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ElectricSheep posted:This is reaching a bit back but worth mentioning: man I really need to play Isolation. gently caress it I'm telling Steam to pull it down, let's do this Dead Space hosed me up, something about the tension, pacing, atmosphere... I dunno, it kinda felt like it could've been a spiritual Alien game. I could only play like a half hour at a time lol e. it helped that I was playing it on my projector, with all the lights off, and my surround sound cranked
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Julius CSAR posted:Isolation is waaaay different than dead space. It is in fact, scary as all hell Donovan Trip posted:I'm pretty sturdy on scary stuff but isolation is almost too intense to even exist I'm not very far in yet getting power turned on in the room full of body bags and it's unnerving already also The UI / presentation of this game is so incredibly on point, and it's reeeeally pretty, mostly I play retro games or older games so it's nice to see something that's pushing my system it said to play on hard for the right experience, was that a mistake
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CelticPredator posted:It also picks up the sound on your mic if you’re using that. So you can actually call the alien to your location by saying whatever you want or farting that owns
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Pennywise the Frown posted:
yeah that's always been my thought about how to effectively use them as a weapon or like, if the target is a space station, just send over a transport / cargo ship full of them or something you'd need a way to kill them or pacify them when you're done though, if you wanted to actually get anything out of the place when they were done, but let's not let that little detail stop us
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Yeah either two things imo. Go in and sweep up, killing all of the xenomorphs. Or maybe they get them so well trained that they can recover them. Knowing Weyland-Yutani.... they'd just kill them all. Yeeeep. I was thinking, find some way to breed them with some kind of vulnerability to... something, like gas maybe, so you could just fumigate 'em. Though saying that, I think an even better idea would to breed them with defects that would cause super short life spans after maturity. I mean, they don't really need to live long, and if the first wave dies before the target is neutralized, send another and another. If they have a biological timebomb in them, the problem fixes itself over time. (until it doesn't work right, and we end up sending a plucky crew of badass warriors in to kill the mutated immortal alien)
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welp just had my first death in Isolation waited a bit too long in the transit car looking around. That scared the poo poo out of me and this owns I was like why is the music getting all tense? Is there going to be something scary in the transit car? It got there and nope, empty, so I think oh lol the game was faking me out, I'll just look at the magazines wait what is that souOH gently caress OH GOD
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Okay so I didn't make it much farther in Isolation looking for the chip to fix the door hacker-thingy but I have some questions about mechanics of the game: Tell me how the scavengers work. Do they just roam freely? I ended up hopping the transit car to the reactor looking for the chip, searched around the reactor area for a while, and came back to find a group of scavengers in the transit area preventing me from going back to where I was before (essentially trapping me in the reactor area). I tried to figure a way around them, couldn't, doubled back to the reactor thinking there may've been a hatch or something I missed, didn't find one, and came back to find the scavengers had moved to another room, unfortunately closer to me, so I couldn't get back to the transit area at all. All I have right now is the wrench thing still, no way to shoot them, and no apparent way to have sneaked around them - is it possible to just hide and wait for them to leave? Given enough time, will they on their own? I was also thinking about my encounter last night and it owns in retrospect. I was doing a dumb video game thing just idly looking around the environment and dragging my rear end despite something really loving bad happening which should've made me panic and run away and I got killed for it. I love it also there is no fuckin way I will ever play this game in VR lmao
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Speaking (kinda) of visuals, I was thinkin' today about aesthetics and technology in movies and their sequels, specifically sci-fi movies. One of the things that stood out to me in Blade Runner 2049 is how they kept the same "style" to the technology as the original film. No attempt was made to retcon what 2018 people think 2049 tech will look like, they kept on the same trajectory as the original. CRT screens, clunky/awkward looking hardware, whatever. I loved this poo poo, I went kind of nuts for it and my wife probably thought it was being dumb, but I love that kind of internal consistency and real dedication to detail and to the universe that's being extended. I feel the same way about Isolation, with its CRT screens, low-res text interfaces, etc. I can't imagine how much more work went into building that aesthetic for the ships' systems' UI than if they'd just made clean, "modern" digital interfaces without the interference or other signature stuff from the movies. I love that they went as far as to extend it into the game UI itself, even. The second the super low-res 20th Century Fox logo came up the first time, I just grinned. Same with the loading screens with the "looks like a recording of an 80s CRT TV" imagery. It just all fits so loving well and really does a lot to make me think "I am experiencing a story in the Alien universe". I also suck tremendously at this game and I'm turning the difficulty down. I am too conditioned to play first person games with a "kill everything that wants me dead" attitude, and it suuuure isn't working now! still stuck where I was. After trying a few times to distract the people and move around them, and getting shot by stragglers who didn't take the bait, I looked up a spoiler-less guide to dealing with the lobby. It said to move upstairs immediately after getting the Access Tuner and go counter-clockwise around the upper area until they wander off... which kind of worked, except one hung back. I thought, okay cool, I have a wrench / hammer, he has a soft skull, no biggie. I whacked him when he came around a corner, and his buddies immediately went into high alert and ventilated me, lmao. It also didn't let me pick up his pistol, which was laying right next to his body, which I thought was dumb, kinda. Even if it's not a run and gun shooter, having a gun would be kinda advantageous I think. A "hold up" mechanic or "scare people off" mechanic would be neat, or just firing it off to attract the resident people eater to do my dirty work I like that this game is really definitely not an FPS game. I also like how I can restart missions!
