A shooter in the Aliens universe could and should work. It just has to be suspenseful, tense, claustrophobic, and unpredictable. Based on reviews, Fireteam Elite fails at those key things.

Sounds like a self-inflicted issue since it probably would’ve been avoided if they kept support for peer to peer multiplayer.

I liked the scale too. I’d be interested to see how it compares to GTA5. I think GTA5 is supposed to be technically bigger, but SA feels bigger from what I remember.

13 years too late, but you could play Fallout 3 without GFWL. If I remember right, you had to load the game directly from its main executable.

I’m getting at “Disliked: bad vehicle controls” in the review summary that had no further explanation about it.

Are the vehicle controls worse than previous games? I remember them being fine in other games compared to a game like Wildlands, which feels like you’re steering on ice.

Interesting reading the comments for the various reviews and seeing them all reflect confirmation bias.

Red screens of almost death make perfect sense. It means get behind cover before you die. It’s at least a tiny bit of realism compared to being unaffected from getting shot 10 times with a sliver of health left.

I just want a remake of BF2. The city maps were excellent, and I liked that the map area scaled depending on the max number of players so that you got a different experience if you were playing with 16, 32, or 64 players. And the commander/squad leaders dynamic worked perfectly. It just needs updated graphics and…

Hmm... nanobots are a disappointing threat since they already did that in Everything or Nothing.

I had to doubletake to make sure it wasn’t April 1st.

I just realized how Sierra On-line seemed to have a lot of female game designers in a male-dominated industry. Off the top of my head:

From what I remember, killing the little sisters does earn you more Adam in the short-term, but I think you end up getting more Adam in the long-run from “gift packages” from the saved little girls.

You use Resource Monitor to suspend it on PC. There’s a way to get to Resource Monitor from Task Manager, but it’s an extra unnecessary step.

I just played it on Steam last month, and Space Oddity was in it.

There was only one that I remember being blatant. You find TVs all game that usually play Night Springs episodes, but one just plays an ad for Verizon, and you get an achievement for watching it, which I’m not sure is better or worse.

I’m surprised A Final Unity isn’t available yet.

What difficulty? I just played it on PC at normal difficulty, and I thought it was mostly easy, and I was way too conservative with my ammo. Checkpoints were usually generous. I’m sure it’s easier with a mouse and keyboard. Some sections were more challenging, but overall, I mostly ran into trouble when I was facing…

I happened to just finish Alan Wake like a week ago. I’d started playing Control about a month ago, but the constant Alan Wake references convinced me I should stop and play that first. I liked it a lot and preferred its linear structure over Control’s metroidvania style.

I was also that person.