WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.439 --> 00:00:05.200 Hello, and welcome to side Quest. This is our weekly 2 00:00:05.280 --> 00:00:08.279 video game show here at Geekverse. I'm your host, Still Muss, 3 00:00:08.279 --> 00:00:11.640 and I have with me the Sevastopol Taylor Field. How 4 00:00:11.640 --> 00:00:13.679 are you doing, my friend, I'm doing. 5 00:00:13.560 --> 00:00:17.199 Good, happy to be here, very excited for this topic 6 00:00:17.239 --> 00:00:18.000 of discussion. 7 00:00:18.679 --> 00:00:21.839 M hmm too. This episode, you could say, is in 8 00:00:21.879 --> 00:00:25.719 collaboration with the Alien retrospective that we've been doing, because 9 00:00:25.719 --> 00:00:28.559 today we are talking all about Alien Isolation, the twenty 10 00:00:28.679 --> 00:00:33.840 fourteen survival horror game from Creative Assembly, and this be 11 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:35.159 it should be fun. I think it's kind of a 12 00:00:35.240 --> 00:00:37.320 long time coming. This is a game that I've definitely 13 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:40.520 had in my radar for years and years but never 14 00:00:40.560 --> 00:00:42.520 played it. And I know this is a game that 15 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:43.840 you are a fan of, so it should be a 16 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:46.000 fun discussion. And that's really all we're talking about today. 17 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:47.320 I think I'll just keep it short here with the 18 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:50.159 plugs and just say that, as I mentioned, like, Alien 19 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:52.039 Romulus is coming out, and so we have gone through 20 00:00:52.359 --> 00:00:56.719 doune retrospectives of every Alien movie that exists, including the 21 00:00:56.799 --> 00:01:00.560 two AVP movies, and this is kind of the I 22 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:01.759 don't know, I don't think this is the last thing 23 00:01:01.759 --> 00:01:03.840 I'm releasing on the main feeds. Everything's out on Patreon 24 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:05.599 right now. But this is at least the last thing 25 00:01:05.599 --> 00:01:08.719 that me and you are recording prior to Romulus coming 26 00:01:08.760 --> 00:01:10.040 out in a couple weeks here, So it's kind of 27 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:13.280 a nice cap on the end of this thing. So 28 00:01:13.319 --> 00:01:16.400 it should be a good time. So let's just get 29 00:01:16.480 --> 00:01:17.879 right into it. So, as I said, this game came 30 00:01:17.879 --> 00:01:21.439 out in twenty fourteen. Creative Assembly is the developer who 31 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:24.480 is kind of most known for all the Total War 32 00:01:24.760 --> 00:01:27.599 games that exist and all the millions spinoffs and DLCs. 33 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:30.120 So it's you know, right up Kirkland's Alley in that way. 34 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:32.640 But they're an interesting studio, Like they just have so 35 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:35.359 many games. If you go on their Wikipedia page, it's 36 00:01:35.400 --> 00:01:38.400 insane how many things they've worked on over the years. 37 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:41.439 I also see that they worked on Halo Wars two. 38 00:01:41.599 --> 00:01:43.239 I don't know if they did the first one. 39 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:44.680 I don't think they did the first one. 40 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:47.799 Yeah, so interesting there. They've done some sports games and 41 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:51.079 also I found this interesting that in nineteen ninety for 42 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:54.000 the MS daw it's really really old. Back in the day, 43 00:01:54.239 --> 00:01:56.599 they worked on a game called Infestation, which I've never 44 00:01:56.640 --> 00:01:58.920 heard anyone talk about. But if you go and look 45 00:01:58.959 --> 00:02:01.519 into that game, it's just described as, you know, a 46 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:06.159 science fiction scenario type thing based on alien and aliens 47 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:08.960 and that kind of some of the I don't know, 48 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:11.520 I guess the stuff from those movies. So it's interesting 49 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:14.439 that way back in the nineties, this studio and they're 50 00:02:14.439 --> 00:02:16.360 first starting out, probably just a handful of people at 51 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:18.719 the studio at that time, made a game that's kind 52 00:02:18.719 --> 00:02:21.360 of inspired by alien and then what is that twenty 53 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:24.639 four years later they get the opportunity to make an 54 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:27.240 actual alien game that is, you know, Kenon and in 55 00:02:27.319 --> 00:02:30.759 the Universe and all that. So it's pretty interesting about that. 56 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:33.080 It's hard to find any information on this game because 57 00:02:33.080 --> 00:02:37.439 there's other games called Infestation and they've totally consumed them. 58 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:40.319 In the search engine optimization. I can see a couple 59 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:43.039 images here, but it's really hard to find any info. 60 00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:45.560 Even the Wikipedia page for that doesn't even list Creative 61 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:48.960 Assembly as a developer, But then on Creative Assemblies Wikipedia 62 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:52.120 shows that they made this game. So it's very strange 63 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:54.479 and I don't know much about that one, but otherwise, yeah, 64 00:02:54.479 --> 00:02:57.479 it's really just all these hundreds of total war games 65 00:02:57.520 --> 00:02:59.560 that they've made, so I bring that up just to 66 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:01.759 say that it's interesting that they made this game in general. 67 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:04.199 Obviously it seems like there was some interest there from 68 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:06.400 the developers. Even Halo Wars is kind of an interesting, 69 00:03:06.439 --> 00:03:08.680 Oh look at that, kind of some comparisons there in 70 00:03:08.719 --> 00:03:11.360 terms of the sci fi and the aliens that exist 71 00:03:11.400 --> 00:03:14.800 in that game, the Covenant. But they've never really made, 72 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:17.400 as far as I can tell, a game similar to 73 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:21.120 this prior in their history, and since then, they haven't 74 00:03:21.159 --> 00:03:23.400 really made anything quite like it since, just back onto 75 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:25.800 the Total War and Halo Wars stuff. So it's kind 76 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:28.000 of a weird pocket that exists for the studio, but 77 00:03:28.039 --> 00:03:31.840 it's interesting. Nonetheless. Tell me about your history with this game. 78 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:34.039 Did you play it when it came out in twenty fourteen, 79 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:36.560 were you a late bloomer, did you come to it later? 80 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:37.800 What's your history with it? 81 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:42.360 Oh, I was their day one when this game came out. 82 00:03:43.199 --> 00:03:46.800 I remember I didn't move to town here yet, so 83 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:50.520 I remember just getting it, playing the daylights out of it, 84 00:03:50.680 --> 00:03:52.680 loving it. It was just such a good time, and 85 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:54.479 I can't believe it's actually been a decade now that 86 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:56.560 I think about it now. 87 00:03:56.599 --> 00:03:59.319 When I moved here, started working at target. 88 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:02.639 I'm pretty sure this is one of the reasons me 89 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:06.240 and Kirkland's friendship started, because because we'd be in electronics 90 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:11.120 and we'd be talking about. 91 00:04:09.759 --> 00:04:14.960 Oh, what was the other one called? No, it was 92 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:17.759 the oh my gosh. 93 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:21.120 Dying Light the zombie parkour game, So that was the 94 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:22.720 one we talk about all the time. 95 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:23.920 An Alien Isolation was. 96 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:26.120 The other we would just be chatting about all all 97 00:04:26.920 --> 00:04:29.240 morning and it was just such a such a great 98 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:31.160 just ah, it's a great thing to discuss. 99 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:33.519 And yeah, the game does not disappoint. 100 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:36.759 It's something that I find that I'll go back every 101 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:41.079 few I wouldn't say months, but every year I'll indulge 102 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:44.199 in this game just to put myself in the stressful situation. 103 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:47.040 It's just it. It holds up so well for me, 104 00:04:47.279 --> 00:04:50.519 and it's just such a it to me. It's a 105 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:53.040 no brainer like this just it's such a great setting 106 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:55.480 and a great kind of ode to the original, and 107 00:04:55.519 --> 00:04:57.920 just a great kind of concept to just put Alien 108 00:04:58.040 --> 00:05:00.680 and just this kind of like stealth sneaking around kind 109 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:02.839 of gameplay mechanic. 110 00:05:02.439 --> 00:05:03.600 And just pile it all together. 111 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:06.480 So to have this and I'll just say it, to 112 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:08.319 not have a sequel to me, it's a shame. 113 00:05:08.600 --> 00:05:12.120 But yeah, yeah, it's interesting that you say that because 114 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:14.639 just looking into development of this game and some other 115 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:17.279 things like apparently one of the earlier prototypes of this 116 00:05:17.319 --> 00:05:20.720 game was as a third person game as well. But 117 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:23.199 I think, as you mentioned, like this is I feel 118 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:25.439 like the perfect formula for a game like this, So 119 00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:26.759 I think it's good what they ended up going with 120 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:28.319 first person in the end, and I'm sure even the 121 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:31.399 third person gameplay would have been quite similar and all 122 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:33.720 that to what they ended up doing here. When you 123 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:35.639 say that you kind of revisit it, I'm guessing that 124 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:37.720 means you, like you'll just jump in for a mission 125 00:05:37.800 --> 00:05:39.399 or too, just revisit parts of it, or are you 126 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:41.240 replaying the whole game because it is that was I 127 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:43.600 think maybe the biggest surprise for me when I actually 128 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:45.959 played through this is that this game is a lot 129 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:47.680 longer than I would expect. 130 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:51.279 I think I should be missions or something, right, Yeah, 131 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:54.279 it's I think it's a eighteen nineteen missions how long 132 00:05:54.319 --> 00:05:54.560 to beat? 133 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:57.000 Puts it around like eighteen to twenty hours. I ended 134 00:05:57.079 --> 00:05:58.839 up beating it quicker than that, But I also did 135 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:01.519 after first couple hours play like drop it down like 136 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:04.560 the easiest difficulty, So I'm sure I was cruising through 137 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:06.920 it quicker than maybe the average playtime in that way. 138 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:09.439 But yeah, for like a survival horror game, and also 139 00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:11.920 when that's like a very cinematic experience that's trying to 140 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:14.680 make you feel like an alien movie. I think it 141 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:16.959 is a very long game. So yeah, when you're revisiting it, 142 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:18.839 are you doing have you ever played through the full 143 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:20.600 game again or are you more just kind of revisiting 144 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:21.240 sections something. 145 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:23.480 I haven't played through the full game again, but there's 146 00:06:23.560 --> 00:06:26.160 just there's certain sections and I mostly just I like 147 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:29.839 to replay the Crew Expendable DLC. 148 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:31.519 That's just I just like it. 149 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:33.040 It's just is that the Ripley one. 150 00:06:33.079 --> 00:06:35.079 Is that the Ripley one? Yeah, where you're on the 151 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:38.000 Ellen Ripley one, the Ellen Ripley one. Yeah, I just 152 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:40.759 really like it. It's just it's such a fun, fun thing. 153 00:06:40.839 --> 00:06:43.000 But there's there's certain things that I like to experience 154 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:45.600 from the actual the game. There's certain missions I like 155 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:48.240 to do, like I mean, just being able to do 156 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:51.040 the we'll talk more about it, but that there like ship, like, 157 00:06:51.079 --> 00:06:51.639 oh my. 158 00:06:51.639 --> 00:06:55.120 Great, It's just it's fun. Yeah, So as you meant 159 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:56.959 like you you're kind of playing this game every every 160 00:06:57.000 --> 00:07:00.000 once in a while, and I think for this episode, 161 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:01.800 you haven't played through the whole game again, being played 162 00:07:01.839 --> 00:07:04.040 through like sections of it again. Did you have any 163 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:06.480 new or different takes, especially since we've been going through 164 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:08.399 the Onlien movies when you played through it this time, 165 00:07:08.439 --> 00:07:11.360 any anything kind of different come up that you weren't expecting. 166 00:07:12.759 --> 00:07:19.839 The main thing, I mean different, No, not necessarily. It 167 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:22.639 just kind of sticks like more questions. 168 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:22.759 In my mind. 169 00:07:22.839 --> 00:07:25.639 And when you go through the movies, you get answers 170 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:28.800 to certain things and you get no answers to other things. 171 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:32.079 But the main thing that I just wonder with the story. 172 00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:34.680 And I appreciate that this takes place between the first 173 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:38.639 two movies, and I appreciate that this character essentially is 174 00:07:38.759 --> 00:07:42.319 just manifested out of a extended deleted scene from the 175 00:07:42.360 --> 00:07:45.120 second Alien movie. Right. It's crazy to think about when 176 00:07:45.160 --> 00:07:49.079 you tie it all together, but I really just. 177 00:07:49.079 --> 00:07:52.360 Wonder where all the eggs came from. 178 00:07:52.399 --> 00:07:54.680 And I've looked into people talking about it, and it 179 00:07:54.759 --> 00:07:56.519 just comes down to like, well, there must be a 180 00:07:56.600 --> 00:08:00.519 queen somewhere, but we never see it because the station 181 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:05.399 gets blown up or whatever. Even then we know that Okay, 182 00:08:05.399 --> 00:08:09.000 well the one person got infected with an embryo and 183 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:11.439 then was brought back and yeah that was the end 184 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:13.199 of it. But then where did all the eggs come from? 185 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:15.639 So that's just and we know there's multiple hives. Yeah, 186 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:17.800 yeaha It's just that's the only thing that always kind 187 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:20.879 of like leaves me curious every time I go through 188 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:22.879 those missions trying to figure it out. 189 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:25.040 But it's just one of those things. 190 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:28.160 As for anything that really stands out and is different, 191 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:30.759 I mean, it's maybe just ways that I'm evading the alien, 192 00:08:30.839 --> 00:08:32.639 ways that I think it's fun to kind of deal 193 00:08:32.679 --> 00:08:36.679 with humans, whether it's like I'm running and I fire 194 00:08:36.679 --> 00:08:38.720 off shots and obviously the alien's going to hear you, 195 00:08:38.840 --> 00:08:41.720 and all of a sudden, like I'm in a locker 196 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:43.960 and I know that two humans are like stalking like 197 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:46.519 mooning around with their guns, and then you wait like 198 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:48.879 forty seconds to a minute, and then you just hear 199 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:51.200 the alien charge out and the alien kills them, and 200 00:08:51.240 --> 00:08:53.720 then Saunders obviously like, okay, you know. 201 00:08:53.720 --> 00:08:55.440 That the alien me are on a team. Now we're 202 00:08:55.480 --> 00:08:56.279 working together. 203 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:00.879 The only game that lets you team up with the 204 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:04.840 with the ami that's funny. Yeah, I have a different 205 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:08.840 backstory history with this one. I can't remember when the 206 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:11.080 first time I kind of experienced or saw this game was, 207 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:13.840 but this is one of Briggs's favorite games, and so 208 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:17.600 I've just watched Briggs play it many times through certain sequences, 209 00:09:17.639 --> 00:09:19.360 and I think the biggest thing that started in my 210 00:09:19.399 --> 00:09:21.720 memory was just a lot of events in this game, 211 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:24.600 and then I remember just how scary the Xenomorph can be, 212 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:26.799 and those are kind of my two preconceptions going in. 213 00:09:27.039 --> 00:09:30.320 But it is a game that I feel weirdly doesn't 214 00:09:30.360 --> 00:09:33.559 get talked about a lot, even though I feel like 215 00:09:33.559 --> 00:09:36.720 it is a very well made, very like high budget, 216 00:09:36.759 --> 00:09:39.919 polished experience. So it was fun to go through it, 217 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:41.639 and I, yeah, finally went through and play through the 218 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:43.879 whole thing. I did not have time to play through 219 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:48.000 the the Nostromo DLC things, so you'll have to tell 220 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:49.759 me more about that. I saw that, I saw that 221 00:09:49.759 --> 00:09:51.919 it's pretty short, but I just didn't have time unfortunately. 222 00:09:51.919 --> 00:09:53.519 So I'll bring it up on side quest when I 223 00:09:53.639 --> 00:09:56.200 because I did buy it recently on this Team Summer sale, 224 00:09:56.200 --> 00:09:59.080 but I'll bring that up when I have played it 225 00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:02.320 in the future. But yeah, playing through it, and it 226 00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:04.960 was it was a weird experience for me, Taylor. I 227 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:07.960 can't remember the last time I've been both so hot 228 00:10:08.039 --> 00:10:10.519 and so cold on a game at the same time. 229 00:10:10.559 --> 00:10:12.960 There are things I absolutely love about this game and 230 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:14.960 I think are so impressive, and then there's so many 231 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:18.399 things that I drive me freaking crazy as well, So 232 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:20.159 I'm excited to get into all of it. But I 233 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:23.480 think for me, like the prose, like the biggest of 234 00:10:23.519 --> 00:10:26.679 the pros would just be the aesthetics of this game. 235 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:30.600 This game is so beautiful. The lighting is unreal, the 236 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:34.840 sound effects and sound design and music are all just perfect. 