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Beet Wagon posted:This isn’t much of a spoiler but for what it’s worth you’re literally about to pick up a pistol you will end up never using cause using it is way worse than not using it Ha, good to know. Yeah, as soon as I got mad that I couldn't do it, I was like "but, yeah, maybe I don't really want to..." Pennywise the Frown posted:This was a huge thing that bothered me with Prometheus and Covenant. Visually, it looks like they have more advanced technology that in all of the other movies. I mean, come on we're on a timeline here. It would have made it much more gritty and less clean if they used CRT and other older poo poo. Make the movie what it is. A prequel. Back in time. Before the other movies were made with their advanced technology. Ugh. Yes! Exactly! Pay attention to the world you are making a prequel or sequel of, and put the loving effort into doing it right. It means so much when it's done right, and when it isn't, it just cheapens the entire thing, and makes the movie / game look like a shallow, rushed cash-in attempt. I still haven't seen Prometheus, and I doubt I ever will based on what I've heard about it. I had super high hopes when I heard about it, because I love expansion of the Alien universe (I had so many of the comics growing up), but... meh.  Same for Covenant. Just... ehhhh.e. Julius CSAR posted:They actually hired the guy who did all the industrial design work on the original film to do the same for Isolation with a very specific order to keep the tech looking similar. If you're having trouble following the waypoint marker on the motion tracker, just look up and read all the signs around you, they are actually designed to be followed. Ha, that owns. And it shows. This is how you do a continuation of a universe right, you bring in the people who built the stuff in the first place.
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Jst0rm posted:cool. Yeah alien 3 has grown on me over the years. The biggest problem with this thing is stuff like the alien pepsi commercial. Like you know the thing is in bad hands when they let that happen. And the people who let that happen probably hacked up finchers original vision. I would like to see Fincher's original vision of the Pepsi commercial
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fcc compliant bob posted:Easily makes my top 10 (ish) movies list. James Cameron being the sequel master. I still wonder what he has in store for the next 3 Avatar sequels. Alien vs Avatar when
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oh man seeing the alien toys again  I had the bigass EVAC ship too and the power loader gently caress those toys were so good  that new scorpion alien owns e. and old version Apone's grenade things were this weird rubbery material lol
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Xenomrph posted:I posted this offer in the Alien thread in CineD, and I figure I’ll extend it here. Totally down for this!
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Adhemar posted:They also had to do it for the chess gag; “queen takes bishop”. lmao
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Linux Pirate posted:Sent mine last night. You rule Xenomrph Hell yeah, same. This is cool and you're doing Vim Fuego posted:Done! Well, hmm. Perhaps extremely citrus, from how acidic their blood is?   They look like they're all shell, tendons and weird poo poo / guts. Maybe a decent broth from boiling the shell?
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Leon Einstein posted:The new Blade Runner is amazing. A worthy sequel imo. The original is like sacred poo poo to me so I headed into the new one ready to have my heart broken, but, uh, yeah it's really loving good
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I;m thinking about thos Aliens.
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Shoot, forgot to mention, I got my comic too! Thank you, Xenomrph, I can't wait to be disgusted and horrified!
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I;m still thinking about thos aliens CBN_Shaggy posted:EDIT: I loving love thinking about them Aliens.
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MarcusSA posted:
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Sid Vicious posted:I made this a set of pictures of my daughter being spooky and scary and it fits the thread lol you're a good dad sid
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Pissed Ape Sexist posted:I feel like that's both the correct take and an unanswerable question, duder. We live in the sad times of cash-outs and unlimited cheap CGI. This is entirely true, which is why I am still shocked Blade Runner 2049 turned out as incredible as it did.
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Djeser posted:I'll check it out, since I apparently had some free Kindle credit and I needed to learn how to put Kindle books on my Nook anyway. Slight derail: Dunno about the Nook, but for ebook conversion / management for my Kindle I love Calibre. There's even a plugin for stripping DRM off of various formats (I use it for loading Google Play Books I've purchased onto it).
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etalian posted:looks like they made a Aliens anime lol Ha! I watched this like a month ago and kept meaning to post about it and entirely forgot, so thank you It's funny because I heard about it from someone talking about super violent and gory anime, but... eh. It had a few moments, but I've seen far worse. I liked the plot though, and the soundtrack is good!
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Android Apocalypse posted:Aliens is on Viceland right now. My wife and I were watching TV earlier, I noticed this, and she flipped right past it. does anyone know a good divorce lawyer
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Jay_Zombie posted:Fixed. Lmao I am sincerely mad at myself I didn't think of this
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I always thought it was a reference to Guns n Roses. lmao
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Yeah this. It's a great game, and I bought it when it looked like 3DR and Voidpoint were going to remove the garbage that made it in, and when they flipped and sold out to the precious delicate manchildren, it was too late for a refund. Definitely  it though, again it's a lot of fun and a really solid game. The developers / 3D Realms just don't deserve a dime for it.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I'm throwing in my vote for Sarah Connor.
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It warms my heart to know they put so much detail into Mad About You figures off to try to find the limited edition Power Armor Helen Hunt on ebay
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Fister Roboto posted:From the meme thread: lmao
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I love that we're having this discussion on The Sex Number page
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9Z01xBot0E
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Xenomrph posted:I just got this in the mail and holy loving poo poo is it good. It’s WAY more comprehensive than I expected it to be. that's cool as hell, onto the wishlist it goes! e. Also was browsing Etsy the other day and found these, which are amazing and I'm thinking about buying them to put on everything I own: https://www.etsy.com/listing/735386257/alien-weyland-yutani-asset-tag-sticker?ref=hp_rv-5&frs=1
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Tumble posted:Super-rare behind-the-scenes pictures of costume trials for the original 'Alien' oh my god that owns adult size pattern pls
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Drunken Baker posted:Thinking too hard about alien cum, I know. But if this isn't the thread for it, then what is? new title please
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I'd like to thank this thread for making me spend entirely too long today thinking about boiling a xenomorph like a lobster, cracking it open and
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