BruceLeeRoy
Banned
You know whats funny. After this thing drops to $15 bucks on Steam I am definitely picking it up. I don't know why but I could see it being a pretty entertaining ride with a couple friends and some hard alcohol.
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Aliens: Colonial Marines |OT| Game Over Man, GAME OVER!
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Lord_Nergal
Member
Man, this really highlights how lucky Gearbox was with Borderlands 1. After this and DNF, not many studios could get away with two huge turds.
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
I guess I'll pick this up in a $5 Steam sale that includes all DLC. Worth it at that price just for the laughs.
or Action Forms. Not very well known but eh
Wasn't DNF developed by 3D Realms? I read that Gearbox only tweaked and finished some parts.
sCHOCOLATE
Member
You did. It's called "time".
Exactly my friend. Exactly.
RobbieNick
Junior Member
I will say that while both the Marines and Aliens have bad A.I., at least the Marines actually kill enemies when they fire at them. Unlike most FPS's where their bullets do minimal or nothing unless you finish them of themselves. I feel like one of the group instead of a lone savior.
That's all I got sadly.
That's all I got sadly.
Lord_Nergal
Member
Yes, 3D realms developed DNF over what, 12 years? Gearbox picked up the IP and put it out.
My point is that Gearbox has released two high profile duds in the past 2 years. Not many studios can get away with that.
Jake Tower
Banned
Broken Pixels style!
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
I preferred "we're in the pipe, five by fuck"
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
Awesome! Thanks!
RobbieNick
Junior Member
I will say, it does get better the further you play it. It's just that it's flaws REALLY stand out and are immediate in the first level.
I'l try MP out in a little bit. Right now, it's hovering around 6/10 for me. Very flawed, but the game play is decent.
I'l try MP out in a little bit. Right now, it's hovering around 6/10 for me. Very flawed, but the game play is decent.
When Gearbox rescued this and DNF from development hell, they probably thought they were doing gamers a favour and would bask in gratitude for years. And then it turned out that both should have stayed in the abyss from whence they came.
Q
Queen of Hunting
Unconfirmed Member
i still think Rebellion should keep doing aliens games as much shit as it gets i quite liked AvP
Messofanego
Banned
Oh, this is going to be fun to watch!
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
This is so nuts. Listen to what you're are saying. It's paranoid delusion. It's really sad. It's pathetic.
I'm kiddin'
NullPointer
Member
Just played the campaign on coop on the PC version for the past few hours, and genuinely had a lot of fun. No it's not a masterpiece, but a lot of the hate is overblown. That said if you're playing it on a console singleplayer I can imagine the campaign will be pretty dull. But in coop it's genuinely good fun!
SlasherJPC
Banned
I get a feeling alot of you guys will get the game when it's cheaper like $15, $20 and think... well it's got alot of issues but I'm having some mild fun. I don't mind the first few levels but I hear it only get's better later. Will see. It does feel like an older FPS warped to the future, only to be slaughtered by the masses, riding a hate wave we've not seen in years! Great SCOTT!
NullPointer
Member
It doesn't scale?
One of the dev diaries said that the designers hand scripted different encounter elements for co-op.
But I honestly don't know what pre-release info to believe about this game.
bryanee
Member
We started on the normal difficulty and whilst it did add more enemies in some encounters it didnt really make the game any harder so we upped the difficulty to add some extra challenge.
ultrazilla
Member
Initial impressions:
Just fired up the first couple missions on the PC version with everything maxed. Don't know where the hate is coming from, I'm having a fun time with it. The graphics are fine and everything runs really smooth. Good music soundtrack. Controls are tight and responsive. The voice acting is "meh" but I wasn't expecting "Hamlet" either.
The quick round of extraction multiplayer was fun as hell. Intense and really captures the spirit of the movie.
I have not seen any of the screen tearing or bugged animations yet that seem to be prevalent everywhere in the console versions from all the complaints being thrown at it.
Just fired up the first couple missions on the PC version with everything maxed. Don't know where the hate is coming from, I'm having a fun time with it. The graphics are fine and everything runs really smooth. Good music soundtrack. Controls are tight and responsive. The voice acting is "meh" but I wasn't expecting "Hamlet" either.
