List of everything wrong with Alien: Isolation: 1. We will never get a sequel.

This game is criminally underrated

This game is great because of its AI. The game uses two AIs. One is a director, and one is the Alien. The director tells the Alien when it can show up in whatever area you are in, the rooms it can check, and to check them in ANY given order. This makes the alien seem to 'doubt itself' and to backtrack sometimes, making you wonder if you made a noise to attract it back or not. As a simple rule, the alien can never 'cheat' and know exactly where you are when it shows up. It simply gets told by the director to check the area. That's what makes it scary. Not just because you cannot kill it, but because of its unpredictability to know where it going to go, and if and when it may backtrack. When the director sees the alien hanging around too long, it tells it to go away. It's pretty amazing. Someone even made a video further detailing the amazing AI.

If you use the flamethrower enough times, the alien gets used to it.

10:22 This is just me guessing, but I think the reason why the androids go on their murder-spree is because when the one Xeno got thrown into space, APOLLO realized that the inhabitants of the station were a danger to the Xenomorphs - and since its chief directive is to protect the Xenomorphs so Wey-Yu can study them it decided to eradicate all humans on the station to keep the Xeno Hive safe.

If you spray the Xenomorph too much with the flamethrower, they will stop being scared of fire and attack you, mostly so you dont become too overconfident with the flamethrower

If I remember correctly there are posters along the lines of "Human or android? You can always tell with our Working Joes!" so it's at least explained why they look so eerily different

Actually it does explain why the androids start going on the hunt. Notice how when you make it back onto Sevastopol, the intercom states “Security alert has been raised to Omega” thats because you launched one of the xenomorphs out into space and the ship has deemed you (Ripley) a threat to the survival of the hive underneath the reactor core. So they are literally hunting for Ripley. It gives you hints to this on the computer below Mother, but you do have to connect some of the dots yourself.

The reason the androids start killing everyone is because the AI running the place has ordered them to because it has orders to protect the xenomorphs.

The flamethrower didn't kill the scares for me. Primarily because the ammo's pretty scarce, unless you're smart enough to scavenge early on, meaning you can only use it a very limited amount of times. I only bust it out in desperate situations, and during the finale.

Sin 01 Narration ?!?!? they got Sigourney Weaver , and you found that a bad thing ?

Actually, on #45 the androids saw the humans as a threat to the aliens since they ejected the first one. That's why they sought to kill the humans in order to protect the rest of the aliens.

>It's almost like they made the Working Joes uncanny on purpose Man, I've been watching you for years but you really rushed through this. That's the official story they give, but really its because Seegson just doesn't have the funds or technology Weyland does. The game explicitly states this. Come on.

A broken bones or other types of damage don't necessarily mean the suit ripped

Yes, Segson did canonically go out of their way to make their synthetics as humanoid-yet-inhuman as possible, and apparently they're proud of it. IIRC it has something to do with "people being uncomfortable being unable to tell who's human and who's robot"

The sin about finding the flight recorder is backwards. Marlow's crew found the flight recorder first. They were also tracking its trajectory as they were approaching it, so they knew which direction it was coming from. They decided to go back along the flight recorders path to see if they could find the ship that the recorder came from. That path brought them close enough to LV-426 to pick up the beacon. That's why they went down to the planet's surface, and Marlow's wife was facehugged. When Ellen Ripley was picked up in her lifeboat, those Weyland-Yutani people were able to confirm some of her story from the lifeboat's flight recorder. Which isn't the Nostromo's flight recorder. The Nostromo's flight recorder was ejected out into space when it self destructed.

Burke is the one that tells Ripley her daughter lived to old age and died peacefully.... and that guy is SUPER trustworthy of course. Also, the air we breath isn't pure oxygen... it's actually mostly Nitrogen.

If your going to do a sin video you should do your research! The game does explain why the Working Joe's started killing people. The station had been bought from Seegson by The Company aka Weyland-Yutani and had been given orders to protect the specimen. All other concerns secondary. So when a threat was detected when they jettisoned the Alien the threat level was raised to Omega. Because now that the humans could kill a specimen they were a threat and the Apollo was under orders to protect it at all cost. Even Amanda, Samuels and Taylor were listed as expendable. All this information was available in the computer terminals. What you put in this game is what you got out. And you could have put that flamethrower to good use and actually read something.

