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Kosmo Gallion posted:Why did those dumbass marines initially discount Vasquez's theory of dropping in seven cans of CN20 and nerve gassing the nest? Obviously they had no way of knowing if it would work but it seems a better idea than welding yourself into a lab and waiting 27 days for rescue that may also be wiped out. At the time they went with Plan "Just Get the Hell Out of Here and Nuke it From Orbit", which was a lot more thorough and safer than trying to get close and deploy nerve gas. The welding themselves into the building thing only happened after the drop ship crashed, which I assume wrecked the nerve gas that was probably stored on the drop ship or APC.
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Kosmo Gallion posted:Bishop saying he prefers the term Artificial Person over the term Synthetic. Later in the film when he has to crawl through the pipe, he calls himself a Synthetic. Is this some clever jibe at racism? Like Bishop says "don't worry about me boss, I'm only a Synthetic!" Maybe he doesn't like being called a synthetic (noun) but has no objection to being described as being synthetic (adjective)? He does say "I may be synthetic" not I may be a synthetic" after all. edit: Like the whole thing is a response to Hudson being relieved that Bishop volunteered to go over anyone else having to go, which Bishop picked up on being viewed as lesser than the others in Hudson's eyes. He's being self-deprecating but I don't think that he's using language that he would find objectionable. I think though that regarding the specific wording, "synthetic (adjective) person" is the same as "artificial person" because the emphasis is on the fact that he is still a person, but calling him a synthetic (noun) is essentially a slur and dehumanizes him by removing the fact that he is a person. BattleMaster fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Apr 15, 2023 |
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Kosmo Gallion posted:Bishop saying he prefers the term Artificial Person over the term Synthetic. Later in the film when he has to crawl through the pipe, he calls himself a Synthetic. Is this some clever jibe at racism? Like Bishop says "don't worry about me boss, I'm only a Synthetic!" I think it was more just in response to Hudson saying hell yeah send the toaster or whatever.
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# ? Apr 15, 2023 06:07 |
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Steam Alien Day Sale. Fireteam is $11.99, AvP 2010 is $2.99 https://store.steampowered.com/sale/alienday2023
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# ? Apr 21, 2023 23:34 |
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I think about Aliens a lot at this concierge security job I'm currently at. Every time I have to go on patrol, and the elevator doors open on some desolate empty floor, I imagine the Queen Alien coming out of the elevator, or a pair of xeno hands prying open the closing doors at the last second like the doors of the APC.
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# ? Apr 22, 2023 08:22 |
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Parkingtigers posted:I mean, some people like it, and I've had these same discussions at much greater length over on BGG with people who swear they love it. But it's just so odd as it's by Gale Force 9 and they have put out a ton of good games, and it seemed to have a long development cycle. Thanks for sharing man, the figures looks great. Are the crates and computers etc the 3rd party extras or do they come with the base game? Would just removing one of the actions - card burning, dice rolling, or aim dial - make the game more fun? Or would that gently caress up the balance? The aim dial seems a bit too much. And what if you just reduce the numbers of xenos for the missions where it doesn’t make sense? Would it be way too easy? Like for that queen alien mission just make the queen a super tank rather than having all the other xenos.
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# ? Apr 22, 2023 08:46 |
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Payndz posted:I want to see a sci-fi horror movie where the astronauts are smart, work as a team of professionals, do everything right and aren't being deliberately sabotaged, but still one by one end up as monster food because the creature is just that nasty. Helmet-removers and egg-looker-intoers need not apply. A bit late, but would 2017's 'Life' count?
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Yeah, Life sounds like exactly what you're after. It was pretty good.
