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Glenn Quebec posted:Jesus was a Space Jockey and they had seeded earth like, 10k years ago so when we killed Jesus Space Alien Christ they wanted to wipe us out if he'd committed to this kind of psychedelic deep weirdness instead of chickening out and making it all "stuff just happens because *handwaves*, you guys", Prometheus would have been Good A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 21:17 on May 8, 2019 |
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May 8, 2019 21:12
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Xenomrph posted:I think I need to re-read Dead Orbit, the only thing I remember from it is how every character says “HGK!” over and over all the time. you definitely do, that's one dude who's in the process of dying from having his skin burnt off
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May 8, 2019 21:24
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Prometheus, took me a couple of viewings to really come around to hate it. Covenant on the other hand, I hated like 20 minutes in. The theatre experience was great though, loads of laughs at the flute scene, and some guy in front of me loudly said "yo this guys fuckin' stupid" at the one guy David lured down to his facehugger den.
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May 8, 2019 22:33
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The biggest crime is that its been nearly five years since Alien Isolation released and we've not had a sequel. Given the success of Mr X in the Resident Evil 2 remake it seems an opportune time to take advantage of the "implacable enemy hunting you down" concept being popular in the mass market. Another crime is that if you Google search "Alien Isolation" the only review to show up on the first page is IGN giving the game a 5.9. Funnily enough the guy who wrote that review appears to be the same dickhead who spearheaded volunteering efforts at Tesla centres.
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May 8, 2019 23:26
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Lord Ludikrous posted:The biggest crime is that its been nearly five years since Alien Isolation released and we've not had a sequel. Given the success of Mr X in the Resident Evil 2 remake it seems an opportune time to take advantage of the "implacable enemy hunting you down" concept being popular in the mass market. What’s funny is Fox has been leaning in on Amanda Ripley extra hard lately. We’ve gotten a sorta-sequel mobile game that came out a few months ago, “Alien: Blackout”, which picks up right where Isolation ended. And then there’s the currently-running “Alien: Resistance” comic series which is a sequel to that, and then we’re getting the comic series “Alien: Rescue”, which is a sequel to Resistance. We’re also getting an expanded novelization of Isolation in a few months. But no sequel game, no sir, nobody wants that.
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May 8, 2019 23:53
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is the phone game any good it doesn’t look good.
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May 8, 2019 23:55
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WatermelonGun posted:is the phone game any good do you like five nights at freddies?
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May 8, 2019 23:57
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Xenomrph posted:What’s funny is Fox has been leaning in on Amanda Ripley extra hard lately. We’ve gotten a sorta-sequel mobile game that came out a few months ago, “Alien: Blackout”, which picks up right where Isolation ended. And then there’s the currently-running “Alien: Resistance” comic series which is a sequel to that, and then we’re getting the comic series “Alien: Rescue”, which is a sequel to Resistance. We’re also getting an expanded novelization of Isolation in a few months. I mean I'm pretty sure this is them gearing up for a sequel game, and just trying to get the first game back in people's minds Like, it seems like the holdup is mostly on Creative Assembly being way more focused on Total War games
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May 9, 2019 01:23
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Owlbear Camus posted:do you like five nights at freddies? meeeehhhhhhhhh. i like alien tho so i’ll prolly end up buying it when i’m drunk
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May 9, 2019 01:25
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drat, lots of new posts. El_Elegante posted:I’m on page 9 so far but is it ever explained why op consistently abbreviates the Weyland-Yutani corporation as WT? Is the alcoholic encephalopathy finally taking over? Just a constant typo. Then someone said WY and I was like.... why the gently caress am I typing WT? Just me being dumb. Not a big deal. I corrected it. Also you should probably smoke some weed or something. Beet Wagon posted:Yeah, A:CM had asymmetric multiplayer modes that involved aliens vs marines. One of the modes was a Left 4 Dead style thing where four marines had to achieve a bunch of different objectives while trying to hold off the alien players: That really does look like fun. Shame. Lord Ludikrous posted:The sound design is absolutely on point as well - I don't think the Pulse Rifle has ever sounded better in any other Aliens/AvP title - its pretty much the only game aside from AvP 1999 that I don't feel compelled to install a sound mod for. The soundtrack is very good, and takes just as many cues from Alien as it does Aliens. I was just thinking about that last night. After firing the pulse rifle for a while I was like, "drat, this sounds exactly like the movie." It even stutters every so often like how they fire short bursts in the movie. I don't think it cuts off your bullets when it does that but the sound is certainly there. I think this is my favorite part of Alien 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKY7ZFabTq8
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May 9, 2019 01:32
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Pennywise the Frown posted:That really does look like fun. Shame. Yeah I mean, like AvP2010 if we can ever get 8 people who want to play it seems like everything is still working. The 8 people thing is the trick though haha.
