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| Author: | Hearthly [ Thu Oct 09, 2014 13:44 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
markg wrote: Is there any good reason for not just pre-rendering the cutscenes when it became apparent that there was an issue on the console versions? Yeah it does seem odd considering both consoles have a Blu-Ray drive so space shouldn't be an issue 
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| Author: | LewieP [ Thu Oct 09, 2014 13:52 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
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. |
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| Author: | LaceSensor [ Thu Oct 09, 2014 14:11 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
for the rift lads http://www.pcgamer.com/alien-isolation- ... p;ns_fee=0 |
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| Author: | LaceSensor [ Fri Oct 10, 2014 8:13 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
3hours in, it's terrifying. ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! |
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| Author: | myp [ Fri Oct 10, 2014 9:34 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
I never thought I'd see the day when there would be another good Aliens game (after the original AvP). |
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Sun Oct 12, 2014 12:04 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
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. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Sun Oct 12, 2014 12:10 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
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. |
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| Author: | flis [ Mon Oct 13, 2014 14:38 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
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 
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Oct 13, 2014 15:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
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. |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Oct 13, 2014 15:11 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
Grim... wrote: I think it's clearly a PC game first and a console game second. 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.) |
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| Author: | GazChap [ Mon Oct 13, 2014 15:33 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
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. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Oct 13, 2014 15:35 ] |
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If I start driving now, I should be there by about 8pm! |
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| Author: | GazChap [ Mon Oct 13, 2014 15:39 ] |
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Hahaha. |
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| Author: | LewieP [ Mon Oct 13, 2014 16:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
Doctor Glyndwr wrote: this is their first console game ever What a snub to Spartan: Total Warrior. |
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| Author: | Sir Taxalot [ Mon Oct 13, 2014 23:02 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
Doctor Glyndwr wrote: No idea what the framerate is Mate, think you might be doing 'PC gaming' wrong. |
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| Author: | Mr Dave [ Mon Oct 13, 2014 23:20 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
Sir Taxalot wrote: Doctor Glyndwr wrote: No idea what the framerate is Mate, think you might be doing 'PC gaming' wrong. Although getting gaming right. |
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| Author: | Zio [ Tue Oct 14, 2014 9:05 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
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. |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Tue Oct 14, 2014 9:24 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
Zio wrote: 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" |
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| Author: | GazChap [ Tue Oct 14, 2014 19:36 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
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. |
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Tue Oct 14, 2014 19:41 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
Mr Dave wrote: Sir Taxalot wrote: Doctor Glyndwr wrote: No idea what the framerate is Mate, think you might be doing 'PC gaming' wrong. Although getting gaming right. It's possible to be interested in framerates and be a passionate gamer as well, y'know. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Tue Oct 14, 2014 23:30 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
Attachment: 2014-10-14_00001.jpg FUCK OFF YOU BIG BASTARD |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Tue Oct 14, 2014 23:31 ] |
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Attachment: 2014-10-14_00008.jpg YEAH YOU BETTER WALK AWAY PAL |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Tue Oct 14, 2014 23:31 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
Attachment: 2014-10-14_00006.jpg /whimper |
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| Author: | GazChap [ Wed Oct 15, 2014 0:22 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
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) |
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| Author: | LaceSensor [ Thu Oct 16, 2014 7:56 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
I dont even dare boot the game |
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| Author: | markg [ Thu Oct 16, 2014 8:15 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
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. |
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Thu Oct 16, 2014 8:54 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
markg wrote: 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. |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Thu Oct 16, 2014 9:19 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
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. |
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| Author: | GazChap [ Thu Oct 16, 2014 9:20 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
Doctor Glyndwr wrote: 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. 
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Thu Oct 16, 2014 9:42 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
Doctor Glyndwr wrote: 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. |
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| Author: | markg [ Thu Oct 16, 2014 10:03 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
Doctor Glyndwr wrote: 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. 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. |
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| Author: | LaceSensor [ Fri Oct 17, 2014 22:58 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
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! |
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| Author: | LaceSensor [ Mon Oct 20, 2014 13:05 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
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. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Sun Oct 26, 2014 2:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
Oh mighty alien, Such power and grace. You hear my motion tracker! You munch upon my face. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Sun Oct 26, 2014 17:31 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
Ha haaa! Take that, you big fucker! |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Sun Oct 26, 2014 18:21 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
Attachment: 2014-10-26_00002.jpg Superb. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Thu Nov 27, 2014 12:02 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
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: ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! |
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| Author: | markg [ Thu Nov 27, 2014 12:10 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
I'm going to have to get back to this. Can't see it happening before Far Cry 4 is done, though. |
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| Author: | Zio [ Thu Nov 27, 2014 17:48 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
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. |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Thu Nov 27, 2014 22:51 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
Where can one get one of these Occulus rift things? And do they work with the Eggbox? |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Fri Nov 28, 2014 10:21 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
From me. No. |
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| Author: | GazChap [ Fri Nov 28, 2014 11:54 ] |
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Selling yours already, are you? 
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| Author: | Grim... [ Fri Nov 28, 2014 12:28 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
Not actively, but it was always the plan. CV1 want! |
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| Author: | Dr Lave [ Mon Dec 01, 2014 17:25 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
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. |
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| Author: | Satsuma [ Wed Dec 03, 2014 12:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
Seen via Kalmar's twatter: http://typesetinthefuture.com/alien/ |
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| Author: | markg [ Wed Dec 03, 2014 12:27 ] |
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Amazing article. The others on there are good too. |
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| Author: | Satsuma [ Sun Dec 07, 2014 21:20 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
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. |
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| Author: | Satsuma [ Sun Dec 07, 2014 23:05 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alien : Isolation |
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. |
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| Author: | Satsuma [ Sat Dec 13, 2014 0:20 ] |
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Well that escalated quickly. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Sat Dec 13, 2014 18:17 ] |
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Heal, man! |
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