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Cold Fear was cool, I beat that game a few times. Dead Space ripped off the plot and control scheme pretty heavily though. That said, both Dead Space and Cold Fear rip off the story structure of Deep Rising, Ghost Ship, Virus, and Event Horizon. Seriously, aside from the monster changing they’re all the same story with the same characters and story beats. Salvage crew finds derelict vessel, go onboard and find it abandoned, spooky threat starts picking them off, their smaller ship gets destroyed and strands them on the bigger ship, one of the characters betrays the rest, protagonist faces off against a big bad boss monster, big ship gets destroyed, movie ends with some kind of stinger/jump scare. I just summarized 4 movies at once. I’m not saying those movies are *bad*, I like each of them for different reasons. Virus’s puppet/animatronic effects are incredible and the CGI is really good for the time, Deep Rising has the most fun characters, Event Horizon is the scariest and has Sam Neill, and Ghost Ship has the totally awesome flashback sequence set to music.
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Virus featured the Strogg from Quake 2. Event Horizon meanwhile is a Warhammer 40k prequel.
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Windows Movie House just showed Event Horizon. Amazing but unsurprising that it was made by the same guy that gave us the Underworld and the Resident Evil movies.
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Android Apocalypse posted:Windows Movie House just showed Event Horizon. Amazing but unsurprising that it was made by the same guy that gave us the Underworld and the Resident Evil movies. Resident Evil, yes, but not Underworld.
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Ah you're right. Crazy I'd mix up Len Wiseman with Paul W.S. Anderson. Wiseman was married to Kate Backingsdale & Anderson is married to Mila Jovovich.
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Think about Predator. Did not expect the 2010 film to be alright but was proven wrong.
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agrielaios posted:Think about Predator. Did not expect the 2010 film to be alright but was proven wrong. "The Predator" is to "Predator" as "Alien versus Predator" is to "Allen" "Predators" is alright though, you're not wrong
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Predators was great. Fight me.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Predators was great. Hell yeah, ‘Predators’ ruled.
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Amphigory posted:"The Predator" is to "Predator" as "Alien versus Predator" is to "Allen" Hmm, "Alien versus Predator" is hazy memories, to the re-watching I go.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Predators was great. You're not wrong. Meanwhile, The Predator (2018) was not very good.
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Sep 19, 2020 02:13
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Thinking about Predators (the movie)
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I'm a big fan of Allen.
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SilvergunSuperman posted:I'm a big fan of Allen. I prefer the sequel, Allens.
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:I prefer the sequel, Allens. What about "The Allen, Quarantine"?
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Warbadger posted:Virus featured the Strogg from Quake 2. Event Horizon meanwhile is a Warhammer 40k prequel. Ghosts of Mars is the real Doom movie
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Predators was great. It's definitely one of the better Predator sequels. I quite like the first half and even a lot of the second half but it feels like the film runs into a wall when Lawrence Fishbournes character shows up.
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agrielaios posted:What about "The Allen, Quarantine"? I prefer "Allan: Quatermain"
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Alien: Isolation is as good as I remember and just looks and sounds loving amazing but, man, I forgot how long it takes until you actually first see the Xeno. Your first time playing it, you don't know that though. I remember feeling a lot of tension and hearing weird noises on my initial run but now, knowing where the alien is scripted to appear, it was kind of a slog. Also, gently caress that bug in the intro that doesn't let you take off. Apparently, I forgot to take a loving shower but the game wasn't telling me that and and I wound up on the bridge with a bunch of crew just standing there and wondering what I did wrong so I reset. Apparently I smelled too bad but people were too embarrassed to tell me.
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BiggerBoat posted:Alien: Isolation is as good as I remember and just looks and sounds loving amazing but, man, I forgot how long it takes until you actually first see the Xeno. How do you mean? The only requirements are to sign in, get dressed, talk to Samuels, talk to Taylor then pick up the briefing notes. The shower is usable but you're never *required* to use it. You could write an essay about the way A:I is both absolute genius and brutally out of step with modern audiences and game design, especially regarding how subtle it is regarding objects and objectives (god help anyone who has ADHD, and your average 360 twirling no scoper is pretty much a no hoper as they're going to miss every item and cue). It makes for a fascinating title to see folks LP for the first time because it commits so many 'sins' by modern standards and that, combined with the anxiety it can cause, gets players in a hell of a state wandering about like lambs to the slaughter. It's also hilarious that given red barrels have been a staple of games for decades, almost no one ever picks up on the fact you can get the Alien to sod off for a bit by shooting a gas cannister near it for a pipe bomb effect. There's a Swiss guy who speedruns it on Nightmare constantly and has been trying it out with a number of horrible mods - 2 Aliens, 4 Aliens, 5 Aliens, a super aggressive Alien that becomes active everywhere immediately after Axel's death (yup, you have to find somewhere to hide while waiting for the transit). Even cut scenes aren't safe so the smoke bombs have a use at last. The amazing thing to me was finding out the dreaded Medical section can be done in about 30 seconds flat, or that you can (on Med/Hard anyway) drive it away with the shotgun.
