In 1979 Ridley Scott released this film about a ragtag bunch of space workers who found a magical space egg that gave birth to their new magical buddy and together they went on a magnificent journey where they learned love, and the meaning of friendship. Sadly everyone perished except for a cat and the coolest woman in space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEVY_lonKf4
Now some
assholeswonderful people at The Creative Assembly, who are known for the
Total War series of all things, have created the next step in virtual pants-pooping technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meNE4CPtnCo
Now as we all know, after the events of the original film Ripley is in hypersleep until she finally wakes up a bajillion years later in a hospital to take part in a sequel that completely misses the point of the original. Anyway, the big part of the opening scenes of that film show that Ripley pretty much slept through her daughter's entire life. In the special edition you can even see her!
(Fun fact: That's actually Elizabeth Inglis, Sigourney Weaver's mom! Creative Assembly even modeled Amanda Ripley's young looks after her)
In this game you get to play as young Amanda Ripley as she tries to find out just what in the flying space-hell happened to the Nostromo 15 years ago. Her little ragtag Weyland-Yutani crew find out the old heap of a space station called
Sevastopol may have gotten some sort of evidence on the whole thing so it's off to a beautiful gas giant in the middle of fucking space nowhere to get some answers. Of course we all know shit hits the fan before you even get there and you find yourself alone with nothing but your wits and the Ripley will-to-survive gene.
I've been streaming this game the past couple nights and it's pretty fun! The human AI is dumb as bricks but the Alien itself is scary as shit. Take a look at an early bit where I poop myself:
http://youtu.be/g1WKZv6hPJc
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This game looks fucking cool. I love the visual design, I love how authentic to the film all the scrappy future tech is. I love how the music was going full on poop-pants while you were in that locker.
I am kind of done with horror games I think. But boy do I enjoy watching other people play them.
goodbye forever
The sound and lighting really push the game even further into absolutely gorgeous territory. It's a shame the character models and animations themselves are....kinda meh in comparison.
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I wish this was going to be in the redbox. Speaking of which, what the hell is the evil within? I saw it's gonna be in there and I'll probably check it out but I know literally nothing about it except "spoopy, maybe?"
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I couldn't see what happened next, but I heard it , it didn't end well
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Yeah! I'm not playing this myself but I am following a Lets Play and enjoying it. Sounds daft but I also like her little responses, like gasps or swearing and sounding scared, I'm glad they made her have scared reactions, some games don't have any reactions like that when they should.
It's even better when you cause it by tossing a noisemaker at someone.
Get him, my pet! Mwahahahaha!
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Also near as I've been able to figure out, Sevastopol is the same model of refinery that was being towed by the Nostromo on the return trip from Thedus.
Also also I loved the save mechanism aesthetic, all having to wait for check-sums being run on a tape drive with a handle.
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Then, I realized I hadn't tested out the flamethrower. Taylor was right there. I didn't think it would do anything. I was wrong.
Fun fact: Killing a friendly NPC gives you a game over.
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that is a fucking RAD model
But man, the environment design is incredible.
like
it kinda sounds like I'm shitting on this game, and I am to an extent, but it's because there is so much the game does right, but it does just enough wrong to be fucking tragic
oh look I flamed the alien for the 50th time and it charged me and ran away and did like 1/3rd of my health and oh look 20 seconds later there it is again
oh hey time to turn on another generator
oh, ripley is going to call out again to inquire if anyone is there
all of those are neat, initially
Oh, and save points with no checkpoints in between is bullshit.
A locked door that shouldn't be locked and I can't get any further
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Also how long is it.
Because it sounds like a fun concept but I'm just a bit worried it may end up getting a bit samey.
Satans..... hints.....
Most people are saying the game goes on too long though
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wait for it to be 20 quatloos USD or less
There's more than just the alien. It's also kind of stupid long. Something like 20 hours. From what I understand the 'Crew Expendable' DLC, where you play scenes from the original film, are fucking awesome, though.
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I guarantee there will actually be an alien this time. @Grey Ghost @JohnHam