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May 9, 2019 03:11
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I'd be down. I asked earlier if anyone was interested in AvP 2010 and I got zero responses. 
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May 9, 2019 03:17
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I'd be down, I'm just buried with work until the weekend.
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May 9, 2019 03:49
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Well that's 3 of us. Someone mentioned it earlier but I think the AvP 2010 has a type of survival mode where 4 of you are against maybe one alien and then whenever a Marine dies they turn into an alien. I'll try to find that video again because it looks fun as poo poo. edit: this one, it's a funny moments thing but the funny moments are generally them getting scared senseless from an alien dropping on them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOc5i2zIkOw My favorite part is maybe after the first 20 seconds or so when the ancient ruins map starts changing and captures people alone behind solid stone. Pennywise the Frown fucked around with this message at 03:59 on May 9, 2019 |
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May 9, 2019 03:53
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So, for the AvP2010 one it’s actually 2 different modes. There’s survivor, where it’s four players against AI aliens for as long as you can hold out, and then Infestation, where it’s up to I think 16 players, and you all start as marines except one alien, but everyone who dies turns into an alien. That’s pretty fun even with as few as six people, in my experience. Colonial Marines also has a 4 player co-op horde mode thing if you have the Bug Hunt dlc, I think, as well as the previously mentioned 4v4 Left 4 Dead style mode. In any case there’s a bunch of modes for anywhere from 4 to 8 players between the two games so if we can wrangle up a couple more this weekend we can give it a shot.
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May 9, 2019 04:07
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We need more people. Show your love for Aliens. Get one of these games goons. Alright sweethearts you heard me and you know the drill. Assholes and elbows! Beet Wagon, come here. Come... here.
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May 9, 2019 04:10
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i have AVP CLASSIC 2000. i played some on 4/26 and got repeatedly owned by two dudes playing aliens. it’s cool we should play that. I’m pretty sure I have avp2010 i’ll just have to redownload it. i’m down just don’t make me play deathmatch lol.
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May 9, 2019 04:17
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Lord Ludikrous posted:Stasis Interrupted is noticeably better than the main campaign I have to agree. ACM is an interesting one because despite Gearbox being a bunch of dishonest assholes and the general slap dash nature of the game (esp. the likes of the AI typo) its clear that there were at least some people involved who really cared about the film. The game absolutely nails environments such as the Sulaco, Hadleys Hope/LV-426 and the derelict. With the appropriate graphics mods its not a bad looking game either. I bought the game a while ago when it was on a very deep discount (5 bucks or so) just to look at it the environments. There are a lot of places where the budget fuckery shows through and things look crusty, but the environments as a whole were pretty cool to look at. I'm kind of tempted to do the AI fix and get some mods to fix the crusty bits and run through it again, but it's still kind of low on my priority list.
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May 9, 2019 04:33
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Watch this timestamped 10 second or so clip. Just looks fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOc5i2zIkOw&t=84s
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May 9, 2019 04:38
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Glenn Quebec posted:Jesus was a Space Jockey and they had seeded earth like, 10k years ago so when we killed Jesus Space Alien Christ they wanted to wipe us out This is basically a concussed version of the plot for Larry Cohen's God Told Me To.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I think this is my favorite part of Alien 3. It's just so perfectly timed.
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May 9, 2019 10:20
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Laterite posted:"Prometheus was bad on purpose" is quite the spicy take indeed. Never underestimate the lengths sycophantic fans will go to in order to defend their sacred cows.
