I LOVE THIS GAME & I'm Exhausted: MAX PLAYS Alien Isolation - Hard Mode 1st Full Playthru (FINALE)

[@Summer_Tea]

I lost it at "The alien is stream-sniping me" 😂 That is such an apt description of hard mode.

[@TheAaroniousOne]

The best apart this entire gameplay is Maxes expressions. He's so engaged and genuinely in the moment that it just enhances everything.

[@OH877]

Reasons why I watch him because of his enthusiasm and his great commentary

[@crashnbyrne]

@@OH877 Watch part 1 of this playthrough, then get back to me.

[@SolProxy]

​​@@crashnbyrneI mean he was engaged then too.

[@codek5354]

William Hope who played Gorman in Aliens actually is the voice of Waits in this game, cool little fun fact.

[@JadeFoxAlpha]

Really? That's cool!

[@joshualowe959]

Over 7 hours of gameplay....Max REALLY DOES love this game!😁😁

[@PotatoRankEX]

Pretty sure this is just a single stream cut into several parts, so your statement still stand but the hours are a bit off xd Or not and I'm dumb.

[@LordoftheDice]

@@PotatoRankEX I can't speak for the other videos, but the first video was the first night he streamed this and he ended the stream when he started feeling tired and overstressed towards the end. Definitely feel like each video corresponds to a streaming session, but I didn't get a chance to see his other streams first-hand.

[@jeffwolfplays0513]

Now he just needs to give mass effect another chance. Lol

[@kilted_commenter9565]

There’s 3 videos each that length and it’s each an edited stream

[@redninjagaming4603]

And the alien loves him to ......... It REALLY loves him

[@joseftheerazor]

5:47:06 Umm... ok? Xenomorph: Excuse me. Just passing through. I'll get to you in a moment once I finish with these humans.

[@redmann53]

lmaoo that was funny af man, at least the xeno came back for him

[@joseftheerazor]

roy batty Yeah at first when I heard his footsteps I though Max was screwed, but no. It seems that the si of the alien took priority of the gun shot of the other mps. But when it look at Max it didn't attacked immidietly because it seems it went to the priority targets before returning & attaching max.

[@EuroMIX2]

It's interesting because I've definitely seen the Xeno target Amanda over other human targets before. I guess it depends on what the A.I. decides in any given moment.

[@GoldenMushroom64]

LMAO he’s like make way, coming through!

[@KalibreSteelblast]

5:58:00 The only reason that run worked that time is because Max _didn't_ run the entire way. The xeno _will_ investigate anytime you run, but it will only check the _last_ place you ran to. So if you sprint for 20 meters, then crouch and sneak another 10 meters, the xeno will stop short at the end of the first 20 meters, the last place it heard sprinting footsteps.

[@Rotary787B]

I love how stressed out you were throughout this whole playthru the tension was palatable!

[@vincewilliamss]

"just one more video before bed billy" Billy: ok mom Billy:

[@TheRiisingSun]

We need some kind of Alien Isolation sequel campaign going. Completely agree with every single person wanting more. SEGA are dumb for holding on to this IP, not wanting to "risk" it. There's nothing to risk. You had the PERFECT team for it back then. Bring them back. They clearly put in that cliffhanger for a reason. Been starving ever since.

[@almightykeys4734]

im down....we can start by buying this one. :)

[@TheRiisingSun]

@@almightykeys4734 I don't know where the problem is because this game sold well. Not immediately which is a shame because that's all SEGA and most publishers look at. Immediate sales. They're not in it for the long haul. And after watching the NoClip Alien Isolation doc the Creative Assembly crew has not "forgotten" about a sequel. People write "Alien Isolation 2 please" on almost every single post they make. In March 2015 the game had sold 2.1 million copies. That's 5 years ago.

[@almightykeys4734]

@@TheRiisingSun yea they kind of greedy. they did soo well on this game, that it scares customers to buy it. lol but they should fully expect this. a game like this will have more viewers then buyers by its nature.

[@JadeFoxAlpha]

It's not like they're doing anything else with the license. Does Sega even still have it? I think Aliens: Colonial Marines was such a dramatic and public humiliation for Sega because of its insipid handling of those studios that they got spooked by the license altogether. Alien: Isolation sold 2.1 million units by March 2015, and has SINCE been ported to Switch. That's an enormous install base, many of which would welcome a sequel. Alien: Isolation 2 would make money, but Sega don't understand how to business.

[@TheUtopianWanderer]

I can understand them not doing a sequel yet. It's hard to repeat that kind of feeling. It's a completely new experience and having a sequel doing the same would be kinda boring. They need to come up with a concept that evolves on that but I honestly think it'll be a very difficult task to repeat this masterpiece.

