It's never "too late", but Isolation was lightning in a bottle. It would be very hard to create a worthy sequel that was also distinct enough to stand on it's own.
@stealthynaxo Something like that’s already been done in the 90s on a computer game I believe it was online you play as a colonist that’s been facehugged
The gamer in me wants a sequel. The Alien fan in me doesn't want to continue Amanda's story. She battled the Xenos, she found out what happened to her mother, she got her closure, she was rescued while adrift in space and lived out the rest of her life. I'm satisfied with that ending.
@@SaadTheGlad Yes, but the video is talking about an Alien: Isolation sequel. I was saying that the gamer half of me would be excited about another Alien: Isolation game to play. But the Alien fan in me is very happy with Amanda’s story, even if left open-ended.
@@pokes404they could easily just call the game alien isolation 2 and not follow Amanda whatsoever. Outlast 2 literally did this and it worked perfectly
I bought it 2 and half years ago and now played campaign seven times four of them in nightmare and two in insane a.i. First two times felt best and after beating first time I get very good feeling of achievement after hiding alien in lockers for over 20 hours. Fifth time I past nightmare campaign without dying in 5 hours. It took lot of retries everytime I died. Then I played it in insane a.i and got massacred a lot for long time. Otherwise it was good but alien notices you too suddenly and in open places jumps too much. It is way too punishing and frustrating. Good thing it doesn't let you run like through mission 5 or it runs after you. I have been trying modding with opengl but its not that easy use and there is not much guide in internet.
Still remember the times over the last years, I was so frustrated and sad about letting a potential sequel die after they did deliver such an awesome gem. Now after the announcement I am happy and hope they can deliver a great sequel :)
Alien isolation is a masterpiece, as I huge fan of all thing Alien I’m still living in hope that developers do the right thing and get a sequel made ….
Gotta disagree with Alien Isolation breaking the mold in 2014. It was 2009 when Ghostbusters: The Video Game crushed it. It was written by the screenwriters of the first two (and at the time only) movies. It had voice acting from the entire original cast. It used scripts and stories from the sequel that Dan Akroid spent twenty years trying to sell to studios. Until Afterlife came out, it was considered - not only by most fans, but by the screenwriters themselves - to be the full-cannon continuation of the story. And as a game, it was magnificient.
That's it. That tears it! Me and u! Right here right now! Minor disagreement online about a random pointless thing! ITS ON! Ur ass my face! I mean my face ur ass! But tbh u might be right to a degree but u don't feel that it was a lil dif the way it was done. I mean, I don't nooo, why u asking me? It's close. U may be right.
Didn't that happen before? I'm pretty sure that wasn't the first time ever studios went: "hmm this game is good, let's incorporate it into our movies". Lord of the Rings? 007? Terminator? Star Wars? I know there must've been something, even if it wasn't a console game.
@@radrno7 We're not talking about incorporating movies into games. We're talking about the game that "broke the mold." The mold, in this case, is "terrible movie-based games." More specifically, the games that showed that move-based games could be not only good, by fantastic experiences that rival actual movies in the franchises. Alien Isolation was one such experience, but the first to really do this super-well was Ghostbusters The Videogame in 2009.
@@WraithTDK You mean canon good movie based adaptation games, right? Else you're ignoring literally all the others like 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine', 'Peter Jackson's King Kong' and '007: Goldeneye'.
Oh man, Ryan McCaffrey is the bane of my existence for that review. I blame him for why we're still waiting on a a sequel and may never get a good one if it ever does come out. He wanted the game to be a Alien bullet sponge shooter so bad. He couldn't be pressed to understand and learn the most basic mechanics of the game. For instance... Hey, guess what, if you hide in a locker and keep your motion tracker out, the creature will find you - because you advertising your position, genius. The device is actively emitting a beeping sound. That's not just for your benefit, you dipshit.
Possibly IGN's worst review. It helped to damage the game's chances of success. People were _rightly_ burned after the Colonial Marines disaster, and seeing 5.9 made many write Isolation off and never look back (until years later).
It needs sequel but as you said it must not be worse than alien isolation. And that would be very hard to do. It should habe only one single alien and good story with good graphics. Maybe the alien couls have different places and ways to hide and to appaer, not only from vents. Also they could remove the loud stomping walking and could make it more silent.
A sequel is fine - but not involving Amanda. She's suffered enough Maybe starring Newt on Hadley's Hope (or another child) before the marines arrive. The child would have a pet cat that acts as a motion tracker, you can see it get agitated as its ears hone in on danger Something like that would be new - being a child would make all of the corridors and aliens look super massive, and cats always sell games - there has never been a game involving a cat that hasn't been successful I came up with this idea long before I played "Stray" - which is an exceptional pussycat game that could well be adapted for the ALIEN universe
Hmm yeah, I could definitely see it happening, like 'Among The Sleep', BUT I believe they would have to turn it into a much shorter and simpler game, because you're playing with a child, so you won't be able to do much like Amanda who's an adult that can craft tools and use weapons to vary gameplay. I could easily see it as a VR game though, because it would be easier to implement everything. I can already see it: "Come and witness 'Aliens - Hadley's Hope', the brand new Aliens VR experience. Play as Newt, the beloved icon before the events of the movie 'Aliens'. Help her get through the horrors of a small trooper as the sole survivor of the fallout of Hadley's Hope in a fight against the worst nightmare of all... Aliens."
I had a similar idea, but rather play as Newt, you play as the woman who eventually ends up with a chest burster is Aliens. She doesn't have much combat skills so limited in the tools she can use, but similar to isolation. At some point she discovers Newt, and they both survive together for a period of time. By the end, she would have killed a few xenos in various ways (maybe the cause for the multiple holes through the floors that the marines find) and ultimately get caught sacrificing herself to protect Newt.
I just love how the games very much like one of the OG films. Slower paced which can hinder it now and then but I enjoyed it. Been a long ass time since I’ve played it though.
The Dev Team once said that Isolation was just too complicated and hard to make. Too many, very too many details and a very complicated multilayered AI for the Xeno (It has 3 different AI that work together at the same time to handle his behavior). So we never gonna see another Isolation, unless someone with a lot of money and a lot of time like "i don't mind when you release it" will give those guys another chance. Plus, they're working for SEGA in other projects right now, if i'm not wrong.
Isolation was made back when games were creative passion projects and not just corporate products, it's sad really. Hopefully another team can give us something like it in the future.
@@ashgonza92 Tech can make some difference in making coolest graphics or simplify your work in coding. But hard work on programming and graphic details will still be hard work. Plus, a multilayered AI will still be complicated, even for ChatGPT\Skynet\DeusExMachina\Stocazzo So, is not the "hard work" the real problem. Is the time you need to work hard for develop such a thing like Isolation 2. Time and money that nobody is lke to spend right now. They tried with Dark Descent, and is a very cool and detailed game. But is already a dropped project. Alien has not the right amount of audience \ fan, sadly.
It's true that the Alien AI is very advanced and lots of time was put into it. But come on, coding is coding. After you play the game a dozin times you will realise that it's the confined space that does the job. They are just a liiittle bit exaggerating when they say things like "it can't be done again". Games have come a long way in graphics since they first appeared, but a very shorter way in coding.
@@plaguedocphd yeah the problem here is not much the difficulty itself. As always is the TIME you NEED to make this difficult task. TIME = MONEY. And, for an IP like Alien (A nieche that few people are willing to spend and risk money) is pretty much a dev hell or vaporware, sadly. Look at Dark Descent, for instance. A game that i loved (500h+ of gaming) but is already dead.
I have to add this. I played alien isolation and it is the greatest game I have ever played I'm 46 years old and it's even better than Donkey Kong Junior which I played at the local bar when I was seven and eight. And I played alien isolation on my phone and it was spectacular. A game being on a phone is no excuse for it to be shity. Not anymore.
I feel like the best thing a sequel or carry-on can do is give us another truly immersion experience. The first one as you said resembles the first film exactly, and feels like that in first person. Only Deliver Us the Moon has felt as terrifyingly immersive as far as games go. And it would be wonderful to have that up close and personal journey with another character again, because you don't just feel Amy's terror, you also go on a journey with her.
