Looks decent? Or recent? Looking forward to the vid btw

are you the misterious druid knight?

Are you using graphic mods?

This is a great game, I'm not good with horror, so i could never play it (tried it a few times, never got past the motion detector part), i'm glad some people appreciate the game.

The courage cat theme is greatly appreciated at 25:00

Reminds me of the motorcyclist that found a spider in his helmet. On the freeway. At 85mph.

@@pob_42 good God thats terrifying.

Hey now, as an Aussie it’s not the 7ft carpet pythons that you need to worry about haha. It’s the way smaller eastern browns that give me the willies ;)

The idea of living in a place with venomous car-door dwelling spiders scare me

What does it mean if the snake skin is still hissing at me?

Impressive

@@MigorRortis Sometimes I surprise even myself.

Dude same

Absolutely my experience too.

I had the same experience, I thought the game was entirely scripted so I was screwing around waiting for that tram to show up. Yeah…..next thing I knew it the alien was right on top of me and scared the crap out of me! I always hide behind those crates near the tram now, learned my lesson haha.

it must have been the learned habits of creating AI in war/civilization games applied to the Alien genre, its interesting, makes me wonder what would happen if we had more video game developers jump around genres

Angry Joe lol

@@LouieCartoon strategy games require a lot more effort AI wise for unit pathing and reaction so yeah, that’s probably a good skill that translates well to other genres like horror.

@@GrippeeTV and the unit pathing in shogun 2 still fucks up on my end lmao

Its also one of the best horror games ever.

Fecking YES. The intro where we're in the vent and watch it killing a survivor while claiming the guy should calm down and to let it help him was, in my opinion, downright perfect.

Yeah, the very first time I ever saw the working joe murder that guy in the start of the game, I thought they were horrifying. "You are being hysterical" as he bashes his head against a wall. The game does an amazing job of displaying human emotion, panic, fear vs. the cold indifference of the xeno and androids.

i had a working joe chase me down a hallway to an elevator, the doors closed and just before the elevator began to movie it just…. clipped through the doors anyway and beat me to death. never went from terrified to just 😑 “oh okay” so fast

the robots are the least scary thing, they are a joke, kids

At one point, I set a Working Joe on fire with the flamethrower. Its response was to simply walk through the flames, sneer “Only animals fear fire” and then slowly strangle me to death. That whole scene made my blood run cold.

For me, it was when Outlast's main antagonist, Chris Cheesegraterface, who had opened the locker next to where I was hiding and then left every single time I encountered him, decided to open TWO lockers around the middle of the game (which, of course, was the one I was in). When a game manages to make you think you know how the enemy works, only for it to break through your misconceptions like that is a good game indeed.

I kind of learned the opposite attitude: If it was in the vents, I was safe so long as I shut the fuck up and didn't make noise.

Haven't you ever seen an Alien movie? The vents belong to the xenomorphs!

you literally see him enter and exit via the vent system, tho. When you're crawling around trying to get from point-A to point- B and not a single person or android is around, that little blip on your tracker moving around is him in the vents.

@@batalorian7997 lol I was thinking the same thing

@diomedes7971 Yep, 8 books to be exact (eisenhorn trilogy, ravenor trilogy, and the yet unfinished bequin trilogy), plus some short stories.

Dan Abnett*

An RTS developer and an RPG novelist. We need more developers going outside their comfort zones like this while bringing their experience and philosophy to the table in a new way. In this case, CA's understanding of AI lent itself so well to the xenomorph, and if the author is somewhat responsible for the extended length of the game, I'm very much grateful to him.

@Diomedes Gaunt's Ghosts have 16 books at this moment, Eisenhorn &co have 9. Having read about half of these, I can say he is generaly a decent writer, but I would'nt concider him great. And his works in 40k are often kinda light on grimdark ( argubably one thing that makes makes 40k a 40k. If done with some restrain :P )

Oh yeah Eisenhorn is quite good that would explain a lot

I can't cope with how time is flying as I age. I got into an argument last night with my best friend about whether or not Dragon Age 4 was taking too long to come out. I pointed out that it had only been a couple of years since the last game, Inquisition, had come out, and he looked at me like I'm an idiot and reminded me that it came out in 2014. I couldn't believe that it had been that long.

