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Yeah, that shot of his eyes in the shell gives me major creepage. There's some good stuff in there.Xenomrph posted:I'm an adult and this is rad as gently caress. It still gets me pumped as an adult but as a kid this had me crawling on the ceiling.
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At the time, critics complained about the robots in The Black Hole being too 'cute', but considering the way that robot design has gone in the past four decades, Vincent and Bob are probably on the low end of the scale. For all its faults, the film's got some great visuals, and the bit with Perkins and the 'robot' absolutely terrified me as a kid.
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Xenomrph posted:But the official "canon" explanation right now is that Arcturians are extraterrestrials. Canon is as ever a disease of the mind.
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dont even fink about it posted:Canon is as ever a disease of the mind. I've been saying this for a long time. There's a sweet article from last year that I posted on an AvP board a couple weeks ago that breaks down why canon is bad, I'll link it here later when I'm not phone posting.
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Feb 25, 2017 21:07
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i always figured they were some type of alien but didn't give it much thought since it's a throwaway joke. as always, nerds ruin everything.
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Feb 25, 2017 21:11
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The only canon I think is important is, when people die in this series, they stay fuckin dead. Other than that, I don't really care honestly.
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CelticPredator posted:The only canon I think is important is, when people die in this series, they stay fuckin dead. That's a complete reasonable mindset after Alien Resurrection.
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Xenomrph posted:I've been saying this for a long time. There's a sweet article from last year that I posted on an AvP board a couple weeks ago that breaks down why canon is bad, I'll link it here later when I'm not phone posting. You're cool, Xenormph. I forgive you for liking Alien: Colonial Marines.
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Feb 25, 2017 22:40
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i don't think i could forgive a sin of that magnitude.
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Feb 25, 2017 22:41
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I'll do you one better. I don't hate any of the stand alone Alien films.
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alien: colonial marines is worse than resurrection in every possible way. even if it didn't have the how the gently caress do they explain away that hicks is on hadley's hope retcon it's just loving terribly made. like all time bad AAA title.
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Feb 25, 2017 22:58
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It's total trash. My favorite part was Jhonen Vasquez's slowly realizing that the game was so lovely, so he flushed it down the toilet.
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Feb 25, 2017 23:00
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Colonial Marines is a true embarrassment in every way. Alien Resurrection is a lovely movie but it at least looks pretty and, as much as I hate the script itself I think the cast is rad and does basically the best they can do with what's there. I still hate that they got Michael Wincott to play a space pirate badass but then and killed him so early though.
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Neo Rasa posted:Colonial Marines is a true embarrassment in every way. Alien Resurrection is a lovely movie but it at least looks pretty and, as much as I hate the script itself I think the cast is rad and does basically the best they can do with what's there. I still hate that they got Michael Wincott to play a space pirate badass but then and killed him so early though. strong agree. all the character actors are puttin in overtime but the script itself is just hot garbage. a tru shame
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Here's the cool article about why canon is bad: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/04/enough-with-the-true-canon/477837/MonsieurChoc posted:You're cool, Xenormph. I forgive you for liking Alien: Colonial Marines. I like the weapon designs (both visually, and conceptually), and it does a good job of making the other weapons useful in certain situations as opposed to most Aliens/AvP games where the Pulse Rifle is the best gun 100% of the time, and the only time you don't use it is when you're out of ammo for it. Even the weapon mod/attachment system was nowhere near as lovely and "Call of Duty"-esque as I was expecting it to be. The artist on the currently-ongoing 'Aliens: Defiance' comic series (which is super cool and worth checking out, and way better than the other Aliens/AvP comics of late) happens to agree, and has slipped in some Colonial Marines game weapon cameos in his series. I like that they threw in human enemies to change up the combat encounters from being 100% Aliens, I just wish the human AI hadn't been total garbage. I liked the level design (and that they contracted Syd Mead), it visually felt like appropriate extensions of what we saw in 'Aliens'. The level where you get to explore the Derelict is pretty sweet (although the one from Alien Isolation blows it out of the water, holy poo poo). The plot is bad, but I'll at least give Lance Henriksen credit for (mostly) bringing his A-game in voicing a new Bishop android and making him sound distinct from the 'Aliens' Bishop, but I chalk that up to Henriksen being a genuine class act who puts everything in to every project he does, no matter how lovely the overall project is. As a dumb Aliens shooter where you shoot Aliens (and occasionally people), it's been patched and updated enough that in its current state it's nowhere near as broken as it was at launch. It's still not good, and it's still way worse than it should be, but there's way, WAY worse games out there that charge way more than the $5 it sells for on Steam nowadays.
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Alien: Isolation is loving awesome, I just wish they didn't end it on a sequel hook.
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Neo Rasa posted:Alien: Isolation is loving awesome, I just wish they didn't end it on a sequel hook. The visual design is loving fantastic, though. I know I've plugged the game's concept art book in this thread before, but I'll do it again. That poo poo is great.
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I was going to say the same thing, even if it sold a bajillion copies and they made a sequel to it, like, okay so she has ANOTHER run-in with an alien on a huge space station that's about to shut down to it only has a skeleton crew/etc.? They made such a singularly fantastic setting in Isolation. Of all the cool details in it my favorite is that all the video footage in the game was copied onto a VHS tape, then they filmed a screen playing the tape, so the video interference isn't an effect it's literally the real deal and that's why it looks so good.
