1/3 of this game is your character slowly opening doors and slowly turning levers. I'm convinced a major reason this game feels so long is because it's completely filled with non interactive filler animations like this. There is legitimately one 2-20 minute scene where you have to slowly put on a space suit, open some doors, go out and re-orient a satellite dish that's excruciatingly far away from you and then slowly walk back inside, you know nothing interesting is going to happen during this scene because when you have a space suit, your movement options are restricted and your entire inventory is gone.
Also the ending chapter was horrendous, if you play this just stop after the first nest scene. I would give the first 1/2 of the game an 8 but the second half is maybe a 6 or lower. It deserved the mix reviews it got, the atmosphere was great and it has some really well designed levels and encounters but it just deliberately wastes far too much of your time.
those 2-20 minute breaks are imporant in a game some people claim is too dam long. pacing. gotta give players a breather and the enjoyable views aren't bad
Liam Phillips
>non interactive filler animations A plague on almost all games now. A:I was pretty good, though.
Ryder King
Agree with this. The game did drag, especially that fucking forever space walk where you move the satellite, but other parts of the game literally made people cry and turn it off, so you'd think they would welcome some slow parts.
Easton Gomez
>non interactive filler animations Nice new buzzword
Ayden Morgan
I'm so conflicted over this game. It absolutely nails the Alien atmosphere and the shit with the actual alien is all great (especially with the unpredictable alien mod). But holy fuck, why is so much of the game just a janky stealth game with robots? I get wanting the game to have some variety, but those pure stealth segments are fucking garbage.
Brandon Hill
I totally get pacing being important, the game had plenty of slower parts that still gave players agency to explore and do things, but some of it, especially the space walk and other scenes like it, felt like a complete waste of time. It doesn't build tension when you know you're not in danger in scenes like that, the only "danger" you'd be in would be some pre-scripted event like an elevator collapsing, not as genuinely scary as the unscripted alien behavior.
Jonathan Lewis
part of me likes those scenes because i'm just a big alien fan so getting to explore stuff like the boring derelict in some form is like alien nerd porn. the torrens and nostromo dlc where you can just sorta linger and look at things. not having stuff like that sucks.
There definitely needs to be a balance, the first half of the game I feel does that pretty well, it gives you plenty of time to explore in relative safety, It gets to the point where it feels more and more linear as it goes on though, and the scripted scenes just feel like they don't work. I feel RE7 had a similar problem with it's last 1/3 as this had.
Lucas Reyes
young Sigourney is hot but the way her face aged really made it 2x worst than a regular aged woman older she looks stern and looks like she reeks of cigarette
Jordan Lopez
nice old buzzword
Christopher Carter
How were they able to recover anything from the Nostromo when it and all of its cargo was blown to absolute pieces three times over?
Why does Amanda hate her mother in Aliens when she knows the context as to what killed her crew and made her disappear for 57 years? Furthermore, why didn't she back her mother's claim up to stop the company from revoking her pilot's license?
Why did people choose to terraform on an unknown planet with extremely harsh weather conditions, described as below freezing and "primordial"? Were the other three unsuccessful trips not enough to convince Weiland-Yutani that they were in over their heads?
Blake Morris
Yeah she's a bad bitch but she's also a straight up dike.
Colton Clark
This, I'm more of a fan of An Alien to the Past.
Robert Anderson
Probably because it's trying to be like the Alien movie where everything is normal and routine at first. Of course you're going to get filler in a long length single player game these days.
Alexander Gutierrez
the problem is that a lot of the filler is near the end of the game. I was on board with the first 2/3 but the last few chapters got incredibly linear and included the waste of time satellite scene people are referring to.
Ayden Gutierrez
Only thing that made me not play the game and never finish was the alien itself. I just hate monsters in the horrors that are immortal and can just kill you one hit, without any way to make them leave the level for good. It is not scary, its annoying. Too annoying. it was scary at the first tho, really fucking scary but quickly stopped after 2-3 deaths
Nathan Brooks
I still like it man. Waiting for the train is still the most intense shit Ive ever experienced. I actually kinda wish you were ambushed more at those points.
OP here I totally agree waiting for the trains is tense and sometimes they would through enemies at you while the train was on its way, or you could still use the time to scavenge, those sections didn't feel like a deliberate waste of time like some other stuff did.
I remember this one time I was doing a bunch of stuff for collection so I using the trains for quite a bit. I got complacent at one stop since no one showed up the past 4 times. Then suddenly on the fifth time after pressing the call button, stabbed by the xeno. Fucking freaked me out.
Michael Allen
Can anyone tell me if the protagonist is male or female? I might play it but the cover looks like a woman. Can you play a male?
Ethan Price
Dunno why but I really loved the fact that you get killed at save points. Any other games where the save point isnt actually safe?
Colton Peterson
Are you retarded?
Jayden Wood
>autism
Jacob Roberts
Youre playing as Ripley's daughter.
Adrian Wright
Thank you. Dropped.
Logan Ramirez
inb4RE2
Luis Powell
This is your brain after Zig Forums. Sad.
Kevin Cooper
Loved A:I but slow walking/interactive cutscenes are becoming a chore. If people want to immerse themselves nothing is stopping them from not pressing the sprint button, but they even slow down normal walking.
Jackson Lopez
Why? I don't want to play as some weak little girl when I could be a marine armed to the teeth that makes that alien my little bitch.
Henry Barnes
But you were fine with Ellen Ripley doing the same????? The fuck are you on about dude?