After seeing Alien Romulus, I would love seeing an AI2 that's story is about everything that happened on the Renaissance Station right after The Big Chap was recovered and everyone on the station was killed. I was disappointed that the movie didn't show or explain what happened, but because they didn't, they would have less restrictions they would need to work around when crafting a story.
The current rumors of the second game being in development are sounding pretty good rn so we might finally be getting the sequel I’m just hoping they’re true
Alien isolation 2 could most certainty happen. It could just be a retelling of the same story with an alternate ship design and a different or improved playstyle, animations, and graphics. How about a different story and different playstyle? Imagine a military perspective where your team is sent to recover special intellectual property. You are the new recruit and your objective is to get the objective and get out. Its possible you can make it out with your whole team, its possible youll be the first to die. Distances between save points is much greater, there are less frequent encounters with the alien, and there are other life threatening hazards than just the alien. This builds up the tension having the player almost wanting to see the alien just to get it over with. But sometimes the alien shows up sooner, and sometimes you get a double event between save points. Yeah i think that would be a pretty good game.
I've been making videos off this game as of late to celebrate the upcoming Alien: Romulus! This game, having played it a bunch of times, still gets me on the edge of my seat.
I'm glad people are still talking about this game ten years on. It really is one of the best survival horror games out there and holds up as if it were made last year. I'll never stop giving up hope for a sequel 😌
Unfortunately, the team at Creative assembly who made Alien isolation are no longer working there and have moved on to other studios, some of whom formed their own studio called 'No Code'. I don't have faith the new team can do a sequel justice even if it was greenlit. Isolation was lighting in a bottle. Just hoping a spiritual successor is made, a new alien horror game. Also interested in No code studios who are now working on a new Silent Hill game. Edit: A sequel just got announced holy shit lesssgooooo with the original creative director Al hope returning!
It was probably in development But as it usually happens with many studios.. new graphics engines start appearing and make their game look outdated So it's likely that they have rebooted everything to use Unreal Engine 5 which is what most studios use today
I think Alien Isolation is my favourite game of all time, no game has ever got under my skin the way this did. Sadly i think a sequel could only disappoint. However, I would actually pay good money for a mod where you can just explore Sevastopol before it went to shit. It's such an incredible, rich environment, I was genuinely heartbroken seeing it destroyed (even though that explosion was ridiculously out of scale - assuming the gas giant is comparable to Jupiter in size, the explosion was about the size of Earth!)
I've been waiting for a sequel for 10 years now. The good news is that Jurassic Park: Survival seems like it will be Isolation-like. Not Aliens but still very promising!
@DorisDay-lw4xs I can see the raptors slowly stalking like a xenomorph, its the enviroment and context they are used in.. T-Rex would go hard in an Xeno Queen role
What I really wanted after playing this game was the same team making a Jurassic Park survival game with the same gameplay look. However, you get to have various dinosaures. We are kind of getting that game soon but it's an other studio.
Alien Isolation 2 should be online CO-OP so we can play campaign together with friends with same AI who will search for you, you will have to work on the ship together to escape it would be one of the best horror games made.
CA is in a bad place. It's very easy to fix, fans have been asking for things for years and year after year they do the opposite and wonder why their fanbase is becoming more and more alienated from them. An Alien: Isolation follow-up whether it's a sequel, prequel, interquel, new original, old or new characters, doesn't really matter people have been asking and they've been asking for years very, very HARD. Much like we have for years for them to return to Historical Total War properly. They've literally got the two fixes right there and even just whispering that one or the other is in development would earn them a metric fuck ton of good faith and eventually money. They really are the architects of their own fall from grace.
This game is just as good as the films..WOW!! hold your breath to long u ☠️ make to much noise u ☠️ it’s BRILLIANT!! & a sequel is exactly what we ALIEN fans deserve..thx for making this video sooo happy..Stay Frosty
Alien isolation was and is LIT af. I've only recently discovered this beauty and WOW. I love this game it's crazy good and the best alien game I've ever experienced.
@DorisDay-lw4xs hoho - the lighting in this game is amazing. But there's nothing more scarier than when that horror-show drops down in front of you in a brightly LIT corridor. It seems to think that it owns the space station ... and it does!
I think a sequel would never come 'too late.' The game was a great version of survival horror, and a delightful utilization of the Alien™ IP. I think rather than a continuation of Amanda Ripley's story, a new story in a different setting would work great. I feel like a similar follow to the way Alien was followed by Aliens, a sequel game on a planet would be a good follow up. A setting similar to that of being a colonist from LV-426 as the colony is beginning to experience the early days of the xenomorph infestation. Perhaps a colonist returning from far off surveying, or a more cliche colonist waking from a coma mid to late in the infestation process. That way you could center the plot around trying to find a way to call for help and escape off the planet, and naturally having a 'rescue team' arrive that is more interested in recovering Alien samples than saving civilians.
I'm a Korean Alien movie fan, and a fan of Alien Isolation. I'll tell you what I know. As you may already know, I don't think Alien Isolation 2 is possible at the moment. Most of the staff, except for the director who developed this game, are not affiliated with CA. The Alien Isolation development team was disbanded after developing Halo Wars 2. Another team was reorganized and developed HYENAS, but as you know, the quality was not good, so the game release was canceled and the team was disbanded again. Now, we will never see them again. Disney also announced that they are not developing a sequel to Alien Isolation.
If it's not going to be created by Creative Assembly, then i dont want it. Not unless there's a Dev crew out there that cares about the game nearly as much as CA did with Alien: Isolation.
The Alien Blackout mechanic would actually work as a mini game or part of the mission objective for the real sequel of Alien Isolation. I also think that the sequel should follow the Aliens movie where you can kill the xenomorph but they would be tough and will jump you in groups.
if Alien:Romulus does well (considering economic conditions - cross fingers) then the bean counters may loosen their tight-assed pockets. Hardware technology has improved significantly particularly graphics so a new story line and perhaps an upgrade to the graphics engine in the origitnal for a remaster of the original game - maybe? Some of the mods integrated officially into the original game for new difficulty levels would also be a seller, especially multiple concurrent aliens. The new story could be related to romulus, perhaps what happens before. A lot of the dev work and artwork in the original game can be reused so the dev costs should be much less than alien isolation.
I mean, the success of Starwars is what got Alien greenlit all those years ago, whose to say a good Alien movie can't Jumpstart budgets for the games again. Some friends got me playing Fireteam Elite recently and I'm amazed I didn't hear about it sooner, it's made me return to Alien Isolation too cause I chickened out at the "retrieve trauma kit" stage years ago and now I'm finally progressing again, I'd love to see a sequel even if it takes me ages to finish again
Your idea is good but I think we should do what blackout did but you play as a new character. Basically follow the bioshock model. We show up at a colony or big ship, the place is a mess, and Amanda is there and contacts you to help/receive help. Oh, maybe even do a big Bioshock twist where it turns out it wasn't Amanda at all but the local AI impersonating her (you would have to have some backstory between the player character and Amanda to justify it) and then the end is finding Amanda in a stasis pod and getting her out of there before it is destroyed.
In the Aliens Special Edition movie, when Burke shows Ripley picture of her daughter, he names her Amanda Ripley McClaren (after her husband). So, I think in the Alien Isolation 2, Amanda should meet some guy of name McClaren, I would like him to be a Hicks-type marine.
There is a novel about Amanda's husband who was a scientist who put Amanda in stasis cause she had some kind of disease. He labeled her dead so weyland won't find her and experiment on her. So in that book when Ripley sees her death certificate, Amanda was alive in cryo.
I think the novel alien prototype is a sequel to alien isolation and takes place before aliens resistance. And I think it was alien colony war, where Amanda Ripley is the wife of a character in the book? So Amanda Ripley does make appearances in other books I just haven’t read all of them yet.
I think the film Alien: Romulus will be the real sequel to Alien: Isolation as the Director Fede Alvarez seems to be inspired by that game and his film is set 20 years after the first film and 5 years after the game. It also looks like he incorporated the same emergency phones that are used as save points in the game into Romulus, so looking forward to see the story continuity from Isolation to Romulus.
