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‘Alien’ 4K release details, it hits US retail on 4/23.
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Xenomrph posted:‘Alien’ 4K release details, it hits US retail on 4/23. Hey, quick question since I'm pretty sure you'll know the answer to this. Do you remember the name of one of the original EU books that had an adaptation into a book with some illustrated pages? The story was set on a space station that aliens were loose on and the one thing I remember is one character being in some kind of armored suit and going berserk, causing chaos as he rampaged through the station loving everything up (falling through floors and destroying everything because he was crazy and the station was falling apart). It was definitely one of the early books, I just can't remember the name and when it was released with illustrations there was some cool artwork in there if I remember correctly.
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Sounds like "Aliens: Frenzy" https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Aliens:_Frenzy e: Also the novelization of the comic series was Alien: Berserker (the Berserker was the big suit of power armor, controlled by a death-row convict if I recall correctly) MrMojok fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Feb 28, 2019 |
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Thanks! I found it via what you linked and it's "Aliens: Tribes" that I was thinking of 
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Got around to reading 'The Cold Forge'. Any other novels worth a read?
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Colostomy Bag posted:Got around to reading 'The Cold Forge'. Was it good? I'm looking for something stupid to read and never dipped into Alien EU before.
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Shrimp or Shrimps posted:Was it good? I'm looking for something stupid to read and never dipped into Alien EU before. It was fantastic, it was very well written. Don't expect it to break any molds though. In stark contrast to the last few books I read, The Rage Trilogy which came across as high schooler fan fiction. I was rolling my eyes in real life the fifteenth time I read the word 'chitinous'
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Slutitution posted:This is apparently the #Watch aspect of the #ReadPlayWatch thing: I’ll just play the game again
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CelticPredator posted:I’ll just play the game again Took the post right out of my mouth. Isolation is amazing but this just looks like the cutscenes and play through of the game? I don't mean that in a technical way I mean it just literally looks like the game exactly.
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It’s literally the cut scenes with some added bits. That’s what the press releases said.
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Shrimp or Shrimps posted:Was it good? I'm looking for something stupid to read and never dipped into Alien EU before. Well going in I wasn't expecting a Tolstoy level of writing but it was a fun diversion that I finished in a couple days so it kept my attention. 935 posted:It was fantastic, it was very well written. Don't expect it to break any molds though. In stark contrast to the last few books I read, The Rage Trilogy which came across as high schooler fan fiction. I was rolling my eyes in real life the fifteenth time I read the word 'chitinous' The main problem I had with it Yeah, I know, the director is the galaxy's biggest prick. Don't need to remind me every other page.
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Neo Rasa posted:Took the post right out of my mouth. Isolation is amazing but this just looks like the cutscenes and play through of the game? I don't mean that in a technical way I mean it just literally looks like the game exactly. Basically? A lot of what was shown was literally "from a different angle" like said in the trailer, but like... lol, what's the point? For people that didn't play it I guess? I don't get what they're trying to do, just find new ways to rehash the same engine and art from the game in as many ways as they can without just doing a proper sequel? I wonder if their business relations with CA were bad or something and neither want to work with each other again. All of that talent at CA... and it's being wasted on dumb tactic games.
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I could be to build up the lore and excitement for another game, but I find it weird that they'd think that anyone that wants a sequel would be interested in any of this. I think they should have gone, "Hey, A:I 2 is in the works, but we're gonna give you some other poo poo in the mean time while you wait!"
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s.i.r.e. posted:I could be to build up the lore and excitement for another game, but I find it weird that they'd think that anyone that wants a sequel would be interested in any of this. I'm interested in it.  They've been leveraging Amanda Ripley really hard lately, though. Between this new digital series and the Blackout mobile game, we're getting two comic series featuring her (one of which is running right now) and an expanded novelization of 'Alien Isolation'.
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I am excited for a game where we live out Amanda Ripley's golden years in 22nd century Little Chute, Wisconsin.
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I'm pretty sure the holdup on Isolation 2 is Creative Assembly. Isolation having weird tech for the AI means you can't really just hand it to another studio and expect the same results, and CA's been booked solid working on Total War poo poo for a while.
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The_Doctor posted:I swear there was a cancelled Alien RTS...? Semi-RTS, it was being developed by Obsidian.
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An RTS featuring a race of powerful, fecund hive building aliens, an honor-bound elder race with advanced tech and energy weapons, and humans with space marines as the backbone of their forces would really be something.
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Ah, apparently there was one back in the PS2 era, AvP: Extinction. However, the player wouldn’t build anything, it was all unit management and combat.
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The alien mode was fun. But I don’t like RTS stuff so even with the IP, it didn’t interest me much. But of course I bought it because it had aliens and predators in it and I was 12.
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s.i.r.e. posted:I'm surprised they haven't dipped into Total War: Colonial Marines. Dynasty Warriors Colonial Marines would own.
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Surgeon Simulator: Alien Edition. Can you safely extract the Alien embryo before it violently bursts out on its own?
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banned from Starbucks posted:They Mostly Come at Fortnite: Mostly Where's my VR dating sim?
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Does anyone have the pic of the galaxy brain ranking of the Alien movies that had Aliens near the bottom and Prometheus at the top? I want to send it to a friend.
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ruddiger posted:Does anyone have the pic of the galaxy brain ranking of the Alien movies that had Aliens near the bottom and Prometheus at the top? I want to send it to a friend. I made that, I'm glad it's still useful to people.  
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Owlbear Camus posted:An RTS featuring a race of powerful, fecund hive building aliens, an honor-bound elder race with advanced tech and energy weapons, and humans with space marines as the backbone of their forces would really be something. Starcraft is really more a toned-down Warhammer 40K than AvP.
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Neo Rasa posted:I made that, I'm glad it's still useful to people. I remember hearing Mike and Jay say they enjoyed Alien 3's style more than Aliens (while maintaining Aliens is still a better film) on a commentary track a few years back. Quentin Tarantino said this too. I don't think any of the 6 Alien films are "bad" except for the Alien 3 theatrical. I watched the original 4 on my 4k HDR tv for the first time recently, so that might have something to do with it. It is quite amazing how Alien 3 and Resurrection are better than most major Hollywood releases lately though.
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Slutitution posted:I don't think any of the 6 Alien films are "bad" except for the Alien 3 theatrical. I watched the original 4 on my 4k HDR tv for the first time recently, so that might have something to do with it. It is quite amazing how Alien 3 and Resurrection are better than most major Hollywood releases lately though. They've both aged really well in that respect, though I still think the theatrical Alien 3 and both versions of Resurrection are pretty bad. Though Alien 3 Assembly cut is loving awesome. But much like Alien and Aliens, Alien 3 was EXTREMELY influential aesthetically and the way it's shot, it's very much an ur-90s movie, even the score. Even Elliot Goldenthall's trilling horns and gong stuff, he was still doing that in super mainstream stuff like Batman Forever/and Robin. But when you compare the two cuts, the theatrical one feels like a generic mutant slasher in a warehouse Alien ripoff kind of movie of which there were so many. But the expanded one really lets everything breathe a bit more and you can really take in how much better it is on every level than those flicks.
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