@@dr_birb To be fair I usually skip them, especially the Nord VPN ones but holy shit that ad was fucking hilarious and had the exact same vibe as the rest of the video. He legit just story modes it lmao
I loved how internet historian just got more annoyed the longer it went on with logistical problems like it was a 90's point and click puzzle adventure game.
Which is humorously ironic considering how much he enjoyed doing Dracula: Expleened last video - an actual late 90's/very early 2000's PnC adventure game. (And Nancy Drew before that) But the thing with adventure games is that, even though they're 90% logistics, the real "meat" of those games is writing (story, dialog, scene information when inspecting/interacting with objects and scenery) and world/setting; the "gameplay" of puzzle solving is mostly a means to an end - if all the cabinets and doors were unlocked, you could just walk directly to the end and beat the game in 5 minutes (Fun fact, you can actually do that exact thing in the original Myst; if you know the fireplace code after beating the game once, you can start a new game, zip down there and beat the game in like 3 minutes. I get that they take some liberties and add humorous exaggerations to the stories to make them funny, but the game here just seems like 5% hiding from an alien and 95% standard, modern day, "first person action-adventure" sneaking around humanoid enemies crap. It's why (going back to your PnC problem) there's much more for them to poke fun of in a game like Dracula: Resurrection than Alien: Isolation - it just feels like a genuinely anemic game.
@@arandompasserby7940 I'd also argue that the actual puzzle games are funnier to play because the puzzles are so hilariously dumb and illogical while the ones here are just busy work
@@arandompasserby7940 as someone who has played alien isolation and watched playthroughs of it, the main meat of the game is actually becauae of the aliens AI. They only mention the scripted encounters. But the entire game the alien is stalking you and you have different tools at your disposal to turn him away, hide, or distract him. You can even sometimes use the alien as a weapon against CPU humans by the use of noisemakers. The game is very tense, not because alien scary but because you have to be constantlu vigilant, checking your motion tracker, watching for drool from vents above you, listening, etc
I think Alien: Isolation requires you to be extremely invested into the plot otherwise you're right, the game becomes a bit unbearable with the objectives turning into "But actually!". I remember being really into it so I never realized the game was doing that.
Also, avoiding the Alien is very engaging especially on hard and nightmare and the repetitive objectives are just there to force you to go through the level instead of just hiding forever.
it works when you play it because the alien feels like enough of an unstoppable force that of course it would mess up every plan you throw at it. But they’re also right given the film does the same thing, but ash added a wrinkle that makes it more engaging
The end of the game made me feel actually exhausted. Plan A- burning them all with a reactor didn't work, go to B Plan B- escape plan didn't work, run to C Plan C- second escape plan REALLY didn't work, RUN TO D Plan D- third escape plan... FUCK THE ALIEN IS HERE TOO GODDDAMMMITTT
I've always wondered what would happen if you splashed water on an alien? Like their blood is VERY acidic, but water is a solvent so like shouldn't water mess them up REAL bad? It would neutralize their blood so like it should cause all kinds of problems for them, their exoskeleton might protect them from direct skin contact but like not their mouth. you could also probably kill them with a strong enough water cutter I mean you can cut steel with them. Acids also have a relatively high boiling point, but military flamethrowers also output at temperatures of 3,000 degrees so like it should have at least boiled their insides or something. I just don't see a way that Aliens can withstand being shot or boiled, but then again they are like an ancient race of space traveling gigabrain bugs or something. Ridley Scott's Alien universe is a fever dream to read about.
Marlow : "I'm gonna Blow Up The Station to Destroy The Xenomorph Aliens forever" Ripley : "You're Crazy, Marlow ! There are still Living People on That Station !!!" [25:50] _Also Ripley Greeting The Survivors :_ [28:36]
It's been a while since I played but I think at that point in the story, the people she's shooting at in that part aren't normal civilians, but are Weyland-Yutani goons who are basically there just to keep the station in operation and kill anyone interfering with maintaining the station as a Xeno nesting ground. It is silly that they'd be following such insane, unethical orders, but it's also not a plot hole for Ripley to want to gun them down en masse.
They have gravity generators. That tech is essentially magic and makes it weird that they don't have more cool tech around. Their ships shouldn't even need thrusters
You're saying this to the setting where space travel is as common as international travel IRL, but they still exclusively use thick CRT monitors at like 72p resolution BUT also they have a sentient AI, that runs on those computers that barely have enough computational power to drive such a monitor in the first place.
@@Reac2 retrotech or cassette tech as someone once said. It's with the older computers that you usually have to program just to use and there's no modern tech so it kind of makes it more stressful / scary
My first playthrough of this game was on the PS3, meaning graphical glitches galore (like the time an area just didn't load so I was walking around in space running into invisible objects). One of these glitches happened in the first part where the alien can kill you. Only problem was that the alien didn't freakin load properly so he was invisible. It played the animation of me getting stabbed through the back by its tail, but me not realising that it just didn't load made me think that the Predator from the Predator series was also secretly in the game.
Yea I bought the ps3 version even though I had ps4 and PC. Saw it on sale and bought it. And yea framerate is bad for ps3. Clearly the old ps3 was showing it's age when this game came out.
Still have fond memories of this game. The atmosphere, the aesthetic, the sounds - definitely a must play for fans of the Alien franchise or survival/horror games. Their decision to make the alien roam around without a predetermined path made the encounters unnerving and not necessarily the same for every encounter. The androids were a neat touch too - making them lean way towards their creepy uncanny valley appearance so you always feel uncomfortable around them whether you're in combat or just in hiding. I really hope Creative Assembly gets to make more games like this, even if it's with a different I.P.
When I first played this I was moving very slow everywhere. I would love to play the ps4 camera version. I need to get one of the cameras. If it hears a noise you get detected. Sadly PC doesn't have this feature. Which is a shame I kinda wish it did. Be cool if there was a mod. But this game is amazing. Playing Challenge runs can make it fun as well. At hardest the alien is always there and you get limited tools and ammo. It's also neat the voice actors came back. That was just amazing for me. I don't know if it's true but they had been unwilling to do game stuff in the past because it was just meh. Whereas they saw this game and were like yeah leave the voice actor. So they finally got a game that they approved of. To me, this is the true sequel to Alien. Aliens destroyed the perfect lifeform and made the aliens die from a pistol round. Which is silly. It was meant to be a perfect lifeform and this game shows that.