237 00:10:34.879 --> 00:10:38.000 Like the commitment to the source material without it being 238 00:10:38.480 --> 00:10:42.000 just derivative of the things that it's based on is 239 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:44.440 so so great. Like I can't think of the last 240 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:47.039 time I've played a license game like this that feels 241 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:49.440 like it has so much of its own identity while 242 00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:51.879 still being based within the world of something that is 243 00:10:51.919 --> 00:10:55.279 pre existing. It's just really impressive in that way. And 244 00:10:55.320 --> 00:10:58.399 then like the Xenomorph, I think is such a big 245 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:00.799 success in this game, and even looking into it even 246 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:02.960 more than my just one play through, because I feel 247 00:11:02.960 --> 00:11:04.879 like there's so much going on that you'll never know 248 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:06.720 everything that the x Anymorper is capable of and all 249 00:11:06.759 --> 00:11:09.480 the things that's doing in one playthrough, But I watched 250 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:12.399 some some videos and just reading up on what all 251 00:11:12.440 --> 00:11:15.240 the AI tech that is input into that thing is 252 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:17.399 so interesting as well. So I'm excited to break down 253 00:11:17.399 --> 00:11:19.639 some of that and I think there, yes, some of 254 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:23.519 these sequences in this game are truly fantastic, and I 255 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:26.159 just I just love all the tech in here. There's 256 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:28.480 so much little, so many little details that are so 257 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:31.360 very impressive. I think as far as the story goes, 258 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:34.679 like this story is like as good as any alien movie. 259 00:11:34.679 --> 00:11:36.720 For the most part, it's it's not really it's more 260 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:40.600 about the vibes and the place and the setting than 261 00:11:40.639 --> 00:11:42.519 it is like the actual plot that's going on in 262 00:11:42.519 --> 00:11:44.879 these movies. Maybe with the exception of Prometheus, which is 263 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:46.840 doing a lot more in terms of the story, and 264 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:49.879 maybe you could say Covenant, but execution is not quite 265 00:11:49.919 --> 00:11:52.759 as good there so, but I think it kind of 266 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:54.960 gets the job done. And it's interesting what you're saying there. 267 00:11:55.039 --> 00:11:57.720 How it's kind of based off a character that is 268 00:11:57.879 --> 00:12:00.879 mentioned in Yeah, a scene that doesn't even end up 269 00:12:00.879 --> 00:12:03.799 in the theatrical release, and they kind of take that 270 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:06.200 and go in a whole bunch of different directions with it. 271 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:09.519 But I think where my issues coming with this game 272 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:12.279 are in a few ways. One, as I mentioned, is 273 00:12:12.360 --> 00:12:14.759 way too long, and I think for the way this 274 00:12:14.799 --> 00:12:16.639 game is designed, and like the kind of mastery of 275 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:18.240 those systems that I think you would get the more 276 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:21.399 you play it, and how interesting that Xenomorph is, I 277 00:12:21.399 --> 00:12:23.200 feel like this game would do a lot better if 278 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:24.759 it was a lot shorter, and this would be a 279 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:27.440 game that I'd want to replay and kind of master it. 280 00:12:27.480 --> 00:12:29.879 But after playing one play through, I'm like so burnt 281 00:12:29.919 --> 00:12:31.600 out on the gameplay of it that I don't want 282 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:32.960 to do that again because there are a lot of 283 00:12:32.960 --> 00:12:35.919 sequences that are really dull. Whenever you have a space 284 00:12:35.919 --> 00:12:39.200 suit on in this game and you move so freaking 285 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:42.720 slow and you're not doing anything, and then just other 286 00:12:42.840 --> 00:12:45.360 sequences where I like the backtracking element of it. I 287 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:47.840 like kind of going through the space station again and 288 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:51.480 kind of feeling interconnected, but yeah, some of these sequences 289 00:12:51.519 --> 00:12:54.159 are just really slow paced. And then you know, the 290 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:57.279 save system is visually cool, and I think I like 291 00:12:57.360 --> 00:12:59.399 some elements of it, but I think because it isn't 292 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:02.120 a free say system, and some of these sequences, like 293 00:13:02.240 --> 00:13:04.720 you're just hiding a lot for sometimes like twenty minutes 294 00:13:04.799 --> 00:13:06.639 or something, and if you just die, then you just 295 00:13:06.639 --> 00:13:09.039 have to go back because there is auto saving this game, 296 00:13:09.080 --> 00:13:10.840 but I found it never really auto saved when I 297 00:13:10.919 --> 00:13:13.039 needed it too, when I felt like I went through 298 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:16.240 a long story sequence. I feel like it doesn't auto 299 00:13:16.279 --> 00:13:18.559 save in some of those sequences, which is really surprising 300 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:21.200 to me. I feel like a lot of the mechanics 301 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:23.440 in here are kind of half baked, Like there's really 302 00:13:23.440 --> 00:13:25.720 cool ideas, there are inklings, there's strings to pull on, 303 00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:28.000 but then when you do pull on them, they kind 304 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:30.759 of unravel. And then I think, you know, one thing 305 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:34.320 that is both a great commitment to its source material 306 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:37.159 in terms of how strong the xenomorph is, but also 307 00:13:37.159 --> 00:13:40.440 how strong the face Huggers are translates to really bad 308 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:43.320 gameplay at times where the face Huggers of these tiny 309 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:46.120 little bastards that are really hard to hit, really hard 310 00:13:46.159 --> 00:13:48.080 to shoot, but then they instaicuted you even on the 311 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:50.679 easiest difficulties, Like, yes, it makes sense that they would 312 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:53.399 do that, but at some points you have to decide 313 00:13:53.440 --> 00:13:55.399 what's better for a video game versus what's better for 314 00:13:55.440 --> 00:13:57.159 a movie, and I feel like this game kind of 315 00:13:57.159 --> 00:13:58.879 gets lost in that a lot in terms of not 316 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:01.720 like it. It's not really committing to full on being 317 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:04.080 just like an interactive movie and not committing to being 318 00:14:04.600 --> 00:14:06.879 more of like a lot of times, the game feels 319 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:09.360 a kind of like an immersive sim type game in 320 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:11.559 terms of like a like it feels like a dishonored 321 00:14:11.639 --> 00:14:13.639 or a prey in terms of how much freedom you 322 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:15.759 have with all the mechanics given to you. But then 323 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:19.200 it gets stuck between those two things, between the story 324 00:14:19.240 --> 00:14:21.440 and the immersive sim element of it that I feel 325 00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:22.919 like it kind of gets lost in the shuffle at 326 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:25.320 times too so. But but I think truly one of 327 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:27.279 the biggest compliments I can say is that I am 328 00:14:27.320 --> 00:14:29.200 just so fascinated by this game. I think it's such 329 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:32.600 a wonder that it exists, and like it just feels 330 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:34.240 like one of the most expensive games ever. It's ten 331 00:14:34.279 --> 00:14:36.279 years old, but it still looks like a modern Triple 332 00:14:36.320 --> 00:14:38.879 A game, with the exception of maybe like some face 333 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:41.480 some mo cap on like faces, or like a couple 334 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:45.159 character movements, but otherwise, like the game still looks top notch, 335 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:48.240 and after it was done I just went and consumed 336 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:50.399 a bunch of YouTube videos seeing like people's different thoughts 337 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:52.399 on are learning more about the mechanics that I missed, 338 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:55.440 because it is just such a fascinating game. So I'm 339 00:14:55.480 --> 00:14:57.559 really glad it exists. I'm glad that I finally have 340 00:14:57.679 --> 00:14:59.799 played it because it's been on that it's been a big, 341 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:02.200 big on the backlog there for a long time. So 342 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:04.200 I'm glad I finally did it. But just because of 343 00:15:04.240 --> 00:15:05.559 how long it is, I don't know how much it's 344 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:08.159 one I would revisit other than going to check out 345 00:15:08.159 --> 00:15:10.720 that Nostromo DLC that you mentioned. I think that's like 346 00:15:10.840 --> 00:15:12.600 maybe a nice bite because that's like less than an 347 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:13.559 hour long, right. 348 00:15:14.120 --> 00:15:15.600 It's super super short. 349 00:15:15.799 --> 00:15:18.399 Yeah, because it's it's not like the whole events of 350 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:21.000 Alien one. It's just no, it's because that would be 351 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:22.840 crazy if they made the whole events of Alien one 352 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:26.399 like the random BLC. Yeah, it's just like the ending sequence. 353 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:28.720 Right, that's exactly, and you're dropped in some people have died, 354 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:31.919 and uh, yeah, you just gotta you gotta arm, get 355 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:35.000 the bombs armed whatnot and get to the escape patch. 356 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:38.399 And it's I find it very difficult because the Nostromo 357 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:41.960 is very narrow, and the alien just gets in. 358 00:15:41.960 --> 00:15:45.120 The freaking way so easily, and it's so hard to. 359 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:47.320 Get around him and out maneuver him, which is again 360 00:15:47.360 --> 00:15:49.200 one of the problems that I would say I have 361 00:15:49.279 --> 00:15:54.519 with the base game is the alien can be really annoying, 362 00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:58.279 and I can appreciate how you're very limited and how 363 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:01.519 different things that you craft can and basically work to 364 00:16:01.600 --> 00:16:03.159 get rid of it. And the flame once you get 365 00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:05.600 the flamethrower, the flame throw is like a big game changer, yes, 366 00:16:05.639 --> 00:16:08.000 because everything before that, it's like, your gun's not gonna 367 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:10.240 do much. I mean, the stun baton just used it 368 00:16:10.240 --> 00:16:12.519 on yourself. I'm pulling my hair out with the alien 369 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:13.639 comes up with that thing. 370 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:16.639 So one thing that I didn't I mean, I didn't 371 00:16:16.679 --> 00:16:18.320 experience it, but I also didn't feel like I was 372 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:19.879 pushing it to the limits is that it's just there's 373 00:16:19.919 --> 00:16:22.120 no possible way to kill a xenomore from this game, right, 374 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:24.000 Like all you can do is scare them off. Yeah, 375 00:16:24.159 --> 00:16:26.639 and you can kill like face huggers, of course, but yeah, 376 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:30.159 that's an interesting choice. Let's let's yeah, get right into it. 377 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:32.399 I think we're gonna break over the spoiler gates here. 378 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:33.879 We're not gonna hold back on anything. You know, this 379 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:36.039 game's ten years ault, so we haven't played it yet. 380 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:37.960 I think we'd both recommend to go play it if 381 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:40.919 you're a fan of Alien. And apparently the switch port 382 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:43.679 is really good for this game. I've I think I 383 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:45.840 read that somewhere. So that's pretty sweet because normally a 384 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:47.799 game that looks as good as this, I would not 385 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:50.120 expect that to be the case. But I don't know. 386 00:16:50.120 --> 00:16:52.240 I played on PC, and I'm always worried when I'm 387 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:54.080 playing a game on PC, is it gonna run very well? 388 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:56.519 But this game ran perfectly. I mean, it's ten years old, 389 00:16:56.600 --> 00:16:58.720 but it's still. Like I said, it looks so good, 390 00:16:58.759 --> 00:17:01.159 so I expected it to run worse than it did. 391 00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:04.839 How about we talk about the xenomore first year, talk 392 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:08.079 more about these mechanics. I had a funny. I'm glad 393 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:09.960 you brought up the flamethrower there. I had a kind 394 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:13.240 of funny. I had like a bit of the RPG problem. 395 00:17:13.279 --> 00:17:15.559 You know, when you're playing an RPG and you're you're, 396 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:17.720 you know, getting all these health potions in your inventory, 397 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:19.200 but then you never want to use them because you 398 00:17:19.240 --> 00:17:21.000 want to like save them for when you like most 399 00:17:21.079 --> 00:17:23.200 truly need them, and then by the end of the game, 400 00:17:23.240 --> 00:17:25.240 you like just have hundreds of health potions because you 401 00:17:25.319 --> 00:17:27.480 never ended up using any of them. I kind of 402 00:17:27.480 --> 00:17:29.319 had a lot of that experience playing through this game, 403 00:17:29.319 --> 00:17:31.559 where I'm like, Okay, I can only have three noise 404 00:17:31.559 --> 00:17:33.960 makers in my pocket at any given time. I'm just gonna 405 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:35.200 save them from when I need them. And then I 406 00:17:35.240 --> 00:17:37.200 found by the time the game was over, I barely 407 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:41.160 used a lot of that kind of extra a lot 408 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:43.640 of extra equipment that I had. But the flamethrower is 409 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:45.640 one that I was really using a lot in the 410 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:47.039 end of the game. And the reason I wasn't using 411 00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:49.000 it earlier when I first got it is the first 412 00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:51.559 time I used it, I wasn't planning on using it. 413 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:54.119 But the alien he heard me, saw me whatever it was, 414 00:17:54.200 --> 00:17:55.759 so he was running after me. So I whipped out 415 00:17:55.759 --> 00:17:58.680 the flamethrower and just blasted them, and I guess I 416 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:00.960 either was too far away when I was shooting, or 417 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:04.279 I didn't, you know, put enough fire into him, but 418 00:18:04.319 --> 00:18:06.000 he just came up to me and killed me, and 419 00:18:06.039 --> 00:18:09.119 I was like, Okay, I guess the flamethrower is not 420 00:18:09.200 --> 00:18:10.839 you should be used on the Zemo war for maybe 421 00:18:10.839 --> 00:18:12.640 I didn't didn't do it right or something, so I 422 00:18:12.920 --> 00:18:14.599 kind of scared me off of using him, like that's 423 00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:16.960 not very useful tool, I guess, So I didn't use 424 00:18:17.000 --> 00:18:19.599 it for like three or four hours. But then in 425 00:18:19.640 --> 00:18:20.880 the end of the game, I was using it a 426 00:18:20.920 --> 00:18:24.160 ton because I finally used it correctly and realized that, yeah, 427 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:25.799 if you're still really close to him, it won't work. 428 00:18:25.839 --> 00:18:27.880 He because he got to get a good amount of 429 00:18:27.880 --> 00:18:30.759 fuel blasted into him there. But yeah, that was like 430 00:18:30.759 --> 00:18:32.799 a very good jet get out of jail free car 431 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:35.000 to just blast them with some flames, send him into 432 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:36.880 the events there as he backs away, and then he'll 433 00:18:36.920 --> 00:18:39.200 usually come back pretty quick. But at least it gives 434 00:18:39.200 --> 00:18:41.799 you buys you a little bit of time. But one 435 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:44.519 thing that I found interesting that I didn't really experience, 436 00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:46.319 and maybe it's more if you'd be playing the game 437 00:18:46.359 --> 00:18:49.400 on nightmare difficulty, is just how much the alien will 438 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:51.519 adapt to the things you're doing. And one thing I 439 00:18:51.519 --> 00:18:54.359 saw is that apparently the X anymore does straight up 440 00:18:55.079 --> 00:18:59.759 get like evolves to fight to be like fire repellent. Essentially, 441 00:18:59.799 --> 00:19:02.559 if you use the flamethrower too much, it'll get to 442 00:19:02.599 --> 00:19:05.119 a point where he can just resist the flames of it. 443 00:19:05.160 --> 00:19:08.240 Like they'll I guess in theory if it's not always 444 00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:10.200 the same zeno more, but it's like different ones that 445 00:19:10.240 --> 00:19:13.039 are growing and evolving over time as the course of 446 00:19:13.079 --> 00:19:15.240 your on this ship. Yeah, they can like get to 447 00:19:15.319 --> 00:19:17.359 the point where they're just fully heat resistance. You can't 448 00:19:17.359 --> 00:19:19.559 really do any damage with the flamethrow if you're overusing that, 449 00:19:19.599 --> 00:19:22.160 which is such a cool idea. I think it's really 450 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:23.640 smart and interesting, and. 451 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:26.920 I think people just can kind of become maybe overly 452 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:30.200 reliant on it, and it's you don't want when you 453 00:19:30.200 --> 00:19:32.440 introduce a flamethrower. Yes, it's a game changer at the start, 454 00:19:32.440 --> 00:19:33.839 but you don't want people to be reliant on it. 455 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:36.359 You don't want it to ruin everything moving forward because 456 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:40.279 you want to keep that danger factor and that stress 457 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:44.440 factor with dealing with the zeno. But I would agree 458 00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:46.400 with you, there's a lot of things that I found 459 00:19:46.440 --> 00:19:49.240 that I just really don't end up using. My best 460 00:19:49.279 --> 00:19:52.000 tool I have is hiding on a locker, and I 461 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:55.480 utilize that more than anything else. Obviously, you got health 462 00:19:55.480 --> 00:19:57.519 packs and stuff you can use too, But I mean 463 00:19:57.640 --> 00:19:59.559 you're not doing that. You're not using health when you're 464 00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:01.640 dealing with this the zeno. When the zeno finds you, 465 00:20:01.640 --> 00:20:03.559 you're dead, So you're really only dealing it when you're 466 00:20:03.599 --> 00:20:05.640 dealing with the ad the synthetics which are a pain 467 00:20:05.680 --> 00:20:07.799 in the butt, and humans with guns. 468 00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:08.160 Switch. 469 00:20:08.359 --> 00:20:11.079 Is there a way to close the locker quietly? Because 470 00:20:11.079 --> 00:20:14.400 I feel like, no matter why, I hate that door, 471 00:20:15.160 --> 00:20:18.079 even when you're getting out, smash it open. 472 00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:20.319 Jesus. Yeah, that bothers me. 473 00:20:20.319 --> 00:20:21.839 So much because every time I get in there, I 474 00:20:21.880 --> 00:20:23.680 just feel like, oh, I've been had. I like he's 475 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:25.680 gonna know where I am. But no, it's when you're 476 00:20:25.759 --> 00:20:28.279 running then that gives it away. But no, slamming a 477 00:20:28.279 --> 00:20:30.400 locker door, the alien does not hear anything. 478 00:20:31.039 --> 00:20:32.839 Yeah, that was another thing that I saw too that 479 00:20:32.880 --> 00:20:36.359 apparently if the alien and a point sees you enter 480 00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:39.640 a locker from that point on, they will really like 481 00:20:39.799 --> 00:20:42.559 open locker doors and like hunt for you in there. 