[@Massacretalitor]

The nest was so nerve-wracking. I played through the game three times (had to do it twice more because the no-death achievement didn't unlock for me despite not dying on the first try), and this was the one part that still shook me. What I found odd on Max's playhthrough is the moment I booted up the second electricity-thingy, the aliens got really agitated in the nest, and this really dramatic music started playing on the escape. In contrast, it was very quiet here. Dunno if it's a thing with a PS4 or a glitch, but it happened on my every run.

[@TheInvincibleGuch]

SPOILERS: I remeber feeling so good when you finally deal with the Xenomorph. I felt so safe until I got to the nest and my heart sank real low. I knew I was really fucked when I finally saw two Xenomorphs standing next to each from my hidey hole. Such a fantastic game.

[@meisterwu8922]

i thought there's never more than one wandering around?

[@TheTrueGuardian]

@@meisterwu8922 In hard and Nightmare mode there can be up to 2 at once inside of the nest roaming around. but the rest of the station (except for certain cutscenes) there's only ever one. However, there are Insane difficulty mods that allow 3+ Xenos trying to find you all throughout the station at one time.

[@dragongamer2670]

10/10 Glad you gave this a second go. I was one of the people screaming when you played it the first time to complete it! Glad you went back and did this man. Remember sometimes it is best to complete a game.

[@KalibreSteelblast]

Fun fact: at 5:38:00, if you keep looking above the hatch leading back into the station, you can spot a xeno crawling over the door and getting into an outer vent leading directly into comms. Max missed it because he was checking out the rest of the station in the distance, I was a little disappointed. X3 Maybe during his next playthrough. But that's why there was a tense music string at 5:38:36, and why I found it funny when Max mentioned the Xeno could survive in the vacuum. X3

[@alekzanderor5489]

I think its super hard to notice that alien - its a spacewalk with no weapons&gadgets (no sence of danger), its a long (kinda) backtracking part and it has really nice view. I apparently missed him 2 times out of 2 )

[@snaek12]

6:34:55 how many times i played this games this soundtrack gives me chills

[@Kaenargh]

This game is a Masterpiece. One of the best games I ever played.

[@cynthiagarza4494]

I hope he plays the dlc and uploads it to youtube

[@dannyton8478]

GOTY 2014 for me

[@brettbrett678]

@@cynthiagarza4494 it looks like his response to the DLC was cut out in the video but on stream he did say that he wants to revisit the game and play the DLC but he wanted to come back to the game because he needed a mental break

[@IzanagiSMT]

Just finished watching the full run, fuck, i'll have to reinstall the game for a 4th time

[@C0LDC3LL]

Just finished part 2 earlier today, perfect timing.

[@tmerchead1]

"Alien Covenant is a great movie. " Max - "Someone shoot that guy."

[@MrFlip2247]

I think it was a great theater experience but lacking as an installment and sequel to Prometheus

[@TacoLibreF-CKYT]

never been an alien fan nor seen the movies but when i saw te alien covenant trailer have an alien showed and it was CG, i knew it was gonna be off.

[@spartan3924]

The CG alien was the best part of it, everything else was terrible, mainly the story, how it shits all over the old story and inserts a worse one

[@z0ttel89]

​@@spartan3924 exactly. It tries to 'expand the universe' (ha!) and in doing that, it makes everything worse. Ridley Scott, once again, shows that he didn't even understand his own creation. He has no clue what made 'Alien' so great. The creature was indeed alien to us, it was unknown, it was aggressive and it was scary. We did not know what it was and where it came from, what it wants, what it strives for.. and that's what made the Alien mythos so incredibly interesting in the first place, especially at the time when the movie was released. Then Ridley Scott comes along and is like: 'Hey, how about we create a whole backstory to the xenomorph and explain every little detail, destroying all the mystery around it and making it bland and boring'? Yeah great idea, Ridley. Honestly, f*ck Covenant... to me, that movie is not canon to the Alien saga. The Aliens are a hostile and unknown species and they weren't created by a f*cking android that got bored. It's the dumbest 'prequel' story ever written in science fiction.

[@darkshat3077]

@@z0ttel89 other then the story, I thought it was a fun.

[@derpdiamonduniverse1523]

If you think about it i guess hard mode gives the illusion that theyres multiple aliens that are around every map section

[@stormichow5325]

Actually, there _were_ multiple Xenomorphs onboard Sevastopol even before Ripley went to the Reactor.

