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We’ve recently uploaded the first episode of Alien vs. Predator Galaxy’s Let’s Play Aliens vs. Predator (2010) to our YouTube Channel! RidgeTop and I are playing through the marine campaign of Rebellion’s Aliens vs. Predator (2010) first.

This is our first real attempt at doing anything like this so feedback is appreciated! We will be continuing to release more videos of our playthrough every Tuesday so keep an eye out on our channel! Check it out and let us know what you think.

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I likewise started another playthrough of this game recently, I guess it had been about 4 years or so.
Man, the Multiplayer was so awesome back then!

A few niggling issues aside, it's still a damn Solid Game.

If you dont play it atleast on Hard, its pointless. This game deserves to be played on Hard or Nightmare difficulty. Its about Aliens and Predators. . damn,  it should be played on harder settings. I finished both ACM and AVP on hardest difficulty on Xbox 360. The Marine campaign in AVP on Nightmare is a huge challenge, esspecially the last ending mission, but I still recomend it for all true fans and players. Play this kind of games on lower than Hard is just a serious insult for me. I really hope that they made the ACM and AVP background compatible for Xbox One X, it will be marvelous! Bigger resolution, more stable (if not more) Fps and so on. . just imagine that. Game community of both these games will be playing it once again, and in a much bigger scale! I hope Microsoft choose AVP or ACM if not both of them, in order to made these games backward compatible. Fingers crossed.

You guys should got the original Xbox and made the let's play videos about Predator Concrete Jungle. Its an awesome game! It has a lot of unique ideas that some fans never seen before. Do it! And play it on Young Blood difficulty if not directly on Bad Blood.

Ooohhh, I do love a "lets play". I can loose hours of my life on this very happily. But when your finished having fun on AvP how about an "isolation" lets play on nightmare mode. That seperates the men from the boys. 😁

This was a very fun game. Right before my Xbox 360 died on me last year, I got to play this game one last time. I forgot how fun it was. And the dark tint really added to the deadly atmosphere. Even the flashlight or flares wouldn't illuminate the gameplay too much as a Marine. The AI was pretty decent too. Whenever the aliens would attack, it could actually be hard to hit them because they moved quickly and they could also take a few hits before they died. I also liked how some of the aliens would hide in the walls right in plain sight as you go through some of the levels. I think my only complaint was the lack of available weapons for the Marine campaign.

Well done. The sound levels were balanced about right. The commentary was interesting and clear without drowning out the gameplay. Great presentation of a way underrated game. It hit all the right notes for me. If only rebellion would've handled A:CM, we really could've had something special. Maybe someday.

Hey, this is pretty good! Great commentary, I haven't seen an LP of these games with hosts who know their Alien/Predator fluff before. Looking forward to the next part!

Quote from: Petr Švancara on Mar 13, 2018, 01:36:01 PM
If you dont play it atleast on Hard, its pointless. This game deserves to be played on Hard or Nightmare difficulty. Its about Aliens and Predators. . damn,  it should be played on harder settings. I finished both ACM and AVP on hardest difficulty on Xbox 360. The Marine campaign in AVP on Nightmare is a huge challenge, esspecially the last ending mission, but I still recomend it for all true fans and players. Play this kind of games on lower than Hard is just a serious insult for me.

I've played it through on Nightmare. 2010 is the only game I 100%ed on the 360. However, we don't want these videos to take forever and have to restart them too much so Normal it is. Sorry to have insulted you so much.  :P

QuoteI really hope that they made the ACM and AVP background compatible for Xbox One X, it will be marvelous! Bigger resolution, more stable (if not more) Fps and so on. . just imagine that. Game community of both these games will be playing it once again, and in a much bigger scale! I hope Microsoft choose AVP or ACM if not both of them, in order to made these games backward compatible. Fingers crossed.

I still think 2010 looks gorgeous. I really feel we're due another one though!

Quote from: Petr Švancara on Mar 13, 2018, 01:44:58 PM
You guys should got the original Xbox and made the let's play videos about Predator Concrete Jungle. Its an awesome game! It has a lot of unique ideas that some fans never seen before. Do it! And play it on Young Blood difficulty if not directly on Bad Blood.

We're planning on playing through as many of these are possible.

