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keyframe posted:Both PS3 and 360 are ancient consoles but I would hardly lay the blame there. For starters if Naughty Dog can make their games look a trillion times better than A:CM and have amazing animations in it at the same time there is clearly something wrong with Gearbox. Speaking of GOG, they finally got the rights for System Shock 2! If you really want a creepy Sci-Fi Shooter but that one, you will not be disappointed. Also it looks almost as good as ACM  .
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I'm playing through this now, and I'm getting frustrated. It keeps giving me FLASHES of stuff that feels like Aliens...then doing something different. Like, I find an environment that looks straight out of Cameron or Scott's mind, then I get generic grey corridor straight after.
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Is it me, or did they remove the "host game" button from co-op with the latest patch? Because I can't find it at all.
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Batham posted:Is it me, or did they remove the "host game" button from co-op with the latest patch? Because I can't find it at all. They want to save people from playing their own game.
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Fat_Cow posted:Oh boy, Amazon is selling it for 70$ what a deal. poo poo, maybe I should sell this mint condition boxed copy of AvP2 laying around. Anyway, this is off topic but does anyone know an RTS where you play as something resembling the Xenomorphs? Preferably singleplayer.
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I don't know about you guys, but I am having a hell of a hard time finding anyone to play with in co-op. Surely I'm not the only rube who bought this lovely game .
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Minorkos posted:poo poo, maybe I should sell this mint condition boxed copy of AvP2 laying around. Dawn of War has the Tyranid, Starcraft has the Zerg. Other than that...hmmm, I can't think of anything else.
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Fat_Cow posted:Oh boy, Amazon is selling it for 70$ what a deal. I can't imagine anyone actually buying an old game at that sort of inflated price just to be sure to get it new and sealed, when on ebay you can get it for £1. (Except maybe some sort of collector nerd who likes it sitting on a shelf on in a box unopened, forever.) brozozo posted:I don't know about you guys, but I am having a hell of a hard time finding anyone to play with in co-op. Surely I'm not the only rube who bought this lovely game I think most people do Friends-only co-op games, rather than with random people.
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Isn't AvP2  all over the place as well?
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Minorkos posted:poo poo, maybe I should sell this mint condition boxed copy of AvP2 laying around. AVP Extinction Seriously though, just get Starcraft 2 when Heart of the swarm comes out.
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I just noticed Ashly Burch gets higher billing than Lance Henriksen in the opening credits. Will the indignities never end?
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BadLlama posted:Isn't AvP2 I would imagine so, the pirate community is usually pretty good at making old games available. They usually even include all necessary patches and guides how to run the game on Windows 7 and how to use widescreen resolutions.
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Feb 13, 2013 21:23
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your evil twin posted:I think most people do Friends-only co-op games, rather than with random people. Well, drat. Looking on the bright side, none of my friends were dumb enough to buy the game! Jeez, the one guy I asked if he would buy it seemed pretty wary. Should have listened...
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I have a disked copy of AvP2, it was a Sierra re-release, their Gold line or something, but it had no problems running on Win7 as far as I remember.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:I have a disked copy of AvP2, it was a Sierra re-release, their Gold line or something, but it had no problems running on Win7 as far as I remember. That's the one that I have, somewhere around here. Yeah, I remember it working last time I installed it.
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keyframe posted:Both PS3 and 360 are ancient consoles but I would hardly lay the blame there. For starters if Naughty Dog can make their games look a trillion times better than A:CM and have amazing animations in it at the same time there is clearly something wrong with Gearbox.
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This game is actually pretty fun when doing 4 person coop on ultimate badass. Assuming you don't take it too seriously. Getting through the level where you have to be silent was hilarious. I found versus multiplayer games to be decent as well, it doesn't feel as shiny as the newer games, but the game play is there. If they had actually finished this game it could have been amazing. I only paid $30 for this and don't feel as cheated as I did day 1 doing the campaign by myself. Can't say it should ever be a full price purchase though, $19.99 bargain bin special.
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This plays, looks and feels like a Doom 3 community mod from 2007. I seriously do not remember any ue3 engine game looking this bad. Pretty great hardly getting 40fps on a crossfire 7770 setup and a 3570k at 4.2ghz. Icing on the cake.
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That's weird, I get a steady framerate of 62, and that's because the game itself is limited to that (apparently can disable that in the config files, but since my monitor has 60hz refresh rate, not much point in doing that.) I've got a GTX 560 TI graphics card, that's about a year old, everything else in my PC is several years old, it has a 2.9ghz quad core processor.dunkan posted:This game is actually pretty fun when doing 4 person coop on ultimate badass. Assuming you don't take it too seriously. Getting through the level where you have to be silent was hilarious. Yeah, I feel exactly the same way. I can't recommend anyone buy it full retail price, but so far I've had fun with it. It's like a really, really good fan-made mod rather than a retail triple-A blockbuster game, but since I spent a couple of years playing hundreds of Half-Life 1 mods, I can live with that. brozozo posted:I don't know about you guys, but I am having a hell of a hard time finding anyone to play with in co-op. Surely I'm not the only rube who bought this lovely game If you like, add me as a friend on Steam (I assume you are playing on PC). There's also the Goons vs Predator and Colonial Goons steam groups. your evil twin fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Feb 13, 2013 |
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your evil twin posted:I can't imagine anyone actually buying an old game at that sort of inflated price just to be sure to get it new and sealed, when on ebay you can get it for £1. (Except maybe some sort of collector nerd who likes it sitting on a shelf on in a box unopened, forever.) I was an owner of Starfleet Command 3 (It got pulled within a month or two of release due to a lawsuit between Activision and Paramount) and only had it in the jewel case, and some person bought it off of me for $150.00 on Amazon. Ditto for Bridge Commander. Lots of older PC games go for inflated prices, so whenever I need cash I just check through my old games. I've sold quite a few this way, because it is the only legitimate way to purchase many titles. I even had a copy of Starshatter or something that was a third party indie title with a limited run (now it is available as freeware I think) but sold it for like $80-$90. Even made $70 selling my Armada 2 copy.
