As long as people in here consider 8/10 to be good, I can breathe easy with the world.

@cirdain: Yeah 8/10 is a good score and even 7/10 used to be considered a good score. If I'm interested in a game and it gets a lot of 7/10 reviews I still wouldn't consider it a failure. Just as a game with a lot of promise that it might not deliver completely but atleast there is something there to keep you engaged for the majority of the game.

I can't wait to see what Patrick thinks of this game. I assume he's going to review this one? Sounds like a game right up his alley.

Review Monday from what he said on Bombin'. From the sounds of what he said on that I'm predicting 3 stars from him. Seems like the game would of benefited from a shorter play time. I'm wondering if the Alien pre-order/DLC thingy will be shorter and be better received.

I was worried about this game stretching it's concept out too long though I wasn't expecting 20 hours. I would imagine a Portal 2 length of 4ish hours would have made for an awesome tight experience but its hard to sell a retail game of that length. Sounds like reviewers received their copies on Monday and anyone trying to hit the embargo marathoned through that game without much time to digest it. I can see if your a reviewer trying to review a game built around creating high-stress situations and the game keeps stretching on and on that the review experience would colour your final opinion. That said if the reviewers had two weeks I think the review scores would have only been a bit higher, sounds like the game has a lot of filler. Patrick finished it Friday night, he was originally trying to get a review out for the embargo but I bet his opinion on the game will be a bit better after mulling it over the weekend than it would have been if he had pushed himself even harder to hit the Friday embargo.

It will be interesting to see how the Crew Expendable stuff is received because it feels like this game could benefit from a Minerva's Den style compressed experience. I have way too many other games dividing my attention right now and SEGA removed the pre-order incentives before the reviews hit so I'm probably just going to wait a couple months for the holiday Steam sale.

Along with everybody else, I'll be interested to hear what Patrick has to say about it. I'm gonna most likely hold off purchasing it and hope that it's on a flash sale during Black Friday.

it's kind of odd that in this day and age people are complaining about games being too long considering that we were not long ago complaining about how short Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes was for instance. But I completely understand it that games can go on for too long. It's just a bit silly.

@twistedh34t said:

...But Alien: Isolation and Ground Zeroes are different games. A satisfactory length for a video game can differ wildly depending on what sort of game it is (and who's playing), and just because Ground Zeroes was critiqued as being too short isn't at all related to criticisms about Alien Isolation being too long. Also, generalisations are bad mmk. You're building a reality where every reviewer who thought Alien: Isolation was too long also thought Ground Zeroes was too short.

I know they're completely different games. I never meant to compare them in such a way. All I said that after all we've heard about games being too short it's kind of.. -well maybe "funny" is a better word- to hear people say that games are too long. As for the comment about building a reality, I don't know if people who thought Ground Zeroes was too short also thought Alien Isolation was too long. Maybe, I'm sure some people who played both will think that.

I can understand the criticisms based on playing Outlast. I thought Outlast was fantastic. But thats like a 7 hour...probably less... game. A 20 hour Outlast game sounds unappealing. Unless Alien has a lot more variety than that game did but from what I've watched (I watched a bit of a guy streaming) it seems to be basically the same sort of thing. I find I have less time to play games these days so I'll only play Alien for a good 30 minute to 1 hour chunks so I think it will be fine for me. I'll just enjoy being in that world.

:o The game's being released in an hour's time on Steam ^__^

I find it weird that in a horror game, your run is barely faster than the walking animation....maybe that's just me. I'm really enjoying the atmosphere so far, here's to see if it lasts for 20 hours.