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Colonial Marine has just hit an all time low in the UK at the rock bottom price of £1.99. With the original release at around £50 it goes to show that the price fell apart almost as quickly are the bull poo poo hype that Gearbox surrounded the game with.
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Sep 1, 2014 16:03
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Yodzilla posted:Stasis Interrupted was loving terrible what the hell.
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Sep 2, 2014 13:28
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Xenomrph posted:Holy poo poo calm down, hoss. You say one thing but you manage to continually back into other things as well. Namely, "Hey I totally agree its not good! But seriously, just ignore some of this stupid poo poo and the terrible things and yeah, you can have fun! Cause all I'm doing is looking for the fun!" The problem is the negatives so severely outweigh the good.
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Sep 3, 2014 07:39
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Xenomrph posted:I didn't have a big problem with Michael Biehn's voice acting given the character's situation (not to mention Michael Biehn has aged nearly 30 years in the interim, and it's not all that different from how he sounded in Blood Dragon). Biehn himself called this game "passionless." quote:[The project] wasn't fun at all. I just really didn't have any fun.
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Sep 3, 2014 08:04
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soggybagel posted:You say one thing but you manage to continually back into other things as well. Namely, "Hey I totally agree its not good! But seriously, just ignore some of this stupid poo poo and the terrible things and yeah, you can have fun! Cause all I'm doing is looking for the fun!" I see Colonial Marines as a lot of missed potential, which is really unfortunate. Frankly I'd love it if some other, competent studio took a crack at a sequel and implemented some of the cool ideas that got shelved, like dedicated squad roles with accompanying co-op, exploring other worlds besides LV-426 (which is pretty much the Tattooine of Aliens fiction - for a backwater planet, everything seems to happen there), and some of the other ideas introduced in the old concept art. At least the DS game was clever enough to namedrop the UPP, basically space-communists, an idea from one of the abandoned Alien3 script drafts.
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Sep 3, 2014 18:11
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The legend will never die. http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2014-09-03-sega-pitchford-did-whatever-the-gently caress-he-likesquote:"I spoke face to face to [Gearbox's Steve] Gibson about their persistent panel leaking," said Matt Eyre, GM and director of brand marketing (Core Games) at Sega, in reference to E3 2011.
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Sep 3, 2014 20:26
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Xenomrph posted:To each their own I guess, I've had a good time with my share of bad games. Driv3r on the original Xbox was a buggy, broken, unfinished mess, but you could still do hilarious poo poo in it and to this day I wish more open-world games had as robust of a replay movie creator as that game had.
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Sep 3, 2014 20:32
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Cardboard Box A posted:Don't forget that the replays didn't always record things correctly and viewing a broken replay after finishing a mission could cause you to fail the actual mission. I learned that the hard way after struggling with the next to last mission which is almost entirely based on luck, and stupidly difficult and un-fun. I completed it, and just to prove that it could be beaten, I saved a replay. Doing so made it so the mission completion didn't register, so I had to beat it again. I was so loving angry, holy poo poo. I did create about a dozen replays from the mission where you ride in the back of a truck with an M79 grenade launcher, that mission was fantastic.
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Sep 3, 2014 20:56
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Driv3r was loving terrible. I preordered that piece of poo poo like a sucker and beat it in one sitting. I then sold it on eBay for most of what I paid and the buyer left a review of "Seller is a good salesman." e: i remember Driver 2 being completely unplayable for a large number of reasons too. original game, Parallel Lines, and San Francisco are good though
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Sep 3, 2014 20:56
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I didn't try Parallel Lines or SF, mostly because the cool replay movie editor from Driv3r (like, the game's one redeeming feature) had been inexplicably removed.
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Sep 3, 2014 23:08
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San Francisco owns and is like movie editor: the game in some ways due to how mechanics work.
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Sep 4, 2014 07:28
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Pitchford has a long history of running his mouth and overhyping nearly everything he's ever been part of.
