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Aliens: Colonial Marines |OT| Game Over Man, GAME OVER!
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Brerlappin
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Because for all its failings, AvP was a product of people who had respect, and a genuine love for the Alien/Predator universes. The just fell a bit short in the gameplay stakes. Seriously id advise anyone who doesnt own it to just get AvP 2010 instead of this. Its a more authentic Marine experience, it looks better, it plays better, and doesnt suffer from the god awful retcons in attempts to be accepted as 'canon'.
Yeah it's really lacking the humour that made Duke Nukem Forever playable. Also level design in DNF is a lot more interesting. Both games look like steaming crap on consoles though. I never expected this game would have me yearning to play the recent AvP.
Mr. Luchador
Member
Why so many human bad guys :\
This might be interesting for all those AvP1 fans out there.
It's a tech demonstration of an upcoming Crysis 2 mod, called "Aliens vs Marines", which basically tries to recreate the marine singleplayer campain of AvP1.
It looks awesome in my opinion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Y7m5cRX3q2M
It's a tech demonstration of an upcoming Crysis 2 mod, called "Aliens vs Marines", which basically tries to recreate the marine singleplayer campain of AvP1.
It looks awesome in my opinion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Y7m5cRX3q2M
cyberheater
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But surely they'll get closed down by whoever owns the IP.
liquidfox00
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This looks incredible. I'll have to keep up with this mod. Looks like the Aliens game we've all been yearning for.
Brerlappin
Member
i seriously dont get all the hate, played it a couple hours on the pc now. People who say the graphics are bad on the pc version need to go see an eye doctor asap (its not crysis, but it looks servicable enough). imo they really nailed the alien atmosphere, its maybe not as scary as it should be, but im having fun anyway.
cyberheater
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Ha ha. Just perfect.
cyberheater
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From the PC reviews I've read. They say the graphics are okay for a PC game. But severly gimped for the console versions.
The main complain visually seems to be the overuse of textures and assets.
Can't wait for WiiU reviews.
It's not surprising it was delayed considering the mess the other versions have been said to be.
cyberheater
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Yeah. I think they've really struggled with the WiiU version which is why we've not seen any media for it and why it's late. I fully expect it to be the worst version.
Well they did say themselves the wiiu game was the "best version".
Holy shit my sides!!!!
Stoffinator
Member
They said a lot of things about this game that ended up not being true.
Mr. Luchador
Member
Correct!
Supposedly if you preordered from Wal-Mart you get it for free. If not be prepared to pony up 15 bucks my friend!
Also it is.. regrettable that this game is not good. I was never optimistic but had wished that it would actually be a decent game.
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
Yeah, it's $15 DLC. I'm actually interested in that side of things, though getting my mates to drop the funds on this game after the savage reviews is gonna be hard. I'll wait a few months. AvP 2010 can be had for $14, so I hope for the same for CM
Withholding arguably the best mode for DLC is pretty obnoxious.if I'm completely honest, I still want to play this just to see how awful it is. I get great enjoyment out of terrible things. I'm sure it has some (mild) redeeming qualities, even though it seems to be a fanfic facsimile of Aliens with zero imagination. Watching videos all I can think about is the missed opportunities. I actually saw it at EB this morning, after I ducked out for a coffee which often ends in me making incredibly poor game purchase decisions. Avoided. Plenty of stuff to play in the meantime!
Mr. Luchador
Member
I'm cynical (and since I post on GAF seemingly an asshole), so I can't help but feel that any game that removes a completed (and previously advertised) game mode from their finished game to sell as DLC is nothing more then a cash grab.
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
It's incredibly cheeky, if nothing else. The rest sounds so wretched I can imagine people going "if I just pay the $15 I'll have a good game mode..."
cyberheater
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Thanks for posting some PC pics. Looks good enough for me.
Are there any dynamic shadows under folks?
Anyone posted this yet? Courtesy of Rllmuk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8J8SzBhjqaQ
:lol :lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8J8SzBhjqaQ
:lol :lol
Chance Hale
Member
Note: Tired, depressed(and amused) after streaming the game for four hours so excuse any grammatical errors and such.
Streamed/played it for a quite a while and what a disappointment. The graphics, textures in particular, truly are poor beyond belief and animations often seem missing or non-existent. The alien gibs are rather lazy, they just splat into identical pieces of heart and liver. The interior environments are bizarrely basic in design, like a modern Doom almost with textures along the same base of quality lining desks and computer screens.
