Loev your videos

Make more of 'em masterpieces ok?

I always wanted to see that in a documentary. Thanks you Noclip!

Thank you for making this episode. This game was to me as good as original HL in the past. I still play it from time to time. It’s a master piece.

Thank You, Noclip. Appreciate your hard work

I know. The lighting is stunning, only now with raytracing are other games getting close to it.

That’s radiosity for you. Ray tracing shines where reflections and refractions are involved. Hardly a selling point for this game. Or any game really apart of maybe racing simulators.

I don't know what you mean. Graphics in 2014 were easily capable of this. In fact if you look at the textures closely they were ever a bit average for the time. Nothing amazing. The difference is art design over graphical fidelity. Graphics are at the point now - and have been for sometime - where design should take priority over gimmicky technological innovation in the visuals. The design philosophy and artistic vision were key to keeping it really fresh - not mere graphical fidelity. I really wish more people understand this so that we can have more game like this and less like, say, Destiny or CoD or

2014 was the eight console generation so it's no surprise it looks good, it would be more surprising if it didn't look good. Most games in a console generation look about the same because they use the same technology. Sure improvements can be made as devs learn to use the resources better but most difference is in art direction and engines. Does TLOU2 (2020) look a lot better than Uncharted 4 (2016)? Not really. Does Sekiro (2019) look much better than Bloodborne (2015)? Even early 8th gen games like Infamous Second Son, Killzone Shadowfall, P.T, AC Unity or games from just a year later like Dying Light, Arkham Knight, Until Dawn, MGS5, The Witcher 3, Rise of The Tomb Raider look on par with games from 2020. If they released Alien Isolation 2 on current generation, it would look slightly better sure but not by a lot, there's a limit to how much they can improve. That's why I'm always a bit sad when a sequel releases in the same generation, because it means it won't be a big (technological) improvement over the original.

@@10secondsrule Yeah, but people are wetting themselves whenever ray tracing is mentioned. So, they wanna see it everywhere and that’s why we’ll see it in every damn next-gen game until new gimmick become propelled by console makers/devs that have nothing else to show, because they need to minimise the expense as much as possible to keep that €500 price and manage to profit at least half of it. I love how Control was showing off RT. That game like 3 puddles (all in poorly lit rooms) and no water at all, the environments are mostly concrete or hard rocky surfaces...that are reflecting most of the light, because that’s how it works. Yet, people loved it, because mankind is a lost cause.

YES!!!

Alien: Isolation PSVR please!!

Aliens: Isolations

Could you imagine a sequel with the same tension but with shooting mechanics and dozens of xenomorphs on screen rushing you

I love The fountain and alien isolation too!

I'm gonna try and look that up now. XD

I think that killed some of the success of this game unfortunately At the time they were still such a big review outlet and people would judge a game on scores from sites like that before trying them

“Game’s too hard on the hardest difficulty”. Still salty about that review...

IGN do it time and time again. Especially with SEGA published games, I have found.

The ai is to smart. Hardcore mode is to difficult.....best part of the game the fog.

@Gmail com Oookey. Which one would that be?

Absolutely! Nailed the look and feel of the Alien Universe 👍

Star Wars Battlefront was pretty fucking good

@@ErenTheWarcriminal Which one?

Not only. Gameplay and feel are pretty much like the first movie. It’ like the game is the best sequel to the film, better than all the movies that came after.

I would love to see this treatment given to another 80s classic, Blade Runner. Could be a really interesting, immersive mystery RPG.

Playing it now. It took a minute to get going, but this is the first time I’ve finally forgotten about Dead Space. Which I still believe they should remake from the ground up. No idea where this game will end. But I still have the DLC as well. The AI for the Alien is fucking bananas. That thing is SMART (but you’re smarter, that’s the beauty of it).

@@TheStanishStudios I just can’t get over what a tribute it is to the first one in particular. Clearly made by people who truly **love** the film. The best homage to a fantastic movie any game has made to date.

the game was good but the AI was terrible

They'd have to rehire most of the devs for this game before they could do a sequel. Those folks are at different studios now, doing indie games in this style.

