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Phi230 posted:So does that make the Alien Queen a disney princess? 
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Phi230 posted:So does that make the Alien Queen a disney princess? I think Ripley is the princess. The Alien Queen is the evil, umm... queen. Hicks is the loyal sidekick, Hudson is the comic relief. Jonesy can talk, and he gets a musical number. Call me Disney.
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Jul 3, 2020 04:59
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Wouldn’t Resurrection Ripley be the true princess?
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Jul 3, 2020 05:25
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Considering the total shitshow that's going on at Dark Horse Comics right now regarding prominent editors & the brother of the owner being sex pests, it's best that the Aliens/Predator franchise are now being run by competent people.
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Jul 3, 2020 05:48
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The Alan Dean Foster edit:Owlbear Camus posted:Can't wait for a 20 movie PG13 Aliens franchise. Let's run this thing into the ground
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Jul 3, 2020 07:57
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Torquemada posted:The Alan Dean Foster edit: In his defense, ADF did not write the ‘Aliens’ novelization with the profanity omitted, that was a choice made by his editor without his consent and he was none too happy about it.
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Jul 3, 2020 11:59
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The Zombie Guy posted:I think Ripley is the princess. The Alien Queen is the evil, umm... queen. Hicks is the loyal sidekick, Hudson is the comic relief. Jonesy can talk, and he gets a musical number. Hello, Disney. I'm dad.
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Jul 3, 2020 12:02
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purple death ray posted:Lol people are happy that Disney is going to be eternally reenacting Weekend at Bernie's with every media franchise in the history of time? Do you actually like good movies or do you just like being marketed to? The future owns
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Jul 3, 2020 12:34
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purple death ray posted:The future owns 
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Jul 3, 2020 12:54
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purple death ray posted:The future owns
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Jul 3, 2020 12:56
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Xenomrph posted:AvPClassic is $1.25 on Steam right now, anyone who doesn't have it and wants to play it has no excuse not to pick it up. I remember playing the marine demo back in the day again and again, plus the great facehugger ambush spot that happens near the end of the demo level. Another neat things the original AVP was randomizing the Alien location which made the tension really good, especially since the Alien make them climb on the wall / ceilings just like in the movies.
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Jul 3, 2020 14:09
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The Zombie Guy posted:You guys are losing sight of the reality around Alien movies.
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Jul 4, 2020 07:07
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Android Apocalypse posted:Considering the total shitshow that's going on at Dark Horse Comics right now regarding prominent editors & the brother of the owner being sex pests, it's best that the Aliens/Predator franchise are now being run by competent people. Marvel churns out PG 13 dreck. They managed to make Star Wars comics boring and piss all over the continuity of the films. They write stories to placate internet scolds and chase trends, they have no creative vision. Originality dies under Disney. Everything that makes an intellectual property fun or disturbing or unique or anything meaningful is erased under that megacorp of assholes. You're excited that the people that made the Last Jedi have creative control over Aliens. Ridley Scott already killed the IP but why would you want to see it's corpse further defiled?
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Jul 4, 2020 08:43
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I really do understand the instinct when you really love a movie, you want more of it. You want to live in it forever, so you watch it a bunch, and you consume supplemental material like books and sequel movies. Even though they're not as good or interesting as the movie you love they let you stay in that world you loved for a little while longer. Except you wake up one day and realize that world is gone, it's replaced with a theme park ride that's so close to the original you went years without noticing it had changed. But it has changed, and all the trees are fake and all the buildings are hollow facades stuffed to overflowing with the chunks of the world you used to love. At some point they chopped it up so you could buy a little piece of it. There's a few shards in your home right now, aren't there?
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Jul 4, 2020 12:32
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So with that steam sale going on, is colonial marines worth it? I'd buy it just to hear Biehn do Hicks again, it's only 6 bucks
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Jul 4, 2020 13:39
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Wowshawk posted:So with that steam sale going on, is colonial marines worth it?  DO NOT GIVE RANDY PITCHFORD MONEY
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Jul 4, 2020 14:34
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Wowshawk posted:So with that steam sale going on, is colonial marines worth it? With the ACM Overhaul mod it's decent. The worst part of it by far was the literally broken AI, and this fixes it and makes it pretty.. https://www.moddb.com/mods/templargfxs-acm-overhaul
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Jul 4, 2020 15:20
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Millions of Crows posted:You're excited that the people that made the Last Jedi have creative control over Aliens. If only. Then they might actually take some risks even if they don't stick the landing. I'm sad that the people who made Rise of Skywalker have creative control over Aliens. purple death ray posted:I really do understand the instinct when you really love a movie, you want more of it. You want to live in it forever, so you watch it a bunch, and you consume supplemental material like books and sequel movies. Even though they're not as good or interesting as the movie you love they let you stay in that world you loved for a little while longer. Me, my brain smoothed out from modern media saturation and fan culture: Just give me 90 minutes of marines shooting pulse rifles and popping aliens set to Futile Escape on a loop.
