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Aliens: Colonial Marines |OT| Game Over Man, GAME OVER!
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TheJollyCorner
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I'm enjoying the co-op, there's definitely some fun to be had when other players are involved. Though it does get frustrating when you try to employ basic tactics like sniping heavies from a distance, just to get teleported away from your vantage point to the business end of a smart gun, because the rest of your group moved forward slightly.
Krappadizzle
Member
AvP1 Marines Campaign is better than AvP2. AvP2 isn't bad at all, just that AvP1 had a ton more horror.
SpaceHorror
Member
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roYZJB3BT8I
Mixed multiplayer footage on X-Box 360.
Gotta say, even if the campaign looks like it could disappoint judging the early walkthroughs, multiplayer is showing a lot more promise for me.
Survivor looks fun as hell.
Mixed multiplayer footage on X-Box 360.
Gotta say, even if the campaign looks like it could disappoint judging the early walkthroughs, multiplayer is showing a lot more promise for me.
Survivor looks fun as hell.
Ehm..
Yeah, ill just..
umm..
oh god..
What is this shit?!?!
So when people call it "one of the worst looking games".... what are they talking about exactly? Even multiplayer mode looks ok to me here.
edit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qLuOVI1Fic
Yup. It looks fine
plagiarize
Banned
AvP 2 was the better MP game, AvP 1 was the better single player game, by far. It still is. It's held up really well.
You're saying it looks worse in person than it does on Youtube? That would be a first
Yeah, might as well buy AvP1.
Anyway, it really sucks that somehow nobody can succeed in making a "good" modern Alien/s game.
I think devs and publishers approach the franchise wrong. Just applying some orignary shooter mechanics won't work.
plagiarize
Banned
Shrug. It was in 2010's AvP. And in AvP2. If I just want to play survivor I'll just fire one of them up. I was hoping for a scary first person shooter like any of Rebellion's efforts... not this.
The video you posted I'm pretty sure is not final version PC footage. Half of the things it shows either aren't in the finished game or are implemented differently. On 360 the game looks like hot garbage, slightly worse than Duke Nukem Forever, but it sounds like the PC version is better.
I played a bit of multiplayer at the Eurogamer Expo last year and enjoyed it. It wasn't anything groundbreaking but it was decent fun.
Either something has gone terribly wrong here between then and now or the rest of the game is steaming hot garbage, which is likely. I hope there's still a community for the game when I pick it up on Steam for £3.
Krappadizzle
Member
You really should if you haven't played it. It's $5 on Steam I think. I just picked it up this past weekend.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
Win!
The game doesn't look anything like that. At all. The lighting is completely different. I don't think there's actually any real-time lighting at all. There are certainly no real-time shadows cast by most of the environment or characters.
Edit: these are all from the PC version. Image from the April "demo" first, image from the PC version second.
That's the PC version maxed out, by the way.
I hope there's some kind of resemblence to the april footage in the PC version. The lighting looked much better and that intro sequence with the body hitting the umbilical is downgraded in the final version for some reason.....
Why did you take away the glass break decal Gearbox?!? WHYYY?!!?
Maybe they decided it was made of plastic?? (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
If all else fails, I hope they at least give us an SDK so that the community can fix the game. Too bad DLC practices these days shuns moddable games and even cheatcodes.
Edit: I hate you aegies!!!!! Why do you always have to be right with your stupid truths!?
Why did you take away the glass break decal Gearbox?!? WHYYY?!!?
Maybe they decided it was made of plastic?? (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
If all else fails, I hope they at least give us an SDK so that the community can fix the game. Too bad DLC practices these days shuns moddable games and even cheatcodes.
Edit: I hate you aegies!!!!! Why do you always have to be right with your stupid truths!?
9am now. Apparently fixed. Gonna go give it a try!
Edit: Still getting the same error even after restarting Steam like they said, LIES!
shira
Member
Doesn't look bad to me. Not great no, but it's not as if it's insulting my eyes. The game has never looked mindblowing graphically in any kind of preview.
SkoomaSuckinSwit
Member
Thanks for the reply, appreciated!
Damn.
I'm playing AvP now, and think it's a pretty OK game. I picked it up for $8.
I don't want to play a worse game for $63. :/
What to do, what to do.
Get the game, have a decent time, feel like the game wasn't worth $63.
Wait a month, price drops $20...none of my friends are playing coop anymore (if they even are at this point.)
The other thing about the umbilical sequence, as it appears in the final game, is that it's no longer interactive. I feel like the game is full of moments that would have originally been mini games/interactive sequences, but now simply involve pressing the X button to trigger an extended animation (complete with slowly filling meter), or a cutscene.
Mr. Luchador
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http://gifsound.com/?gif=http://cha.../www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jEM8-Gbknk&start=20 (contains music and some swearing)
Just send it back
Not sure where you live, but I imagine you will have some form of consumer law similar to our Distance Sales Act when you can return anything (still sealed) within 7 days of receipt.
Well, you are getting a new Aliens game, one that has many shiny surfaces in it. Maybe you should have waited for a good one instead?
