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#4097671 - 03/27/15 01:36 AM Alien Isolation Steam sale..$12.49  
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I just saw that Alien Isolation is on sale for $12.49 until March 30th. If you have resisted buying this up until now, maybe this is the time to reconsider. Definitely the game of the year for 2014 IMHO and at this price it is a no brainer if you have the slightest interest in the Alien franchise. Just be prepared to spend a lot of time hiding/cowering in a virtual locker (as I did)... behindcouch

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#4097693 - 03/27/15 02:33 AM Re: Alien Isolation Steam sale..$12.49 [Re: Paul Rix]  
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I agree. I'm still playing through on the PS4. Great game. I learned two things though that greatly helped me understand the gameplay a bit more and helped me progressed from where I'd been previously stuck for a long time.

-Once you really get going, just walk right up to the alien and let it kill you. Its going to happen anyway. Doesn't dispel all the creepiness which is good but it robs it of a little of its tension.

-Walking, which lets you move faster than crawling, is not as noisy as you think. There have been times where I was able to walk right past the Alien when it turned its back and walked into a room. This helps you get from one place to another quicker than you think and potentially to an area with a game save device which hangs on the wall.


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#4097696 - 03/27/15 02:45 AM Re: Alien Isolation Steam sale..$12.49 [Re: Paul Rix]  
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#4097723 - 03/27/15 04:06 AM Re: Alien Isolation Steam sale..$12.49 [Re: Paul Rix]  
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What's the replayability on this game?


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#4097726 - 03/27/15 04:18 AM Re: Alien Isolation Steam sale..$12.49 [Re: Paul Rix]  
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I would say pretty good, although I haven't been back to it much since I completed the campaign, which takes a long time even without all the hiding. It's tense, stressful nerve-wracking (as was the movie). If your nerves are not completely shot at the end of it, you can explore the survival mode missions, and there are some DLC's worth playing, including missions based on the Alien movie itself. Seriously, at $12.49 this is a steal.

Also consider the season pass for all the DLC, which is also on sale right now for $14.99.


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#4097823 - 03/27/15 12:42 PM Re: Alien Isolation Steam sale..$12.49 [Re: Paul Rix]  
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I have this installed but haven't started playing it yet. I was finishing FC4 and its DLC first. Almost done with Valley of the Yetis, not sure if I'll ever finish Escape from Durgesh Prison with that 30 min time limit...I'm just not a rush-around type of person in FPS games.




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#4098000 - 03/27/15 05:40 PM Re: Alien Isolation Steam sale..$12.49 [Re: Paul Rix]  
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I found myself hiding in lockers so often the nerves bit kinda wore off. I thought the alien AI was a little ridiculous considering you're on a floating city and he's ALWAYS walking back and forth in the two particular hallways you're near. Not a terrible game mind you, the atmosphere was great and I love a good space-station-survival game, but mind wandered to other games since release. I'll finish it eventually, for 12 bucks it's a steal.


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#4098026 - 03/27/15 06:15 PM Re: Alien Isolation Steam sale..$12.49 [Re: Paul Rix]  
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I'm also eagerly anticipating Routine.


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#4098282 - 03/28/15 06:45 AM Re: Alien Isolation Steam sale..$12.49 [Re: Paul Rix]  
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I want to play this on OR/HTC Steam.


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#4098290 - 03/28/15 07:31 AM Re: Alien Isolation Steam sale..$12.49 [Re: Paul Rix]  
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I am looking at this on Steam.

What are those other Alien Isolation downloadables for like $1.99?

Then there is Alien Isolation Lost Contact for $3.99 and Alien Isolation Season Pass (What the?) for $14.99.

Are they Add ons?

What kind of controls does it take? Can I play with just a mouse and keyboard?

The 3 video trailers posted on Steam look good BUT too many times I have bought games that looked good in the animated trailers but the game play sucked.

Are there any videos of the actual game play that are not embellished and made to look all pretty and cinematic?

#4098363 - 03/28/15 01:52 PM Re: Alien Isolation Steam sale..$12.49 [Re: Paul Rix]  
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Keyboard and mouse work like in any other first person view game. This is not a shooter, although there are guns in the game. You have to be very careful of using them though as the noise they make will attract the alien. If you are looking for a fast paced shooter, this isn't it.

The DLC addons are extra missions that are primarily there to play once you have completed the campaign. Think of the season pass as a bundle of all these extra missions in one bundle (and any new ones coming down the line are included too). For gameplay footage, just go to Youtube and search for Alien Isolation. Lots of gameplay movies there.


