Predator - Stalking Shadows by James A Moore

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SpaceKase

Quote from: PAS Spinelli on Jul 27, 2020, 12:09:16 AM
Quote from: Stitch on Jul 26, 2020, 08:14:34 PM
Quote from: PAS Spinelli on Jul 26, 2020, 05:55:47 PM
Yes but the book is meant to bridge all movies to the game
According to whom? I've never heard that to be the case, and the blurb doesn't say that.
Also, I might be wrong but I don't recall Predators being mentioned (possibly because it took place on another planet). By that reasoning, it removes that movie from current canon as well.
This official prequel novel leads into the new PlayStation®4 video game from IllFonic. PREDATOR: STALKING SHADOWS is the bridge between Predator 2 and the current day continuity.
Also they mention a huge blackout on 2010 with the Predator tech, could be referencing Predators, who knows

Well that is interesting, what is the source for this snippet? And who are "they" and where do they mention a blackout in 2010?

PAS Spinelli

Quote from: SpaceKase on Jul 27, 2020, 12:55:39 AM
Quote from: PAS Spinelli on Jul 27, 2020, 12:09:16 AM
Quote from: Stitch on Jul 26, 2020, 08:14:34 PM
Quote from: PAS Spinelli on Jul 26, 2020, 05:55:47 PM
Yes but the book is meant to bridge all movies to the game
According to whom? I've never heard that to be the case, and the blurb doesn't say that.
Also, I might be wrong but I don't recall Predators being mentioned (possibly because it took place on another planet). By that reasoning, it removes that movie from current canon as well.
This official prequel novel leads into the new PlayStation®4 video game from IllFonic. PREDATOR: STALKING SHADOWS is the bridge between Predator 2 and the current day continuity.
Also they mention a huge blackout on 2010 with the Predator tech, could be referencing Predators, who knows

Well that is interesting, what is the source for this snippet? And who are "they" and where do they mention a blackout in 2010?
This snipped is in the synopsis listed on Amazon
They being either the book or the tapes, they, gotta check it later, I remember someone talking to me about it but I wasn't paying attention haha
I'll try finding it tomorrow

SpaceKase

SpaceKase

#167
Quote from: PAS Spinelli on Jul 27, 2020, 01:21:56 AM
Quote from: SpaceKase on Jul 27, 2020, 12:55:39 AM
Well that is interesting, what is the source for this snippet? And who are "they" and where do they mention a blackout in 2010?
This snipped is in the synopsis listed on Amazon
They being either the book or the tapes, they, gotta check it later, I remember someone talking to me about it but I wasn't paying attention haha
I'll try finding it tomorrow

Ah! I think you might be referring to the Pred tech surge described in the May 24th 2010 OWLF Recording #18. The writing is kinda weird for those recordings, but Keyes is describing an incident that occurred shortly after Dutch's run-in with the female Predator in early March of 2008, where he got his face scars. It may come up again in a future DLC, I hope it will, but as-is it's just a weird and ambiguous reference. That is, of course, if this is indeed what you might be thinking of. But I could be wrong.

PAS Spinelli

Quote from: SpaceKase on Jul 27, 2020, 05:50:39 AM
Quote from: PAS Spinelli on Jul 27, 2020, 01:21:56 AM
Quote from: SpaceKase on Jul 27, 2020, 12:55:39 AM
Well that is interesting, what is the source for this snippet? And who are "they" and where do they mention a blackout in 2010?
This snipped is in the synopsis listed on Amazon
They being either the book or the tapes, they, gotta check it later, I remember someone talking to me about it but I wasn't paying attention haha
I'll try finding it tomorrow

Ah! I think you might be referring to the Pred tech surge described in the May 24th 2010 OWLF Recording #18. The writing is kinda weird for those recordings, but Keyes is describing an incident that occurred shortly after Dutch's run-in with the female Predator in early March of 2008, where he got his face scars. It may come up again in a future DLC, I hope it will, but as-is it's just a weird and ambiguous reference. That is, of course, if this is indeed what you might be thinking of. But I could be wrong.
That's probably it, I wonder if it has something to do with Predators, we may know in the future, maybe we'll get a Royce update with audio logs too lmao

lightsyder

I've not played Hunting Grounds but a DLC with a Super Predator encounter would be cool.  Maybe add the hunting planet as a map.  Player team is captured and dropped off.  Be neat, also good way to the in some extra lore updates!