Finally got the exe in an update, but now it crashes at the Sega intro, lawd...
MyAbsolution
Member
One of the deepest and richest games MP wise I have ever played.
5 years of that non-stop mang.
Used to play as Preds with only using Claws or Combi. Melee Preds FTW
Fuck auto tracking in general too lol
CosmicQueso
Member
I can't believe that with all this news people DON'T want to play it.
Then again, I played Rogue Warrior because of how bad it was.
I wanted it to be good, but since that doesn't look to be the case, I'm going to roll around in this shitpile like a newborn suckling pig.
Then again, I played Rogue Warrior because of how bad it was.
I wanted it to be good, but since that doesn't look to be the case, I'm going to roll around in this shitpile like a newborn suckling pig.
My thoughts after level 5...
Why are the aliens exploding after a couple of bullets
Why did I just play a stealth level with no guns (the worst fucking kind) in an ALIEN game
Why are my AI teammates talking over eachother cancelling the other ones audio
Why is the death animation so goddamn awful...
....and why are the load times after death so so soooo long
Fuck
Why are the aliens exploding after a couple of bullets
Why did I just play a stealth level with no guns (the worst fucking kind) in an ALIEN game
Why are my AI teammates talking over eachother cancelling the other ones audio
Why is the death animation so goddamn awful...
....and why are the load times after death so so soooo long
Fuck
Green Yoshi
Member
Ehm..
Yeah, ill just..
umm..
oh god..
War has changed.
Why does it look so bad? It's from the Borderlands 2 creators after all.
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
The dialogue is hilariously shit. And the devs actually consider this crap a "true sequel" to Aliens!
Finished on Hardened, collected all but one of the stupid collectibles. Do not buy this game at full price.
5/10 for SP, going up to a whopping 6/10 for MP/Co-Op.
Amazes me that the 2010 AvP looks better than this and is in many ways a better game (even though it has its own, massive failings). Gearbox should be ashamed of this, and as nice as Mikey Neumann is, the story sucked, which is particularly galling after he openly mocked the scripting of Sega's trailer.
I have to admit there's a part of me wanting to get this to see how bad it really is then return to EB. But I can't handle the shame of buying it and pretending I am so uninformed about the terrible reviews.
SkyMasterson
Member
I'm really curious to hear what Randy Pitchford has to say about this.
He hyped the shit out of this game and from the trailers in the last few years, it looked pretty sweet.
What went wrong? What would have the game been like had it been out a year ago?
Despite all the negative hype and poor-average reviews coming in, I still plan on picking this up when it's under $20 and play it co-op with my buddies.
Just so damn sad it didn't even come close to the hype(assuming the reviews are somewhat accurate).
*goes back to playing Alien Infestation*
He hyped the shit out of this game and from the trailers in the last few years, it looked pretty sweet.
What went wrong? What would have the game been like had it been out a year ago?
Despite all the negative hype and poor-average reviews coming in, I still plan on picking this up when it's under $20 and play it co-op with my buddies.
Just so damn sad it didn't even come close to the hype(assuming the reviews are somewhat accurate).
*goes back to playing Alien Infestation*
It's hard to top Dead Space.
Moff
Member
the AvP1 marine campaign was godlike, I never experienced more fear in my entire life.
but apart from that, I think even the AvP2 single player campaign was better, the alien beginning alone was outstanding.
too bad they put so little effort in AvP2010 to make it such an uninspired game. well I kinda liked it anyway.
I really really dislike that man, I know he needs to sell games and he cant stand there and say they suck, but the way he promoted duke and aliens, with this fake enthusiams, that was sleazier and uglier than any PR suit I have ever seen.
SEGA SEGA SEGA do me a favour, and dont plug me in to a Sega and the and the and the graphics.
WTF have they done. I can still remember the shit at the time when Haze came on PS3, well, this one takes that trophy.
Played quite a bit on coop though, the AI team just keep running ahead like they are out of control, how the hell you meant to explore and find things. They even run through the doors without them being open, yet you have to press X to open and go through hahahahah.
WTF have they done. I can still remember the shit at the time when Haze came on PS3, well, this one takes that trophy.
Played quite a bit on coop though, the AI team just keep running ahead like they are out of control, how the hell you meant to explore and find things. They even run through the doors without them being open, yet you have to press X to open and go through hahahahah.
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
It's DEAD, alright, can I go now?
reptilescorpio
Member
They spent all the money on Borderlands 2 obviously.
XANDER CAGE
Member
Ehm..
Yeah, ill just..
umm..
oh god..
I'm laughing so hard right now, good lord.
"hey dude"
CosmicQueso
Member
All right, GAF, what are you waiting for? Breakfast in bed? Another glorious day to play A:CM! A day with A:CM is like a day on the farm. Every meal's a banquet! Every paycheck a fortune! Every formation a parade! I LOVE THAT A:CM!
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In other news, there's some person in PR over at SEGA looking at this thread writing an email that says "Interest on core gaming message boards is huge! One such site, NeoGAF, has over 1,500 posts and 125,000 views in a single thread for Aliens(R): Colonial Marines(TM)!!!"