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Red Rox posted:Thanks for sharing man, the figures looks great. Are the crates and computers etc the 3rd party extras or do they come with the base game? The problem with the game having so many overlapping systems *just* to resolve dice-chucking at aliens, is that removing any part of it affects all the rest. It would need a ton of testing. I barely have time to play boardgames as it is, and I'd realistically only get to play through the campaign once, with a nostalgia replay in a couple of years. A wholesale rewrite (which imo the game needs, though others on BGG disagree) would require 10 times as much effort and I'd burn myself out just fixing it. It would be far less effort to just go with my plan to use these dollies to replay the still awesome 1991 game. I'd also get a kick out of making a custom board for that. The components are so nice, but the board layout does mean that because the aliens just swarm forward by the shortest route that in the tight layouts in smaller rooms you have situations where they will be in range to charge you, but you have no line of sight to shoot at them. Whole sections of the board where you can end up in a hopeless situation because of the terrain. On the Sulacco map you don't even use a quarter of the board because everyone starts facing off with a dropship full of an infinite swarm of aliens and so there's no need to fall back to the cafeteria/cryobay because why spend actions moving when there's a wall of aliens to shoot? For the dollies, the crates and computers are a separate upgrade pack. You get tokens for them all in the base game. Reasonably cheap pack, and getting eggs and computers and sentry guns is great, though you never need 6 computers (you barely need 2 tbh) and having some modelled floor panel entry points for aliens would have been nicer but those are easy to scratch build. Base game gets you aliens and half the marines. The "Get Way From Her You Bitch" expansion gets you the queen and powerloader, plus Bishop and Burke (that rear end in a top hat), along with more boards. Then separately you can buy a pack with the other half of the marines (only Ferro and Spunkmeyer are not in the game) along with their cards. The terrain pack, to upgrade the tokens to the pieces in my pics. If you just want the figures, you can buy all those cheaper in packs which don't include any of the components for the game. On BGG there were people buying an extra 12 pack of aliens because they ran out of models mid-game and that was just another highlight of the poor design. gently caress, I still wanna try and fix this game at some point, it's too beautiful not to. I still lean towards making it more scenario specific fixes. The game as written just lets you grab a squad and load them up and go shoot stuff. Adding more personnel and weapon restrictions to craft a more designed experience would enhance it so much. The "campaign" just lets you then carry that stuff over, or wheel in more marines from the reserve, which breaks the balance even more. But also just to make it more fun, because Ripley shouldn't be rocking a pulse rifle in the scenes before they even find Newt, having her as a fragile civvie that needs defending makes for more interesting gameplay, if you don't have "wall of aliens" as the one and only design blueprint. The game also has a thing where every character card has two sides. A leader side, where they are better at everything and have a unique bonus, and a "grunt" side where they are kinda basic. But you only get one leader per player and then some grunts to fill out the squad. I'm amazed they lifted the flippable player card with reduced values thing from the 1991 game and then made it so unfun to use. In the 1991 game if you got wounded you flipped to the lower stats side. There's so much potential here to have it represent wounded, or cumulative battle stress over the course of the campaign, or reduced viability due to ambush/panic such as in the reactor room scenario. When I say the game is salvageable (with a lot of work) it's because there are materials like this provided, but misused/unused and I'm seeing ways that we could craft an incredible campaign and rules rewrite out of this. If nothing else, you've made me commit to priming my powerloader tonight because it's time I got that painted up. edit: The real reason I lean towards specific scenario play, custom made for each setup, is from my experience with the Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game. I was one of their playtesters for that 20 years ago, and in the first couple of years it was a scenario based skirmish wargame and the most fun tabletop set of skirmish rules ever written. Fighting out parts of the film with custom objectives and setup was magical. By the third year they moved onto "lets sell lots of figures" points matches, where you just pick 500 point armies and smoosh them into each other. That's how the game exists today. But the beauty of a properly crafted scenario where the goal isn't just "deathmatch, but with dice" gives a narrative flow and a cinematic feel. The missions in AGDITC are all "deathmatch towards the exit point". It could be so much more. 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Ha yeah during the pandemic lockdown my son and I played through a whole bunch of Star Wars Imperial Assault - painting the miniatures was half the fun and helped keep me chill during a global crisis.
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Red Rox posted:Ha yeah during the pandemic lockdown my son and I played through a whole bunch of Star Wars Imperial Assault - painting the miniatures was half the fun and helped keep me chill during a global crisis. Now that's a game that's good as hell, and very well designed in all ways. Knowing that exists, in as good a form as it is, makes the Aliens game much more frustrating. Comparable components, but the rules... *sigh*
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Parkingtigers posted:Now that's a game that's good as hell, and very well designed in all ways. Knowing that exists, in as good a form as it is, makes the Aliens game much more frustrating. Comparable components, but the rules... *sigh* That was FFG at their peak with Star Wars. They also had a Doom 2016 board game that was a ton of fun, but it only ever had the one release and never got any expansions. There’s a hybrid system sometime between IA, Doom, and Another Glorious Day. They’re all iterations on the same basic dungeon crawler, hell I even used IA models in Doom. Boba Fett was my Doom Slayer
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I love the 4 movies goddamnit
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# ? Apr 22, 2023 17:31 |
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This looks somewhat Alien-adjacent. It's a chapter from Bram Stoker's Dracula, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR2uDt3z0S0
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Negostrike posted:I love the 4 movies goddamnit Alien Aliens Predator Prey Yup, 4 loving awesome movies.
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I've just bought a mega drive classic compilation for the PS4. First game I put on was my old favourite Streets of Rage II. I completely forgot there's a level where you have to fight your way through a Xenomorph hive complete with exploding Face Hugger eggs.
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Alien: Isolation
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Kosmo Gallion posted:I've just bought a mega drive classic compilation for the PS4. First game I put on was my old favourite Streets of Rage II. I completely forgot there's a level where you have to fight your way through a Xenomorph hive complete with exploding Face Hugger eggs. Wait what really? E: NM I only played the first one
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Kosmo Gallion posted:I've just bought a mega drive classic compilation for the PS4. First game I put on was my old favourite Streets of Rage II. I completely forgot there's a level where you have to fight your way through a Xenomorph hive complete with exploding Face Hugger eggs. I would do strange and horrible things for an AvP arcade cabinet.