[@pocoloco753]

@@stormichow5325 That's my theory. Ain't no way Ripley was just that unlucky to keep running into the one Xenomorph throughout the entire station. Probably multiple Xenos but since they all look the same (they're all drones? Don't know if the game stablishes it)she doesn't notice

[@joshuanelson6795]

Alien Isolation is easily one of the greatest horror games I've ever played and a true love letter to fans. I'm really glad Max came around to this game the second time. Now if I could just get him to come around to Resident Evil Code Veronica...

[@Mizoturi]

I wouldn't say it's a love letter, it is more like the devs paid you a night with the finest sex worker in town with a paid 5-star hotel and dinner at an expensive restaurant

[@joshuanelson6795]

That analogy works too.

[@sergevolosin9511]

Yeah, there were things it missed and could've done better for it be a true love letter, but it was certainly made with a lot of love put into it.

[@pheezus]

He did play the entire Code Veronica game lmao, it was one of his most funny playthroughs next to Sub Zero Mythologies lol

[@Demonboy007]

>Veronica Boi, the only way you could turn Veronica around is if you rework the system. And get rid of Steve Burnside.

[@johns1625]

I'm really glad you have love for Alien and wanted to play the game as it's meant to be experienced. Most other players turn the brightness up within the first hour and just ruin the immersion, and then say the game was too long lol. I didn't want it to end!

[@GoldenMushroom64]

Max knows how to play games properly

[@perfectlyslicedegg3348]

1:49:50 Oh god they literally did the "Do something and the enemy comes alive cliché"

[@enigmaticexperiment6405]

A.I. Director: Give me a few minutes and I'll point you in the right direction. Alien: Fine. You got any coffee while we're waiting? A.I. Director: Sure. How do you take it? Alien: Light with two splenda please. A.I. Director: Here you are. How are things going ? Alien: Great! I'm having lots of fun with this dude. Working Joe: Unidentified species. Alien: (sips coffee) Eat me baldy.

[@Fldllse]

I'm so so glad that I bought this game right when it came out. Easily THE GREATEST horror game I've ever played. I remember at the time it came out there was another Alien game which was all about a squad of 4 fighting hordes of Aliens Left 4 Dead style, I remember playing that one and thought how can they get the whole idea of the Alien franchise that wrong FFS.

[@Absolynth]

Isolation was the most stuttering and glitched game I had played on my PS3 in its late years in 2014, and YET, somehow, was the still also the most immersive game I have ever played in my life lol That's a testament to it's affective design.

[@thomask5434]

@@Absolynth i cannot remember any glitches on pc. Not that i remember. I could actually play it 2k on my machine.

[@Absolynth]

@@thomask5434 It had some issues for sure. Animations not working sometimes this and that nothing game breaking though just some inconsistencies. Even the cutscenes had some stuttering issues. Thankfully the game was successful enough that they patched out everything wrong and it's just emaculate now.

[@bruhder5854]

Imo the games' strong parts are really fucking good but the weak parts are really fucking weak. Really wish they'd do a part 2 or something and diversify the strong bits to not make it Stale while making the weak parts have more interesting story elements. Overall not my favorite because of that but yeah it's a solid game.

[@frenchfriedbagel7035]

Yeah, Colonial Marines was garbage.

[@fredinator85]

I played this game like 3 times myself and watched plenty of people play it. Because its like the movies to me and I love seeing peoples first reaction to this.

[@JadeFoxAlpha]

Same. It's like... video game comfort food. This is one of my favorite games of all time, and the only one I've ever achievement hunted.

[@thedarkknight2221]

This is a perfect game for me to watch someone else play and never play myself. Also they NEED to make a FULL remake of Aliens: Colonial Marines.

[@thiccandridicc]

Not never? Is that a contradiction?

[@frenchfriedbagel7035]

I have yet to see if the typo fix makes the AI significantly better. Does it?

[@zevorothrappaleano58]

They NEED to never give gearbox shit ever again

[@soconapleura]

wow, something actually got max pissed never talk about convenant or get rekt

[@if_paradox]

This is one of the best horror games of all time I enjoyed every stressful second of my hard mode play through

[@IamTechNerd]

1. They should have gone more into the backstory in Prometheus. 2. They should have continued with the Shaw storyline after Prometheus. 3. Seriously Ridley Scott wtf.

[@lucianobruzzone537]

YES YES and YES. The most interesting part was the Engineers. How and why they created life? why did they leave? did they regret it? Instead of exploring that, the movie A:C focused on David being an asshole which makes no sense. I understand he wanted to make some experiments with the aliens, but why killing every human? He definitely enjoyed human´s artistic side as we´ve seen him reading books and listening to music. Ridley Scott chose to do a movie based on Fassbender popularity (amazing actor BTW) instead of a proper plot based Aliens lore.