Quote from: TheDerelict on Mar 13, 2018, 01:46:05 PM
Ooohhh, I do love a "lets play". I can loose hours of my life on this very happily. But when your finished having fun on AvP how about an "isolation" lets play on nightmare mode. That seperates the men from the boys. 😁

Isolation will definitely happen. We'll see about Nightmare though.  :laugh: I hope you enjoy these!

Quote from: Huggs on Mar 14, 2018, 02:16:30 AM
Well done. The sound levels were balanced about right. The commentary was interesting and clear without drowning out the gameplay. Great presentation of a way underrated game. It hit all the right notes for me. If only rebellion would've handled A:CM, we really could've had something special. Maybe someday.

Quote from: Komenja on Mar 14, 2018, 08:12:32 AM
Hey, this is pretty good! Great commentary, I haven't seen an LP of these games with hosts who know their Alien/Predator fluff before. Looking forward to the next part!

Thanks for the feedback. Glad you think we're doing right.  :)

The problem is, that Aliens are on Normal too easy to kill. On normal, you see the buttons for dodge everytime when they trying to attack you in front. On Hard, you never see it, so you need to know when and where exactly you should dodge just by yourself. Plus, the overall behaviour of Aliens on Hard are a little bit different, they are rushing more, and are more agressive. I never play it on Normal or lover difficulty just because I have a strong feel that it will be not fair against Xeno. I mean, who dont want to fight against true hard and realistic Xeno, and. . who wants to fight against lame, easy Xeno, right? I understand that for this video its maybe for you guys a better way how to show us your gameplay in normal. But, as I said. There is a difference between it, Aliens (on normal) in bigger group are mostly attacking player one by one, but on Hard. . they are trying to attack you in couples, so. . more than one at the time. . and that is more realistic. Aliens should not wait until they attack from close distance one by one. . they all should attack you if you are really close to them. Also, the whole solo fight against the Predator is much better on Hard, you can kill him too fast on lower difficulty. But other than that, you guys give us atleast something to watch. Hardcore player speaks here, sorry but I demand a higher difficulty next time, you can always record only sucessfull walkthrought without any deaths and edit the talking later.

I don't think you'll be wanting to watch any more then Petr. We'll only be playing through on Normal. We don't have the time to keep going and going until we get it done in one take.

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. I've played through both Isolation and AVP (2010) on Nightmare and have unlocked every trophy/achievement for both games.

You gotta be a bit more focused on the game at those higher difficulties, which wouldn't work well for us providing a commentary. I wouldn't mind doing some survivor or challenge rounds for a video, but normal just makes sense if we want to get through all these campaigns in a timely manner.

Now if we're talking Aliens: Colonial Marines, yeah we might have to consider bumping that one up.

Corporal Hicks - I can watch anything, even if I dont like it, but I dont said here that I dont like what I see. . so I keep watching your gameplay, its still a fun. But fact is that this game is basically serious (only) on harder settings. I found it funny how you said that you dont have time to do it right on one take, lol. The game itself is not that hard even on hard difficulty. I think that it can take about less than 30 minutes to finish each mission on Hard if you know well the environment around you. Plus, playing this on PC with bigger and stable Fps should made it even less challenging. Do you have plan to show us here only the Marine Campaign? What about other two? I think people here will be glad to see your other walktrought with Pred and Xeno. It helps to reduce waiting on actual Predator trailer.

Liked the video guys. And I really do love the game. Far from perfect, but it was the first alien/predator game I ever played. It's really great having dedicated fans who know the universe so deeply play it.
Would like to see more, keep up the good work.  ;)

Since all these new games have guest characters don't you think it would be neat to hunt Xenomorphs and Queens on Monster Hunter..I know this is off topic :P

Next one is up for the subscribers. Normal release will be next Tuesday.  :)