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#4098418 - 03/28/15 05:12 PM Re: Alien Isolation Steam sale..$12.49 [Re: Paul Rix]  
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Gameplay is good. The actual game engine and graphics are better than the CG stuff in-game for some reason lol.

Used to be where we'd see a CG cut scene and think, "Man I can't wait until games look like that." Now games look like that but better. Some games get both right where the graphics are so good its used for cuts cenes and the game goes in and out without you noticing.

The cut scenes aren't bad, I think it just actually lends itself to the game and what they were trying to achieve anyway of creating a "dated" feeling game but with dated gameplay that is actually better than so called modern games where the gameplay isn't very good. But to re-emphasize, the graphics are good AND the gameplay.

Like Paul said its not a shooter but you do some shooting in it. Survive, soak up the lore and atmosphere and experience it. I just came from playing on the PS4 and progressed to a mission that I was not expecting at all but was an excellent surprise. I don't want to spoil it but just one word....Prometheus.


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#4098457 - 03/28/15 07:06 PM Re: Alien Isolation Steam sale..$12.49 [Re: Paul Rix]  
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I just got started in the game but am not surprised there's a tie in to 'Prometheus'. The Sevastopol station is located in the Zeta Reticuli system, which is where 'Prometheus' was set, more precisely in the moon LV-223 that orbits the gas giant Calpamos. BTW, LV-426 aka Acheron, the setting for the 'Aliens' film and where the Nostromo finds the derelict ship in the first film, is also another moon of Calpamos.

The moment I heard the system name in the cinematic intro I knew what it meant, but like I said I just got started so haven't got that far.


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#4098463 - 03/28/15 07:18 PM Re: Alien Isolation Steam sale..$12.49 [Re: Paul Rix]  
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After reading many reviews on the net on many websites from several reviewers, both professionals and amateur, I will pass.

I don't like the if you die you got to do a part over to return to that part to try to get past it again without dying without auto save points or a manual save option that allows you to save multiple game save files as often as you want as many times as you want.

When I use to be a heavy gamer on game console and PC games, I would save many many times and have as many save points as the memory card and game allows so if I die, I could pick right up right just a few steps before it and try again.

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Saves are not that bad, you have save stations where you can save the game and they are on the map so you can locate them. That is the first thing I do when going to a new area, look for the save stations.

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#4098526 - 03/28/15 10:19 PM Re: Alien Isolation Steam sale..$12.49 [Re: Paul Rix]  
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I've noticed too that as the game progresses, they seem to be a touch more abundant. Maybe that's a misperception as once you work your way forward, you're learning how the game is played better.

I agree to a degree, as a pc gamer and console gamer, I like the ability to save where ever and whenever I want. However its not set up in this game exactly how you fear it is. Its still better than a majority of console games and their ports that have and only have a checkpoint system.

You'll eventually learn in Alien Isolation how and when to use the save stations. After you play awhile too, you'll begin to "sense" when you are in an in-between time/place that gives you a bit of a respite from Alien fleeing. It won't always be easy and there will be some frustration in the learning, but you'll soon learn when you should save and how in such a way as to not only save your progress, but set yourself up on a better foot for if/when you get killed again, you reload that the last save of yours.

I think where it gets trickiest is when you are still learning the rooms and environment of a level. Sometimes it takes several deaths before you start memorizing it. There were some levels where I was indeed on the same level as the hunting Alien yet still able to save.(just be careful of the timing!!!) But like I said there are respites that come up from the tension of Alien dodging.

As a side, the synthetics almost scare me as much as the Alien. Finally killed one for the first time today. behindcouch


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#4098933 - 03/30/15 02:11 AM Re: Alien Isolation Steam sale..$12.49 [Re: Paul Rix]  
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Also the system requirements says 1 GB 3D card.

My 3D card only 512 MB and I don't think my computer will support a 1 GB card but I do have 4 GB ram.

#4098972 - 03/30/15 07:16 AM Re: Alien Isolation Steam sale..$12.49 [Re: Paul Rix]  
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I am getting this. The price was too good to pass up.

Downloading it now from Steam to my PC.

If it doesn't work on my PC and I buy a new better PC later, can I re-install it on the new PC or is the license only good for one installation one PC?

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I was surprised how good my old pos system can run it, all 4 year old gear , win7 32 bit, have it maxed and it runs smooth as silk. Bit bored of hiding in the closets though.


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#4098987 - 03/30/15 08:28 AM Re: Alien Isolation Steam sale..$12.49 [Re: Paul Rix]  
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14.6 GB.

Will take me 7 hours to get at my top download speed of about 910 KB/S.

Guess I go to sleep.

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