[@sergevolosin9511]

They should've just left it alone and let the mystery be a mystery. Number 3 is on point though.

[@peppercat1887]

Do you watch the Dead Meat channel? James put it best when they did the kill count. "Come Ridley, show some respect for the series THAT YOU MADE"'

[@Skillfulstone]

The ending (replacing the Xenomorph cameo at the end) of Prometheus should have gone something like this instead of that open-ended thing. The Engineer wakes up from under the giant thing, coughing and enraged, and gets on another ship to go after Shaw. When he's in space he starts to convulse in pain and his ship veers off-course and crashes on a deserted unknown planet (which would be LV-426). The last screen would be the Engineer weakly pressing a few buttons to send a warning signal before his suit bursting open and the first Xenormoph screaming (like the cameo scene but a more "normal-looking" Xeno). This would lead straight to the first Alien movie and would explain a bunch of questions about the first movie.

[@Adam-082]

They should have never made Prometheus all it did was sour the Alien mythos even worse than Alien 3 or Reresection ever could have.The mystery of where the aliens came from and what the thing in the ship was in alien when they enter it for the first time should have stayed a mystery if this is what we get.Its like Shane Blakes the predator lol that movie shits all over predator and the established lore.

[@SlimReaper04]

39:30 Max’s confidence went from 0 to 100 after the Alien was thrown out and he saved

[@Myth_or_Mystery76]

SlimReaper that’s when I stopped because it got boring. There was no tension anymore.

[@SlimReaper04]

@@Myth_or_Mystery76 ok

[@SlimReaper04]

@@Myth_or_Mystery76 ok but seriously that’s a problem with this game. The slow parts were “too slow”. I get that the reason was to not make it purely alien focused

[@Myth_or_Mystery76]

@@SlimReaper04 If they wanted to get rid of the alien, they should have just made certain random sections Alien free. Like in the Resident Evil Remake, sometimes the alien is there, but others he doesn't show up at all (unless you make way too much noise). It's like they knew the game doesn't give you much of a break at all, so their solution was just to remove the alien. I've heard it maybe comes back way later but I never got that far.

[@guydangerus2468]

@@Myth_or_Mystery76 Nah I disagree, literally makes the Alien next a even worse feeling cause you thought you got rid of it. Ever think that there might have been just multiple Aliens following you through different areas? And the devs did what you said a period of area where you didn't have to encounter the alien "after you jet it" for about 30 min then the nest

[@misschieflolz1301]

Oh my. I thought my eyes were decieving me seeing the length of this video. Guess I'm gonna be watching this in several parts XD

[@Jigsawn2]

Thanks for this highly entertaining playthrough, a lot of KZbinrs just make jokes playing this all the way through and ruin the atmosphere so it was good to see a fan take it all in. I played on Hard for my first playthrough as well so I feel your stress, especially the non-stop nightmare that is the last hour or two!

[@alvaraitor1987]

Agree, seeing Max and the facts that he knows as a fan make it far more enjoyable, same thing happened with the FFVII Remake, this is the perfect guy to watch on a campaign on something that he is a fan of, greetings from México my friend, be well.

[@GeneralErlend]

I remember playing this when it came out, got to the end section with the small corridor and had to take a break since it was so stressful. Came home drunk after a night out with some friends and finally mustered the "courage" to get the section done.

[@CherryBlossom-yn7oq]

Yay!! Was waiting for this since I could not finish watching it on stream. Now I can't wait to finish my essay so I can watch this.

[@commanderkitsune8524]

Max: "I need to get a Noise Maker to distract him!" Me: Shame you didn't craft 4 or em before you got to this point. XD

[@superkeaton9912]

I'll forgive Max, cause it's been a while since it was mentioned, but Ripley and the crew already knew he was an android. It'd been addressed.

[@Opinion-Guy]

It was eluded to in the beginning as "i don't need as much sleep as the rest of you". But i forgot this detail myself on the first playthrough.

[@TheT0nedude]

There are several hints, if you're paying attention it might not come as a surprise. Ricardo not knowing about Samuels (he never met him) also mentioned the working Joe's getting upset about a weyland yutani model amongst them, which obviously hints at Samuels on his way to Apollo.

[@rejoicingfakepriest201]

@@TheT0nedude Ricardo met Samuels though? When they first ran into Waits.