Seriously. I thought it was pretty funny when Mandy said his computer at the time couldn't run it at highest settings... and I'm still using my same computer from that time. :D

@@ArcaneAzmadi Let me guess, you are late 20s or early 30s?

@@ngastakvakis4425 Older.

@@ArcaneAzmadi it gets faster... the more your recent past becomes smaller compared ratio wise to your distant past the faster each year begins to feel... for a 5 year old a single year is a 5th of their life, for an 80 year old a year is just a small 80th... as a 44 year old myself, a year now feels like what a few months used to feel like for me in my 20's and compared to how a year felt for me in my pre teens... its like times on a god damn 3x fast forward, Months feel like weeks, weeks like days... Kinda depressing... not to mention your mind starts to ignore remembering larger and larger chunks of experience in long term memory so large parts of a year simply get lost, unlike when decades younger.

Which is honestly a pretty clever way to pull it off

Oh that’s neat. In short the first AI is going “warmer” or “colder” to the Xenomorph as it tries to find you. I never managed to finish this game as much as I loved it. The xenomorph was just too damned scary for me 😅.

This is literally how every NPC AI works.

@@igorigor3960 I'm pretty sure it isn't

@@igorigor3960 it's literally not.

Ooooh, that's interesting. In the world of Alien, always leave it to humans to fuck everything up beyond all comprehension.

So, is this game canon?

@@kaizokuAUTO always has been, sadly even colonial marines is also canon according to Ridley Scott

Quick! To alienpedia!

@Josias Lourenço REAL

similar energy to Yahtzee's "That's not just idle fact, it's cold hard speculation!"

To not appreciate that wording would be both difficult, and impossible.

'It's like poetry. It rhymes.'

I’m somewhat of a grammar nazi and I didn’t even catch that. 😂

Dont get it, arent redundant and unnecessary basically the same?

I don't think that's exactly it, I think Mandalore was instead attributing coincidental timing to witchcraft (unless Wwise can predict player actions ahead of him)

Seriously. Feels like a better sequel to the original movie than the actual sequels themselves.

Couldn't have said it better myself. This passion project is the polar opposite of mass-market movie games.

@@Daniel-Munoz Aliens is one of my favorite movies. But you are correct this game is a much better sequel to the first movie.

@@Daniel-Munoz Hey now, Aliens was just as good as Alien and in a lot of ways I consider it a stronger film. But... yeah everything from 3 onward was just bad... Prometheus was good but it's more of a loose spinoff movie than anything else...

@Bread And Circuses Just thought it sounded cool lol didn't know it had religious significance until years after picking it

Mandy managed to work on two videos at the same time while constantly switching from off the pills to on the pills and delivered them both on the same day - simply amazing.

Damn I came to say the same

mandalore = on ritalin seth = no ritalin max0r = severe ritalin withdrawl on caffeine

almost makes you think...

Also with a confirmation that Mandalore is also Polish like Sseth :)

ziom byłem zaskoczony ponad wszelkie pojęcie xD

proże nie xD

Contemporary? At that point it's ancient classic

i ta kremowka

jpii slander!?! inconceivable!

they are one person bro

Have you ever seen them in the same room? Yeah, you think on that.

two besties with their periods are in sync

This review is from Sseth's drug abstinence period

haha i had this exact thought time of the month

One of the new(ish) Halloween movies and a recent movie called Barbarian have two moments where characters do exactly that, they're worth a watch.

I hope we get more horror movies in general that go that far off the rails.

@@MandaloreGaming I was so tripped out at the very end, it's quickly become one of my favorites.

I recommend soviet 1967 Viy, it was an adaptation of 1835 book by Nikolai Gogol, and mc is literally forced to be there.

That one scene from Event Horizon. "We're leaving."

The writer is Dan Abnett, he is mostly known for his novels set in the Warhammer 40k Sci fi setting. Which is all about a universe where everyone and everything is out to get you. I think he was a excellent choice for a game like this

@@darkbozo11 I loved Alien Isolation and played it maybe six times. It could have been twice as long, and I've have still been fully engaged. Just love exploring Sevastopol station.

@@blakefrei3015 Sevastopol* After six playthroughs you'd think you could spell it right :P

it got too much for me when Amanda got kidnapped on her way to align the radio towers

I personally wish they would’ve made the game longer.