Romansky - Ah, yeah. . Do you ever played Evolve? Imagine that game but only instead of monsters with Predators and much, much more expanded. . that will be excellent! I dream my entire life about a proper Predator game, a game wity a huge open environments, full of various animals, insects etc. If the game developers dont be so blind, they could make a game like that already. I mean, if we could have a Destiny guardians flying between different planets, why not have a Predators just like that? Each player will be creating its own Predator from the beginning, I mean. . customize a whole Predator look, tone of skin, and different facial, body features. You should have your own ship (same like in Warframe) you could do a lot of things inside. . collect and display various skulls, use different bones from previously killed creatures to craft your own weapons or your own decorations for Predator himself, or you could collect various planetary (natural) materials in order to repair or enhance them. You could even use your skulls to decorate them (by player) with various Predator clan symbols etc. (Same like customize your car in Forza). You will be flying on a different planets, each with its own type of fauna/flora etc. You will be hunting major creatures, learning their behaviour, their weakness. You can earn an advanced weapons from your Clan Elders time by time by completing some challenges. . earning XP's and evolve yourself. I Imagine this even with some sort of story, and even with the possibility to visit Earth an its locations. Huge open space across multiple star systems in the style of Mass Effect map will be perfect, and possibility to visit these planets multiple times after you fully explore them. All this stuff packed up with the both FPS and TPS type of camera in order to please everyone will be almost breathtaking experience, not only for me. Plus some potential multiplayer in it, both co-op and competetive as well. Give it a solid engine with good graphics and I will never play anything else than this in my life. Too much ideas for a simple non-existing game? Not really, if someone wants to do a Predator game, this is the right stuff for it. No kidding.

This game has some niggles but it overall isn't all that bad, the visuals still hold up well for an 8 year old game and look a damn sight better over ACM. Just got myself a gaming laptop so I might fire this up again soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG54zjK_Kw8&t=25s

Episode 2 is now up! We had some sound issues with this one - seemed to go out of sync and my volumes need adjusting for the next recordings we do.

I think it's great you're doing these. I've never really been interested in these Let's Play things. I kinda feel, why would I want to watch someone else play a game, when I can play it for myself? Hence, a commentary needs to be outstanding for it garner my interest. I like your voice though and your little nuggets of information. I hope you finish it as doing this is a very time-consuming venture.

Thanks, I'm glad you're enjoying them. Hopefully everyone else is too. We've recorded up to the 4th mission so far, hoping to get the last 2 done tonight. Then we'll move onto the Predator campaign. I just received my capture card so both of us now have one and we can do console videos too.

Mission 3 is up for the subscribers too.  :)

I haven't played those games but I would be over pleased if MHW would through some Xenomorphs into the mix. Making Xeno weapons and armor...f**k ya.

Hi folk! Episode 3 is now up!  ;D

Isn't all this cutting into your A:CM time?

We'll get to ACM later.  :)



Mission 4 is now up! Some sound sync issues cropped up again with this one but the recordings are fine so I'm thinking it's something to do with transferring the files across. Using one of those webmail file transfer services as the files are pretty sizeable. Gonna try subscribing to WeTransfer to see if a paid service works better. If not, I'll edit my own recordings going forward.

Hope you all enjoy in spite of the issues!

Some quick feedback after just finishing part 2:

- This is probably down to using mouse and keyboard vs controller, but the footage from RidgeTop in part 1 was much easier on the eyes. The constant, lightning fast turns in part 2 aren't so pleasant as a viewer. Doesn't matter so much in the action segments, but in the slow sections could you pan more gently, Hicks? I'd keep the sprints to a minimum for the same reason.

- Regarding the commentary, part 2 also went off-topic frequently enough that I found myself wondering if we needed the footage in the background. It felt more like a podcast. This was especially true when you commented on parts from other AvP games, while simultaneously suggesting you'll do a "let's play" of them in future. What will you talk about then if it's already commented on here?

- Being a hardcore universe fansite, I think your main point of difference is the fact that you can offer minute details on what each game presents, but there were so many lost opportunities here: No pan up to look at the refinery itself, and its evolution out of an atmosphere processor? No comment on the look of this level emulating the feel of FIORINA 161, down to the little candles in the tunnels? No comment on the vehicles being a design mash-up between the rovers in Aliens and the snow cats in AvP?

This is intended as constructive criticism, so don't take it as a complaint. These are just the points that will turn a passable layperson's let's play into a great AvP fan one.

Episode 5 is up. One more to go and we've finished the marine campaign.

I'll respond to your feedback shortly, Necro.  :)

Don't feel obliged to address it unless you want some additional thoughts or clarification. When I got around to part 3 many of the points I raised were actually rectified anyway, such as that nice close-up and discussion of the combat synthetics.

Whatever you think will be helpful, take on board. Anything else, feel free to ignore and just stick to your guns.

The sixth and final episode of the marine campaign is now up! We'll take a short break and then move onto the Predator campaign.