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Woah. I'm gonna have to take a look at my own collection.
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Just wondering, am I the only one who refuses to use the iron sights on the Pulse Rifle? It's supposed to be hipfired, damnit! 
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Batham posted:Just wondering, am I the only one who refuses to use the iron sights on the Pulse Rifle? It's supposed to be hipfired, damnit! The first time they showed iron sights in this game I realized that something had gone horribly wrong and swore it off.
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Batham posted:Just wondering, am I the only one who refuses to use the iron sights on the Pulse Rifle? It's supposed to be hipfired, damnit! My first upgrade was the laser sight so I never needed to ADS ever. It's a loving pulse rifle, you don't need to be accurate.
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Alright, I'm not so immersed in Alien lore that I know anything about the pulse rifle other than it looks cool and makes a cool noise. What is it about the gun that makes iron sights/red dot such a big no-no? Paging Xenomprh, please advise.
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WY probably intentionally designed the pulse rifle without sights so the military would have to keep buying those explosive-tipped rounds.
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Require More Fire posted:Alright, I'm not so immersed in Alien lore that I know anything about the pulse rifle other than it looks cool and makes a cool noise. What is it about the gun that makes iron sights/red dot such a big no-no? Paging Xenomprh, please advise. It never actually had sights at all before this game.
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Require More Fire posted:Alright, I'm not so immersed in Alien lore that I know anything about the pulse rifle other than it looks cool and makes a cool noise. What is it about the gun that makes iron sights/red dot such a big no-no? Paging Xenomprh, please advise. Nothing specific, its just that in Aliens all of the gung-ho marines that were so highly trained just sprayed from the hip once poo poo got real. If you want to feel like Hudson in his final scene where he's screaming at the Xenos to come at him, you can't use iron sights.
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Require More Fire posted:Alright, I'm not so immersed in Alien lore that I know anything about the pulse rifle other than it looks cool and makes a cool noise. What is it about the gun that makes iron sights/red dot such a big no-no? Paging Xenomprh, please advise.
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Popelmon posted:Speaking of GOG, they finally got the rights for System Shock 2! If you really want a creepy Sci-Fi Shooter but that one, you will not be disappointed. Also it looks almost as good as ACM Boy I never expected to hear that news in this thread. That's awesome!  Still trying to grasp the challenge system. It's weird; there are times it makes more sense to just die firing a stupid weapon and do a section over and over again.
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workingdogv1 posted:Still trying to grasp the challenge system. It's weird; there are times it makes more sense to just die firing a stupid weapon and do a section over and over again. That's because it's a lovely linear system where you can't just play however you want if you actually want to unlock things. I'm stuck on kill 2 enemies at once with the primary fire of the pump shotgun (I've bloodied so many drones and had them right next to each other or right behind each other and would never kill both so I gave up). I'm also expecting to get stuck on Cat-Like Reflexes where you need to pounce 3 marines in 10 seconds. Oh, and then the kill 2 enemies with one shotgun shot in MP. That's going to be pretty impossible unless I get 2 other people in a private game to just let me do it.
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I'm still wondering how Gearbox thought it was a "badass" idea to include even hints of a loving loot game in an Aliens FPS. I get that it's nice to find weapons "as they appeared in the movie" (except when they don't actually appear like they did in the movie but the though counts right guys? Right?!) some people really get off on that poo poo. Even so, having LEGENDARY WEAPON ACQUIRED scrolling across the screen just because you picked up a gun in an standard FPS feels like desperate pandering to the wrong sort of people. Then again, they did essentially make a game based around bad fan-fiction, so I shouldn't be surprised.
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People keep bringing up good Aliens games, a more recent one being Infestation for DS. It's heavily inspired by Metroid, which was heavily inspired by Aliens. The back of the box says that it's a Gearbox game but dont worry, it's actually a Wayforward game. 
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 Thumbnail looks like a screenshot from UT99 but click it.
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:This is a pretty good look at the demo and final differences of the game. Its a very good question they ask, what the hell happened to this game?! Oh wow. OK, I take back my earlier "It's mediocre, not a shitpile" assessment. What the gently caress happened here!? Is it like Dark Souls PC where they shipped it with a forced low-res mode? Or did they literally strip everything out for no apparent reason?
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Gutcruncher posted:People keep bringing up good Aliens games, a more recent one being Infestation for DS. It's heavily inspired by Metroid, which was heavily inspired by Aliens. It doesn't really play much like Metroid and is honestly kind of boring. There's little sense of progression and 90% of the marines are worthless unless you intentionally die to recruit them. Still is way way better than A:CM.
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pixelbaron posted:
It's always good to see more people playing AvP2 these da- 
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pixelbaron posted:
Hoooooly poo poo 
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pixelbaron posted:
Oh, hi textures from 2002, where have you been all these years!
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pixelbaron posted:
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