The quick round of extraction multiplayer was fun as hell. Intense and really captures the spirit of the movie.
I have not seen any of the screen tearing or bugged animations yet that seem to be prevalent everywhere in the console versions from all the complaints being thrown at it.
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
Probably will pick it up super cheap. I also have the option of buying this from EB, playing it for a day or two then returning it for something else I actually want. In terms of just brainless fps shooting gallery, it actually looks mildly fun - not A$79 fun though.
I dunno, they went out of their way to hype this thing up as the second coming of Aliens games. It's one of the most loved franchises in nerdy/scifi culture. They have the nerve to consider it 'canon', on the level of the movie that inspired it despite seeming to miss the entire point and themes of the film, retcon the franchise to make their own changes to the story (which from what I've seen is eye-rolling laugh out loud garbage, particularly the final sequence), release a buggy game after years of development, which barely resembles the original game they've been hyping up. Nerds scorned, etc.
The perfect Dark
Banned
Multiplayer is great.
Same, PC here. At mission 4 and again, I'm not seeing the basis for all of these terrible reviews. It's still a 7/10 game for me.
I think people had really high expectations or didn't realize this was to be an action game. It's Aliens, not Shakespeare, enjoy it for what it is.
And he was on the big hype train,looking at his video of the top 10 reason why A:CM is going to be good haha. I am excited to see his fury tommorow.
While the game, I don't think deserves a 2/10 score, it certainly does have a few downers.
I'd personally give it a 6/10. Had some fun last night with Team Deathmatch and Escape.
One thing through, Escape is insanely unbalanced. As a marine it was a walk in the park. As an Alien it was nigh impossible. The wall walking with the Xenos also felt super janky.
As a Marine: I had 19 kills 0 Downs 0 Deaths.
As an Alien: 0 Kills, 23 Deaths. --Not one Alien scored a single kill.
I hate the matchmaking in this, peer-to-peer on PC sucks bollocks.
Tried some coop campaign with 2 friends and it was unplayable for everyone due to lag.
Everyone has +10Mbit connections...
I'd personally give it a 6/10. Had some fun last night with Team Deathmatch and Escape.
One thing through, Escape is insanely unbalanced. As a marine it was a walk in the park. As an Alien it was nigh impossible. The wall walking with the Xenos also felt super janky.
As a Marine: I had 19 kills 0 Downs 0 Deaths.
As an Alien: 0 Kills, 23 Deaths. --Not one Alien scored a single kill.
I hate the matchmaking in this, peer-to-peer on PC sucks bollocks.
Tried some coop campaign with 2 friends and it was unplayable for everyone due to lag.
Everyone has +10Mbit connections...
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
Wouldn't mind watching that. You have a link to that video?
Absoludacrous
Member
Started on the highest difficulty. It actually brings it in line with how the 1999 game played. Aliens kill you in a hit or two. Ammo is a concern, since you can waste a whole clip trying to track down one alien that is jumping around on the walls.
I actually started to think it might save the game, but then I ran into poor check-pointing. Which isn't a deal breaker itself, but replaying parts of levels really shows how scripted all these alien encounters are. If this game just had some kind of dynamic AI to change how the aliens approach you, it could be a legitimate aliens game on the highest difficulty.
I actually started to think it might save the game, but then I ran into poor check-pointing. Which isn't a deal breaker itself, but replaying parts of levels really shows how scripted all these alien encounters are. If this game just had some kind of dynamic AI to change how the aliens approach you, it could be a legitimate aliens game on the highest difficulty.
thesuperfunk
Member
Check out AvP2 if you can find it ... even better!
Did anyone else notice that Randy Pitchford has basically been MIA from Twitter since the game launched? I really wonder what happened with this, because when I asked him about the possibility of a new series of Aliens games, he said that "We're hard at work making this the best game it can be and once it's out we'll worry about the possibility of making it a franchise." GOOD LUCK WITH THAT NOW.
How does this happen? How do you call yourself a huge fan of the series and let a terrible game get made? I think the more dedication you have for something the more likely you are to ruin it, ie, Tom Hewlett, self-proclaimed biggest fan of Silent Hill who produced the atrocious HD collection and other mediocre titles. Your blatant fan love for the title makes you blind to how shitty it is.
