I'll give the view without watching for now. Downloading the demo now. The game only comes out tomorrow. How long do they give you to do your review?

​@@Blackmark52I got it Wednesday I think.

@@underthemayo It takes me that long to figure out how I want to customize the controls. Already the demo is forcing me to change mouse button settings which will affect all games. But it looks really promising. Love the vibe. (Left-handed with a lot of special requirements.)

Haven't watched much of it , i knew you would love this one but dam man , you showed the monster too much and in more detail . Either way great job , would love to see you return and do a video on the extra mods they will add and some custom stories , this game has some nice replayability . Also any plans on trying the demake of DS ? do more DS videos man .

​@@Kobalt_Rax_the_onewell I did open the video saying everyone needs to just play it so they can be surprised. And yeah, dead space 2 video is coming. Demake I don't know.

We got married.

​@Under The Mayo how was the wedding?

@@G-Manfromhalflife isolated.

Makes me really question his reviews… Alien Isolation is my favourite game and I’ve been enjoying games since 1990’s so quite a while.

@@10secondsrule me too, one of my favorite games.

Can't ever pass up an opportunity

Big steamy dumps every chance he gets

Bunker is good but Alien Isolation is superior.

@@Kyiruxhell yeah!

@@underthemayo grown ass man 💀

I think I'd respect alien Isolation much more if it were just a 5 dollar 2 hour walking tour through the nostromo.

@@underthemayo that is basically what it is but i will say at the time of launch i don’t think it had much competition. It’s certainly a decent game for the time. It has weird moments, and in my opinion the DLC is incredibly low effort and cruddy, and i think the game had to be rewritten or scaled back a bit a bit late in its development cycle. It’s flawed, but i can’t think of it as being “bad” by any stretch of the imagination. It basically is just a tour though, especially once you get near the end and aren’t as mystified by the tricks they try to use throughout the game

I'm glad you're actually being respectful. It's annoying when people attack someone simply for having a differing opinion

A lot of the tension is not because of gameplay but because the game knows how to use your own fear against you. We’re all scared of the dark and creepy music but a good horror game has to be more than just that. They did try with the AI I agree that much but my biggest issue with the game was the boring puzzles and the pacing. I played the first few hours of the game and I got so bored because of the artificial scary moments and the other human AIs and bots. I’d be happy with just the alien but the game just doesn’t throw it at you enough. You cannot sustain my horror if all you’re doing is showing creepy lighting and sound effects. The best sentence would be “I’m walking in a haunted house”. Fake tension everywhere because you know they’re not gonna jump out at you. At first you might think the tension is real but after multiple hours, you find out that the encounters with the Alien is just too few. Instead the majority is just a walk in a haunted house solving boring puzzles. That is just not enough. You need to know the danger is there and the best way to do that is to see the danger. Or reduce the length of the game so that you don’t get bored halfway through. You could say the game gets more interesting like 10 hours but if I got bored 3 hours in, the game isn’t doing a good job with its pacing.

@@underthemayo Bla Bla Bla. ^^ But keep talking.

Actually makes me wish they would make a new Penumbra game. Been a long time since we heard anything from that franchise.

Was my first thought too, especially when I remembered the "wall monster" from Penumbra (Black Plague ??).

@@Impalingthorn I just think Amnesia was the successor to it in some way, if that is the case then fine. Story was wrapped up neatly with Black Plague's expansion

@@ralgore And the combat is not half bad too, I would take a combat system like this, and turn it into a more survival horror approach (it already is) against more kill able enemies and at least one stalker

WW1 was hell on Earth, interesting too since, there's a lot of connection that can be made between this and A Machine for Pigs I still remember the lines about the Somme

Silent protagonists are just better. Especially in horror games. Well, unless it's a cutscene.

Talking to her unborn child was Tasi's way of coping with her horrible situation. Some people remain quiet others talk. I loved the breath of fresh air rebirth gave

@@Max-ep5irsilent protagonists are only really good for horror games or just games where the main character isn’t really meant to have a personality tbh

@@GodJack2099 They can have personality, I just want them to be quiet during gameplay.