482 00:20:42.599 --> 00:20:44.799 So if you're using like I guess that's the point 483 00:20:44.799 --> 00:20:46.720 no matter what it is, but it's equipment, whether it's 484 00:20:46.720 --> 00:20:49.039 a hiding spot some other tool. If you just use 485 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:51.079 the same thing over and over again, they'll really start 486 00:20:51.119 --> 00:20:53.880 to kind of work around it. And so I don't know, 487 00:20:53.880 --> 00:20:55.480 how has that happened to you where an alien's gone 488 00:20:55.559 --> 00:20:58.359 up and opened a locker that you have have been 489 00:20:58.440 --> 00:21:00.759 hiding in, or have you been pretty stealthy with it, 490 00:21:01.119 --> 00:21:03.440 or they're not quite sure if you ever ever entered 491 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:04.559 that locker in the first place. 492 00:21:05.039 --> 00:21:07.519 No, I've I've been found many a time in a locker, 493 00:21:08.039 --> 00:21:11.599 and it drives me nuts because, at least from my experience, 494 00:21:11.640 --> 00:21:14.559 and maybe I was just misreading it, but when I'm 495 00:21:14.599 --> 00:21:16.200 in the locker, you can hold your breath, and I 496 00:21:16.279 --> 00:21:18.440 swear it doubles down like, oh, you can hold left 497 00:21:18.440 --> 00:21:21.079 trigger or you can hold a click in the left stick, 498 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:23.279 because the alien will get up close and put its 499 00:21:23.319 --> 00:21:25.359 head like right up against the grade of the locker, 500 00:21:25.400 --> 00:21:27.440 and it's like, okay, it'll prompt you hold your breath, 501 00:21:27.480 --> 00:21:29.599 and so you do that, and then your character starts 502 00:21:29.640 --> 00:21:31.680 to flash out like they're bleeding out because he can't 503 00:21:31.680 --> 00:21:32.599 hold your breath forever. 504 00:21:32.920 --> 00:21:34.480 Yeah, but if you let go too. 505 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:37.000 Soon, the alien like instant rips the door off and 506 00:21:37.119 --> 00:21:39.599 just like grabs you. You know, nice, have you been 507 00:21:39.680 --> 00:21:42.599 have you not been caught not from a locker, but 508 00:21:42.640 --> 00:21:43.319 I didn't use a lot. 509 00:21:43.359 --> 00:21:45.480 I was more of an under the desk kind of guy. 510 00:21:45.880 --> 00:21:47.960 Oh it treaks me out. I feel like, how does 511 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:48.559 he not see? 512 00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:51.000 I know there was a couple of times where where 513 00:21:51.039 --> 00:21:52.359 he looked at me and then just looked away. I 514 00:21:52.400 --> 00:21:55.200 did get caught a couple times under under a desk 515 00:21:55.279 --> 00:21:57.039 or something. But yeah, even just like because when you're 516 00:21:57.079 --> 00:21:59.680 out there not in a locker, and you see when 517 00:21:59.680 --> 00:22:01.920 they walk by you and then just that long slithery 518 00:22:01.960 --> 00:22:04.440 tail is kind of it's almost like smacking into you 519 00:22:04.559 --> 00:22:06.920 or something, right, it gets pretty terrifying. But yeah, I 520 00:22:06.920 --> 00:22:09.559 didn't use a ton of lockers, probably because it was 521 00:22:09.599 --> 00:22:11.160 just so loud that I felt like if I was 522 00:22:11.160 --> 00:22:13.240 trying to run away from him, I did not want 523 00:22:13.279 --> 00:22:15.000 to go on a locker because he would definitely hear me, 524 00:22:15.279 --> 00:22:18.920 and so instead I'd prefer to go for a under 525 00:22:18.920 --> 00:22:20.279 a counter, and I just felt like it give me 526 00:22:20.279 --> 00:22:23.200 a bit more maneuverability that way too, rather than kind 527 00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:25.319 of committing to in or out of a locker. But yeah, 528 00:22:25.359 --> 00:22:29.039 I don't think I ever got caught inside a locker, thankfully, 529 00:22:29.799 --> 00:22:31.799 But yeah, apparently other things too, like throwing like a 530 00:22:31.839 --> 00:22:34.880 noise maker machine will work, but then eventually, if you 531 00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:37.200 use too many of them, the xenomorpha will kind of 532 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:40.559 start to like triangulate your location and determine like, Okay, 533 00:22:40.559 --> 00:22:42.920 where was this thing thrown from? I'm gonna go in 534 00:22:42.920 --> 00:22:45.640 that room, or just sometimes sometimes they just really hunt 535 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:48.799 your room for like two or three or five minutes 536 00:22:48.839 --> 00:22:51.119 at a time before they leave. And then sometimes they'll 537 00:22:51.160 --> 00:22:52.720 do like a fake out where they go to the door, 538 00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:54.720 leave and then like come right back. 539 00:22:54.559 --> 00:22:56.960 In and they fast walk back into the room and 540 00:22:57.000 --> 00:22:59.480 be like yeah, oh yeah. 541 00:22:59.279 --> 00:23:02.319 And I found too, like the xenomorph can sometimes just 542 00:23:02.319 --> 00:23:04.880 be like this huge lumbering presence, like making so much 543 00:23:04.920 --> 00:23:08.480 noise walking around. But then sometimes they're just so freaking 544 00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:11.960 quiet that you really have no idea unless you're using 545 00:23:11.960 --> 00:23:13.799 your motion tracker. But even then, if they're like standing 546 00:23:13.839 --> 00:23:16.480 still for a bit, they might not pop up on 547 00:23:16.519 --> 00:23:18.480 the on the motion tracker, so it can be pretty 548 00:23:18.519 --> 00:23:20.880 difficult to determine them. 549 00:23:21.279 --> 00:23:24.559 Have you been caught because you say you use mostly 550 00:23:24.599 --> 00:23:28.039 tables vents above your head, walk in and all of 551 00:23:28.079 --> 00:23:30.359 a sudden, just it pops down and you're like, instad dead. 552 00:23:30.839 --> 00:23:33.839 Yeah. I had that happen early on and I couldn't 553 00:23:33.839 --> 00:23:36.119 tell if it was like a scripted sequence or not. 554 00:23:36.640 --> 00:23:38.680 It felt like it was kind of because I feel 555 00:23:38.680 --> 00:23:41.359 like the game there was like a hallway in front 556 00:23:41.400 --> 00:23:42.920 of me that had the event above it and like 557 00:23:42.960 --> 00:23:45.920 the jew striping down right, and then there was like 558 00:23:45.960 --> 00:23:47.519 the door just to the right that had like a 559 00:23:47.559 --> 00:23:49.920 working Joe in it, and so I think I could 560 00:23:50.039 --> 00:23:52.359 it seemed like a script because sometimes there are scripted 561 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:54.400 scenarios where an alien is supposed to pop out at 562 00:23:54.440 --> 00:23:57.200 a given time, usually I think earlier on, but then 563 00:23:57.200 --> 00:24:00.000 there are other times where it is like not random, 564 00:24:00.200 --> 00:24:02.519 but it's just being fed that kind of you know, 565 00:24:02.759 --> 00:24:04.720 information of what it knows from you in the past 566 00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:06.480 to try and hunt you. And so it's kind of 567 00:24:06.519 --> 00:24:07.920 hard to tell by the end of the game, like 568 00:24:07.960 --> 00:24:09.920 what was a scripted scenario other than like if it 569 00:24:09.960 --> 00:24:11.920 popped a cut scene of course. But yeah, I definitely 570 00:24:11.960 --> 00:24:14.720 had that sequence where I saw the juice and I 571 00:24:14.759 --> 00:24:18.039 think I even saw him go in there. I'll probably 572 00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:20.279 be safe here, but no, he got me a big ten. 573 00:24:21.240 --> 00:24:23.480 I think even the first time I saw him, I 574 00:24:23.559 --> 00:24:27.279 was like running for one of the tram station doors 575 00:24:27.720 --> 00:24:29.839 and I couldn't I couldn't see him, but I could 576 00:24:29.880 --> 00:24:32.559 hear him chase him behind me, and that I mean, 577 00:24:32.559 --> 00:24:35.519 it's terrifying for sure, because in that moment when he's 578 00:24:35.559 --> 00:24:38.480 behind me, my characters looks down and like the claw 579 00:24:38.599 --> 00:24:41.039 or the tails like through my chest right in front 580 00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:41.200 of me. 581 00:24:41.240 --> 00:24:41.400 There. 582 00:24:41.519 --> 00:24:42.759 Oh yeah, yeah yeah. 583 00:24:43.000 --> 00:24:45.799 The scare factor of the alien was ten out of ten, 584 00:24:45.839 --> 00:24:49.000 and I think the only time it really dropped below 585 00:24:49.039 --> 00:24:51.599 that were some of these situations were early on in 586 00:24:51.599 --> 00:24:54.079 the game. I was playing on forget what the difficulty 587 00:24:54.160 --> 00:24:55.559 was called, but it's the one that's like, this is 588 00:24:55.599 --> 00:24:59.039 the intended experience intended difficulty. So I was like, okay, 589 00:24:59.079 --> 00:25:00.880 well I'll start on that one. And then I just 590 00:25:00.920 --> 00:25:03.599 found with the lack of checkpoints and some of how 591 00:25:03.640 --> 00:25:05.839 smart this alien, it was just getting a bit frustrating 592 00:25:05.960 --> 00:25:07.680 because I also found too, like if I'm in a 593 00:25:07.720 --> 00:25:10.079 sequence and let's say it's a long sequence where I'm 594 00:25:10.119 --> 00:25:12.799 hiding for minutes at a time, sometimes under one desk 595 00:25:12.839 --> 00:25:15.000 for like five minutes, waiting for this guy to move 596 00:25:15.039 --> 00:25:17.200 slowly back and forth. Eventually, Okay, I'm gonna creep around 597 00:25:17.240 --> 00:25:18.519 the corner. I think I have a bit of space 598 00:25:18.759 --> 00:25:21.079 if I'm doing that, and I've been alive for like 599 00:25:21.160 --> 00:25:23.079 twenty twenty five minutes trying to get through this one 600 00:25:23.119 --> 00:25:25.119 sequence to just like hit some dial on the other 601 00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:28.079 side of this area and then I die. To me, 602 00:25:28.279 --> 00:25:30.359 like it takes all of the tension out of that 603 00:25:30.400 --> 00:25:32.559 whole sequence when I have to do it again, And 604 00:25:32.599 --> 00:25:35.319 so I feel like that's like the perfect It's almost 605 00:25:35.319 --> 00:25:37.359 like surfing or something like. That's like the perfect balance 606 00:25:37.400 --> 00:25:39.319 that a horror game needs is like to keep your 607 00:25:39.400 --> 00:25:41.119 rate on the edge of the whole time, but for 608 00:25:41.240 --> 00:25:43.680 the bad guy to never actually kill you, but to 609 00:25:43.759 --> 00:25:46.480 always just feel like you're about to die. And I 610 00:25:46.480 --> 00:25:48.160 just feel like sometimes this game is a bit too 611 00:25:48.200 --> 00:25:50.839 hard for me, and that's where I dropped it down 612 00:25:51.240 --> 00:25:52.920 on the difficulty scale, and that's where it was a 613 00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:55.720 bit more. It was still very intense, but it was 614 00:25:55.799 --> 00:25:59.359 just way less annoying having to redo sequences, I guess, 615 00:25:59.400 --> 00:26:03.240 because yeah, sometimes just with how slow you're crawling, and 616 00:26:03.440 --> 00:26:04.799 it feels like the only way to get through a 617 00:26:04.839 --> 00:26:07.079 scenario is to like slowly crawl under a desk, wait 618 00:26:07.160 --> 00:26:09.440 for five minutes for them to walk away, go under 619 00:26:09.440 --> 00:26:12.000 another desk, wait another five minutes. It's like that kind 620 00:26:12.039 --> 00:26:14.000 of thing. Becomes annoying when you don't have a quick 621 00:26:14.039 --> 00:26:16.200 save button and you just have to rely on the 622 00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:18.839 save machines. I don't know, have you. Have you kind 623 00:26:18.839 --> 00:26:21.000 of found that in your time as all at all? 624 00:26:21.079 --> 00:26:22.359 Or am I kind of no? 625 00:26:22.400 --> 00:26:26.119 I've I've found that a few times, and I completely agree. 626 00:26:26.839 --> 00:26:29.839 I think that when you're yeah, when you're trying to 627 00:26:29.880 --> 00:26:31.759 get from point A to point B and then get 628 00:26:31.799 --> 00:26:38.799 back like, it's so aggravating when there's no proper pattern 629 00:26:39.240 --> 00:26:41.599 like other games and bosses have, and so all you're 630 00:26:41.640 --> 00:26:44.720 really doing is if you try to get to your destination, 631 00:26:44.839 --> 00:26:46.640 you die, and you do it again, Well, the scenario 632 00:26:46.680 --> 00:26:49.920 is completely different, and you could spend it, maybe not 633 00:26:49.960 --> 00:26:54.839 as long, maybe longer, And that's what really is annoying, 634 00:26:55.240 --> 00:26:57.200 I would say. And I can appreciate the fact that 635 00:26:57.240 --> 00:26:58.680 if you go back into when you're trying to do 636 00:26:58.720 --> 00:27:01.680 it again, the situation has completely changed, it's not the 637 00:27:01.720 --> 00:27:04.720 same as before, and that stress factor comes back. But 638 00:27:04.799 --> 00:27:07.119 I don't like the idea that it is just yeah, 639 00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:09.640 twenty five minutes goes by and then your last save 640 00:27:09.720 --> 00:27:11.119 is at one of those consoles, which I think it's 641 00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:13.720 a very clever way of implementing like a save feature. 642 00:27:13.759 --> 00:27:15.480 I think it could be a little more refined, but 643 00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:17.880 just the concept just going up to this key card 644 00:27:17.920 --> 00:27:20.200 thing and like punching out and that's your save. 645 00:27:20.279 --> 00:27:22.720 I just like how that that is. I love that. 646 00:27:22.880 --> 00:27:26.160 I love that idea because it's contextualized within the world, 647 00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:28.440 which I always like when things like that are happening. 648 00:27:28.480 --> 00:27:30.160 When One thing I love in general about this game 649 00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:32.960 is like there's very little UI. Like obviously you can 650 00:27:32.960 --> 00:27:35.160 pull up like your equipment thing, or you can pull 651 00:27:35.200 --> 00:27:37.160 up your map and your menu, but other than that's 652 00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:40.359 like it's just your health bar at the bottom, Like 653 00:27:40.400 --> 00:27:42.559 that's pretty much it. So I like that it's pre minimalist. 654 00:27:42.559 --> 00:27:44.240 I actually tried to go and turn that off even 655 00:27:44.279 --> 00:27:46.440 because I just wanted to, like just it's such a 656 00:27:46.440 --> 00:27:48.200 beautiful game. I just want an empty screen, like I 657 00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:50.079 do that usually when I'm playing like Dishonored or other 658 00:27:50.079 --> 00:27:53.599 immersive games like this. Apparently Nightmare Difficulty does remove all 659 00:27:53.640 --> 00:27:55.640 of that UI stuff completely. So it's weird that there 660 00:27:55.680 --> 00:27:58.480 isn't an option to just manually turn off the health 661 00:27:58.519 --> 00:28:01.599 bar visual because like you don't really need it, like 662 00:28:01.720 --> 00:28:04.000 usually you're dead or alive, Like it doesn't matter if 663 00:28:04.039 --> 00:28:06.920 you have half health there or not. But yeah, I 664 00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:09.799 agree with you. I think the save machines are really 665 00:28:09.839 --> 00:28:12.480 great visually. I love that they have like a five 666 00:28:12.519 --> 00:28:14.279 second delay for all the times that I wish this 667 00:28:14.319 --> 00:28:17.559 game was quicker or you know, taking less time out 668 00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:19.480 of the day just to do a basic thing. I 669 00:28:19.559 --> 00:28:22.240 love that that takes like three to five seconds wait 670 00:28:22.279 --> 00:28:25.319 for that low's lights to click down before it officially saves, 671 00:28:25.319 --> 00:28:28.039 because that's feeling of tension is often there, and it 672 00:28:28.079 --> 00:28:29.680 means that you can't just like we're up to a 673 00:28:29.720 --> 00:28:32.279 save station quickly cheese it. If an alien's in the room, 674 00:28:32.319 --> 00:28:34.319 you like, if he'll kill you in that amount of time. 675 00:28:34.839 --> 00:28:37.440 And I love that has the little warning there too, 676 00:28:37.480 --> 00:28:39.680 of like hostiles nearby. I was like, you know what, 677 00:28:39.720 --> 00:28:41.279 I don't even care most of the time, I'm just 678 00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:42.839 gonna go for it anyway, even if I've made a 679 00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:45.559 bad save point here. It never bit me in the boat, thankfully. 680 00:28:45.640 --> 00:28:47.440 But I could see a scenario where you saved at 681 00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:50.079 the wrong time where whenever time you would load back in, 682 00:28:50.119 --> 00:28:51.640 there would be a guy like right behind you or 683 00:28:51.680 --> 00:28:54.440 something like that. But I got pretty lucky in that way. 684 00:28:55.279 --> 00:28:58.599 There's a few situations where it would be reloading back in, 685 00:28:58.680 --> 00:29:00.960 and I just get so far straighted, like okay, well 686 00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:03.440 you know what, I know where the alien is in 687 00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:05.400 the situation, so I'm just not gonna run, but I'm 688 00:29:05.440 --> 00:29:08.160 gonna just walk straight to where I gotta go and 689 00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:15.519 just kind of like unfortunately, I guess not fortunately unfortunately 690 00:29:15.519 --> 00:29:18.680 because I'm not indulging in how the game is supposed 691 00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:21.200 to be played because I'm getting frustrated. But I still 692 00:29:21.240 --> 00:29:23.839 got to enjoy it the first time until I died, 693 00:29:23.880 --> 00:29:25.519 and the second time until I die, and so now 694 00:29:25.519 --> 00:29:27.160 it's just like, Okay, I'm just gonna like cut and 695 00:29:27.240 --> 00:29:29.359 run or cutting fast walk to where I got to go. 696 00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:31.480 And it sucks that the. 697 00:29:31.440 --> 00:29:34.440 Game kind of can push you to that point. I 698 00:29:34.519 --> 00:29:36.559 shouldn't have to. It should be able to be. 699 00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:38.920 Replayable and still enjoyable. 700 00:29:39.920 --> 00:29:43.240 Yeah. One thing I didn't realize really until like very 701 00:29:43.319 --> 00:29:44.599 late in to play through, and then when I was 702 00:29:44.839 --> 00:29:47.039 watching some YouTube videos that confirmed it is that in 703 00:29:47.079 --> 00:29:50.200 most games like this, if you want to be completely 704 00:29:50.240 --> 00:29:54.559 silent as you move, you gotta crawl or crouch whatever. 705 00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:58.319 But in this game, like walking is completely quiet. As 706 00:29:58.319 --> 00:29:59.680 far as I can tell, it doesn't make any more 707 00:29:59.759 --> 00:30:03.000 noise then croaching. It's just if you're sprinting or you know, 708 00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:05.759 throwing equipment, shooting bullets. Obviously those things all make sound, 709 00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:08.400 but like sprinting is the obvious thing, but like, truly 710 00:30:08.440 --> 00:30:10.599 that can be the difference sometimes is just walking from 711 00:30:10.640 --> 00:30:13.960 one like hiding area to a next rather than just 712 00:30:13.960 --> 00:30:15.799 relying on that crouch. That was something that took me 713 00:30:15.799 --> 00:30:18.640 a while to realize because I'm just so conditioned by 714 00:30:18.680 --> 00:30:21.119 like every other horror survival horror game like this, like 715 00:30:21.160 --> 00:30:23.759 the crouch is the only reliable way to be like 716 00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:26.119 one hundred percent quiet. So that was something I had 717 00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:27.519 to learn too, and I'm sure that would have helped 718 00:30:27.519 --> 00:30:28.799 me a lot in some of those sequences when I 719 00:30:28.880 --> 00:30:31.440 was really like really tight on timing. But it's because 720 00:30:31.440 --> 00:30:33.680 I was literally for the first five or six hours 721 00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:35.440 of this game, I was probably crouched ninety percent of 722 00:30:35.480 --> 00:30:38.440 that because I was so terrified. Even like before that 723 00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:43.039 the xenomorph was introduced, I was still just so terrified 724 00:30:43.119 --> 00:30:44.559 knowing that it's out there somewhere. 725 00:30:44.599 --> 00:30:44.799 You know. 726 00:30:45.400 --> 00:30:51.440 Yeah, there's there's moments where you think you're clear and 727 00:30:51.519 --> 00:30:54.119 you will be crouching and you're going out into the hallway. 728 00:30:54.279 --> 00:30:57.000 And this is something that bothers me because if that 729 00:30:57.160 --> 00:31:01.559 alien is super far away doesn't see you, but you 730 00:31:01.599 --> 00:31:03.799 see him, and then I think, okay, well now I 731 00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:04.759 got to crouch back. 732 00:31:05.160 --> 00:31:07.039 You can't even walk. 733 00:31:07.319 --> 00:31:09.319 I mean, if that alien decides to do his little 734 00:31:09.359 --> 00:31:11.960 fast walk spur thing, he's got you, And that really 735 00:31:11.960 --> 00:31:13.720 bothers me because you could be in a hallway where 736 00:31:13.720 --> 00:31:16.599 there's no accessible hiding spot nearby and you just got 737 00:31:16.599 --> 00:31:18.160 to crouch because you hope he doesn't hear you, but. 738 00:31:18.160 --> 00:31:19.279 He does his fast walk. 739 00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:21.480 He hasn't seen you, but he does his fast walk 740 00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:23.240 down the hallway and then he just happens to see you, 741 00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:25.319 and then you're dead. Like it's it's tricky. 742 00:31:25.799 --> 00:31:33.200 Yeah, I've yeah, I don't know. I found the if 743 00:31:33.240 --> 00:31:36.759 I was ever caught by the alien, like visually spotted, 744 00:31:37.119 --> 00:31:39.359 and I didn't flamethrower him, I was dead. That was 745 00:31:39.400 --> 00:31:42.880 the only possible way. I never I'm trying to think 746 00:31:42.880 --> 00:31:45.599 if I even ever ran to a elevator when he 747 00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:48.000 was after me and was able to hit the button. 748 00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:50.119 Other than like, I think there's like a scripted sequence 749 00:31:50.160 --> 00:31:53.680 or two that have a situation like that. I find so, yeah, 750 00:31:53.720 --> 00:31:56.359 but like otherwise if I if I was spotted, I 751 00:31:56.480 --> 00:31:59.359 was dead for sure. So I don't know. I never 752 00:31:59.359 --> 00:32:00.960 got to a seque where I was able to run 753 00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:04.039 away into a room, like maybe I made a sound 754 00:32:04.079 --> 00:32:05.440 and he started to coming from with you, but like 755 00:32:05.440 --> 00:32:07.480 he never actually spotted me. But I found like, yeah, 756 00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:09.680 if I was visually spotted, I was, I was. Is 757 00:32:09.680 --> 00:32:13.000 that what you're saying though, Like the like walking you're 758 00:32:13.039 --> 00:32:15.359 more visible than crouching. I guess would that be maybe 759 00:32:15.400 --> 00:32:16.559 a difference between those. 