Quote from: Gigers Alien on Apr 03, 2014, 05:58:13 PM
Does anyone else think Aliens: Colonial Marines is a vastly underrated game? Sure, it ended up being almost nothing like the tech demos that were shown (which made me angry) but I still think it does a good job as an Aliens experience.
The game is amazing. It follows lore very closely from all the mediums that are excepted as canon. I loved the story and the environment that Winter had to survive traveling through.
One other reason I love this game because it hows both the humans and Aliens at the prime or close to it with no reasons to hold back.
This leads to my point that it also shows how bad ass aliens are, not that the humans weren't they were cool. Following the lore as well as they did they included the bio-imperative adaptive capabilities.
This is the sole reason why having a Army of humans who are entrenched and have a effective kill zone with air support will not win most the time if the aliens have adapted. You end up with aliens like the crusher that has no problem with 20mm Gatling blasting it in the head, you have Ravagers which evolved just for straight forward heavy combat and siege warfare. Most air support would probably be ineffective against Ravagers. And their a lot more than are just as heavily armored and designed for heavy combat.
And then theirs the Aliens long range capabilities that the humans, or any advanced alien, would have to worry about. The many different types of Ranger Alien is one example. Going by lore in the ACM the Rangers were deployed to deal with a USCM sniper and he was the first victim of this type of alien out of the Marines as well.
To top it off, the Aliens kick the crap out of both human armies on LV_426 although we don't have the numbers for WY mercs we know their were two Marine Battalions sent to LV-426 that is up to 2,000 Marines max and only three and and a android survived. I am not counting Hicks because he was not part of those Battalions.