stab at it but both run at sub-720 resolutions, have dramatically pared back visuals and environments, and crash down badly on a regular basis from their 30FPS target.

The fucked cutscenes are present on all platforms.

I think it's clearly a PC game first and a console game second.

I've not noticed any problems with the cut scenes, though.

I want to give this a go but I'm not feeling rich enough to drop £40 on a game I'll be too scared to play more than once

Even my PC appears to be up to running this in 1080p, to my surprise. No idea what the framerate is though it looks smooth enough.

The studio has made nothing but Total War games for the last decade or two; this is their first console game ever, I think. So perhaps not surprising. (Although apparently they have a lot of former Crytek staff on board, which must have brought some useful expertise.)

My DK2 arrived at lunch time. Based on the pant-wetting fear I experienced yesterday, and that was *before* the Alien proper showed up, I'm really not sure I want to put myself through an Isolation VR sesh.

Aah, who am I kidding.

If I start driving now, I should be there by about 8pm!

Hahaha.

What a snub to Spartan: Total Warrior.

Mate, think you might be doing 'PC gaming' wrong.

Although getting gaming right.

I actually got given a free copy of this by someone at work yesterday. I've been given the very unofficial task of getting it running on one of our Oculus workstations - via my Steam account.

"Work"

Oh lawd. It makes me feel a little ill from the first person movement without-actually-moving, but being stalked by the Alien (and inevitably killed by it) is a whole other kind of terrifying with the DK2.

It's possible to be interested in framerates and be a passionate gamer as well, y'know.

FUCK OFF YOU BIG BASTARD

YEAH YOU BETTER WALK AWAY PAL

/whimper

Started with the Crew Expendable DLC on the DK2.

Ran into the Alien almost immediately.

Involuntarily, my entire body froze and I couldn't move either in game or in the real world.

Died. Fortunately, just in the game.

(then, after retrying a few times, started to feel motion sick)

I dont even dare boot the game

Not very far in yet as I find I want to play something else for some light relief after an hour or so. I'm not sure I actually enjoy how it makes me feel, I mean sections of a game like that yeah, but the whole thing? It all seems a bit too uniform in pace so far. But on the other hand the game's one trick is done pretty well and the whole thing looks gorgeous.

This is what's making me think twice about this game, even when it turns up in the inevitable Steam sale - is it something I'd actually want to play as a game, for fun?

It reminds me a bit of Spec Ops: The Line, which looks like a pretty generic third person shooter but is actually a somewhat brutal commentary on the evils and futility of war.

I got about two thirds of the way through it before it clicked with me that I really wasn't enjoying it on any level whatsoever, I mean seriously, that game is fucking harrowing. (And like, war is bad, mmm'kay, I know that already.)

I'm wondering if Alien Isolation will work on a similar sort of level, you know, a sustained sense of being scared, hunted, and vulnerable for several hours might not be such a laugh.

Spec Ops is amazing and so is this. I treasure games to make me feel things that aren't powerful or joyous, because they are so rare.

To a point I think Doc. (Well, for me at least ) For example I did non-lethal playthroughs of Dishonored and all the DLCs, (as well as high chaos rampage playthroughs), that's 100% of the game without killing anyone. So of course it was all down to stealth, patience, exploration and ingenuity. So there was never any great sense of power, if I ever faced more than one enemy at once I was basically dead (or at least had to try the encounter again for the non-lethal), and indeed I never wanted any enemy to even know I was there.

That's a massively different vibe to something like Borderlands 2, but it was always enjoyable as a game.

Spec Ops: The Line, for my money, would have worked better as a film. Ultimately I just found it gruelling, there's only so much torture, and scenes of civilian massacre, and violent hallucination that one needs to experience to get the point. On top of that the generic gunplay seemed strangely at odds with the overarching theme of the game, I'd honestly have been happy to just experience it through the cinematics and see the story unfold.

TBH if I want something that challenges me in that sort of way, I'll watch a film, (a film only lasts a couple of hours, whereas there's seven or eight hours to get through in Spec Ops: The Line), I want my games to be fun at least on some level. From what I've read in this thread Alien Isolation might fail the fun test, albeit for different reasons than Spec Ops: The Line did.

(Max Payne 3 springs to mind as a game that had a pretty fucking bleak story arc, but the gameplay was always fun, the gunplay was epic, in a way that Spec Ops: The Line wasn't for me. It's like, Max was doing what he had to do and I could get on board with that, but the protagonists in Spec Ops failed that test for me.)

Ahem, derail, sorry.

So do I. I loved System Shock 2 but I never completed it, not even nearly. I loved the P.T. Demo too but partly because of the brevity. Films play with your emotions but they also employ careful pacing, something that is more difficult to achieve with games but was done masterfully by The Last Of Us. In that game you were similarly on the back foot most of the time but it was also able to mix it up a bit.

All that said I have barely even begun this game so I can't comment on it in its entirety.

Ive made it through mission 5

its still scary. but also getting a bit annoying having to sit and wait. Im fairly sure the alien has some "routes" it prowls, too.
No matter how quiet you are it also seems to follow you, frustratingly. I appreciate it wants to eat me, and the game wants me to be dealing with it, but damn, give me some air to breath, you cunt!

Onto mission 10 now. There is a particularly awesome fan service in Mission 9 also. So if you havent got there yet, thats all to look forward to.

Once I figured out the Alien a bit the game has become a bit less scary, plus he has killed me a few times so I have got used to the shock and terror of it.
Quite proud so far I have managed to evade the common "tail stab through the gut" death mechanic because I havent been dumb enough to turn my back on the bastard yet.

Oh mighty alien,
Such power and grace.
You hear my motion tracker!
You munch upon my face.

Ha haaa! Take that, you big fucker!

Superb.

As mentioned in the "finish 52 games" thread, I've done this now.

I love it. I super-duper want its babies love it.

Ending:

I'm going to have to get back to this. Can't see it happening before Far Cry 4 is done, though.

I've actually had this game for an age now - got a free copy through work. Still not even touched it. Any time I have in front of my PC, which hasn't been a whole lot lately to be fair, has been dedicated to Elite Dangerous. I'm really going to have to get on it though, I keep hearing such good things about it.

Where can one get one of these Occulus rift things? And do they work with the Eggbox?

From me.

No.

Selling yours already, are you?

Not actively, but it was always the plan. CV1 want!

I'm getting this for chrimbo.

I'ld say a Grim.. recommendation is what swung me, but it was playing PT that did. I want to walk around being scared. Which I know this won't be like. BUT STILL.

Seen via Kalmar's twatter:

http://typesetinthefuture.com/alien/

Amazing article. The others on there are good too.

Ok, I'm back into this. I didn't like the opener much but now I've met the Alien and picked up the motion tracker it's got its hooks in me and it is now the next game I'm playing.

Frankly, what did it for me was the noise the motion tracker makes on the PS4 pad. Fucking ace.

Man alive, it's yeaching me some harsh lessons about watching the environment.

Yes, yeaching. Because autocorrect is quite happy with that even if it ain't got a capital letter.

And something about Alien: Isolation not having checkpoints.

Well that escalated quickly.

Heal, man!