Not sure if you noticed, but the Marlow flashback closes the"plothole" in Aliens that the colonists never picked up the beacon from the Engineer spaceship and had to be told where to look by Burke.
Couple of tips for this game: Even if you're hiding under a table or whatever, if you can see the Alien in a clear line of sight, it can see *you* too. If you surprise attack it with the Flame Thrower, i.e. blast it before it's noticed you, it'll instantly retreat every time. For when its seen you, a 1-2 second-long continuous burst should be enough to drive it off, no matter how resistant it gets to simple short blasts. If it's in the vents drooling, you can blast the vent with the Flame Thrower and you'll hear the Alien scream as it flees. Putting down Molotovs and Pipe Bombs directly under vents will send the Alien straight back up into another one. Take caution though, sometimes the Alien will run to a completely different vent to escape. If you're in the way and with your back turned, you'll die if it runs into you. White eyes on an android means it's not hostile and won't attack, but they _will_ attack if attacked first, if you use certain terminals or sometimes even fire your weapons in front of them. Don't bother using the Flame Thrower on them, you may as well be smacking them with the wrench without zapping them first, a waste of fuel. Lastly, if you think the Alien is too aggressive on Hard mode, try Nightmare. Enjoy the torture.
@@KalibreSteelblast I've personally found that burst-firing the Flame Thrower consumed more fuel, but whatever method works best, go with that. And yes, even on the lower difficulties, the Flame Thrower should be used only as a last resort. That's just out of sheer principle of practicality though.
I'm very late to this, but I LOVE playing on Nightmare mode. I have beaten the game 3 times on Nightmare alone & I just can't play the game on an easier difficulty anymore. The only time I'll play on an easier difficulty is when achievement hunting.
@@kaileesiSome games are like that, anything less than the highest difficulty and it gets boring. Last time I tried Nightmare mode, several years ago, I got stuck on the second to last mission. Maybe someday I'll return to it.
Also: Do a lot more walking than crawling. Walking is like 3x faster than crawling and barely louder. Often you get through a whole room walking before the Alien drops in. Crawling takes forever. Plenty of time for Alien to drop from a vent and start searching around.
The longer you stay in one place, the more precisely the Alien can sense where you are. Also, it can hear your motion tracker when you're very close. Also also, you can safely walk without crouching when it's in the vents. It won't hear you. Just don't run. Running is death.
It hears you walking in a 20 meter proximity whether it is in the vents or not. If you walk through while it's in the vents it will drop near you and search
@@brettbrett678 I was talking about Max's reaction, this specific playthrough was after he played Re2 remake, where he shouted this game sucks every 5 minutes when MrX was around.
I played through this whole game the first time not realizing the save points made a specific sound to help you find them. When I played through again I realized I'd only found like 1/3 of the save points lol.
@@derpdiamonduniverse1523 He said on stream that he was trying to re-upload it, but ran into a bunch of problems. Encoding took like 24 hours and then cancelled, YT kept acting funky, things like that.
Indeed. Instead of following a particular route and chase you when it sees you, the game tells the alien where are your position. It's like "Yo alien, she's over there somewhere. Go and search that area". Once the alien is near you long enough, then it will go away.
Watching Alien, right after completing this game is a mad experience. You spend so long in this world and so immersed that when you rewatch the film, your brain honestly feels like you've been there in real life. You just appreciate this game even more, with how closely they recreated everything.
@@Arpin_Lusene It wasn't even an accident, lol. Max wanted to experiment fighting Mr.X and then see how far he could progress after downing it, but he got so far he opted not to reset and just continue with whatever little resources were remaining.
Interesting take for Prometheus, I had the understanding that the engineers had somehow became sterile and thus their species was dying out. However at some point they encounter the last of some alien creature that impregnates one of them. Thus they view it as sacred. Being engineers they create the black goo from the blood of the alien creature to seed worlds in order to carry on their species. @2:09:15
Isn’t it kind of funny that the Xenomorph is bitching on the person that is a solo trying to survive (Ripley) but doesn’t bitch on the group of people?
It's heavily implied that this xenomorph has a personal grudge against Amanda for managing to evade it constantly something it considers an insult to it's hunting skills.
Waits: Alright gang, let's find out who this alien really is. *Pulls off mask* Everyone: Sammueeeeelllls! Samuels: And I would've gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for that meddling girl looking for her mom.
Pro tip: To free up inventory space just insert items into the individual crafting menu. The crafting items stay there and inventory space is freed to carry more. #2: androids white eyes mean friendly. Red eyes mean 'no no'.
@02:45:00 Max uses a noisemaker to get the alien to kill friendlies...@03:16:30 did no one in chat have the heart to tell max the working Joe is not aggressive in this area...the eyes are white. LOL @03:24:04 max has finally killed the non aggressive working Joe, bravo! LOL and no max, you have never been attacked by an android with white eyes, check again...
In the book, the predator that helps machiko was actually the leader of the hunt. His whole party got killed durring that hunt and she got fully accepted by the leader and she later goes on to hunt other stuff with other predators. FANTASTIC book series. Makes me so happy to know you read them
Those Working Joe androids are in cahoots with the alien. "Unidentified Species. What are you?" translated from Android speak is "If you were human, I'd be going for the jugular right now, but since you're a hyper scary monster, let's be friends!"
The revisiting of the derilict alone makes it worth playing this game. This scene is a loveletter to every alien fan out there. The atmosphere is so dense and although you know whats coming from the first film, they managed to capture the same fear and wonder when you see the ship, see the spacejockey and go down the egg chamber. The first person perspective helps immensely to deliver the scale of it all, it just blew me away when I played it back then.