Quote from: The Necronoir on Apr 13, 2018, 04:04:25 PM
Don't feel obliged to address it unless you want some additional thoughts or clarification. When I got around to part 3 many of the points I raised were actually rectified anyway, such as that nice close-up and discussion of the combat synthetics.

Whatever you think will be helpful, take on board. Anything else, feel free to ignore and just stick to your guns.

I wanted to thank you for the feedback and say it's the kind of response we're happy to get! I'm now conscious of what you said about the focusing on certain elements and not running everywhere. These are our first attempts at this so early-on was going to be a bit rough! Hopefully we'll be able to keep this balanced out for you now.  :)

Will you do let's play of older avp games?

Yep! That's the plan. Just working out way through a newer one first to get comfortable with the format.  :)

It's good that you guys are doing more stuff with the youtube channel. Let's plays on games of the series, talking about EU stuff and news on the upcoming movies can bring a lot of people to the community here. Youtube is pretty much the media now, so there is your chance to increase AVPGalaxy's outreach and if you start making enough views, gain some profit as well.

The podcasts are quite long, but if you can, posting them on youtube might help your channel too.

We're releasing the Predator campaign this week!

Not a bad game, but it was pretty clunky and unpolished.

I also have the double Wristblades they gave Predators in this game.
Meh, great video :D

Hate*, not have.
Kek

I can't remember if I did the Xeno one or not but I know for sure that the Predator campaign is one I managed to complete on Nightmare difficulty. That last fight against the Predalien/Abomination was very sweaty palms inducing, especially when I knew I was getting close to the end.   

i enjoyed this game it had so much potential.  If rebellion could remake this title out of the clutches of sega; it would have real potential.

Sorry about the delay on this, had some downloading and encoding issues but the next part of the Predator campaign is good to go!

Everything Predator related looks great in this game.

And here's the next one:

The graphics still hold up - great character models, animations, lighting, texturing. Colour palette's a bit grey/brown dominated, but that's not rare in shooters.

I also like the use of Predator language and the HUD visuals. Takes a lot of cohones to record original sound for these creatures, rather than just ripping the effects straight from the films. Having the player's body rendered adds greatly to the role-playing factor. And the alien hive is probably still the most authentic-looking to date.

But. I'm immediately reminded why I can never bring myself to fully replay the game. It's pretty consoley in the worst way, with the quick-time-event glory kills, unfluid movement, focus jumping, small arsenal, limited options... And those glory kills do make me really uncomfortable. I don't want to jam wristblades into someone's eyes or impale someone arse-to-mouth, and I hate that I have to in order to play the game properly. I'd probably be okay with it if it just happened once or twice.

Also, it's strange to come back and look at those aliens now that we have Isolation. The rendering and animation is fantastic, but having them permanently crouched makes them look small. You don't feel the fear. The humans bug me too - not enough variety in faces or voice lines, and behaviour that just doesn't feel natural to me. I suppose it'd be hard to pick them off one by one if the marines all stuck together and formed firing lines, but perhaps this could be resolved by making Colonial Marine squads rare high-end opponents and have boggo security guards as the cannon fodder.

/Rant. There's a lot of good there, but a lot I don't like too. And thanks for doing these let's plays - it's good to hear your viewpoints on the subject. Also lets me appreciate parts of the game that I'd forgotten.

Next mission is up!

And the final mission is now up!

I've commented on every Marine part and the penultimate and final parts for the Predator, appreciate this playthrough.
Even if I vehemently disagree with you both in places. Looking forward to Specimen Six.

Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Jul 24, 2018, 04:04:35 PM
And the final mission is now up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xie5-ZUJMIA

It always bothered me how short the pyramid levels were. So much potencial, the multiplayer map was very cool and creative. Good video.

I play this on my PC from time to time and I'm always stunned by how good it looks still. Then I try Colonial Marines....back to AvP every time!  ;D The only downside for me is the lack of bots for the MP maps.

I wish Rebellion had longer to work on this game. It makes me sad Gearbox conned 6 or so years out of Sega to make ACM, but Rebellion got no time at all. There's so many great features and ideas in AvP but a lot of it only touches the surface, which is disappointing. It would be interesting to see what could've been.

Great Let's Play by the way. It brought back a lot of memories. Will you guys ever do some of the older games at some point?