Certainly not... It was Aliens Crucible, an RPG from Obsidian Entertainment. This was cancelled in favour of 2010's Alpha Protocol. You can't help but wonder what that studio could have done with the licence. They're one of the best when it comes to the role-playing genre.

@@robcain8865 I don't feel like during that time. if it were to have come out it would not have been super great. Obsidian was dealing with quite a bit of funding issues. And I think that can cause developers to make blunders just out of pure stress ie alpha protocol. This wasn't the only issue they were facing either. I think if obsidian were to have another crack at it today it would probably be fantastic.

@angrytacos I vaguely remember hearing about this I didn't include everything in the comment because people criticize me for leaving walls of text LOL

@@Bobo0451 I personally liked Alpha Protocol, I thought it was a pretty good game.

@@padmanabhanvaidyanathan7182 I ate overalls enjoyed it too but that doesn't change the fact that overall it was miss step in my opinion

Exactly, it was so beautifully done it almost felt like stepping onto a real life movie set. All credit to Creative Assembly for the job they did.

Alien Isolation is what I imagined modern games to evolve into, during the early 2000s. Its sad to see that in many way games havent progressed that much.

I don't think it was underrated because of colonial marines. The well known reviewers like IGN didn't give it a good review. Its annoying people complain about short games and then complain about it being too long. I don't get it. A game far ahead of its time i think.

@@Largentina. don't forget AvP2 (2001)

No plans for a sequel because the dev team was fired immediately after. The publisher had hoped to make more profits. Those core devs are over at No Code now, twiddling their thumbs while making indie games in the A:I style.

@@Youcannotfalter truly, the lenght was an extra for me. The story was well developed and the pacing was balanced. What I meant about being overlooked was because at the time of release, not only major reviewers were lukewarm in their reception, but even people took a while to discover the game and appreciate the ammount of quality that went into developing it, the detail, the immersion, considering that at the time, Alien didn't have a proper videogame counterpart and the franchise was already a shell of it's former self (cinematic franchise). It has a cult following nowadays because this game was as you just said, ahead of its time and nothing short of a miracle by today standards.

I don't think all opinions were based on the failure of "Colonial Marines". I think a lot of the "underrating" was done by the people this game wasn't for and they kind of discredited it as boring or something like that. - This game didn't have a global or very mainstream appeal. It was for fans of the movie(s), horror(games) and perhaps a few other kinds of people. But other than that it wasn't very appealing to the rest and so it didn't get all the credit it deserved. - This is a piece of art among videogames, even apart from the gameplay or even playing it. A very special piece of work at least.

i would like a dlc to play as an Alien

No idea why they didn't, I mean this one was quite successful and well liked right? I guess CA has too much on their hands right now

They actually made a sequel, but it's a mobile game

if that ever happens they really need to work on the gameplay and pacing

@@axelNodvon2047 no sadly it wasn't. Critically acclaimed and post release it has garnered a stronger following and likely significantly better figures. But it was an expensive game to make and at launch did not sell particularly well. Early figures are what decide whether or not the team jumps straight on a sequel or has to do something else.

I respectfully disagree. The first 2 to 3 hours are great. Fantastic atmosphere and pacing. But then... it just sucks. For four times I’ve tried and I just cannot continue after the first couple of hours. I’m not really sure why but I just can’t seem to care after a while.

One of my favourite games of the decade. Atmosphere was incredible. It wasn't flawless but even with it's flaws it was astounding.

It was a bit long, though I didnt mind the Working Joe levels as much as I see complained about. It was just a bit drawn out. Though one of my ALL TIME Favorite Games.

@@j.a.weishaupt1748 The first 2 to 3 hours most people don't even get to the Alien. The game really kicks in far later than that. I think you are giving it a disservice. That is very unfortunate, oh well.

I've sneaked quietly through the game twice fully and never had major issues. Its all about patience and finesse.