Fear & Hunger was something, even though it has - as you mentioned - nothing much on the visual front going for it, that disturbed me deeply. I remember going into the game, having beeing a RPG player for ages.. and there was a NPC that told me to follow him, just around the corner, he something to show me. Conditioned as I was I did that. Well..it was not pleasent. Busts, anyone? :/

@@Inkompatibel F&H is fucking deceptive to say the very least.

Clement is the monster so that would make no sense

@@demonjmh No??? Lambert is the monster. Clemént is the soldier you play as.

@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 oh shit yeah I got the names mixed up

Yes, it's been pointed out to me. I misremembered it on replays cause I skipped the story stuff.

i feel it coming inside me

@@DontJinxItYet I come inside too many times, might as well come outside.

This chat is... CONCERNING

I feel it coming all over me

come

Provocative titles get da click$$$$

I thought it was funny. Doubt it'll do anything to boost views.

@@underthemayo It is and will :-)

​@@underthemayo last I knew most people had liked alien isolation (most complains are about being too long...), I just don't think this will do the video or the Game a favor.

@@nicolasferreiro4492 no care

it introduces you to shooting the gun and the controlling of it without making it seem like a shooter. Its good imo without ruining the mood

Eh the stalkers are actually my least favorite part of re, this is it's own thing

b-b-but it has doom eternal ah weapon switching mechanics 🥶

@@nik774 thought quake did it first, coulda swore I saw a speedrun of quake where at some point he does the funny switch

there were moments like the walk in the pitch black in the snow into the village and all that build up to the first lycan encounter

@@thonato295 what

and bay of pigs being disappointing

@@fulltimeslackerii8229 Frictional Games made the Cold War?

Yeah I see it like this. If you enjoy Alien, you'll like this maybe more. If you didn't like Alien, you'll like this cause it's way better.

Actual survival horror with a stalker enemy, that acts as a stalker enemy We ain't had one of those in a long long while

Way more scary than RE7 (i never got scared of RE games actually).

I think this game just nails that aspect. Whenever I died and lost like 20 minutes of progress, I just laughed and said okay okay, I got it this time. I didn't find it frustrating. Play normal.

Yeah but that would have no lore justification and Frictional are all about that immersion. They likely thought hard about it then decided fuck it, reward people who dare to dump their items on the floor in the hope the game remembers it’s there.

Interesting.

​@@underthemayo Unpredictable Alien, love it.

It's advanced behaviour is oversold, I am afraid Altho, the problem with the "leash" is as much how tight it is as it is how stupid the players are with constantly using lockers, even if it leads to their demise

What the OP says about using a mod to "fix" Alien Isolation actually ruins it. Let me explain. And I'll start by mentioning a little SPOILER that gets often ignored in these discussions. And its this: YOU'RE NOT DEALING WITH ONE XENOMORPH IN THE GAME. BUT WITH MANY OF THEM AT ONCE. That's right. A single Xeno is not supposed to be lurking around the ship. But a whole hoard of them. That is something that you learn by the end of the game. That is why it seems like the Xeno "teleports" magically to different locations. When in reality, you are dealing with different xenos that are patroling those areas. So the PC mod mentioned by OP, it was made with the erroneous concept that there is just one single Xeno in the entire ship. But that is not what is really going on. Therefore, by keeping the xeno away from the player, the mod actually ruins the surprise at the end when the player learns why they found it nearly impossible to get away from the Alien. It was always on their asses. Anyway, a good Alien Isolation player should have no problem dealing with the xeno even in the unmodified version of the game. The key to success in that game is this: • Avoid camping for too long - you have to keep moving at almost all times to avoid the game's AI to send the Xeno to look for you. Study the map and use the motion detector to know where to head over (the detector works even on nightmare mode). • Don't depend on items to distract the alien (they become worthless the more you use them). Instead try to do like Sam Fisher does in those Splinter Cell games and sneak pass every human, android or alien to reach your goals. I've beaten the game on Nightmare mode without mods of any kind. Its perfectly doable. And I understand that Alien Isolation is not a game for everybody. Especially for those that get easily flustered when under pressure. I dunno, maybe I've played the Souls games too much and that's why AI doesn't seem to be too difficult to me. Just normal? 😅 I also don't wanna tell people to avoid using the mod if that's the only way they can play Alien Isolation. If they still enjoy the game tha way, by all means go for it.