Max doesn't seem to understand the plot in the game and just does the objectives. whenever he bothers to use the map. At the point where the alien is always on his ass, it is because your objectives is to seal it into a confide area, multiple objectives where to seal off areas. So it is being trapped in a cage with you the more you complete the tasks. Similar to the 1st movie, you tried in story once or twice to box it and then get Ripply out of the box as you close it the box and throw away the key. Though the box strategy fails once or twice because of problems with the doors etc and it continues to be freed. So it's aggression is on point, not too much, since it is being Isolated by your group the more it pursues you.
2:01:00 Fun fact about Metroid and Aliens: Actually, the people who created the Metroid/Metroid Prime franchise mentioned that they took inspiration from Aliens. They named Ridley (the dragon alien) after the Alien movie director. Mother Brain is both the name of the boss in Metroid and the ship computer. The Metroid creatures are based off of the hatchlings in that both attach to the victims face. The Space Pirates in Metroid/Metroid Prime are based off of the Predators. Finally, just like how the Predators use the Aliens for sport, the Space Pirates in the Metroid series would use the Metroid creatures as weapons or energy.
He needs to stop over-relying on the tracker to figure out where the Xeno is. The thing puts off ambient noise, _everyone_ can hear it, even the xeno. It's the reason it keeps backtracking. He also needs to accurately assess the situation he's in. He killed friendly civilians thinking they were hostile, and attacked a Working Joe that was completely _non-hostile._
@@JadeFoxAlphaYep he lured the alien to kill two friendlies which made him unable to progress and then continually attacked a friendly robot. It’s weird seeing him be so actively dumb.
The entire game is just the alien going "Oh hello there!" Right infront of Max AND the robots and Alien are pure homies kill one and you get no ued badly
To be fair, _minimizing_ any contact with the Xeno is always a good idea. The fact that he waited so long to actually make items on _Hard_ difficulty is a good sign that he's getting used to the Xeno itself. It will _always_ be looking for you no matter what, but it's only ever going to search because it _suspects_ someone is around. The moment you use a distraction to draw its attention, it will know _something_ weird is going on; and the moment you actually engage it with an item is the moment it will _know_ you are around, as opposed to just suspecting. ... The problem is that while he's becoming adept at figuring out the Xeno's movements, he's not as good at assessing other situations. The Working Joe wasn't actually holding him back; his _fear_ that the Working Joe was actually hostile (when it actually wasn't) was the thing that tied him up. Other humans that he meant weren't always in his way; the ones in the Lorenz SysTech Lobby were actually friendly- it's scripted so that Ripley will tell them to head to the Marshal's Bureau.
@@KalibreSteelblast there is a difference between making items n using them. u should always make them when u have the chance. did u even see the amount of stuffs he didnt pick up bcos his material inventory was full? it is called inventory management for a reason.
@@KalibreSteelblast not really, especially when the game throws flares at you from second one and he was full on them during the chapter 5 medbay, and yet proceeded to still crouch in the corner for an hour waiting for the alien to move -_-
Should have been called Alien: Anxiety Attack or Alien: Pure Stress. I played through this recently and my heart was pounding almost nonstop. Great game!
Watching Max plays makes me want to play this again! And I only just got the zero-death achievement two days ago! ^___^ I might do a Nightmare run, though- it's way more intense. >:D 1. The Xeno will show up in places it originally didn't, even relatively peaceful areas (like Seegson Synthetics when getting the compression cylinder). 2. It's far more aggressive and learns your tricks faster 3. You can't see your health bar, ammo, or flashlight battery power. 4. Two pistol shots will kill you, the androids can take more hits and also hit harder. 5. The tracker doesn't work _anywhere_ and will only tell you how far the Xeno is with the number counter (bottom-left corner) as well as the direction to your objective. 6. The amount of scrap lying around is reduced to about 10%. 7. You use up more flamethrower fuel per blast. 8. You have no map data. 9. The Xeno's escape tackle (when you torch it) _will_ kill you unless your health is topped off.
I love hearing another Alien fan just talk about how much he loves it. And mentioning the comics too? Major cool points. Got a big dumb smile on my face.
@@joseftheerazor He didn't take it down. YT did. It was during that period where YT crashed for whatever reason. It fucked up the upload and took it down. Then it also interfered with his attempts to reupload it
I didn't understand why this playthru was as long as it was but now that I realize max spends 2 hours not playing the game and talking about movies I get it now.
2:35:21 According to the subtitles the character actually says, "Battery, Aziz" Aziz is the character asking the camera man what is wrong with the camera.
Watching Max's Alien Playthroughs made me want to play A. Isolation again for myself. I haven't played it since 2015 and it's still just as much fun as I remember!
I've seen the actual full life sized alien queen in a movie prop museum exhibition (its animatronics had been removed) the end of its tail was missing (as it is in the final scene of Aliens)....thing was HUGE!!! even though you know its not real, its not alive, its not an actual alien and that its made of plastic and rubber and latex looking at its face, its Maw open revealing those huge teeth (as long as your finger) I still got a feeling of utter fear and dread and had to go look at the Original Predator head as a cold shiver slithered down my spine (I kept looking back at the queen just in case it had turned its head and was looking at me.)
*Ridley Scott. Cameron only continued his work with Aliens, but Scott is literally the reason Alien exists the way it does, had he not brought Giger back or used the already commissioned artwork it would have looked very different. He fought for the vision he shared with the story's creator.
Loving the Thumb nail Art illusion Max, your so talented. This game is excellent to watch, though it's still scary even just watching lol. @45:25 that part scared the hell out of me lol!!! 👽😹
as someone who has always liked the alien franchise, but never been crazy about it, seeing max so enthusiastic about alien and AvP was so refreshing to watch
well i do,it put me off watching the alien isolation letsplay knowing that,he said he hated having to creep though the game and found it boring @@SolProxy
I'm a video editor, and your playthroughs of Alien, Sekiro and DMC5 have gotten me through many long days chained to my desk and slogging through edits. Great content, thanks!