760 00:32:16.359 --> 00:32:19.720 Two then well, not even being spotted, because like you're 761 00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:22.640 moving down the corridor and all of a sudden you 762 00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:25.359 just see him down down the ways down the corridor, 763 00:32:25.359 --> 00:32:27.279 you see you poke around the corner and he's down there, 764 00:32:27.279 --> 00:32:28.079 but he doesn't see you. 765 00:32:28.440 --> 00:32:29.519 So you do a U turn. 766 00:32:29.880 --> 00:32:33.039 You're going back, and you're crouching or you're walking, you're 767 00:32:33.079 --> 00:32:34.839 not making sound. Is the main thing is you're trying 768 00:32:34.839 --> 00:32:36.319 to get to a hiding spot because you got to 769 00:32:36.319 --> 00:32:38.640 go down this corridor and he's blocking it. Yes, but 770 00:32:38.680 --> 00:32:41.559 he does his fast walk and just walks up to you, 771 00:32:41.640 --> 00:32:43.599 but he doesn't know you're there. He's just doing his 772 00:32:43.720 --> 00:32:45.920 random fast walk thing. But then he sees you and 773 00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:47.720 then you try to run, but he's gonna get you. 774 00:32:47.839 --> 00:32:49.000 So there's there's that. 775 00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:54.599 Yeah, yeah, that'll happen. Let's talk about a little more 776 00:32:54.599 --> 00:32:57.160 of the because you're talking about the save stations there, 777 00:32:57.200 --> 00:33:00.359 which are cool. I think in general, like the tech 778 00:33:00.440 --> 00:33:03.640 in this game, I love it visually because you know, 779 00:33:03.680 --> 00:33:06.920 it's very much set in that all the alien tech 780 00:33:06.920 --> 00:33:10.000 in general is like very bulky tech, very old school, 781 00:33:10.039 --> 00:33:12.519 really like you know, what the seventies thought the future 782 00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:15.440 would look like. But I feel like this game, you know, 783 00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:17.680 since there's so many tools, more tools that you're using, 784 00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:20.920 I feel like the like visual style of it is 785 00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:24.240 like really really interesting. I love the motion tracker, which 786 00:33:24.240 --> 00:33:27.599 you know I had in my hands so much of 787 00:33:27.640 --> 00:33:29.400 this game, you know, because that's like all all the 788 00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:32.359 only way you can truly know what's around the next corner. 789 00:33:33.160 --> 00:33:36.200 But even just like the computers, the terminals, like scrolling 790 00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:39.200 through them, the different buttons, I really enjoyed that stuff. 791 00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:42.960 It was like very tactile, uh, the like the torch 792 00:33:43.039 --> 00:33:46.000 that you're using, the different the like wrench that you're 793 00:33:46.039 --> 00:33:48.799 using to crack those like locks off the door. Uh. 794 00:33:48.839 --> 00:33:51.240 And then even just down to like all the all 795 00:33:51.319 --> 00:33:53.559 the equipment that you're using. Just like the visual design 796 00:33:53.599 --> 00:33:56.200 of it. I thought all that stuff was like absolutely 797 00:33:56.240 --> 00:34:00.319 perfect and so cool and both like it really cool 798 00:34:00.319 --> 00:34:02.960 in compact but also like bulky and clunky at the 799 00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:05.640 same time. It has that like there's the perfect needle 800 00:34:05.680 --> 00:34:06.759 on that mm hmm. 801 00:34:06.960 --> 00:34:10.440 I think that they've been able to really examine the 802 00:34:10.440 --> 00:34:13.440 the tech that existed in the A I guess Alien 803 00:34:13.480 --> 00:34:17.519 One and Alien specifically, while obviously the other films are 804 00:34:17.559 --> 00:34:19.800 around at this point. I'm glad that they didn't really 805 00:34:19.840 --> 00:34:21.960 focus on all that other stuff. They just kept it 806 00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:27.480 pretty pretty simple, and there's just something settling, I guess 807 00:34:27.519 --> 00:34:30.559 about seeing this advanced technology. But it's it's like a 808 00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:32.960 few decades old at the same time and how it appears, 809 00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:35.679 and I can really it's comforting. I like looking at 810 00:34:35.719 --> 00:34:38.800 it and utilizing that tech. It's it's nice and I 811 00:34:38.800 --> 00:34:40.880 can just appreciate the attention to detail, because Yeah, when 812 00:34:40.880 --> 00:34:43.519 you're walking into certain rooms, like you got the what 813 00:34:43.639 --> 00:34:46.400 was it the room where you're talking to mother an alien, 814 00:34:46.480 --> 00:34:48.679 they got the same thing here, Like that room is 815 00:34:48.719 --> 00:34:51.719 super cool. Yeah, using every one of like the sevastopool 816 00:34:52.360 --> 00:34:55.880 U link stations is always cool. Going through the different messages. 817 00:34:56.360 --> 00:34:58.199 There's just so many neat little things. 818 00:34:59.119 --> 00:35:01.440 Yeah, I thought it was even a great touch that 819 00:35:02.320 --> 00:35:07.840 the computers the terminals on Sevastopol are slightly different, at 820 00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:10.519 least visually from like what is the name what is 821 00:35:10.559 --> 00:35:12.239 the name of that dear elect ship that you go 822 00:35:12.360 --> 00:35:17.679 on to with Marlowe and Taylor the other tailor alien 823 00:35:17.719 --> 00:35:20.119 isolation Taylor, I forget the name of it. It's like 824 00:35:20.159 --> 00:35:22.320 the I probably wrote it down somewhere in my notes here, 825 00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:24.440 but you have to go to that dear elect ship, 826 00:35:24.440 --> 00:35:27.519 and the terminals on there have like different loading screens 827 00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:29.800 because they're a different brand of computer, right, or a 828 00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:32.719 different operating software because they're not from that they're not 829 00:35:32.840 --> 00:35:35.360 part of Sevastopol, the Sevastilink thing. So I thought it 830 00:35:35.400 --> 00:35:37.519 was just like that attention to detail too. I probably 831 00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:39.239 probably wouldn't have caught if they had just used the 832 00:35:39.280 --> 00:35:41.519 same terminals, but the fact that they did something different 833 00:35:41.519 --> 00:35:42.760 did stand out to me. It was a good, like 834 00:35:42.800 --> 00:35:45.480 little detail there that they decided to do something like that. 835 00:35:45.639 --> 00:35:48.159 I don't think too like the the hacker that you have. 836 00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:50.760 You're doing all sorts of hacking in this game, and 837 00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:53.480 I like that there's like five or six different hacking 838 00:35:54.199 --> 00:35:57.039 micro game minigames that you're doing just to like mix 839 00:35:57.079 --> 00:35:58.800 it up, and all of them are pretty simple. I 840 00:35:58.920 --> 00:36:01.280 like that not a single one of them is tutorialized, 841 00:36:01.519 --> 00:36:03.719 and so the first time you see any particular one, 842 00:36:03.760 --> 00:36:06.079 it's like, what am I supposed to do here? But 843 00:36:06.079 --> 00:36:08.079 then you eventually just kind of figured it out intuitively. 844 00:36:08.119 --> 00:36:09.960 I thought that was really well designed, and I like 845 00:36:09.960 --> 00:36:13.599 that there's just just enough variety there for it to work, 846 00:36:13.639 --> 00:36:15.199 even though this game is quite long and you're seeing 847 00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:17.119 a lot of these things. But it was the the. 848 00:36:17.119 --> 00:36:20.039 Hacking one where you have the uh you have to 849 00:36:20.559 --> 00:36:23.679 pick where you put the corner around the square of 850 00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:25.119 the screen, and then you got to pick the three 851 00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:28.159 symbols when there's enemies nearby. It is the most stressful 852 00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:31.039 freaking thing ye too. 853 00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:32.880 Oh gosh. 854 00:36:32.960 --> 00:36:35.280 Yeah, this is definitely a game where some I feel like, 855 00:36:35.280 --> 00:36:38.000 even in BioShock, if you're hacking, maybe it would like 856 00:36:38.039 --> 00:36:39.840 pause the world around you, you know, while you're like 857 00:36:39.840 --> 00:36:42.320 in that minigame, but not here. Everything is still happening 858 00:36:42.360 --> 00:36:44.400 in real time, even when you're like crafting and stuff. 859 00:36:44.599 --> 00:36:46.199 It's like one of the tooltips that will pop up 860 00:36:46.239 --> 00:36:47.639 is if you don't do some crafting, go find a 861 00:36:47.719 --> 00:36:51.360 quiet corner to do it there too. I like, I 862 00:36:51.440 --> 00:36:53.320 like the crafting in this game is very simple. It's 863 00:36:53.360 --> 00:36:55.119 really just like, you know, there's like seven or eight 864 00:36:55.199 --> 00:36:58.840 materials that you're collecting through through the UH space station, 865 00:36:59.039 --> 00:37:00.800 and you just got to kind of them into place. 866 00:37:01.039 --> 00:37:02.559 But one thing I really liked about it is that 867 00:37:02.679 --> 00:37:04.159 you know, once you're you have to fill in like 868 00:37:04.199 --> 00:37:07.679 maybe five five pieces hit craft. But even if you 869 00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:09.760 let's say you have the maximum amount, you can still 870 00:37:09.800 --> 00:37:11.920 fill in all those things. You can like preload them 871 00:37:11.920 --> 00:37:13.880 in and that way, it's like it almost gives you 872 00:37:13.920 --> 00:37:17.159 like bonus inventory space so that when you have used 873 00:37:17.159 --> 00:37:18.920 your other ones, you can rebuild that next one with 874 00:37:18.960 --> 00:37:20.960 like the materials that you've already preloaded in there. I 875 00:37:20.960 --> 00:37:24.039 thought it was a pretty cool idea. So I don't know, 876 00:37:24.079 --> 00:37:26.559 I liked I liked the crafting. That's not really minigame, 877 00:37:26.599 --> 00:37:28.320 but I like that system. I think it worked well. 878 00:37:28.360 --> 00:37:30.480 Even if once again I was not using a lot 879 00:37:30.519 --> 00:37:32.599 of things that I was crafting, I pretty much always 880 00:37:32.599 --> 00:37:34.239 had I don't know if I ever threw a ma 881 00:37:34.239 --> 00:37:36.760 Ali tall cocktail in this game. I always just had 882 00:37:36.800 --> 00:37:40.559 the maximum mount in my inventory, I was using the 883 00:37:40.559 --> 00:37:43.920 the EMP blast to slow down if I was ever, 884 00:37:44.159 --> 00:37:46.000 you know, too many working joes around me here. That 885 00:37:46.079 --> 00:37:48.440 was kind of my my go to technique. But yeah, 886 00:37:48.440 --> 00:37:50.400 I don't I don't think I threw a noisemaker either, 887 00:37:50.480 --> 00:37:53.239 to be honest, So I definitely cheaped out on some 888 00:37:53.280 --> 00:37:56.559 of those resources, but that was cool. I don't know 889 00:37:56.559 --> 00:37:59.320 about you, Taylor, but I think maybe the scariest thing 890 00:37:59.400 --> 00:38:02.960 for me in this game was fucking doors and vents 891 00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:06.760 auto opening and just that sound effect that plays whenever 892 00:38:06.760 --> 00:38:09.280 you get like somewhat near a door and it begins 893 00:38:09.280 --> 00:38:11.599 to auto open. It would just jump scared me so 894 00:38:11.639 --> 00:38:15.000 many times because it's crouching, being super slow, there's no sounds, 895 00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:18.320 no music going on, and then just like a huge 896 00:38:18.320 --> 00:38:20.400 blast noise as the door is opening in front of me, 897 00:38:20.480 --> 00:38:22.280 because you never know, like maybe there's an alien on 898 00:38:22.280 --> 00:38:23.760 the other side of that. Did I get close enough 899 00:38:23.800 --> 00:38:25.920 to open it? Or is there a guy or working 900 00:38:25.960 --> 00:38:27.599 Joe and alien whatever it is, coming in through that 901 00:38:27.639 --> 00:38:28.480 door on the other side. 902 00:38:28.840 --> 00:38:29.880 M hmm, yeah, I know that. 903 00:38:30.280 --> 00:38:33.400 I think the events are very, very freaky, and I 904 00:38:33.480 --> 00:38:36.199 love how too. It's just like then strummles vents from 905 00:38:36.239 --> 00:38:40.519 the movie, just how it's like s opens up and yeah, 906 00:38:40.800 --> 00:38:41.719 those are tricky. 907 00:38:41.440 --> 00:38:43.559 And the fact that they blended into the walls. You 908 00:38:43.599 --> 00:38:45.639 can just walk by them, don't even know that they're there. 909 00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:50.440 And half the time with some vents, I just overlook 910 00:38:50.519 --> 00:38:52.719 them where the alien can come through. I've spent so 911 00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:55.880 much time in this one room doing something, and I 912 00:38:55.880 --> 00:38:57.760 can see my track are the the you can hear 913 00:38:57.760 --> 00:39:00.840 the alien bump around the vents, but he's what's. 914 00:39:01.639 --> 00:39:03.880 On the track, or they're still visible even if they're 915 00:39:03.880 --> 00:39:07.400 not actually physically in the space, but in like the imaginary. 916 00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:09.800 Events, yes, exactly, And they may not even be a 917 00:39:09.880 --> 00:39:12.159 part of this this mission. They may not even appear, 918 00:39:12.760 --> 00:39:15.440 but they're just they're always just lurking around. So I 919 00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:16.960 thought that was just the case here, and I was 920 00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:19.079 just doing what I was doing and gonna get to 921 00:39:19.079 --> 00:39:21.239 the next area where these these synthetics were. And so 922 00:39:22.440 --> 00:39:25.440 I leave my room and then go into the other room. 923 00:39:25.679 --> 00:39:27.639 And while I'm in the other room, you just hear 924 00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:32.159 that or that like thud and then that like that 925 00:39:32.159 --> 00:39:35.239 that hissing, and I turn around like holy shit, Like 926 00:39:35.760 --> 00:39:37.480 I didn't know that he could come into that room 927 00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:40.159 for the ceiling so you hide and whatnot. So I 928 00:39:40.159 --> 00:39:43.280 can appreciate all the different spots that they've they've placed vents, 929 00:39:43.599 --> 00:39:45.199 access points and stuff. 930 00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:48.880 Can can the aliens go through the because they have 931 00:39:48.920 --> 00:39:50.840 their like vertical events in the roof and you can't 932 00:39:50.880 --> 00:39:53.239 go in those vents. But can they go through like 933 00:39:53.280 --> 00:39:56.880 those circular door vents that you crawl around in. 934 00:39:57.800 --> 00:39:59.079 I mean, I've I've like, if you. 935 00:39:59.119 --> 00:40:01.360 Go into one, do they chase you? Like what? I 936 00:40:01.480 --> 00:40:03.760 never actually had that scenario pop up. I thought they 937 00:40:03.760 --> 00:40:06.159 could go through those ones, and I'm pretty sure I played, 938 00:40:06.159 --> 00:40:07.079 but I might have made that up. 939 00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:10.480 I'm pretty sure I've encountered one in there before and 940 00:40:10.519 --> 00:40:12.519 I had to flame them out of my way. 941 00:40:12.679 --> 00:40:19.440 Okay, yeah, interesting, Yeah, I never never quite encountered that. 942 00:40:19.760 --> 00:40:22.159 There's certain ones that I don't think they can go in. Obviously, 943 00:40:22.159 --> 00:40:25.440 it's for like story reasons. You know, you're you're not 944 00:40:25.480 --> 00:40:27.639 gonna encounter one in a certain area if you're going 945 00:40:27.639 --> 00:40:29.440 to a ladder and then you're in tight little like 946 00:40:29.559 --> 00:40:32.400 ventilation system and up another ladder through the floor or whatnot. 947 00:40:32.440 --> 00:40:35.440 But I think those ones with the yeah, the specifically 948 00:40:35.599 --> 00:40:38.360 the circular ones that open up, I'm pretty sure that 949 00:40:38.360 --> 00:40:39.880 you can get in there, right. 950 00:40:40.079 --> 00:40:43.039 Cool. Okay, let's take our first break here. We're gonna 951 00:40:43.079 --> 00:40:45.559 go into those circular events. We'll be right back after 952 00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:51.880 this break. Okay, we are back. Do you want to 953 00:40:51.920 --> 00:40:53.599 talk more game plan out? Do you want to jump 954 00:40:53.599 --> 00:40:55.559 into story? Do you want to talk Where do you 955 00:40:55.559 --> 00:40:56.239 want to go next? 956 00:40:56.440 --> 00:40:57.800 I'd love to get into some story. 957 00:40:58.360 --> 00:41:01.679 Okay, let's do it. So this game, I guess, takes 958 00:41:01.719 --> 00:41:05.719 place in between would it be between alien and Aliens 959 00:41:05.880 --> 00:41:08.119 or between Aliens and three? It would be between those 960 00:41:08.119 --> 00:41:11.119 two one and two? Yeah, yeah, And so the story here. 961 00:41:11.159 --> 00:41:14.760 You play as Amanda Ripley, the daughter of Ellen Ripley. 962 00:41:15.599 --> 00:41:19.159 You are an engineer on a ship that is going 963 00:41:19.199 --> 00:41:22.119 to retrieve a they call it a black box, which 964 00:41:22.119 --> 00:41:25.880 has some information from the Nostromo about pretty much just 965 00:41:25.880 --> 00:41:29.119 what happened, and that's where you're going and that that 966 00:41:29.239 --> 00:41:33.119 black box is there at Sevastopol. You get invited along 967 00:41:33.320 --> 00:41:35.920 to go to Sevastopol, and then as you're going there, 968 00:41:35.920 --> 00:41:38.880 you realize that shit has gone down at Sevastole. This 969 00:41:38.960 --> 00:41:42.639 place is not in good shape, and that's what leads 970 00:41:42.679 --> 00:41:44.960 into the whole setting of the game. So, yeah, what 971 00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:48.159 do you think about I guess playing as this character 972 00:41:48.440 --> 00:41:51.159 kind of that being the choice the setup for the story, 973 00:41:51.199 --> 00:41:53.280 and I don't know, what do you think about the 974 00:41:53.559 --> 00:41:56.440 location in general of Sevastopol being the kind of setting here. 975 00:41:57.480 --> 00:41:58.760 I love it, I really really do. 976 00:41:58.840 --> 00:42:01.159 I love how big the space and I love how 977 00:42:01.239 --> 00:42:03.960 no words it's huge, no war is really safe, and 978 00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:06.480 it just feels like a it's a space city essentially. 979 00:42:06.840 --> 00:42:09.840 Yeah, any space station that needs a tram system to 980 00:42:09.880 --> 00:42:13.199 get around, you know, is pretty freaking huge. 981 00:42:13.519 --> 00:42:14.000 Yeah. 982 00:42:14.119 --> 00:42:17.119 Yeah, And even though it is so huge, the fact 983 00:42:17.119 --> 00:42:19.239 that it gets in the name, you feel isolated, you 984 00:42:19.280 --> 00:42:23.679 feel confined, And I really like that it takes some 985 00:42:23.760 --> 00:42:25.800 of the best parts of Alien and just throws it 986 00:42:25.840 --> 00:42:27.480 in here. And I think that's again why I'm looking 987 00:42:27.519 --> 00:42:30.239 forward to Romulus, because Romulus feels like it's got this 988 00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:33.039 kind of similar situation where yeah, you're this person's going 989 00:42:33.039 --> 00:42:35.280 to the space station and it's not good on the 990 00:42:35.320 --> 00:42:38.320 space station. And to pull Amenda Ripley as a character, 991 00:42:38.519 --> 00:42:42.400 I think that's great. It's something that is new. People 992 00:42:42.440 --> 00:42:45.280 are unfamiliar with this character, but the character has major 993 00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:50.280 ties to our former character that everyone loves and has 994 00:42:50.320 --> 00:42:51.000 followed along. 995 00:42:51.039 --> 00:42:51.719 So that's great. 996 00:42:52.159 --> 00:42:54.880 Keeps the fans and the community kind of attached and 997 00:42:54.920 --> 00:42:57.400 have some stake in it, so I can appreciate that. 998 00:42:57.880 --> 00:42:59.920 And yeah, I just love how she's called upon just 999 00:43:00.039 --> 00:43:02.079 to go and like get some information from her mom 1000 00:43:02.119 --> 00:43:04.880 and then the Stromo. I think that's awesome because no 1001 00:43:04.880 --> 00:43:07.880 one knows what happened to this ship in the fifty seven. 1002 00:43:07.679 --> 00:43:08.719 Years, I think it is. 1003 00:43:09.000 --> 00:43:12.559 That's a lot of time to play with and I'm 1004 00:43:12.599 --> 00:43:14.199 just I'm glad that they did, and I think it's 1005 00:43:14.199 --> 00:43:19.400 cool that they took advantage of going to Like that 1006 00:43:19.440 --> 00:43:20.840 was a big surprise. When I was playing the game. 1007 00:43:20.880 --> 00:43:22.480 I did not think that was gonna happen. I thought, 1008 00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:24.119 we're just getting an alien on a ship and we're 1009 00:43:24.159 --> 00:43:26.679 just gonna be trying to evade and survive and that's 1010 00:43:26.679 --> 00:43:28.880 all it's gonna be. But that that definitely was a 1011 00:43:28.880 --> 00:43:33.719 big surprise. Yeah, yeah, it's it's interesting. 