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Kane's spawn is downright lazy. What about the rest? The colonist's hive is pretty methodical about their swarming. The dog in 3 is fast and brutal; it runs around picking off outliers constantly but it doesn't really go after Ripley until she burns it with the mold. Resurrection, they're . . velociraptors that leave traps . . and make out with Weaver and Dourif? I dunno wtf The AvPses are too boring for me to really recall their behaviour. Prometheus' creatures are all tricky, appearing benign at first then revealing hideous strength. Covenant's neos and xenos are like "it's business time" immediately after birth. What's changed?
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I would say that Covenant's Xenos look fuckin angry. The Queen in Aliens is the only other time one has come off as fuckin pissed.
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Jul 10, 2017 22:47
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Snak posted:I would say that Covenant's Xenos look fuckin angry. David has some issues.
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Jul 10, 2017 22:51
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The Alien alien and the Aliens queen are the most intense to me. What we see in Alien 3 and Covenant are way more feral. But you get a sort of calculating elements with the Alien alien because of its weird slow walking and how it chills out and stuff. And of course you get the same with Aliens because of the queen and how they're able to cut the power and out-tactic the marines. I mean they did so in an obvious way the marines didn't pay attention to because of Cameron wanting to parallel Vietnam but they did it.
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Black Bones posted:Did the xenomorphs seem more vicious this time around to anyone else? My initial impression was that they were really pissed off, relentless hunters in Covenant as opposed to the more languid catlike Alien. Oram's offspring being so angry certainly makes sense, bashing itself silly trying to get Tennessee and Daniels. I guess Lope's is jealous of all the surviving couples. I liked how aggressive and vicious they were in Covenant; especially the one in the ship at the end. I'm really disappointed how the shot of the Alien jumping around the red hallway in trailers wasn't in the film.
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Target has a 6 film boxset getting released on August 15th as well: https://www.target.com/p/alien-6-fi...cB&gclsrc=aw.ds 
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Jul 11, 2017 04:59
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On the Covenant/Modern Day Prometheus tip, I was watching Bride of Frankenstein earlier and can't believe I didn't remember that The Bride is also played by the actress at the beginning that played Mary Wollstonecraft-Shelley.
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Jul 11, 2017 05:35
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Black Bones posted:hideous strength I see what you did there And now I need to re-read the Space Trilogy for comparison to the Alien series.
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Jul 11, 2017 07:25
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ruddiger posted:http://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3445792/ridley-scott-teases-appearance-ripleys-mother-future-alien-film/ Oh my god, hes going after Alien vs Predator Requiem!
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Jul 11, 2017 07:51
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Snak posted:I hope that he actually only ever thaws out like 5 people at once, so he's doing a version of what the franchise is doing: Recreating the same circumstances and sequence of events over and over again to see if any of them are interesting. If there's ever a time I wish that Ridley Scott was reading this thread...
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Jul 11, 2017 16:32
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:On the Covenant/Modern Day Prometheus tip, I was watching Bride of Frankenstein earlier and can't believe I didn't remember that The Bride is also played by the actress at the beginning that played Mary Wollstonecraft-Shelley. For some reason I didn't notice that until I watched it a second time too. I love that movie so much, it's one of three movie posters I have hanging in my apartment.
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Basebf555 posted:For some reason I didn't notice that until I watched it a second time too. I love that movie so much, it's one of three movie posters I have hanging in my apartment. One is an artist and a feminist, the other is a voiceless, mindless automaton. Hmmm...
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Jul 11, 2017 17:11
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:One is an artist and a feminist, the other is a voiceless, mindless automaton. Hmmm... The characters make natural thematic foils.
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Jul 12, 2017 18:12
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ruddiger posted:http://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3445792/ridley-scott-teases-appearance-ripleys-mother-future-alien-film/ It would be interesting if we learn Ripley grew up on a space colony and had literally never even been to earth until the end of Alien Resurrection, where after 300 years David's plan finally comes to fruition as a massive ship full of aliens crashes onto earth along with a shuttle containing Ripley the human/alien hybrid.
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Jul 12, 2017 21:19
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Neo Rasa posted:It would be interesting if we learn Ripley grew up on a space colony and had literally never even been to earth until the end of Alien Resurrection, where after 300 years David's plan finally comes to fruition as a massive ship full of aliens crashes onto earth along with a shuttle containing Ripley the human/alien hybrid. As potentially lovely as it may be, I'd love to see a full-scale Aliens arrive on Earth movie directed by Scott. Give him 150 million for it, sit back and watch the insanity.
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Jul 12, 2017 21:23
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Pretty dope trailer 20th Century Fox released for the digital HD version of Alien: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IHyNCODrzI
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Jul 13, 2017 00:34
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RedSpider posted:Target has a 6 film boxset getting released on August 15th as well: This cover is hosed. The Covenant Alien is all the way at the top, and the Dog Alien comes after the facehugger? Huh!??? HUHH!???? You breakin my canon Target Cover Art!??
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CelticPredator posted:This cover is hosed. The Covenant Alien is all the way at the top, and the Dog Alien comes after the facehugger? Huh!??? HUHH!???? You breakin my canon Target Cover Art!?? I think they're in order of biggest head to smallest head, not chronological order.
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Jul 13, 2017 01:54
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Giger Alien ain't even there wtf.
