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I figured we could hang out here for a bit, until the requisite time is up, then this can be merged back into the other thread.
I finally beat it tonight.
This might be the single most interesting game I've ever played. I say this because I had such a visceral and emotional reaction to playing it. I've had that with a few other games, but this was intense - but the other strange aspect is, I'd be hard-pressed to call it fun. The "never in control" aspect was a nice change of pace, but 25ish game hours of that (not counting re-loads) wears you down.
I also think the balance of the game's pace was off. The end - from the initial space walk on - felt like it dragged on way too long. Adding in some extra jump scares (even though I could sense each one coming, the trains all spooked me) and more cacophonous noise than usual, and it felt like it took hours despite probably being what - forty minutes-ish?
When you go to put on the suit, and see the Alien, I actually said out loud, "Oh come on" - it didn't feel like another threat, just the game taking longer to rap up.
And while I'm a sucker for a downer ending, I wish they didn't go with the somewhat easy to anticipate "it's on the last ship!" angle. Especially since you spent SO LONG in such horrible conditions, it felt like the game could offer you something.
Although I guess that something could be that ship's light at the very end - do we know who that is supposed to be?
Good question. Maybe the DLC will tell us.
Yeah, only a couple have been released? Or maybe just one has been? I have no idea.
And while I'm a sucker for a downer ending, I wish they didn't go with the somewhat easy to anticipate "it's on the last ship!" angle. Especially since you spent SO LONG in such horrible conditions, it felt like the game could offer you something.
Although I guess that something could be that ship's light at the very end - do we know who that is supposed to be?
I think it was Angry Joe who went in-depth about the absence of a Queen and how that works along with a deleted scene that was added for the 'special edition' BluRay, where the Alien is seen to have preserved Dallas and (was it) Parker alive, presumably to serve as vessels for reproduction.
One more thing I want to add. The scene in Aliens where Ripley is shown the photo of a 65-ish year old Amanda... why are you believing the word of a Weyland-Yutani executive??? Guys, you should know better! The fact is that they could have entirely made that up for Ellen to believe. Amanda's real outcome is wide open.
I think it was Angry Joe who went in-depth about the absence of a Queen and how that works along with a deleted scene that was added for the 'special edition' BluRay, where the Alien is seen to have preserved Dallas and (was it) Parker alive, presumably to serve as vessels for reproduction.
One more thing I want to add. The scene in Aliens where Ripley is shown the photo of a 65-ish year old Amanda... why are you believing the word of a Weyland-Yutani executive??? Guys, you should know better! The fact is that they could have entirely made that up for Ellen to believe. Amanda's real outcome is wide open.
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