1012 00:43:34.519 --> 00:43:36.880 You know, I don't know who it would be, like 1013 00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:39.800 on the rights holder side of it, who like own 1014 00:43:39.840 --> 00:43:43.119 the IP for this, whose decision would be to say, here, 1015 00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:47.360 we're gonna give like because I guess this game is canon, 1016 00:43:47.559 --> 00:43:50.960 I don't know if that's really been established by you know, 1017 00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:52.239 like the studios, like. 1018 00:43:52.280 --> 00:43:53.079 You could canon it. 1019 00:43:53.159 --> 00:43:56.719 I mean there's there's there's Yeah, there's nothing that would 1020 00:43:56.719 --> 00:43:58.599 make me feel like it's not can It's not like 1021 00:43:58.599 --> 00:44:01.440 any of these like all of the character here are 1022 00:44:01.880 --> 00:44:04.079 new for this, and there's obviously mentions of Whale and 1023 00:44:04.119 --> 00:44:06.760 New Tani, as there always is in these things. But yeah, 1024 00:44:06.840 --> 00:44:09.320 like to me, it totally feels like a cannon experience 1025 00:44:09.320 --> 00:44:11.119 and just going through here too, Like when they were 1026 00:44:11.119 --> 00:44:14.280 making this game, they were given just huge hard drives 1027 00:44:14.280 --> 00:44:17.480 fuld of terabytes of information that had like original concept 1028 00:44:17.599 --> 00:44:21.400 art and footage, information about everything like creation of like 1029 00:44:21.400 --> 00:44:22.920 all those other movies. So they had so much to 1030 00:44:22.960 --> 00:44:25.360 work with there. And so but I wonder going into 1031 00:44:25.360 --> 00:44:28.039 this if it was like the studio pitching like here's 1032 00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:30.039 the setting we want to go time era, or if 1033 00:44:30.079 --> 00:44:32.480 it was like the rights holder of like here's where 1034 00:44:32.480 --> 00:44:33.880 you should maybe go with it. Here's like a good 1035 00:44:34.079 --> 00:44:36.199 good spot to be and the kind of way like 1036 00:44:36.360 --> 00:44:38.559 Star Wars has like that period where they're just like, oh, yeah, 1037 00:44:38.599 --> 00:44:40.119 we'll just put all our shows and movies in that 1038 00:44:40.199 --> 00:44:42.840 kind of dark period between these movies. Right. So I 1039 00:44:42.840 --> 00:44:44.880 think it's an interesting choice, but I think it's cool 1040 00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:49.280 to play as Amanda Ripley in here. I guess it's 1041 00:44:49.280 --> 00:44:51.280 maybe jump into the end a little bit, but it's 1042 00:44:51.519 --> 00:44:53.639 it's a little weird the way it's it's left off, 1043 00:44:53.679 --> 00:44:55.480 and maybe we'll save that for later in terms of 1044 00:44:55.519 --> 00:44:57.679 like what could have been for a squel or what 1045 00:44:57.719 --> 00:45:00.239 could be. It's never never too late, you know, like 1046 00:45:00.239 --> 00:45:01.679 they've gone on to make other things. 1047 00:45:01.719 --> 00:45:04.679 But I can really appreciate that they got Sigourney we 1048 00:45:04.760 --> 00:45:06.079 were to come back actually in voice. 1049 00:45:06.079 --> 00:45:07.920 Her lines couldn't. 1050 00:45:07.599 --> 00:45:10.079 Tell if it was actually her, honestly, Yeah, that's good. 1051 00:45:10.079 --> 00:45:12.400 She she did the DLC stuff and then yeah her 1052 00:45:13.119 --> 00:45:15.480 the whole voice message like to Amanda. 1053 00:45:16.039 --> 00:45:17.880 Yeah, that was just that's fantastic. 1054 00:45:18.320 --> 00:45:21.840 Yeah, but yeah, I think Savestipol's a really fun location. 1055 00:45:21.880 --> 00:45:25.679 It's something different too, Like we've we've had various ground locations, 1056 00:45:26.079 --> 00:45:28.039 We've had a lot of space ships, but to have 1057 00:45:28.119 --> 00:45:30.559 like just a massive space station like this is kind 1058 00:45:30.559 --> 00:45:32.280 of a new, unique thing. And I think it makes 1059 00:45:32.280 --> 00:45:33.719 sense for a video game where you're gonna be spending 1060 00:45:33.719 --> 00:45:35.159 a lot more time here and you kind of need 1061 00:45:35.760 --> 00:45:38.800 larger areas to go through, and I think it is 1062 00:45:38.840 --> 00:45:40.320 it is cool that you are doing a lot of 1063 00:45:40.320 --> 00:45:43.199 backtracking through areas over and over again, so it feels 1064 00:45:43.239 --> 00:45:45.760 like you're kind of know, you're seeing locations at different 1065 00:45:45.800 --> 00:45:47.679 points in time, especially at the end, you're going through 1066 00:45:47.679 --> 00:45:49.119 some areas that you were at near the start of 1067 00:45:49.159 --> 00:45:51.400 the game and just seeing them kind of like burning down, 1068 00:45:51.480 --> 00:45:53.760 like just deteriorating as the events of the game have 1069 00:45:53.800 --> 00:45:55.920 been going on. Is pretty cool. But I think maybe 1070 00:45:55.920 --> 00:45:58.599 the most interesting part for me about the space station 1071 00:45:59.239 --> 00:46:01.519 is that it's like a differ and company that created 1072 00:46:01.599 --> 00:46:03.440 and owned this ship, because we're so used to like 1073 00:46:03.480 --> 00:46:05.400 a lot of our stuff being oh yeah, this is 1074 00:46:05.440 --> 00:46:08.320 like a Whalen Utani piece, or it's you know, a 1075 00:46:08.360 --> 00:46:12.079 sponsored project being sent out by Whaling Utani, so it's 1076 00:46:12.079 --> 00:46:15.280 always geared with that tech or the Whaling new Tani androids. 1077 00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:18.199 So I think it's especially cool that this ship is 1078 00:46:18.199 --> 00:46:20.639 owned by siegsin is that company, and so that's where 1079 00:46:20.679 --> 00:46:23.119 you get like it explains why their tech can look 1080 00:46:23.159 --> 00:46:25.079 different than some of the stuff in the movies, while 1081 00:46:25.119 --> 00:46:27.280 still of course being inspired and having that same era 1082 00:46:27.880 --> 00:46:30.880 generally speaking, but in terms of like the user interface 1083 00:46:31.039 --> 00:46:33.719 or the existence of the working Joe's and being such 1084 00:46:33.760 --> 00:46:36.559 a different type of Android than we're used to where 1085 00:46:36.599 --> 00:46:38.639 in the movies it's always like we're trying to make 1086 00:46:38.679 --> 00:46:41.280 these things as lifelike as possible, and then maybe even 1087 00:46:41.320 --> 00:46:43.320 like by Covenant, like okay, we made them to life, 1088 00:46:43.440 --> 00:46:46.000 Like let's go back and make them unlifelike again, as 1089 00:46:46.159 --> 00:46:48.360 like take away some of that free will, you know, 1090 00:46:48.360 --> 00:46:51.159 that's a big part of that movie. And how that's 1091 00:46:51.199 --> 00:46:53.360 always like a thing in the movies is like ooh 1092 00:46:53.760 --> 00:46:55.840 that ca It's like a huge reveal when someone you 1093 00:46:55.880 --> 00:46:57.800 find out that they're an android for the first time, 1094 00:46:57.960 --> 00:47:01.519 but in here it's like obvious because they just look freaky. 1095 00:47:01.719 --> 00:47:04.400 They look like they're not intentionally trying to hide that 1096 00:47:04.440 --> 00:47:06.840 they are humans. They all look you know, the same 1097 00:47:06.920 --> 00:47:08.719 as well. They have kind of the creepy eyes that 1098 00:47:08.760 --> 00:47:11.639 blare through in the dark dark rooms that you're going through, 1099 00:47:12.199 --> 00:47:14.840 and they're just a lot more of like they feel 1100 00:47:14.920 --> 00:47:17.360 like a rumba, you know, like a really complex room, 1101 00:47:17.480 --> 00:47:19.800 like they're just going around doing basic tasks. They have 1102 00:47:19.840 --> 00:47:23.159 their pre program lines that don't sound very human, like 1103 00:47:23.159 --> 00:47:25.559 they sound like they're generated by a computer and all that. 1104 00:47:26.159 --> 00:47:28.559 But yeah, just across the board seeing like the different 1105 00:47:29.000 --> 00:47:32.000 tech and like a company that is competitor Whaling New Tawny, 1106 00:47:32.280 --> 00:47:35.119 but it's clearly not nearly as successful because obviously that's 1107 00:47:35.159 --> 00:47:37.559 like the biggest megacorp ever, right, And so to have 1108 00:47:37.679 --> 00:47:40.119 like a ship that's kind of breaking down in certain 1109 00:47:40.159 --> 00:47:43.039 ways or is not quite as tight and buttoned up 1110 00:47:43.039 --> 00:47:45.760 and polished as a Whaling U Tawny one is a 1111 00:47:45.800 --> 00:47:48.079 really cool direction to go, and I think they completely 1112 00:47:48.159 --> 00:47:49.159 nailed it in that regard. 1113 00:47:49.719 --> 00:47:54.119 Yeah, I always get a kick when Amanda finds out 1114 00:47:54.119 --> 00:47:56.840 that whaling Town actually bought the station, like I think 1115 00:47:56.880 --> 00:47:59.639 the day before she gets there. Yeah, ah, which this 1116 00:47:59.760 --> 00:48:01.559 is the cracks me up. I think that was when 1117 00:48:01.599 --> 00:48:03.880 she was actually speaking not to mother, but the similar 1118 00:48:04.079 --> 00:48:07.599 equivalent scene and she's seeing like the protocol and the 1119 00:48:07.719 --> 00:48:10.599 same thing with Alan Or it's like, oh yeah, everything 1120 00:48:11.079 --> 00:48:14.679 comes second, protect the Zeno, all that kind of stuff. 1121 00:48:14.719 --> 00:48:17.280 Everything else is it's pretty by the book's alien stuff. 1122 00:48:17.280 --> 00:48:19.800 It's really the same story that we've seen many times 1123 00:48:19.840 --> 00:48:21.920 over because of that element of it. 1124 00:48:22.360 --> 00:48:22.719 M hm. 1125 00:48:23.199 --> 00:48:24.920 Yeah, but you know, I think that that was a 1126 00:48:24.960 --> 00:48:27.719 cool twist as well. That Yeah, as you mentioned, like 1127 00:48:27.719 --> 00:48:29.119 the current state of the ship is that it was 1128 00:48:29.159 --> 00:48:32.880 being decommissioned. It was gonna be torn apart, and that's 1129 00:48:32.880 --> 00:48:34.960 where like it kind of explains why there's a lot 1130 00:48:34.960 --> 00:48:38.000 of doors and things that aren't really operational when you're 1131 00:48:38.159 --> 00:48:40.599 playing the game already, and like there's certain sections you 1132 00:48:40.840 --> 00:48:42.519 can't go into. But it makes sense because like, Okay, 1133 00:48:42.519 --> 00:48:45.320 those areas have already been kind of checked off the list, 1134 00:48:45.400 --> 00:48:47.840 so to speak. They've been closed down, they're done, and 1135 00:48:47.840 --> 00:48:51.079 it's kind of just the ship the shuttle kind of 1136 00:48:51.119 --> 00:48:53.920 slowly being shut down piece by piece, and that's kind 1137 00:48:53.920 --> 00:48:56.239 of the state you're in, even if whaling Towny just 1138 00:48:56.280 --> 00:48:58.119 purchased it, but they don't really care about maintaining it 1139 00:48:58.199 --> 00:49:00.000 or bringing it back to its former glory. They're just 1140 00:49:00.079 --> 00:49:04.480 there strictly to get that xenomorph goodness. They just want 1141 00:49:04.480 --> 00:49:06.840 to get that that tech down so they can do 1142 00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:08.480 whatever they want to do with it. So I think 1143 00:49:08.480 --> 00:49:11.000 that's a really cool time period too, and that helps 1144 00:49:11.000 --> 00:49:13.519 them make it feel like a more real place, makes 1145 00:49:13.559 --> 00:49:15.360 it feel more immersive because it kind of has this 1146 00:49:15.519 --> 00:49:19.400 history to it between like these two companies owning it too. 1147 00:49:19.440 --> 00:49:22.159 It's kind of an interesting angle to go for because 1148 00:49:22.159 --> 00:49:26.000 I can't really recall other companies that you see there's 1149 00:49:26.000 --> 00:49:28.119 always like they just refer to it as the company, 1150 00:49:28.199 --> 00:49:30.519 right a lot in the Alien franchise. Yes, so it's 1151 00:49:30.559 --> 00:49:32.840 cool to just, yeah, see what a competitor's like. And yeah, 1152 00:49:32.840 --> 00:49:34.360 what you would you think about the working Joe's You 1153 00:49:34.360 --> 00:49:36.440 had an interesting comment about them earlier, so I'm curious 1154 00:49:36.440 --> 00:49:38.480 what you think about them, just kind of relative to 1155 00:49:38.519 --> 00:49:39.559 the androids were used to. 1156 00:49:40.480 --> 00:49:43.199 Yeah, I mean, I'm glad that they make them look 1157 00:49:43.199 --> 00:49:45.599 the way they are. I think it's it's fitting because 1158 00:49:45.840 --> 00:49:48.320 it helps you because you again, you you're crafting things. 1159 00:49:48.320 --> 00:49:50.519 You have different weaponry, and you need to know the situation. 1160 00:49:50.599 --> 00:49:51.920 You need to know what you have to use and 1161 00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:57.239 what things. In this case, yes, stumpatons are really handy, 1162 00:49:57.360 --> 00:50:01.840 but yeah, there's just there's certain situations where it's really stressful. 1163 00:50:01.880 --> 00:50:04.320 But I don't find them to be as stressful as aliens. 1164 00:50:04.760 --> 00:50:05.199 Uh. 1165 00:50:05.280 --> 00:50:08.559 These things are much more pattern based, so you can 1166 00:50:08.960 --> 00:50:11.760 definitely map yourself out when you're trying to maneuver around them. 1167 00:50:11.800 --> 00:50:12.920 So I can appreciate that. 1168 00:50:16.360 --> 00:50:18.920 Yeah, And I don't think I've had a situation yet 1169 00:50:18.960 --> 00:50:21.559 where like I've had the alien and the synthetics kind 1170 00:50:21.559 --> 00:50:23.199 of meat hand in hand. 1171 00:50:23.320 --> 00:50:23.599 Have you? 1172 00:50:25.079 --> 00:50:27.719 I think the alien ignores them? Mm. 1173 00:50:27.800 --> 00:50:28.039 Hmmm. 1174 00:50:28.320 --> 00:50:30.280 I think they well, I guess they kind of ignore 1175 00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:33.480 each other, so to speak, because at that point, especially yeah, 1176 00:50:33.480 --> 00:50:35.719 when the robots kind of go rogue and they're trying 1177 00:50:35.719 --> 00:50:38.760 to hunt you down and just kill I also can't 1178 00:50:38.760 --> 00:50:43.239 think of a time when a robot is directly trying 1179 00:50:43.280 --> 00:50:45.920 to kill another human. I guess there's at one point 1180 00:50:45.920 --> 00:50:47.400 where like, because. 1181 00:50:47.239 --> 00:50:50.400 What's the character's name, because he, like Samuel s. Yeah, 1182 00:50:50.400 --> 00:50:52.039 he beats the shit out of it, right, the. 1183 00:50:52.039 --> 00:50:55.039 Other androids, so he's but that android isn't even trying 1184 00:50:55.039 --> 00:50:56.440 to kill him, I think, so. I don't know if 1185 00:50:56.440 --> 00:50:58.159 the I don't know, if they're just rope I don't 1186 00:50:58.199 --> 00:51:00.639 I don't know. I'm guessing their program to kill everyone 1187 00:51:00.719 --> 00:51:04.679 or take anyone out, but specifically your character is on 1188 00:51:04.719 --> 00:51:06.639 that list in terms of being a target for them. 1189 00:51:06.639 --> 00:51:10.280 But yeah, I can't recall a room that has both 1190 00:51:10.280 --> 00:51:13.079 the synthetics and the aliens. They're kind of used in 1191 00:51:13.119 --> 00:51:16.039 different sequences, like the robots early on before they go rogue, 1192 00:51:16.039 --> 00:51:18.679 but then kind of before you introduce to the xenomorph, 1193 00:51:18.760 --> 00:51:21.559 and then the biggest sequence when you're going against them 1194 00:51:21.639 --> 00:51:25.559 is in that sequence when you've jettisoned the one Xenomorph 1195 00:51:25.760 --> 00:51:28.599 off the station, which is kind of a weird sequence 1196 00:51:28.599 --> 00:51:30.320 because like, for that next two hours, even though you 1197 00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:33.079 are fighting robots, I've found like there was almost no 1198 00:51:33.199 --> 00:51:34.679 tension in the game at that point, and I was 1199 00:51:34.760 --> 00:51:37.079 just like, Okay, I know he's gonna come back. 1200 00:51:37.360 --> 00:51:38.599 Oh he thought he's gonna come back. 1201 00:51:38.639 --> 00:51:41.559 Oh. I'm like, I know this game is twenty hours long, 1202 00:51:41.639 --> 00:51:43.079 and I know I'm ten hours and i know there's 1203 00:51:43.079 --> 00:51:45.920 a zero chance that I've just defeated the alien, so 1204 00:51:46.079 --> 00:51:47.239 Corys is gonna come back. 1205 00:51:47.599 --> 00:51:47.719 Uh. 1206 00:51:47.800 --> 00:51:49.480 So that's where I just felt like, Okay, I go 1207 00:51:49.559 --> 00:51:52.000 like two hours now of just like mess around finding 1208 00:51:52.000 --> 00:51:53.599 the girl, but which you know, there was some interesting 1209 00:51:53.639 --> 00:51:55.199 stealth kind of challenges there. I think it was a 1210 00:51:55.239 --> 00:51:57.440 bit different in terms of like, Okay, they can have 1211 00:51:57.480 --> 00:52:00.000 more of a they can have more of a cloud 1212 00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:03.239 video game stealth sequence, Like they have a destination, they 1213 00:52:03.239 --> 00:52:06.079 walk from this machine, they stand there for five seconds, 1214 00:52:06.079 --> 00:52:08.559 they turn around, they walk to that machine, and like 1215 00:52:08.599 --> 00:52:10.719 it has those video game paths, you know, the pathing, 1216 00:52:10.760 --> 00:52:13.360 whereas that xenomorph is much more unpredictable with his movements. 1217 00:52:13.599 --> 00:52:16.760 But I found that sequence to be like, Okay, I 1218 00:52:16.800 --> 00:52:18.480 know what we're doing here. I get it, but like this, 1219 00:52:18.679 --> 00:52:21.199 there's no surprise here. There's obviously no chance that the 1220 00:52:21.280 --> 00:52:25.119 Xenymorph's obviously completely gone. I mean that one is gone 1221 00:52:25.159 --> 00:52:26.920 and doesn't come back. But then you just find out 1222 00:52:26.960 --> 00:52:30.440 there are potentially hundreds more line bowl a lot of them. 1223 00:52:30.519 --> 00:52:33.639 Yeah, which I'm sorry, I was just gonna say a 1224 00:52:33.760 --> 00:52:37.960 few missions, like before you jettison him. I don't know 1225 00:52:37.960 --> 00:52:40.480 if many people catch on to it, but you'll start 1226 00:52:40.519 --> 00:52:43.159 to find bodies that are all been like chest bursters. 1227 00:52:43.199 --> 00:52:45.360 Their chests are all popped, and it's like, well, I 1228 00:52:45.440 --> 00:52:46.960 know there's more than one alien here. 1229 00:52:47.000 --> 00:52:49.679 So that kind of derails it from when you eject 1230 00:52:49.679 --> 00:52:52.519 the one to thinking like, okay, well I did it. 1231 00:52:53.760 --> 00:52:57.480 Yeah. But yeah, that's an interesting way that they connect 1232 00:52:57.599 --> 00:53:01.079 this to the original movie. As you mentioned sequence with Marlow. 1233 00:53:01.159 --> 00:53:03.400 Marlow's a guy who came from that. I wish I 1234 00:53:03.440 --> 00:53:04.960 had the name of that other ship. I know, I 1235 00:53:04.960 --> 00:53:07.559 wrote it down somewhere. Oh, the Anissidora. I did write 1236 00:53:07.559 --> 00:53:10.559 it down. That's the other ship that had gone down 1237 00:53:10.639 --> 00:53:13.239 to give me the name of the planet again for 1238 00:53:13.320 --> 00:53:17.679 me fo. Yeah, they went down there because they they 1239 00:53:17.719 --> 00:53:22.000 found the distress signal that was being given off. Marlow 1240 00:53:22.119 --> 00:53:24.400 is the one I believe that turns off the distress signal. 1241 00:53:24.559 --> 00:53:26.400 And as they're going through there, one of the crew 1242 00:53:26.440 --> 00:53:31.079 members of the Nissidora get gets hit by a face hugger, 1243 00:53:31.400 --> 00:53:33.320 and so it's it's, yeah, it's really cool to play 1244 00:53:33.360 --> 00:53:36.280 through that sequence on that planet, and that feels like 1245 00:53:36.320 --> 00:53:38.159 a bit of a retread of like, Okay, we're doing 1246 00:53:38.199 --> 00:53:39.920 a sequence from the first movie, which is funny that 1247 00:53:39.960 --> 00:53:41.960 they did it there in a bit of a different way, 1248 00:53:41.960 --> 00:53:44.000 and then like the DLC is literally just replaying a 1249 00:53:44.039 --> 00:53:46.119 section from that first movie. But I thought that was 1250 00:53:46.159 --> 00:53:49.000 a really really cool sequence other than like, okay, this 1251 00:53:49.079 --> 00:53:51.679 spacesuit whenever you're in this thing, you're so freaking slow 1252 00:53:51.719 --> 00:53:53.920 and it takes a long time, but the atmosphere was 1253 00:53:53.960 --> 00:53:56.239 so strong. They're like really strong gusts of winds you 1254 00:53:56.280 --> 00:53:58.480 can barely see. And then like you'll get to certain 1255 00:53:58.519 --> 00:54:01.400 sequences when it's like sets up like a very interesting 1256 00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:05.039 visual and then you're like going into that into the dungeons, 1257 00:54:05.079 --> 00:54:07.800 so to speak, from the first movie. And so that's 1258 00:54:07.800 --> 00:54:11.159 how the the alien gets brought back to the space station. 1259 00:54:11.239 --> 00:54:12.960 So it's cool that they're kind of following in the 1260 00:54:13.000 --> 00:54:15.679 same footsteps of what is set up from that first movie, 1261 00:54:15.679 --> 00:54:18.159 and maybe that would be like the only explanation of 1262 00:54:18.199 --> 00:54:21.079 how like this alien kind of spread again through this 1263 00:54:21.159 --> 00:54:24.119 space station. So I think that was a really cool 1264 00:54:24.159 --> 00:54:27.360 way to connect it. I think that really worked for me. 1265 00:54:28.079 --> 00:54:31.079 The Anissidora part, the bridge, I guess yeah. 1266 00:54:31.199 --> 00:54:33.159 I everything about that was fantastic. 1267 00:54:33.280 --> 00:54:36.119 I was head over heels and we're going LG four 1268 00:54:36.119 --> 00:54:39.079 twenty six. They're like ship and even just the little 1269 00:54:39.119 --> 00:54:41.079 nods like, oh, it looks like someone was dragged here 1270 00:54:41.320 --> 00:54:44.639 these tracks. Oh, we're not the first ones here. Obviously 1271 00:54:44.719 --> 00:54:46.360 the Nostromo was here. 1272 00:54:46.239 --> 00:54:47.199 But they didn't report. 1273 00:54:47.239 --> 00:54:50.480 It's like, okay, well they wipe the beacon so that 1274 00:54:50.559 --> 00:54:53.599 they can kind of claim it. But then them wiping 1275 00:54:53.639 --> 00:54:55.199 the beacon while no one else is gonna find it, 1276 00:54:55.239 --> 00:54:57.760 and it makes sense they're taking advantage of. 1277 00:54:59.400 --> 00:55:01.679 They're taking advantage. 1278 00:55:00.960 --> 00:55:04.039 Of something that was pre existing in Aliens, where in 1279 00:55:04.039 --> 00:55:06.920 the first Alien movie you have the Nostromo detecting this 1280 00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:09.519 signal and going down there to check it out. But 1281 00:55:09.599 --> 00:55:12.159 in Aliens you have the colonists on the planet. The 1282 00:55:12.199 --> 00:55:14.960 colonists never went to go check out this beacon or 1283 00:55:14.960 --> 00:55:17.199 even go there. They weren't going to that location until 1284 00:55:17.199 --> 00:55:19.320 they were directed there by the company, and that's something 1285 00:55:19.360 --> 00:55:21.440 that's not an adlicient scene that's in the main movie. 1286 00:55:22.360 --> 00:55:24.559 So now it makes sense none of the. 1287 00:55:24.480 --> 00:55:26.599 Colonists knew that it was there because you have this 1288 00:55:26.719 --> 00:55:30.039 crew going in and they deactivated the beacon. So it's 1289 00:55:30.079 --> 00:55:32.599 fun that they've been able to actually build upon that 1290 00:55:33.159 --> 00:55:36.199 pre established lore with this universe. 1291 00:55:36.280 --> 00:55:37.119 I could appreciate that. 1292 00:55:37.639 --> 00:55:41.559 But yeah, once you are going down that repel and 1293 00:55:41.599 --> 00:55:44.039 you just get that like panoramic shot, it's like. 1294 00:55:44.159 --> 00:55:47.480 Holy crap, and it looks so cool. 1295 00:55:47.519 --> 00:55:50.159 But yeah, you see your team just like walking in 1296 00:55:50.199 --> 00:55:52.679 through the eggs and it's just like, oh god, and yeah, 1297 00:55:52.679 --> 00:55:57.199 there's just that classic like id idiot mentality. The egg 1298 00:55:57.239 --> 00:55:59.239 opens up and they're like sticking their heads right in 1299 00:55:59.320 --> 00:56:00.960 there pretty much like jeez. 1300 00:56:01.960 --> 00:56:04.360 Yeah, especially when they know that like something bad happened 1301 00:56:04.400 --> 00:56:08.960 here already or something unsure, something serious. Yeah, Marlow. Marlow's 1302 00:56:08.960 --> 00:56:13.400 an interesting character him, along with everyone else, Like no 1303 00:56:13.400 --> 00:56:15.480 one's really in this game a lot other than like 1304 00:56:15.519 --> 00:56:18.119 obviously the character you play as. It's just like you'll 1305 00:56:18.119 --> 00:56:20.280 get introduced to character, like you know, you have your 1306 00:56:20.440 --> 00:56:22.599 team at the start of the game, and then you 1307 00:56:22.760 --> 00:56:25.079 very quickly get displaced from them, and then you'll find 1308 00:56:25.119 --> 00:56:26.840 them again, but then it's like, Okay, I gotta go 1309 00:56:27.360 --> 00:56:29.480 do the next task, so I leave them behind, and 1310 00:56:29.519 --> 00:56:31.639 so you end up spending like, I don't know, less 1311 00:56:31.639 --> 00:56:33.920 than a half an hour with them across the whole game. 1312 00:56:33.920 --> 00:56:35.440 It feels like they don't have a whole lot of 1313 00:56:35.440 --> 00:56:38.440 spoken lines, especially when the girl that you're with, Taylor 1314 00:56:39.000 --> 00:56:40.760 is like knocked out for half the game do is 1315 00:56:40.800 --> 00:56:42.960 You don't really get to interact with her a whole lot. 1316 00:56:43.079 --> 00:56:44.960 But Marlowe, I think it's it's cool. It's fun that 1317 00:56:45.039 --> 00:56:49.000 he is trying his hardest to prevent the spread of 1318 00:56:49.000 --> 00:56:52.880 this thing, and from waylay Newtani getting any of that information. 