That's because he DID put in the save phones from Isolation. Fede was so into it when making this movie he took aspects of Alien, Aliens and Alien Isolation and threw it in when making Romulus. Did you notice Big Chap, hanging in the ceiling with his arms out stretched and the harpoon still in his torso? That's how he got shot out door after the cabin was decompressed. The little hook on the leg of the facehugger when the camera panned slowly across the room? It was mentioned that they didn't know how it managed to incapacitate its host. The AA (auto aim) smart gun? Throw back to the smart guns from Aliens that Vasquez and Drake used when they were in the lower levels of the thermonuclear reactor. The only thing I wish they kept was the violent explosion of the chestburster as it was in Alien.
The timing is right: a game set on Renaissance Station from Alien Romulus chronicling the fall of that station and serving as a prequel to Romulus is precisely what is needed. Like, the game engine and assets all pretty much exist. Just a bit of a graphical update, few additions for the new assets and you're good to go.
I definitely like that idea for a sequel, playing as Newt would definitely make you feel even more vulnerable and make the Xenomorphs look even more terrifying. Maybe, if nothing else, the game could have an epilogue for Amanda’s story, maybe as an Easter egg or something at the end.
Take a look around. The love for this game is still STRONG. The new Aliens VR game has videos popping up on UA-cam and armies of Alien Isolation fans have flocked to them, demanding for Alien Isolation's much deserved sequel. As long as we're all still here, still hoping, it's never too late. We, the fans deserve a real Aliens experience once again.
Not a sequel per se, but the events of ISOLATION, including Seegson and the Working Joes, have been adopted into the wider canon of Alien-related materials, especially those written by Andrew Gaska. Those would be ALIENS: FIRETEAM ELITE and the ALIEN TTRPG by Free League Publishing, which are both set in the same post-ALIENS continuity. The destruction of Sevastopol is mentioned in the RPG's historical timeline.
I can't help but laugh like a maniac while "Decommisioning" working Joes in Fireteam Elite, caused me far too much trouble in Isolation to get any mercy... but I love that continuation of Seagson showing up, really helps cement those two games as my favorites for the franchise
Alien Isolation was developed in the very late 2000's through early 2010's and those were a different times than now. Times when the gaming community and internet in general were very exciting and great games kept coming out like Bioshock 1 & 2, Fallout 3 and NV, Star Craft II, Borderlands among many other great titles. Even if a sequel was confirmed to be in production I wouldn't be so hyped considering the shit state of game industry today. RIP good old gaming days 😥
That time period was the absolute worst for gaming. Alien Isolation is the antithesis of the railroad shooters that were trendy in those years. It was a true survival horror in the spirit of the end end of '90s first yeara of the '00s.
Sounds like it was a success both financially and has a very supportive fan base, but it wasn't as large a success as one of the head game developers were hoping so he abandoned the idea of a sequel and it all went down hill from there🤷♂️
Isolation is honestly my favourite instalment in the Alien franchise. Alien is my favourite of the films but this game did so much with the exact same aesthetic & atmosphere. In some ways I prefer it as a sequel than Aliens. Just spooky and immersive and all-around fantastic
Cool vid. I’m more optimistic these days with the entire franchise being somewhat revitalised by Disney buying Fox. I’m definitely pro Alien Romulus myself, most I’ve enjoyed a trip to the flicks in years. And that movie straight up wouldn’t exist without Isolation. Imo Alien Earth can’t miss with Noah Hawley at the helm too, (or at least I’d be pretty surprised). Legion and Fargo absolutely ruled. Meh, I could totally see a sequel being green lit in the not too distant future! If everyone’s all excited about the live action franchise again n shit?! Why not. Shit, maybe they’ll give Ridley another blast at the movies while he’s still kicking, the Prometheus storyline still has a tonne of potential imo. I love this shit, man. Best horror/sci-fi franchise simultaneously. Gimme it
It’s never Too late for a Sequel of a Videogame, a Movie, a TV show Comics,Novels Etc Etc (just the only thing is that must Respect the First Movie, it’s Characters and Tell a Good Storyline). For an Example just look Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine that was Released In 2011 that didn’t Got a Sequel Announced until Confirmation in 2021 and with a Release of 2024 (and the Finished Game was Awesome).
Personally I would like to see either a direct sequel just moving past the mobile game and comic and creating its own narrative. Either that or just a direct sequel mechanically wise. With a new cast of characters but the same overall gameplay loop. Whether with Amanda or not, I’d like to see aspects and ideas from Prometheus and Covenant be added to the gameplay. Surviving against multiple creatures like Neomorphs, maybe Deacons, and any other abominations that can be conjured by the black goo. Finally ending the game with a fight against an Engineer. In my mind, it would take place on either LV223 after WY finally find the planet Prometheus took place on again and either create a colony and/or a large research station there. Either that, or the Engineer’s homeworld in Covenant, once again colonized by WY. Im thinking levels where its infested with airborne black goo and you have to wear loud PPE to traverse through. And it would also be cool to be there when the alien outbreak begins. Although your idea of Newt in the early days of Hadley’s Hope’s fall would be very interesting. Especially considering you would be playing a small child and might not have way of fighting back at all besides distractions
Knowing that it’s been ten years the exact time I met my first love and then losing him to him being murdered I wish I could go back to the release date of this game where we first played it
The whole "bioweapon" angle is unfortunately the worst thing to happen to Alien lore, even after Ridley Scott thought he should make some more movies in the series. In the first film, there's a throwaway line about bioweapons. And then that's all. It makes sense and we moved on. But then the comics, books and games ran with it, and unfortunately they ran with it in the most obvious and schlocky ways. Tonally, it works in a comic or a video game, but in a movie, it's just awful, especially considering the grounded reality of the films, at least the first three. But looking at it now from a 21st century mindset, the bioweapons division was probably interested in things that you would never assume came from researching the alien. Like, it's made of a molecular acid resistant material. That could be used to develop materials for armour. And there's the incredibly high cellular growth rate. Could that be used for medical purposes? It's so much better than alien human hybrids.
We have enough AvP games. We have rarely had any proper Aliens games until fairly recently. Predator is also no where near as good as Alien or Aliens, so the franchises should have stayed separate.
It isn’t too late but the problem with waiting so long is that your employees turnover and the talent responsible for the first games success is likely not there anymore.