"It was written by James Cameron..." Max, I love you so much, but this is false information. The failed AVP film that was scrapped before the W.S. Anderson movie had NOTHING to do with James Cameron. One of the writers of that script was a James DiMonaco though. Something close to that. But Ridley Scott and James Cameron were working on pre-production for Ridley's Alien prequel idea in the early 2000s that was "Alien meets Chariot of the Gods". (This would become Prometheus over a decade later). But when the news that 20th Century Fox was moving forward with an Alien vs. Predator film reached Scott and Cameron, both stopped working on their Alien film, feeling the franchise was truly dead.
That part did sound a little off there. I do find the words "false information" odd though. Its correct but whenever I say it out loud I think of the most snarky news anchor pushing their glasses up going "That is false information sir." Not a slight against you. Its just what I think when I see that which is strange.
It was a different kind of game that was unfamiliar to the common audience but now has been gaining a cult following because it really is a good game when given an actual shot.
@@Masterplayer1500 yeah personally i bought colonial marines when it came out and was supremely disappointed from all my magazines hyping it up I was hesitant to buy this game because of that, but omg its like another alien movie. The original i grew up watching with my mother.
I was 8 when I first saw Alien and it scared the absolute shit out of me. The Xenomorph was the literal embodiment of my nightmares. So while it is fun to see Max play this game I will never play it myself. Also highly recommend the Alien Isolation series on IGN, they not only put the story together in a more cinematic way but actually added to the character of Amanda Ripley.
Love the transition you feel cus at first you’re like “ I just wanna see the damn alien” and then once it picks up you long for a segment where it is not a constant ever present threat
The best way to get the alien off you is to distract him with items. I beat it using just a flare to send him to other rooms when I needed to progress. A noisemaker works well too but he doesn't stare at it for nearly as long as a flare. Alien likes bright red light.
What's typically supposed to happen is that the player will go through the vents and reach the supply shelves without incident; no shooting, no Xeno, even though you can hear the latter moving around. When you get the compression cylinder and return to the hall, if you get near the room they're holding out in the Xeno will pop out and kill the group, clearing the way so you can just walk straight to the elevator instead of going through the vents. ... Typically. In _Nightmare_ difficulty, however, the Xeno can pop up while you're reactivating the supply-room Working Joe, and it can kill that group early.
@@KalibreSteelblast I've played on nightmare. It depends on the Xeno's mood I swear. Sometimes I get into the warehousing area without incident. Sometimes it'll spawn and kill all the people while I'm crossing to go into the warehousing area which makes it much more difficult. I'm thankful when it doesnt. I've also had it spawn while I'm in the middle of re-activating the Joe. For literally no reason, it just started patrolling the hallway as soon as I got the level 2 SAT. It also went to kill the people early at times while I was doing that making the entire area far more difficult.... especially if you're looting the warehouse. If I'm doing shit like that, I always put explosives in the path to get to me.... just in case.
If anyone likes audio dramas, Aliens: Out of the Shadows is really good. I also like how they didn't tell the actors about what was going to happen during the chestburster scene.
Veronica Cartwright passed the fuck out, and Yaphet Kotto spent the rest of his day locked in his room after they were done filming. Worst part- that _was_ blood they were using in that scene, sheep's blood. *And Cartwright got it on her face and mouth.* Funniest thing, though- they didn't really suspect anything, *even though the film crew and equipment were covered in plastic and raincoats before they started.*
@@jamesnelson5741 Oh, the one with the mining colony, right. With Rutger Hauer. I was thinking of River of Pain. All three of those audio books (Out of the Shadows, Sea of Sorrows, and River of Pain) are awesome.
I'm shocked that I beat this game back then, the horror elements were super effective on me, it's long as fuck and definitely doesn't make it easy for you to know what to do. These videos made me remember how good this shit is. Glad Max gave it a second chance.
I used to be like "damn, max is so good at fighting games, I been playing them for 30 years and I'm still trash at them..." but then watching him play this the way he does makes me feel better about my general gaming skills.
What's interesting is, outside of a few areas where he just straight up doesn't seem to comprehend what the game wants him to do (I'll confess it's not always 100% obvious), he's actually doing pretty well considering he's playing blind on hard.
@@EuroMIX2 He actually died alot _less_ than most blind-plays on hard do. And he caught on to the mechanics relatively quick; like learning that he could get away with walking around instead of just having to crouch the entire time.
The amount of times he was right where he needed to be, and even SAW as much on the map, and then fucked off somewhere else for no reason and got killed or pinned... Jesus, I was screaming at the screen, "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING DUDE?!"
@@KalibreSteelblast No man, he is really struggling with the robots, and just cant see the EMP mine in his craft list, wtf. I mean, he is far from be bad, considering that he dosnt use the craft system. He is bad because he is not thinking well, or paying attention. Maybe because of the chat.
For the record: Even though the worlds and the crashed/landed spaceships resemble each other, Prometheus is set on a planetoid with the designation LV-223, while Alien takes place on LV-426 (aka Acheron). According to Ridley Scott, the two planetoids are in the same star system. The two ships in Alien and Prometheus are different. According to Scott, the derelict spaceship seen in Alien was similar to the one shown in Prometheus, but was in fact a "brother," not the same ship. He suggests that the ship originated from LV-223, carrying dangerous cargo and landed on LV-426 more than a millennium before the events in both movies. This suggests that the xenomorph infestation on LV-426 originated from the facility on LV-223 and that the events shown in the holographic footage in Prometheus may be related to how the (then known as) "space jockey" Engineer died. It is unknown whether the ship on LV-426 carried eggs that hatched and infected the Engineer(s) or if it was carrying the containers with the black substance shown in Prometheus.