[@neonpop80]

I crawled all the way to the end of this game. Can’t say I felt brave

[@Aggiemayson]

this game is amazing at making everything feel like it needs to be done right NOW and in order to do it you have to calmly do tasks that are just long enough to accomplish that it gives you a heart attack as you finish it in time

[@hacturne8346]

Yes! i was waiting for the next episode! French viewer. Awesome game and a pleasure to watch you playing it

[@jk844100]

I kinda want to see max react to the video that explains the AI of this game, it’s really interesting.

[@juanmatemos5695]

link?

[@neonpop80]

It’s a tragedy the game didn’t get the fair attention on release. Now we have to suffer with not having a sequel to this masterpiece which sits at the top of the franchise’s best with Alien and Aliens

[@imperialtutor8687]

I think alien isolation is one of those games that will be still talked about in years to come. kinda like system shock back in the day. it's just a really well done game. visually I think it hasn't a day except for maybe some of the character models but other then that the level design and creative placement of lights all around are timeless they really nailed the feel and look of the first two alien movies. I just wish Sega would consider making a sequel. creative assembly hasn't done anything remarkable recently besides total war three kingdoms, and their latest outing total war Troy was pretty awful. then again imagine a lot of people who worked at creative assembly back when they made alien isolation might not even be there anymore. the games industry is a bit like pro sport. lots of talent switching around from company to company.

[@ЯношБан]

Well while we won't see a sequel to this game anytime soon (if ever), it is good to know that alot of people who worked on Isolation are still at CA and they are given the creative freedom to work on an original IP of theirs.

[@voxdraconia4035]

CA is Total War since the late 1990ties, and the most remarkable (and cash cow for SEGA) IP is Total War: Warhammer 1-2, which soon will get a sequel. Alien never was more than a side project

[@bigpapa6851]

I love that he loves this game, but it’s so frustrating seeing him pass up loot because his inventory was full. CRAFT SOMETHING!! 😂 Even if he was playing on Easy difficulty he’d be playing on Hard mode by not utilizing all his tools.

[@aerostrafe1075]

I remember beating this game on hard by only using flares I found. Thats a challenge.

[@Jigsawn2]

To be fair on Hard I only really used noisemakers and flares, plus the occasional EMP for the droids, I kind of took the same approach as Max where using items is the final solution and its a better fun challenge to try and do it without. But towards the end of the game you really need the distraction tools on Hard as the Aliens are so aggro. So I don't feel like he missed out on much and I spent most of my playthrough with max items, except for flamethrower ammo which I wasted early on (not realising you only need to tap a few times). That really came to hurt towards the ending as I had no way to scare off the Aliens!

[@deltaprime3509]

I love that they go into the original alternate ending idea of the first movie where aliens turn people into eggs. It makes sense if the area is unsuitable or they are unable to make a Queen they would need a backup plan to reproduce.

[@KalibreSteelblast]

The devs stated that Sevastapol _did_ have a queen, Ripley just never got deep enough in the hive to see it. And as Max suggests, it was likely so that they could capitalize on the queen in the event of a sequel.

[@AtelierRobu]

3:37:29 The start of the alien nest

[@missmeeper]

Thank you so much for putting these out!

[@theaveragedro6814]

I hate that I missed the streams, but these videos will make an excellent trilogy of Alien goodness.

[@PrimitiveBaroque]

Watching this I've forgotten how mindblowingly awesome it holds up. It's a classic. And I'm glad it's an Alien game.

[@KalibreSteelblast]

12:25 "Waits sounds like Gorman." Because it _is_ Gorman (William Hope).

[@dominicwilliams214]

Can't wait to sit down with a snack and watch this 7hrs of gameplay

[@traidahhsien7378]

I binge watched Alien since your last Alian upload and loved every minute of it! Thanks Max!

[@frenchfriedbagel7035]

I’m pretty sure binge watching a movie is just called “watching a movie”.

[@traidahhsien7378]

@@frenchfriedbagel7035 i watched the entire 'alien' franchise in two days (even watched some multiple times). thanks for nitpicking a random comment, asshole.

[@AL_EVOz]

haha Woot! final play through. I went through all of part 1 and part 2. Looking forward to the finale and reaction to this.

[@ToniaHan]

Me too

[@LoreFinder92]

Love watching this guy play video games.

[@WYIT0]

Didn't plan on watching all of this playthrough (like 15 hours) but I just had to see your reactions to each moment of the game. It's amazing that nothing was spoiled for you so that you got to experience it properly. It really helped that you have such knowledge and respect for the movies (well the good ones). Was hoping you weren't too let down by the last scene but as you say they explain what happens in Aliens. I managed to get all achievement on this game. The first playthrough I searched EVERY room and backtracked to find every collectible which meant I probably put over 20 hours into it. Then I did the game again without dying (which can be cheesed by pausing and reloading when the Alien sees you) but towards the end when the facehuggers and instant death moments happen, that wasn't possible.