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Jul 4, 2020 15:57
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:
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Jul 4, 2020 17:13
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Wowshawk posted:I'd buy it just to hear Biehn do Hicks again, it's only 6 bucks If this is what you're after... I mean I wouldn't. Hicks is gone, man. Anyway the game itself is... okay? It's not the worst game I've ever played but it's nowhere near what it could and should have been. The stone-dumb AI kills a lot of it, and the writing is absolute "teenage fanfic" dogshit. You do get to shoot aliens, though, and there's some fun setpieces, but I've played through the campaign a couple times and I just really can't recommend it. Now, the multiplayer on the other hand was very cool for the like two weeks it had an active playerbase. also this: Kaiju Cage Match posted:
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purple death ray posted:I really do understand the instinct when you really love a movie, you want more of it. You want to live in it forever, so you watch it a bunch, and you consume supplemental material like books and sequel movies. Even though they're not as good or interesting as the movie you love they let you stay in that world you loved for a little while longer. This is the stage I'm at now. I'm like the father in Pet Sematary. If I just bury my son in the graveyard, he'll be back. I'm going to ignore all of the ominous signs the old man gave me. He'll be fine. It'll all be ok. I just want my son back.
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Jul 4, 2020 19:35
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Wowshawk posted:So with that steam sale going on, is colonial marines worth it? I didn't mind it at all and have no idea why it got so much hate. Although I got it well after it was released, maybe two years, and I think they fixed a bunch of stuff. It's not an amazing game but it gives you a nice little bite of the USCM. edit: I'm sure everyone has noticed by now but I'm very much not a "this needs to be perfect or exact to my expectations or I hate it" type of guy. I liked the Marvel movies. I don't care if they're not cinematic masterpieces. They're fun to watch. That's the entire point of watching a movie to me. It either has to elicit some sort of emotion from me, make me question life or some other topic, have some sort of impact, or just straight up fun to watch. Same with games. Especially games. I couldn't give a poo poo how accurate they are or this or that. Is it fun? Does the money I spent give me a form of entertainment that I'm consuming? Yes? Ok good. That's the entire point. Pennywise the Frown fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Jul 4, 2020 |
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Jul 4, 2020 19:38
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I didn't mind it at all and have no idea why it got so much hate. Although I got it well after it was released, maybe two years, and I think they fixed a bunch of stuff. It got hate because of the lies of Pitchford made. Watch the comparison videos, there are plenty, to see what was promised and what was delivered. I love all of the Alien games, but I will never buy Colonial Marines. There are indie games worth the same I would rather buy. Randy Pitchford is a scammer, a total Peter Molyneux and Todd Howard.
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Jul 4, 2020 19:57
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That sucks. Good thing I didn't watch anything that was promised so it had no effect on me. It's a somewhat decent game that is in the Alien world.
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Jul 4, 2020 20:13
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happyhippy posted:It got hate because of the lies of Pitchford made. Watch the comparison videos, there are plenty, to see what was promised and what was delivered. The story how Randy Pitchford got taken for a ride by one of his executive assistance (skimming 100ks over the years) was pretty hilarious!
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Jul 4, 2020 21:07
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The Colonial Marines server of Space Station 13 is pretty good and probably currently the highest-pop multiplayer game based on the franchise. It really nails the “you think you’re the main character but you will be dragged off in front of your buddies to die alone in a damp cave” vibe.
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Jul 4, 2020 21:28
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Isn't CM also the game where randy pitchfork stole all the money to make borderlands, which is itself built off a stolen art style?
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Jul 4, 2020 22:08
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Splicer posted:Isn't CM also the game where randy pitchfork stole all the money to make borderlands, which is itself built off a stolen art style? Yeah. Randy also left a USB flash drive full of porn and company documents at a Medieval Times.