My gf also made the "mistake" of not noticing the white eyes of the Working Joe in the staircase. It won't do anything to do if you just walk around. Makes for more entertaining moments with Max though, so that's a good thing :)
"watch the higher framerate makes the alien even more hyper aggressive or some shit" Max gets hyper aggressive rushing at the alien, the alien kills him in more aggressive ways from then on...yup, think you called it Max. 😂
Yeah the alien can't impregnate the synthoids, synthoids want it alive. Synthoids don't present heat IIRC. So I am assuming neither thinks of the other as a problem.
*Spoiler Below* Max: Come the fuck on dude, give me a break! Me: No, he really shouldn't... All of the people you just had the Alien Slaughter, were your allies. You were supposed to talk to them and send them all back to Waits at The Marshall Bureau.
Not sure if you noticed, but the Marlow flashback closes the"plothole" in Aliens that the colonists never picked up the beacon from the Engineer spaceship and had to be told where to look by Burke.
Couple of tips for this game:
Even if you're hiding under a table or whatever, if you can see the Alien in a clear line of sight, it can see *you* too.
If you surprise attack it with the Flame Thrower, i.e. blast it before it's noticed you, it'll instantly retreat every time. For when its seen you, a 1-2 second-long continuous burst should be enough to drive it off, no matter how resistant it gets to simple short blasts.
If it's in the vents drooling, you can blast the vent with the Flame Thrower and you'll hear the Alien scream as it flees.
Putting down Molotovs and Pipe Bombs directly under vents will send the Alien straight back up into another one. Take caution though, sometimes the Alien will run to a completely different vent to escape. If you're in the way and with your back turned, you'll die if it runs into you.
White eyes on an android means it's not hostile and won't attack, but they _will_ attack if attacked first, if you use certain terminals or sometimes even fire your weapons in front of them. Don't bother using the Flame Thrower on them, you may as well be smacking them with the wrench without zapping them first, a waste of fuel.
Lastly, if you think the Alien is too aggressive on Hard mode, try Nightmare. Enjoy the torture.
You want to burst-fire, though- it consumes less fuel. Unless you're on Nightmare, in which case you should _never_ use it except as a last resort.
@@KalibreSteelblast I've personally found that burst-firing the Flame Thrower consumed more fuel, but whatever method works best, go with that. And yes, even on the lower difficulties, the Flame Thrower should be used only as a last resort. That's just out of sheer principle of practicality though.
I'm very late to this, but I LOVE playing on Nightmare mode. I have beaten the game 3 times on Nightmare alone & I just can't play the game on an easier difficulty anymore. The only time I'll play on an easier difficulty is when achievement hunting.
@@kaileesiSome games are like that, anything less than the highest difficulty and it gets boring. Last time I tried Nightmare mode, several years ago, I got stuck on the second to last mission. Maybe someday I'll return to it.
Also: Do a lot more walking than crawling. Walking is like 3x faster than crawling and barely louder. Often you get through a whole room walking before the Alien drops in. Crawling takes forever. Plenty of time for Alien to drop from a vent and start searching around.
Max makes it hard for himself, never using all those crafting items.
The longer you stay in one place, the more precisely the Alien can sense where you are.
Also, it can hear your motion tracker when you're very close.
Also also, you can safely walk without crouching when it's in the vents. It won't hear you. Just don't run. Running is death.
agree. also there is a thing called noise maker
It hears you walking in a 20 meter proximity whether it is in the vents or not. If you walk through while it's in the vents it will drop near you and search
"Alien Isolation Long Play - No Crafting (Medikits Only)"
Dude It's killing me how he's NOT CRAFTING stuff and skipping all materials! 😅
_"This game sucks."_
Dood speak for _"I worship this game"._
It's RE2 Remake all over again.
@@briansilva3765 No.
@@mr.billthrower7392 Yes.
@@briansilva3765 not really since this came out first
@@brettbrett678 I was talking about Max's reaction, this specific playthrough was after he played Re2 remake, where he shouted this game sucks every 5 minutes when MrX was around.
Thank you for muting the sub alerts, makes for a much better experience
17:18 "I need a god damn save point!"
misses save point on the other side of map right after saying lololol
I played through this whole game the first time not realizing the save points made a specific sound to help you find them. When I played through again I realized I'd only found like 1/3 of the save points lol.
I was wondering where this episode went. It was on TH-cam then it just disappeared like the next day, thanks for re-uploading this...
It was uploaded when yt went down so the video couldnt be watched why he waited a week to post it again idk
@@derpdiamonduniverse1523 He said on stream that he was trying to re-upload it, but ran into a bunch of problems. Encoding took like 24 hours and then cancelled, YT kept acting funky, things like that.
@@derpdiamonduniverse1523 long videos are a bitch to upload, i used to have issues with only 20 min videos.
Yeah this other steamer dude said he was having the same problem uploading his vods of yakuza 7
hope Max do a lore run for this one 😁
The Alien AI in this game is spectacular
Ikr sometimes is frustrating to avoid the Alien lmfao
Yes an no, its even better if you use the unpredictable allien mod!
@travis Rm was Nasa in on this? CIA?
@@SPACECOWBOY705 Weyland-Yutani.
Indeed. Instead of following a particular route and chase you when it sees you, the game tells the alien where are your position. It's like "Yo alien, she's over there somewhere. Go and search that area". Once the alien is near you long enough, then it will go away.
Now imagine playing this in VR. The most terrifying experience in my life.
He made that so much harder than it was. He didn’t even need to kill the android. Ripley was allowed to there.
