Aliens: Colonial Marines - The Best game from Gearbox since DNF

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Shirkelton: Apr 6, 2009; I'm not loyal to anything, General... except the dream.

MUFFlNS posted:

It's not a bug. There's a ~sewer level~ where there's all these weird shambling zombie xenomorphs that track you by sound because they can't see you (the developers obviously didn't notice that the xenomorphs in the movies didn't have eyes...) so you walk around slowly while these zombies get up and wander around randomly.

The objective is to flick these switches that turn machines on and make noise to distract them, right? So then they hear the noise, run towards it in a neat line and explode one after the other. There's no explanation given as to why they randomly commit suicide by exploding.

I wish I was making this poo poo up

Now I'm laughing harder

# ? Feb 11, 2013 13:09

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# ? Apr 27, 2024 21:33

Kilometers Davis: Jul 9, 2007; They begin again

MUFFlNS posted:

It's not a bug. There's a ~sewer level~ where there's all these weird shambling zombie xenomorphs that track you by sound because they can't see you (the developers obviously didn't notice that the xenomorphs in the movies didn't have eyes...) so you walk around slowly while these zombies get up and wander around randomly.

The objective is to flick these switches that turn machines on and make noise to distract them, right? So then they hear the noise, run towards it in a neat line and explode one after the other. There's no explanation given as to why they randomly commit suicide by exploding.

I wish I was making this poo poo up

I'm a huge Alien game apologist but

hahahahahahahahaha

# ? Feb 11, 2013 13:17

Carecat: Apr 27, 2004; Buglord

The CD keys in the retail box are backwards :downs:

The code on the slip for limited edition content is the game and the manual is the LE DLC. If they have hosed that up in the regular version some people are going to have a fun time!

Also the Steam store claims the game is available even though it's not.

# ? Feb 11, 2013 13:27

Lord Frankenstyle: Dec 3, 2005; Mmmm,
You smell like Lysol Wipes.

Batham posted:

Bwahaha. It'd be better if this was a bug, because knowing the "why" actually makes it worse. The only money Gearbox is gonna make off of this is if Sega gives them a kickback, because the only game this one has convinced me to buy is AVP 2010.

I hope it's modable, because that Xeno seriously needs a walker and a "Git offa my lawn" voice over.

Lord Frankenstyle fucked around with this message at 13:56 on Feb 11, 2013

# ? Feb 11, 2013 13:44

Hezzy: Dec 4, 2004; Pillbug

MUFFlNS posted:

It's not a bug. There's a ~sewer level~ where there's all these weird shambling zombie xenomorphs that track you by sound because they can't see you (the developers obviously didn't notice that the xenomorphs in the movies didn't have eyes...) so you walk around slowly while these zombies get up and wander around randomly.

The objective is to flick these switches that turn machines on and make noise to distract them, right? So then they hear the noise, run towards it in a neat line and explode one after the other. There's no explanation given as to why they randomly commit suicide by exploding.

I wish I was making this poo poo up

oh what

# ? Feb 11, 2013 13:45

Caecitas: Sep 23, 2012; Dare ye pick the wizard?

Im getting that also Cat. In the UK at least it says its released on the 11th now, with no time fore release.

# ? Feb 11, 2013 13:47

Batham: Jun 19, 2010; _{Cluster bombing from B-52s is very, very accurate. The bombs are guaranteed to always hit the ground.}

MUFFlNS posted:

It's not a bug. There's a ~sewer level~ where there's all these weird shambling zombie xenomorphs that track you by sound because they can't see you (the developers obviously didn't notice that the xenomorphs in the movies didn't have eyes...) so you walk around slowly while these zombies get up and wander around randomly.

The objective is to flick these switches that turn machines on and make noise to distract them, right? So then they hear the noise, run towards it in a neat line and explode one after the other. There's no explanation given as to why they randomly commit suicide by exploding.

I wish I was making this poo poo up

I image them looking like this when coming up with this bullshit;

# ? Feb 11, 2013 13:53

ReV VAdAUL: Oct 3, 2004; I'm WILD about
WILDMAN

Batham posted:

I image them looking like this when coming up with this bullshit;

Is there any way to contact this self proclaimed "most knowledgeable about aliens there is" guy and ask him how certain kind of Xenomorphs are blind when none of them have eyes?