There's actually lorebits that show how Seegson tried to sell the fact that their robots are deep in the uncanny valley as a positive in marketing -- i.e: ''you'll never have to doubt that your doctor/science officer/etc is a secret robot!" The game needs props for having the only real worldbuilding in the Alien franchise since Aliens. Sure there's Prometheus, but, well, haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Good video, but sin # 22, Ripley wasn't just randomly searching through the security cameras, Samuels was trying to contact the security room, and Ripley happened to be the one to answer. There is a sin here, but it's in the convenience of Ripley being the one to answer Samuels' distress call. Please don't turn into CinemaSins and start manufacturing reasons to add a *ding* to the sin counter.

11:49 The Xenomorph outside the hive was just a scout hunting for prey to harvest. Second, in case if you’re wondering where the Ovomorphs and other Xenomorphs come from, the Xenomorph Queen was inside the station, but was hidden in the game probably one level above or below the hive where Ripley was in. 14:31 This is science fiction. In fact, Water Bears can survive almost any harsh condition including the vacuum of space so Xenomorphs had the survival mechanism just like Water Bears.

Gonna debunk this as we go just because I think it's fun. ;) #4 Are you really going to trust a conglomerate like the company with a back-story on Ripley's daughter? Also Ripley having a daughter is pretty well established with fans of the Alien series. #7 Spaceships at this point would be the equivalent of driving a car to a house to pick up a USB drive. #9 Nearly all ships have an emergency access hatch for rescue in-case of an emergency. #11 Space is really big, it's easy to be disoriented, and a space suit isn't exactly flexible you'd be lucky to see anything not directly in-front of you. #12 A de-pressurized ship undergoes decompression which provided the pressure difference was great enough would draw you towards that opening, regardless of gravity being present or not. #25 Bunt Trama could explain her surviving without any outward damage to her suit. #29 Murphy's Law, if something can go wrong it's mostly likely it will and in the worst possible way. #40 Paybacks a bitch, and ammo is very scarce on harder difficulties. #41 But it did work... And it's a space station what other options are there? Lock the Alien in the kitchen Freezers? #46 The entire Alien horror factor is bout rape and sexual violence. #49 Shot in the dark she talked to anyone in the room when she woke up and they gave him a summary of how screwed they all are? #51 I still find people with passwords written under their keyboard at work (I'm in IT). #55 Warrior Xenomorphs defend the hive and and Drones collect people, there are likely fewer drones than warriors and its not like the people were actively communicating with one another. They all had separated off into paranoid camps with shoot first/ask questions later mentalities. #61 See #4 #70 They are warriors defending a threat against the species, you don't just let the person walk away after they blow up your house.

Weyland-Yutani bought Sevestapol to monopolize on the aliens. They don't want any of their rivals taking the Xenomorph from that station to learn what they were trying to find out before they can. They didn't need the alien(s) from that station, and just wanted to make sure that no one steals it before they do, which is why they had the Working Joes start killing everyone.

I made the mistake of never getting caught by the alien. So, now im at the point where you get the medical supplies right after the alien gets that guy. It takes me literally 30 mins to leave a room sometimes. This game is intense as hell.

Alot of these gaming sins aren't even deserving

There wouldn't be pure oxygen on any human craft/station. Oxygen only makes up 21% of earth's atmosphere. Pure oxygen would mean a worse death than carbon dioxide - seizures, convulsions, and then death. Great video, though. Enjoyed the stream.

I just wanted to put in my two cents about the multiple aliens in the hive deal... There was only one Alien to start with. It would have taken that alien quite a bit of time to hunt for humans, build out it's nest, and (by some process) lay the eggs required to create more aliens. As such, everyone would have already panicked at the single alien. I'd wager by the time multiple aliens started hunting, effective communications may have already been lost, either due to the alien, itself, or orders from WY. Furthermore... and this is a bit of a stretch... but, it could be argued that not every alien that came out of a grate to hunt you was the same alien. As far as I know, there were no clear markings identifying one alien from another, so, a unique alien may have been hunting you between each loading screen... I mean, transit run.