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Sep 4, 2014 12:39
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Palpek posted:San Francisco owns and is like movie editor: the game in some ways due to how mechanics work. 
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Sep 4, 2014 14:58
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Pitchford is a good salesman, and that's fine so long as your product lands somewhere in the ballpark of your pitch.
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Sep 4, 2014 15:11
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Going back to Stasis Interrupted, is it ever explained why one of the guys who wakes up Hicks in running around with no shirt on and a bloody bandage wrapped around him?
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Sep 4, 2014 15:41
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Eau de MacGowan posted:Going back to Stasis Interrupted, is it ever explained why one of the guys who wakes up Hicks in running around with no shirt on and a bloody bandage wrapped around him? Well, that's a long story...
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Sep 4, 2014 16:10
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soggybagel posted:Pitchford has a long history of running his mouth and overhyping nearly everything he's ever been part of. Pattern recognition indicates that this method actually works as far as gamers are concerned.
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Sep 4, 2014 20:46
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The weirdest thing is Xenomorph should hate the bad poo poo even more than normal people as a fan of the series. Like I said before I hated Terminator Salvation more than most because I'm such a huge fan of those (the first two movies and nothing else nothing else exists) movies.
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Sep 9, 2014 23:04
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Lets! Get! Weird! posted:The weirdest thing is Xenomorph should hate the bad poo poo even more than normal people as a fan of the series. Like I said before I hated Terminator Salvation more than most because I'm such a huge fan of those (the first two movies and nothing else nothing else exists) movies. It's not that I don't recognize bad stuff and what makes it bad, it's that I choose not to focus on it. 
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Sep 9, 2014 23:11
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Also how does the computer in Alien 3 misidentify the body as Hicks in the pod.
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Sep 9, 2014 23:28
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Because Colonial Marines isn't real.
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Sep 10, 2014 00:34
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Lets! Get! Weird! posted:Also how does the computer in Alien 3 misidentify the body as Hicks in the pod.
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Sep 10, 2014 03:55
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It's good to see computers in the future identify people only by their facial features, go "eh, looks like Hicks, kinda?" Ya know, gently caress DNA or anything.
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Sep 10, 2014 04:10
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Sire Oblivion posted:It's good to see computers in the future identify people only by their facial features, go "eh, looks like Hicks, kinda?" Ya know, gently caress DNA or anything. -Yes. -Whose pod was it? -Hicks's. -It's Hicks, case closed Watson.
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Sep 10, 2014 08:57
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Hope this isn't... HICKS' blood
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Sep 10, 2014 08:59
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Palpek posted:-Is there a body in the pod? vSire Oblivion posted:Because Colonial Marines isn't real.
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Sep 10, 2014 09:31
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Hakkesshu posted:Hope this isn't... HICKS' blood
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Sep 10, 2014 11:03
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Xenomrph posted:Seems like a pretty reasonable conclusion to me when you've got no reason to believe otherwise. v What goofy world do you live in where this is how computers function? sigher fucked around with this message at 11:13 on Sep 10, 2014 |
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Sep 10, 2014 11:09
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God, it's such a loving stupid retcon. Hicks was much better off dead. I think Alien 3 was better off for it. It's most certainly better than the A:CM poo poo we got.
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Sep 10, 2014 11:11
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blackguy32 posted:God, it's such a loving stupid retcon. Hicks was much better off dead. I think Alien 3 was better off for it. It's most certainly better than the A:CM poo poo we got. Meh, I dont think Alien 3 was bad as such, but I used to read Dark Horse Alien comics, so Hicks being alive isn't that much of retcon to me.
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Sep 10, 2014 11:38
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Rincewinds posted:Meh, I dont think Alien 3 was bad as such, but I used to read Dark Horse Alien comics, so Hicks being alive isn't that much of retcon to me. What happened in the comics?