I wish Sega brings a creative assembly team to make a sequel. Alien isolation. Someone that gets the story they were telling. I think that would be great. Get the same art team to do such great work with the 80's looks. Unlike modern alien movies do the generic hologram tech. The alien should be like the 80's tech in space. It's big, it's clunky, it's slow, etc. Also get art that works with H.R. Giger's work. Modern alien films get this so wrong. It's like hologram tech 100 years before the Alien movie.
The game is essentially find thing to fix thing that opens thing. Only to reveal thing to open previous thing! Previously recorded said it best. Essentially just a door opening simulator. Not saying there aren't tense moments, but god, so the doors. Not for me personally
Ehhhhhhh. I love the franchise but this game is sooo overrated. You're not wrong about the aesthetics and design, they're awesome..but the AI is reeeally janky, and the whole game is literally just opening doors, or finding a tool to open a door which is behind another door, about 20 times. Rich Evans from RLM did a great review on pre rec about it haha
Woohoo, you do be pumpin them out at the moment, no month plus gap! Am loving it. Now all I need is for silent hill 4 back and the SH playlist updating and I’ll be a happy exlpeenation fan :)
16:24 The Naked Molerat also has a mouth inside of it's mouth. The animal digs with it's outer jaws and doesn't get dirt inside it's mouth. I greatly appreciate this video, it made me laugh many times. Thank you. SovietWomble has the best playthrough of this game. He's so scared throughout the ENTIRE game, screaming like a little girl, hiding in closets, and suffering extreme panic attacks.
SovietWomble, Shenpai, and Markiplier have my favorite playthroughs of Alien Isolation, but I don’t think Shenpai finished the game, which makes me very sad. All were good, if you wanna see people have a helluva time in very different ways!
As a huge fan of Alien and stealth games, playing this game on a big screen TV in the dark with surround sound was one of the best media experiences in my life.
If you really want xenomorph genitals, see if you can find some of the deleted material from Alien: Resurrection. Apparently the humanoid newborn alien was supposed to have some junk but even the director who wanted it in the first place decided it was too much, so it was cut. Not cut as in... you know what I mean.
I highly recommend that anyone that wants to play Alien: Isolation watch Alien and Aliens before playing the game. Not only are they good movies but it really puts you in an alien mood. Also good work on the vod, IH and team.
Plus the devs shit all over the lore of the second film. A bunch of humans with firearms can kill a small number of aliens. The idea you can empty shotguns and handcannons and flamethrowers into an alien and all it does is make it shy and run off is a direct snub to the second film. As is hiding under a desk and the alien walking passed, turning around and not seeing you by it's feet. Honstly, the game rejects all lore except Alien and its own.
@@AnonEyeMouse It’s doesn’t take place at the time of Aliens. Xenomorphs have exoskeletons that they can shrug off bullets. On a side note, the Xenomorph is hunting you and it doesn’t know if your hiding somewhere, only when you hide in the same place does it look there
@@AnonEyeMouse the pulse rifles they use seem quite a step up from normal firearms. I also think, canonically, it was adopted after the setting of the first film.
@@AnonEyeMouse dude the game dosen’t ignore lore, in Aliens the soldier are using pulse rifle noted to being armor piercing explosives rounds and grenade launchers , they are using futuristic high tech space military weapon while Amanda is using a modern (technically outdated) regular gun. Also the alien can notice you under the desk, it learns and depending the difficulty it incredibly smart, easier difficultly dumbs down the AI and makes more unaware and harder to notice you
This game was a lot of fun. I cant believe it's nearly 10 years old now. I thought the isolation of the game was such a good selling point. I loved how it made my anxiety feel.
This game was one of the best and simultaneously most frustrating experiences. To have a protagonist who is basically just a little baby who can't hurt anything go up against superhero androids and an alien that is totally invulnerable to everything is just an exercise of frustration. But it was one of the most tense, atmospheric games I've ever played.
You can’t kill the Xenomorph which is hunting you, the devs made the Xenomorphs invincible but you can kill it, it just has 10,000 Healthpoints and your weapons per shot only max out at 20 DPS
It does seem like where Xenomorphs are concerned, they are either invincible outlast style stalkers (I haven't played outlast, but I got the impression you were kinda defenseless) or jobbers you mow down by the dozen with your trusty pulse rifle. There doesn't seem to be a inbetween. Its nice they give you a flamethrower though.
In a universe where intelligent androids exist, wouldn't it be much cheaper just to make some robocop supersoldiers with machine guns for hands instead of searching the galaxy for some kind of deadly alien? Probably easier to control because you can just program them instead of trying to find a way to tame a beast that kills people for no reason.
It would make sense, but knowing the setting is corporate hell it was probably some idiot Suits idea to get more power and bypass any regulation or patent already existing.
To be fair, the horde hive mind of the aliens super murders space marines and well armed colonists. So probably way more efficient than having a bunch of robots with guns. David did drop that black goo on the creators and wiped out an entire planet of life including the fauna. Robots can't do that with such efficiency.
That's a good point, lacking resources is the only thing I could think of, but that seems farfetched when you have robots and space travel. Even then the aliens would also require upkeep.
Also there's other purposes for the alien body that would make them a shit load of money like making medicine or other chemicals or materials. Who knows but they would have to do research on the body first
dear storymode, you all are absolutly great. I hope one day you are gonna do a recap of Fahrenheit, the indigo prophecy, because I bet you could do one of the most funny and chaotic videos about it. Cheers 💕
Honestly Mr. Historian, this channel is COMPLETELY different than Incognito or main channel, but in such a good a unique way that just feeds into your quick sense of humor. I've been hospitalized for the last 3 weeks and this channel has really kept me occupied and optimistic. Please keep this channel alive. Thank you
This is still one of the best survival horror games around, what they did with the AI director and the Alien is still unparalleled in the genre all these years later. It's a damn shame it was muddied by the prior release of colonial marines.
this is a fantastic game, my only gripe with it is that it lasted too long, a few hours shorter would have helped the pacing significantly. But this is like a minor nitpick. I really hope CA make a sequel one day, this is the only alien game out there that managed to capture the aesthetic and spirit of the og film.