One of my little brother and I’s favorite shared memories is when we rented this from Family Video. As I was playing on our Xbox 360, I tried to mess with him, going “oooo It’s right there!” every so often randomly. This backfired when I climbed into a vent to hide from the alien, unaware that it could hide in vents. “Oooh it’s right there! Hahah- OH SHIT IT’S RIGHT THERE-“

I used to play this game with friends and we'd switch controllers when one of us died. One of our friends, while playing, went to hide in a vent; we were unaware the alien could go into the vents you can go into. So when the alien went into his vent as he was checking the radar, he got scared so bad he literally screamed at the top of his lungs as if he was literally getting killed by the alien in real life. Like straight up "AAAAH AAAAAAAAHH AAAH!!" It was the funniest shit ever lmao

@@dominokos that made me laugh

Kek

Jumpscares never bugged me I just got angry cursing out loud when the alien catches me

It reminds me about how fallen order from respawn was their first attempt at a third person non shooter game, it has some jank but its a damn solid piece of work overall for a first attempt at a new style.

It has a sequel or two: it's just the fact that they're movies named Aliens and Alien 3: Assembly Cut.

There are some comics that lead on after the game events if that's your kinda thing too

Originally it wasn't even a first person game, it was 3rd person over the shoulder because that was all the rage at the time. At one point they put together a test area with the camera moved into first person and they really liked it, but they had to fight with Sega a bit to convince them to let them shift the game entirely first person.

I have a personal pipe dream that one day they'd use this tech for a remake of Metroid Fusion. Y'know, an AI-driven SA-X. Isolation already had a pretty solid Switch port, too.

thanks to this comment in partucular for introducing me to cassette futurism, and thus making me obsessed with that

This. Mine too. Resident Evil 7 is a close second. Alien Isolation was truly great. Your sibling was a badass 😅

Holy shit, really?

@@JZStudiosonline not only that, with visuals like this it run pretty well, at least on 360

@@JZStudiosonline yeah isolation isn't a ps4/one gen, it's a 360/ps3 title that got a ps4/xbox one version.

Oh yeah, I always forget that this was a cross generation title back in 2014, like Wolfenstein: The New Order, The Phantom Pain, The Evil Within and Shadow of Mordor.

@@PeixeKing shadow of mordor wasn't actually crossgen per say. Not only is the 360/ps3 version actually HORRIBLE, but monolith was forced by WB last second to make a port. It was always meant to be a xbox one/ps4 only title according to the developpements team

ikr. The alien sprinting sound usually is followed by "welp! I died again...".

there is genuine, pure terror when you hear the Alien in a full sprint, even to this day

That does make sense, since one xeno cant cover an entire station the size of a town, so multiple ones make you think it's the same one stalking you when instead they're doing it in shifts, covering different areas at once.

Given how apparently 1 Xeno chased Ripley all the way through the transit towards a trap, it also could've just been a single alien

@@De-ExtinctReptile I think at the start of the game, it is a single alien, but towards the end when you discover the hive, it's clear that you're probably dealing with multiple aliens, since after its destruction they spread around the station hunting.

it's single xeno for first part until you kill it. After that, when you discover hive you will be hunted by several - and yes it's possible to see 2 xenos in same room in late game.

For someone approaching the game as an experience that tether is acceptable because it can be explained away by the xenomorph being tied to Ripley like in the movie. For someone approaching the game thinking the alien is a simulation of a xenomorph it feels completely unfair and annoying.

That's a good head canon compromise.

@@Andlekin And fairly realistic, it reminds me of the way gender ratios in some species change in response to their environment or how some species can change gender in response to the absence of the other gender.

@@Andlekin Whats the actual canon though?

According to Alien TTRPG this is canon, Aliens can morph people into eggs or reproduce via the Queen From what I gather Alien TTRPG is official in terms of the canon, so yeah. I played it, and it basically states it's the way it is.