1319 00:56:52.559 --> 00:56:54.199 He's got the Allen Ripley mentality. 1320 00:56:54.480 --> 00:56:58.440 Yeah, absolutely, I do think that. Like his ending sequence 1321 00:56:58.840 --> 00:57:01.239 where he's like, oh, they already took my wife. I 1322 00:57:01.280 --> 00:57:03.360 don't care. It's like a bit of like, Okay, you're 1323 00:57:03.360 --> 00:57:05.119 just trying to get me to like care for this 1324 00:57:05.159 --> 00:57:06.559 guy a little bit more than he gets knocked out, 1325 00:57:06.599 --> 00:57:08.840 and that's like the end of his story. It doesn't 1326 00:57:08.840 --> 00:57:10.920 really stick to landing, but Honestly, I don't think there's 1327 00:57:10.960 --> 00:57:14.280 really any characters that are very successful in this game 1328 00:57:14.280 --> 00:57:18.679 for me, even like Amanda, like there's not much to her. 1329 00:57:18.679 --> 00:57:20.679 It's nice when she gets the moment where she actually 1330 00:57:20.679 --> 00:57:22.519 gets to hear the message from her mom, but I'm 1331 00:57:22.559 --> 00:57:25.599 not totally in love with that character after playing this game. 1332 00:57:25.719 --> 00:57:27.960 She doesn't really have a ton of voice acting, even 1333 00:57:28.000 --> 00:57:31.280 though she is the protagonist of the game. Like most 1334 00:57:31.280 --> 00:57:32.679 of the time, it's like maybe she's talking on a 1335 00:57:32.760 --> 00:57:35.239 radio with someone, but even then that's like very few 1336 00:57:35.360 --> 00:57:37.480 sections of the game where you're actually patched in with 1337 00:57:37.519 --> 00:57:39.800 someone over the radio, or maybe you are, but they're 1338 00:57:39.800 --> 00:57:42.800 not like actively having conversations. It's more just like, Okay, 1339 00:57:42.840 --> 00:57:44.960 Samuel's where it are? I go, now, oh, there should 1340 00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:46.760 be a red button with like a blue wire. You 1341 00:57:46.800 --> 00:57:49.519 gonna touch that, And it's like very like factual, like 1342 00:57:49.559 --> 00:57:52.039 here's what we're gonna do here. But yeah, what did 1343 00:57:52.079 --> 00:57:54.920 you think about the other characters? You have Samuels and Taylor, 1344 00:57:54.920 --> 00:57:56.280 who are the two that you go on the ship with. 1345 00:57:56.320 --> 00:57:59.599 Samuel's being the android. I forget what Taylor's role is 1346 00:58:00.079 --> 00:58:05.000 a medical person. I don't think maybe she is because 1347 00:58:05.000 --> 00:58:06.639 I remember she gets like injured, and then it's like. 1348 00:58:07.079 --> 00:58:09.599 You gotta go go find the Yeah, you gotta. 1349 00:58:09.360 --> 00:58:12.559 Go find forget what her role was on the on 1350 00:58:12.599 --> 00:58:14.559 the ship, and then you're counting a couple other people. 1351 00:58:14.639 --> 00:58:18.039 But I don't know, there was no really powerful characters 1352 00:58:18.039 --> 00:58:18.599 in here for me. 1353 00:58:19.440 --> 00:58:20.360 No, Yeah, I don't. 1354 00:58:20.159 --> 00:58:24.840 Remember much with with Taylor aside from her her and 1355 00:58:24.960 --> 00:58:28.320 Marlowe and then Taylor like freaking out and trying to 1356 00:58:28.400 --> 00:58:31.719 like stop Marlow's self destruction thing going on, and then 1357 00:58:31.760 --> 00:58:33.719 she just gets struck by lightning bolt and that's the 1358 00:58:33.760 --> 00:58:37.599 game over for her. Uh So they they kind of 1359 00:58:38.079 --> 00:58:40.760 execute them pretty quickly. I can't remember the name of 1360 00:58:40.800 --> 00:58:45.800 the other woman who's she's near the end, she gets killed. 1361 00:58:45.840 --> 00:58:48.000 She's helping you. She's like on the ship and she's 1362 00:58:48.000 --> 00:58:51.039 coordinating with you to open up the bridge whatever it is. 1363 00:58:51.199 --> 00:58:53.400 Yeah, she getting riled off screen by the Zeno. 1364 00:58:54.639 --> 00:58:57.960 Similar thing happens to Ricardo, who's another guy who you 1365 00:58:58.079 --> 00:58:59.840 kind of encounter when you kind of get like a 1366 00:58:59.840 --> 00:59:02.760 part already together. Halfway through the game, when you've reconnected 1367 00:59:02.800 --> 00:59:05.320 with Samuels and Taylor, she's still knocked out, but you've 1368 00:59:05.320 --> 00:59:08.159 connected with like I think one of the security officers, 1369 00:59:08.440 --> 00:59:11.079 and then there's other martial seas, yeah, the Marshall. There's 1370 00:59:11.079 --> 00:59:12.920 other random NPCs there, and one of them is Ricardo, 1371 00:59:12.960 --> 00:59:15.280 who's like kind of just a random guy. But then 1372 00:59:15.320 --> 00:59:17.679 like later on in the game, everyone's killed except for him, 1373 00:59:17.800 --> 00:59:19.719 or they're gone. Well they are killed, you just don't 1374 00:59:19.760 --> 00:59:22.440 really know specifically. Some of them you do know. And 1375 00:59:22.480 --> 00:59:24.239 then he's on the radio with you a lot, helping 1376 00:59:24.280 --> 00:59:27.119 you through different sequences. And then he also gets killed 1377 00:59:27.159 --> 00:59:30.480 off screen two by a face hugger takes him out 1378 00:59:30.480 --> 00:59:32.639 at some point too, So I don't know. I didn't 1379 00:59:32.639 --> 00:59:36.159 really care who, like any particular person was taken out, 1380 00:59:36.159 --> 00:59:37.880 with the exception of maybe Samuel's. I think he was 1381 00:59:37.880 --> 00:59:41.079 the most interesting. He probably had the most dialogue too. 1382 00:59:41.599 --> 00:59:43.360 I like the idea of what he was doing there too, 1383 00:59:43.440 --> 00:59:46.480 of how he was trying to alter something because obviously 1384 00:59:46.480 --> 00:59:48.159 he's an andro He's trying to go into some machine 1385 00:59:48.440 --> 00:59:51.000 and like alter his something or rather I don't know 1386 00:59:51.000 --> 00:59:52.519 what the science is behind it, so that he could 1387 00:59:52.519 --> 00:59:55.320 communicate with Apollo, who is the core of the ship 1388 00:59:55.360 --> 00:59:57.639 that runs the system, and therefore could kind of deactivate 1389 00:59:57.639 --> 01:00:00.880 the working Joe's from their aggressive state that they're in, 1390 01:00:01.079 --> 01:00:02.800 but then he was when he was in that machine, 1391 01:00:03.239 --> 01:00:05.000 it just did not work at all, and I'm just 1392 01:00:05.119 --> 01:00:07.719 killing him right then and there. So he had a 1393 01:00:07.800 --> 01:00:09.639 very unfortunate death as well. But I think he was 1394 01:00:09.679 --> 01:00:12.639 probably the most I don't know, top dog, I guess, 1395 01:00:12.639 --> 01:00:14.719 most interesting character out of the rest of the crew. 1396 01:00:15.039 --> 01:00:18.159 It's got an alien resurrection vibe sort of when you 1397 01:00:18.280 --> 01:00:23.800 have oh, why can't remember her name? Wenona's character thank you, Yes, 1398 01:00:23.920 --> 01:00:27.280 that's synthetic, and she basically connected to the ship and 1399 01:00:27.440 --> 01:00:30.519 was able to have the ship like change its algorithms, 1400 01:00:30.599 --> 01:00:33.320 like change up like locked doors, trap the guy, and 1401 01:00:33.360 --> 01:00:36.239 then all that kind of stuff, which her case is 1402 01:00:36.320 --> 01:00:37.840 much more successful than than his. 1403 01:00:39.119 --> 01:00:42.119 Yeah, I thought that was an interesting part. When you 1404 01:00:42.480 --> 01:00:44.239 one of the missions in the game, you're going down 1405 01:00:44.280 --> 01:00:48.440 to the the Apollo Core, which is like the brain 1406 01:00:48.559 --> 01:00:51.760 of the space station, and just compared to like I'm 1407 01:00:51.760 --> 01:00:54.320 sure within like one of those space ships that were 1408 01:00:54.320 --> 01:00:56.440 in and like one of the movies, that core is, 1409 01:00:56.519 --> 01:00:59.280 you know, it's pretty small room to get the job done, 1410 01:00:59.480 --> 01:01:01.360 but here it's like this huge thing and it like 1411 01:01:01.480 --> 01:01:04.480 wobbles around and it's like all these layers of security, 1412 01:01:04.840 --> 01:01:06.880 which makes sense because it's such a huge space station, 1413 01:01:07.199 --> 01:01:09.039 and that's where some of those reveals happen. I believe 1414 01:01:09.039 --> 01:01:11.920 that's when the wailing U tawnis well, there's there's terminals 1415 01:01:11.920 --> 01:01:14.119 that will say like, oh, whaling new Tony bought the ship. 1416 01:01:14.159 --> 01:01:16.119 People are talking about it. But that's when you get 1417 01:01:16.119 --> 01:01:18.519 to you know, punch in your questions whatever. I mean, 1418 01:01:18.559 --> 01:01:20.519 it's a cut scene, but still that's when you're finding 1419 01:01:20.519 --> 01:01:22.800 out more and you get some of those plot twists 1420 01:01:22.880 --> 01:01:25.320 kind of happening there too, when you're trying to deactivate 1421 01:01:25.360 --> 01:01:27.440 the work in Joe's which of course you don't end 1422 01:01:27.519 --> 01:01:29.760 up doing there too. So that was a that was 1423 01:01:29.800 --> 01:01:35.320 an interesting sequence as well. Yeah, let's see other story stuff. 1424 01:01:35.599 --> 01:01:37.559 So I guess you mentioned this too, where Yeah, at 1425 01:01:37.559 --> 01:01:40.480 some point on the Nissidora, on that ship, that one 1426 01:01:40.559 --> 01:01:43.559 lady got face hugged, got impregnated, and then she comes 1427 01:01:43.599 --> 01:01:46.000 back to the ship. Presumably that from there is what 1428 01:01:46.199 --> 01:01:50.360 spreads to everyone else on Sevastopol. And as you were 1429 01:01:50.360 --> 01:01:52.679 talking about, eventually you go down to that sequence. I 1430 01:01:52.679 --> 01:01:54.960 think it's right after the Apollo sequence. Actually, good timing 1431 01:01:54.960 --> 01:01:58.039 on that when you go beneath Apollo down that big 1432 01:01:58.119 --> 01:02:00.880 ladder and that's when you see, oh, there is a 1433 01:02:01.000 --> 01:02:05.119 huge encampment of your alien eggs everywhere. The walls are 1434 01:02:05.159 --> 01:02:07.719 all filled out with the nasty goose stuff, and as 1435 01:02:07.719 --> 01:02:09.679 you mentioned, you never actually see the queen, but we 1436 01:02:09.719 --> 01:02:12.239 have to assume there is a queen somewhere on this 1437 01:02:13.159 --> 01:02:19.159 space station. That sequence is really difficult, really freaky as well. 1438 01:02:19.199 --> 01:02:22.480 Every corner, every sound, your motion tracker is near useless 1439 01:02:22.480 --> 01:02:25.480 because it's just given you random pings all over the place. 1440 01:02:25.519 --> 01:02:28.039 There's people like you know, glued into the walls, and 1441 01:02:28.079 --> 01:02:30.079 you can still loot them, which I find a bit dark. 1442 01:02:30.119 --> 01:02:32.280 You could be like, oh, I'll take that revolver amm' 1443 01:02:32.360 --> 01:02:35.360 off this guy's corpse who's stuck to the wall here. Yeah, 1444 01:02:35.360 --> 01:02:37.840 that sequence is really hard because that's also when you're, 1445 01:02:38.239 --> 01:02:40.800 i think the first time you're encountering multiple xenomorphs at 1446 01:02:40.840 --> 01:02:43.440 the same time. On top of that, there's face huggers 1447 01:02:43.440 --> 01:02:45.039 in there, and you have to do a lot of stuff. 1448 01:02:45.039 --> 01:02:46.559 You got to hit a lot of computers, hit a 1449 01:02:46.599 --> 01:02:49.039 lot of switches, so you have tasks on top of 1450 01:02:49.239 --> 01:02:51.880 just trying to evade these things. So I found that 1451 01:02:51.880 --> 01:02:54.760 sequence to be really difficult, but it was also of 1452 01:02:54.800 --> 01:02:58.159 course really cool because it's just something different, and it's 1453 01:02:58.239 --> 01:03:00.239 it's I guess I hadn't really thought about it too 1454 01:03:00.280 --> 01:03:04.000 much because to that point, I assume you're fighting multiple xenomorphs, 1455 01:03:04.239 --> 01:03:06.480 but it could be that it's just one xenomorph on 1456 01:03:06.519 --> 01:03:07.199 the ship. Right. 1457 01:03:07.760 --> 01:03:08.519 Oh totally. 1458 01:03:08.760 --> 01:03:10.440 Yeah, it kind of tricks to you. I think it's 1459 01:03:10.440 --> 01:03:12.239 a it's a really really good sequence. 1460 01:03:13.119 --> 01:03:16.800 Yeah, this when you see all the eggs and you 1461 01:03:16.840 --> 01:03:19.000 have to think, okay, so. 1462 01:03:19.000 --> 01:03:19.960 What is the set up here? 1463 01:03:20.039 --> 01:03:23.559 Now? Some people have hypothesized that maybe they're just pulling 1464 01:03:23.599 --> 01:03:25.639 off remember the deleted scene in the first Alien where 1465 01:03:25.800 --> 01:03:27.760 z you know, takes the body, turns the body into 1466 01:03:27.760 --> 01:03:30.480 an egg, and then the egg right face huger. People 1467 01:03:30.519 --> 01:03:32.719 have thought maybe that's the case, and then other people 1468 01:03:32.760 --> 01:03:33.320 are thinking no. 1469 01:03:33.920 --> 01:03:35.519 I think the majority of people. 1470 01:03:35.559 --> 01:03:37.280 Believe that it was a queen, And there might even 1471 01:03:37.280 --> 01:03:39.360 been some talk about that from the devs where they 1472 01:03:39.360 --> 01:03:41.159 didn't want to include a queen and make it feel 1473 01:03:41.159 --> 01:03:43.360 like there's going to be a boss fight, but the 1474 01:03:43.559 --> 01:03:47.360 notion of there being a queen, it is a queen 1475 01:03:47.400 --> 01:03:48.360 somewhere on the station. 1476 01:03:50.079 --> 01:03:52.239 Yeah, I can I can respect they're kind of holding 1477 01:03:52.280 --> 01:03:56.360 back there and not not hitting like every trope or 1478 01:03:56.400 --> 01:03:58.880 everything that's been done before in an alien movie, and 1479 01:03:58.960 --> 01:04:01.480 I guess just like not doing that thing isn't isn't 1480 01:04:01.480 --> 01:04:04.199 a whole lot different. But I don't know. For me, 1481 01:04:04.239 --> 01:04:06.719 it's like totally fine, like just because of how it's established, 1482 01:04:06.760 --> 01:04:08.639 how big this space station is, right if it was 1483 01:04:08.679 --> 01:04:11.639 once again a space ship from one of the movies 1484 01:04:11.880 --> 01:04:13.760 where it's like, I don't know, even the Prometheus ship, 1485 01:04:14.159 --> 01:04:16.880 pretty freaking huge ship, you know, But I would I 1486 01:04:16.960 --> 01:04:19.039 still I don't think i'd believe that if you played 1487 01:04:19.119 --> 01:04:20.960 through a Prometheus game and you were just on this 1488 01:04:21.000 --> 01:04:23.559 one ship the whole time, that you wouldn't bump into 1489 01:04:23.599 --> 01:04:25.280 the queen at some point just because of the size 1490 01:04:25.320 --> 01:04:26.920 of it. But based on how big this thing is, 1491 01:04:27.079 --> 01:04:28.320 I guess you could say too, like you spend a 1492 01:04:28.360 --> 01:04:30.360 lot of time down in that reactor core area, and 1493 01:04:30.400 --> 01:04:33.400 that's presumably where the queen would be, so maybe you 1494 01:04:33.400 --> 01:04:36.480 should should bump into her because you did. I don't 1495 01:04:36.519 --> 01:04:38.599 know you were in that sequence of it, but I 1496 01:04:38.599 --> 01:04:41.559 don't know. I guess I guess I would subscribe to 1497 01:04:41.599 --> 01:04:43.119 the theory that there is a queen somewhere and you 1498 01:04:43.199 --> 01:04:46.280 just don't see her. But that is another good interesting 1499 01:04:46.320 --> 01:04:49.960 theory too. But I guess is there any any other 1500 01:04:50.000 --> 01:04:55.000 alien material that Leada's believed that that's possible, because that is, 1501 01:04:55.039 --> 01:04:56.800 of course, as you mentioned, like a deleted scene from 1502 01:04:56.800 --> 01:04:57.360 the first one. 1503 01:04:58.320 --> 01:05:00.280 Yes, what do you believe true? 1504 01:05:00.280 --> 01:05:02.280 Do you believe that's possible without a queen for these 1505 01:05:02.320 --> 01:05:06.800 things to spread to that you know, vast amount of numbers. 1506 01:05:07.280 --> 01:05:10.280 My last note on the queen. Some people have said that. 1507 01:05:11.599 --> 01:05:15.840 When you are overloading the cores on the hive that 1508 01:05:15.920 --> 01:05:20.159 you can actually hear queen sounds, just audio cues of 1509 01:05:20.199 --> 01:05:22.760 like queen screeches, which a queen does have a very 1510 01:05:22.800 --> 01:05:28.400 significant and like recognizable tone. So it's up to interpretation. 1511 01:05:28.679 --> 01:05:31.880 But now if you're talking about other ways that we 1512 01:05:31.880 --> 01:05:36.519 can get a queen on here, if we're not going 1513 01:05:36.559 --> 01:05:40.719 the pread alien route, the highbred and we're talking just alien. 1514 01:05:41.119 --> 01:05:44.519 In the twenty ten Alien versus Preader game, there was 1515 01:05:44.639 --> 01:05:48.440 a xenomorph that you know, classic just chess burster, regular alien, 1516 01:05:49.159 --> 01:05:53.840 and the queen was eliminated. And so the Hive always 1517 01:05:53.840 --> 01:05:56.800 needs a queen, you know, the Dutchman must have a 1518 01:05:56.840 --> 01:06:02.360 captain kind of thing. So the Ali whilan Utani captures 1519 01:06:02.360 --> 01:06:04.519 the alien because the alien was running around is the 1520 01:06:04.519 --> 01:06:06.800 alien's name was six and then it starts to trip 1521 01:06:06.800 --> 01:06:08.719 out when the queen dies, and it starts to like 1522 01:06:09.320 --> 01:06:11.920 seize up on the ground, and so Wini captures it, 1523 01:06:12.360 --> 01:06:15.480 and then this is the alien entering its next life 1524 01:06:15.480 --> 01:06:17.519 cycle stage to become a new queen. 1525 01:06:17.760 --> 01:06:19.559 And Okay, yeah that makes sense. 1526 01:06:19.960 --> 01:06:25.039 Yeah, so there's many bees do as well. 1527 01:06:25.079 --> 01:06:27.320 But I'm just totally made it up. But I feel 1528 01:06:27.320 --> 01:06:28.159 like that's what they would do. 1529 01:06:28.280 --> 01:06:31.400 Yeah, I don't think that's the case. If the queen dies, 1530 01:06:31.480 --> 01:06:34.480 then I think the bees follow suit surely after. I 1531 01:06:34.519 --> 01:06:37.960 think that the bean, the bean the queen bee lays 1532 01:06:38.119 --> 01:06:44.039 a specific replacement, and I think sometimes they can even 1533 01:06:44.079 --> 01:06:46.000 like fight each other for dominance too. 1534 01:06:46.079 --> 01:06:47.480 That's a whole other can of worm. 1535 01:06:47.519 --> 01:06:49.880 It's like, yeah, it's different anatomy on Like it's not 1536 01:06:50.000 --> 01:06:52.599 just like one gets a crown on its head and 1537 01:06:52.639 --> 01:06:55.920 it's declared queen, like it has different capabilities, right, So, 1538 01:06:55.920 --> 01:06:59.280 but that would make sense because considering how quickly these 1539 01:06:59.280 --> 01:07:02.079 things go from like a chessburster to a full grown xenomorph, 1540 01:07:02.159 --> 01:07:05.280 Like they grow quickly, and you know a lot of 1541 01:07:05.280 --> 01:07:09.000 the time, like when they're killing people that we see 1542 01:07:09.000 --> 01:07:10.679 in the movies. It's not like they're eating all that 1543 01:07:10.960 --> 01:07:13.199 people to get like matter in their bodies. They have 1544 01:07:13.360 --> 01:07:16.280 stuff to grow from, like nutrients, Like they're just killing 1545 01:07:16.320 --> 01:07:19.599 people because they want to more so, and they can 1546 01:07:19.639 --> 01:07:21.760 just naturally grow on their own. So it wouldn't surprise 1547 01:07:21.800 --> 01:07:23.400 me if one, if one can go from the face 1548 01:07:23.480 --> 01:07:26.159 hugger size to a xenomorph size, and like, I don't know, 1549 01:07:26.360 --> 01:07:29.159 a few hours, it wouldn't surprise me that in a 1550 01:07:29.199 --> 01:07:32.000 few hours or I don't know, a couple of days, 1551 01:07:32.039 --> 01:07:35.239 even which timeline would work here for the Sebastopol stuff 1552 01:07:35.480 --> 01:07:37.360 to go from like a regular xenomorph size to a 1553 01:07:37.400 --> 01:07:38.119 queen size. 1554 01:07:39.679 --> 01:07:43.000 There's again, there's so many of the books I haven't read, 1555 01:07:43.440 --> 01:07:46.320 and we haven't seen Preatorian aliens any of the live 1556 01:07:46.400 --> 01:07:48.880 action at least to my knowledge, but they've been featured 1557 01:07:48.920 --> 01:07:53.239 in yeah, Alien Versus Predator twenty ten and then Aliens 1558 01:07:53.280 --> 01:07:58.400 Colonial Marines. I think Fireteam Elite as well. So there's 1559 01:07:58.440 --> 01:08:00.400 a type of alien that's existed for a while. They're 1560 01:08:00.440 --> 01:08:03.920 like the royal guards of of the aliens, and so 1561 01:08:04.519 --> 01:08:07.960 I think the kind of thought is that some xenomorphs 1562 01:08:08.039 --> 01:08:10.519 that are born are part of a caste system, so 1563 01:08:10.559 --> 01:08:13.960 they have that DNA pre entered in them for them 1564 01:08:14.000 --> 01:08:17.640 to become like the Queen or evolve into like the next. 1565 01:08:17.760 --> 01:08:20.560 Any moment, they can just flip that switch essentially. 1566 01:08:20.600 --> 01:08:25.159 I guess, so yeah, when when needed. Yeah, mhmm. 1567 01:08:25.720 --> 01:08:31.520 Interesting. Let's see, I'm trying to think about other story 1568 01:08:31.560 --> 01:08:34.680 stuff that happens here, so I guess, go ahead, you 1569 01:08:34.760 --> 01:08:35.279 have something I was just. 1570 01:08:35.279 --> 01:08:37.800 Gonna say, Like, it freaked me out when Amanda got 1571 01:08:37.840 --> 01:08:40.359 like strung up onto like the Zeno wall. I thought like, oh, 1572 01:08:40.479 --> 01:08:42.399 she impregnated, Like, that's not where you want to be. 1573 01:08:42.439 --> 01:08:44.159 You don't want to be unconscious and wake up in 1574 01:08:44.199 --> 01:08:45.359 the wall because. 1575 01:08:45.000 --> 01:08:50.479 It's, yeah, that's surrounded by eggs and creepy noises and stuff. 