My only gripe was the ending was a cliff hanger. Why make a cliff hanger of u don't know u can make the fucking sequal! God it makes me angry how no alien game can just be a finished work!
The salmonela egg thing it's interesting. Aparently the american standard for eggs require them to be cleaned in such a way that it removes the natural protection of the egg so bacteria and other stuff can damage it unless kept in refrigeration. This does not happens in other countries.
In the uk and EU, all chickens produced in the Food chain (egg-laying and meat) are vaccinated against salmonella. This means the meat and eggs are quite a bit safer than countries like the US that don't bother and just use chlorine washes because they're cheaper. They work, but nowhere near as well as vaccinations (look up the stats for US VS UK/EU salmonella outbreaks for more info). In the uk, it's recommended that you keep eggs at room temperature, because keeping them in a fridge and then bringing them out into a warmer environment increases the chance of condensation, which, due to shells being porous, means bacteria and viruses can be absorbed into the egg.
Was having a bad day. My coffee got cold, it started raining, my pencil snapped. But then a new Story Mode video appears and my brain can only hear the smooth tones of Zucks voice.
sssssoooo i'm slightly medicated (STONED AF) and the alien with the saxophone really caught me off-guard. damn... laughed too loud. and your sponsored ads are the best i've seen, second only to flashgitz's ads :)
as someone diagnosed with RAIDs and having played this game for a couple hundred hours, I can confirm this is a 100% accurate synopsis of the game including "This is a mans world" playing on the intercom.
Funny enough, about the "Alien makes it to Earth" idea, there is the Alien Comic Trilogy by Steve Perry, where Earth suffers a Xenomorph invasion and is subsequently overrun. And, truth be told, the series is mental, Earth is depopulated, an insane general tries to use manipulated Xenomorphs as troops against the Xenomorphs on Earth (which obviously backfires), and tons of other shenanigans.
Every piece of Aliens media would be 5 minutes long if people weren't constantly trying to get them and use them as weapons against something or other @@ariannasv22 nah that's Ken Penders you're thinking of
@@ariannasv22 gave it a 6/10 or something which really hurt sales of the game, oh and the reviewer said the alien was "too smart" which he thought made it hard
I love this summary and the grizzly voiceover of Ripley but this was a great stealth survival horror game, although slightly repetitive with circle backs, still S tier no question.
I'm glad your talent's are being recognized! It's 5:37pm on June 15th (PDT/California) as I write this and right now it says there's 77,686 views! Impressive! Love your content!!!!!
Oh man thanks for expleening this game for me, I used to play make believe alien versus predator, hiding around the house with flashlights on a blackout. The horror of finding my little brother crouched down beneath the closet curtains prevent me from ever playing an Aliens videogame ever again.
Fun fact, Marvel's The Avengers are so strong because they were breast fed by their mother, Avenger, as kids. We don't talk about The Yaga the insatiables though.
1:14 some countries wash their eggs before sale, which removes the protective coating and allows bacteria to penetrate the shell. In these countries, they have to store eggs in the fridge to maintain shelf life. In other countries, the eggs are not washed, the protective coating remains, and they can be stored most anywhere.
Pretty sure he only does the narration. The other bloke does the editing and probably the script too. He often says "I have no time, gonna read it in one take".
To be fair, I would also probably run around the station killing everyone if I was promised $50 for a few hours of drywall work in front of the Space Homedepot.
The eggs in the fridge have been washed and with that had their natural protection removed, thus they go bad quickly. Meanwhile the eggs not in the fridge have an intact coating from when they were first laid, making it safe to store them like that.
Also, that's why the non-fridged ones sometimes have feathers, straw, or dirt on them in the box. They are not supposed to be squeaky clean. Just wash your hands in between handling them and eating them.
Let it be known, IH is the only man I will watch a full Raid ad for. I'll never forget the time when his link gave you some arbitrary amount of free gold, he showed a slightly higher amount, then said "oh no thats too much" and lowers it. Because who tf knows the difference between $150k and $100k gold in ArenaTank BigBlaster Royale Fight Master Xxtreme 2
Little theory: The Metroid series is heavily inspired by _Alien._ Only Samus Aran has power armor, arguably perfectly designed to fuck up Xenomorphs. -Fully sealed so no acid bullshit -Bird Alien engineering laughs at puny animal claws and muscles. -Arm cannon for quick shooting at quick-moving enemies -Scan visor to counter sneaky hidey bullshit -Ball form to go way faster than even Xenomorphs in tunnels
30:10 Friendly reminder that Amanda is supposed to be _66_ in that picture. So I guess that means the sequel mobile game involves a time vampire eating 20 years of her life, which sounds pretty neato.
I have fond memories of being stuck under a table while two Working Joe's kicked me back and forth like they were playing ping pong and I was the ball.
So the egg thing is actually a difference in how farms process the eggs. There is a protective coating around the egg that prevents pathogens from entering. When you was an egg this coating is washed away. So to prevent the egg from being compromised you must keep it cool. The other set of eggs is not washed and only lightly cleaned keeping the coating in tact. I grew up with chickens and was always confused why my friends eggs were so clean. This is why, more or less.
I love how at some point IH was just done with it and wanted to get it over with. I love that he just couldn't be assed to pretend to be invested anymore
Believe it or not, in the comics, the aliens do manage to both infect rhinos, and reach earth 😂. The comics cover a completely different version of events tho. Newt and hicks survive and it focuses more on them (the kid and soldier from aliens)
Never read the comics, but I feel like there is a lot of potential for a creature that can create hybrids of itself with any other creature, I hope there is a Xeno-Lion or Xeno-Elephant somewhere...
