This game is such a drag!!!

[Roman]

I thought I would like the game, but certain things while playing it have made me feel the complete opposite. The idea of manually saving your game progress seemed amusing at first, but soon it started to get on my nerve. So many times I was forced to hack through the same systems, open up the damn doors, walk through the same corridors, and pray to god that the alien doesn’t find me so that I can get to the next save point. Why? Because there was no auto save feature!! The second thing that is so terrible in the game is the way the protagonist moves. It feels like she must weigh around 400 lbs or that she is wearing high heels. Sprinting is funny and one of the worsts I have seen in years. Who the hell moves so slow when the alien is constantly up their asses? Next, the alien’s response to the noise is just way too high. You can’t run and the presence of explosives or weapons at times do seem useless since the noise they make while you use them on your enemies can cause the alien to find you. Last but not the least, I realized by the time I completed around level 12 of the game that I did lots and lots of WALKING. Majority of the time I spent on while playing Alien isolation was walking. I don’t know when was the last time it took me 20 hrs to complete only 60% of a game. I am just glad I didn’t get the season pass for it, I had originally planned to get it after I beat the game, but now I can’t just wait to remove it from my system once I am done with the story mode.


Important: People who are saying that there is more than one alien, let me be clear that I made this thread when I was at lvl 12, you come across the same alien every time before it's thrown out into the space.


It's really amazing how some of the fans of this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game still keep coming back to this thread and leave their comments. I think I hurt them bad :) Let me ask you something, don't you have something better do with your life?



Update: I beat the game, uninstalled it and hid it in my library for good.


Note to self: Play the much better games you have in your library.

[-|Nur|-]

You're not gonna make any friends here by complaining about the difficulty level. There is only one proper response to posts like yours: Git gud.

[Roman]

Originally posted by -|Nur|-:

You're not gonna make any friends here by complaining about the difficulty level. There is only one proper response to posts like yours: Git gud.

The topic of my discussion is million miles away from the difficulty lvl. I am totally aware of the likes of you, who are obsessed with few games and linger in the discussion forum, ready to lash out at anyone who says something bad... It's like the end of the world for you guys if someone says negative about the game you like. Your achievements in the game says enough about you. So don't even think of replying to this post.

[-|Nur|-]

Originally posted by Death:

I am totally aware of the likes of you, who are obsessed with few games and linger in the discussion forum, ready to lash out at anyone who says something bad... It's like the end of the world for you guys if someone says negative about the game you like. Your achievements in the game says enough about you. So don't even think of replying to this post.

And I am totally aware of the likes of you, scrubs who blame "design" for their own failures.

[XΞИOΛLIΞИ]

Well what do you expect us to tell you now?

The save system is put in because it brings more tension and fear about dying. The only moments it annoyed me was after dying because i was playing too reckless.

I never noticed Amanda moving "slow", even after she falls a few meters down at the very start of the game, and while carrying a ton of stuff and weapons during 95% of the time, i find her to be sprinting quite well.

The arguement about the alien being very aware of noise is ridiculous. This is supposed to be a highly intelligent "perfect organism". If you are going to run and throw bombs around, shooting guns at everything that moves, obviously you are going to attract some attention.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ4lJNzI3CA

[tunnelcat]

I for one am glad there are manual save points. There are invariably autosave points in many games that are too few and far between, or come at lousy points in the game, like right before you die. The locations of the save points in Alien Isolation are sprinkled around quite nicely and they give you a warning if enemies are nearby first. That reassuring beeping tells me that I'm at a point I can make a save and plot my strategies for survival. The alien is a pain in the butt, but I find it fun to try and outsmart him just to survive, not just mow him down in a hail of gunfire and move on.

[Bru741iX]

Here we are folks... Yet another scrub that cant figure out the mechanics of a relative simple game.

And OP clearly forgot to research the game as well...

Allow me to quote a rather fitting comment:

Originally posted by -|Nur|-:

There is only one proper response to posts like yours: Git gud.

[Wondering]

Originally posted by Death:

I thought I would like the game, but certain things while playing the game have made me feel the complete opposite. The idea of manually saving your game progress seemed amusing at first, but soon it started to get on my nerve. So many times I was forced to hack through the same systems, open up the damn doors, only to walk through the same corridors, and pray to god that alien doesn’t find me. Why? Because there was no auto save feature and I had to get to the next saving point before that alien found me again. The second thing that is so terrible in the game is the way the protagonist moves. It feels like she must weigh around 400 lbs or that she is walking on high heels. Who the hell moves so slow when the alien is constantly up their asses? And last but not least, the alien’s response to the noise is way too high. You can’t run and the presence of explosives or weapons at times do seem useless since the noise they make while you use them on your enemies can cause the alien to find you. I don’t know when was the last time it took me 20 hrs to complete only 60% of a game. I am just glad I didn’t get the season pass for it, I had originally planned to get it after I beat the game, but now I can’t just wait to remove it from my system once I am done with the story mode.

I kinda feel you, honestly what has kept me from playing much is the save system. But it is difficulty, not a design flaw.

[Dayve]

The way this game uses save points is where 50% of the horror comes from. After not saving for 10 minutes, standing at the save point and having to wait for 3 seconds, knowing the alien could jump you, is terrifying.

[Roman]

Originally posted by TRIT0N:

This is supposed to be a highly intelligent "perfect organism". If you are going to run and throw bombs around, shooting guns at everything that moves, obviously you are going to attract some attention.

Really??? Let me remind you that there is only one alien at the station and no matter how intelligent that ♥♥♥♥♥♥ alien is, he can't be present at every corner of the station waiting for me to make some noise (before it gets ejected in to the space)... but that doesn't stop him for popping out of nowhere.

And for the record, I don't throw bombs or shoot guns at everything that moves, only when someone shoots at me. Don't just make an assumption about anyone, you haven't seen me play.

[Roman]

Originally posted by Wondering:

I kinda feel you, honestly what has kept me from playing much is the save system.

Trust me, this game is not worth your time... you will always find better games than this one. I, on the other hand, just have to finish it because I am already halfway through. And when I am done, I am not just uninstalling it, I will hide this game in my library forever.

[Roman]

Originally posted by Dayve:

After not saving for 10 minutes, standing at the save point and having to wait for 3 seconds, knowing the alien could jump you, is terrifying.

I have seen the alien jump on me so many times that it is not terrifying anymore... what bothers me the most is that I have to waste more time on it.

[XΞИOΛLIΞИ]

Originally posted by Death:

Really??? Let me remind you that there is only one alien at the station

Let me remind you that you are wrong

[Roman]

Originally posted by TRIT0N:

Let me remind you that you are wrong

I am pretty sure that before the level 12-13 (at 60%), there was only one alien.... I haven't progressed any further.

[Dayve]

Originally posted by Death:

Originally posted by TRIT0N:

Let me remind you that you are wrong

I am pretty sure that before the level 12-13 (at 60%), there was only one alien.... I haven't progressed any further.

They key thing to remember here is that the people on the station THINK there is only one alien on board. As does the player. Then we find out there is a whole nest and potentially hundreds of them.

This means that even at the start, it's possible there is more than one alien on the hunt. We just never see more than one at a time until the game gets more difficult toward the end.

[OrbVeggie]

Wow dudes spoilers!! give us a warning first if your going to spoil the game.

As for op you can only blame yourself for not researching what this game is like before buying the game, the save points in this game are much like in the older resident evil games in that you need to use them sparingly, i for one use each save point only once and move on. When enemies shoot at me which you also mentioned i don't shoot them back i instead go hide from them and wait for the alien to pick them off for me and then sneak past it, i only sprint if it is the last option