1576 01:08:50.920 --> 01:08:51.520 Yeah. 1577 01:08:52.079 --> 01:08:54.880 So yeah, jumping kind of towards the end. Well, actually, 1578 01:08:54.920 --> 01:08:56.239 one more thing since we were just talking about like 1579 01:08:56.279 --> 01:08:58.439 the reactor core in that area. I think that is 1580 01:08:58.680 --> 01:09:02.840 visually one of the most fascinating areas in here because 1581 01:09:02.840 --> 01:09:04.439 you go down to the reactor courts, like you have 1582 01:09:04.479 --> 01:09:06.000 to go down and down and down through all these 1583 01:09:06.039 --> 01:09:09.159 different levels and then it's just like this huge empty 1584 01:09:09.239 --> 01:09:12.640 space where it's not outside but it feels like it. 1585 01:09:13.439 --> 01:09:15.439 Obviously you can like breathe down there. So it's obviously 1586 01:09:15.479 --> 01:09:18.319 inside and has it an atmosphere of some sort, but 1587 01:09:18.359 --> 01:09:21.920 it's like these huge electric machines and you yeah, like 1588 01:09:21.960 --> 01:09:23.479 I said, it's so big you can't see the walls 1589 01:09:23.600 --> 01:09:27.199 or anything, and it's just these massive, like electric explosions happening, 1590 01:09:27.199 --> 01:09:29.720 and that's like how it is supposed to function. And 1591 01:09:29.840 --> 01:09:31.600 it's like raining in there, so it has like its 1592 01:09:31.640 --> 01:09:35.840 own atmosphere and that's like somehow the power system for 1593 01:09:35.880 --> 01:09:39.399 the whole ship. I don't understand it, but it's so cool, 1594 01:09:39.560 --> 01:09:42.560 and like that area was just so there's just an 1595 01:09:42.600 --> 01:09:46.720 epicness table a scale that I found really impressive, and yeah, 1596 01:09:46.760 --> 01:09:48.560 it was. It was terrifying in its own right. And 1597 01:09:48.560 --> 01:09:50.720 of course you can't like walk through there without just 1598 01:09:50.720 --> 01:09:52.920 having to fight one hundred working Joe's at the same time, 1599 01:09:53.039 --> 01:09:56.000 so that adds to it. But that that area is 1600 01:09:56.119 --> 01:09:57.680 really cool. I like that area. 1601 01:09:58.279 --> 01:10:01.079 Raining inside ships is such a neat thing and it's 1602 01:10:01.119 --> 01:10:02.840 so weird to think about, because they even had that 1603 01:10:02.880 --> 01:10:05.119 in the first Alien movie. Account his name, but he's 1604 01:10:05.199 --> 01:10:07.560 like walk around trying to find the cat and he 1605 01:10:07.640 --> 01:10:10.000 takes his hat off because it's like raining in this 1606 01:10:10.079 --> 01:10:11.079 one part of the ship. 1607 01:10:11.920 --> 01:10:14.319 It's it's interesting, it's weird but cool. 1608 01:10:14.600 --> 01:10:18.640 Yeah, so yeah, jumping more towards the end of it. 1609 01:10:18.680 --> 01:10:21.479 Then obviously you're fighting all sorts of aliens znomorphs. At 1610 01:10:21.479 --> 01:10:26.000 this point, everyone's everyone's dead, I guess is safe to say. 1611 01:10:26.039 --> 01:10:28.560 I'm trying to think of any human being survives in 1612 01:10:28.600 --> 01:10:29.680 this game that we don't. 1613 01:10:29.479 --> 01:10:32.399 Think so, I mean, the ship alone is destroyed and 1614 01:10:32.520 --> 01:10:33.680 I think everyone with it. 1615 01:10:33.880 --> 01:10:38.239 Yeah, so your last task is to go fix up 1616 01:10:38.279 --> 01:10:43.359 these satellites, adjust these satellites and whatnot in order to 1617 01:10:43.399 --> 01:10:47.680 build to escape the ship. And you're outside the ship 1618 01:10:47.840 --> 01:10:51.560 and these aliens come after you, you get knocked aboard, 1619 01:10:51.560 --> 01:10:53.279 and then I guess, and then you go back into 1620 01:10:53.319 --> 01:10:54.640 the ship at some point that's when everything is like 1621 01:10:54.680 --> 01:10:57.479 self destructing because you've activated that that function of the ship. 1622 01:10:57.520 --> 01:10:59.239 And then it's about a kind of a race to 1623 01:10:59.239 --> 01:11:02.800 get to the I guess not the escape pod, but 1624 01:11:02.840 --> 01:11:05.159 trying to get to that area where you can escape 1625 01:11:05.199 --> 01:11:06.760 with that lady and the other ship that I can't 1626 01:11:06.760 --> 01:11:08.279 remember the name of at the end of it. There 1627 01:11:09.199 --> 01:11:11.439 and then yeah, like the Vinyl cut scene in this 1628 01:11:11.520 --> 01:11:15.039 game is a kind of cliffhangary thing where x anymore's 1629 01:11:15.079 --> 01:11:18.159 got you dead to rights. You're doing like a QuickTime sequence, 1630 01:11:18.239 --> 01:11:21.279 or you're hitting different buttons left, right, back, you hit 1631 01:11:21.279 --> 01:11:23.840 this thing, you escape out. You have your space ship 1632 01:11:24.119 --> 01:11:25.800 or your space suit still on, so you can breathe 1633 01:11:25.800 --> 01:11:29.640 out in the void. Of course, presumably all the Aliens 1634 01:11:29.680 --> 01:11:32.359 die on the ship as it explodes on the space station. 1635 01:11:32.840 --> 01:11:35.760 And then like the post credit kind of thing, or 1636 01:11:35.760 --> 01:11:37.399 the pre credit whatever you want to call a mid 1637 01:11:37.439 --> 01:11:41.159 credit situation, is like she's opening her eyes very slowly 1638 01:11:41.239 --> 01:11:43.439 and then like a light comes by, presumably a ship 1639 01:11:43.439 --> 01:11:45.560 that's coming to scoop her up. So I don't know. 1640 01:11:45.600 --> 01:11:47.399 It's a bit of like sequel bait stuff, But what 1641 01:11:47.439 --> 01:11:49.279 do you what do you take cap and considering that 1642 01:11:49.319 --> 01:11:52.279 we don't have a follow up, a sequel to this yet, 1643 01:11:52.279 --> 01:11:54.880 and we don't I guess, I don't know. I'm assuming 1644 01:11:54.920 --> 01:11:59.399 another game doesn't address what happened to Amanda Ripley, So 1645 01:11:59.439 --> 01:12:01.319 what do you do you take this to me? And 1646 01:12:01.359 --> 01:12:03.359 do you think she gets saved by someone at the 1647 01:12:03.439 --> 01:12:05.760 end here or is just she just seen some other 1648 01:12:05.880 --> 01:12:06.439 random light. 1649 01:12:07.079 --> 01:12:09.600 The only thing I can head Canada as is the 1650 01:12:09.640 --> 01:12:14.119 Aliens deleted scene where Burke shows a photo to el 1651 01:12:14.159 --> 01:12:16.119 at Ripley and says, yeah, she died as. 1652 01:12:16.079 --> 01:12:16.800 An old lady. 1653 01:12:16.960 --> 01:12:19.720 YadA, YadA, YadA, right, and that sets last we ever 1654 01:12:19.720 --> 01:12:24.279 heard of this character. I would love to see some 1655 01:12:24.560 --> 01:12:27.520 other game released for this. Maybe there's a comic book, 1656 01:12:27.520 --> 01:12:29.800 Maybe there's actually a novel in regards to this. I 1657 01:12:29.880 --> 01:12:33.239 am not aware of that, but I would love to 1658 01:12:33.239 --> 01:12:34.880 see a follow up. I'm imagining it's a wail Andy 1659 01:12:34.960 --> 01:12:37.560 Taani that's finally arrived. They bought the station and they 1660 01:12:37.560 --> 01:12:39.479 wanted to get there and see what's going on at 1661 01:12:39.479 --> 01:12:42.159 their greedy little fingers on the Zenos. They probably just 1662 01:12:42.239 --> 01:12:45.560 arrived to see their prize get just blown up and 1663 01:12:45.600 --> 01:12:48.840 find this one lone person floating in space. So that's 1664 01:12:48.920 --> 01:12:49.760 kind of what I'm thinking. 1665 01:12:50.479 --> 01:12:54.760 Yeah, that sounds about right to me. I'm trying to 1666 01:12:54.760 --> 01:12:56.840 see what else here I have in my notes. One 1667 01:12:56.880 --> 01:13:00.439 thing that I I thought it was a really interesting 1668 01:13:00.479 --> 01:13:02.119 early on, but then it was one of those mechanics that, 1669 01:13:02.159 --> 01:13:04.680 as I mentioned, that didn't really seem to go anywhere. 1670 01:13:04.800 --> 01:13:07.680 Is the idea of like other NPCs in this game, 1671 01:13:07.760 --> 01:13:11.119 other human characters. We're just talking about the like story 1672 01:13:11.279 --> 01:13:13.319 relevant ones. And there's actually another guy earlier on. I 1673 01:13:13.399 --> 01:13:15.520 can't remember his name. Just how long this game is 1674 01:13:15.560 --> 01:13:17.640 that Like I kind of forgot about this earlier sequence 1675 01:13:17.680 --> 01:13:20.000 where some guys finds you kind of early on and 1676 01:13:20.039 --> 01:13:22.800 you're working with him for like a mission or two. Uh, 1677 01:13:22.920 --> 01:13:25.800 and then he eventually gets killed. But I totally forget 1678 01:13:25.840 --> 01:13:27.520 the name, but he was in an earlier sequence there. 1679 01:13:28.560 --> 01:13:29.880 But yeah, this is something that was like a part 1680 01:13:29.920 --> 01:13:31.840 of a tool tip earlier on and then just mentioned 1681 01:13:31.840 --> 01:13:35.560 at some point. Is like you'll encounter NPCs across your 1682 01:13:35.640 --> 01:13:38.840 journey and you just kind of have to you know, 1683 01:13:38.920 --> 01:13:40.439 they have it in a more eloquent wording. I can't 1684 01:13:40.439 --> 01:13:42.960 remember the wording is, but it's essentially like you never 1685 01:13:43.039 --> 01:13:46.760 know if they're gonna be aggressive or if they're gonna 1686 01:13:46.760 --> 01:13:48.159 want to work with you, so you kind of have 1687 01:13:48.159 --> 01:13:52.000 to approach those sequences pretty lightly, you know, like slowly 1688 01:13:52.079 --> 01:13:54.760 approach without a gun or something like that, and maybe 1689 01:13:54.800 --> 01:13:56.680 you can work with them, or maybe they'll just try 1690 01:13:56.720 --> 01:13:58.399 and kill you on site. And so I was like, 1691 01:13:58.439 --> 01:14:00.560 that's an interesting idea. Throughout this game, I'm gonna bump 1692 01:14:00.560 --> 01:14:02.279 into MPCs and I'm gonna have to gauge based on 1693 01:14:02.319 --> 01:14:05.520 listening to those conversations based on like their body Uh, 1694 01:14:05.920 --> 01:14:07.880 I don't know their body motions, are they holding a gun. 1695 01:14:07.880 --> 01:14:10.600 I'll probably be more scared of them there and determine like, okay, 1696 01:14:10.640 --> 01:14:12.800 if they're gonna be a friend or foe. But I 1697 01:14:12.840 --> 01:14:15.720 kind of feel like that never really went anywhere. Of course, 1698 01:14:15.720 --> 01:14:17.760 there's like sequences where you're teaming up with your friends 1699 01:14:17.800 --> 01:14:20.279 again and so that makes sense, but whenever you're like, 1700 01:14:20.319 --> 01:14:23.319 you'll meet NPCs that are with those friends, and I 1701 01:14:23.319 --> 01:14:25.000 was a little disappointed that you can never really talk 1702 01:14:25.039 --> 01:14:27.000 to those people, like they'll be in a room, but 1703 01:14:27.039 --> 01:14:29.199 you can't like hit e to talk and have a 1704 01:14:29.239 --> 01:14:31.640 conversation with them or learning anything from them, And so 1705 01:14:31.720 --> 01:14:32.960 it kind of made them like I want to know 1706 01:14:33.000 --> 01:14:34.520 their story. I want to know who they are, why 1707 01:14:34.520 --> 01:14:36.840 they're here, how they survived, if they have any tips 1708 01:14:36.920 --> 01:14:38.880 or tricks for me, that kind of thing. And then 1709 01:14:38.920 --> 01:14:40.640 I kind of just found like every other NPC in 1710 01:14:40.680 --> 01:14:43.840 the game was instantly hostile and there was really nothing 1711 01:14:43.880 --> 01:14:45.279 I could do about that. They're just like gunn to 1712 01:14:45.279 --> 01:14:47.399 be down on site. And there's a couple times where 1713 01:14:47.399 --> 01:14:49.079 I was like, Okay, I just hit a save point, 1714 01:14:49.119 --> 01:14:50.640 so I will go see if I can talk to 1715 01:14:50.680 --> 01:14:53.920 these people, and I never could. So maybe I did 1716 01:14:53.920 --> 01:14:56.199 it wrong, maybe I missed something, but that was something 1717 01:14:56.239 --> 01:14:58.000 that was really kind of set up to me early on, 1718 01:14:58.039 --> 01:14:59.560 it was hinted at, and then I kind of feel 1719 01:14:59.560 --> 01:15:01.800 like it didn't go anywhere, And because that, I don't 1720 01:15:01.800 --> 01:15:06.159 feel like I had any really meaningful NPC fights or 1721 01:15:06.239 --> 01:15:09.079 conversations like I I most of those any sequences where 1722 01:15:09.079 --> 01:15:10.880 I could tell they were aggressive, I just snuck past 1723 01:15:10.920 --> 01:15:13.159 them and they either got killed by the Xenomorph in 1724 01:15:13.159 --> 01:15:15.199 that moment or I just never saw them again, and 1725 01:15:15.239 --> 01:15:17.319 I didn't even know who they were. So that was 1726 01:15:17.359 --> 01:15:19.039 something that was a bit disappointing for me here, and 1727 01:15:19.079 --> 01:15:21.079 I think could have helped add too, Like once again, 1728 01:15:21.119 --> 01:15:23.119 this is a space station that's absolutely freaking huge. There 1729 01:15:23.119 --> 01:15:24.600 are a lot of people aboard the ship and it 1730 01:15:24.640 --> 01:15:27.399 is being decommission. I'm sure a lot of people have left, 1731 01:15:27.880 --> 01:15:30.039 but there's also there's still a ton of people remaining 1732 01:15:30.039 --> 01:15:32.239 as we can see you, and there's dead bodies everywhere. 1733 01:15:32.279 --> 01:15:34.319 So that was that was a disappointing part of the 1734 01:15:34.319 --> 01:15:34.720 game for me. 1735 01:15:35.640 --> 01:15:38.720 Yeah, there have been many a time when I'm not 1736 01:15:38.760 --> 01:15:41.359 really sure I'm trying to gauge the situation. And I'll 1737 01:15:41.399 --> 01:15:44.880 see two like NPCs in this open like area, like okay, 1738 01:15:44.920 --> 01:15:47.000 like this must be a safe spot. And I'll walk 1739 01:15:47.079 --> 01:15:48.920 right up to one and he turns down and he's like, 1740 01:15:49.199 --> 01:15:51.279 oh god, and he pulls his gun and he he'll 1741 01:15:51.359 --> 01:15:51.680 kill me. 1742 01:15:51.720 --> 01:15:56.880 I'm like, oh fuck, that's annoying. Yeah, so you're right, 1743 01:15:56.920 --> 01:15:57.600 you gotta gauge it. 1744 01:15:58.159 --> 01:16:03.000 Yeah, it's uh annoying. I guess one thing we've distinctly mentioned, 1745 01:16:03.039 --> 01:16:06.039 but like the music and sound, I think for me, 1746 01:16:06.199 --> 01:16:09.399 the highlight would definitely be just the The sound effects 1747 01:16:09.439 --> 01:16:13.000 in this game are just outstanding, every little beep, bloop, 1748 01:16:13.039 --> 01:16:16.000 every sound effect that the ship makes, whether it is 1749 01:16:16.039 --> 01:16:19.560 the stuff related to the tech, just like the sound 1750 01:16:19.680 --> 01:16:23.640 of the alien bashing through the vent system is so good. 1751 01:16:23.920 --> 01:16:26.000 The sound of the tram like as you're waiting for 1752 01:16:26.119 --> 01:16:28.560 I love that whenever you hit the button, it's not 1753 01:16:28.600 --> 01:16:30.640 just an instant load screen, Like there are times I 1754 01:16:30.640 --> 01:16:32.279 want this game to be quicker, and it's way too long, 1755 01:16:32.319 --> 01:16:34.399 of course, but I was always happy to wait for 1756 01:16:34.439 --> 01:16:36.760 thirty seconds for the tram to show up because just 1757 01:16:36.800 --> 01:16:39.600 that tension of like what if something shows upright here 1758 01:16:39.640 --> 01:16:41.279 that does happen at one point as like a scripted 1759 01:16:41.279 --> 01:16:43.239 sequence where you hit that button and then you hear 1760 01:16:43.279 --> 01:16:44.640 people from down the hall and so you have to 1761 01:16:44.680 --> 01:16:48.279 hide in a locker or something until they leave. But yeah, 1762 01:16:48.319 --> 01:16:50.399 even just the sound and the vibration of like that 1763 01:16:50.520 --> 01:16:53.000 tram as it's screeching to a halt to land in 1764 01:16:53.039 --> 01:16:55.800 the station, I think is just perfect. And then the music, 1765 01:16:55.840 --> 01:16:58.399 it's amazing. A lot of it are like pulling direct 1766 01:16:58.439 --> 01:17:01.520 themes from that original movie, and so whenever those propped up, 1767 01:17:01.520 --> 01:17:04.039 I'm like, oh, hell yeah, but anything else too, I 1768 01:17:04.079 --> 01:17:07.119 think just really said the scene perfectly. So in terms 1769 01:17:07.199 --> 01:17:10.720 of like the audit audit audio team here just absolutely 1770 01:17:10.760 --> 01:17:12.600 freaking nailed at ten out of ten on that way. 1771 01:17:13.159 --> 01:17:14.359 Oh, I couldn't agree more. 1772 01:17:14.560 --> 01:17:16.880 Oh, it's just they do such a good job with 1773 01:17:16.920 --> 01:17:19.279 so much familiarity and so much stuff that it's it's 1774 01:17:19.319 --> 01:17:22.720 its own thing. But it still just pulls all the 1775 01:17:22.720 --> 01:17:25.600 best parts from from that franchise, what was created in 1776 01:17:25.680 --> 01:17:28.000 that first Alien, Like there's certain little beats that are 1777 01:17:28.000 --> 01:17:31.119 in Aliens, and Aliens has its own very unique distinct score, 1778 01:17:31.199 --> 01:17:33.520 especially because it's more of an action heavy film, but 1779 01:17:33.640 --> 01:17:38.640 the first one being just a sci Fi horror. I'm 1780 01:17:38.680 --> 01:17:42.439 glad that this game pulled mostly from just the first 1781 01:17:42.479 --> 01:17:45.319 Alien I think that's where it even Like, again, we 1782 01:17:45.399 --> 01:17:47.479 already talked about it, but just aliens through a queen 1783 01:17:47.479 --> 01:17:49.159 in there, and this game they chose not to, and 1784 01:17:49.199 --> 01:17:51.960 it just it goes to show that, Okay, they really 1785 01:17:52.000 --> 01:17:54.520 just pulled heavily from that first film and that's that's 1786 01:17:54.560 --> 01:17:57.960 their inspiration. And I'm glad because it's it's so unique. 1787 01:17:58.279 --> 01:18:01.199 Yeah, I guess I did mention this in my in 1788 01:18:01.279 --> 01:18:03.399 my brief overallt the beginning, but it's worth mentioning one 1789 01:18:03.399 --> 01:18:06.520 more time. Face huggers, What do you do? Taylor? Like 1790 01:18:06.560 --> 01:18:09.199 you you want them to be in the game, You 1791 01:18:09.239 --> 01:18:12.039 want them to be a gameplay mechanic, but then like, 1792 01:18:12.279 --> 01:18:14.039 how do you not have them be just like a 1793 01:18:14.079 --> 01:18:17.560 one shot kill on you as the player? Because to 1794 01:18:17.600 --> 01:18:20.119 me that was like I just hated the face huggers, 1795 01:18:20.119 --> 01:18:22.000 and I guess I should I should hate them, but 1796 01:18:22.079 --> 01:18:24.039 them always them being a one hit kill with no 1797 01:18:24.199 --> 01:18:27.640 offense or butts and being so small and annoying. I 1798 01:18:28.079 --> 01:18:30.159 just I found I found them to be just more 1799 01:18:30.199 --> 01:18:32.199 of a chore than anything else where. It was just like, Okay, 1800 01:18:32.279 --> 01:18:34.439 I guess I'll do the same situation again. I never 1801 01:18:34.439 --> 01:18:38.079 really found them scary either. I just I just didn't 1802 01:18:38.119 --> 01:18:39.760 like them. But maybe I'm wrong with that. Would you 1803 01:18:39.760 --> 01:18:41.279 would you think of the face huggers. 1804 01:18:41.159 --> 01:18:43.920 HiT's hits, their speed that just kind of pisses me off, 1805 01:18:43.960 --> 01:18:46.960 And yeah, you gotta like, depending on what weapon you're using, 1806 01:18:46.960 --> 01:18:48.800 you gotta be careful and you gotta time it, like 1807 01:18:48.840 --> 01:18:51.600 this stunbaton can bite you in the ass if you 1808 01:18:51.680 --> 01:18:55.159 miss and funde that up. But yeah, you really, uh 1809 01:18:55.359 --> 01:18:59.239 like it just comes down to timing and just dealing 1810 01:18:59.279 --> 01:19:01.720 with it, because yeah, it makes sense for it to 1811 01:19:01.800 --> 01:19:05.119 just be like an instant death kind of thing, because 1812 01:19:05.119 --> 01:19:07.079 that's what happens with these these creatures. 1813 01:19:07.079 --> 01:19:09.600 But I don't know, like. 1814 01:19:11.359 --> 01:19:13.680 Having them there it fits and it's just gonna be 1815 01:19:13.720 --> 01:19:15.840 something that's in alien romulus as well when we look 1816 01:19:15.880 --> 01:19:20.000 at that, like it's a huge part of this this theme, 1817 01:19:20.119 --> 01:19:23.760 the vibe of the films everything, because it's that life 1818 01:19:23.760 --> 01:19:26.000 cycle stage before we get to that xenomorph. So it's 1819 01:19:26.000 --> 01:19:28.479 good that they included them, But yeah, they could just 1820 01:19:28.520 --> 01:19:30.760 be an absolute pain in the ass, And I guess 1821 01:19:30.800 --> 01:19:33.600 I'm happy that they're not like consistently like every single 1822 01:19:33.640 --> 01:19:35.640 mission you have to be worried about them, like jumping 1823 01:19:35.640 --> 01:19:38.600 out of event because we already got to deal with 1824 01:19:37.840 --> 01:19:41.159 the main bad z you know, to begin with. 1825 01:19:41.239 --> 01:19:44.359 But yeah, there's still there's still persistent enough to be 1826 01:19:44.399 --> 01:19:45.439 a pain in the ass. 1827 01:19:45.960 --> 01:19:48.399 I kind of forgot about them for a while, honestly, 1828 01:19:48.920 --> 01:19:51.359 because it's just so much of this game, like once 1829 01:19:51.399 --> 01:19:53.359 again long game. I feel like for the first half 1830 01:19:53.399 --> 01:19:56.279 of it at least, is just one xenomorph you'll never 1831 01:19:56.359 --> 01:19:58.960 encounter too. At the same time, there's never anything else. 1832 01:19:58.960 --> 01:20:01.800 There's like orkin Joes of eventually that are they also 1833 01:20:01.840 --> 01:20:04.079 fight against, and you know the odd MPC. But I 1834 01:20:04.119 --> 01:20:05.439 kind of didn't like think about like, oh yeah, at 1835 01:20:05.439 --> 01:20:07.000 some point they'll be like face huggers in this game, 1836 01:20:07.000 --> 01:20:09.199 and how would they be implemented. I think for me, 1837 01:20:09.319 --> 01:20:13.000 like part of it is that the once they get you, 1838 01:20:13.479 --> 01:20:15.199 like the screen just goes black and then it just 1839 01:20:15.239 --> 01:20:17.159 like instantly ends, and it's like would you like to 1840 01:20:17.199 --> 01:20:20.439 load your save point? Like I feel like the tension 1841 01:20:20.479 --> 01:20:22.840 of it, the scary factor isn't really there either, Like 1842 01:20:22.880 --> 01:20:25.000 maybe a way around it, and maybe you could just 1843 01:20:25.000 --> 01:20:26.600 make this an easy mode thing rather than like on 1844 01:20:26.720 --> 01:20:29.159 Night memory. If you get hit, you're done. But maybe 1845 01:20:29.159 --> 01:20:31.560 it would have been And I'm not often gonna, you know, 1846 01:20:31.600 --> 01:20:33.359 be in favor of like quick time events, but I 1847 01:20:33.359 --> 01:20:35.000 think that could have been a solution here. Or if 1848 01:20:35.000 --> 01:20:37.640 you get caught, maybe you have to like hit five 1849 01:20:37.680 --> 01:20:39.720 buttons in a specific order real quick and if you 1850 01:20:39.800 --> 01:20:41.760 do that just quick enough, you can like rip them 1851 01:20:41.760 --> 01:20:43.720 off and make the timing hard, like make it a 1852 01:20:43.720 --> 01:20:45.359 hard thing to do, but make it so there's maybe 1853 01:20:45.399 --> 01:20:47.760 a bit of something you can do to fight against 1854 01:20:47.760 --> 01:20:50.279 some other than just like you hit your shot or 1855 01:20:50.319 --> 01:20:53.239 you don't. So I don't know what the workaround would 1856 01:20:53.239 --> 01:20:54.479 have been. I just think it's it's kind of weird, 1857 01:20:54.479 --> 01:20:57.399 even on easy mode, that that's just what happens. And 1858 01:20:57.479 --> 01:20:59.920 they didn't really have a workaround of maybe in the 1859 01:21:00.119 --> 01:21:01.640 just like half your health or something like that. But 1860 01:21:01.680 --> 01:21:03.319 maybe that would have been too easy. I'm not sure. 1861 01:21:04.000 --> 01:21:06.199 I guess we didn't really specifically mention the other weapons. 1862 01:21:06.239 --> 01:21:09.199 We just talked about the flamethrower, the pistol, shotgun, the 1863 01:21:09.479 --> 01:21:12.239 bold gun in particular. Really really like, I think they're 1864 01:21:12.239 --> 01:21:13.800 all solid. They all get the job done. It's not 1865 01:21:13.840 --> 01:21:16.920 really a combat action game. You could probably play it 1866 01:21:16.920 --> 01:21:20.760 like a combat action game, but it's more. But yeah, 1867 01:21:20.800 --> 01:21:22.760 like the guns, they all feel good in terms of 1868 01:21:22.800 --> 01:21:25.279 like first person shooter standards and all that. So those 1869 01:21:25.319 --> 01:21:26.159 are those are good to go. 1870 01:21:26.960 --> 01:21:30.520 Yeah, the pistol, I wish the pistol could do. 1871 01:21:30.479 --> 01:21:31.960 A little bit more with the uh. 1872 01:21:33.560 --> 01:21:34.039 The zo. 1873 01:21:35.279 --> 01:21:37.840 Yeah. I never even bothered to shoot this, you know. 1874 01:21:37.880 --> 01:21:40.199 I just felt like, it's not gonna do anything. It's 1875 01:21:40.239 --> 01:21:42.079 not worth my time. I maybe did early on before 1876 01:21:42.079 --> 01:21:43.960 I had the flamethrower, just just to see if I 1877 01:21:44.000 --> 01:21:46.479 was like dead to rights already, But that would have 1878 01:21:46.479 --> 01:21:47.800 been bold of me, just be like, oh, yeah, my 1879 01:21:48.119 --> 01:21:52.600 little pistol's gonna take this guy down. I've only I've 1880 01:21:52.640 --> 01:21:55.680 mentioned at the very start of this retro that i'd 1881 01:21:55.720 --> 01:21:57.920 played like Alien three. I randomly have that game on 1882 01:21:57.960 --> 01:22:00.319 the nes like some really old game, and then this. 1883 01:22:00.359 --> 01:22:02.199 Those are the only Alien games I've played. And okay, 1884 01:22:02.239 --> 01:22:04.760 and the Alien Versus Predator game on the Xbox thirty six. 1885 01:22:04.840 --> 01:22:06.159 You played the demo the hell out of that. I 1886 01:22:06.199 --> 01:22:08.079 talk about that. But you've got to play a lot, 1887 01:22:08.159 --> 01:22:10.439 if not all, of the Alien games that exist. Is 1888 01:22:10.479 --> 01:22:12.560 this the best Alien game for you? Or is or 1889 01:22:12.600 --> 01:22:14.560 one of the other ones kind of take the take 1890 01:22:14.640 --> 01:22:15.199 the lead for you. 1891 01:22:16.039 --> 01:22:20.800 This is for sure. Uh, I'd say top three. This 1892 01:22:20.880 --> 01:22:21.960 is definitely. 