The Alien Films, Games, and what Aliens: Colonial Marines did right.

june gloom on 21/2/2014 at 01:52

ZylonBane in a nutshell, everyone.

Pyrian on 21/2/2014 at 03:57

I suppose nutshells are appropriate places for us. :cheeky:

icemann on 21/2/2014 at 05:00

VA: Very interesting post (the first one). Makes me want to go give the game (A:CM) a try at some point, regardless of the crap-ness. After watching a "before the patch and after it" video on youtube, it looks like the game needs another big patch to fix up the remaining issues (the view from that balcony, player collisions with marines, the AI etc).

So, people out there hate Dead Space 2? Odd. I absolutely loved that game when it came out. Sure it's not AS good as the first but it has a fair few awesome bits in it. I refuse to ever play the 3rd game since they ditched the save stations and manual saving, and instead went with check points + for the most part ditched the survival horror aspects to the game.

june gloom on 21/2/2014 at 05:35

[video=youtube;VTxjVau0iig]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTxjVau0iig[/video]

Volitions Advocate on 21/2/2014 at 06:36

LOL

faetal on 21/2/2014 at 08:07

Quote Posted by Volitions Advocate

So I'm always walking down the dark hallways and through boiler rooms and air exchange mechanical rooms with little to no lighting.

If you don't change your ring tone to the motion tracker sound, you are fucking up.

DDL on 21/2/2014 at 11:13

One of my cousins did some coding for the first AvP. The (at the time praiseworthy) tactics of the aliens finding their way around locked doors and shit?

Basically this:

Code:

if(routeblocked)
{
teleportToRandomLocation();
CheckRoute();
}

Smoke and mirrors, man.

SubJeff on 21/2/2014 at 14:24

Ha ha. That's great.

catbarf on 21/2/2014 at 17:12

If it works and isn't obvious how 'fake' it is, then it works.

ZylonBane on 21/2/2014 at 17:36

Bah, the best AvP was the Atari Jaguar version.

Well okay it wasn't the best, but it was pretty good. Unlike most of the other versions that are just FPSs, the Jag version was an FPS/adventure hybrid that let you loose on a huge multi-deck space station, with only the logs you find on the various computers to guide you to eventually destroying the station and escaping. It was a lot like the original System Shock. Heck, it even starts with you waking up from cryosleep to find everyone dead.