The AI was a huge portion of what made this game so cool including its atmosphere. The hype it could never reach in a sequel and I’d rather not let anything in alien fail moving forward
When I first played through it, I did think it dragged on too long. However, playing through it more than once & getting better at the game, I don't think the game is too long at all. Its only really because of how many times you die & being unfamiliar with the environments that makes it seem longer than it really is. As much as I'd like a new Alien Isolation game, we will NEVER get a super high budgeted game ever again. Isolation may have sold decently but it still had a massive budget. The extremely unrelenting stressful experience I think is off putting for some, which may be why I think it did get some mixed/negative responses at the time (I actually had a mixed reaction after completing it for the first time, but came to appreciate it more on subsequent playthroughs. Playing it several times gives you the opportunity to pay more attention to details & minor things missed on a first experience). Aliens Colonial Marines was the typical, more mainstream type of experience & it did poorly. Even though it is because Gearbox deliberately ruined the game by embezzling Sega's funding to put into Borderlands 2 & deliberately lying & misleading Sega & fans, game companies don't care. The game companies just see the end financial result & don't want to take "risks" by making games with a history of no financial success. While we have had Aliens Fire Team Elite & Dark Descent, they were lower budgeted games. You couldn't do an Alien Isolation level of production value based on the budgets of those games. I would rather another attempt at what Colonial Marines did. While Dark Descent was different for an Aliens game, it did get so much right in what an Aliens game should be, but I'd still want a first person experience with either co-op or A.I. marines on your side. ACM DID get a lot of things right. There are a lot of good ideas in it. It just needed a developer that wasn't run by criminals. Some things I think could be implemented, would be to have more strategy choices, like if you hold up in a safe zone with welded doors, you could choose to escape via one path which would let you go to your next story point. Not all the marines in the film had motion trackers, so it could really add to the tension & co-op aspect I think if done properly, is if some marines didn't have one & had to rely on players that do to use one (A.I. marines could automatically tell you which way to aim). Despite Alien 3 being heavily flawed, I really do like the world of Fury 161. I think a new game could be an interesting opportunity to explore the prison colony & see areas not seen in the film. One of the ideas dropped from the film was the egg morphing hive part, but I think that could be re-introduced in a game set on Fury 161 (just because it wasn't used for the film doesn't mean it didn't actually happen on screen). I'd like to see more movie marines playable characters in online modes. I had a blast playing as movie characters in Colonial Marines, so I'd like as many likenesses/voice work for movie marines as much as possible. One of the best modes in an AvP game was the Infestation mode. One player is an alien the rest are marines. Each time the alien gets a kill, they respawn as aliens. It was a cool & tense experience, but I think it could be expanded upon by having the marines able to weld doors shut & set up defenses like sentry turrets. Maps could have different base points with supplies & ammo, but the more aliens there are, the more damage to defenses they can do, forcing marines to try to make it to other base points & set up defenses. Something like this could work. I've got a lot of ideas for what I'd like in an Aliens game, but unfortunately, the gaming industry is far more corrupt today than it was a decade ago, & what Randy Pitchford did with Colonial Marines makes him a hero in the eyes of the industry. Gaming media are just as complicit in the false advertisement, so their condemnation of the game is all phony. I saw a preview of ACM by Eurogamer. They were actually playing it. They were playing the first part in Hadley's Hope (mission 4), & it was EXACTLY like it was in the finished game, but they were praising the hell out of it. This is typical of gaming media. Once the controversy died down, NOBODY held Gearbox to scrutiny. Look at the gushing over anything Borderlands that came after. ALL studio heads are just like Pitchford. There will never be a big studio that will touch the license & give it the care & passion Isolation received, which was a fluke. People like Pitchford think they are above the influence Aliens had on games (look at how the film inspired Doom for example). Gaming would be far different had Aliens not had the impact & inspiration it had on gaming. But Pitchford says he is above that, & all the studios agree with him. In an ideal situation, we'd be getting the Aliens games we want, while Pitchford & all Gearbox executives would be in prison. This is why it is important to keep supporting Aliens games. When Dark Descent was announced, I saw several people saying they wouldn't buy it because its not Isolation 2. Well, when you don't support a game franchise that has been killed by Pitchford, there is zero incentive for game companies to give you Alien Isolation 2. The RTS style of Dark Descent isn't the type of game I usually play, but I still supported it because I love Aliens & I'd like more Aliens games, so I supported it by buying it. I ended up having a blast. It was way better than Fire Team Elite because it focused more on the James Cameron style, rather than Ridley Scott's prequel crap.
I don't think a sequel is necessary, but more DLC's would be great. A Newt DLC in Hadley's Hope would have been scary! Edit: HOLY FUCK I RETRACT MY WORDS I'M SO EXCITED NOW THAT IT'S CONFIRMED!
A sequel of the exact same sort of premise would be more of the same. How about this - make the game similar to Aliens in that time of the universe. Set it on a ship. Have a small number of Aliens. Make it so that any of the weapons that could kill the Aliens would puncture the hull and/or the acid would melt through the hull. There might be bits of the game where you have to take one out with heavy weapons ti survive. It would need to be really carefully thought through but I think it could work as a concept and would give the game a feel for Aliens and with it a fresh take on the game.
I've always said I'd like a movie or anime of Hadley's Hope, and it picks up just before the outbreak and ends just as Ripley and them arrive. But a game of that would be awesome too. me, I'd love to get a Isolation 2 and have it pick up either where it end, with Amanda floating in space and a ships light spots her. It could either pick up right from there or skip a few months ahead, and they could figure out how the Alien made its away there. Given that when she blow up the ship, some Aliens were seen being thrown into space and one got on board The Torrens. They could use that or the one that got on The Torrens could be the one brought to the new location. Like they towed The Torrens to the new location, unaware the Alien was inside. Either way, I really want them to continue Amanda's story from Isolation.
For many years i wanted a Alien Isolation sequel. But thinking about it.. i cant see how Amanda can grow more.. she got answers, got over her trauma etc. The only way i could see a sequel is if we play another character that has Amanda as a mentor.. and the game should then explore why Amanda kept her encounter with the Xenomorph secret until her death.
Thats right! They cant do female bad asses anymore! Ripley, kill bill (forgot her name atm), sarah conor, and much more. Every niw amd again they get it right (arcane did great with this) but now it just seems like they think a nad ass wan is one eho is just compektely itchy. Like whats her name from three body problem. I love that boon and they made her sooooo itchy. Or lord or the rings thing amazon. And again, much more.
This weekend I played through the whole game on hard and I loved every second of it. It wasn't unfair. There were enaigh tools to distract the Alien. And it was actually pretty fair. You can hear the alien. You onow when to walk, when to sneak and when its even okay to run. I find the plot and characters fitted perfect in the universe and fu fact that game inspired zhe Romulus Director to make an Alien movie.
I've played Alien Isolation to death and still love it, played on PS4, now my PS5 and I even bought it for my PC.. Personally I don't think it needs a sequel, it's spot on as is. Personally I'd love to see it remastered for PS5 etc 4k, nicely detailed with some nice frame rates thrown in.
Well... funny you should say that.
@@patrickdmuzangi9639 what does that MEAN
@@DrHADLEY Alien Isolation 2 was just announced.
@@DrHADLEY I'm in shock as well, what a time to be alive.
@patrickdmuzangi9639 oh my god I'm deleting the video and this channel lol Holy fuck
@@DrHADLEY Dude we fucking won, after all this time, WE WON !!!
It's never "too late", but Isolation was lightning in a bottle. It would be very hard to create a worthy sequel that was also distinct enough to stand on it's own.
Oh I got it. Your character has been face hugged, you can keep it at bay with meds BUT stress and damage make the chestbuster to become wrestless.
@@stealthynaxoThat’s genuinely not even a bad idea🤔🤔
@@stealthynaxo oh so like hard mode in Amnesia where if you lose your sanity you die. That'd be cool
Bought a ps4 just to play this game it was truly amazing.
@stealthynaxo Something like that’s already been done in the 90s on a computer game I believe it was online you play as a colonist that’s been facehugged
The gamer in me wants a sequel. The Alien fan in me doesn't want to continue Amanda's story. She battled the Xenos, she found out what happened to her mother, she got her closure, she was rescued while adrift in space and lived out the rest of her life. I'm satisfied with that ending.
Then just make a new game with the same genre
@@SaadTheGlad Yes, but the video is talking about an Alien: Isolation sequel. I was saying that the gamer half of me would be excited about another Alien: Isolation game to play. But the Alien fan in me is very happy with Amanda’s story, even if left open-ended.
Then she got stuck in a mediocre mobile game.
@@Sython6 Not in my head canon, she didn’t. lol
@@pokes404they could easily just call the game alien isolation 2 and not follow Amanda whatsoever. Outlast 2 literally did this and it worked perfectly
Alien Isolation was one of the greatest video game I ever played.
Yes.
I bought it 2 and half years ago and now played campaign seven times four of them in nightmare and two in insane a.i. First two times felt best and after beating first time I get very good feeling of achievement after hiding alien in lockers for over 20 hours. Fifth time I past nightmare campaign without dying in 5 hours. It took lot of retries everytime I died. Then I played it in insane a.i and got massacred a lot for long time. Otherwise it was good but alien notices you too suddenly and in open places jumps too much. It is way too punishing and frustrating. Good thing it doesn't let you run like through mission 5 or it runs after you. I have been trying modding with opengl but its not that easy use and there is not much guide in internet.
Five Night's at Yutaniiiiiii's
The black man always comes back! Well wait. That doesn't sound so good. Just comparing William Afton with a xenomorph lol.
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They made an alien game called alien black out which is after alien isolation
Alien: Isolation is an all-time classic that was light years ahead of its time.
Truly
The original game is still hotly discussed 10 years later....they just can't take a hint.
Discussed by who? Likely by a niche group of those who liked it. The niche that did not bring enough profits.
It happening guys! It’s happening!!!!!
Still remember the times over the last years, I was so frustrated and sad about letting a potential sequel die after they did deliver such an awesome gem.
Now after the announcement I am happy and hope they can deliver a great sequel :)
Alien isolation is a masterpiece, as I huge fan of all thing Alien I’m still living in hope that developers do the right thing and get a sequel made ….
