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General Alien-Predator Discussion / Re: Cosmic horror in the Alien...
Last post by Thatguy2068 - Today at 01:04:46 AMI do want to see like a "ancestor" of the xenomorph.
Something similar to this I'm fine with.
Something similar to this I'm fine with.
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Aliens: Colonial Marines / Re: If gearbox was afforded mo...
Last post by Thatguy2068 - Today at 01:00:26 AMYou're just praising the mod, not the game itself you admit the game itself is not even a game.
You Compare based A:I and AFTE, To an enhance version of ACM. It's not a fair comparison. It can be easily done with either game.
You Compare based A:I and AFTE, To an enhance version of ACM. It's not a fair comparison. It can be easily done with either game.
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General Discussion / Re: Re: what is your favourite...
Last post by Immortan Jonesy - Today at 12:56:38 AM #4
Aliens: Colonial Marines / Re: If gearbox was afforded mo...
Last post by gold - Today at 12:50:26 AMThe base A:CM game didn't even qualify as a game. But the templar GFx 6.2 mod makes it completely different. You've probably heard of the "teather" bug. The single line in the .ini that was supposed to read "tether" that was discovered in 2019 I believe. It fixed the Xenomorph ai completely. Templars mod in addition changed the game. A complete overhaul. From the caseless explosive 10mm rounds of the pulse rifle -actually- being explosive rounds, to the whole balancing of the game, the shadows, the way your light works, everything. To the smart gun being available whenever you want. To xenomorph corpses remaining indefinitely where they fall. The acid blood "ai", the volumetric lighting, smoke, fog, etc. Too much to list. It looks nothing like when it was released in 2013. Just check Templargfx's page on moddb.
The game looks even better even that Alien Isolation and -way- better then Aliens: Fireteam.
PS: I love A3 (Assembly cut) for the depressing freak of a movie it is. I just hate it as "Aliens 2".
It's hard to explain, but those of us (well ok, let's say 90% of us) who saw A2 in the this day remember the bitter sequel that was A3. A1 (one alien) was Ridley, A2 (many aliens) was Cameron, we -knew- that A3 had to be super special. We imagined A3 would be all out war on the Alien home world, or Alien War back on Earth, that we'd find out more lore, that we'd get an action movie to end all action movies with Hicks and Ripley.
Instead we got A3, which was a depressing hopeless hell hole of a small movie, with Hicks (and even little Newt) dead.
All we had left of that deep Aliens world was the ACMTM now.
So for -those- of us, A:CM in 2013 was a godsend. That it actually used the ACMTM as a base felt like a hug.
But the lies of RP and Gearbox and the E3 demo farce killed the game before it even started, not allowing many people to see what -was there- underneath the layer of feces (the story, the brilliant concept work by the returning Syd Mead), etc. TemplarGFx 6.2 gave us that.
So what I'm saying is that if you liked A2, wer disappointed by A3, tried to like A:CM but couldn't get past the appaling release state, try it again with TemplarGFX.
It won't change the script, you either like that or you don't, and I love it.
Yeah it could have been better, and the world concept art by Craig Mullins looked amazing. A shame the cities were cut, but we did get Syd's actual work (what was he like 85 then?) augmented by Lorin Wood.
The game looks even better even that Alien Isolation and -way- better then Aliens: Fireteam.
PS: I love A3 (Assembly cut) for the depressing freak of a movie it is. I just hate it as "Aliens 2".
It's hard to explain, but those of us (well ok, let's say 90% of us) who saw A2 in the this day remember the bitter sequel that was A3. A1 (one alien) was Ridley, A2 (many aliens) was Cameron, we -knew- that A3 had to be super special. We imagined A3 would be all out war on the Alien home world, or Alien War back on Earth, that we'd find out more lore, that we'd get an action movie to end all action movies with Hicks and Ripley.
Instead we got A3, which was a depressing hopeless hell hole of a small movie, with Hicks (and even little Newt) dead.
All we had left of that deep Aliens world was the ACMTM now.
So for -those- of us, A:CM in 2013 was a godsend. That it actually used the ACMTM as a base felt like a hug.
But the lies of RP and Gearbox and the E3 demo farce killed the game before it even started, not allowing many people to see what -was there- underneath the layer of feces (the story, the brilliant concept work by the returning Syd Mead), etc. TemplarGFx 6.2 gave us that.
So what I'm saying is that if you liked A2, wer disappointed by A3, tried to like A:CM but couldn't get past the appaling release state, try it again with TemplarGFX.
It won't change the script, you either like that or you don't, and I love it.
Yeah it could have been better, and the world concept art by Craig Mullins looked amazing. A shame the cities were cut, but we did get Syd's actual work (what was he like 85 then?) augmented by Lorin Wood.
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Alien-Predator Literature / Re: Aliens vs Avengers
Last post by Local Trouble - Today at 12:48:01 AMAnd of course there will be a technobabble reason why the biofilter can't remove the chestburster embryos during transport.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Biofilter
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Biofilter
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Alien-Predator Literature / Re: Aliens vs Avengers
Last post by Acid_Reign161 - Today at 12:43:52 AMQuote from: Local Trouble on Today at 12:33:06 AMAnd Captain Picard making a rousing speech about the fundamental rights of the Aliens to exist and breed?
It would be amusing to see Data go all Ash on his crewmates.
Worf telling the queen she has no honor, Troi telling us how the xenos are feeling, Riker getting horny for facehuggers , close up of a xeno drooling and hissing subtitled "shut up Wesley", Whoopie Goldberg cocooned up on a wall smiling and giving Picard a speech that boils down to "it is how it is", and Picard saving the day by switching off the holodeck safety protocols and mowing down the hive with a Tommy gun... I think it'd have been a real winner. 🤣
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Alien-Predator Literature / Re: Aliens vs Avengers
Last post by SiL - Today at 12:38:41 AMQuote from: Local Trouble on Today at 12:12:56 AMAre you sure that's not a total misuse of the Alien brand?We're 45 years too late to be clutching pearls about Alien merchandise.
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Alien-Predator Literature / Re: Aliens vs Avengers
Last post by Local Trouble - Today at 12:33:06 AMAnd Captain Picard making a rousing speech about the fundamental rights of the Aliens to exist and breed?
It would be amusing to see Data go all Ash on his crewmates.
It would be amusing to see Data go all Ash on his crewmates.
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Alien-Predator Literature / Re: Aliens vs Avengers
Last post by Acid_Reign161 - Today at 12:26:15 AMI was quite sad when the Aliens / Star Trek: TNG crossover got cancelled, if only to see how they were going to make the Xenomorph a threat in a world of phasers, force fields, the ability to lock onto life forms and beam them into the vacuum of space, and the medical capabilities to remove embryos without invasive surgery lol. 😂