# ? Feb 11, 2013 13:57

Karnegal: Dec 24, 2005; Is it... safe?

ReV VAdAUL posted:

Is there any way to contact this self proclaimed "most knowledgeable about aliens there is" guy and ask him how certain kind of Xenomorphs are blind when none of them have eyes?

Well clearly he's accounting for the hybrid in Resurrection, which had obvious eyes :smug:

# ? Feb 11, 2013 14:08

InsanityIsCrazy: Jan 25, 2003; by Lowtax

^^^ bastard!

ReV VAdAUL posted:

Is there any way to contact this self proclaimed "most knowledgeable about aliens there is" guy and ask him how certain kind of Xenomorphs are blind when none of them have eyes?

See, stuff like this shouldn't even bother you.

Because this.

That's canon.

# ? Feb 11, 2013 14:10

Shyfted One: May 9, 2008

ReV VAdAUL posted:

Is there any way to contact this self proclaimed "most knowledgeable about aliens there is" guy and ask him how certain kind of Xenomorphs are blind when none of them have eyes?

Just found him on twitter. He's a smart man. He left for a cruise yesterday and won't be online/around for the launch.

# ? Feb 11, 2013 14:10

Heti: May 22, 2007; I like Video Games

InsanityIsCrazy posted:

^^^ bastard!

See, stuff like this shouldn't even bother you.

Because this.

That's canon.

is that a vagina.

# ? Feb 11, 2013 14:11

happyhippy: Feb 21, 2005; Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup; Pillbug

They were blinded by the nuke. drat you Ripley, causing suffering everywhere you go.

The first Alien in alien did have eye sockets, implying eyes of a sort. But it was hard to see them in the film. Or they made the 'canopy' of the head darker for the film so they weren't visible.

# ? Feb 11, 2013 14:11

Lassitude: Oct 21, 2003

Heti posted:

is that a vagina.

Also tits.

# ? Feb 11, 2013 14:14

Iacen: Mar 19, 2009; Si vis pacem, para bellum

Heti posted:

is that a vagina.

Lassitude posted:

Also tits.

I wish I hadn't seen that picture.

# ? Feb 11, 2013 14:24

pixelbaron: Mar 18, 2009; ~ Notice me, Shempai! ~

Iacen posted:

I wish I hadn't seen that picture.

I wish I hadn't seen that movie.

# ? Feb 11, 2013 14:26

Batham: Jun 19, 2010; _{Cluster bombing from B-52s is very, very accurate. The bombs are guaranteed to always hit the ground.}

Originally they were going to give it a giant phallus. :shepface:

# ? Feb 11, 2013 14:27

Shirkelton: Apr 6, 2009; I'm not loyal to anything, General... except the dream.

The hybrid owns. Sigourney Weaver wanted to gently caress that thing.

# ? Feb 11, 2013 14:29

pixelbaron: Mar 18, 2009; ~ Notice me, Shempai! ~

Didn't she try to get a sex scene with an alien in pretty much every film and everyone was like "What the hell..."

# ? Feb 11, 2013 14:30

New Concept Hole: Oct 10, 2012; 東方動的

Dan Didio posted:

The hybrid owns. Sigourney Weaver wanted to gently caress that thing.

Sigouney Weaver will do anything for money.

Anything.

\/\/\/\/\/\/ Movies? There was just the one movie and I won't be hearing otherwise. :shepicide:

New Concept Hole fucked around with this message at 14:34 on Feb 11, 2013

# ? Feb 11, 2013 14:31

Batham: Jun 19, 2010; _{Cluster bombing from B-52s is very, very accurate. The bombs are guaranteed to always hit the ground.}

pixelbaron posted:

Didn't she try to get a sex scene with an alien in pretty much every film and everyone was like "What the hell..."

No, no, no. You do not get to destroy some of my favorite movies.