To be fair, his first encounters with both humans and androids weren't particularly...friendly?
Watching Alien, right after completing this game is a mad experience. You spend so long in this world and so immersed that when you rewatch the film, your brain honestly feels like you've been there in real life. You just appreciate this game even more, with how closely they recreated everything.
You can definitely tell he's a professional fighting game player. He never spends his resources until he absolutely has to or it's already too late XD
Cue Max's RE2 remake first play through when he accidentally wasted almost all of his resources on early phase of the gameplay lol :P
@@Arpin_Lusene It wasn't even an accident, lol. Max wanted to experiment fighting Mr.X and then see how far he could progress after downing it, but he got so far he opted not to reset and just continue with whatever little resources were remaining.
That's not how professional fighting game players play but ok.......
Good lord that was killing me. Missing out on all the loot and using no devices to help 😂😂🤮🤮
Also because he relentlessly attacks other things without first checking to see if they are actually hostile or not.
Interesting take for Prometheus, I had the understanding that the engineers had somehow became sterile and thus their species was dying out. However at some point they encounter the last of some alien creature that impregnates one of them. Thus they view it as sacred. Being engineers they create the black goo from the blood of the alien creature to seed worlds in order to carry on their species. @2:09:15
Ripley: tries to escape
The alien: and I took that personally
Isn’t it kind of funny that the Xenomorph is bitching on the person that is a solo trying to survive (Ripley) but doesn’t bitch on the group of people?
@@ihatelife5464 well she is the protagonist soooo
It's heavily implied that this xenomorph has a personal grudge against Amanda for managing to evade it constantly something it considers an insult to it's hunting skills.
Waits: Alright gang, let's find out who this alien really is.
*Pulls off mask*
Everyone: Sammueeeeelllls!
Samuels: And I would've gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for that meddling girl looking for her mom.
Pro tip:
To free up inventory space just insert items into the individual crafting menu. The crafting items stay there and inventory space is freed to carry more.
#2: androids white eyes mean friendly. Red eyes mean 'no no'.
52:37 Love this part lol. You don't even need to throw a noisemaker. Also the "Oh shit" at the end is a nice little touch.
@02:45:00 Max uses a noisemaker to get the alien to kill friendlies...@03:16:30 did no one in chat have the heart to tell max the working Joe is not aggressive in this area...the eyes are white. LOL @03:24:04 max has finally killed the non aggressive working Joe, bravo! LOL and no max, you have never been attacked by an android with white eyes, check again...
Max: Talking about his passion for the alien series like a fanboy.
The Game: 2:40:14
mmm yes amazing *BANG*
In the book, the predator that helps machiko was actually the leader of the hunt. His whole party got killed durring that hunt and she got fully accepted by the leader and she later goes on to hunt other stuff with other predators. FANTASTIC book series. Makes me so happy to know you read them
Those Working Joe androids are in cahoots with the alien. "Unidentified Species. What are you?" translated from Android speak is "If you were human, I'd be going for the jugular right now, but since you're a hyper scary monster, let's be friends!"
Ironically, with the Xenomorph's lack of response it's basically a yes
Beats android to pieces, then cursingly gloats. Yep. That's a fair amount of solace for being hunted by a xenomorph.
Six hours and forty minutes into the game: -"I think I should craft items now to free up my inventory" 😂😂
Lmao been thinking that the entire game 😂
The revisiting of the derilict alone makes it worth playing this game. This scene is a loveletter to every alien fan out there. The atmosphere is so dense and although you know whats coming from the first film, they managed to capture the same fear and wonder when you see the ship, see the spacejockey and go down the egg chamber. The first person perspective helps immensely to deliver the scale of it all, it just blew me away when I played it back then.
I kinda wish they could also try to capture feeling from second film.
@@SuperArppis No...not the awful sequel. Guns galore alien sponge shoot out. Totally threw away the horror.
Max doesn't seem to understand the plot in the game and just does the objectives. whenever he bothers to use the map. At the point where the alien is always on his ass, it is because your objectives is to seal it into a confide area, multiple objectives where to seal off areas. So it is being trapped in a cage with you the more you complete the tasks. Similar to the 1st movie, you tried in story once or twice to box it and then get Ripply out of the box as you close it the box and throw away the key. Though the box strategy fails once or twice because of problems with the doors etc and it continues to be freed. So it's aggression is on point, not too much, since it is being Isolated by your group the more it pursues you.
2:57:38 lmfaoo the alien was about to walk away but it heard beep beep beep from his device and turned around like "WTF WAS THAT NOISE"
2:01:00 Fun fact about Metroid and Aliens:
Actually, the people who created the Metroid/Metroid Prime franchise mentioned that they took inspiration from Aliens.
They named Ridley (the dragon alien) after the Alien movie director.
Mother Brain is both the name of the boss in Metroid and the ship computer.
The Metroid creatures are based off of the hatchlings in that both attach to the victims face.
The Space Pirates in Metroid/Metroid Prime are based off of the Predators.
Finally, just like how the Predators use the Aliens for sport, the Space Pirates in the Metroid series would use the Metroid creatures as weapons or energy.
Max: This alien is hyper-aggressive.
Me: Maybe you shouldn't be a dingus and stare the alien down from where it can clearly see you. XD
One person's blatant rudeness does not excuse another acting in kind. These Xenomorphs are obviously ill-bred and could use a tutor in sundry manners.
He needs to stop over-relying on the tracker to figure out where the Xeno is. The thing puts off ambient noise, _everyone_ can hear it, even the xeno. It's the reason it keeps backtracking.