PAS Spinelli

Quote from: lightsyder on Jul 27, 2020, 04:49:42 PM
I've not played Hunting Grounds but a DLC with a Super Predator encounter would be cool.  Maybe add the hunting planet as a map.  Player team is captured and dropped off.  Be neat, also good way to the in some extra lore updates!
2010 Berserker is in the files so we might be getting that son

Corporal Hicks


SpaceKase

Nice! Checking it out right now! Thanks!

Tichinde

listening to the audible dramatization while I mow grass. Really like what this book is doing with dutch and keys, just wanted to drop by and say that.

SpaceKase

Halfway through the youtube vers and Voodoo is cracking me up detailing Ellison supposed assassination plan for Dutch, two Hillbilly's and a transient, man. I guess that's all they had in the mib's assassination budget.

j0nesy

j0nesy

#175
i just have to give voodoo a shout-out for his pronunciation of hicks' and my name; so often, people pronounce it "air-on"  :P

Voodoo Magic

Quote from: SpaceKase on Jul 28, 2020, 01:47:50 AM
Halfway through the youtube vers and Voodoo is cracking me up detailing Ellison supposed assassination plan for Dutch, two Hillbilly's and a transient, man. I guess that's all they had in the mib's assassination budget.

Haha, I still feel guilty over some technical problems I was having so I'm glad I could create some laughs. But I know, right? Ellison can't put a sniper somewhere on a roof ready for Dutch to leave the bar? Instead he hires a homeless man? Maybe we should just be happy he was trying to give the homeless employment.   :laugh:

Quote from: j0nesy on Jul 28, 2020, 10:06:56 PM
i just have to give voodoo a shout-out for his pronunciation of hicks' and my name; so often, people pronounce it "air-on"  :P

lol , appreciate it. I guess my English teacher deserves the credit for that one. :)

Samhain13

Quote from: SpaceKase on Jul 26, 2020, 11:07:03 PM
If you're a crazy pants, like me, and you want some chronological context here's a smattering of events in chronological order with the game specific media in italics...

1987.0000      Predator
1987.0912   Dutch Recordings   Debriefing
1991.0408   Dutch Recordings   Folklore
1992.0627   Dutch Recordings   Patience
1996.0223   OWLF Recordings - Sean Keyes   1 – Onboarding
1996.0303   Dutch Recordings   Hades
1996.1203   OWLF Recordings - Sean Keyes   2 – Research
1997.0212   OWLF Recordings - Sean Keyes   3 – Development
1997.0702   OWLF Recordings - Sean Keyes   4 – Los Angeles

1997.0702      Predator 2
1997.0708   OWLF Recordings - Sean Keyes   5 – Go Time
1997.0708   Stalking Shadows   Prologue Los Angeles
1997.0709   Stalking Shadows   Chapter 01
1997.0710   OWLF Recordings - Sean Keyes   6 – Aftermath
1997.0710   OWLF Recordings - Sean Keyes   7 – Meeting Dutch
1997.0711   OWLF Recordings - Sean Keyes   8 – Benefactors
1997.0921   OWLF Recordings - Sean Keyes   9 – Helmet and Arm
1997.1012   Dutch Recordings   Strange Bedfellows
1997.1201   OWLF Recordings - Sean Keyes   10 – Technological Finds
1998.0312   OWLF Recordings - Sean Keyes   11 – Dutch and Team Dispatched
1998.0409   Stalking Shadows   Chapter 02

1998.0914      Predator - Homeworld
1999.0000      AvP - e. Old Secrets
1999.0319   OWLF Recordings - Sean Keyes   12 – Plasma Caster
2000.0101   Stalking Shadows   Chapter 03
2000.0401   Stalking Shadows   Chapter 04
2001.0404   OWLF Recordings - Sean Keyes   13 – Close Encounter
2002.0900   Stalking Shadows   Chapter 05 - 3rd Wk of Sept

