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I watched Predator 2 a couple years ago and being older from when I first watched it, I thought there was some interesting commentary on vigilante worship and American crime (mainly both are bad and the bad rear end police don't do much to help) but I might of been thinking too hard. AVP isn't a BAD movie per se, its just a movie of wasted potential given other AVP media out there. I am not sure it should be an action oriented movie but that's just my opinion. Though the facehugeger scene in the movie is properly creepy. It's too bad Predators didn't work cause it had a loving killer row of actors to make it work you know?
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The original alien vs predator game on the PC was extremely accurate, in that, if you played as the marine, you spent the whole game expecting to die in the next 5 seconds. It was very stressful.
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Aug 7, 2022 21:07
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I will give AVP2 credit for two things (which I will spoiler on the off chance that anyone wants to watch it, although I urge you not to!)
Again, not a good film, do yourself a favor and don't watch it.
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Aug 7, 2022 21:47
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AvP bugs me because it’s PG-13, and the Predators (besides the Celtic predator of course!!!) look too bulky and weird. And they have HORRIBLE faces. The story isn’t terrible but I wish it wasn’t set on earth. It’s better than AvP-R at least. I like Predators tho.
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Aug 7, 2022 21:48
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AvP-R sucks rear end because it’s way too edgy in a stupid way. Those directors spent months talking about how hardcore it was because the movie kills kids and blows up pregnant women. loving annoying.
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Aug 7, 2022 21:50
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The underlying premise (Aliens and Predators fight in a small town) could have been way more interestingly implemented as a miniseries or downright TV season, Stranger Things before Stranger Things.
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Aug 7, 2022 21:53
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Perestroika posted:Yeah, the script felt really stitched together. It felt a bit like at one point it was intended for Munn's character to have a more prominent role with the whole journalism angle, but then at some point Generic McSoldierman was shoved in there as the default lead instead. "Eat my pussy. Eat my pussy. Eat my pussy. Eat my pussy. Eat my pussy? Eat my pussy?" You have to try really hard to make a bad Predator movie but by golly they sure nail it each time.
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Aug 7, 2022 23:28
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Y'all should go watch Prey on Hulu, it just came out, and it's good.
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Aug 7, 2022 23:59
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Is hulu free again
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Aug 8, 2022 01:12
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why watch Prey when you can play Prey?
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prey video game doesn't have amber midthunder from legion
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Aug 8, 2022 04:08
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PhazonLink posted:why watch Prey when you can play Prey?  Prey (2006) was one of the last really good first person shooters that didn't lean so hard into multiplayer, loot crates and other such nonsense. You were a Native American guy with a lighter and your girlfriend gets kidnapped by a UFO and you go gently caress them up. It had an extreme Cronenburg aesthetic to it.
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Aug 8, 2022 04:14
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Just watch the Civvie 11 recap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngbwe1amOlk
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Aug 8, 2022 04:18
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credburn posted:
It also has the distinction of being wiped from digital purchase existence because the keygen they used ran out of copies for sale after a few years.
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Aug 8, 2022 04:19
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pentyne posted:It also has the distinction of being wiped from digital purchase existence because the keygen they used ran out of copies for sale after a few years. As a child I always wondered how companies picked a serial number/ID number/registration key/license plate scheme/etc format that would be large enough to encompass all possible future user expansion. What's the magic number? 10x more than you expect to ever sell? 100? Its hilarious that the answer in at least one circumstance is "they just didn't".
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Aug 8, 2022 04:55
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pentyne posted:It also has the distinction of being wiped from digital purchase existence because the keygen they used ran out of copies for sale after a few years. Same thing happened with Wolfenstein (2009), no more keys.
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Aug 8, 2022 05:33
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why dont they just make an update that also takes a new key system with like... 5 more numbers?
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BrainDance posted:why dont they just make an update that also takes a new key system with like... 5 more numbers? Potentially they could! It's been done with games from around that era- when Dark Souls (2011) for example switched over to using Steamworks for its multiplayer, it also ditched Games for Windows Live as its secondary required login service. So if you bought Dark Souls on PC it USED to have a key, but now no longer does and it's null and void. Sadly the problem with BOTH the examples of Prey and Wolf 2009 is they've been caught in publisher trademark copyright blaargghh hell and we will likely never see them retouched for that reason.
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Aug 8, 2022 06:32
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Yeah I honestly hadn't even heard about Wolfenstein keys running out because the wacky rights issues seemed much more critical. Though now I guess weirdly enough most of that may or may not get untangled thanks to Microsoft just owning everything?
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CJacobs posted:Sadly the problem with BOTH the examples of Prey and Wolf 2009 is they've been caught in publisher trademark copyright blaargghh hell and we will likely never see them retouched for that reason. Yeah, I believe Prey was 2K Games and Wolfenstein was Activision. Both IPs are now owned by Bethesda/Microsoft, but not necessarily those games specifically, so theoretically no one has the legal right to release them again, unless the companies come to an agreement.
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Aug 8, 2022 07:06
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I still hate that Prey 2 got canceled.