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The Zombie Guy posted:Alien: Isolation
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The Zombie Guy posted:Alien: Isolation ... OK, I'm seriously wondering if any horror comedies have used this one, because it seems like a gimme on reflection really.
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MadDogMike posted:... OK, I'm seriously wondering if any horror comedies have used this one, because it seems like a gimme on reflection really. A Silent but Deadly Place
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Beachcomber posted:A Silent but Deadly Place
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The Zombie Guy posted:Alien: Isolation FunAnalFacts
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# ? Apr 23, 2023 03:41 |
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Aliens: AGDITC is odd because there is a huge buy in to play the game because you have to painstaking assemble the models and then the rules of the game are meh, not complex enough to warrant the effort but fiddly enough to prevent the game from being a fun fast paced romp through the movie. At least you can use the models and play whatever ruleset you want with them. Recreate the 90s board game, make your own version of Space Hulk, etc.
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# ? Apr 23, 2023 15:38 |
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Are the models even that much more detailed?
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Red Rox posted:Are the models even that much more detailed? I've bought a bunch of boardgames with paintable soft plastic figures recently (Princess Bride, The Warriors, War of the Ring) and the quality of the Aliens figures is higher. Hard plastic, the assembly allowing for better posing, but honestly they would be better if they had half-assed it so it could be gotten to the table quicker. Fate of the Nostromo has lovely models (including an alien) and you don't have to spend an entire weekend putting them all together. But that aside, the quality for thousand-yard-stare model painting veterans really makes them gorgeous models. I originally wrote gorgeous playing pieces but the tails for the aliens extend back to cover the square behind them, where you're trying to put more models, so they actually suck as playing pieces. Having to glue in two sets of arms, and a tail (oh god, gluing in the tails is so hard) only to have them not fit on the board tiles you designed them for...
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# ? Apr 24, 2023 09:49 |
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mllaneza posted:This looks somewhat Alien-adjacent. It's a chapter from Bram Stoker's Dracula, You're not wrong. Strong Alien vibes from this. Looks great
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Last week The Ringer's The Rewatchables podcast episode was on Alien. Good way to kill 2 hours.
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mllaneza posted:This looks somewhat Alien-adjacent. It's a chapter from Bram Stoker's Dracula, Neat, that was easily the best part of the novel.
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# ? Apr 24, 2023 20:39 |
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Is the an audio described version of Alien (any cut) available?
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 10:48 |
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Splicer posted:Is the an audio described version of Alien (any cut) available? What do you mean?
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 11:02 |
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I'm pretty sure they're referring to a descriptive audio track that adds narration for visually impaired folks. Can't say I've seen (or, uh, heard) one for Alien, unfortunately. Edit: No idea how comprehensive this list is, but looks like we only have Covenant and AVP: Requiem. Oh and Prometheus. https://adp.acb.org/masterad.html SidneyIsTheKiller fucked around with this message at 11:41 on Apr 25, 2023 |
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:I'm pretty sure they're referring to a descriptive audio track that adds narration for visually impaired folks. Can't say I've seen (or, uh, heard) one for Alien, unfortunately. The first time I ever saw this was for The Expanse and it's a really cool idea.
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 23:10 |
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They're actually fairly common these days, usually included as one of the language options on media discs. All the Star Wars blu-rays feature them, for instance. They can be pretty interesting to watch/listen to for their own sake. You can tell whoever produces these has developed a pretty well thought-out set of standards/best practices for how to describe a sequence. For instance, there's a scene in Lights Out (or whichever thriller that was where they're locked in with a crazy blind guy (apropos now that I think about it)) where this dude jizzes in someone's house and I was curious to hear if the narrator actually says "this guy is masturbating and now he's ejaculating all over the floor." But they're careful not to make any unnecessary inferences, so it simply describes the guy's facial expression and then the drops of white fluid, because that is in fact all we see. The one for Frozen casts a kind grandmotherly-sounding voice as the narrator, giving the impression of someone reading a storybook.
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# ? Apr 26, 2023 07:59 |
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Joe Chill posted:Neat, that was easily the best part of the novel. But this movie isn't about Dracula rushing around trying to fool Johnathan into thinking he has a full set of castle staff while he's staying there
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPX7e9QieLU
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Happy Aliens day, y’all
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Joe Chill posted:Neat, that was easily the best part of the novel. Wait do they actually go into what happened on the ship in the book? I haven't read it in years, but I thought it just washed up as a ghost ship, and maybe a body lashed to the wheel? Movie looks interesting anyway
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there's a series of logs written over the course of the voyage followed by a newspaper article of the ship's arrival there's also a mailing list called Dracula Daily that sends out each journal entry on a daily basis that runs each year
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