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posted 2 years ago by jpssteveshanahan (482)
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The greatest video game movie of all time. Let's face it! Most video game adaptions of a movie or movie adaptations of a game tend to fall flat on their face. AI is a rare find. I'd argue that It's just a good as the original Alien film. It captures that sense of space claustrophobia and makes the player feel completely helpless at the hands of an unknown and seemingly unstoppable creature. Powerless, as you see your friends die one by one. Dreading at the thought of when is it going to come for you.

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[–] cyguration (3951) 2 years ago

Is there anyway to kill it?

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[–] jpssteveshanahan (482) 2 years ago

I don't think you can. Some YouTubers hacked the game to give the player unlimited HP and unlimited ammunition. So it wouldn't be an "instan kill" when the Alien spotted them. They unloaded everything on it and it didn't do a damn thing. I think the developers programmed the A.I. to be literally unkillable.

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[–] cyguration (3951) 2 years ago

That's kind of disappointing.

Thanks for the info, though.

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[–] jpssteveshanahan (482) 2 years ago

You're welcome.

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[–] maul (1669) 2 years ago

You're kind of missing the point of the game and the power of the alien it conveys, which makes sense if you haven't played it. It's mostly faithful to the first movie, not the second where they're being killed left and right with weaponry. You do various things to thwart it throughout however, and eventually destroy a nest in an awesome sequence.

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[–] jpssteveshanahan (482) 2 years ago

For some reason they become smarter when working alone. I honestly couldn't be bothered with the Xenomorphs from the second one and their "bug like" mentality. It takes away the suspense.

"Spoilers ahead"

One thing I don't understand. The game reveals that there's a nest full of them down in the reactor. But for some reason they're just as cunning and stealthy. I thought they reverted back to a "hive mentality" when working in pairs. As my brother would say. It depends on the writer 😁

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[–] Levtones (598) 2 years ago

It's a stunningly realistic locker simulator.

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[–] jpssteveshanahan (482) 2 years ago

😄

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[–] Heisenberg (6730) 2 years ago

I've had better.

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[–] jpssteveshanahan (482) 2 years ago

That reminded me of that scene from"liar liar". After Jim Carrey bed's his coworker, she asks him "how was it?" To which he replies "I've had better" 😁

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[–] Heisenberg (6730) 2 years ago

That's what I was going for.

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[–] jpssteveshanahan (482) 2 years ago

Oh! You got me 😁

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[–] maul (1669) 2 years ago

It's brilliant, and clearly so much passion was put into it by the developers to be faithful to the original Alien movie. The retrotech gritty vibe, with everything feeling like it has weight to it as well.

The quick DLC where you're able to do the Dallas mission in the Nostromo is also awesome and terrifying. The lighting is still amazing but I'd be really interested in some kind of ray tracing remaster.

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[–] jpssteveshanahan (482) 2 years ago

This!☝️

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[–] jpssteveshanahan (482) 2 years ago

There's even this one video on Rob Ager's channels where he mentions that the developers from AI. Were somehow able to get their hands on unused concept art from the original Alien film (which is why is so accurate). And you are indeed correct! The aforementioned DLC was short lived. But it was nice that they were able to get the original cast members (minus John Hurt) to lend their voices for it. It's also regrettable that most of them are no longer with us. Alien Isolation is arguably the greatest video game movie of all time and Alien 1 is arguably the greatest sci-fi horror movie of all time.

Please elaborate on the concept of ray tracing.

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