GAME SINS | How to miss a lot of stuff and count it as “sins”

"Where'd you come from, Ripley?" Translation "Which part of the station are you from/work at, Ripley?"

The fact that 1 is out of the hive is an illusion they all had been out (most likely) of the hive

Still, the game is amazingly suspenseful. Then again, I played it in my basement on 7.1 surround sound with all the lights off...

Alien isolation was terrifying It's a great game

Considering overuse of the flamethrower results in the Alien becoming more determined and use to the flames, I say it is still pretty intense.

14:42 The reason she crashed back down where she needed to go was probably _because_ of the tether. Notice she lands on the thing just on the other side of the railing. The xenos that went flying _with_ her (visible for like 20 frames) did not.

The elevators do indeed work at making me feel tense during the wait.

This is how you do a sequel's videogame/movie. Something that follows the story without affecting the main story. Good Job!

This game is awesome and I still play it to this day, don’t know what the guy is talking about in the vid about something being wrong in game.....this game is the best experience when it comes to your nerves being shot, fear, being afraid to move, not being sure if you were quiet enough etc because the Alien is constantly looking for and one wrong move doing something and your dead meat.........I remember being trapped in the medical area (with all the operating tables and devices) for 3 days straight, trying to get from one room to another to pick up something but the Alien sensed where I was but didn’t know the exact position where I was at. All i had to hide behind was a chair and small desk and if I moved any way at all the Alien would have seen me, it kept going back forth in front of the hallway I was supposed to go down.....on the 3rd day of playing it finally left long enough where I could move to the area of that room I was trying to get to. I’ve yet to experience that type of fear and horror in any other game since Alien Isolation.

You're counting things you just don't understand as sins. You missed a lot of stuff. Do better

You can tell this guy just speed through the game on the easiest difficulty.

I love that Marshall Waits is based and voiced by the same guy who plays Gorman in Aliens!

The flight recorder is indeed the nostromo’s, it’s confirmed in a audio log in the next room. As for the flamethrower, it’s still very much terrifying especially in nightmare mode since fuel is more scarce and it takes up a LOT more fuel to scare off the alien.

"the flamethrower impedes suspense of avoiding aliens in favor of increasing pace" - that's not a sin, just an observation. some of the sins are fair but I'd rather not see "sins" just for the sake of filling run time.

I don’t care what anyone says this game is a Gorgeous Masterpiece, Perfect, Badass and Pure Genius💯💯💯💯!!!!

Who told you air on a spacestation is pure oxygen? I mean air on earth isn't even anywhere near 100% oxygen, let alone smoke/steam from cooking, blowtorches and of course carbon dioxide from plants and my final one... farts XD 100% oxygen my ass lol!

10:09 - The Joes go extra hostile because jettisoning the xenomorph proves to Apollo that, if left alone, humans can potentially be a threat to them. This counters its primary directive from WY to preserve the specimen(s). So Apollo's calculations change and it decides that leaving the remaining humans alive (particularly Waits' crew in the police station) is too risky. Agree with most of the rest of your sins though

Hey, Narration shouldn’t be a sin! It’s a throw back to the movie and I think it’s great :)

This game had better art direction and atmosphere than Resident Evil 7 or Evil Within 2. We need a sequel.

I just went through this game for the very first time this last week, and holy shit is it fucking good. Being a HUGE Resident Evil fan, and Survival Horror fan in general I was upset with myself that I had never played it before, but it was on sale on the PS store for 80% off so I HAD to get it! And man was it well worth it! I'm looking forward to the many, MANY replays of this game I'm going to do!

I recently replayed this game and found something on a terminal. After speaking to Apollo there is a terminal underneath the core that states that the hazard containment level was raised to Omega after Project KG348 ejected from the station, this was because it was seen as a risk to the alien, and must have assumed the alien survived, as the core was unaware of multiple aliens on the station and assumed there was only one. That's why it refuses to lift the containment level, it still detected alien life onboard station in the reactor

One of my favorite things about this game that I did on complete accident is that if you kill all the people in the room right before the cutscene where you meet the alien the alien will just wander around that entire place. I was basically fucked because it wouldnt leave for the longest time and I had to hide.

