Quote from: SM on Dec 31, 2012, 07:05:03 AM
QuoteThen why are they gurning about loading the game full of little details for fans to pore over?
Quite.
"Look how authentic it is! Except for all the stuff that demonstrably isn't!!"
Depends on how you want to define "authentic", I guess. The way I see it, the game looks pretty authentic to me. The tone, the setting, the sounds, the gameplay experience the game aims to put the players through, all of it feels very 'Aliens' to me even if they're taking some (frankly, easy to overlook) liberties with the plot.
They're changing/introducing some things in order to tell the story they want to tell... just like literally every Alien movie has done to date with regard to its predecessors. The sooner people accept that and move on, the happier they'll be I think.
'Alien' had a scary monster that mercilessly stalked the characters, and (in a deleted scene) had a really grotesque and terrifying means of reproduction (and you can't tell me James Cameron wasn't aware of that scene when he wrote 'Aliens') and whoops 'Aliens' changed all that so that he could tell his 'Aliens' story the way he wanted to tell it.
'Aliens' had great characters surviving a harrowing adventure and then whoops 'Alien3' killed them all (2 of them offscreen during the opening credits) so that it could tell the story it wanted to tell.
'Alien3' offered closure for the main character of the franchise, showing that she'd finally beaten the demon that had completely ruined her life, and then whoops 'Alien Resurrection' brought her back from the dead so that it could tell the story it wanted to tell.
This game isn't exactly doing anything that hasn't been done before, storytelling-wise.
Quote from: Salt The Fries on Dec 31, 2012, 10:10:23 AM
Look, whatever they said about fans like us is a bull. This game is made for average CoD fan / console gamer, and they're well aware that they're stupid so probably the majority of gamers will swallow whatever bull gearbox concocted. We're marginalized.
Only the hardcore nitpickiest superfans are marginalized, and frankly rightly so. Like I said, you can't please people like that, and they're not enough of a moneymaking demographic to bother bending over backwards to try and please. This has been true of literally any franchise ever in the history of anything.
However this game appears to get way, way more "right" than it gets wrong, but we'll have to wait and see what the final game is like when it comes out.