# ? Feb 11, 2013 14:32

Zzulu: May 15, 2009; (â°ËvËâ°)

She wanted a more explicit scene in Alien 4 (terrible movie by the way!), but we got that scene of the alien carrying her "sensually" instead, where's she's kind of snuggling it

# ? Feb 11, 2013 14:33

THE AWESOME GHOST: Oct 21, 2005

pixelbaron posted:

Didn't she try to get a sex scene with an alien in pretty much every film and everyone was like "What the hell..."

Haha what the hell is there a source on this

# ? Feb 11, 2013 14:34

Shirkelton: Apr 6, 2009; I'm not loyal to anything, General... except the dream.

pixelbaron posted:

Didn't she try to get a sex scene with an alien in pretty much every film and everyone was like "What the hell..."

It was specifically Alien: Ressurection. I don't know why that's the line everyone balks at in those movies.

# ? Feb 11, 2013 14:36

MUFFlNS: Mar 7, 2004

Zzulu posted:

She wanted a more explicit scene in Alien 4 (terrible movie by the way!), but we got that scene of the alien carrying her "sensually" instead, where's she's kind of snuggling it

Yeah, that was the compromise where they basically said "We'll meet you halfway" and that was the result.

They should have let David Lynch or David Cronenberg handle Alien 4.

# ? Feb 11, 2013 14:36

Lord Frankenstyle: Dec 3, 2005; Mmmm,
You smell like Lysol Wipes.

Batham posted:

Originally they were going to give it a giant phallus.

I've seen better shots of the actual sculpt for that. The finished product was even more clear that the giant phallus is penetrating it's own stomach vagina. They actually made an appliance for the finished suit to cover it up, since the producers were like "Awww, Hell no".

It was such a great metaphor for that whole films "Go gently caress yourself" message.

# ? Feb 11, 2013 14:37

pixelbaron: Mar 18, 2009; ~ Notice me, Shempai! ~

THE AWESOME GHOST posted:

Haha what the hell is there a source on this

Nah, I am just being a dick.

I think the first Alien they wanted to have her killed and have it be kind of sexual how she dies but then they changed it because of filming constraints. And then yeah like has already been said, she wanted to have something sexual in Alien: Resurrection and they met her halfway.

# ? Feb 11, 2013 14:40

rizuhbull: Mar 30, 2011

Speaking of the sewer level...

Least it looks pretty, but that's probably only because it's so dark with contrasting lights.
Also how are y'all deciding what is and isn't cannon? Ripley, Cameron, O'Bannon, Hill, Fincher, etc. Every movie has had a completely different development crew aside from Weaver, the guy who plays the alien, and a writer or two. Giger's artwork is changed and altered by the crew every time too.

quote:

It was such a great metaphor for that whole films "Go gently caress yourself" message.

I don't think it was intentional. At least half the poo poo he makes ends up loving itself.
:nws:

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/3e/58/b9f6224128a0514279b96010.L.jpg

# ? Feb 11, 2013 14:47

Xenomrph: Dec 9, 2005; AvP Nerd/Fanboy/Shill

ReV VAdAUL posted:

Is there any way to contact this self proclaimed "most knowledgeable about aliens there is" guy and ask him how certain kind of Xenomorphs are blind when none of them have eyes?

Aliens don't have eyes in the conventional eyeball sense, but they can still see in the visible light spectrum - we get a ton of fisheye lens Alien POV shots in 'Alien3'.

Dan Didio posted:

It was specifically Alien: Ressurection. I don't know why that's the line everyone balks at in those movies.

She actually wanted an Alien sex scene as far back as 'Aliens', and James Cameron locked that poo poo down and said "hell no".

# ? Feb 11, 2013 14:54

pixelbaron: Mar 18, 2009; ~ Notice me, Shempai! ~

Giger's Necronomicon makes a good coffee table book.

# ? Feb 11, 2013 14:55

InsanityIsCrazy: Jan 25, 2003; by Lowtax

Zzulu posted:

She wanted a more explicit scene in Alien 4 (terrible movie by the way!), but we got that scene of the alien carrying her "sensually" instead, where's she's kind of snuggling it

it was actually a big ol' xeno orgy under the grating in that scene.