He also needs to accurately assess the situation he's in. He killed friendly civilians thinking they were hostile, and attacked a Working Joe that was completely _non-hostile._
@@KalibreSteelblast bingo. You never saw. Ripley looking at it nonstop. Lol
@@calska140 doesn’t this Xenomorph know it’s rude not to give out your name in introduction? :3
I thought these things were blind 🤔
1:50 The damn thing here is that Max could have survived. All he had to do was move around behind the desk.
True but it's funnier to shove the alien and say the alien is a b**ch
Well, now you know why the beacon signal wasn't picked up by the colonists on LV-426. Because these guys turned it off.
Btw the robot on the stairwell is friendly, Max could have completely ignored him.
Also the two humans right before that? That he sic'd the Alien on? Totally friendly.
@@JadeFoxAlpha glad he didn't know they were friendly. More fun fkn around than always play it safe. Those friendlies deserved that death.
@@JadeFoxAlphaYep he lured the alien to kill two friendlies which made him unable to progress and then continually attacked a friendly robot.
It’s weird seeing him be so actively dumb.
This game is what I imagine what a level in Metroid Prime would be if you played as Zero Suit Samus like in Zero Mission
Or fusion in first person
The entire game is just the alien going "Oh hello there!" Right infront of Max AND the robots and Alien are pure homies kill one and you get no ued badly
Hey he finally learned he has to make items to distract the alien instead of just running and dying
To be fair, _minimizing_ any contact with the Xeno is always a good idea. The fact that he waited so long to actually make items on _Hard_ difficulty is a good sign that he's getting used to the Xeno itself. It will _always_ be looking for you no matter what, but it's only ever going to search because it _suspects_ someone is around. The moment you use a distraction to draw its attention, it will know _something_ weird is going on; and the moment you actually engage it with an item is the moment it will _know_ you are around, as opposed to just suspecting.
... The problem is that while he's becoming adept at figuring out the Xeno's movements, he's not as good at assessing other situations. The Working Joe wasn't actually holding him back; his _fear_ that the Working Joe was actually hostile (when it actually wasn't) was the thing that tied him up. Other humans that he meant weren't always in his way; the ones in the Lorenz SysTech Lobby were actually friendly- it's scripted so that Ripley will tell them to head to the Marshal's Bureau.
@@KalibreSteelblast there is a difference between making items n using them. u should always make them when u have the chance. did u even see the amount of stuffs he didnt pick up bcos his material inventory was full? it is called inventory management for a reason.
@@KalibreSteelblast not really, especially when the game throws flares at you from second one and he was full on them during the chapter 5 medbay, and yet proceeded to still crouch in the corner for an hour waiting for the alien to move -_-
@@Conner3326 so sad
@@amazo88 let the man play however he wants to lol just enjoy his stream or move on, but stop bitching
God, it's like trying to dodge an ex that still has a crush on you.
Possible, but you need to distance yourself from other people or use them as distraction while you make your escape? XD
Should have been called Alien: Anxiety Attack or Alien: Pure Stress. I played through this recently and my heart was pounding almost nonstop. Great game!
Watching Max plays makes me want to play this again! And I only just got the zero-death achievement two days ago! ^___^
I might do a Nightmare run, though- it's way more intense. >:D
1. The Xeno will show up in places it originally didn't, even relatively peaceful areas (like Seegson Synthetics when getting the compression cylinder).
2. It's far more aggressive and learns your tricks faster
3. You can't see your health bar, ammo, or flashlight battery power.
4. Two pistol shots will kill you, the androids can take more hits and also hit harder.
5. The tracker doesn't work _anywhere_ and will only tell you how far the Xeno is with the number counter (bottom-left corner) as well as the direction to your objective.
6. The amount of scrap lying around is reduced to about 10%.
7. You use up more flamethrower fuel per blast.
8. You have no map data.
9. The Xeno's escape tackle (when you torch it) _will_ kill you unless your health is topped off.
I love hearing another Alien fan just talk about how much he loves it. And mentioning the comics too? Major cool points. Got a big dumb smile on my face.
lol.. 4:06:04 "How did he see me?" *Tip on screen as he says this: 'The alien has heightened senses'*
At first playing this game I was always hidden and walking lay low slowly. Once I stayed hidden in a locker for 15 minutes.
Was waiting for this to get reuploaded, this is one of my favorite games.
4:15:11 - 🤣🤣🤣 I love this part!
Max fired his flamethrower at the alien. Alone activates cheat code for immunity to fire.
YESS FINALLY ITS BACK
Yeah. I saw a little of this before I realize he took it down. Not by issues but for a reason I still don't know
@@joseftheerazor He didn't take it down. YT did. It was during that period where YT crashed for whatever reason. It fucked up the upload and took it down. Then it also interfered with his attempts to reupload it
Noise makers come in handy in those “cornered” situations. ✌️ Also killing the android at the beginning helps to stop the chase between alien and him.
I didn't understand why this playthru was as long as it was but now that I realize max spends 2 hours not playing the game and talking about movies I get it now.
Was waiting for someone in the chat to tell him the stairwell Android is non hostile XD
2:35:21 According to the subtitles the character actually says, "Battery, Aziz" Aziz is the character asking the camera man what is wrong with the camera.
Not even 5 minutes with Max talking shit and got wrecked immediately...I can’t wait for what happens at a save point
True Lies is one of my all-time favorite movies.
4:33:10 pissed me off so much. He was literally inside the elevator. However he decides to let the alien kill him instead.... because of reasons?!?!?
It's not that big a deal.
4 hours isn't enough to enjoy your intoxicating commentary. Shine on Max!
man what if he do lore run of aliens isolation 10 hours + 😁
It was actually agonizing, this time.
Watching Max's Alien Playthroughs made me want to play A. Isolation again for myself. I haven't played it since 2015 and it's still just as much fun as I remember!
