A lot of you guys citing reviews and then proceeding to bash the game are the same folk who constantly claim how useless and biased reviews are, especially in the DmC thread. I guess this thread is just more evidence a large chunk of gamers use reviews for confirmation bias.
Let the back pedaling/denial begin.
Anyways haven’t played Aliens because unlike a lot of you, I actually openly admit that I let critical reviews have some sway in where my money goes, but I pirated AVP: Evolution on my ipad it’s a pretty damn good beat’emup.
Shit, didn’t even need reviews for this pile of shit, people had playthroughs put up on youtube a week or so before the game was released and you could tell something was really off. I was hesitant after seeing those more than any of the reviews, even though the EGM’s 9 outta fucking 10 was hilariously off the mark. I glance at reviews for a general consensus on stuff, but usually my tastes are specific enough that I know reviewers aren’t going to cover a lot of game aspects anyway, so I’m generally indifferent to genre oriented reviews on stuff that I want to try anyways. Ninja Gaiden 3 was ass compared to NG1/NG2, but I didn’t mind it as a game overall…the 3s didn’t scare me off cuz it’s still my bag…
Hell, Yahtzee on Zero Punctuation is about the only reviewer in the world who will rip into stuff for petty annoying shit that others will gloss over.
I don’t know if you meant me cuz I’ve been extremely vocal about how shitty this game is, but trust me, the reviews for it didn’t point out anything I didn’t see already. Played through it twice, solo, then co-op and there is nothing redeeming about it. DmC I said I would play in the DmC thread a while ago, and while I wouldn’t give 8’s or 9’s, the gameplay/level design was okay, but it too often felt like NT was trying to change things up gameplay-wise just to prove a point rather than thinking it was in DmC’s best interest as a continuation/reboot of the series
Hell the Alien Infestation DS game was a better rendition of Aliens than Colonial Marines was. Make no mistake though, the reviews didn’t sway me to cancel my special edition, it was the game playthroughs. You could tell immediately that it wasn’t anywhere near the demo’s level of quality. THIS GAME IS FUCKING TERRIBLE. It makes AVP 2010 look like a masterpiece
@Louiscipher
I liked AVP 2010(only played 360 version). It was a little too old school in some of it’s design, but I enjoyed the gameplay for the most part. The Aliens and Predators felt like threatening enemies as a Marine, the Predator was a little cheap with the Disc boomerang, but the game had decent amounts of tension and was suspenseful(unlike CM in any way shape or form). A bit too straightforward in alot of ways, but the 3 campaigns kept the variety up. Multiplayer was okay(I basically stopped the instant I got all the cheevos), wasn’t super in depth, but playing as the Aliens was far more entertaining than I thought it would be. Fuck them Predator Invisible Disc spammers though. Last Man Standing or whatever on that shifting Pyramid stage was pretty tense though. I always wound up being the One Marine against all aliens/Predator players, which was actually pretty awesome. You could just walk around with the motion tracker out, wait for the Aliens/Predator players doing their hilarious daisy chain CQC kills(they would literally line up waiting for the QTE) and then Pulse Rifle the whole group. Won so many matches as Solo Marine lol.
Single player campaigns were okay, the Alien part was the briefest and a little buggy. The complaints came from the multiplayer being terrible especially when compared to AVP2 released by Monolith in 2001.
[details=Spoiler]So everyone is wondering why the engineers would wipe out the entire population of planets ( earth), wait thousands of years for one race to become superior and then do eradicate them again.
it occured to my mind that it could be possible that the engineers are a dying race, all of them are looking the same, there are no (or none showed) females and the living engineer was dazzled by seeing Shaw, what was someone interpreted as him seeing female the first time.
so its quiet easy: the engineer race is dying, thes just survive by cloning themselves over and over again.
to ‘heal’ them they plant their dna on planets, hoping that superior race they are creating will turn out as ‘healthy’ engineers, female and male, so they can reproduce themselves naturally.
if the outcome of evolution is not similar to them they wipe it out with the xenomorph and start over.
they have to different ‘teams’ to accomplish this, one is flying across the universe, seeding life, the other one follows the path of the first one, checking planet for planet, if their plan succeded, if not they release the xenos. this would explain the two kinds of spaceships and the enormous amount of black goo they are carrying.
excuse the mistakes and please let me know what you think about my theory.[/details]
Just don’t let Lindelof write the death scenes, if he’s involved. Wonder how they’re gonna do this though, are Shaw and David just gonna go to the Engineer homeworld by themselves…?
Damn, one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. HUGE inspiration on media. Fuck, where would Japan be if they couldn’t steal from him? Fuck. I knew he was an old man but I was hoping he had a few more years left.
Honestly I thought he passed away years ago, until there was talk about him and Prometheus. Still sad news, can’t think of an artist that has had more of an effect on entire generation of sci-fi and horror movie lovers.
There are artists who have had their impact on fantasy, space opera sci-fi, etc. like Frazetta, Syd Mead, Moebius. Giger and Alien 1 pretty much defined the past 35 years of creature horror.
Shame to hear this, whether you liked his work or not he was an inspiration for an entire genre who’s work is still being felt today. Hopefully some good tributes come out for him, I plan to do one of my own.