Quote from: PsyKore on Jul 25, 2018, 11:05:01 AM
I wish Rebellion had longer to work on this game. It makes me sad Gearbox conned 6 or so years out of Sega to make ACM, but Rebellion got no time at all. There's so many great features and ideas in AvP but a lot of it only touches the surface, which is disappointing. It would be interesting to see what could've been.

Yeah, completely agree. I love 2010 but I know there's a much stronger game buried in there, had Rebellion not been rushing to meet a release date to make up for Gearbox f**king Sega about.

QuoteGreat Let's Play by the way. It brought back a lot of memories. Will you guys ever do some of the older games at some point?

Yep, planning on doing as much as we can. Probably back to PS1 days, at least. Will see about older.

We're uploading our Alien campaign this week!

I really do want to see your Alien Isolation walktrough! Please do it as fast as possible! You're the best!

Excellent!

thanks guys
another entertaining vid, and another hint for disney to work on the movie we all really long for. it CAN work!
  aware of the time and effort you guys must put in, so very much appreciated.

Hilarious you can't do nightmare without dying on a game that's almost 9 years old  ;D

Quote from: Really on Oct 16, 2018, 12:40:31 AM
Hilarious you can't do nightmare without dying on a game that's almost 9 years old  ;D

This again? We've both 100% completed the game, on Nightmare difficulty as well. As the purpose of this Let's Play is for people to experience the campaign and listen to commentary, it wouldn't serve either the viewers or us to play on Nightmare, as we'd have to stay too focused on the game to have a conversation.

Yeah, we've addressed that in the past. It's not going to change. I'm glad it's mostly being enjoyed though. We'll get #2 posted in about 7/8 hours.

Next mission is up!

Love this playthrough.

Aah, the half-assed, 40-minute campaign with the clunky crawling mechanics.

Mission 3 is now up!

They're all "half-assed" because of the rushed time to release.
Rock, paper scissors systems across all three species.

Mission 4 is up!

Last one!

Thank you!

Now?

Quote from: The Old One on Oct 19, 2018, 11:35:52 PM
Thank you!

Now?

We recorded two extra episodes for Survivor and Multiplayer. After that we're looking at Predator: Concrete Jungle.

I don't see them on the channel.

The 2010 Let's Plays?

No, anything about Multiplayer, you never uploaded them.

Yeah, we never did upload them. I can't remember why though. 

Any chance of doing that?

Yeah, I'd love to see your Survivor episode.

Indeed, but I was just wondering.

Only thing I need to know :

Spoiler

WHERE GODDAMIT IS ALIEN ISOLATION"S LET"S PLAY ?   >:( >:( >:(

[close]

Quote from: Kradan on Nov 19, 2019, 06:22:43 PM
Only thing I need to know :

Spoiler

WHERE GODDAMIT IS ALIEN ISOLATION"S LET"S PLAY ?   >:( >:( >:(

[close]

AvP2 next. I'll be Live Playing 2 missions in 10 minutes or so as practice for recording them tomorrow. We've already done 3 recordings of the Alien campaign.

I'll be doing a Live Play when it the Switch port is released.

Quote from: Fiendishly Inventive on Nov 19, 2019, 04:05:46 PM
Indeed, but I was just wondering.

I honestly have no idea why. I assume it either didn't actually record (quite likely) or I just didn't like the level of discussion in it.

Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Nov 19, 2019, 08:47:20 PM

Quote from: Kradan on Nov 19, 2019, 06:22:43 PM
Only thing I need to know :

Spoiler

WHERE GODDAMIT IS ALIEN ISOLATION"S LET"S PLAY ?   >:( >:( >:(

[close]

AvP2 next.

Oh, man. I'm heartbroken .

5th anniversary ! 5TH ANNIVERSARY, MAN ! What could've been better timing ?

I know man, I'm sorry. October just didn't end up being any good and Isolation is a little bit more work than AvP2.

Well, I'll wait anyway. Tbh, AVP 2 not the worst choice in the world.

Quote from: Kradan on Nov 19, 2019, 10:26:35 PM
Well, I'll wait anyway. Tbh, AVP 2 not the worst choice in the world.

And what is the worst choice in the world to you?

Hmmm ... I don't know actually. I just meant "well, that one is fine too by me " .

I'd say AVP 1999 isn't great for commentary.

We'll get it, I'm sure.

I look forward to it regardless.

Anyone still playing? I've been lookin on pc and xbox.