Bruh, this dude is Internet historian. Anywho, I really love Alien isolation, its my favourite horror game, the alien alone is just the perfect creature for this, guess you could say "the perfect organism" it's the alien and the working Joe's, that take the cake, the world building, immersion, atmosphere, the story can take a back seat, it's a horror game, lol.
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If I download Raid: Shadow Legends, will the ads in my head stop screaming?
Raidy Shady Legends is a sussy morb.
No never.
You first
The queen faked her death to work full time at story mode.
I hope they continue using her
She didn't die, she just retired
@@MultiWolfLink yeah I really like the Queen on storymode
The plot twist was the "the queen" that was somewhere on the station was Queen Elizabeth II!!!!
@@swordmonkey6635 😂
“Ripley, the door here is locked. You must open 5 other locked doors to open this one”
Now that is true horror right there
True survival horror
Lu
Bcz it's a man's world I guess 😵
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Jumpscare warning
Throw in some DEI and microtransactions, and modern gaming truly is a real life horror.
This reminds me of when I was isolated from my wife and kids because I screamed like an infant watching Alien in theaters
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_"This is a mAaAn`s wOrlD"_
That's awesome
Hey you're single now time to go have fun again
Cinematic!*
The Internet historian is the only guy who can make Raid Shadow Legends look like a benign cancer instead of a malignant cancer. Hercules task indeed.
Can't relate, skipping the shit everytime
Herculean
@@dr_birb his promo code for raid shadow legends is scam. Lol
@@dr_birb To be fair I usually skip them, especially the Nord VPN ones but holy shit that ad was fucking hilarious and had the exact same vibe as the rest of the video. He legit just story modes it lmao
You're genuinely missing out on some of his funniest content. He literally makes fun of the advertisers in every single ad and they keep paying him 🤣
"When the jaws open wide and there’s more jaws inside that’s a moray."
The way I laughed 🤣
This is very clever, good job!
Took me a second to realise what you were referencing and now I can't get that song out of my head, that's brilliant
Teehee
I loved how internet historian just got more annoyed the longer it went on with logistical problems like it was a 90's point and click puzzle adventure game.
whos the internet historian? only mark zuckerberg and the queen are in this video
@@pissguzzler9604 I love her Majesty and I hope Jeff and Bill enjoy their picnic on the moon
Which is humorously ironic considering how much he enjoyed doing Dracula: Expleened last video - an actual late 90's/very early 2000's PnC adventure game. (And Nancy Drew before that)
But the thing with adventure games is that, even though they're 90% logistics, the real "meat" of those games is writing (story, dialog, scene information when inspecting/interacting with objects and scenery) and world/setting; the "gameplay" of puzzle solving is mostly a means to an end - if all the cabinets and doors were unlocked, you could just walk directly to the end and beat the game in 5 minutes (Fun fact, you can actually do that exact thing in the original Myst; if you know the fireplace code after beating the game once, you can start a new game, zip down there and beat the game in like 3 minutes.
I get that they take some liberties and add humorous exaggerations to the stories to make them funny, but the game here just seems like 5% hiding from an alien and 95% standard, modern day, "first person action-adventure" sneaking around humanoid enemies crap. It's why (going back to your PnC problem) there's much more for them to poke fun of in a game like Dracula: Resurrection than Alien: Isolation - it just feels like a genuinely anemic game.
@@arandompasserby7940 I'd also argue that the actual puzzle games are funnier to play because the puzzles are so hilariously dumb and illogical while the ones here are just busy work
@@arandompasserby7940 as someone who has played alien isolation and watched playthroughs of it, the main meat of the game is actually becauae of the aliens AI. They only mention the scripted encounters. But the entire game the alien is stalking you and you have different tools at your disposal to turn him away, hide, or distract him. You can even sometimes use the alien as a weapon against CPU humans by the use of noisemakers. The game is very tense, not because alien scary but because you have to be constantlu vigilant, checking your motion tracker, watching for drool from vents above you, listening, etc
They should make alien 2
Huh, neat
unban joke!!!
ASOT died for this 😭
haha I get it
And call it 'Aliens"
I think Alien: Isolation requires you to be extremely invested into the plot otherwise you're right, the game becomes a bit unbearable with the objectives turning into "But actually!". I remember being really into it so I never realized the game was doing that.
Also, avoiding the Alien is very engaging especially on hard and nightmare and the repetitive objectives are just there to force you to go through the level instead of just hiding forever.
it works when you play it because the alien feels like enough of an unstoppable force that of course it would mess up every plan you throw at it. But they’re also right given the film does the same thing, but ash added a wrinkle that makes it more engaging
Same the game is long but was always engaging with the threats of the xenomorph and i hardly didn’t pay attention as bland the objectives is
The end of the game made me feel actually exhausted.
Plan A- burning them all with a reactor didn't work, go to B
Plan B- escape plan didn't work, run to C
Plan C- second escape plan REALLY didn't work, RUN TO D
Plan D- third escape plan... FUCK THE ALIEN IS HERE TOO GODDDAMMMITTT
this game is still the peak of survival horror for me. hard to believe it's already been eight years and nothing's come close to toppling it.
this game really makes you FEEL like it's a man's world
Take a shot everytime they say it.
videogamedunkey ?
So James Brown is in the game?
The exaggerated swagger of a human-alienien xenomorph
@@l0r075 😂😆
I lose it every time you drop the "this is a man's world" clip...always well timed.
this is a man's world
XDDDD
As a certified welder I can tell you that Ripley is not wearing proper protective gear to be doing that welding operation.
Comments like yours are my favourite.
I once saw a man wield barechested
That day, that man proved to me that
This is a man's world
She gon git dem OSHA violations
Cool
Her sleeves should NOT be rolled up like that.