How does this happen? How do you call yourself a huge fan of the series and let a terrible game get made? I think the more dedication you have for something the more likely you are to ruin it, ie, Tom Hewlett, self-proclaimed biggest fan of Silent Hill who produced the atrocious HD collection and other mediocre titles. Your blatant fan love for the title makes you blind to how shitty it is.
HueyFreeman
Banned
God, this is kind of crushing as an Aliens fan. I've been waiting for a dedicated Aliens game to coop with my brother since we were kids, watching Aliens in my parents basement. We had been waiting for this game for almost seven years now.
I really feel like Gearbox deserves to crumble for this as a developer. Between this and Duke, they've singled handedly wrecked great opportunities for two wonderful franchises - they shouldn't just walk away from this cuz people keep buying borderlands DLC.
I really feel like Gearbox deserves to crumble for this as a developer. Between this and Duke, they've singled handedly wrecked great opportunities for two wonderful franchises - they shouldn't just walk away from this cuz people keep buying borderlands DLC.
Absoludacrous
Member
I know it's been mentioned a ton already in this thread alone, but Gearbox had very little to do with the wrecking of Duke.
HueyFreeman
Banned
But their name is on these projects, man. For one thing, it's unclear at this point how true the rumored farming of the SP portion of Aliens is, but it's almost besides the point - I've never seen this from any other developer, a willingness to ship out a complete disaster of a product, twice, when you have a 90+ game on metacritic. It baffles the mind.
To say nothing of the fact that this shits all over Aliens fans hopes that we were finally going to have a worthy dedicated entry, sans predator.
Another Update for ALIENS Colonial Marines
Same size too. 106megs
Loving ALIENS Colonial Marines,
i honestly don't understand the hate surrounding it.
You people are crazy,lol, i swear some of you haven't even played it, and are just being dramatic. lol
Fans support what they love.
And i'm thrilled to be in the ALIENS Universe again.
It's not as bad as all you are making it out.
...........
I had a bad feeling about this Thread..
You know Burke, i don't know which species is worse..
Hicks, We are leaving..
GIFSoup
Same size too. 106megs
Loving ALIENS Colonial Marines,
i honestly don't understand the hate surrounding it.
You people are crazy,lol, i swear some of you haven't even played it, and are just being dramatic. lol
Fans support what they love.
And i'm thrilled to be in the ALIENS Universe again.
It's not as bad as all you are making it out.
...........
I had a bad feeling about this Thread..
You know Burke, i don't know which species is worse..
Hicks, We are leaving..
HueyFreeman
Banned
Another Update for ALIENS Colonial Marines
Same size too. 106megs
Loving ALIENS Colonial Marines,
i honestly don't understand the hate surrounding it.
You people are crazy,lol, i swear some of you haven't even played it, and are just being dramatic. lol
Fans support what they love.
And i'm thrilled to be in the ALIENS Universe again.
It's not as bad as all you are making it out.
...........
I had a bad feeling about this Thread..
You know Burke, i don't know which species is worse..
Hicks, We are leaving..
Stealth Gearbox PR post.
For sure, the 47% on metacritic is just a bunch of people with their heads up their asses.
Fans don't mindlessly support "what they love" regardless of quality, that only damages the brand and the franchise.
Another Update for ALIENS Colonial Marines
Same size too. 106megs
Loving ALIENS Colonial Marines,
i honestly don't understand the hate surrounding it.
You people are crazy,lol, i swear some of you haven't even played it, and are just being dramatic. lol
Fans support what they love.
And i'm thrilled to be in the ALIENS Universe again.
It's not as bad as all you are making it out.
...........
I had a bad feeling about this Thread..
You know Burke, i don't know which species is worse..
Hicks, We are leaving..
Stockholm syndrome in action.
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
Michael Biehn? But I thought Hicks died in the EEV crash in Alien 3!
The perfect Dark
Banned
Believe what you want. This game is fun and even more fun in multiplayer. Like AVP 2010 this is a 7/10 game for me.