Well ... they heard you. 👀
Gotta disagree with Alien Isolation breaking the mold in 2014. It was 2009 when Ghostbusters: The Video Game crushed it. It was written by the screenwriters of the first two (and at the time only) movies. It had voice acting from the entire original cast. It used scripts and stories from the sequel that Dan Akroid spent twenty years trying to sell to studios. Until Afterlife came out, it was considered - not only by most fans, but by the screenwriters themselves - to be the full-cannon continuation of the story. And as a game, it was magnificient.
@WraithTDK Tbf Ghostbusters 2009 was absolutely peak and the spiritual third Ghostbusters.. pardon the pun
That's it. That tears it! Me and u! Right here right now! Minor disagreement online about a random pointless thing! ITS ON! Ur ass my face! I mean my face ur ass! But tbh u might be right to a degree but u don't feel that it was a lil dif the way it was done. I mean, I don't nooo, why u asking me? It's close. U may be right.
Didn't that happen before? I'm pretty sure that wasn't the first time ever studios went: "hmm this game is good, let's incorporate it into our movies". Lord of the Rings? 007? Terminator? Star Wars? I know there must've been something, even if it wasn't a console game.
@@radrno7 We're not talking about incorporating movies into games.
We're talking about the game that "broke the mold." The mold, in this case, is "terrible movie-based games." More specifically, the games that showed that move-based games could be not only good, by fantastic experiences that rival actual movies in the franchises. Alien Isolation was one such experience, but the first to really do this super-well was Ghostbusters The Videogame in 2009.
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You mean canon good movie based adaptation games, right? Else you're ignoring literally all the others like 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine', 'Peter Jackson's King Kong' and '007: Goldeneye'.
Alien Isolation: IGN - 5.9, "Not enough water."
IGN's biggest complaint was the game was too long lol.
@@Sython6I hated that review so much!
Oh man, Ryan McCaffrey is the bane of my existence for that review. I blame him for why we're still waiting on a a sequel and may never get a good one if it ever does come out. He wanted the game to be a Alien bullet sponge shooter so bad. He couldn't be pressed to understand and learn the most basic mechanics of the game. For instance... Hey, guess what, if you hide in a locker and keep your motion tracker out, the creature will find you - because you advertising your position, genius. The device is actively emitting a beeping sound. That's not just for your benefit, you dipshit.
Possibly IGN's worst review. It helped to damage the game's chances of success. People were _rightly_ burned after the Colonial Marines disaster, and seeing 5.9 made many write Isolation off and never look back (until years later).
"Journalists" of IGN are not real gamers. They don't know an incredible experience when they play one.
That prequel idea to Aliens playing as Newt is a great idea. It could end as Ripley and the marines encounter her on LV426.
I would not like it. Aliens is more liek action movie wich has plenty of aliens easy to kill. Alien isolation was more like the original alien.
Perfect game-adaptation of the Alien-franchise. Period!
Maybe the best game based on a movie/tv-license.
Simply a love letter to the first movie.
Alien Isolation is like a gift of many new Alien movies, and it's certainly the most perfect followup to the original.
It needs sequel but as you said it must not be worse than alien isolation. And that would be very hard to do. It should habe only one single alien and good story with good graphics. Maybe the alien couls have different places and ways to hide and to appaer, not only from vents. Also they could remove the loud stomping walking and could make it more silent.
A sequel is fine - but not involving Amanda. She's suffered enough
Maybe starring Newt on Hadley's Hope (or another child) before the marines arrive. The child would have a pet cat that acts as a motion tracker, you can see it get agitated as its ears hone in on danger
Something like that would be new - being a child would make all of the corridors and aliens look super massive, and cats always sell games - there has never been a game involving a cat that hasn't been successful
I came up with this idea long before I played "Stray" - which is an exceptional pussycat game that could well be adapted for the ALIEN universe
Hmm yeah, I could definitely see it happening, like 'Among The Sleep', BUT I believe they would have to turn it into a much shorter and simpler game, because you're playing with a child, so you won't be able to do much like Amanda who's an adult that can craft tools and use weapons to vary gameplay. I could easily see it as a VR game though, because it would be easier to implement everything. I can already see it:
"Come and witness 'Aliens - Hadley's Hope', the brand new Aliens VR experience. Play as Newt, the beloved icon before the events of the movie 'Aliens'. Help her get through the horrors of a small trooper as the sole survivor of the fallout of Hadley's Hope in a fight against the worst nightmare of all... Aliens."
I had a similar idea, but rather play as Newt, you play as the woman who eventually ends up with a chest burster is Aliens. She doesn't have much combat skills so limited in the tools she can use, but similar to isolation. At some point she discovers Newt, and they both survive together for a period of time. By the end, she would have killed a few xenos in various ways (maybe the cause for the multiple holes through the floors that the marines find) and ultimately get caught sacrificing herself to protect Newt.
I just love how the games very much like one of the OG films. Slower paced which can hinder it now and then but I enjoyed it. Been a long ass time since I’ve played it though.
The Dev Team once said that Isolation was just too complicated and hard to make.
Too many, very too many details and a very complicated multilayered AI for the Xeno (It has 3 different AI that work together at the same time to handle his behavior).
So we never gonna see another Isolation, unless someone with a lot of money and a lot of time like "i don't mind when you release it" will give those guys another chance.
Plus, they're working for SEGA in other projects right now, if i'm not wrong.
Isolation was made back when games were creative passion projects and not just corporate products, it's sad really. Hopefully another team can give us something like it in the future.
Ok but it's years later and the tech has improved and become much cheaper to develop. So I wouldn't lose hope
@@ashgonza92 Tech can make some difference in making coolest graphics or simplify your work in coding. But hard work on programming and graphic details will still be hard work. Plus, a multilayered AI will still be complicated, even for ChatGPT\Skynet\DeusExMachina\Stocazzo
So, is not the "hard work" the real problem. Is the time you need to work hard for develop such a thing like Isolation 2. Time and money that nobody is lke to spend right now. They tried with Dark Descent, and is a very cool and detailed game. But is already a dropped project.
Alien has not the right amount of audience \ fan, sadly.
It's true that the Alien AI is very advanced and lots of time was put into it. But come on, coding is coding. After you play the game a dozin times you will realise that it's the confined space that does the job. They are just a liiittle bit exaggerating when they say things like "it can't be done again". Games have come a long way in graphics since they first appeared, but a very shorter way in coding.
@@plaguedocphd yeah the problem here is not much the difficulty itself. As always is the TIME you NEED to make this difficult task. TIME = MONEY. And, for an IP like Alien (A nieche that few people are willing to spend and risk money) is pretty much a dev hell or vaporware, sadly.
Look at Dark Descent, for instance. A game that i loved (500h+ of gaming) but is already dead.
I have to add this. I played alien isolation and it is the greatest game I have ever played I'm 46 years old and it's even better than Donkey Kong Junior which I played at the local bar when I was seven and eight. And I played alien isolation on my phone and it was spectacular. A game being on a phone is no excuse for it to be shity. Not anymore.
How did you get it on your phone??
I feel like the best thing a sequel or carry-on can do is give us another truly immersion experience. The first one as you said resembles the first film exactly, and feels like that in first person. Only Deliver Us the Moon has felt as terrifyingly immersive as far as games go. And it would be wonderful to have that up close and personal journey with another character again, because you don't just feel Amy's terror, you also go on a journey with her.
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After seeing Alien Romulus, I would love seeing an AI2 that's story is about everything that happened on the Renaissance Station right after The Big Chap was recovered and everyone on the station was killed. I was disappointed that the movie didn't show or explain what happened, but because they didn't, they would have less restrictions they would need to work around when crafting a story.
It's never too late for awesomeness.
Hahaha I love it. The only reason this video popped up for me is because of the Alien isolation sequel 😂😂
Alien isolation is a top tier game- could never play it myself though too jumpy 🤣
Please play it 😊
...and use headphones...
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It dosent really scare me
@@richinderbyshire4779 Lights off.
The current rumors of the second game being in development are sounding pretty good rn so we might finally be getting the sequel I’m just hoping they’re true
Alien Romulus may have some references to Isolation
Wait did you watch the movie already?
Reference: vent 😍
@@bryanthernandez9769 I have now just a few days ago.
Nope.
@@thescorchingpteranodon7986it does
Alien isolation 2 could most certainty happen. It could just be a retelling of the same story with an alternate ship design and a different or improved playstyle, animations, and graphics.