Yea, that's what you get when they take their time and think about things and really make it work and don't do it for just the money. - Oh, and of course that the people upstairs LET them work on it and don't try to push a product out the door for sales.

Yes!!

lets not forget Dead Space now.

@@radovanjosipovic2567 As much as I love Dead Space...no. Just no. Alien Isolation is a TRUE Survival Horror. Dead Space is an action game with elements of horror such as a really creepy atmosphere, art desing and sound, but the gameplay core is pure action. There's no bactracking, no puzzle solving, no resource management, plenty of ammo, health and money to buy even more health and ammo, a great variety of weapons, etc, etc. It's the oppsite of a Survival Horror

they all got scared shitless and ran away because it is actual horror. in this game, you cant fight all you can do is run and hide and hope it doesn't get you. compared to this dead space is a walk in the park because you know that anything you fight will eventually go down. except for that damn regenerator damn, I hate that guy.

@@ADMNtek “IT’S JUST GOING TO KEEP REGENERATING! GET OUT OF THERE!”

Really hoping CA will rehire the devs at some point. They were obviously capable of doing so many more cool highbudget games.

@@michelottens6083 They won't.

I want a sequel too so bad

Great video as always. Good job team.

I love your channel

@@AIandGames Fancy seeing you here. Great Channel!

Interesting topic; I'll subscribe to your channel as well.

Oh looks who's here ;)

Hard work and talent.

Does anyone even play Olympics games? Jesus, the real thing is already boring enough by itself

100% agree.

True but the MotherVR mod is perfectly playable as-is. If you can try it, please do. It’s amazing.

i wish the vr mod was playable sadly it really isnt so many things break

@@SB-xt5jk sadly it isnt :( you cant get past double handed levers which are very common in the game. the lever just bugs out and doesnt pull down

I fidgeted around and got it working on an occulus dev kit 2, and it was pretty amazing walking around sevastapol in VR however i could only move using either KBM or a controller, and if i needed to turn around i also needed to use a KBM or controller, so while it was really cool i got so fucking motion sick after 20 minutes that i almost threw up

They'd have to rehire the devs, though. The actual studio that made this game got collapsed immediately after making it, and for some reason Creative Assembly keeps avoiding that story when people hype up this game with them.

I hate horror movie games as well. I hate jump scares, creepy noises, and that awful anxiety. I gave this a try because I love the Alien franchise (and it was on sale on steam). I would recommend this game to any who hates horror games because it's so different than the garbage "gamers" play on youtube for views. The setting, atmosphere, sound engineering, story, the mechanics... The game's beauty lures you in with about an hour or two of gameplay before you get a glimpse of the alien, and by then you're hooked; you want to just exist in its environment far more than the Alien is terrifying. And it IS terrifying.

true... except the profanity... could have done without that

Yep ign.

I finnished it yesterday was amazing sometimes frustrating but great lol im gunna try and do nightmare mode soon wish me luck 🤣

😂

I never got a feel it was underrated or anything like that. Sure, one review bombed it (and was bombed in return), but the overall reception was very positive and it was that year's hit, including top spots and accolades at year's end lists et cetera. I think the perception it's an "underrapreciated niche masterpiece" is pretty overblown.

Best sound design and implementation of any game, ever. Fact. The end.

Yes, the game had been defined as a 'part' of the Alien core lore. It worked on multiple levels, and remains a stellar experience even today, beating out many other wanna-be horror titles.

It feels more like an Alien film than a couple of the sequels / prequels! I put on the original film the other night and was blown away by how accurate everything looks.

Constant stress tires one out. Scary, immersive and tense-to-the-max!

👏 absolutely!

Agree. I would say that the new Hitman games are pretty underrated as well.

@@abnerrufino3613 so underrated that square enix cut ties 😂

@@abnerrufino3613 Because it's the same thing over and over again it doesn't stay fun like that.

@@Supremepikachu if you say so....