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Link the swiss alien speedrunner please that sounds amazing.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Predators was great. That movie’s a lot of fun. Like, the soundtrack to that movie should just be Long Tall Sally on repeat for the entire duration.
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Sentinel Red posted:How do you mean? The only requirements are to sign in, get dressed, talk to Samuels, talk to Taylor then pick up the briefing notes. The shower is usable but you're never *required* to use it. I did all that but everyone just stood there. I looked it up and it's apparently a known bug. At least for some people. Getting into my first working Joe area and, dumb question, but are all those drinking birds collectibles I should be doing something with? Can't shoot them or whack them with a hammer but they read as collectibles. Also, I forget, is there any reason I should start killing the Joe's before they turn hostile? If memory serves, the answer is no. Game loving owns hard. Playing it with my kid and he liked to poo poo when the Xeno showed up. He didn't even get bored during the lead up. Very fun rainy day game/activity here in FL.
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ruddiger posted:That movie’s a lot of fun. Like, the soundtrack to that movie should just be Long Tall Sally on repeat for the entire duration. ‘Predators’s biggest mis-step is that it didn’t end with a montage of the characters the way the first film did.
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Keltar posted:It's definitely one of the better Predator sequels. I quite like the first half and even a lot of the second half but it feels like the film runs into a wall when Lawrence Fishbournes character shows up. I agree. It gets a little weird when Larry enters the scene.
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Keltar posted:It's definitely one of the better Predator sequels. I quite like the first half and even a lot of the second half but it feels like the film runs into a wall when Lawrence Fishbournes character shows up. It's a good idea though, a survivor AGAINST loving PREDATORS, but they just waste him in mere minutes. Instead of being a ghost like ultimate survivalist, with booby traps, hidey holes, hidden caches everywhere, he's just a one trick who shits his pants instantly.
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Also Predators implies that it watches all of humanity for longish periods of time. And who they select isn't on body count, after all how many could a yakuza hitman or doctor kill compared to a warlord or warzone combatants. Would be funny to see Dr Harold Shipman parachuted in though.
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Predators was super cool and fun, which makes it a good movie The comic they released for some reason afterwards was bad and completely unnecessary
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Is it ok to still be thinking about Aliens? 
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ultrabindu posted:Is it ok to still be thinking about Aliens? Always be thinking about Aliens.
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Do you think aliens think about me?
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Professor Shark posted:Do you think aliens think about me? Almost certainly, at least in the abstract.
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Professor Shark posted:Do you think aliens think about me? Well, do androids dream of electric sheep?
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happyhippy posted:It's a good idea though, a survivor AGAINST loving PREDATORS, but they just waste him in mere minutes. The escape parts of the movie were a bit lame, imo
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Professor Shark posted:Do you think aliens think about me? Mostly at night. Mostly.
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happyhippy posted:Would be funny to see Dr Harold Shipman parachuted in though. WIth Peter Sutcliffe and his hammer.
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loving hell, I am lol'ing at the UK serial killer suggestions Just found Alien - Director's cut is available on Sky - got it downloading now. To my shame I've seen Aliens and Alien 3 directors cuts, but never the original...
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Back at the end of '86 Electric dreams released an Aliens game for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. It was a shooter where you had to fight your way Hadley's Hope and the atmosphere processor, get to queen, kill it and all the eggs and then get back to the entrance. There were 6 characters from the film, limited ammo, their stamina decreased after every move and their pulse went up whenever the motion trackers detected anything making your shots less accurate.  I played the poo poo out of it, but never finished 'cause my guys all got killed when they ran out of ammunition  I have fond memories of it spooking in the piss out of me though.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efolLO2zcpc drat I loved that game  If you want to try it yourself there's a remake from a few years back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQat4obE2T8
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Predators was great. Predators was like an awesome RPG session. The Predator was a steaming incoherent pile of garbage.
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