Wish I could forget it :smith:

# ? Feb 11, 2013 14:58

The Gunslinger: Jul 24, 2004; Do not forget the face of your father.; Fun Shoe

Anyone have that sewer GIF from the last page? I think it got taken down, I wanted to show some friends the comedy.

# ? Feb 11, 2013 15:01

InsanityIsCrazy: Jan 25, 2003; by Lowtax

Xenomrph posted:

She actually wanted an Alien sex scene as far back as 'Aliens', and James Cameron locked that poo poo down and said "hell no".

Funny. In the first film Lambert was supposed to die of shock, yet instead gets offcamera raped. Guess such a scene was too irky for Cameron to handle.

# ? Feb 11, 2013 15:04

InsanityIsCrazy: Jan 25, 2003; by Lowtax

rizuhbull posted:

Speaking of the sewer level...

Least it looks pretty, but that's probably only because it's so dark with contrasting lights.
Also how are y'all deciding what is and isn't cannon?

Pretty sure Fox made some kind of blanket "Its ALL canon" statement regarding the movies...

and the comic books...

and the games...

and pretty much everything related to the franchise :psyduck:

Xeno would know more than me, though.

# ? Feb 11, 2013 15:08

Lord Frankenstyle: Dec 3, 2005; Mmmm,
You smell like Lysol Wipes.

rizuhbull posted:

I don't think it was intentional.

Yeah it was. Somewhere in the bucket of extras on the Bluray set they talk about the director specifically asking for the penis/vagina stomach design. I seem to recall it was somebody on the production crew aping Giger though, and not actually his design.

I can't believe I was bored enough to have watched the extras for that though.

As far as the "canon" goes, eh...I dunno. In the extras there are a few guys who worked on making the earlier films who actively opposed Resurrection and were pushing Fox execs not to make it. I forget exactly who though, and I'm not bored enough to actually look at this point in my life.

# ? Feb 11, 2013 15:25

ImpAtom: May 24, 2007

Batham posted:

I...well...you know...well...euhm.

That's some really scary stuff Gearbox made.

Aww, lookit the cute widdle alien. He's learning to walk for the first time. What a good alien. :3:

# ? Feb 11, 2013 15:33

Mouser..: Apr 1, 2010

My favorite thing is that someone at Gearbox thought "Hey, know what would be a loving awesome attachment for the guns? Mother. loving. Silencers"

Apparently nobody passed on the memo that there would never be a single reason in this game to have a silencer equipped but hey, those CoD players gotta have all the options for their sweet weapon setups.

# ? Feb 11, 2013 15:50

Utnayan: Sep 26, 2002; PROUD MEMBER OF THE RAPIST DEFENSE BRIGADE! DO NOT BE MEAN TO RAPISTS, OR I WILL VOTE FOR THEM WITH EVER INCREASING VIGOR!

Just saw this.

quote:

Aliens: Colonial Marines, developed by Gearbox Software and published by Sega, is the latest title to be added to the list of Alien-inspired games - but does it live up to all the hype that was created before release? (Aliens: Colonial Marines, PS3, Xbox 360)

7.9/10

Update
The local distributor in South Africa failed to inform the media that there is actually a review embargo on Colonial Marines. I had to pull the review, but it will be back up in a couple of hours.

Yet he leaves the score up.

They must be really trying to protect their pre-orders at this point.

(I am still buying it anyway)

# ? Feb 11, 2013 16:02

AHungryRobot: Oct 12, 2012

pixelbaron posted:

Didn't she try to get a sex scene with an alien in pretty much every film and everyone was like "What the hell..."

Well that definitely puts Sigourney Weaver in a different light.

You know, I think there's something to the statement, "ignorance is bliss"

:negative:

# ? Feb 11, 2013 16:19

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# ? Apr 27, 2024 21:33

pixelbaron: Mar 18, 2009; ~ Notice me, Shempai! ~

Apparently there is no host migration or anything for this game. So, if you're steamrolling the host or he doesn't like playing as an alien welp back to the multiplayer screen you go.

# ? Feb 11, 2013 16:55

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