​​​@@JedzelexThat makes the adaptative AI kinda weird, why a different Xeno would be pissed off about the flamethrower or something else ?

Note: I LOVE this game and am not criticizing it or anything just saying a possible mod or something that would be cool to have

I've considered that. It is cool in concept for sure. But I fear it would become really tedious because you'd have to run around the entire area and turn off the lights, run back to previous areas to turn off lights. Turn them all back on again. I'm not sure how fun it would be. Could be a cool mod idea though.

Clement's and Deslisle's too!

The monster won't come out if the generator is on as it hates lights. However, if you are making noise, it will follow you through the walls and come out when the lights are out or if you are near a hole

Lucky!

Good! I did that a lot myself.

And frustrating possibly because of the RNG items.

@@underthemayo every run will have its own category xD

You can't even get into the wine cellar until late in the game. Saying you never felt worried about the generator of the wine cellar doesn't make sense.

@@underthemayo Well i still found a ton of bottles outside of it. You are right though, i was worried in the early game about fuel. But you don't find the screwdriver THAT late into the game so it still makes it kinda easy and i probably won't replay the game anyway cuz i don't feel comfortable supporting products that use AI generated images.

Theme to Cry Of Fear

OF COURSE. Thank you I knew I had heard it before@@underthemayo

Stretched out is a more appropriate term.

@@underthemayo Fleshed/ Stretched either way amnesia the bunker fell just a bit short for me. If the game had 1 or 2 more extra sections it would have been perfect. If i had to choose , i would take alien isolation over this cos that game gave me a far better survival horror experience

THIS.

Thanks for changing thumbnail :⁠-⁠)

dunno how he didn’t get that after beating it 3 times

@@l.m.l8598 he might've remembered another part of the game.

I skipped the intro after the first time I beat it, and didn't pay attention to the notes after that. So I misremembered.

I played a little of 1, but 15 years ago so I don't remember it.

@@underthemayo I would recommend checking it out. I wouldn't call it "survival" horror, but what it does differently is that instead of running away like in the Amnesia games, you're forced to run into the darkness and face your fears with blunt objects you pick off the ground. I just remember it being a very visceral experience.

Well, when dealing with an invincible monster that can go through walls, is it necessary to hold the bunker 😂

@@YEY0806 I mean it would leave a gap in the French line that the Germans would notice

@A Random Guardsmen Yeah, but even then, it's effectively a "No Man's" zone, where no one can have the bunker as the monster lives there

It certainly is a piece.

​@@underthemayowhat is wrong with you dude? Why the massive chip?

@@TheT0nedude He’s butthurt

One of the pieces of all time

@@TheT0nedude He thinks it's big comedy but its' kind of just kicking an excellent game and dev team while they were already massively down from that 5/10 IGN shit.

Uh... Darkwood... such an underrated game! The sound design is something not even Frictional Games could top in my opinion and I think they are really strong at that. The horror of that game is fantastic. The nights are so stressful. It's a masterpiece.

@ A horror without jumpscares is like a comedian that doesn't rely on stereotypes for his punchlines Truly an immaculate genius

Play this game... with the Monster AI settings ALL THE WAY UP.

Cry is fear is the in regular soundtrack rotation for my videos. Especially horror ones.

I would like it to be an option.

My bronchitis symptoms are a better description of alien isolation.

@@underthemayo you probably were just unlucky and had a bad first experience, did you die really early or something? What’s with the hate?

@@shadow-squid4872 he's just unhinged and unreasonably biased towards many games for no reason, it's evident if you watch videos on titles he didn't like

@@shadow-squid4872 no fast paced doom eternal combat :(

@@shadow-squid4872 I played through it twice for the video I made about it.

I've been so happy this year too!

So they tell me.

The ai was lackluster at best(the human one I mean) If I gotta say, hands down the androids were the worst enemies you had to face back then

@@justmichael468 tell you don't understand game design without telling you don't understand game design.

It's decent not great not bad imo I like the game because I'm a big fan of the Alien IP

@@skyhunter996 bro if a group of 5 humans decide to look at the xenomorph without even shooting it or running from it than something is wrong