How about a different story and different playstyle? Imagine a military perspective where your team is sent to recover special intellectual property. You are the new recruit and your objective is to get the objective and get out. Its possible you can make it out with your whole team, its possible youll be the first to die. Distances between save points is much greater, there are less frequent encounters with the alien, and there are other life threatening hazards than just the alien. This builds up the tension having the player almost wanting to see the alien just to get it over with. But sometimes the alien shows up sooner, and sometimes you get a double event between save points.
Yeah i think that would be a pretty good game.
This is still the best Alien sequel. Great video.
If isolation 2 came out now and played on the success of Alien Romulus, even IGN couldn't sabotage it.
a sequel was just announced today
@@denif609 i know, I guess the people over at Sega see how the bonus situation could be good
I honestly hope the sequel follows defiance and resistance of course CA can add more stuff to it I’ve read both and I love em
I've been making videos off this game as of late to celebrate the upcoming Alien: Romulus! This game, having played it a bunch of times, still gets me on the edge of my seat.
I'm glad people are still talking about this game ten years on. It really is one of the best survival horror games out there and holds up as if it were made last year. I'll never stop giving up hope for a sequel 😌
Original Alien Isolation writer has not continued any future story for this game so someone else has to step in to continue Alien Isolation sequel!
Unfortunately, the team at Creative assembly who made Alien isolation are no longer working there and have moved on to other studios, some of whom formed their own studio called 'No Code'. I don't have faith the new team can do a sequel justice even if it was greenlit. Isolation was lighting in a bottle. Just hoping a spiritual successor is made, a new alien horror game. Also interested in No code studios who are now working on a new Silent Hill game.
Edit: A sequel just got announced holy shit lesssgooooo with the original creative director Al hope returning!
Yeah, the Creative Assembly team kind of sucks nowadays. Just look at what happened to Total War.
They said they dont plan to make another one because the first one didn't make the money back. You can thank IGN for that
It was probably in development
But as it usually happens with many studios.. new graphics engines start appearing and make their game look outdated
So it's likely that they have rebooted everything to use Unreal Engine 5 which is what most studios use today
I think Alien Isolation is my favourite game of all time, no game has ever got under my skin the way this did. Sadly i think a sequel could only disappoint. However, I would actually pay good money for a mod where you can just explore Sevastopol before it went to shit. It's such an incredible, rich environment, I was genuinely heartbroken seeing it destroyed (even though that explosion was ridiculously out of scale - assuming the gas giant is comparable to Jupiter in size, the explosion was about the size of Earth!)
It's funny you say that - I'm actually working on that exact thing 😂
@@DrHADLEY Oh yeah? Bet!
I've been waiting for a sequel for 10 years now. The good news is that Jurassic Park: Survival seems like it will be Isolation-like. Not Aliens but still very promising!
I've my fingers crossed that Survival can be a bit of a spiritual successor to Isolation because the signs are there
@DorisDay-lw4xs True, but we can't expect it to be exactly like AI, or else we'll just be disappointed.
@DorisDay-lw4xs I can see the raptors slowly stalking like a xenomorph, its the enviroment and context they are used in.. T-Rex would go hard in an Xeno Queen role
Alien Isolation is an absolute masterpiece, best story in the alien universe after Alien.
IT WAS ANNOUNCED THIS MORNING!!!
@@mynameisNeo369 You're welcome ;)
@@DrHADLEY I've become hysterical
It’s partly because ign had some gimp review it and it wasn’t call of duty, far cry or Assassins creed so he shat on it. Thanks ign!
I mean I never asked for it, but one could say that Ridley Scott sort of predated the FNAF thing with Dallas’ final scene in the first Alien movie.
What I really wanted after playing this game was the same team making a Jurassic Park survival game with the same gameplay look. However, you get to have various dinosaures. We are kind of getting that game soon but it's an other studio.
Alien Isolation 2 should be online CO-OP so we can play campaign together with friends with same AI who will search for you, you will have to work on the ship together to escape it would be one of the best horror games made.
CA is in a bad place. It's very easy to fix, fans have been asking for things for years and year after year they do the opposite and wonder why their fanbase is becoming more and more alienated from them. An Alien: Isolation follow-up whether it's a sequel, prequel, interquel, new original, old or new characters, doesn't really matter people have been asking and they've been asking for years very, very HARD. Much like we have for years for them to return to Historical Total War properly. They've literally got the two fixes right there and even just whispering that one or the other is in development would earn them a metric fuck ton of good faith and eventually money. They really are the architects of their own fall from grace.
This game is just as good as the films..WOW!! hold your breath to long u ☠️ make to much noise u ☠️ it’s BRILLIANT!! & a sequel is exactly what we ALIEN fans deserve..thx for making this video sooo happy..Stay Frosty
That newt idea is spot on.
Alien isolation was and is LIT af. I've only recently discovered this beauty and WOW. I love this game it's crazy good and the best alien game I've ever experienced.
@DorisDay-lw4xs Haha No lit at in really good lmfao
@DorisDay-lw4xs hoho - the lighting in this game is amazing. But there's nothing more scarier than when that horror-show drops down in front of you in a brightly LIT corridor.
It seems to think that it owns the space station ... and it does!
Seeing how Hadley's Hope was overtaken by Zenomorphs and how Newt survive would be pretty bad ass. Love to see that for the next film.
ok bro, we have a russian guy who do exactly what you want. game called Alien: Hope for the future. check it if you want
It’s never too late. As a PlayStation game, I really wish they would patch the game to run at 60 FPS on the PS5.
@jakedizzle Honestly if a sequel is out of the question I would want a remaster for the PS5 just as much
I think a sequel would never come 'too late.'
The game was a great version of survival horror, and a delightful utilization of the Alien™ IP.
I think rather than a continuation of Amanda Ripley's story, a new story in a different setting would work great.
I feel like a similar follow to the way Alien was followed by Aliens, a sequel game on a planet would be a good follow up. A setting similar to that of being a colonist from LV-426 as the colony is beginning to experience the early days of the xenomorph infestation. Perhaps a colonist returning from far off surveying, or a more cliche colonist waking from a coma mid to late in the infestation process.
That way you could center the plot around trying to find a way to call for help and escape off the planet, and naturally having a 'rescue team' arrive that is more interested in recovering Alien samples than saving civilians.
I'm a Korean Alien movie fan, and a fan of Alien Isolation. I'll tell you what I know. As you may already know, I don't think Alien Isolation 2 is possible at the moment. Most of the staff, except for the director who developed this game, are not affiliated with CA. The Alien Isolation development team was disbanded after developing Halo Wars 2. Another team was reorganized and developed HYENAS, but as you know, the quality was not good, so the game release was canceled and the team was disbanded again. Now, we will never see them again. Disney also announced that they are not developing a sequel to Alien Isolation.
If it's not going to be created by Creative Assembly, then i dont want it. Not unless there's a Dev crew out there that cares about the game nearly as much as CA did with Alien: Isolation.
with the success of Alien Romulus now is the time for that sequel. The movie doesnt exist without the game.
The Alien Blackout mechanic would actually work as a mini game or part of the mission objective for the real sequel of Alien Isolation. I also think that the sequel should follow the Aliens movie where you can kill the xenomorph but they would be tough and will jump you in groups.
Kill the xeno and than what? Die in space?
@@TheReZisTLust What do you mean die in space. Like die of boredom cause Ripley managed to kill all the xenos? I don't get your question.
I have always believed that Alien Blackout would be much better as a VR game.
The engine for isolation was so impressive
It's never too late. Never been a better time.
I agree with you. We don’t need a direct sequel to Isolation, we need a new game, like the one of Newt like you suggest. Great video
if Alien:Romulus does well (considering economic conditions - cross fingers) then the bean counters may loosen their tight-assed pockets.
Hardware technology has improved significantly particularly graphics so a new story line and perhaps an upgrade to the graphics engine in the origitnal for a remaster of the original game - maybe? Some of the mods integrated officially into the original game for new difficulty levels would also be a seller, especially multiple concurrent aliens.
The new story could be related to romulus, perhaps what happens before.
A lot of the dev work and artwork in the original game can be reused so the dev costs should be much less than alien isolation.
I mean, the success of Starwars is what got Alien greenlit all those years ago, whose to say a good Alien movie can't Jumpstart budgets for the games again.