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Jul 13, 2017 02:01
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Pretty funny that the Deacon and the Newborn are front and center, they're by far the most controversial designs in the history of the franchise. Well, not the design in the Deacon's case, more the implications of it being in the movie at all. But still, there it is right in the center of the cover.
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Jul 13, 2017 02:36
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Yeah, they're trying to ensure legitimacy.
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Like 90% of people who don't already have all the movies are going to mostly remember Aliens so besides putting the queen at the very top the order doesn't really matter much.
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Jul 13, 2017 07:27
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Any word on an alien isolation 2? I need my fix of awesome alien games.
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Covok posted:Any word on an alien isolation 2? I need my fix of awesome alien games. I think there's no plan after how badly it did even though it was pretty good. I remember them doing a fake video they were gonna add machine guns to the game because of the metacritic score and calling it uncle sam mode but I cant find it. Tenzarin fucked around with this message at 10:28 on Jul 13, 2017 |
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The problem with doing Alien Isolation 2 is that the gameplay is already very stale by the time you finish the first game, it's not like it leaves you wanting more. So they'd have to significantly change things up to make it worthwhile.
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Covok posted:Any word on an alien isolation 2? I need my fix of awesome alien games. Was there anyone complaining about how the alien AI behaved in that? Because in my game the Alien was like this homicidal buddy that I had to make drat sure had other humans to kill in the area or I'd basically have to hide forever before it'd go away. Also it was loving creepy how it moved about whenever I was stuck in a room with nothing but a table to hide under when it dropped out of of a vent (I never stopped flinching whenever the tail would randomly flip under said table, brush up against the character and then you'd get the rapid "Alien spins around, grabs you and fucks you up" animation).
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I think the obvious solution would be to create a sequel called Aliens: Isolation.
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Neo Rasa posted:I think the obvious solution would be to create a sequel called Aliens: Isolation. No joke, I'd play Predator: Isolation. Make it so the Predator hunts you based on how aggressive you are, and the game forces you to be aggressive so you can't just Sam Fisher your way through everything. There's a lot of ways to gently caress that premise up if the Predator's AI isn't up to snuff (or if it's too easy to "game" the AI by being aggressive, and then immediately backing off so the Predator loses interest) but if done right I think it could be tense as hell and super cool.
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Predator Isolation wouldn't work because you just drop your gun and it won't care about you.
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Remember that time that Predator famously ended with Arnold being ignored because he no longer had a gun...
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Snak posted:Remember that time that Predator famously ended with Arnold being ignored because he no longer had a gun... 1v1, log bridge, no items.
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CelticPredator posted:Predator Isolation wouldn't work because you just drop your gun and it won't care about you.
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Now I am imagining a game with that Heavy Rain glitch where instead of screaming "SHAAAUN" over and over again, your character just says "Hey Billy. Billy. Billy, hey Billy."
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You make it multi-player and have one person hunt as the alien and everyone else try to survive. Flamethrowers are scarce, if you coordinate you can force the alien into an airlock. The alien can use vents, move silently, has multiple ways to kill people, maybe there's one egg the alien can bring a crew member to so there's two aliens.
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MacheteZombie posted:You make it multi-player and have one person hunt as the alien and everyone else try to survive. Flamethrowers are scarce, if you coordinate you can force the alien into an airlock. The alien can use vents, move silently, has multiple ways to kill people, maybe there's one egg the alien can bring a crew member to so there's two aliens. AvP's multiplayer had a mode with one alien vs a team of marines. Each time a marine was killed it would become an alien until eventually all the marines were killed. That was some good poo poo.
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temple posted:Deer don't have guns but somehow they end up hunted. Predators have rules
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MacheteZombie posted:You make it multi-player and have one person hunt as the alien and everyone else try to survive. Flamethrowers are scarce, if you coordinate you can force the alien into an airlock. The alien can use vents, move silently, has multiple ways to kill people, maybe there's one egg the alien can bring a crew member to so there's two aliens. Problem is that Alien is such a popular franchise that making an unbalanced multiplayer game out of it is probably a non-starter. The guys who made the Friday the 13th game had to go the kickstarter route and they only got the rights to the franchise because it's owned by like one guy and he said yes. Maybe I'm totally wrong though, it's not like survival horror games with slow gameplay typically sell millions either so who knows.
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temple posted:Deer don't have guns but somehow they end up hunted. deer have antlers. google "deer attack"
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CelticPredator posted:Predator Isolation wouldn't work because you just drop your gun and it won't care about you. That's what I'm saying, make the AI so you can't just game it by dropping your gun. Make it so ditching your weapon is an option, but it's a gamble because the Predator isn't an idiot and won't stop pursuing you unless you find a way to make yourself really unappealing, or are able to elude it. Perhaps make ways to instigate fights with other enemies so that the Predator focuses on them instead of you.
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Xenomrph posted:That's what I'm saying, make the AI so you can't just game it by dropping your gun. Make it so ditching your weapon is an option, but it's a gamble because the Predator isn't an idiot and won't stop pursuing you unless you find a way to make yourself really unappealing, or are able to elude it. Perhaps make ways to instigate fights with other enemies so that the Predator focuses on them instead of you. I don't think it even needs to be a mechanic at all. Characters with guns in Predator movies don't typically drop them and give up, and even if they did there's no evidence the Predator would stop is there? It doesn't hunt people that aren't a threat to it, but it does seem like once you become a threat, you're considered a threat until you're not alive anymore.
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