I mean here's my thought: discount Alien 3 for a moment; (i mean do people even consider it canon?) There is no special Queen Facehugger or Embryo Queens evolve from regular xenomorph drones maybe detecting suitable conditions like how clownfish switch genders I kinda wish the original Alien lore was kept where the Xenomorphs weren't designed bioweapons but were a peaceful advanced cultured civilisation with just a really horribly violent puberty stage that got wiped out leaving behind their eggs like triops. And the Space Jockey civilization just discovered them and used them as bio-weapons with the Derelict basically being an alien B-17 bomber that crashed after one of its payload prematurely hatched mainly because I like the mental image of this story is literally the equivalent of if an alien space ship came to post nuclear apocalypse earth and found a crashed bomber, picked up a nuclear bomb in the cargo hold messed around with it and ended up Demon Core-ing or HBO's Chernobyl-ing themselves kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pMmkf8d5sMiul58.html EDIT: oh hey Mandy actually mentioned the bomber thing in the video

Reminds me of Terminator: Resistance, this.

Oh, yes, it's good. Would even say it respected the first two films more than even its film contemporary Dark Fate.

I am just amazed the developer of this game made it, considering they are more of a one shot pony dealing with only total war.

Meanwhile 2042 and Pokemon today

@@warlockd Company names generally mean nothing, it's like animation, what matters is who's working at the company when a game is being made.

"Not become a complete mess"... lol, are we talking about the same game? Alien Isolation's dogshite Artificial Idiot is THE worst one in any game i have played... well, probably ever in my life.

@@NekoiNemo *everyone speaks for themself mate

​@@NekoiNemo Not sure if this is hyperbole or if you were born a few weeks ago. Well done, you've proved to the entire comment section that you're smarter than an intentionally handicapped AI from a videogame released in 2014, we're so proud son. Sure, it uses some old tricks and has some obvious gaps between scripted sections and emergent gameplay but "THE worst one in any game I have ever played" just reveals that you're overly salty and still haven't beaten the safe haven map (me neither, stage 10 is kicking my arse) OR haven't played any first person shooter or strategy game with bots/campaign released in the last 20 years. There are far worse A.Is in video games, plenty of releases from the past 5 years that reveal the ignorance in your comment. Besides, it has to be somewhat stupid to produce tense moments of "OH MY GOD HE'S STANDING RIGHT BESIDE MY LOCKER OH DEARY ME WHAT SHALL I DO", given that the xenomorph is literally being fed your exact location at every point in the game. It might not be as smart as the marketing team said, but it's still a very capable videogame nemesis; albeit one that is tuned for tense gameplay rather than an impossible nemesis (otherwise the already 20hr long campaign would bloat further and everybody would be too frustrated to finish it in the intended timeframe).

@@NekoiNemo No.

@@NekoiNemo Sure, that's why it's near-universally praised for its good AI.

It deserved it. One of the best games in the last 20 years.

It deserves a sequel so hard, what a great game. Cant believe it honestly

It's a totally different type of game and if you go into it saying "this is going to be shit because it's on a phone" you're certainly going to agree with yourself and decide that it's shit, but there's a short (hour or two) phone game that acts as a mini pseudo-sequel. There's not much to it, but it's only a few bucks and it's the only phone game I didn't uninstall in disgust after about 5 minutes of playing. For what it is, it's very well-made IMO. It's called Alien Blackout or something and I played it on an Android phone like... dunno, 4 years ago.

At 35:43 he has a brief credit saying that Noodle has a setup for the VHS stuff. So he had him actually put a clip onto a VHS tape and record it, rather than just trying to emulate it with editing.

@@IsraelStorey oh nice! Shout out to Noodle then, that was so clean!

Marble Hornets-level

enemies don't hear the sound of stuff geting knocked over.

It got me good too. I think the fact i knew it wasnt a scripted jumpscare nor a basic hunting AI like in other horror games really builds on the fear. Its predictable yet so unpredictable, the alien is actually hunting.

don't play PT then

I don't even need alien for that first 10 minutes of this video confirmed me never playing this game

Coward

Sounds like the only things activated with you was flight

plus the director actually tracks how you've been dealing with the alien and will unlock certain abilities for the alien to directly counter your favorite tools

Left 4 Dead is criminally underrated for its AI. This whole Director idea is really solid and something only old Valve could come up with. It's a shame there's only Alien: Isolation that actually iterated on it and used it, at least I can't really think of anything else.

How did it happen anyway? Did the meme ever cross the polish border? I thought it was extremely local.

