Alien: Isolation...

You've all convinced me again to give it another try, probably when I can spend some long hours trying to get into it Xmas.
Seen so many horror movies maybe nothing scares me and besides.......my mommy told me there's aren't any real monsters, but maybe there are? :P
 
I cant see how one could force himself to be immersed in the game. I personally could not help BUT be immersed, somebody recommended youtube play-through by "Mighty Jingles" and he was also immersed to an extent that he could not take the tension anymore and stopped -on the medical level...
(no major spoilers I believe)
He also concluded that it is "an absolutely fantastic game, one of the very best games he ever played,he couldn't believe how good it was, although in the end it was too good at what it did"
 
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Don't understand how a game can force someone to stop playing because of the tension. I personally love the feeling and want more and more!

The game is absolutely superb though. The best Alien gave we've ever had and so much like the first movie it's perfect.

Can't believe its 3 years old already too :eek:
 
Halp! I spoke to soon - there's more of the medical bay! And this part is more cramped and the alien is all over me like stink on a monkey.

I've just spent half an hour mostly looking at the inside of locker doors, not daring to use my motion tracker, feeling around with my ears to see if I can tell where it's gone.

Then I saved the game just a second before it drops down from a vent and looks right at me! I have just enough time on loading to duck and dive into a locker.

Oh, this is too much. Alien >>> me....

And my deaths on this level continue to rack up! I seem to have developed the knack of walking right into the damn alien! Think I need a break from it for a bit. So intense.
 
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Oh man... that bit

where you use the keycard and then have to get the trauma kit

So damn hard! I actually got through it and was metres away from a blessed save point when I walked underneath a vent, and... you can guess what happened next :(

It was at the end of a really cool period of gameplay where I chucked a noisemaker into a group of enemy humans, hid in a locker and waited for the alien to kill them and then to go away again. Worked like a charm. So gutted it ended in that surprise death.

DarrenM343 said:
my mommy told me there's aren't any real monsters, but maybe there are? :p
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They mostly come out... all the ******* time, especially when you think you're safe for a minute. Mostly.

EDIT/UPDATE: Actually, the last bit
where you have to power on the two generators and then hack the computer with the synthetic in the room, and then you have to get to the reception area

That's even harder! Took me four attempts. NOW I think I'm finally out of the medical bay. Phew! :)
 
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strumpusplunket said:
Oh man... that bit

where you use the keycard and then have to get the trauma kit

So damn hard! I actually got through it and was metres away from a blessed save point when I walked underneath a vent, and... you can guess what happened next :(

It was at the end of a really cool period of gameplay where I chucked a noisemaker into a group of enemy humans, hid in a locker and waited for the alien to kill them and then to go away again. Worked like a charm. So gutted it ended in that surprise death.



They mostly come out... all the ******* time, especially when you think you're safe for a minute. Mostly.

EDIT/UPDATE: Actually, the last bit
where you have to power on the two generators and then hack the computer with the synthetic in the room, and then you have to get to the reception area

That's even harder! Took me four attempts. NOW I think I'm finally out of the medical bay. Phew! :)
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Medical bay is the games hardest bit you done that now you'll find rest easy :p
 
Having said the above a few days ago... I have to disagree with those who said the medical bay levels were the hardest! I'm having even more trouble at the end of the lab level
sepcifically where you have to restore power and then get the elevator.
The alien is just so relentless at this stage, and always seems to be in the way. Plus some of the tasks I need to do involve unavoidable noise, which always seems to attract the creature right when I'm engaged with something else.

Last time I played this evening, I'd
just pulled the second lever
and then found I couldn't move away. Hmmm... curious. Am I caught on one of the desks... or perhaps one of those canisters... oh... it's grabbed me from behind, hasn't it :(

I was so close last night, but must have taken a wrong turn, got lost back in the labyrinthine layout of the labs and ended up getting cornered by the alien right when I needed to stop playing.

About to have another go...
 
strumpusplunket said:
True. But... sometimes the thing just charges straight through it, and sometimes it seems to make it retreat for maybe five seconds only to return more ****** off and tenacious than ever! :)
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Yeah you have to time it right with the flamethrower - if you leave it too late your caught! And yes it will come back but 5 seconds can be a long time in that game!
 
So... been playing this a fair bit now over the past week. I'm now at the level
with the synthetics running amok after you blast yourself out of the airlock.

I was just now walking down our (long, dark) side alleyway to bring our wheely bin back in. For a second, the echo of my own footsteps in the dark, confined space made my heart skip a beat and for just a split second I felt my body freeze.

I realised straight away, of course, that this was because I'd become so accustomed to listening intently for footsteps in the dark, and associating their sound with fear and dread, that this had bled into real life in a perceptually similar situation.

A great testament to the intensity of the game experience. I hope I'm not the only one to have this kind of experience, though... :)
 
Gonna have to unsub to this thread. It's making me wish I could play it again for the first time. I think iirc I gave this my goty when it came out. I rate it as one of the best gaming experiencing I've had. Probably in my top ten games ever. I've got too much of a backlog as it is though!
 
strumpusplunket said:
I was just now walking down our (long, dark) side alleyway to bring our wheely bin back in. For a second, the echo of my own footsteps in the dark, confined space made my heart skip a beat and for just a split second I felt my body freeze.
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Don't leave your flamethrower at home, that's the lesson.
 
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