1893 01:22:22.079 --> 01:22:23.800 What's in that top three with it. 1894 01:22:24.039 --> 01:22:28.119 The Alien versus preador twenty ten one because the Alien 1895 01:22:28.159 --> 01:22:30.279 mechanics are fantastic. 1896 01:22:30.319 --> 01:22:32.800 Yeah, it was really fun in that game. 1897 01:22:32.960 --> 01:22:34.039 Really really fun. 1898 01:22:34.439 --> 01:22:36.800 There's so many cool things where you down a guy 1899 01:22:36.840 --> 01:22:38.640 and then you can pick like you can do an 1900 01:22:38.680 --> 01:22:41.000 execution on him where like you see a face hugg 1901 01:22:41.039 --> 01:22:42.520 or crawl up all of a sudden like. 1902 01:22:42.560 --> 01:22:43.279 Jump on him. 1903 01:22:43.520 --> 01:22:48.479 That game did so many awesome, awesome things, even with 1904 01:22:48.520 --> 01:22:50.920 the Predator of the Predator had some awesome highlights in 1905 01:22:50.960 --> 01:22:53.960 there too, and you get confirmation that game they talk 1906 01:22:53.960 --> 01:22:55.199 about the xenomorphome world. 1907 01:22:55.279 --> 01:22:56.560 Yeah, I can just say I love that. 1908 01:22:56.600 --> 01:22:59.560 I know there's a big fan base for its predecessor, 1909 01:22:59.560 --> 01:23:01.560 I think A versus Preader two thousand. 1910 01:23:01.720 --> 01:23:05.399 It's like a classic. It's got online still support on Steam. 1911 01:23:05.159 --> 01:23:08.960 I believe, and that's that's just got a it's got 1912 01:23:09.039 --> 01:23:11.520 like a cult following. I'd say it's been wish listed 1913 01:23:11.600 --> 01:23:13.279 on my Steam for a while and eventually I'll get it. 1914 01:23:13.279 --> 01:23:19.119 It's super super cheap. What else though, you know, not. 1915 01:23:19.199 --> 01:23:21.439 Our team Dark Descent I'm trying to think of other ones, 1916 01:23:21.479 --> 01:23:21.920 Like I. 1917 01:23:21.880 --> 01:23:24.079 Was gonna I was gonna slide Dark Descent in there, 1918 01:23:24.079 --> 01:23:26.439 which I need to go and play some more of now. 1919 01:23:26.479 --> 01:23:28.279 Fire Team Elite is fun, but. 1920 01:23:28.239 --> 01:23:30.520 I think that community died pretty quick, and some of 1921 01:23:30.560 --> 01:23:35.800 the stuff in there was just repetitive and not necessarily 1922 01:23:35.840 --> 01:23:38.239 the most exhilarating experiences. 1923 01:23:39.640 --> 01:23:41.279 But it was still very fun and it was cool. 1924 01:23:41.319 --> 01:23:43.399 They introduced the pathogen, so there's a lot of Alien 1925 01:23:43.439 --> 01:23:46.560 Prometheus Covenant kind of stuff that was incorporated into that game, 1926 01:23:46.920 --> 01:23:49.279 which is very neat for the world building. And then yeah, 1927 01:23:49.319 --> 01:23:54.600 you have Clonal Marines, which is super super hated upon the. 1928 01:23:54.520 --> 01:23:56.640 Bane of Alien games when people. 1929 01:23:56.359 --> 01:23:59.720 Did not want that's like a multiplayer like Shooter one right. 1930 01:24:00.039 --> 01:24:00.479 I had it. 1931 01:24:00.880 --> 01:24:03.960 It has single player campaign and then has the multiplayer 1932 01:24:04.000 --> 01:24:06.720 aspect as well, which you could play as the aliens 1933 01:24:06.760 --> 01:24:08.680 in there and the multiplayer, but it was such a 1934 01:24:08.720 --> 01:24:11.439 step down from what we've had in the past. 1935 01:24:11.479 --> 01:24:12.359 It's like third person. 1936 01:24:12.399 --> 01:24:15.880 It's pretty crappy, but it was an okay campaign and 1937 01:24:15.920 --> 01:24:18.359 I like that it basically wretconned Alien three in Alien 1938 01:24:18.399 --> 01:24:22.039 Resurrection and continued the story. Hicks survives in that game, 1939 01:24:22.239 --> 01:24:25.319 and you have a whole different story unfolding, but Dark 1940 01:24:25.319 --> 01:24:31.600 Descent having the team based mechanics and just again it 1941 01:24:31.640 --> 01:24:33.760 comes down to detail. This one has a lot of 1942 01:24:33.800 --> 01:24:38.119 inspiration from aliens, considering you're basically leading the charge with soldiers, 1943 01:24:38.119 --> 01:24:40.279 but the fact that you can, just like you're I 1944 01:24:40.279 --> 01:24:42.279 think it's called the APC send that and move it 1945 01:24:42.319 --> 01:24:45.000 around to different locations in these little towns. You're moving 1946 01:24:45.039 --> 01:24:47.680 your squad from building building doing different objectives. While you're 1947 01:24:47.680 --> 01:24:50.399 on the ground saving people and civilians, getting them to 1948 01:24:50.439 --> 01:24:52.840 your tank. You're all of a sudden, Oh, there's a 1949 01:24:52.880 --> 01:24:54.720 wave of aliens that are coming here. You set up 1950 01:24:54.720 --> 01:24:57.279 a turret, you gotta hold out while you're doing different objectives. 1951 01:24:57.439 --> 01:24:59.760 It's just there's so many different things that are going 1952 01:24:59.760 --> 01:25:02.159 on game, and I really like it for what they created, 1953 01:25:02.199 --> 01:25:04.960 because I was afraid after Fire Team Elite that we're 1954 01:25:05.000 --> 01:25:07.720 going to get another one similar to that, but no. 1955 01:25:07.840 --> 01:25:15.479 Dark Descent really kind of changed it up. I should say, actually, oh, 1956 01:25:16.279 --> 01:25:17.119 you reminded me. 1957 01:25:17.760 --> 01:25:18.520 Oh, hang on, hang on. 1958 01:25:18.880 --> 01:25:21.800 Take a look. Taylor with the corner of his eye 1959 01:25:21.840 --> 01:25:24.720 caught a glimpse of a game on his uh, his 1960 01:25:24.760 --> 01:25:25.319 game shelf. 1961 01:25:25.359 --> 01:25:29.520 There, I got this back. Oh, what was it? 1962 01:25:29.800 --> 01:25:33.079 Before I lived here in GameStop as e B games, 1963 01:25:33.159 --> 01:25:35.039 I used to check out the used game sections because 1964 01:25:35.319 --> 01:25:37.760 I just love seeing what they had. And they had 1965 01:25:38.119 --> 01:25:41.239 Alien Versus Prey or Extinction and this is an RTS 1966 01:25:41.239 --> 01:25:44.920 game and it is so much freaking fun. 1967 01:25:45.520 --> 01:25:46.760 I didn't know it existed. 1968 01:25:46.920 --> 01:25:50.439 It's not aged well, but you can play as Zeno's queen. 1969 01:25:50.600 --> 01:25:53.199 So you tell me there's more Alien a VP games 1970 01:25:53.239 --> 01:25:56.239 than there is movies because you said there's a two 1971 01:25:56.279 --> 01:25:59.439 thousand one or is that the two thousand that's not 1972 01:25:59.479 --> 01:26:00.199 the two thousand one? 1973 01:26:00.199 --> 01:26:01.840 That even this is not the two thousand and one. 1974 01:26:01.840 --> 01:26:02.680 This one came out. 1975 01:26:02.760 --> 01:26:05.760 Oh, I mean this is original Xbox This was two 1976 01:26:05.760 --> 01:26:06.520 thousand and three. 1977 01:26:07.760 --> 01:26:08.000 Wow. 1978 01:26:08.039 --> 01:26:10.560 So yeah, yes, there is more AVP games than there 1979 01:26:10.560 --> 01:26:11.319 are movies. 1980 01:26:12.600 --> 01:26:16.479 So the screenshots not looking the most prime on that one. 1981 01:26:16.640 --> 01:26:17.520 No, this game is. 1982 01:26:17.720 --> 01:26:20.479 It's old and I've wanted so badly for this to 1983 01:26:20.520 --> 01:26:24.000 be a remake. It's only Xbox unless people ported it 1984 01:26:24.039 --> 01:26:26.560 to PC through their own means you're not gonna be 1985 01:26:26.560 --> 01:26:27.680 able to play it anywhere else. 1986 01:26:28.880 --> 01:26:30.520 Dude, that is one to whip out on the twenty 1987 01:26:30.560 --> 01:26:32.720 four hour stream. I guess I don't know if because 1988 01:26:32.720 --> 01:26:34.600 I don't that's back compat and I don't think we'd 1989 01:26:34.640 --> 01:26:36.920 bring an original Xbox, but that is one then I 1990 01:26:36.960 --> 01:26:40.199 would love to check out at some point. Wow, that's 1991 01:26:40.239 --> 01:26:42.880 made by a rebellion or No, the other one is 1992 01:26:43.439 --> 01:26:45.079 maybe not that one, but yeah, sorry the other I 1993 01:26:45.079 --> 01:26:45.640 was just looking. 1994 01:26:45.479 --> 01:26:47.720 On the Age Rebellion did the twenty ten one. 1995 01:26:48.039 --> 01:26:51.520 That's cool because they make the Sniper League games. That's 1996 01:26:51.560 --> 01:26:54.680 a really cool period. Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, I should 1997 01:26:54.720 --> 01:26:58.319 look more into some of these other ones. That's funny 1998 01:26:58.319 --> 01:26:59.640 to me that there's more games than. 1999 01:26:59.560 --> 01:27:02.279 Movies that I didn't even think about that. 2000 01:27:04.199 --> 01:27:06.039 So sorry, What is the top three? Because I feel 2001 01:27:06.039 --> 01:27:06.720 like we just talked. 2002 01:27:07.760 --> 01:27:10.760 I forgot about this one, but this one would crack 2003 01:27:10.840 --> 01:27:13.199 top five for sure. This probably number This would be 2004 01:27:13.319 --> 01:27:15.560 number four because the fact that it's an RTS game 2005 01:27:15.600 --> 01:27:19.880 and you're just indulging in different different like units that 2006 01:27:19.920 --> 01:27:22.039 you can build. It's it's such a hoot as it 2007 01:27:22.079 --> 01:27:23.960 has a campaign for all three classes too. 2008 01:27:24.039 --> 01:27:29.439 And then multiplayer. But I would go Alien versus Spread 2009 01:27:29.479 --> 01:27:31.439 of twenty ten because I get my Predator in there. 2010 01:27:31.439 --> 01:27:32.159 So that's number one. 2011 01:27:32.239 --> 01:27:34.760 I go Alien Isolation two, and then three would be 2012 01:27:34.960 --> 01:27:35.560 Dark Descent. 2013 01:27:35.840 --> 01:27:40.479 Nice, Okay, cool, I love it. Okay. I guess the 2014 01:27:41.800 --> 01:27:46.720 maybe the last thing here would be the DLC, which 2015 01:27:47.159 --> 01:27:48.920 might be a bit of a shorter conversation here, But 2016 01:27:48.920 --> 01:27:50.279 this game does have a lot of DLC, a lot 2017 01:27:50.279 --> 01:27:53.319 of different DLC packs. Many of them are these kind 2018 01:27:53.399 --> 01:27:56.159 of challenge challenge mode missions or I think you kind 2019 01:27:56.159 --> 01:27:58.159 of have like a timer you have to complete these goals. 2020 01:27:58.399 --> 01:28:00.000 I don't know if there's randomization to them. I didn't 2021 01:28:00.159 --> 01:28:02.479 play these. I'm just kind of more mentioning them. I 2022 01:28:02.520 --> 01:28:04.119 think maybe the cool thing to mention here is that 2023 01:28:04.439 --> 01:28:06.680 some of these do include locations that didn't end up 2024 01:28:06.680 --> 01:28:08.760 making it into the final game, So there are some 2025 01:28:08.920 --> 01:28:11.680 unique locations that you'll get from the campaign. I think 2026 01:28:11.720 --> 01:28:13.600 some of it is reused as well, so you might 2027 01:28:13.600 --> 01:28:16.720 not get exclusively new areas. But then there is that 2028 01:28:16.800 --> 01:28:19.279 last I think it's called the Last Survivor DLC, which 2029 01:28:19.359 --> 01:28:21.720 is the one where you go through that sequence from 2030 01:28:21.920 --> 01:28:24.960 the original Alien movie. I don't know what do you 2031 01:28:25.039 --> 01:28:26.399 want to say about that one. Is there anything that 2032 01:28:26.439 --> 01:28:31.880 gameplay wise that differs from the core game, or is 2033 01:28:31.920 --> 01:28:34.000 it kind of just it's cool that they kind of 2034 01:28:34.039 --> 01:28:36.399 picked the sequence from the movie and made it kind 2035 01:28:36.399 --> 01:28:38.000 of a playable video game section. 2036 01:28:39.000 --> 01:28:40.960 I just think it's fun to be able to experience 2037 01:28:41.000 --> 01:28:45.439 it because I think the crew expendable version, which I forgot, 2038 01:28:45.479 --> 01:28:48.560 that you could play as two other characters, not just Ripley. 2039 01:28:48.680 --> 01:28:51.159 You can play as Parker or you could play as Dallas. 2040 01:28:51.680 --> 01:28:58.279 And so that's where I think it was after No, No, 2041 01:28:58.560 --> 01:28:59.560 Parker was the name of the cat. 2042 01:28:59.600 --> 01:28:59.840 What's the. 2043 01:29:01.680 --> 01:29:02.560 Uh jinxy? 2044 01:29:04.680 --> 01:29:05.399 Okay, I don't know. 2045 01:29:05.479 --> 01:29:05.840 I think. 2046 01:29:07.560 --> 01:29:11.520 That's funny. No, I Will Jones Jones, Jones, Jones, Jonesy. 2047 01:29:11.960 --> 01:29:14.840 Yeah, so Parker was the probably he's one of the 2048 01:29:14.920 --> 01:29:16.760 last three to die, right. 2049 01:29:17.399 --> 01:29:18.840 I remember him now that I'm looking at a picture. 2050 01:29:18.920 --> 01:29:20.600 Yeah, yeah, he's the one who was ready to just 2051 01:29:20.640 --> 01:29:21.760 start boxing this thing. 2052 01:29:22.279 --> 01:29:24.560 Yeah. 2053 01:29:24.119 --> 01:29:27.760 Uh but yeah, so and then you get Dallas obviously 2054 01:29:27.840 --> 01:29:30.279 the captain. So there's that, and again it's just it's 2055 01:29:30.319 --> 01:29:32.880 cool to experience that. And then you have the Last 2056 01:29:32.920 --> 01:29:35.600 Survivor where yeah, you have to activate the self distract 2057 01:29:35.640 --> 01:29:39.359 you're playing as Ripley and you basically just got to 2058 01:29:39.399 --> 01:29:42.239 get to the the the ship to escape after that, 2059 01:29:42.279 --> 01:29:44.279 and that one definitely sent me. 2060 01:29:44.239 --> 01:29:46.319 For a loop. That one was really tricky to pull 2061 01:29:46.359 --> 01:29:48.039 off because Neleen just kept getting in the way. 2062 01:29:48.079 --> 01:29:51.880 But again, when you are you're in the you're in 2063 01:29:51.960 --> 01:29:54.479 the set piece, like you've you've watched the movie, you 2064 01:29:54.520 --> 01:29:56.680 know the movie, and to actually be walking around it's 2065 01:29:56.680 --> 01:29:59.199 the same thing from the main game where you're exploring 2066 01:29:59.199 --> 01:30:01.439 the Derek space crafting LB four twenty six, but in 2067 01:30:01.560 --> 01:30:04.840 here your walk around the Nostromo and it just it 2068 01:30:04.920 --> 01:30:09.920 feels different from Sevastopool because this is its own setting, 2069 01:30:09.920 --> 01:30:12.199 which is nice. But I can't imagine how much fun 2070 01:30:12.319 --> 01:30:15.600 the designers had just watching the movie getting to just 2071 01:30:15.640 --> 01:30:17.920 look into the backlog of content, like, Okay, we're gonna 2072 01:30:17.920 --> 01:30:20.560 sketch this out, We're gonna just design this three D 2073 01:30:20.760 --> 01:30:22.920 world based on the original movie. 2074 01:30:22.960 --> 01:30:24.479 That's such a cool concept. 2075 01:30:25.000 --> 01:30:28.600 There's clearly so much yeah, love for this source material 2076 01:30:28.760 --> 01:30:31.920 from the developers here, Like this is definitely a passion 2077 01:30:31.960 --> 01:30:34.880 project and not just like, oh, we got the rights 2078 01:30:34.920 --> 01:30:36.560 to make a game here, let's just like poop something 2079 01:30:36.600 --> 01:30:38.159 out in ten months and see what it's like the 2080 01:30:38.199 --> 01:30:41.319 best we can do, Like, this is clearly a really 2081 01:30:41.359 --> 01:30:44.159 really well made game, even if I have just a 2082 01:30:44.640 --> 01:30:47.800 lot of beefs with the final product of it. But yeah, 2083 01:30:47.840 --> 01:30:50.239 I think this, like, all these deal seeds sound interesting 2084 01:30:50.680 --> 01:30:53.079 and cool, and I mean, I'll probably go through that 2085 01:30:53.199 --> 01:30:56.600 Ripley one. I gotta be specific. I remember that, I 2086 01:30:56.640 --> 01:30:59.039 gotta be specific here, the Ellen Ripley one. I'll probably 2087 01:30:59.079 --> 01:31:01.479 go through that like pri to Romulus here, and so 2088 01:31:01.680 --> 01:31:03.079 I'll I don't know, if I have anything new to 2089 01:31:03.079 --> 01:31:05.479 say on it, I'll bring it up on a side 2090 01:31:05.520 --> 01:31:07.960 quest here. But I think otherwise those do seem like 2091 01:31:08.439 --> 01:31:11.800 maybe you go through the main game one time, you 2092 01:31:11.880 --> 01:31:13.439 kind of see what it's like, and then if you 2093 01:31:13.479 --> 01:31:15.439 want to go through the game again and really test 2094 01:31:15.479 --> 01:31:17.880 those mechanics and your skill set, that's maybe where those 2095 01:31:17.960 --> 01:31:19.720 kind of those challenge maps and things could come in, 2096 01:31:19.760 --> 01:31:22.199 because once again, like this game is so long that 2097 01:31:22.199 --> 01:31:24.079 it's like, I don't know, unless you have just a 2098 01:31:24.079 --> 01:31:25.560 ton of free time, you're probably not gonna just keep 2099 01:31:25.600 --> 01:31:27.399 replaying through this game and mastering it. But that's what 2100 01:31:27.439 --> 01:31:30.079 like a challenge map type thing is kind of perfect 2101 01:31:30.119 --> 01:31:32.199 for where it's like a smaller sequence of the game, 2102 01:31:32.720 --> 01:31:34.520 less time commitment in that way. So I think it's 2103 01:31:34.560 --> 01:31:36.399 cool that those things exist. There's definitely a lot of 2104 01:31:36.720 --> 01:31:38.600 to dig into. So whenever I'm feeling the itch for 2105 01:31:38.640 --> 01:31:41.479 this game again. I'll definitely go and check check some 2106 01:31:41.560 --> 01:31:43.680 of that content out. It's pretty pretty cool that they 2107 01:31:43.680 --> 01:31:46.920 had Like maybe, yeah, they clearly didn't make enough or 2108 01:31:47.000 --> 01:31:48.520 the team didn't have the interest to go ahead and 2109 01:31:48.520 --> 01:31:51.079 make that sequel, but they clearly had enough to do 2110 01:31:51.119 --> 01:31:52.800 a bunch of extra content after it was out and 2111 01:31:52.840 --> 01:31:54.800 just kind of take like, hey, we made all these mechanics, 2112 01:31:54.880 --> 01:31:56.960 what are some other fun things we can do with 2113 01:31:57.000 --> 01:31:59.000 this like engine that we've built to make this this 2114 01:31:59.399 --> 01:32:04.079 crazy cool game. So anything else that hasn't come. 2115 01:32:04.000 --> 01:32:08.439 Up yet, I don't think so we'll cover a lot 2116 01:32:08.479 --> 01:32:10.159 of ground. I'm really happy about it. 2117 01:32:10.600 --> 01:32:13.359 Yeah, Like I said, I'm very happy that I finally 2118 01:32:13.399 --> 01:32:14.960 played through this game. I'm glad that you wanted to 2119 01:32:15.720 --> 01:32:18.359 discuss it here with the Alien Retrospective, I think I 2120 01:32:18.640 --> 01:32:21.239 do some of these the other games in this that 2121 01:32:21.279 --> 01:32:24.319 you mentioned, Fire Team Alee or Dark Descent has been 2122 01:32:24.319 --> 01:32:26.039 on my raider since it came out, and even going 2123 01:32:26.079 --> 01:32:28.319 back to play some of these AVP games. I definitely 2124 01:32:28.319 --> 01:32:29.479 want to do that at some point. So I don't 2125 01:32:29.479 --> 01:32:31.600 know if we would just do a random retro or 2126 01:32:31.640 --> 01:32:34.000 maybe another Alien movies coming out, we would choose to 2127 01:32:34.000 --> 01:32:37.560 do another episode for a retrospective or something. But yeah, 2128 01:32:37.560 --> 01:32:39.640 there's a lot of other cool games that exist out there, 2129 01:32:39.640 --> 01:32:41.239 but I think this was the perfect one to pick 2130 01:32:41.279 --> 01:32:45.199 for this circumstance here. Like I said, long long it's 2131 01:32:45.199 --> 01:32:46.640 been on the back log, and I'm glad I can 2132 01:32:46.680 --> 01:32:49.800 finally check it off that box. So I don't I 2133 01:32:49.800 --> 01:32:52.479 think I would give this game like an eight eight 2134 01:32:52.560 --> 01:32:55.119 oh ten, seven seven point five somewhere in that pocket, 2135 01:32:55.399 --> 01:32:57.760 just because, once again, it is such an impressive game 2136 01:32:58.520 --> 01:33:01.239 in terms of just how it's made that even if 2137 01:33:01.239 --> 01:33:02.840 I have a lot of beefs with it, it's more just 2138 01:33:02.880 --> 01:33:05.319 like I don't have too many major cons. It's just 2139 01:33:05.600 --> 01:33:07.760 a bunch of little things and that kind of takes 2140 01:33:07.760 --> 01:33:11.199 it down from that that kind of perfect experience for me. 2141 01:33:11.399 --> 01:33:14.159 But yeah, really really cool game, really fun time. Do 2142 01:33:14.159 --> 01:33:15.840 you want to throw a number on this guy? We 2143 01:33:15.840 --> 01:33:18.640 don't really do that on video game stuff, But I don't. 2144 01:33:18.520 --> 01:33:23.760 Know i'd throw down an eight point five out of ten. 2145 01:33:24.359 --> 01:33:26.920 I'm docking it because, similar to you, there's a little 2146 01:33:26.960 --> 01:33:32.239 bit of fine things around throughout the gameplay that just 2147 01:33:32.319 --> 01:33:34.720 kind of like throw me for a loop. Certain things 2148 01:33:34.720 --> 01:33:36.760 that I didn't like, Like we talked about the saving 2149 01:33:36.760 --> 01:33:39.239 and a couple other things too, But all in all, 2150 01:33:39.279 --> 01:33:41.159 it's a really good game. And if you're a fan 2151 01:33:41.319 --> 01:33:45.760 of the Alien franchise, I could not recommend this enough. 2152 01:33:45.920 --> 01:33:48.119 Like you're just gonna eat it all up, You're gonna 2153 01:33:48.159 --> 01:33:50.199 enjoy it, You're gonna really appreciate the time that's been 2154 01:33:50.239 --> 01:33:54.600 invested into this this game. It is long, as you said, 2155 01:33:54.920 --> 01:33:57.680 and that does detract it a little bit. But yeah, 2156 01:33:57.720 --> 01:33:59.680 it's just it's it's nice. It's it feels like a 2157 01:33:59.680 --> 01:34:01.760 passion project. And I hope that we get a follow 2158 01:34:01.840 --> 01:34:04.199 up or something else built off of this. 2159 01:34:04.319 --> 01:34:08.840 So yeah, yeah, I don't know. Maybe Romulus is huge 2160 01:34:08.880 --> 01:34:11.600 at the box office and Disney wants to just push 2161 01:34:11.640 --> 01:34:14.479 a ton of money into funding all sorts of alien things. 2162 01:34:14.520 --> 01:34:17.319 We've seen that happen before, so I mean, we just 2163 01:34:17.319 --> 01:34:19.199 got Dark Descent last year too, so they're still making 2164 01:34:19.239 --> 01:34:20.760 games like this. I don't know. I don't know if 2165 01:34:20.760 --> 01:34:23.640 this studio would be interested in making another one, because 2166 01:34:23.640 --> 01:34:25.960 I feel like, just in general, this game seemed to 2167 01:34:25.960 --> 01:34:28.840 get pretty mixed reviews. I don't really know what the 2168 01:34:28.920 --> 01:34:31.920 other reviewers issues were with the game. I think I 2169 01:34:32.159 --> 01:34:34.600 saw a length was one thing that generally across the 2170 01:34:34.600 --> 01:34:37.600 per people were kind of beefing with But I don't know. 2171 01:34:37.680 --> 01:34:39.800 I feel like I don't even know. This game sold 2172 01:34:39.880 --> 01:34:41.880 very well. I'm not too sure where it exists in 2173 01:34:41.920 --> 01:34:44.920 the grand scheme of things. But anyway, this was a 2174 01:34:45.079 --> 01:34:48.479 very fun discussion, Very good time, Taylor, thanks for joining 2175 01:34:48.520 --> 01:34:51.239 me here. Next week we'll be back for more side quests. 2176 01:34:51.239 --> 01:34:52.720 I don't actually know what we're talking about next week, 2177 01:34:52.760 --> 01:34:56.159 so a bit of a question mark there, but stay tuned. 2178 01:34:56.199 --> 01:34:58.199 Thanks everyone for listening, and we'll see you again next time. 2179 01:34:58.279 --> 01:35:01.720 Bye bye sixth