@@borek92 I mean, the pope is one of the Polish people that were commonly known throughout the world, and Mandalore has lots of viewers from Poland

Prorzenie!

That really caught me off guard. I wonder if Mandalore will listen to Cenzoset this christmas.

It is not the first time. He did mention it during warhammer 3 total war review.

The ISS runs on fucking IBM ThinkPads. You are absolutely correct.

I've heard also that miniaturization is really costly process, so maybe solution for them is to throw all those cheap resources from space minning into big sturdy cheap computers.

@@wsp233 imagine playing alien isolation in space with a computer room the size of a gym

Another thing is that in space it's really hard to get rid of heat, as there's no atmosphere to absorb the heat, it has to radiate the heat like the Sun. So using shitty, low power, low heat computers would be ideal as opposed to, say, a 3080 setting the ship or station on fire or eats up all the electricity that's being generated. Sure they might take up a lot of space, but well, you're in space, there's so much room to build a big o'l computer. Not to mention it's probably cheaper to build a factory producing these weaker computers than getting all the tech and expertise to build a stronger computer. Also no gravity means less stress on components means you can cheap out on things like durability and general toughness.

@@daddysempaichan Holy shit the future really is huge. I can't wait to ding one millionth of a gpu and rest assured that I lost barely any performance

Strangely the game does have an Alien Queens roar in it somewhere apparently. Though with how the game is, that could just be ambient noise.

@@Amitlu I think one of the writers soft-confirmed there was an unseen Queen, but unseen egg morphing is cooler.

@@Amitlu yes the devs have confirmed that you can hear the Queen roar in the depth of the hive, with you being lucky to avoid it However, they didn't retcon egg-morphing! My favorite head cannon for the hive(s) is that basically this game implies Aliens are capable of reproducing by both means - the Queen and egg-morphing. Egg-morphing is used in the case there is no Queen and only singular Drone present (that has mo means for one reason or another to morph into a Queen, if that even is canon, which I think would also be cool to be the case, one of the few good things lore wise to take away from AvP) which they basically use to kick off the Hive and establish their place. It is also worth noting that the thing that lead me to develop such head canon is not only the (visual) absence of the Queen, but also one of the Survivor Mode DLC's - the Trauma. In particular its 2nd map which has one very interesting...shall we say 'easter egg' haha

I don't think it need it, tho. Put CA making another horror game would have been nice.

I know it’s not what you meant, but the mobile game Alien Blackout acts as a sequel to the story and is pretty cool. It’s just a completely different style of game

I'm happy it was a commercial disappointment. I don't live in a world where a sequel exists and a bunch of low standard gamers, coping and acting like that it's a masterpiece. Every cheap trick in the book to artificially extend play time is here

@@MellowFungus Sounds like you're the one coping at one of the best horror games of all time and downright the most atmospheric game ever made, period. Fact of the matter is it sold badly because most "gamers" are low attention span zoomers and millenials who need to be actively pandered to if you want to actually make money in this wretched pisspit of an industry. And the fact that Alien Isolation raised a fat middle finger to this new age trope by itself makes it ten times better.

Actually, I have news for you

I can usually handle scary games, but this one got my glutes so tense my ass is now 7 meters wide

@@wicked5999 Somehow this is very accurate while being hilarious. I have no fear in horror games, i rarely get startled, most of these games feel very poorly designed to me, lack real tension, the outlast series really didnt make me feel anything... Yet, isolation was so stressfull until you got some means of pushing the xeno away i kept telling myself "why is my butt clenched, and why has it been THAT clenched for 30 minutes ? Is this why i play games ? To muscle my ass and feel terrible while just watching a flat window into the void ? Had to do small sessions for the first time in my life to keep my ass and my mind from solemn soreness.

@@sirzebra it's all about tension in scary games after all

Tough year?(

@@gargean1671 Year of the Chud turned into the Year of Schizo....

@@gargean1671 Dude, do you have any space left in your cave? I mean, we could time-share.

@@gargean1671 Yeah:( how was yours?

@@animugril2166 So-so) Left my home country for good, lost profession of my dream... Tho oherwise it's nice tbh

I didn't realize that was possible.

The exact same thing happened to me lol

Weird. I ran away in that part, and the noise didn't attract the Alien.