[@JadeFoxAlpha]

One of the coolest things about this game lore-wise is that we get to see a company besides The Company. Seegson is the Coleco to Weyland-Yutani's Atari, and it's so neat. I also love that we get to see engineering, marketing, AND executive perspectives on the Working Joes, which are literally the best they can do, but they're really shitty, so they market them as being intentionally shitty. The Working Joes are so rich in lore. And Sevastopol! Sevastopol is so wonderful, one of the finest and best-developed environments in ANY video game. Every single detail of every corridor and corner is so carefully thought out.

[@pocoloco753]

Agreed. The way the devs expanded upon the original lore in a way that feels natural is mind blowing to me. They created a whole competitor company, a brand new line of androids and a vast array of AI, computer, software models that while different, fit perfectly into the universe. No wonder everything about this game is considered cannon, this is how you expand a previously stablished universe. I wish Ridley Scott took notes from how this game did it, maybe it would've averted the "edgy android created Xenomorphs" angle that current movies are working on, one of the most unnecessary origin stories ever

[@JadeFoxAlpha]

@@pocoloco753 Yeah. The RPG is walking the David canon back a bit by saying that the Imp and the "Praetomorph" were different subspecies artificially created by David that were separate and distinct from the actual Xenomorph species, which kind of is the best of both worlds. It lets the good parts of the Prometheus movies still exist in that universe while taking the stuff that actively weakens the canon and fixing it as much as possible.

[@codyboyer1489]

Max, I'm incredibly interested to hear how you enjoyed the Last Survivor DLC. Loved watching you stream A:I. Might have been a bit short, sure....but I LOVED the inclusion of Ripley's panicked "Lucky Star" in the last dash. They did such a remarkable job capturing the Nostromo and the chaos, especially with the lack of sight in the hall steam. Just my own thoughts. Will always be a major fan...and you got me into fighting games hook, line and sinker.

[@kilted_commenter9565]

The best part hands down was when he called the transporter, said please god oh god thank you, and when the doors opened and the alien was there his jaw hit the floor. Fav gamer!

[@KalibreSteelblast]

This was one of the most amazing things ever. ^__^ I'm glad Max came to love this game.

[@jimwise4307]

The alien has 2 AI built in. 1. The body cannot see you but knows you are there. 2. The brain can see you but cannot move. So it uses those 2 in tandem to getcha! I just found this out after years of playing. I also wanted to say that it was so wonderful to see a big streamer play the entire game. I have played it through many times (am in a run now), and seen many streamers play it. Every single one has had the same reaction. This is the best Alien game period. Having already played it, I was ready for all the times when I knew it was going to end you. Like when you got to the hive, when the generator died, and when you got abducted. I still hope and pray that they do another one. I would love to see Amanda in a Hadley's Hope situation.

[@Luis-jn7qu]

When Max was saying "Go away" reminded me of Golem from lord of the rings. "Go away and never come back"

[@Phoenix-iz6fg]

7:20 "To achieve this, the game requires two distinct behavior management systems: the ‘macro’ or director-AI and the ‘micro’ or alien-AI. The director observes the player throughout the game, always knowing your location. Meanwhile the alien-AI is driven by a series of sensors and behaviors that allow it to hunt the player down. The director’s job is to point the alien in the direction of the player periodically, to give it a hint as to where it should be looking. Despite this, the alien is never allowed to cheat: while the director always knows where you are, the alien has to figure it out for itself. You can fool it, you can surprise it and you can escape it." from gamasutra website

[@TheoryFG]

“This game is FUN!! I’M HAVING FUN!!” He said, when the alien wasn’t there to get him. 😂

[@wkhan7039]

"I miss David Bowie" Yeah, me too. Every day

[@chara2038]

7 hours? Damn! Gotta make some popcorn!

[@Koskinen2000]

When apollo said there were more aliens on the station I panicked

[@spycheck]

Loved watching your playthrough max! It was a hilarious watch and hope you do more horror game playthroughs.

[@presussy]

I just watched the entire Playthrough (like 16 hours) in a day because I like watching these kind of games but not really playing them and I had nothing really better to do. What am I doing with my life.

[@SHEGradon]

Doubt you'll read this comment after so long. But this playthrough was great. It brought back loads of fond memories of my first playthroigh after so many years. This is one of my all time favourite games, I've played it through on each difficulty, even Nightmare - and I must say, the Alien is aggressive on all difficulties. I partly blame IGN for the game selling so poorly and not getting a sequel - seeing their review vs what I played was like night and day - but it undoubtedly led to many, many people steering clear.