The lighting system in particular stands out as something that must have been uncompleted or toned down of the course of development. There are sections with hanging bulbs that can be interacted with and produce dynamic lighting on the fly and its actually really impressive. Most of the time however these things don't exist, only unbreakable room lights. Do like how firing your gun actually illuminates the environment though.
One huge issue however, and one that stands out above all of the other graphical issues is the bizarre haze that surrounds almost all of the environments. Draw distance is seemingly only a few feet in front of the character at times, with everything else being a blue sludge. Absurd amounts of banding are present around many light sources and just textures in general.
Mission 2 was beyond boring and was just a mindless sludge through wave after wave of human opponents with a seemingly random chance of reacting to bullets. Two encounters against a heavy shotgun trooper stand out in particular as mind numbing, forcing you to wait by a door and pop out every now and again for just a few shots. There is no real satisfaction to be hand out of this given the poor animations and hit reactions. And while I think it's often a lazy comparison and something I work to avoid using whenever possible, the next mission was a poor man's CoD level, complete with shaky environments and waiting by the doors for your squad mate to stop being useless.
The stealth mission isn't really interesting and only stands as a further example of how awful the game is. The enemy in question is poorly explained in terms of its metamorphosis and the method of dealing with them hilariously gamey and contrived. Switch time! Will say the art design was actually quite nice there, with lightning used to good effect. Kind of hard to be particularly frightened by the creatures when their walk makes one think of a exaggerated silent comedy waddle.
Not to mention the story which is just terrible in every possible way. Bad acting, poor dialogue and characters(Oh damn, O Neal!) and rough segways into each subsequent mission. The cutscenes also look really bad in terms of animation quality, not to mention the expected compression.
Despite all of this or exactly because of it me and my friend were still able to have some degree of fun. Mostly making fun of the terrible aspects and laughing at the ability to bling up your guns.
Multiplayer seems like it could be a lot of fun though, the few rounds I played of Escape were really tense and the objectives while repetitive within the context of each mode, kept things refreshing. Not entirely sure how to use each alien's special V ability though, will have to look into it before I play next.
But yeah, in conclusion this really is as a poor as most people are saying and how much enjoyment you get out of it depends on your ability to laugh about such aspects. I've been able to some degree do this but as someone whose been looking forward to this game for years it still hurts.
Edit: Two other important things I forgot to mention.
The lack of a hud in ultimate bad ass mode is quite nice and honestly the game is so much worse and cluttered with it on. The game is quite easy on ultimate badass so frankly I think it's the only way to play. And acid blood does damage you but its effects seem to be very random, and always minor.
The other point I forgot to mention is that the decision to let you stock all of you guns at once is absurd and makes it so you are never truly in danger. Hundreds of shotgun shells, dozens of explosives, etc. No threat.
Streamed/played it for a quite a while and what a disappointment. The graphics, textures in particular, truly are poor beyond belief and animations often seem missing or non-existent. The alien gibs are rather lazy, they just splat into identical pieces of heart and liver. The interior environments are bizarrely basic in design, like a modern Doom almost with textures along the same base of quality lining desks and computer screens.
The lighting system in particular stands out as something that must have been uncompleted or toned down of the course of development. There are sections with hanging bulbs that can be interacted with and produce dynamic lighting on the fly and its actually really impressive. Most of the time however these things don't exist, only unbreakable room lights. Do like how firing your gun actually illuminates the environment though.
One huge issue however, and one that stands out above all of the other graphical issues is the bizarre haze that surrounds almost all of the environments. Draw distance is seemingly only a few feet in front of the character at times, with everything else being a blue sludge. Absurd amounts of banding are present around many light sources and just textures in general.
Mission 2 was beyond boring and was just a mindless sludge through wave after wave of human opponents with a seemingly random chance of reacting to bullets. Two encounters against a heavy shotgun trooper stand out in particular as mind numbing, forcing you to wait by a door and pop out every now and again for just a few shots. There is no real satisfaction to be hand out of this given the poor animations and hit reactions. And while I think it's often a lazy comparison and something I work to avoid using whenever possible, the next mission was a poor man's CoD level, complete with shaky environments and waiting by the doors for your squad mate to stop being useless.