Some friends got me playing Fireteam Elite recently and I'm amazed I didn't hear about it sooner, it's made me return to Alien Isolation too cause I chickened out at the "retrieve trauma kit" stage years ago and now I'm finally progressing again, I'd love to see a sequel even if it takes me ages to finish again
Your idea is good but I think we should do what blackout did but you play as a new character. Basically follow the bioshock model. We show up at a colony or big ship, the place is a mess, and Amanda is there and contacts you to help/receive help. Oh, maybe even do a big Bioshock twist where it turns out it wasn't Amanda at all but the local AI impersonating her (you would have to have some backstory between the player character and Amanda to justify it) and then the end is finding Amanda in a stasis pod and getting her out of there before it is destroyed.
Its never too late
In the Aliens Special Edition movie, when Burke shows Ripley picture of her daughter, he names her Amanda Ripley McClaren (after her husband). So, I think in the Alien Isolation 2, Amanda should meet some guy of name McClaren, I would like him to be a Hicks-type marine.
Introducing McClaren in a role like that is genius
There is a novel about Amanda's husband who was a scientist who put Amanda in stasis cause she had some kind of disease. He labeled her dead so weyland won't find her and experiment on her. So in that book when Ripley sees her death certificate, Amanda was alive in cryo.
I think the novel alien prototype is a sequel to alien isolation and takes place before aliens resistance.
And I think it was alien colony war, where Amanda Ripley is the wife of a character in the book?
So Amanda Ripley does make appearances in other books I just haven’t read all of them yet.
I think the film Alien: Romulus will be the real sequel to Alien: Isolation as the Director Fede Alvarez seems to be inspired by that game and his film is set 20 years after the first film and 5 years after the game. It also looks like he incorporated the same emergency phones that are used as save points in the game into Romulus, so looking forward to see the story continuity from Isolation to Romulus.
@goldenshark3182 the trailers for Romulus literally look like a live action Isolation.. couldn't be happier
That's because he DID put in the save phones from Isolation. Fede was so into it when making this movie he took aspects of Alien, Aliens and Alien Isolation and threw it in when making Romulus. Did you notice Big Chap, hanging in the ceiling with his arms out stretched and the harpoon still in his torso? That's how he got shot out door after the cabin was decompressed. The little hook on the leg of the facehugger when the camera panned slowly across the room? It was mentioned that they didn't know how it managed to incapacitate its host. The AA (auto aim) smart gun? Throw back to the smart guns from Aliens that Vasquez and Drake used when they were in the lower levels of the thermonuclear reactor. The only thing I wish they kept was the violent explosion of the chestburster as it was in Alien.
And that's how Big Chap was introduced for the first time when he came down to kill Bret when he went to get Jonesy
The timing is right: a game set on Renaissance Station from Alien Romulus chronicling the fall of that station and serving as a prequel to Romulus is precisely what is needed.
Like, the game engine and assets all pretty much exist. Just a bit of a graphical update, few additions for the new assets and you're good to go.
For and Aliens fan Alien Isolation was a masterpiece.
I definitely like that idea for a sequel, playing as Newt would definitely make you feel even more vulnerable and make the Xenomorphs look even more terrifying. Maybe, if nothing else, the game could have an epilogue for Amanda’s story, maybe as an Easter egg or something at the end.
Take a look around. The love for this game is still STRONG. The new Aliens VR game has videos popping up on UA-cam and armies of Alien Isolation fans have flocked to them, demanding for Alien Isolation's much deserved sequel. As long as we're all still here, still hoping, it's never too late. We, the fans deserve a real Aliens experience once again.
Not a sequel per se, but the events of ISOLATION, including Seegson and the Working Joes, have been adopted into the wider canon of Alien-related materials, especially those written by Andrew Gaska. Those would be ALIENS: FIRETEAM ELITE and the ALIEN TTRPG by Free League Publishing, which are both set in the same post-ALIENS continuity. The destruction of Sevastopol is mentioned in the RPG's historical timeline.
I can't help but laugh like a maniac while "Decommisioning" working Joes in Fireteam Elite, caused me far too much trouble in Isolation to get any mercy... but I love that continuation of Seagson showing up, really helps cement those two games as my favorites for the franchise
Alien Isolation was developed in the very late 2000's through early 2010's and those were a different times than now. Times when the gaming community and internet in general were very exciting and great games kept coming out like Bioshock 1 & 2, Fallout 3 and NV, Star Craft II, Borderlands among many other great titles. Even if a sequel was confirmed to be in production I wouldn't be so hyped considering the shit state of game industry today. RIP good old gaming days 😥
That time period was the absolute worst for gaming. Alien Isolation is the antithesis of the railroad shooters that were trendy in those years. It was a true survival horror in the spirit of the end end of '90s first yeara of the '00s.
Sounds like it was a success both financially and has a very supportive fan base, but it wasn't as large a success as one of the head game developers were hoping so he abandoned the idea of a sequel and it all went down hill from there🤷♂️
Isolation is honestly my favourite instalment in the Alien franchise. Alien is my favourite of the films but this game did so much with the exact same aesthetic & atmosphere. In some ways I prefer it as a sequel than Aliens. Just spooky and immersive and all-around fantastic
Definitely agree. An Alien: Isolation 2 should play out the fall of Hadley's Hope, and again be very close to the original material.
A remaster would be nice, enabling seemlessness between the levels and full vr support would be awesome.
Cool vid. I’m more optimistic these days with the entire franchise being somewhat revitalised by Disney buying Fox. I’m definitely pro Alien Romulus myself, most I’ve enjoyed a trip to the flicks in years. And that movie straight up wouldn’t exist without Isolation. Imo Alien Earth can’t miss with Noah Hawley at the helm too, (or at least I’d be pretty surprised). Legion and Fargo absolutely ruled. Meh, I could totally see a sequel being green lit in the not too distant future! If everyone’s all excited about the live action franchise again n shit?! Why not. Shit, maybe they’ll give Ridley another blast at the movies while he’s still kicking, the Prometheus storyline still has a tonne of potential imo. I love this shit, man. Best horror/sci-fi franchise simultaneously. Gimme it
It’s never Too late for a Sequel of a Videogame, a Movie, a TV show Comics,Novels Etc Etc (just the only thing is that must Respect the First Movie, it’s Characters and Tell a Good Storyline).
For an Example just look Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine that was Released In 2011 that didn’t Got a Sequel Announced until Confirmation in 2021 and with a Release of 2024 (and the Finished Game was Awesome).
The succesfull Alien Romulus release is making this game relevant again, I bet is getting a significant increase in sales, I wish it leads to a sequel
Personally I would like to see either a direct sequel just moving past the mobile game and comic and creating its own narrative. Either that or just a direct sequel mechanically wise. With a new cast of characters but the same overall gameplay loop.
Whether with Amanda or not, I’d like to see aspects and ideas from Prometheus and Covenant be added to the gameplay. Surviving against multiple creatures like Neomorphs, maybe Deacons, and any other abominations that can be conjured by the black goo. Finally ending the game with a fight against an Engineer. In my mind, it would take place on either LV223 after WY finally find the planet Prometheus took place on again and either create a colony and/or a large research station there. Either that, or the Engineer’s homeworld in Covenant, once again colonized by WY. Im thinking levels where its infested with airborne black goo and you have to wear loud PPE to traverse through. And it would also be cool to be there when the alien outbreak begins.
Although your idea of Newt in the early days of Hadley’s Hope’s fall would be very interesting. Especially considering you would be playing a small child and might not have way of fighting back at all besides distractions
Knowing that it’s been ten years the exact time I met my first love and then losing him to him being murdered I wish I could go back to the release date of this game where we first played it
The whole "bioweapon" angle is unfortunately the worst thing to happen to Alien lore, even after Ridley Scott thought he should make some more movies in the series. In the first film, there's a throwaway line about bioweapons. And then that's all. It makes sense and we moved on.
But then the comics, books and games ran with it, and unfortunately they ran with it in the most obvious and schlocky ways. Tonally, it works in a comic or a video game, but in a movie, it's just awful, especially considering the grounded reality of the films, at least the first three.