[@Keytotruth]

I love that Max keeps panicking and dying to the alien despite having like 500 ammo for the flamethrower.

[@ekzsuncz7610]

Max be like "Alright, i'm gonna split this playthrough to 4 hours of gameplay per part" *7 hours left before the playthrough is done* "Freak it, imma upload all of them"

[@FreakingLombax]

This has been an absolute blast to watch! Thank you, Max!

[@reeba4824]

I've watched a few ppl play this game but man, what a fun experience it was to go through it with you, especially cuz youre such a big Alien fan. 😁😁 I jumped quite a few times with some of your riskier plays but it was great nonetheless. Im happy you enjoyed it and am pumped to find some more vids like this to get me through the work day, yay for twitch vods~ 😆

[@thearnett]

3 years on and this remains my absolute favorite game playthrough to watch. Genuinely might be my top game I wish I could scrub from memory to experience for the first time all over again.

[@danieldeleon1693]

You're gonna try the DLC soon right? You're gonna love it😉! Crew Expendable & Last Survivor follows events of the First Movie and has the actors reprising their roles. I know soon that you're going to have a blast with the DLC.

[@JadeFoxAlpha]

I especially love Safe Haven and Lost Contact

[@YxngKaz]

This was funny as hell loving this content

[@sylion2305]

Thank you, I smiled a lot thank to your video.

[@travispizinger8173]

The reason why I wanted to watch Max in the nest area is because I wanted to see if he felt the same dread I did when I first saw the nest’s walls.

[@ramadhanbenny6640]

my anxiety when max arrived on the nest and walk pass the save point

[@KalibreSteelblast]

5:38:34 It's funny Max says this right here- if he'd looked up at the station, he would have seen a xeno crawling towards comms and breaking into a vent.

[@gamenerdte1]

That first panel he cut said "Cut panel in Case of Emergency".....excuse me? I'll be sure to always keep an ion torch on me just in case I have to cut through hardened steel

[@Ekinoxe]

I'd love a sequel where you play as Newt on LV-426, having to survive until the colonial marines show up.

[@adonailr9667]

After 15 hours of surviving, the end of the game cuts to a freeze frame of Alien 3, with the words, Fuck you! :) on screen, then the credits roll.

[@GeneralErlend]

@@adonailr9667 Personally didn't mind the first half of Alien 3, not even killing off Hicks, Newt and partly Bishop (he "survived" for one ( kind of two scenes) scene). Sadly, the movie kind of fell apart around the halfway point where Charles Dance dies. You don't feel like rooting for any of the inmates with maybe the exception of the black guy, Ripley is not going to get killed by the Alien since she is a host, so there is nothing really there except at the very end, closure for Ripley. Its an "okay" movie at best.

[@Sxorp1o]

The best walk through I've seen

[@lucavivoltaire1569]

Every time Max tries to stun baton and gets grabbed instead all I can hear is "C-C-C-C-Combo Breaker!!"

[@FredThePhoenix]

Alien: Masterpiece of horror and ambience. Aliens: Masterpiece of action and ambience. Alien Isolation: Masterpiece of survival horror as a video game. I adore this game too and I'm glad you finally gave it another go. When you gave up after your first try 6 years before this, I was greatly disappointed because I knew you were missing out on an awesome experience. Just like the movies, it starts slow and you have to respect that you get the awesomeness after.

[@almightykeys4734]

thank you soo much for the upload. 🙏

[@olternaut]

You played 7 hours straight to the finale? Dang!

[@YourDevastator]

That good babyyyy ;]

[@KalibreSteelblast]

He just couldn't stop, it was so good. X3

[@vashthestampede9970]

I think this game is the spiritual successor to the original Alien. Just a beautifully crafted game.

[@Myth_or_Mystery76]

I have mixed feelings about that unpredictable alien AI mod. I mean it sound scarier but not harder. I mean if I can hide from that thing 100% of the time when it’s always haunting me, then how is it harder to just have to occasionally deal with it? I mean they say hunts harder for you but whatever. I’ll just avoid it anyway. That sounds more like a Band-Aid solution than actually fixing the problems that a sequel would hopefully do.

[@sergevolosin9511]

Don't think the mod's intention was to make it harder, but make it more enjoyable in some aspects. The game can become a bit grueling at times, and from personal experience I can definitely say it makes it easier, cuz I literally breezed through some of the hardest sections of this game on Nightmare difficulty with the mod on, because the Alien just wouldn't show up, which was actually somewhat enjoyable and refreshing believe it or not. Max probably would've appreciated that actually.

