Is the story good?

[Captain Flappy]

I have only just started playing the game, is the story good enough to warrant the length? (have heard it is quite long.)

Or is it a fluff story just used to push you through the scary gameplay?

I am hoping the story is gripping enough to keep me going.

[☆Heike'sFootSlave™☆]

I think one of the best story's ever so they should make a movie out of it! IMO!

[Max Headshot]

Originally posted by ☆Becky'sFootSlave☆:

I think one of the best story's ever so they should make a movie out of it! IMO!

I thought about that movie idea too, but there is too few character interaction. It should be including the prequel told by the logs since Marlowe arrived on Sevastopol. That could be a great subject for a whole movie. Oh that would be awesome to see !

[BROOD-SkorpioN]

It's a good story in the sense that it's coherent, deep in terms of lore and has compelling characters that are interesting to follow. It definitely warrents the lengh (although the ending leaves something to be desired). That said, it's also a very "safe" story; it takes no risks in order to innovate, and pretty much reuses all the tropes you've already seen in the films. I personally loved it because it was the first interesting Alien-related story since the 1986 Aliens, but if you're looking for some innovation - this isn't it.

[Max Headshot]

Originally posted by BROOD-SkorpioN:

It's a good story in the sense that it's coherent, deep in terms of lore and has compelling characters that are interesting to follow. It definitely warrents the lengh (although the ending leaves something to be desired). That said, it's also a very "safe" story; it takes no risks in order to innovate, and pretty much reuses all the tropes you've already seen in the films. I personally loved it because it was the first interesting Alien-related story since the 1986 Aliens, but if you're looking for some innovation - this isn't it.

I'm sceptical about innovation in movies, i've seen too much crap in the last years. I'm tending more and more to buy dvd's of great old scifi movies. Just got Soylent Green, Quiet Earth and Brazil. I love this old-fashioned stuff, it looks much more innovative and experimental than the stuff Hollywood rolls out today.
Edit: I've forgotten to mention Interstellar, one of the best scfi movies in years. Movies are tending too much to pure fantasy and cgi-action-spectacle today, it's no innovation at all and makes me sick. A great plot ? Who cares about this in these days.

[Helcyk]

yeah the story was rather good to follow, it's coherent most of time, show something else in the alien universe with new decors , objects etc. Some moments are very "fan-service" oriented, (like the derelict ship visit) but they aren't too abusive. the ending wasn't great, but you can always doing some interpretations about the fate of some characters, what would happen to amanda etc. But it is not the most important part of the game. It's more the atmosphere and the gameplay which make this game so good.

[Max Headshot]

Originally posted by kilimouli:

Originally posted by Max Headshot:

Just got Soylent Green, Quiet Earth and Brazil

Old but visionnary, and sadly the 1st one is still relevant today...

Yeah, visionary is the most appropriate expression for those movies, this list could also include Kubrick's 2001, Blade Runner , The Omega Man, original Solaris and certainly some more. All great movies, but not big sellers. This is the consequence of being innovative, dust and oblivion.

[silveryahel]

Hello Steve,

I enjoyed the story and interconnection to the Alien movie a lot. Maybe you just play the game?

What about Carpenter´s movie "The Thing" - would not call it visionary but a damn awesome scifi horror movie (did not like the new one though).

[Ping Pong Lee]

Having seen Alien 1 trough 4 its in my opinion the best story of them all, and is the closest story to the first film in style and atmosphere.

[Helcyk]

Originally posted by kilimouli:

The game story is good, but not amazing. It is very classical
But it fit perfectly with the lore of the first Alien.

I am surprise that so many on this forum only love the firt one, AlienS is really good imho.
After watching the first one i was wondering if trained soldiers could have beat an Alien, it gave me a clear answer : no ^^

Sry for my english, it is not my native langage.

Originally posted by silveryahel:

What about Carpenter´s movie "The Thing" - would not call it visionary but a damn awesome scifi horror movie (did not like the new one though).