I adore how internet historian just, tries to insert romance drama into every story
I've always wondered what would happen if you splashed water on an alien? Like their blood is VERY acidic, but water is a solvent so like shouldn't water mess them up REAL bad? It would neutralize their blood so like it should cause all kinds of problems for them, their exoskeleton might protect them from direct skin contact but like not their mouth. you could also probably kill them with a strong enough water cutter I mean you can cut steel with them. Acids also have a relatively high boiling point, but military flamethrowers also output at temperatures of 3,000 degrees so like it should have at least boiled their insides or something. I just don't see a way that Aliens can withstand being shot or boiled, but then again they are like an ancient race of space traveling gigabrain bugs or something. Ridley Scott's Alien universe is a fever dream to read about.
ehm...the black goo, that's your answer
Yes, or just dumb some sodium hydroxide on them. I don't think they acidic blood wouldn’t react very well to that.
Just blast them with baking soda
That interaction between water and acid blood in the aliens actually would make the “Signs” movie twist make sense.
in the movies they are shown to be incredible adept at swimming. for them water is very advantageous.
Marlow : "I'm gonna Blow Up The Station to Destroy The Xenomorph Aliens forever"
Ripley : "You're Crazy, Marlow ! There are still Living People on That Station !!!" [25:50]
_Also Ripley Greeting The Survivors :_ [28:36]
It's been a while since I played but I think at that point in the story, the people she's shooting at in that part aren't normal civilians, but are Weyland-Yutani goons who are basically there just to keep the station in operation and kill anyone interfering with maintaining the station as a Xeno nesting ground. It is silly that they'd be following such insane, unethical orders, but it's also not a plot hole for Ripley to want to gun them down en masse.
What Ripley meant is Ricardo, she wants to hug him.
wow I just started going into labour this is perfect!
Wtf 😂 all power to you man tel the baby I said stay handsome
Call the child Internet Historian
What the hell 😂 or congratulations, hope for a healthy baby for you, amen
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Hope its not alien 🤞
They have gravity generators. That tech is essentially magic and makes it weird that they don't have more cool tech around. Their ships shouldn't even need thrusters
You're saying this to the setting where space travel is as common as international travel IRL, but they still exclusively use thick CRT monitors at like 72p resolution
BUT also they have a sentient AI, that runs on those computers that barely have enough computational power to drive such a monitor in the first place.
@@Reac2 lol
@@Reac2 yeah well alien was from 1979 and im pretty sure they didnt fathom shit not being analogue
@@Reac2 retrotech or cassette tech as someone once said. It's with the older computers that you usually have to program just to use and there's no modern tech so it kind of makes it more stressful / scary
@@Reac2 So? The Pentagon still uses diskettes
Them lips are moving but no one's blinking, that's horrifying.
I have no eyelids and I must blink!
If you blink you get a face hugger
Well now I can’t unsee it now
Flash game animation lol
Zuckerberg family tree in action. Unblinking emotionless robots
Amanda Ripley?
AMANDA RIPLEY?
A MAN DA RIPLEY?
THIS IS A MAN'S DAWORLD!
🤣😂🤣
Oh my god the snopes fact check on ‘is there an alien in the station’ is pure gold
Mostly false😂
I don't know why seeing the queen shooing off an alien with a broom made me laugh so much
My first playthrough of this game was on the PS3, meaning graphical glitches galore (like the time an area just didn't load so I was walking around in space running into invisible objects). One of these glitches happened in the first part where the alien can kill you. Only problem was that the alien didn't freakin load properly so he was invisible. It played the animation of me getting stabbed through the back by its tail, but me not realising that it just didn't load made me think that the Predator from the Predator series was also secretly in the game.
Yea I bought the ps3 version even though I had ps4 and PC. Saw it on sale and bought it. And yea framerate is bad for ps3. Clearly the old ps3 was showing it's age when this game came out.
... Ps3 version? This game is that old?
@@shioq. yeah that was my reaction 😭 it has been in my backlog for SO long.....
@@shioq. 2014 yea
Amazing
Man's world moments (just because its the moral of the story)
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Still have fond memories of this game. The atmosphere, the aesthetic, the sounds - definitely a must play for fans of the Alien franchise or survival/horror games. Their decision to make the alien roam around without a predetermined path made the encounters unnerving and not necessarily the same for every encounter. The androids were a neat touch too - making them lean way towards their creepy uncanny valley appearance so you always feel uncomfortable around them whether you're in combat or just in hiding. I really hope Creative Assembly gets to make more games like this, even if it's with a different I.P.
When I first played this I was moving very slow everywhere. I would love to play the ps4 camera version. I need to get one of the cameras. If it hears a noise you get detected. Sadly PC doesn't have this feature. Which is a shame I kinda wish it did. Be cool if there was a mod. But this game is amazing. Playing Challenge runs can make it fun as well. At hardest the alien is always there and you get limited tools and ammo. It's also neat the voice actors came back. That was just amazing for me. I don't know if it's true but they had been unwilling to do game stuff in the past because it was just meh. Whereas they saw this game and were like yeah leave the voice actor. So they finally got a game that they approved of. To me, this is the true sequel to Alien. Aliens destroyed the perfect lifeform and made the aliens die from a pistol round. Which is silly. It was meant to be a perfect lifeform and this game shows that.
You're talking about Raid, right?
I wish Sega brings a creative assembly team to make a sequel. Alien isolation. Someone that gets the story they were telling. I think that would be great. Get the same art team to do such great work with the 80's looks. Unlike modern alien movies do the generic hologram tech. The alien should be like the 80's tech in space. It's big, it's clunky, it's slow, etc. Also get art that works with H.R. Giger's work. Modern alien films get this so wrong. It's like hologram tech 100 years before the Alien movie.
The game is essentially find thing to fix thing that opens thing. Only to reveal thing to open previous thing! Previously recorded said it best. Essentially just a door opening simulator. Not saying there aren't tense moments, but god, so the doors. Not for me personally
Ehhhhhhh. I love the franchise but this game is sooo overrated. You're not wrong about the aesthetics and design, they're awesome..but the AI is reeeally janky, and the whole game is literally just opening doors, or finding a tool to open a door which is behind another door, about 20 times. Rich Evans from RLM did a great review on pre rec about it haha
I love how the Storyteller's animation of the mouths makes it look like a mod for Mass Effect: Andromeda.