Seriously! My friends and I got it on sale some weeks ago, and we've been binging it ever since. It's got that perfect mix of good gameplay, engaging character customisation, and fun/mockable story :D

I actually predicted that moment. What scared me was when you walk into a room and then there's a sudden explosion. It's the part where you are using yourself as a bait and lure the xenomorph to an airlock. Even after I played it multiple times, for some stupid reason it kept scaring me .

The parts that scared me the most was randomly bumping into the jumpscares noisy exploring the areas

"You're becoming hysterical"

The Working Joes are almost scarier to me than the alien is. And in an Alien game? That’s straight up miraculous. Incredible work from the devs.

Tut. Tut.

Especially the section at 11:35.

I was 17 when this game came out, and while this was my first real horror game as well, I was already a huge fan of the Alien universe. In fact, Alien was the first horror movie I ever watched as a kid- rented it from my local Block Buster. I had a pretty good idea what I was in for, but it was all new to me. When Axel guided me around the tutorial area, I appreciated the handholding as I knew I'd probably be all on my own soon- that "welcome to the jungle" idea you mentioned. As a character he wasn't violent or malicious, he was scared out of his mind and trying to survive. He had a convincingly human reaction to the whole situation in front of him, and his treatment of Ripley spoke of a genuinely paranoid and isolated man. I especially appreciated how he warmed up to Ripley just a little bit before he died. He tried to make Ripley understand the gravity of the situation they were both in now. He wanted her to make it out, but she needed to accept a grim reality first. While he was shortlived, I enjoyed his company. His departure not only helped to set the stage for how I would need to play the game, but also the tone of the game: being alone. Deprivation of the human element is what makes most horror so compelling, and by taking away a character in the new, main setting of the story establishes that survival is all on the player. Glad I wasn't the only one who enjoyed Axel!

Don't worry, it's absolutely impossible for a human to be unbiased. Being unbiased for a human just means your putting both opinions forward, not that you don't have an opinion. Even if you have 0 fucks about something, you still have an opinion on it, which means your not completely unbiased because that's impossible

I even felt somehow safer with the androids around. I know they wont Help but it was better then being alone with something in the vents.

It concern me that it's anti-catholic meme. Is it true?

@@overlord165 A lot of Poles joke about it, it's an hour at which our Pope died

San Cristobal PTSD Facility.

Damn I might have to try that.

@@bushmonster1702 and you have to use the valve index or at least a headset with large fov to see your detector easily. This game in VR is just insane. The alien nest was so nightmarish

@@153ridzzzz I remember the medical facility is where I started closing my eye just before getting killed. It was just to much at some point. But what a trip. I finished the game entirely in VR. I strongly recommend

How many times did you shit yourself

in the reactor they introduce a new enemy type ...the sliding puzzle

Star Wars Battlefront 2015, for all its flaws, still looks amazing, and I think it captures the look and feel of the original trilogy almost as well this game does for Alien.

Metal gear solid 5 still looks so gorgeous Holy moly I could watch the sun set in that game for hours if I could

Need for Speed 2015 comes to mind.

Yeah, I think Isolation has one of the best AI in games. It often feels like it's a real creature and not just an NPC, although it definitely also still has its shortcomings.

Me seeing it and doing UE5 stuff as a hobby: I wonder if you can bend the Black Board AI design that far lol, I guess you can but you would need to write A LOT of it by hand.

@@rafox66 Yeah overall I think the AI is incredible but sometimes how random it is just makes it kind of annoying. You know I don't need it to walk back and forth in some set pattern like most stealth games but it's just a pain in the ass when the Xeno suddenly goes in a random direction and then you get ganked and have to replay a whole section for the third time, just because the AI randomly done something different. On paper that's so damn cool but in practice it's a bit annoying at times.

There's no retro-futuristic aesthetic quite like it. It's as if the 60s/70s Apollo program kept going, and didn't even consider stopping at the moon. Humans became an interstellar civilization on the backs of cassette tapes.

Now that you mention it, good point.