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Dammit the last Wolfenstein game I played was Return to Castle Wolfenstein and I've been wanting to see what became of ol B.J. Blazkowicz.
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Mooseontheloose posted:I watched Predator 2 a couple years ago and being older from when I first watched it, I thought there was some interesting commentary on vigilante worship and American crime (mainly both are bad and the bad rear end police don't do much to help) but I might of been thinking too hard. Speaking of, when I rewatched it a while back it struck me just how prevalent the fear of crime was in the (white) cultural US psyche at the time. So many movies around that time had the premise that some time soon the US would become a wild wasteland of unrestricted gang warfare.
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credburn posted:Dammit the last Wolfenstein game I played was Return to Castle Wolfenstein and I've been wanting to see what became of ol B.J. Blazkowicz. Well, Wolfenstein: The New Order Wolfenstein: The New Colossus Wolfenstein: Youngblood Are all still available and are primarily story based about BJ and I think they are all fantastic and brilliant examples of modern FPS reinvention of old classic ones. (Though when it comes to the last two, especially Youngblood, I am way more of a fan than a lot of posters) but I got so captivated by the story in New Order that I just had to see how it kept going. I am eagerly awaiting whatever the next one is!
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credburn posted:Dammit the last Wolfenstein game I played was Return to Castle Wolfenstein and I've been wanting to see what became of ol B.J. Blazkowicz. He managed to get ahead.
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Pookah posted:The original alien vs predator game on the PC was extremely accurate, in that, if you played as the marine, you spent the whole game expecting to die in the next 5 seconds. I never got past the demo, where if you played as a Marine you were absolutely guaranteed to die in the first five seconds because they hosed up the level design so badly that you couldn't get out of the starting corridor without being killed by the environment. I gave it a couple of tries to see if I was missing something, then uninstalled it without ever seeing an alien or a Predator.
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credburn posted:Dammit the last Wolfenstein game I played was Return to Castle Wolfenstein and I've been wanting to see what became of ol B.J. Blazkowicz. You should track down Wolfenstein 2009, it's a really solid, if uncomplicated game. The Retrostein mod is mandatory, in my opinion.
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VideoGames posted:Wolfenstein: The New Order
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One of the new Wolfensteins has a really gorgeous song over the end credits. Ah it *is* New Order. I haven't played the game but this is pretty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiTn4j7gVvY
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Waste of Breath posted:As a child I always wondered how companies picked a serial number/ID number/registration key/license plate scheme/etc format that would be large enough to encompass all possible future user expansion. What's the magic number? 10x more than you expect to ever sell? 100? If I was picking the key format, I would just have it be like a quadrillion. You use it once, who cares if it's a couple characters longer than it needs to be?
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Perestroika posted:Speaking of, when I rewatched it a while back it struck me just how prevalent the fear of crime was in the (white) cultural US psyche at the time. So many movies around that time had the premise that some time soon the US would become a wild wasteland of unrestricted gang warfare.
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Tiggum posted:I gave up on this one after, I think, the third time it took all my weapons away just as I was starting to have fun? Also the flying robot enemies were annoying as gently caress. I enjoyed the game, but it did feel like they had multiple different groups design it and to avoid continuity issues with what weapons were or were not available, they just defaulted to take away everything.
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Perestroika posted:Speaking of, when I rewatched it a while back it struck me just how prevalent the fear of crime was in the (white) cultural US psyche at the time. So many movies around that time had the premise that some time soon the US would become a wild wasteland of unrestricted gang warfare. They were right, but they caused it by funding and militarizing the gangs--the cops, I mean..
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Vandar posted:I still hate that Prey 2 got canceled. That trailer still owns
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Waste of Breath posted:As a child I always wondered how companies picked a serial number/ID number/registration key/license plate scheme/etc format that would be large enough to encompass all possible future user expansion. What's the magic number? 10x more than you expect to ever sell? 100? The world actually ran out of (the original kind of) IP addresses in 2019.
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Perestroika posted:Speaking of, when I rewatched it a while back it struck me just how prevalent the fear of crime was in the (white) cultural US psyche at the time. So many movies around that time had the premise that some time soon the US would become a wild wasteland of unrestricted gang warfare. Yeah there was that 20 year stretch from the mid 70s to the mid 90s where there were a lot of movies about either how crime ridden cities were or how in the future lawless gangs were going to take over.
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muscles like this! posted:Yeah there was that 20 year stretch from the mid 70s to the mid 90s where there were a lot of movies about either how crime ridden cities were or how in the future lawless gangs were going to take over.
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muscles like this! posted:Yeah there was that 20 year stretch from the mid 70s to the mid 90s where there were a lot of movies about either how crime ridden cities were or how in the future lawless gangs were going to take over. Speaking of which, I haven’t seen warriors in ages. I remember the silly stuff like the baseball furies, but I kind of have a feeling it’s more racist than I remember.
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I liked the trend that we’d have crime ridden post-apocalyptic cities, but the people would chase you on roller skates.
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