Woohoo, you do be pumpin them out at the moment, no month plus gap! Am loving it. Now all I need is for silent hill 4 back and the SH playlist updating and I’ll be a happy exlpeenation fan :)
dont forgot the noos and revoos
Gay
Silent Hill 4
@@ghostinthecraig Gay
And harvestor....
16:24 The Naked Molerat also has a mouth inside of it's mouth. The animal digs with it's outer jaws and doesn't get dirt inside it's mouth.
I greatly appreciate this video, it made me laugh many times. Thank you.
SovietWomble has the best playthrough of this game. He's so scared throughout the ENTIRE game, screaming like a little girl, hiding in closets, and suffering extreme panic attacks.
I reckon Soviet legit needed valium and therapy after playing it 😂
Iirc doesn’t he get brought to tears at the end? Hilarious series
@@Skullzy-01 He giggle cries throughout the entire game.
I can never look at Rufus from Kim Possible the same again
SovietWomble, Shenpai, and Markiplier have my favorite playthroughs of Alien Isolation, but I don’t think Shenpai finished the game, which makes me very sad. All were good, if you wanna see people have a helluva time in very different ways!
Im surprised Ripley using a flamethrower in the crane stance made it in the game, I hear it was the original concept for Alien 3
22:03 hearing “flame” followed by SMTIV Battle-B2 gave me Minotaur flashbacks. “BEHOLD MY DEMONS!” Agi, block, smirk, labrys strike, death.
HOY, WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?!
Too many characters to remember. Working Joe, Maintenance Jack... Where will it end.
As a huge fan of Alien and stealth games, playing this game on a big screen TV in the dark with surround sound was one of the best media experiences in my life.
If you really want xenomorph genitals, see if you can find some of the deleted material from Alien: Resurrection. Apparently the humanoid newborn alien was supposed to have some junk but even the director who wanted it in the first place decided it was too much, so it was cut. Not cut as in... you know what I mean.
So they're uncut right, just to confirm, I mean if they were cut the well that would be very strange
@@TheCat_3 😂
Iirc scenes exist featuring the alien hybrid's downstairs mixup but the ones that made it into the theatrical all feature less embarassing angles.
I highly recommend that anyone that wants to play Alien: Isolation watch Alien and Aliens before playing the game. Not only are they good movies but it really puts you in an alien mood.
Also good work on the vod, IH and team.
technically you only need to watch the first one though as this game is between the first and second movie
Plus the devs shit all over the lore of the second film. A bunch of humans with firearms can kill a small number of aliens. The idea you can empty shotguns and handcannons and flamethrowers into an alien and all it does is make it shy and run off is a direct snub to the second film. As is hiding under a desk and the alien walking passed, turning around and not seeing you by it's feet.
Honstly, the game rejects all lore except Alien and its own.
@@AnonEyeMouse It’s doesn’t take place at the time of Aliens. Xenomorphs have exoskeletons that they can shrug off bullets. On a side note, the Xenomorph is hunting you and it doesn’t know if your hiding somewhere, only when you hide in the same place does it look there
@@AnonEyeMouse the pulse rifles they use seem quite a step up from normal firearms. I also think, canonically, it was adopted after the setting of the first film.
@@AnonEyeMouse dude the game dosen’t ignore lore, in Aliens the soldier are using pulse rifle noted to being armor piercing explosives rounds and grenade launchers , they are using futuristic high tech space military weapon while Amanda is using a modern (technically outdated) regular gun. Also the alien can notice you under the desk, it learns and depending the difficulty it incredibly smart, easier difficultly dumbs down the AI and makes more unaware and harder to notice you
I was having a horrible day. This is just what I needed. You guys rule.
Thanks for watching. Tomorrow will be better, mate 👍
I appreciate it man ❤️
@@JonathanLewispartypenguin Just remember Jonathan...
*THIS IS A MAAANS WORLD*
This game was a lot of fun. I cant believe it's nearly 10 years old now. I thought the isolation of the game was such a good selling point. I loved how it made my anxiety feel.
This episode of Ripley's Believe it or Not sure was ambitious.
This game was one of the best and simultaneously most frustrating experiences. To have a protagonist who is basically just a little baby who can't hurt anything go up against superhero androids and an alien that is totally invulnerable to everything is just an exercise of frustration. But it was one of the most tense, atmospheric games I've ever played.
You can’t kill the Xenomorph which is hunting you, the devs made the Xenomorphs invincible but you can kill it, it just has 10,000 Healthpoints and your weapons per shot only max out at 20 DPS
@@senatorstevenarmstrong6703 could you kill it with nano machines?
@@wigger69 Yes in two hits from my hands since my NANOMACHINES deals about 7,000 damage
@@senatorstevenarmstrong6703 they must harden in response to tension
It does seem like where Xenomorphs are concerned, they are either invincible outlast style stalkers (I haven't played outlast, but I got the impression you were kinda defenseless) or jobbers you mow down by the dozen with your trusty pulse rifle. There doesn't seem to be a inbetween. Its nice they give you a flamethrower though.
In a universe where intelligent androids exist, wouldn't it be much cheaper just to make some robocop supersoldiers with machine guns for hands instead of searching the galaxy for some kind of deadly alien? Probably easier to control because you can just program them instead of trying to find a way to tame a beast that kills people for no reason.
Like in jurrasic park 5, I'll point this gun at the enemy with a lazer that the Dino will follow............yeah
It would make sense, but knowing the setting is corporate hell it was probably some idiot Suits idea to get more power and bypass any regulation or patent already existing.
To be fair, the horde hive mind of the aliens super murders space marines and well armed colonists. So probably way more efficient than having a bunch of robots with guns. David did drop that black goo on the creators and wiped out an entire planet of life including the fauna. Robots can't do that with such efficiency.
That's a good point, lacking resources is the only thing I could think of, but that seems farfetched when you have robots and space travel. Even then the aliens would also require upkeep.