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I always had a soft spot for the Black Hole. From wikipedia:quote:
Sad what happened to the model of the ship...was awesome. And poor B.O.B., you know that poor bastard saw some poo poo in his time.
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Xenomrph posted:loving seriously, it's the goofiest poo poo (and undermines the one nagging bit of continuity with 'Aliens'). It doesn't help that even if a sequel happens, I don't know what they'd do to keep the gameplay fresh and interesting - Isolation really runs out of steam in the last third and the gameplay mechanics get really long in the tooth by the end. Isolation was an amazing game for about 2 hours.
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Xenomrph posted:loving seriously, it's the goofiest poo poo (and undermines the one nagging bit of continuity with 'Aliens'). It doesn't help that even if a sequel happens, I don't know what they'd do to keep the gameplay fresh and interesting Replace the Alien with a Predator. Call it Predator: Isolation. Give Ripley a machine gun and a jungle to run around and mooks to get in shoot outs with like a better version of Predator 2 on Genesis. Bam, write me a check Sega, you're welcome.
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Bloodcider posted:Give Ripley a machine gun
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Fish Noise posted:Better yet, don't. Leave them lying around all over the place with the option to pick one up always present, but never shove one into her hands or require their use. And since it's a Predator you're facing, make it real goddamn dangerous to consider picking up a weapon, for fear of provoking the Predator. I'd play the poo poo out of a Predator game where it's got a competent, adaptive AI that appropriately hunts you.
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Xenomrph posted:And since it's a Predator you're facing, make it real goddamn dangerous to consider picking up a weapon, for fear of provoking the Predator. It can be the next evolution of that Friday the 13th game that's coming out soon. You need way better AI for a Predator than for Jason.
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Neo Rasa posted:I was going to say the same thing, even if it sold a bajillion copies and they made a sequel to it, like, okay so she has ANOTHER run-in with an alien on a huge space station that's about to shut down to it only has a skeleton crew/etc.? They made such a singularly fantastic setting in Isolation. I kinda thought this because when I was a young kid, I'd make a bunch of Stop Motion alien movies, and I wanted to have the 20th Century Fox logo at the start, so I just filmed the opening to Predator 2 on VHS with my crappy early 2000's digital camera. Looked just like the opening to Isolation and made me feel all fuzzy and nostalgic.
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DC Murderverse posted:It can be the next evolution of that Friday the 13th game that's coming out soon. You need way better AI for a Predator than for Jason. I don't know, even the NES can handle enemies you can't see shooting at you from off screen. 
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Neo Rasa posted:I don't know, even the NES can handle enemies you can't see shooting at you from off screen. I think the Isolation concept could be applied to Terminator, Predator or several slasher movies (Halloween, Nightmare on Elm St., Friday the 13th).
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Bill Paxton finally found a way out of this chickenshit outfit by, er, dying, apparently.
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Why do I always hear about these things first on the SA forums? https://twitter.com/ABC/status/835877238277025792 
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You should have seen it coming. Dude dies in everything he's in.
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Every man dies, not every man truly gets killed by both a Terminator, an Alien, AND a Predator.BiggerBoat posted:I think the Isolation concept could be applied to Terminator, Predator or several slasher movies (Halloween, Nightmare on Elm St., Friday the 13th). It would seriously own. I think part of why Isolation sold at all is because it had such a strong aesthetic to sell. Like imagine a Jason game where they put as much work into capturing part of a decade like Isolation or GTA Vice City did. Games where there's a major persistent big bad stalking you throughout have never been super huge sellers, but when they're done right they're always really cool and get a cult following like Clock Tower and stuff. I think it's one of those things that went away because we had a decade of all games being either mega huge super blockbuster budget events or $5 shovelware. Now that that's going away I hope to see more of it. There's a PC game called Miasmata that's really cool if you haven't played it. You're stranded on an island and have to go around doing botanical stuff to cure yourself and stay alive, but there's also this horned panther kind of thing wandering around doing stuff too. They did a great job with its AI and also a good job keeping its design simple so that it really can blend in with the scenery even at mid range. I think it's on sale on GOG often. I wish the early Clock Tower games got released on GOG or Project EGG or something. The first two especially are like Giallo: The Video Game.
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Neo Rasa posted:Every man dies, not every man truly gets killed by both a Terminator, an Alien, AND a Predator. There's no way those should have been allowed in the operating theatre.
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He only had four more weeks and he was out. Now he bit it on this rock!
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Bill Paxton went to the same university as me. I still work there and I always thought there was a chance that he would show up to the theater department as a guest lecturer / distinguished alum, or just be spotted on campus (even though he dropped out, I think). Guess that's not going to happen now.
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Dan Didio posted:Bill Paxton finally found a way out of this chickenshit outfit by, er, dying, apparently. Whoa what the gently caress. I'm trying to articulate how I feel about this and it's all coming together as one big jumble. Vaya con dios, man.
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Game over man. RIP
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This is the first thing I woke up too. I hate that poo poo. You check your phone, and your blurry vision slowly descends on a lone "RIP Bill Paxton" and then you kinda go back to sleep, and then outloud say "Wait WHAT!?" Paxton was one of my favorite actors as a kid. Every movie of his I'd try and see. Especially Twister. gently caress did i love Twister.
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Neo Rasa posted:Every man dies, not every man truly gets killed by both a Terminator, an Alien, AND a Predator. there's this little known indie game called Resident Evil 7 that just came out and it's pretty awesome
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