@Smunstu Stinkymonster boring? excuse me, are you talking about yourself? I'm kidding lol, Hitman it's pretty fun for me, if you don't like it, that's fine :)

Haha 😂

10 hours from start to finish?? I spent 10 hours just inside lockers. :D

@@galandilvogler8577 hahahahah That was my mistake on my first play. I tried to be sneaky and let the alien go away. The second time arround, I keep moving, every opportunity I had I moved and changed my behavior. I died... A LOT, but after around the flashback of the nostromo I got really good on doing this.

@@vitorviotti Yeah, this. If you keep a general forward momentum (you can walk when the alien's in the vents guys, it's okay!) and don't linger too long in any one room, the AI is forgiving (how much depends on the difficulty level). Basically, the game rewards you for being brave, but not stupid. In my first playthrough I also made the mistake of crab-walking everywhere and trying to wait the alien out.

@@vitorviotti It's hard to keep moving if you're inside a locker in real life away from the PC. :D

I fucking love the Riddick games they're gems.

I'll have to check them out if people feel they're worth mentioning after all these years.

I don't like it because of the gameplay, but I have to say that the environment is a part of the holy trinity of immersive, jaw-dropping game environments that includes Alien: Isolation, Escape From Butcher Bay and Thief the Dark Project. I can see why as a fan of this you enjoy it.

Yeah, the Riddick games were excellent, too.

Blair Witch is similarly as good and judging by the list you've made here I think you'd really like it so check it out :)

a guy can dream....

This game with EVEN BETTER lighting? Hard to imagine just how good it would look...

There is. It dosnt look any better. Search Alien Isolation RT.

Still hoping for a SX upgrade for the Xbox version.

I can’t lie to you about your chances but... yOu HaVe mY SympaThiEs.

the human being is the perfect organism, my friend. Not only are we made in God's image.... but we can kill the alien in the end. We are way smarter than it.

Rest In Peace, Ian Holm.

Cause it went through a bunch of developers and development became an inconsistent mess because of it. - And considering that one team on a single project, like CA on "Isolation", already has trouble figuring out their own idea, imagine how difficult it would be to do it right one a project that has gone through different teams. I still wish that perhaps they could've taken the assets of "Colonial Marines" and then CA could've reworked or remade that game into a new and improved version. I mean, if I were Sega or part of CA I would've suggested that at the very least, considering the success of "Isolation". - I mean... money... But perhaps nobody cared anyway and even if they wanted to the stigma attached to that game might have been too hard to get rid of and convince people. - Then again, had they marketed it with "remade by the creators of Alien Isolation" or something... Who knows! - It's getting late, but I think there's still a window to do that.

Here to shill for the mobile game?

"Smoke and mirrors motion picture bullshit", evidently

made it vr and it will be good...

I see you in literally every comment section wtf

Thank God it was not the 3rd person. Try re2 remake in first person. Amazing though much more linear experience (in comparison).

@@10secondsrule I think it would've been cool to have an option. Perhaps not like an option at the start but like an unlockable mode or something. - But if it was always in 3rd person, I think it would've been compared to Dead Space a lot more. I mean, as soon as this video showed it to me my mind went to Dead Space. When it went back to first person view, it just became its own thing again. - It's a very console-esque thing, the third person view in a videogame, which is fine. But that sort of immersive personal experience you get in the first person perspective turned out to be important and I think it also made games like 'Resident Evil 7' all the better and more unique for it.

Its like a love letter for us Alien fans ❤ one of those truly timeless classics

Same! ...but it get's easier. The alien starts to feel more like a pest than a monster. I haven't played on "Nightmare" difficulty yet, but at least on the other difficulties, you fall into a rhythm with the alien after a while.

​@@_lithpHonestly though, I'd rather deal with the Alien than with an industrial Working Joe. Those mfs can spot me from a mile away and take forever to drop.

Oh, you are in for a treat.

I find that they always covers games right BEFORE I buy them. ;)

When CA invents a time machine and goes back to not fire the game's core dev team.