2004.0000      Alien vs Predator [Film]
2004.0900   Stalking Shadows   Chapter 06 - 1st wk of Sept      
2004.1027   OWLF Recordings - Sean Keyes   14 – A Body

2005.0829      Predator - If It Bleeds - e. Storm Blood
2005.0900   Stalking Shadows   Chapter 07 - 1st wk of Sept
2006.0500   Stalking Shadows   Chapter 08 - 3rd wk of May

2007.0000      AvP - Sand Trap
2007.0708   OWLF Recordings - Sean Keyes   15 – Anniversary
2007.1200   Stalking Shadows   Chapter 09 - 2nd wk of Dec
2008.0303   Dutch Recordings   Napolean
2008.0310   OWLF Recordings - Sean Keyes   16 – Dutch's Run In
2008.1117   OWLF Recordings - Sean Keyes   17 – Recovery
2010.0524   OWLF Recordings - Sean Keyes   18 – Calm
2011.0700   Stalking Shadows   Chapter 10 - 2nd wk of July
2013.0700   Stalking Shadows   Chapter 11 - 1st wk of July
2013.0800   Stalking Shadows   Chapter 12 - 1st wk of Aug
2015.0303   OWLF Recordings - Sean Keyes   19 – Funding Issues
2016.0829   OWLF Recordings - Sean Keyes   20 – Stargazer Final entry

2016.1027      Predator - Hunter and Hunted
2017.0000      Predator - If It Bleeds - c. Rematch
2017.0000      Predator - Hunters
2017.0000      Predator - Hunters II
2017.0000      Predator - Hunters III
2018.0000      The Predator
2018.0113   Dutch Recordings   Stargazer
2019.0000      Predator - If It Bleeds - Tin Warrior
2022.0000      Predator - If It Bleeds - n. Drug War
2023.0800   Stalking Shadows   Epilogue Ten Years Later
2024.0000      AvP - Eternal
2025.0400      Predator - Hunting Grounds
2025.0730   Dutch Recordings   Still Hunting

2030.0000      Predator - Concrete Jungle (Eurocom, PS2 Xbox game)
         
But keep in mind, the DLC's are still coming out, so who knows what new lore is still coming down the pipe. I personally really want to know about this Big Mama yaut that branded Dutch's face, I have a feeling we haven't heard the last of her.

That's nice. Thanks.

Stitch

Quote from: Tichinde on Jul 27, 2020, 10:45:35 PM
listening to the audible dramatization while I mow grass. Really like what this book is doing with dutch and keys, just wanted to drop by and say that.
I just listened to the sample. Er... Hmm. That's an interesting Arnie impression. Sounds more like Udo Kier.

SpaceKase

Quote from: Stitch on Jul 29, 2020, 01:30:36 AM
Quote from: Tichinde on Jul 27, 2020, 10:45:35 PM
listening to the audible dramatization while I mow grass. Really like what this book is doing with dutch and keys, just wanted to drop by and say that.
I just listened to the sample. Er... Hmm. That's an interesting Arnie impression. Sounds more like Udo Kier.

Lol. Yeah, James Patrick Cronin has been doing all the Predator Audiobooks lately, you can tell early on in Stalking Shadows that he's deliberately trying Not to do an Arnie impression, but that goal was a bit too herculean and his Dutch voice is kinda all over the map for most of the book. Later on towards the end he sorta settle's on Arnie-light and it feels a bit more comfortable.

Ironically enough, the Dutch tapes from the game are using the real Arnie, which is mostly awesome but kinda weirdly not Dutch-like sometimes. Like in the recording from March 3rd 2008 right after his entire squad is killed and he only survives because the big Female Yaut lets him live after scarring him up, he just kinda glides over the fact that all his buddies were just slaughtered in front of him. but eh. c'est la vie. Mr Schwarzenegger is incredibly awesome for even being a part of this.

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