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Sep 10, 2014 11:41
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The comics came before Alien 3, so they pick up where Aliens left off. Hicks and Newt are on earth, Newt is in a mental hospital and is older. They go on adventures and find aliens. Then Newt fucks an android, and Aliens get to earth. Then at some point they meet up with Ripley and she kills the king Alien with a powerloader. After Alien 3, they changed the names to Wilks and Bille. But left everything else. So the story makes no sense. They some how knew Ripley, Vasquez, Hudson, Apone, Drake, ect. Weird poo poo. But Nightmare Asylum (the second part of the Aliens Sequel trilogy) has some amazing art. It's seriously great. But part 3 has probably some of the worst art i've ever seen in a comic (don't read them much).
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Sep 10, 2014 11:44
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Sire Oblivion posted:What goofy world do you live in where this is how computers function? CelticPredator posted:The comics came before Alien 3, so they pick up where Aliens left off. Hicks and Newt are on earth, Newt is in a mental hospital and is older. They go on adventures and find aliens. Then Newt fucks an android, and Aliens get to earth. Then at some point they meet up with Ripley and she kills the king Alien with a powerloader. The "novelized " versions handle it better and smooth out some of the comics' rough edges, like the inexplicable references to Aliens movie characters, etc. Xenomrph fucked around with this message at 12:02 on Sep 10, 2014 |
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Sep 10, 2014 11:59
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Doesn't it recognize Bishop, who is in even worse shape?
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Sep 10, 2014 12:19
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CelticPredator posted:The comics came before Alien 3, so they pick up where Aliens left off. Hicks and Newt are on earth, Newt is in a mental hospital and is older. They go on adventures and find aliens. Then Newt fucks an android, and Aliens get to earth. Then at some point they meet up with Ripley and she kills the king Alien with a powerloader. Why would the comics focus on Newt and Gicks? That seems stupid to me.
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Sep 10, 2014 14:34
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Aliens was a huge hit, and I guess they wanted to do a story with someone other than Ripley.
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Sep 10, 2014 14:37
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CelticPredator posted:Aliens was a huge hit, and I guess they wanted to do a story with someone other than Ripley. Lets! Get! Weird! posted:Doesn't it recognize Bishop, who is in even worse shape?  It's a totally half-baked retcon to bring back Hicks, don't get me wrong, but given what it had to work with from Alien3 it kinda sorta works. I mean it all hinges on Alien3 making Hicks' remains mangled and unidentifiable. If his corpse had just been him impaled through the chest but he still had a recognizable face, bringing Hicks back from the dead might have been a bit harder to explain.
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Sep 10, 2014 15:22
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CelticPredator posted:Aliens was a huge hit, and I guess they wanted to do a story with someone other than Ripley. And Ripley coming back was the exact moment when they turned to poo poo also. I'm not going to miss the chance to pimp my writeups of Outbreak, Nightmare Asylum, and Female War since they're the biggest effortposts I've made on these forums. Requires archives at this point, though. But yes, Nightmare Asylum is completely loving awesome and they really dropped the ball with the follow-up. 
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Sep 10, 2014 16:28
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The best Aliens comic to date is Labyrinth. Seriously hosed up poo poo goes down in that series and it's goddamn crazy, and the artwork rules. I love the way the Aliens are portrayed, all unnaturally skinny but still scary as gently caress. We're getting 4 new comic series starting late this month, one each for Aliens, Predator, AvP, and Prometheus, and they'll all tie into each other in one big overarching plot. And later this year we're getting another Alien novel that's meant to cover the downfall of Hadley's Hope in 'Aliens', and 'The Weyland Yutani Report', basically a spiritual successor to the Colonial Marines Technical Manual from years ago.
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Sep 10, 2014 19:53
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Xenomrph posted:We're talking about the same magic computers that were able to ID Ripley by her cryotube but not Newt, right? It's almost as if the computer was reporting who was supposed to be in the tube, and the Fury 161 staff took it at face value because why wouldn't they? Because Alien 3 is a Bad Movie™, Colonial Marines is a Bad Game™ and you trying to excuse any of this makes you a Bad Poster™.
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Sep 10, 2014 22:32
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