Quote from: predxeno on Apr 06, 2015, 12:30:56 AM
Only the right hand had wrist blades, not the left. Also, there are game mechanics in a game as I said earlier.
Which hand has them is irrelevant (And they're on the right for all of the Predators in the movies up until that point, so why are you even mentioning this?), and if they'd wanted it to always swing they would have animated it like that. Game mechanics don't factor into it. Don't use game mechanics to worm out of it, when you won't use game mechanics to explain cannon fodder Aliens.
As for your previous comment on flinching, flinching mechanics had been around for ages in games. Hell,
Doom has flinching, it's how you can kill a Pinkie demon with a chainsaw and not get hurt. If they'd wanted it, they could have put it in there.
QuoteYou can nitpick Alien tactics all you want but you know that if AVPR had been a popular movie then no one would even be considering these minor points
Yes they would. And these aren't minor points, they're crucial to the central conflict of the film -- Aliens and Predators fighting. All of these things undermine that, and without that, the film never stands a chance.
If the film had been popular it would likely be because many of these issues weren't in it
Quotejust like nobody wants to consider how Ripley's elbow can withstand the vacuum of space in Aliens
This gets called out a lot.
Quoteor why she thought it was a good idea to open an air lock into it when she had no guarantee that Newt or Bishop would not get sucked in,
This isn't the same thing at all -- but even if it were: She's desperate to kill the Queen. The fact she doesn't make sure they're secured isn't ignored, it's
used to add tension to the scene when we see Newt sliding along the ground.
QuoteI would definitely like a source for this.
On these forums, when asked.