I love this movie, and nearly all Carpenter work.
I dream about a good "The Thing" game.

yeah alien 1 & 2 were great, would be nice a "The thing" game with the same style of gameplay than Alien isolation, one day , i hope too

[silveryahel]

Hello Kili,

a good The Thing game would be great - could even imagine it to be coop, players might become the host and would have to do certain tasks as well as stay concealed.

Imo trained soldiers would have had a good chance on the Nostromo, I guess they would have established a perimeter and dug in.

[Captain Flappy]

I don't really care if it is revolutionary etc... I just want the lore of the Alien Universe in spades.
And it sounds like this game has it.

[-|Nur|-]

There's no story. The plot is almost an afterthought, forgotten for most of the game. The rest consists of franchise clichés.

Not that any of that matters, since you play the game to get the hell out of Sevastopol and the alien, not to ponder philosophical questions à la SOMA. Did Alien have a great story? No. Alien was just a slasher/haunted house in space with a few cool twists, but you watched it to see who (if anyone) survives. In SOMA you want to progress in order to learn more about the mystery whileas in Isolation you're motivated by your most primal instinct to survive. Even some robot in SOMA evokes more sympathy than any of the NPCs in Isolation. But that's okay, for getting too close to any of the other characters would only take away from the game's sense of, well, isolation.

Originally posted by Max Headshot:

I'm sceptical about innovation in movies, i've seen too much crap in the last years. I'm tending more and more to buy dvd's of great old scifi movies. Just got Soylent Green, Quiet Earth and Brazil. I love this old-fashioned stuff, it looks much more innovative and experimental than the stuff Hollywood rolls out today.
Edit: I've forgotten to mention Interstellar, one of the best scfi movies in years. Movies are tending too much to pure fantasy and cgi-action-spectacle today, it's no innovation at all and makes me sick. A great plot ? Who cares about this in these days.

I'm gonna have to disagree. There are tons of really bad sci-fi movies from the '70s and '80s, it's just that time has mostly forgotten all about them (unless they were notorious enough to warrant some "worst movie of all time" label). These movies put a lot of effort into their primitive special effects and zero thought into their stories. The movies you remember are the goods ones that had great special effects and were good movies in other respects too, but they weren't really representative of the sci-fi movies of their respective eras.
Lots of good sci-fi movies have been released in the past few years such as Gravity, The Martian, Coherence and The Edge of Tomorrow. (Interstellar would be great too if it weren't for the 5th-dimension-love-conquers-everything crap that left a sour taste in my mouth.) The '90s are filled with great sci-fi movies too such as Terminator 2, Starship Troopers, Contact, The 5th Element and The Matrix (and a little known favorite of mine, The Arrival with Charlie Sheen).

[Max Headshot]

Hm, i hate Gravity, one of the most overrated movies ever with a great plot, great dialogs and great physics XD.

[2D]

I'm a big big fan os the Alien franchise (so much that I actually care about Prometheus and AvPs, just because I love the Xenomorph), and Alien Isolation is very fascinating. BUT, the story is very clichê, speaking of Alien and Holywood blockbusters movies type of narrarive. But the game have plentiful of deep side stories through the game (via computers and audios and text) that you actually care about whats going on on Sevastopol. So yeah, desbite beeing very linear and sometimes previsive, the story is good enough, even for
replays, which is rare this days.

[Max Headshot]

Originally posted by horenpa:

I'm a big big fan os the Alien franchise (so much that I actually care about Prometheus and AvPs, just because I love the Xenomorph), and Alien Isolation is very fascinating. BUT, the story is very clichê, speaking of Alien and Holywood blockbusters movies type of narrarive. But the game have plentiful of deep side stories through the game (via computers and audios and text) that you actually care about whats going on on Sevastopol. So yeah, desbite beeing very linear and sometimes previsive, the story is good enough, even for
replays, which is rare this days.

Yeah, agree. you can get a great plot out of a crowded Sevastopol, less out of the game itself, maybe a final like in the first movie. I remember a movie featuring Sean Connery as marshal on a space station, that worked for me too.
Don't forget, all stories are already told somewhere and there will probably never be invented a totally new one. What makes a movie great is skilled handcraft from writing until cutting. Crazy perfectionists like Cameron or Nolan can do that.