I'm surprised you didn't sin the fact the air vents are large enough for adult humans to crawl through them.

1st thing: a vote for Dead Space 2 2nd thing: The point about Aliens not being able to breath in space is rendered a moot point, want to know why? Because in Alien and Aliens, the Xeno and the Queen both get taken down by being sucked out an airlock (well, the Xeno in Alien was also blasted by the engines, but you get the idea), and they still move and, somehow, roar while floating in the void of space

You can see the Xenomorph on the motion tracker when the doctor gets snatched.

12:10 wasnt that bad.. It got me

The flamethrower is suppose to make the game less scary because it’s a powerful weapon. Which is why they don’t give you much ammo for it. If they gave you ammo for it around every corner then I’d understand where you’re coming from.

I was kinda hyped for this video when i saw it, but it feels really nitpicky

This game was and stil his a masterpiece.

I actually think that the way in which the last xenomorph aproaches Ripley (slowly) at the end of the game makes sense. All throught the game, we’ve seen that the aliens don’t bother the androids because they can sense that they are non biollogical. At the end, ripley is wearing a space-suit, so maybe is harder for the alien to detect that she’s human, so it takes his time. Either that, or he was just being dramatic (it always seemed to me that the xenomorphs had a flare for the dramatic 😅🤷‍♂️)

12:20 "...the first high security door she comes across" I'm pretty sure this guy didn't even play the game

It took me months to beat this game. Cause it was freakishly scary and challenging.

I've heard several people complain about how the suspense, horror and tension goes down the shitter once you get the flamethrower. Here is an idea, and you may want to sit down for this. If you feel the flamethrower makes the game less scary then don't use it. Seriously, the game doesn't force you to equip and use it. What is so difficult to understand about this concept lol? It is the dumbest complaint/argument regarding this game.

9:34 I have to disagree. In pop culture media, usually threats aren't dealt with properly if it involves sacrificing someone. You almost never see it, even where it would make sense to sacrifice like 10 people to save 1000. In this scene, he wasn't taking any risks, which is somewhat realistic.

The only fun to be had is on easy level, after blowing the Alien outside, you get to shoot the synthetics a lot by bouncing around and collecting scrap. At least you get to build and get shotgun shells. Synthetics or survivors with guns show up from time to time. It doesn't last forever, but you have to find something other than hiding. Once you finish the game you should be able to keep everything you acquired to start again.

This game has one of the darkest atmospheres of any game I've ever played, just thinking about certain sections makes me feel depressed, especially the part where you are realigning the comms array with emotionless androids doing their best to kill you. They really nailed the isolation part down, who'd want to be stuck on a space station going to shit with aliens and androids trying to kill you? Tough as freaking nails too, I was glad for the flamethrower as I got caughr by the alien A LOT.

Very very underrated game. Deserved much higher ratings!

It's pretty clear from this that I missed a LOT of very cool stuff from this game when I stopped playing about a third of the way in. The bit where you go onto planet LV-whatever the fuck and explore the alien ship...and get to see the space jockey...this part right here, at 13:49, which looks incredible, the part where there are _loads of xenos..._ ...Obviously I should have stuck with this game. It's visually beautiful for one thing, on an artistic and technical level, and everything about it is pretty much spot-on. I just couldn't play it because it was too tense to be enjoyable.

I thought one of the sins will be that even Amanda is making too much noise when walking, whining, opening doors, the Alien doesn't care about that.

9:45 Yeah thats the whole point waits was so anxious about the alien surviving that he didn't even want to risk having the door open any longer since the alien could easily escape its a mistake any person could make

Having the flamethrower did not make you overly confident around the Alien. It just made sure you would have one or two saves before it killed you anyways. Especially with how fast you ran out of fuel. 3 encounters could easily run your supply dry. No more fire for you. And with how the video showed them using it? Yeah, I wouldnt be shocked if that was the last time you used it.