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Jul 4, 2020 22:12
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purple death ray posted:I really do understand the instinct when you really love a movie, you want more of it. You want to live in it forever, so you watch it a bunch, and you consume supplemental material like books and sequel movies. Even though they're not as good or interesting as the movie you love they let you stay in that world you loved for a little while longer. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. Whole paradises paved, to put up a parking lot
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Jul 4, 2020 22:22
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I'll just get the 2010 AvP one then. I don't really want to give royalties to a scammer. Or tinker with the thing to get it playable.
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Jul 5, 2020 10:03
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Cross posting from the Irrational Movie Moments Thread: Just rewatched Aliens two nights ago and..uh... why the hell did Newt and Ripley decide to go sleep in medical of all places in the ONE ROOM we know has TWO monsters in it? I know the facehuggers were in jars and poo poo but still, they're still shown to be alive and given Ripley's whole "you're not taking this seriously" schtick I'm not sure why they'd go sleep in a room full of them. I'm glad they did because that scene is awesome but were there seriously no other beds around closer to the armed soldiers if they needed some sleep?
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Jul 5, 2020 17:14
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Wowshawk posted:I'll just get the 2010 AvP one then. I don't really want to give royalties to a scammer. Or tinker with the thing to get it playable.
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BiggerBoat posted:Cross posting from the Irrational Movie Moments Thread: Two were already dead weren't they? They were in a side room, not the actual room with the jarred huggers. And it had beds. Everywhere else was hard metal. And the facehuggers were in jars, properly contained. Took a bastard to open one manually to get them out. Would like to know how they got the live one into it jar in the first place.
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happyhippy posted:Two were already dead weren't they? Huh... My understanding was that the ones in the jars were in the medical bay (and there was even a jump scare when one was alive) unless that was a different room/area that also had face huggers in it - but it read to me like the same room. And, sure, I get that those creepy little fuckers aren't SUPPOSED to be able to get out but, even then, why not just drain the tanks and kill them proper since Ripley has been all "gently caress no, not one specimen gets brought back PERIOD" but then they go take a nappy nap in the ONE god damned room we KNOW has living monsters in it. Or at least next to it if your description is correct. And ok, sure. Beds v hard metal. Comfort levels. FIne then. Drag the loving beds/mattresses out and into the sealed off areas next to the trained marines with the big gently caress off weapons so everyone stays together AWAY from the loving monsters and cop a few Z's. I think one little mention of "medical is the most secure area for a small child" would have helped with my issue here (and I think that the unbreakable glass and inability to get OUT was conveying that) but, still, just go murder those 2 little contained fuckers and then go to bed. Having said all that, the way the movie did it made for a WAY better scene and one of my favorites in the series so I'm gonna allow it. ... What a great loving movie. Or Movies Finally turned my 9 year old son onto the first two films and he LOVED them both but he also confirmed for me that Aliens is the superior film (which I already knew) but it 100% does not work at all unless you've seen Alien and relies on the first movie's set up to be really effective. You absolutely need the first movie to show just how deadly ONE of these fuckers is. Now he wants to play Alien: Isolation
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Jul 5, 2020 18:35
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Wowshawk posted:I'll just get the 2010 AvP one then. I don't really want to give royalties to a scammer. Or tinker with the thing to get it playable. I like the 2010 AvP. A few of us in here played some multiplayer and it was really fun. Pro tip: Always give ME the smart gun. Pro tip 2: Send me valium because I get the poo poo scared out of me.
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Jul 5, 2020 19:43
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Daily reminder to never stop Thinking About Aliens (the movie)
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happyhippy posted:Two were already dead weren't they? Yeah it was in a different room from medical. Just one away of course but it looked like an actual sleeping area or at least had a bed so that's probably why she slept there. Ripley had no reason to think someone would try really hard to get someone "infected."
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Jul 5, 2020 19:47
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I like the 2010 AvP. A few of us in here played some multiplayer and it was really fun. Pro tip 2: Scaring the poo poo out of Pennywise is fun as balls
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Jul 5, 2020 20:22
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Biplane posted:Daily reminder to never stop Thinking About Aliens (the movie) Ok, but also don't stop believin' in Robocop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zYOLVjX3pA
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Xenomrph posted:Do you have AvPClassic? Had it for years, now and again I replay it for a bit. I played that alien demo a hundred times when it came out
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