@@michelottens6083 More like Sega buying the Alien IP again

CA fired most of the core dev team right after, though, because Sega had wanted to make more money off this game

@@michelottens6083 It's so weird that they first give them a chance with all conviction and then when there isn't enough money it's like garbage to them. (Though, I don't know if the same people made both decisions.) - I know that they probably expected it to sell like a movie or something. But if it made ANY money, I would be like "Can you make another one?... I want more money. But you do your thing and make it for me.". - That's basically how it works. The boss should be up front about business and then just put the employees to work. Not fire them, which doesn't generate money and only save some money temporarily. - I see now that they went all-out on "Total War", making it their annual release, though. - How long until that will incorporate "surprise mechanics"?...

If you want to do that there is a table for cheat engine that makes all the enemies in Alien Isolation ignore you.

Yea, and even a distance between you and the character you play. - Something that amplifies the "scare/fear" factor to me is when it's in first person perspective, it always has. Despite me having been an advocate of the first-person perspective, being really excited about games like 'Mirror's Edge' (which, ironically, in hindsight I actually think should've been in third person for the sake of the experience, despite making it unique in first person). As a kid and even teen I had trouble ever even starting first person games, even if they weren't horror, because it's so in-your-face. Even 'Minecraft' startles me and occasionally creeps me out to this day... - And I'm not saying that games in third-person a not-scary, I mean there's 'Dead Space' and even parts like in "Uncharted" or "Tomb Raider" could be creepy. - But still, you're literally more detached from the character, rather controlling the character than "being the character" as if it's you in that situation.

Lots of folks; both players and reviewers had felt the story was too long. Actually, the game wasn't any longer than other titles of its time; it's just that it was such a tense experience, player-fatigue had impacted the 'personal experience' more than, say, a racing game or a shooter. -it 'felt' long due to its player-immersion and wtf plotline.

@@TheSGBrown No, it was too long in my opinion. I don't see how "what other games did" makes that any less true. If you end up just wanting a game to end, the game is too long, simple as that. The game simply didn't have enough diversity beyond 10 hours to keep me interested. I did finish it, but I ended up downloading some sort of cheat to just get through the last 6 hours of it as quickly as possible, so I could see how it ended. The synthetics passages especially grew old on me very, very quickly. But as I said, it doesn't really detract from my overall opinion of the game. It is extremely well-made and the xenomorph itself especially.

Incredible man! Must have been fun trying out the demo 👏😃

haha yeah, he looks like he could be his older brother

I was thinking the same, he looks like he could be Merchants brother also.

Yeah lol good catch

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

What is the VR like ?

@@TheActs2021 sorry for taking so long to answer. The vr is great, some smaller hiccups, but for a game that wasn't made with VR as a priority it is one of the best VR games out there. Check out @upisnotjump 's channel and watch his playthrough to get an idea.

I stopped watching or reading anything from them ever since. Bunch of twats.

@@10secondsrule Same here man, never looked back.

Who on earth uses reviews 😂 not seen a review since the magazine's that came with demo disks. Everything is just an opinion piece nowadays and i couldnt give a fuck what someone else loved/hated about a game

@@-pressxtostart- Well that's you, most people use reviews especially when there is a bunch of releases coming together, to me personally reviews are never a deciding factor, i know what i like by watching gameplay.

Not sure to what degree reviews have an actual impact on a certain game... People who care about the game will buy it either way.

the horror just didnt want to end :D

I could have played another 20 hours. I love this game so much. It’s a crime that we aren’t getting a sequel.

agreed, longer the better

Murray Lochrie I love the game, but it was definitely too long. Longer doesn’t always mean better, I think it’s time you Americans realize that

@@randomguy6679 I'm not American fyi, and i don't think so

I love how they threw in the jazz hands reference, that's how you know they're true fans

I've played through it twice, and I noticed during pivotal moments, like the one you described, the alien conveniently disappears.

@@_lithp This sounds like what an alien would say.