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May 9, 2019 10:37
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prometheus was crap, doesn't work as an alien prequel even though it tries its best to muscle in as one, and shows that ridley scott doesn't understand what made alien good edit: I assume covenant suffers from the same issues (like being poo poo) but I don't care enough about it to watch it BattleMaster fucked around with this message at 12:46 on May 9, 2019 |
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May 9, 2019 12:43
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BattleMaster posted:edit: I assume covenant suffers from the same issues (like being poo poo) but I don't care enough about it to watch it You're missing nothing, it's basically the same movie but now with double the Davids so Ridley Scott can direct Michael Fassbender playing with himself.
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May 9, 2019 12:50
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Olympic Mathlete posted:You're missing nothing, it's basically the same movie but now with double the Davids so Ridley Scott can direct Michael Fassbender playing with himself.
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May 9, 2019 12:56
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And the music is pretty good in Covenant too. Especially compared to that terrible, warbling theme Prometheus had. And then David plays the music from Prometheus on his pan pipes in a really weird act of breaking the 4th wall.
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Splicer posted:That's a pretty relatable motivation True, though it doesn't make the film any good. The 'fingering' joke was funny along with the "you just blow" line but still.
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May 9, 2019 13:13
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This thread got me to watch Aliens for the first time a few nights ago. I had caught just Alien and Alien 3 as a kid and always thought Alien 3 was fine but goddamn what the hell
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May 9, 2019 14:55
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Drunken Baker posted:Never underestimate the lengths sycophantic fans will go to in order to defend their sacred cows. Personally I think Prometheus has some neat moments and neat ideas, and it’s an alright sci-fi/horror movie, but it’s a real bad Alien movie. I feel kinda similar about Covenant, although I do like it a bit more than Prometheus.
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May 9, 2019 16:13
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Covenant would have been fine as a standalone dumb space horror popcorn movie. It'd still be clunky and (obviously) end up unfavourably compared to Alien, but that'd be it. A quick throwaway sci-fi monster movie which would probably have ended up better-received than Covenant really was. The whole "this is how the aliens were made" thing is just one massive bed-making GBS threads moment though. Nobody asked for that loving backstory.
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May 9, 2019 16:15
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This is making me want to see covenant again.
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May 9, 2019 16:16
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ZogrimAteMyHamster posted:Covenant would have been fine as a standalone dumb space horror popcorn movie. It'd still be clunky and (obviously) end up unfavourably compared to Alien, but that'd be it. A quick throwaway sci-fi monster movie which would probably have ended up better-received than Covenant really was. That, and it contradicts what we saw in ‘Alien’. Seeing fans bend over backward to justify it and make it fit because “that’s the canon now” is pretty eye-rollingly stupid. Like, last I checked ‘Alien’ was still canon, so it’s just as plausible that David wasn’t creating the Alien, he was recreating someone else’s work (whether he realized it or not).
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May 9, 2019 16:23
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Xenomrph posted:Have no illusion, most fans don’t like Prometheus and Covenant. Covenant is more fun in a popcorn, turn my brain off way. Prometheus had a lot more promise. Ehh, I dunno about Covenant anymore. The flute sequence and the baby alien copying David is so lovely...
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May 9, 2019 16:24
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ZogrimAteMyHamster posted:The whole "this is how the aliens were made" thing is just one massive bed-making GBS threads moment though. Nobody asked for that loving backstory. Example on billion of how "prequel explains the origin of thing" is way worse than just leaving some backstory nebulous and filled in by the viewer's imagination.
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May 9, 2019 16:27
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prequels are inherently dumb, because you’re going earlier than when you previously thought it was best to start a story. it’s an act in second-guessing yourself which never creates anything interesting.
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May 9, 2019 16:29
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Prometheus would've been borderline good (and the theories about hubris and the crew being idiots plausible instead of this rationalizations) if it didn't have a connection to the Alien franchise.
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May 9, 2019 16:36
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WatermelonGun posted:prequels are inherently dumb, because you’re going earlier than when you previously thought it was best to start a story. it’s an act in second-guessing yourself which never creates anything interesting. There can be exceptions, I thought ‘The Thing’ prequel was really cool.
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May 9, 2019 16:55
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Xenomrph posted:There can be exceptions, I thought ‘The Thing’ prequel was really cool. Agreed, I was surprised that I didn't hate it but then it's basically the exact same film with a couple of extra bits tacked on.
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Xenomrph posted:There can be exceptions, I thought ‘The Thing’ prequel was really cool. It really was. With exception to a few of th CG moments.
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