Also worth noting that more casual players would likely not pick up all the notes and voice logs and may have less experience with the mechanics of survival-horror games, so having Axel give a quick run-through is useful insurance in that regard

That kind of thing is in almost every horror game actually. Giving you a secure spot or company for a short while before taking it away from you. The "hubs" in Amnesia TTD and Outlast for example. They make you feel safe for a short while, then you progress and it puts the pressure back on you, and you feel it heavier *because* you have been given that break. It's like that "putting a frog in boiling hot water vs putting a frog in warm water and slowly heating it up" thing. The game takes you out of the boiling water to give you a rest, and in the process breaks your developed resistance to fear. Then it throws you back in.

I think there's a VR version available...this game is certainly one of my favourites.

But it takes a lot of time to build the tension sadly. That is it's flaw. The opening is way too slow

@@morkgin2459 I thought the same, and only after replaying it a 2nd time that I truly fell in love with it.

and then there this a VR version 😱

@@morkgin2459 To be fair, you can't really build tension that will leave you scared for days without taking your sweet time.

@@OzixiThrill Im not sure how time impacts anything

That was for some reason only a feature on the kinect verison I believe.

@@TheSpoonyCroy it was for consoles. PS4 had it too

Only for the console versions sadly

I remember watching a video of a guy using that feature on stream then giggled because of chat. He was hiding under the table in front of the Alien when it happened.

@@camblongkaras782 The console versions had some cool features that sadly the PC version never got. The PS4 had controller lightbar sync with the motion sensor and was colored green. Sounds like the Kinect on Xbox had the leaning plus alien able to hear your voice.

I legitimately reached out for an invisible flute, I can't imagine what would happen if it happened in game.

If graphics don't bother you much I highly recommend giving System Shock 2 a go

​@@chillhour6155 I did, all those menus, stores, stats, etc. were quite confusing

Amateur ex A:I speedrunner here, the FPS can be capped at 275 without losing stability. Recommend doing this from nvidia control panel or amd's equivalent.

@@TealJosh Stable yes, but you lose audio during death animations very frequently unfortunately. For the full experience you need to be down in the double digits, e.g. 60 fps. (I'm also active speedrunner of low%, but under the account Streuwinkel. 👋🏼)

@@mleise8292 I used to do nmg and all missions no cc. I don't have anything on the leaderboards. I didn't get the no audio death animation too often, but at this level, even slight differences in hardware cause major differences in experience.

The pacing is not good AT ALL. That's the most common complaint this game has received since it came out.

Sir what other games would make it to your top 10?

@@badbadman9412 Deus Ex (original), Half Life 1, 2, and Episodes, Elder Scrolls Morrowind, Final Fantasy VII (original), Mass Effect trilogy, Resident Evil 2 (original), Metal Gear Solid, Prey (2017), Knights of the Old Republic 1/2. Not exactly 10 as I've included some series where multiple games cover the same story. What about yours?

For my top 10s for the time being (my preferences change depending on, say, mood) and since Anthony mentioned some of them (so I won't mention them out of avoiding redundancy), here are these: - a lot of Star Wars Legends games, ranging from Star Wars: TIE Fighter and X-Wing Alliance; the Dark Forces Saga (basically, Dark Forces, Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II+Mysteries of the Sith, Jedi Outcast, and Jedi Academy); Episode I: Racer; Battlefront 2004 and II 2005; Republic Commando; and Empire at War+Forces of Corruption (with mods like Thrawn's Revenge to spice things up) - FreeSpace 2 (with mods like FS Port+Silent Threat: Reborn, Derelict, and Blue Planet) - Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (with the Basic Unofficial Patch) - Homeworld 1 (Classic or Remastered with the Players Patch, I don't care) and Cataclysm/Emergence; might have to try out Deserts of Kharak again - Battlezone '98+The Red Odyssey Redux and II: Combat Commander - Splinter Cell 1 (I recommend the GOG release for the DLC missions, plus some fanpatches so to restore lighting and stuff) and Chaos Theory; Pandora Tomorrow is woefully absent due to it being abandonware - Project Wingman - Psychonauts 1 and 2; haven't played the VR-exclusive In the Rhombus of Ruin yet - The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition (with the Ultimate Talkie Patch), Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge - Special Edition, The Curse of Monkey Island, and the recent Return to Monkey Island - Fable+The Lost Chapters

@@michaelandreipalon359 Nice selection. Vampire the Masquarade is definitely in my top 20. Amazing game, with the patch of course.

@@anthonyhiggins9799 Appreciate those words.