Also there's other purposes for the alien body that would make them a shit load of money like making medicine or other chemicals or materials. Who knows but they would have to do research on the body first
dear storymode, you all are absolutly great. I hope one day you are gonna do a recap of Fahrenheit, the indigo prophecy, because I bet you could do one of the most funny and chaotic videos about it. Cheers 💕
Honestly Mr. Historian, this channel is COMPLETELY different than Incognito or main channel, but in such a good a unique way that just feeds into your quick sense of humor. I've been hospitalized for the last 3 weeks and this channel has really kept me occupied and optimistic. Please keep this channel alive. Thank you
Finally the Queen can focus on her Storymode career.
about the queen😅
I always end up rewatching older episodes around the time you release a new one! Anyways keep making more of these I love ‘em
Did you hear what the rodent had to say? That thing is here and I forgot what I meant to reply.
R.I.P. Maintenance Jack. The only person to actually work on the station.
the SMT IV boss theme at 22:00 is based. Definitely a storymode for that would be a riot.
THANK YOU i was trying to remember what music was used there.
Yooo it's Battle B2 theme!
This is still one of the best survival horror games around, what they did with the AI director and the Alien is still unparalleled in the genre all these years later. It's a damn shame it was muddied by the prior release of colonial marines.
this is a fantastic game, my only gripe with it is that it lasted too long, a few hours shorter would have helped the pacing significantly. But this is like a minor nitpick. I really hope CA make a sequel one day, this is the only alien game out there that managed to capture the aesthetic and spirit of the og film.
My only gripe was the ending was a cliff hanger. Why make a cliff hanger of u don't know u can make the fucking sequal! God it makes me angry how no alien game can just be a finished work!
I wish it was longer lol. Also there's this to be released game called Routine that seems to have a similar feel
@@klittlet yeah I'm looking forward to routine as well, not many studio make Cassette Futurism horror game.
same, a lil too long but still amazing.
@@n0t.Puffer you mean retro futuristic? Lmao
Lol my "bri'ish" meme is at 31:47, love ya internet historian. Can die happy knowing I'm in your vid
The salmonela egg thing it's interesting. Aparently the american standard for eggs require them to be cleaned in such a way that it removes the natural protection of the egg so bacteria and other stuff can damage it unless kept in refrigeration.
This does not happens in other countries.
That maybe because natural born europeans are completely immune to salmonella so its a larger issue there
Yup, different countries handle eggs differently and have different regulations as well
In the uk and EU, all chickens produced in the Food chain (egg-laying and meat) are vaccinated against salmonella.
This means the meat and eggs are quite a bit safer than countries like the US that don't bother and just use chlorine washes because they're cheaper. They work, but nowhere near as well as vaccinations (look up the stats for US VS UK/EU salmonella outbreaks for more info).
In the uk, it's recommended that you keep eggs at room temperature, because keeping them in a fridge and then bringing them out into a warmer environment increases the chance of condensation, which, due to shells being porous, means bacteria and viruses can be absorbed into the egg.
@@peterclarke7240 in countries like Pakistan we just eat em up cause...eggs
@@peterclarke7240 but the only time you take them out of refrigeration is when you cook them so theres no time for condensation.
Loved your inclusion of Akira Yamaoka’s White Noiz from SH2. James Brown’s This Is A Man’s World, at random sections was hilarious!!
Was having a bad day. My coffee got cold, it started raining, my pencil snapped. But then a new Story Mode video appears and my brain can only hear the smooth tones of Zucks voice.
sssssoooo i'm slightly medicated (STONED AF) and the alien with the saxophone really caught me off-guard.
damn... laughed too loud.
and your sponsored ads are the best i've seen, second only to flashgitz's ads :)
Thanks for making this for us who can’t beat it because it’s too spooky.
as someone diagnosed with RAIDs and having played this game for a couple hundred hours, I can confirm this is a 100% accurate synopsis of the game including "This is a mans world" playing on the intercom.
Funny enough, about the "Alien makes it to Earth" idea, there is the Alien Comic Trilogy by Steve Perry, where Earth suffers a Xenomorph invasion and is subsequently overrun.
And, truth be told, the series is mental, Earth is depopulated, an insane general tries to use manipulated Xenomorphs as troops against the Xenomorphs on Earth (which obviously backfires), and tons of other shenanigans.
Isn't he the dude who made the whack sonic comics or am I thinking of someone elsr
Every piece of Aliens media would be 5 minutes long if people weren't constantly trying to get them and use them as weapons against something or other
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nah that's Ken Penders you're thinking of
@@HelghastStalker you should listen to Alien theory, he narrated the comics in unique way ! Earth war series is top notch !!!
There's also an arcade game
Also happens in between Alien 3 and Resurrection, there's an arcade game called Aliens Armageddon about it.
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That is almost exactly how the game described samuel being a synthetic
it was just like "oh yeah, in case you were wondering..."
Never forgive or forget what IGN did to this game.
What did they do?
@@ariannasv22 gave it an awful, unfair review and the game bombed.
@@ariannasv22 gave it a 6/10 or something which really hurt sales of the game, oh and the reviewer said the alien was "too smart" which he thought made it hard
They killed our chances of an actual sequel
@@xersilusftw3245 Seems like a fair review grade not everbody likes the same game, but it's ign so they arnt allowed lower grades
I love this summary and the grizzly voiceover of Ripley but this was a great stealth survival horror game, although slightly repetitive with circle backs, still S tier no question.
I love the image of Queen Elizabeth chasing away an alien with a broom
It’s so refreshing to see a channel that is able to colab with someone like queen of England gaming and still attempt to be secretive and stay humble.
I appreciate the use of "Gentle Breeze" from Trauma Center 2
EDIT: and Battle B2 from SMTIV
I'm glad your talent's are being recognized!
It's 5:37pm on June 15th (PDT/California) as I write this and right now it says there's 77,686 views! Impressive!
Love your content!!!!!
Oh man thanks for expleening this game for me, I used to play make believe alien versus predator, hiding around the house with flashlights on a blackout. The horror of finding my little brother crouched down beneath the closet curtains prevent me from ever playing an Aliens videogame ever again.
The little among us jingle after he says „killer on the station“ and other little details like this is what absolutely makes this video
Fun fact, Marvel's The Avengers are so strong because they were breast fed by their mother, Avenger, as kids.