[@xcarter1893]

Off topic to this vid Max I would like to personally thank you for bringing marvel back to life

[@hellrisefrom2987]

im a huge fan max i started streaming becuse you did it so well ty for opening up more posibilities

[@rozemorgaine1886]

I get there's liquid in there, but why do the robots gurgle? That's so damn disturbing, I love it.

[@MirandaAndUh]

The funny thing about Max looking away specifically at 5:38:09 is that in that moment, if he'd been looking forward, he could see an Alien outside the station crawling into a higher airlock.

[@galmorzu]

Whoa, seriously? I don't think I've ever noticed that.

[@s13gaming72]

I think this game gave me PTSD. Just watching you play through is giving me flashbacks to my own time playing and is making me anxious. This is one of the best horror games ever made. But seriously, dood, your stubborn refusal to use items made your playthrough way harder.

[@Sagekun]

2:33:49 Epic Dar'dood'e Sandstorm cover

[@JustAFox47]

One of my favorite things about this game is how long things take. Actions don’t happen in a single second, they take time, and often times you have to manually do the action yourself. It all adds to the stress the game puts you through. Do you have enough time to flip a lever? Can you turn a generator off or on fast enough? Is the alien away long enough for you to save in peace? Typically Alien games are shooters, and as with most shooters, a fast pace is emphasized. Alien Isolation, however, is the exact opposite philosophy, putting emphasis on how slow things move to make you more stressed (and therefore more engaged).

[@johnsteelman3254]

“AVP 2 would be a guilty pleasure if I could see a damn thing happening in it.” I agree, Max! I WANTED to like it but I absolutely cannot.

[@kilted_commenter9565]

If this isn’t the damn truth

[@GT.Bugger]

Took me about a week to get through this video.. But now what am I going to do.. Amazing game. Thanks for sharing your playthrough Max

[@Jerguy]

Lol fun watch, but anyone else find themselves yelling at the video for Max to use his fucking map??

[@User-17429]

31:51 Is the most hilarious fail I’ve ever seen

[@misschieflolz1301]

2:17:00 - Oh you think that daylilght savings sucks? Wanna trade? Here in the UK it starts getting dark at 3:30, and it's pitch black by about 4:15.... and when we hit peak winter it'll be dark at 3:30pm, and so long as it's a clear day we'll have sunrise a about 8-8:30am. Yes, we average 6- 6 1/2 hours daytime in winter and it sucks. Worst memories are heading off to school at 8am - it's pitch black. Finish school at 3:30 pm and - Yes. Going home from school in the pitch black. On days when it's overcast/rainy, it's like twilight all day.

[@omaralajmi1551]

It's really patient of you Max just sneaking around hiding for long brief times just for the Alien to reroute his appearence , While there's an easy way of dispatching him or distracting him for a good brief while when throwing a NoiseMaker into the opposite side ( Or just basically toss it anywhere far for him to be busy & distracted ). This is the Hardest difficulty as the AI is more intense & roam quite frequently..... You just need to lure him out with Noisemakers , those are your best Bets against Aliens only when in Mid to Long range encounters. ( *Never use those noisemakers against Robots or Human enemies* ). As the Aliens sense of Hearing is the best in this game for its specific AI design 😅 Your safe bet against him is also Flame Thrower at close range , Try never shooting too late as he tends to swipe his Claw wiping out half or more of your HP before he gets toasted.... Pipe Bombs also works against the Alien , as if the Explosion was very close to him he will run away through the Vents reseting his AI roam depending on the Area.... I love this Hardcore Run specialy when Aliens are nearby , and in this difficulty it truly tests out your Patience dude lol. 😂🤣 *Note* : The craftable wheel you got is pretty useful , if used correctly.... But you barely use it. It actually Helps around tight situations against Alien encounters ( *Noisemakers are the best for Luring the Alien off for a brief good moments even from Far away into another Room.... the Pipe Bomb just disorients the Alien , making it escape to Vents but you need to throw it pretty close to it.... Lastly , Molotov works exactly like the Flamethrower but with abit wide area of effect on the ground after impact* ). However , Noisemakers are the most useful as it attracts his attention from very far away..... If you use your mind , you wont have a Hard time like the previous parts. But nevertheless , he will stick on the same perimeter as soon as the Noisemaker fades away 😅

[@greatfist]

I know the main character wouldn't survive it but Waits nuking the whole station kinda is the best plan of action. The alternative of 'I'll save everyone and escape and just somehow make sure no aliens are on out life crafts or gestating inside our wounded." is rather naive.