This game actually scared me a couple times, wonder how many times it scared dartigan

Dead Space 2, I tell you! Also I loved this sin video, Dartigan, great job!

14:08 Because you see it arrive, not in transit. Probably like seeing a car do 70 MPH and breaking 20 feet from you.

Dang, graphics still amaze me sometimes, maybe it's cuz of my thing for Alien franchise xD

The androids in Alien are supposed to help care for the crew of their vessles, that includes mental health.

I always assumed multiple aliens were out and about, but if people only see 1 at a time, obviously they figure there is only 1...but it instead explains a lot better why there always seems to be 1 everywhere you go, like when taking a tram across the station and running into another right away. Just because survivors say there’s only one doesn’t actually mean anything if you apply the logic of knowing there’s a bunch. No need to ding a game for the sake of it.

Dartigan, you miss a big one. The fact that you bust out of locker like the Kool-Aid Man without the Xenomorph hearing you.

RE4 !!!!!! no one did a sin video for that game

Leon! Leon! Help me Leon! LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's my vote

Here are some more: - A hour or two into the game you can't pick up the gun when you kill people with a wrench (but you CAN pick up the ammo) - The hostile characters are talking about how they want to be rescued but they shoot every other human they see at the first sight - The UI is horrible, at first you can't even tell that the radial menu IS the radial menu, because you have very few items - You can't remove the flare or the medkit from the screen by any means other than saving and reloading until you find a weapon - The crafting system is a mess, there is a blinking button that says CLICK HERE TO CRAFT THE ITEM that does nothing - The story is uninteresting. It starts with this girl wanting to know what happened to Ripley, but we already know what happened to her from the movies. Also the characters keep wondering who's killing them but we already know that too. Too little mystery to make the player intrigued.

The game actually does explain why the androids started killing everyone. After you spaced the first one, Apollo realized that they could be killed. Since its primary order is to preserve the Aliens for study, it began to off all the human survivors.

I think it's implied that Amanda got infected by a facehugger and that's why she doesnt get attacked in the final scene, it makes sense with her not looking for her mother any longer and the start of Aliens. Weiland just said she died of old age when in reality they retrieved her for the sake of experimentation.

I haven't really seen the alien movies so I don't know the lore, but this game is awesome!

...ok i'm just gonna say it, none of these "sins" were actually sins, he was just nitpicking and/or uninformed

When I played, I slapped the glass when Kuhlman was being attacked and they alien ran off, so then he was standing in front of me and his face just exploded in blood, he stood there, dead. X'D

Man, I want both games. RS4 is a great game but DS2 is soo sinful that it will be fun to crack it open and tear it apart. Great video Dartigan. I really wanted someone to sin this game too. I don't hate it, far form it, I think it's the best alien game, but no game is without sins.

8:05 So you're assuming that Van Leuwen, a company man with an agenda (lay the blame for their loss of their precious M class star freighter and payload at the feet of the only survivor,) would tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? That's quite an assumption. "Game Sins" sin counter: +1

I would argue that as far as we know, Amanda would probably never find her. Ripley did drift into the core systems, and was lucky to be found by a deep salvage team when they did

On higher difficulties (And I mean Nightmare) if the alien runs through you trying to get away it'll kill you, as well as ammo in general being almost impossible to find. Also I'm going to vote for DS2, I've never been interested enough to check it out

ONLY thing wrong is the fact that there's no sequel

This is not good counter. 1 sin for narrator

The magazine in the guy‘a throat is a reference to the first film

I love how much effort you guys put into the opening credits

I loved isolation, it's one of my favorite movie based games

I vote for Dead Space 2

Them goddamn trams were the most tense things in the whole game in my opinion even before the xenomorph officially emerges. The first tram gave me the impression that the xenomorph was going to drop down and hunt me.

Another sin: when you kill an enemy you cant take their wepaon, because guns are glued to the ground

15:03 IT HAS AN EYE

Great vid as always, do re 4, but i would like a marvel vs capcom infinite someday, that game has a lots of sins

there is absolutely nothing wrong with Alien isolation , this game is a masterpiece !

4:11 Funny thing, if u don't get into that train "quick" enough the vlad will drop out of the vents