No wonder the alien is constantly coming after you Max, you keep saying his game sucks.
He put a lot of effort into his own game!
I've seen the actual full life sized alien queen in a movie prop museum exhibition (its animatronics had been removed) the end of its tail was missing (as it is in the final scene of Aliens)....thing was HUGE!!! even though you know its not real, its not alive, its not an actual alien and that its made of plastic and rubber and latex looking at its face, its Maw open revealing those huge teeth (as long as your finger) I still got a feeling of utter fear and dread and had to go look at the Original Predator head as a cold shiver slithered down my spine (I kept looking back at the queen just in case it had turned its head and was looking at me.)
*Ridley Scott. Cameron only continued his work with Aliens, but Scott is literally the reason Alien exists the way it does, had he not brought Giger back or used the already commissioned artwork it would have looked very different. He fought for the vision he shared with the story's creator.
Yay its back. I was a little under an hour into this last time it was up and the great TH-cam Death of 2020 hit.
I loved the game so so much. Still one of my favorite games of the past gen.
Pinchy really has his father's smile.
Not as big as benny boi tho!
Watching this piece of gold again even though I was in the chat these nights. It's a playthrough up there with Sub-Zero.
Loving the Thumb nail Art illusion Max, your so talented.
This game is excellent to watch, though it's still scary even just watching lol. @45:25 that part scared the hell out of me lol!!! 👽😹
I dropped my ipad at that part, almost had a heartattack.☠️
@@kevinbirath9401 Lol 😻
I just finished part 1, can’t wait to watch this
Same I actually am playing Alien isolation rn XD
ALRIGHT I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!
as someone who has always liked the alien franchise, but never been crazy about it, seeing max so enthusiastic about alien and AvP was so refreshing to watch
he actually wasnt,in another stream after this he said he hated this game and considered it boring lol
i think it was in the resi 4 randomizer vid
@@random_an0nI don't remember that.
well i do,it put me off watching the alien isolation letsplay knowing that,he said he hated having to creep though the game and found it boring
@@SolProxy
I'm a video editor, and your playthroughs of Alien, Sekiro and DMC5 have gotten me through many long days chained to my desk and slogging through edits. Great content, thanks!
Just finished watching Aliens on netflix after this vid and I've had a blast admiring how good those animatronics they made for real
"It was written by James Cameron..."
Max, I love you so much, but this is false information. The failed AVP film that was scrapped before the W.S. Anderson movie had NOTHING to do with James Cameron. One of the writers of that script was a James DiMonaco though. Something close to that.
But Ridley Scott and James Cameron were working on pre-production for Ridley's Alien prequel idea in the early 2000s that was "Alien meets Chariot of the Gods". (This would become Prometheus over a decade later).
But when the news that 20th Century Fox was moving forward with an Alien vs. Predator film reached Scott and Cameron, both stopped working on their Alien film, feeling the franchise was truly dead.
That part did sound a little off there. I do find the words "false information" odd though. Its correct but whenever I say it out loud I think of the most snarky news anchor pushing their glasses up going "That is false information sir." Not a slight against you. Its just what I think when I see that which is strange.
I watched this entire video over about 6 different sittings
Good boy pinchy, Run man run ! Alien on to ya !
This game is slept on so hard.
I dont understand why people hated this game asbadly as they did
I know ign gave it a 6/10 but i was expecting a lot more people to play it
It was a different kind of game that was unfamiliar to the common audience but now has been gaining a cult following because it really is a good game when given an actual shot.
@@Masterplayer1500 yeah personally i bought colonial marines when it came out and was supremely disappointed from all my magazines hyping it up
I was hesitant to buy this game because of that, but omg its like another alien movie. The original i grew up watching with my mother.
I think it was overshadowed by RE7. A real shame because I think Isolation is far better.
@@Spike-hl2mw re7 didnt come out for another 3 years..... what do you mean?
I was 8 when I first saw Alien and it scared the absolute shit out of me. The Xenomorph was the literal embodiment of my nightmares. So while it is fun to see Max play this game I will never play it myself.
Also highly recommend the Alien Isolation series on IGN, they not only put the story together in a more cinematic way but actually added to the character of Amanda Ripley.
So cool to see Max talk about the movie :)
Those people you killed at 2:46:00 were friendly, btw
*THE TIME HAS COME AND SO HAVE I*
Love the transition you feel cus at first you’re like “ I just wanna see the damn alien” and then once it picks up you long for a segment where it is not a constant ever present threat
Hard disagree, the Joe's and facehuggers are far more annoying than the alien.
@@stevenclark5173 Agreed
🎵 _"Hello, my baby! Hello, my honey! Hello, my ragtime gal!"_ 🎵
Send me a kiss by wire, baby my hearts on fire!
Check please!
Lol i understood this reference
Ah, a man of culture.
@@griffnuts If you refuse me, honey, you'll lose me then you'll be all alone,
Oh, baby, telephone, and tell me I'm your own!
Ok so I CAN'T be the only one screaming at my screen for him to craft fucking something!
The best way to get the alien off you is to distract him with items. I beat it using just a flare to send him to other rooms when I needed to progress. A noisemaker works well too but he doesn't stare at it for nearly as long as a flare. Alien likes bright red light.
Except if you just keep using one item...the alien will start to ignore it. So you can't keep using flares.
Maximilian "oh no, I've gotta go all the way over there now?" Dood.
At 25:57 Max just yeets the alien out of that vent with frame magic. Shame, would have been such a great scare.
Is a must to use your items....a must. The key to mantain the Alien busy. I mostly used noise maker and molotov to confuse the Xenomorph.
Thank you Max for part 2!!!! I've been waiting for this. This game is so fucking good !
Glad this is back up. Seems Max fell in love a third time with this game.
