AI Rant

A:I

Finished Alien: Isolation. Lousy implementation of a good idea, imho. The ending song is good, tho:

Puke Rat summed up quite a few of the issues with the game. Some of my rant as well: it's basically a Hollywood-style game that has any plot and idolizes stupidity. By idolizing stupidity, I mean that pretty much none of the humans on-board make any sense, they're all retarded. They never think things through, never work together, and they're only able to make lousy decisions (even random decisions would have a better success rate). Map design is just a single path maze with more-or-less randomly distributed buttons, switches and randomly chosen names for things. Looks ridiculous at least in terms of architecture, physics, space technology, computer engineering. Moreover, it's all buggy as well.

On a brighter side, the idea of stealth against intelligent unkillable monsters is good. It is also well balanced, so that hiding is never really a solution - the monsters will eventually get you from any closet. The concept of a large station that has been built gradually in all three dimensions - well done. Graphics, sound, music are very good. Also, I enjoyed the design of the 70s or 80s, combined with high technology. Then those androids were just perfect.

The game would've had a lot of potential.