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Posted by Protomorph
 - Aug 06, 2021, 03:04:01 PM
Really didn't like this one. Full of member berries.

It feels to me like once again Marvel are diving too deep into the Aliens movie for inspiration. For me this was a poorly scripted fan service for casual fans of the Aliens movie. Surely the only way is up from here.
Posted by judge death
 - Aug 06, 2021, 09:54:28 AM
Im so glad I havent spent a single penny on marvels aliens comics yet, will only do once they treat the franchise right :p
Posted by Rambo
 - Aug 06, 2021, 12:20:55 AM
Finally got a chance to read this. Felt like one of the short-stories in Dark Horse Presents, and in that category there's a lot more to be forgotten than remembered. So I'm not as offended as most people seem to be, but agree it didn't do much for me. The hype they gave it didn't do them any favors.
Posted by Engineer
 - Aug 05, 2021, 10:31:03 PM
Quote from: irn on Aug 05, 2021, 10:01:24 PM
This comic was probably one of the dumbest things related to the Aliens franchise I've ever seen. Not only was it childishly silly, the lack of imagination was ridiculous.
It is also insanely illogical or downright non-sensical. I didn't think we'd see a story as bad as "aliens: rescue" so soon, but here we are...
Posted by irn
 - Aug 05, 2021, 10:01:24 PM
This comic was probably one of the dumbest things related to the Aliens franchise I've ever seen. Not only was it childishly silly, the lack of imagination was ridiculous.
Posted by RidgeTop
 - Aug 02, 2021, 02:23:49 AM
Quote from: Xenomrph on Jul 15, 2021, 02:11:12 AM
Full disclosure, I'm not trying to defend the comic - I haven't even read it, and the spoilers I've read make it sound profoundly stupid, to the point that it makes the Colonial Marines videogame's plot sound like Shakespeare. I'm just defending the idea that WY can manipulate the USCM to some degree. I agree that the comic treating the USCM like full-on corporate PMCs they can control 100% is dumb, but I'm absolutely okay with WY having some degree of influence like choosing personnel or dictating a mission here or there.

Can confirm some of the lore logs in Aliens: Fireteam Elite comment on corporate corruption in high levels of the USCM, which is one of the reasons it was reformed into the UACM.
Posted by Some Old Dude
 - Jul 29, 2021, 03:10:36 AM
I disliked this. The art was nice and the radiation xeno is goofy but at least it's something different, like something Dark Horse or Kenner wouldve come up with in the 90's. My problem stems from the comic feeling like unnecessary fan service, the same kind of thing plaguing the Star Wars comics (and JJ Abrams films 😬), everything has to be unnecessarily connected to an inorganic degree. Also the characters being XTREME anarchist you tubers is just a lame attempt at trying to be modern but if anything dates this comic more than the 35 year old movie it's homaging.
Posted by Huggs
 - Jul 22, 2021, 10:07:59 PM
Fred would be doing community service. Giving free rimjobs at the old folks home.
Posted by Kradan
 - Jul 22, 2021, 03:24:24 PM
Should he share a cell with Fred Dekker ?
Posted by Huggs
 - Jul 22, 2021, 02:46:02 AM
Pitchford should be in a foreign prison, listening to his cellmates favorite bedtime story "du saugst besser diese Scheiße!" by Big Hans Groper.
Posted by Xenomrph
 - Jul 22, 2021, 12:32:20 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Jul 21, 2021, 01:06:37 AM
This story makes ACM look good by comparison.
To wit:
Quote from: Xenomrph on Jul 15, 2021, 02:11:12 AM
I haven't even read it, and the spoilers I've read make it sound profoundly stupid, to the point that it makes the Colonial Marines videogame's plot sound like Shakespeare.

Quote from: Nightmare Asylum on Jul 21, 2021, 10:58:54 AM
This at least has some decent art.

I'm struggling to remember anything decent about that game. :D
The weapon design and modification system was slick, and the art direction of the level design.

Quote from: Nightmare Asylum on Jul 21, 2021, 01:33:38 PM
All I really remember from ACM, design wise, is a bunch of Aliens that would have felt quite at home in a blister pack with Kenner-branded cardboard backing.
You say that like it's a bad thing. :o

Quote from: Nightmare Asylum on Jul 21, 2021, 01:33:38 PM
As for music... I remember that one trailer that used Clint Mansell's Moon score. :D
That trailer is still one of my favorite game trailers of all time.

Quote from: Local Trouble on Jul 21, 2021, 03:25:11 PM
I think Huggs, Xenomrph and Corporal Hicks should all send Randy an open letter of apology on AvPG letterhead.
NEVER
Posted by Engineer
 - Jul 21, 2021, 07:23:25 PM
Well then. This sounds pretty terrible. I guess I'll skip this one too lol
Posted by judge death
 - Jul 21, 2021, 05:40:13 PM
Colonial marines sucked big time, the whole thing with how they marketed it, promising stuff that wasnt there, aliens that focus on the player and runs straight at one always, trailers showing moments of the game we never got, gearbox leasing the production and using segas money to make borderlands 2 instead, lies and randys big lies: burn in hell gearbox.

MArvels one off may have a very weak story and questionable choices and breaking the lore and not paying attention to what movies and books etc has shown us, but it had better designs, the colony is more destroyed and more believable than colonial marines etc but its not much better than it.

Gearbox with colonial marines did one good thing: adding alien 3 back and made a good and clever story in the dlc, idea with turk, gotta give them cudos for that in my mind.
Posted by Kradan
 - Jul 21, 2021, 03:35:18 PM
 :D
Posted by Local Trouble
 - Jul 21, 2021, 03:25:11 PM
I think Huggs, Xenomrph and Corporal Hicks should all send Randy an open letter of apology on AvPG letterhead.
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