We don't talk about The Yaga the insatiables though.
1:14 some countries wash their eggs before sale, which removes the protective coating and allows bacteria to penetrate the shell. In these countries, they have to store eggs in the fridge to maintain shelf life.
In other countries, the eggs are not washed, the protective coating remains, and they can be stored most anywhere.
IH has a such a unique and distinct style of edit. It's honestly quite wonderful
Pretty sure he only does the narration. The other bloke does the editing and probably the script too. He often says "I have no time, gonna read it in one take".
For a second, I thought the ship name was "Torrence".
_"You're_ the caretaker of Sevastopol, Ripley. You've _always been_ the caretaker."
To be fair, I would also probably run around the station killing everyone if I was promised $50 for a few hours of drywall work in front of the Space Homedepot.
Keep this rapid release of content up and youll be contending with Netflix. Bravo man.
Fun fact, the thumb is the longest finger, it actually starts all the way at your wrist, hence only two of the joints are at the top of the hand
Thats pretty cool
I must have watched this video at least 50 times and the "this is a man's world" gag never fails to make me chuckle.
Historian is the only one who can make ads interesting even if its about raid shadow legends
There is more out there, you should see Internet Commentiquette.
"I'm sorry I didn't get see you growing up, I had to go trucking just before you were born."
I fucking lost it.
God I love the use of the Civ 3 Soundtrack. I would play that as a kid just to get to the atomic age and listen to that loveliness
"I'm not the only illegal alien on this ship!"
Got a real good chuckle out of me. 😂
bro its so nice to hear the queen again, RIP the GOAT
The eggs in the fridge have been washed and with that had their natural protection removed, thus they go bad quickly.
Meanwhile the eggs not in the fridge have an intact coating from when they were first laid, making it safe to store them like that.
Also, that's why the non-fridged ones sometimes have feathers, straw, or dirt on them in the box. They are not supposed to be squeaky clean. Just wash your hands in between handling them and eating them.
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Let it be known, IH is the only man I will watch a full Raid ad for. I'll never forget the time when his link gave you some arbitrary amount of free gold, he showed a slightly higher amount, then said "oh no thats too much" and lowers it. Because who tf knows the difference between $150k and $100k gold in ArenaTank BigBlaster Royale Fight Master Xxtreme 2
“Wregh, it’s me. The alien” had me dying bro 😂😂
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The alien hitting the orange justice dance had me dead! So damn random! :3
4:10 Captain Verlaine: Savastopol how am i suppost to dock witouth a dock !
Savastopol: This is a man's wooedrdf♫
Thank you for isolating me from a replay because I found the alien pretty scary and never finished the game cause it was too spooky4me.
I have no idea how you convince companies to let you do these ad reads but I am so glad you do
Man, this guy gives me major InternetHistorian vibes...
Little theory: The Metroid series is heavily inspired by _Alien._ Only Samus Aran has power armor, arguably perfectly designed to fuck up Xenomorphs.
-Fully sealed so no acid bullshit
-Bird Alien engineering laughs at puny animal claws and muscles.
-Arm cannon for quick shooting at quick-moving enemies
-Scan visor to counter sneaky hidey bullshit
-Ball form to go way faster than even Xenomorphs in tunnels
30:10 Friendly reminder that Amanda is supposed to be _66_ in that picture. So I guess that means the sequel mobile game involves a time vampire eating 20 years of her life, which sounds pretty neato.
Nothing like that happens in the comics, so I guess it's just a mistake
Most people just ignore "Blackout." Cool idea, bad in-practice.
I have fond memories of being stuck under a table while two Working Joe's kicked me back and forth like they were playing ping pong and I was the ball.
So the egg thing is actually a difference in how farms process the eggs. There is a protective coating around the egg that prevents pathogens from entering.
When you was an egg this coating is washed away. So to prevent the egg from being compromised you must keep it cool. The other set of eggs is not washed and only lightly cleaned keeping the coating in tact.
I grew up with chickens and was always confused why my friends eggs were so clean. This is why, more or less.
I cant belive you cover the flamethrower but not the rivet gun- the singular piece of cetharsis after the absolute slog of The Nest
This game perfectly encapsulates how it feels when a relatable moment in your life.
HUH
@@Pendji you don’t feel when a relatable moment in your life?
How DOES it feels when a relatable moment in your life? 🤔
true!
I love how at some point IH was just done with it and wanted to get it over with. I love that he just couldn't be assed to pretend to be invested anymore
Rest In Peace your Majesty. I will miss your excellent abridgement of video games.
Ok that scene ... It's perfect
Queen Elizabeth shooing a xenomorph with a broom... It's perfect
Just broke my leg, perfect thing to watch while I suffer!
This isn’t a joke btw I am in so much pain rn.
@@gwelch399 post a recording of screaming then we'll see if you're REALLY in pain
Break your other leg to equal out the pain. Science.
@@TwoBs True galaxy brain move
That radio from the station goin from static to this is a man's world! Made me spit out my breakfast, good job gents
Believe it or not, in the comics, the aliens do manage to both infect rhinos, and reach earth 😂. The comics cover a completely different version of events tho. Newt and hicks survive and it focuses more on them (the kid and soldier from aliens)
Never read the comics, but I feel like there is a lot of potential for a creature that can create hybrids of itself with any other creature, I hope there is a Xeno-Lion or Xeno-Elephant somewhere...
YOU'RE ON A SPACE STATION, YOU HAVE COMMS AND A MEDBAY AND YOU EJECT ALIENS AND YOU DONT REFERENCE AMONGUS!?
Alien Isolation predicted the events of Among Us years in advance
Bruh, this dude is Internet historian. Anywho, I really love Alien isolation, its my favourite horror game, the alien alone is just the perfect creature for this, guess you could say "the perfect organism" it's the alien and the working Joe's, that take the cake, the world building, immersion, atmosphere, the story can take a back seat, it's a horror game, lol.
No shit. Sherlock
1:39 Honestly, if Master Chief ripped of his helmet and it was Sigourney Weaver under there, I'd have actually bought an Xbox (at some point).