The stealth mission isn't really interesting and only stands as a further example of how awful the game is. The enemy in question is poorly explained in terms of its metamorphosis and the method of dealing with them hilariously gamey and contrived. Switch time! Will say the art design was actually quite nice there, with lightning used to good effect. Kind of hard to be particularly frightened by the creatures when their walk makes one think of a exaggerated silent comedy waddle.
Not to mention the story which is just terrible in every possible way. Bad acting, poor dialogue and characters(Oh damn, O Neal!) and rough segways into each subsequent mission. The cutscenes also look really bad in terms of animation quality, not to mention the expected compression.
Despite all of this or exactly because of it me and my friend were still able to have some degree of fun. Mostly making fun of the terrible aspects and laughing at the ability to bling up your guns.
Multiplayer seems like it could be a lot of fun though, the few rounds I played of Escape were really tense and the objectives while repetitive within the context of each mode, kept things refreshing. Not entirely sure how to use each alien's special V ability though, will have to look into it before I play next.
But yeah, in conclusion this really is as a poor as most people are saying and how much enjoyment you get out of it depends on your ability to laugh about such aspects. I've been able to some degree do this but as someone whose been looking forward to this game for years it still hurts.
Edit: Two other important things I forgot to mention.
The lack of a hud in ultimate bad ass mode is quite nice and honestly the game is so much worse and cluttered with it on. The game is quite easy on ultimate badass so frankly I think it's the only way to play. And acid blood does damage you but its effects seem to be very random, and always minor.
The other point I forgot to mention is that the decision to let you stock all of you guns at once is absurd and makes it so you are never truly in danger. Hundreds of shotgun shells, dozens of explosives, etc. No threat.
Its one or the other, dude.
Moff
Member
nice
There is a report that this game actually wasn't developed by Gearbox... it was outsourced... news?
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...o-section-8-developer-timegate-studios-report
Aliens: Colonial Marines "primary development" outsourced to Section 8 developer TimeGate Studios - report
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...o-section-8-developer-timegate-studios-report
Aliens: Colonial Marines "primary development" outsourced to Section 8 developer TimeGate Studios - report
HXPE?
AMAZING!!
Ok so played this for the last two hours and it is nowhere near as bad as the internet, reviews & GAF make out.
The game is definitely not perfect but I am having fun; at AU - $35 I don't feel like I have been ripped off.
I wonder how many people bagging this have actually played it.
The game is definitely not perfect but I am having fun; at AU - $35 I don't feel like I have been ripped off.
I wonder how many people bagging this have actually played it.
Thats usually the problem on gaf, almost half of the people that are bitching didnt even go near the game.
BattleMonkey
Member
The last AVP game looked better than this
ToastyBanana
Member
Is it just me or does the game not use the centre channel in a surround set up (on PC)? I get positional sound from the rear speakers.
I'm sure it's been said but the first time a Xeno appeared the janky animation really screamed mediocrity. The scripting broke too after the first 'wait on the door to open so shoot things' bit so I had to reload. I am one of those fans of the series so I'll begrudgingly suffer through the single player at the very least.
I'm sure it's been said but the first time a Xeno appeared the janky animation really screamed mediocrity. The scripting broke too after the first 'wait on the door to open so shoot things' bit so I had to reload. I am one of those fans of the series so I'll begrudgingly suffer through the single player at the very least.
Pretty much exactly my thoughts so far. I've played through the first two and a half missions and enjoyed it so far. Certainly nothing yet to justify the low scores and some of the criticism it's getting. Not tried any of the multiplayer modes yet but will do after work tonight.
On the PC, it at least runs properly, but there simply isn't anything interesting or exciting about it. The game simply feels dull.
If you combine that sentiment with the bugs and poor performance people are encountering elsewhere (particularly on consoles) it's not difficult to understand the disappointment.
derExperte
Member
I remember thinking that it looked 95% scripted because things happend that coudln't happen in a game where you freely controlled your character. Also I didn't think even that left a particularily positive impression.
And man, only three levels in and I have already seen so much terrible scripting. Like when you are searching for an escape pod it's possible to run to an open pod-door before the PMCs run through it but you can't get in yourself, it's just a black void. Everything else is janky as hell too, why can I just run through my teammates? Well, at least as long as they aren't blocking a hallway because it's exposition time. And the clipping everywhere. This thing should still be in beta.
BroDudeGuy
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I'm dying