But looking at it now from a 21st century mindset, the bioweapons division was probably interested in things that you would never assume came from researching the alien. Like, it's made of a molecular acid resistant material. That could be used to develop materials for armour. And there's the incredibly high cellular growth rate. Could that be used for medical purposes? It's so much better than alien human hybrids.
Why the fuck have we not gotten another alien vs predator game yo!?!?
Honestly!
We have enough AvP games. We have rarely had any proper Aliens games until fairly recently. Predator is also no where near as good as Alien or Aliens, so the franchises should have stayed separate.
Yes we still want alien isolation 2
It isn’t too late but the problem with waiting so long is that your employees turnover and the talent responsible for the first games success is likely not there anymore.
The AI was a huge portion of what made this game so cool including its atmosphere. The hype it could never reach in a sequel and I’d rather not let anything in alien fail moving forward
No. Never too late.
When I first played through it, I did think it dragged on too long. However, playing through it more than once & getting better at the game, I don't think the game is too long at all. Its only really because of how many times you die & being unfamiliar with the environments that makes it seem longer than it really is.
As much as I'd like a new Alien Isolation game, we will NEVER get a super high budgeted game ever again. Isolation may have sold decently but it still had a massive budget. The extremely unrelenting stressful experience I think is off putting for some, which may be why I think it did get some mixed/negative responses at the time (I actually had a mixed reaction after completing it for the first time, but came to appreciate it more on subsequent playthroughs. Playing it several times gives you the opportunity to pay more attention to details & minor things missed on a first experience).
Aliens Colonial Marines was the typical, more mainstream type of experience & it did poorly. Even though it is because Gearbox deliberately ruined the game by embezzling Sega's funding to put into Borderlands 2 & deliberately lying & misleading Sega & fans, game companies don't care. The game companies just see the end financial result & don't want to take "risks" by making games with a history of no financial success.
While we have had Aliens Fire Team Elite & Dark Descent, they were lower budgeted games. You couldn't do an Alien Isolation level of production value based on the budgets of those games.
I would rather another attempt at what Colonial Marines did. While Dark Descent was different for an Aliens game, it did get so much right in what an Aliens game should be, but I'd still want a first person experience with either co-op or A.I. marines on your side. ACM DID get a lot of things right. There are a lot of good ideas in it. It just needed a developer that wasn't run by criminals.
Some things I think could be implemented, would be to have more strategy choices, like if you hold up in a safe zone with welded doors, you could choose to escape via one path which would let you go to your next story point. Not all the marines in the film had motion trackers, so it could really add to the tension & co-op aspect I think if done properly, is if some marines didn't have one & had to rely on players that do to use one (A.I. marines could automatically tell you which way to aim).
Despite Alien 3 being heavily flawed, I really do like the world of Fury 161. I think a new game could be an interesting opportunity to explore the prison colony & see areas not seen in the film. One of the ideas dropped from the film was the egg morphing hive part, but I think that could be re-introduced in a game set on Fury 161 (just because it wasn't used for the film doesn't mean it didn't actually happen on screen).
I'd like to see more movie marines playable characters in online modes. I had a blast playing as movie characters in Colonial Marines, so I'd like as many likenesses/voice work for movie marines as much as possible.
One of the best modes in an AvP game was the Infestation mode. One player is an alien the rest are marines. Each time the alien gets a kill, they respawn as aliens. It was a cool & tense experience, but I think it could be expanded upon by having the marines able to weld doors shut & set up defenses like sentry turrets. Maps could have different base points with supplies & ammo, but the more aliens there are, the more damage to defenses they can do, forcing marines to try to make it to other base points & set up defenses. Something like this could work.
I've got a lot of ideas for what I'd like in an Aliens game, but unfortunately, the gaming industry is far more corrupt today than it was a decade ago, & what Randy Pitchford did with Colonial Marines makes him a hero in the eyes of the industry. Gaming media are just as complicit in the false advertisement, so their condemnation of the game is all phony.
I saw a preview of ACM by Eurogamer. They were actually playing it. They were playing the first part in Hadley's Hope (mission 4), & it was EXACTLY like it was in the finished game, but they were praising the hell out of it. This is typical of gaming media. Once the controversy died down, NOBODY held Gearbox to scrutiny. Look at the gushing over anything Borderlands that came after.
ALL studio heads are just like Pitchford. There will never be a big studio that will touch the license & give it the care & passion Isolation received, which was a fluke. People like Pitchford think they are above the influence Aliens had on games (look at how the film inspired Doom for example). Gaming would be far different had Aliens not had the impact & inspiration it had on gaming. But Pitchford says he is above that, & all the studios agree with him.
In an ideal situation, we'd be getting the Aliens games we want, while Pitchford & all Gearbox executives would be in prison.
This is why it is important to keep supporting Aliens games. When Dark Descent was announced, I saw several people saying they wouldn't buy it because its not Isolation 2. Well, when you don't support a game franchise that has been killed by Pitchford, there is zero incentive for game companies to give you Alien Isolation 2.
The RTS style of Dark Descent isn't the type of game I usually play, but I still supported it because I love Aliens & I'd like more Aliens games, so I supported it by buying it. I ended up having a blast. It was way better than Fire Team Elite because it focused more on the James Cameron style, rather than Ridley Scott's prequel crap.
One of my favorite games ever made. Played through it at least 5 times by now
I also enjoyed the audible book of Iso. Makes me want to shore up my courage and actually play the game. 😆
I don't think a sequel is necessary, but more DLC's would be great. A Newt DLC in Hadley's Hope would have been scary!
Edit: HOLY FUCK I RETRACT MY WORDS I'M SO EXCITED NOW THAT IT'S CONFIRMED!
Newt DLC for Alien Isolation 2 would go crazy though
A sequel of the exact same sort of premise would be more of the same.
How about this - make the game similar to Aliens in that time of the universe. Set it on a ship. Have a small number of Aliens. Make it so that any of the weapons that could kill the Aliens would puncture the hull and/or the acid would melt through the hull. There might be bits of the game where you have to take one out with heavy weapons ti survive.
It would need to be really carefully thought through but I think it could work as a concept and would give the game a feel for Aliens and with it a fresh take on the game.
Thats a very underrated Xenomorph mechanic.. Give the player weapons, but they don't dare kill it, love that
Alien: Isolation was quite literally ahead of its time
It's never too late for an Alien Isolation 2! What a Perfect Organism of horror Alien Isolation was.
I love Alien Isolation... ❤❤.
I've always said I'd like a movie or anime of Hadley's Hope, and it picks up just before the outbreak and ends just as Ripley and them arrive. But a game of that would be awesome too. me, I'd love to get a Isolation 2 and have it pick up either where it end, with Amanda floating in space and a ships light spots her. It could either pick up right from there or skip a few months ahead, and they could figure out how the Alien made its away there. Given that when she blow up the ship, some Aliens were seen being thrown into space and one got on board The Torrens. They could use that or the one that got on The Torrens could be the one brought to the new location. Like they towed The Torrens to the new location, unaware the Alien was inside. Either way, I really want them to continue Amanda's story from Isolation.
For many years i wanted a Alien Isolation sequel. But thinking about it.. i cant see how Amanda can grow more.. she got answers, got over her trauma etc.
The only way i could see a sequel is if we play another character that has Amanda as a mentor.. and the game should then explore why Amanda kept her encounter with the Xenomorph secret until her death.
Thats right! They cant do female bad asses anymore! Ripley, kill bill (forgot her name atm), sarah conor, and much more. Every niw amd again they get it right (arcane did great with this) but now it just seems like they think a nad ass wan is one eho is just compektely itchy. Like whats her name from three body problem. I love that boon and they made her sooooo itchy. Or lord or the rings thing amazon. And again, much more.
This weekend I played through the whole game on hard and I loved every second of it. It wasn't unfair. There were enaigh tools to distract the Alien. And it was actually pretty fair. You can hear the alien. You onow when to walk, when to sneak and when its even okay to run. I find the plot and characters fitted perfect in the universe and fu fact that game inspired zhe Romulus Director to make an Alien movie.
I've played Alien Isolation to death and still love it, played on PS4, now my PS5 and I even bought it for my PC.. Personally I don't think it needs a sequel, it's spot on as is.
Personally I'd love to see it remastered for PS5 etc 4k, nicely detailed with some nice frame rates thrown in.