45:35 - That was SO UNLUCKY! If they'd shot at you first it would have given you some time to get away and gone to kill them first
What's typically supposed to happen is that the player will go through the vents and reach the supply shelves without incident; no shooting, no Xeno, even though you can hear the latter moving around. When you get the compression cylinder and return to the hall, if you get near the room they're holding out in the Xeno will pop out and kill the group, clearing the way so you can just walk straight to the elevator instead of going through the vents.
... Typically.
In _Nightmare_ difficulty, however, the Xeno can pop up while you're reactivating the supply-room Working Joe, and it can kill that group early.
@@KalibreSteelblast I've played on nightmare. It depends on the Xeno's mood I swear. Sometimes I get into the warehousing area without incident.
Sometimes it'll spawn and kill all the people while I'm crossing to go into the warehousing area which makes it much more difficult. I'm thankful when it doesnt.
I've also had it spawn while I'm in the middle of re-activating the Joe. For literally no reason, it just started patrolling the hallway as soon as I got the level 2 SAT. It also went to kill the people early at times while I was doing that making the entire area far more difficult.... especially if you're looting the warehouse.
If I'm doing shit like that, I always put explosives in the path to get to me.... just in case.
If anyone likes audio dramas, Aliens: Out of the Shadows is really good. I also like how they didn't tell the actors about what was going to happen during the chestburster scene.
Veronica Cartwright passed the fuck out, and Yaphet Kotto spent the rest of his day locked in his room after they were done filming.
Worst part- that _was_ blood they were using in that scene, sheep's blood. *And Cartwright got it on her face and mouth.*
Funniest thing, though- they didn't really suspect anything, *even though the film crew and equipment were covered in plastic and raincoats before they started.*
Out of the Shadows was very cool. That was the one about Acheron before Ripley and the Marines arrived, right?
@@JadeFoxAlpha I believe it is based 30 years after the event of Alien.
@@jamesnelson5741 Oh, the one with the mining colony, right. With Rutger Hauer. I was thinking of River of Pain. All three of those audio books (Out of the Shadows, Sea of Sorrows, and River of Pain) are awesome.
@@JadeFoxAlpha They are all really good one.
I'm shocked that I beat this game back then, the horror elements were super effective on me, it's long as fuck and definitely doesn't make it easy for you to know what to do. These videos made me remember how good this shit is. Glad Max gave it a second chance.
I used to be like "damn, max is so good at fighting games, I been playing them for 30 years and I'm still trash at them..." but then watching him play this the way he does makes me feel better about my general gaming skills.
What's interesting is, outside of a few areas where he just straight up doesn't seem to comprehend what the game wants him to do (I'll confess it's not always 100% obvious), he's actually doing pretty well considering he's playing blind on hard.
@@EuroMIX2 He actually died alot _less_ than most blind-plays on hard do. And he caught on to the mechanics relatively quick; like learning that he could get away with walking around instead of just having to crouch the entire time.
The amount of times he was right where he needed to be, and even SAW as much on the map, and then fucked off somewhere else for no reason and got killed or pinned... Jesus, I was screaming at the screen, "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING DUDE?!"
@@KalibreSteelblast No man, he is really struggling with the robots, and just cant see the EMP mine in his craft list, wtf. I mean, he is far from be bad, considering that he dosnt use the craft system. He is bad because he is not thinking well, or paying attention. Maybe because of the chat.
.... That kinda reeks of insecurity and ego but okay
For the record: Even though the worlds and the crashed/landed spaceships resemble each other, Prometheus is set on a planetoid with the designation LV-223, while Alien takes place on LV-426 (aka Acheron). According to Ridley Scott, the two planetoids are in the same star system.
The two ships in Alien and Prometheus are different. According to Scott, the derelict spaceship seen in Alien was similar to the one shown in Prometheus, but was in fact a "brother," not the same ship. He suggests that the ship originated from LV-223, carrying dangerous cargo and landed on LV-426 more than a millennium before the events in both movies.
This suggests that the xenomorph infestation on LV-426 originated from the facility on LV-223 and that the events shown in the holographic footage in Prometheus may be related to how the (then known as) "space jockey" Engineer died. It is unknown whether the ship on LV-426 carried eggs that hatched and infected the Engineer(s) or if it was carrying the containers with the black substance shown in Prometheus.
My gf also made the "mistake" of not noticing the white eyes of the Working Joe in the staircase. It won't do anything to do if you just walk around.
Makes for more entertaining moments with Max though, so that's a good thing :)
21:30 the sound of true pain
Both the stairwell Android and the Human NPC's in the atrium were non-hostile... oh, Max.
Some zoomer said "Metroid inspired so much in Aliens", my god I cringed so fucking hard.
God bless the creators of this is the blueprint for creating survival horror
"watch the higher framerate makes the alien even more hyper aggressive or some shit"
Max gets hyper aggressive rushing at the alien, the alien kills him in more aggressive ways from then on...yup, think you called it Max. 😂
Yo, I've been waiting for this! TH-cam had to die just as I was gonna watch the first one initially.
Yeah the alien can't impregnate the synthoids, synthoids want it alive. Synthoids don't present heat IIRC. So I am assuming neither thinks of the other as a problem.
*Spoiler Below*
Max: Come the fuck on dude, give me a break!
Me: No, he really shouldn't... All of the people you just had the Alien Slaughter, were your allies. You were supposed to talk to them and send them all back to Waits at The Marshall Bureau.
"Its getting a little crazy" 4:32:45 "AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
😂😂😂
With all the new things coming out and the length of those episodes, I'm afraid we'll have to wait a month to get part 3 of this playthrough XD
Well. How wrong you were lol.
@@annieme-tions I mean, good thing I was wrong, not complaining XD