Ben X
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For those unaware, Alien (singular!) vs. Predator was also directed and written by Paul W.S. (What Script?) Anderson and, along with (blech) Death Race, was the reason he wasn't available to direct parts 2 or 3. I haven't watched AvP since it came out, I don't think, but I do remember he ripped off Cube in that film as well, down to the 'character is sliced up but stands normally for a moment before the cuts appear and they collapse into pieces' moment that he also nicked for Resident Evil. (To be fair, that gets ripped off a lot, it's as bad as the bus moment from Final Destination). I'm tempted to watch it again, now! I actually enjoyed Part 5 a lot more in the cinema (the 3D may have helped), so I was disappointed that once I was aware of the general premise it didn't stand up at all. That film and part 6 may have suffered a little from me watching them in such quick succession too.
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Twine often gets talked up as a super-easy, super-flexible engine, but I'll just give my standard warning that, the last time I used it (which was a few years ago), Twine was not that well supported and full of weird quirks. It may be better now, or easier if you know a bit of coding, but I always advise to have a play around with it first and prototype anything you're planning to implement that is more complex than 'click here to go to next passage' - e.g. using audio/pictures, or looping narratives, variables etc.
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I have Painkiller Black Edition, which Wikipedia says "combines the Battle Out of Hell expansion with the original game". As for multiplayer, I'm not really interested in competitive, but if there's a co-op mode I might be up for it once I've got into the game...
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You should, it's still awesome. Remember to use the advanced options to knock the graphics up if you do. I've just got to an on-rails bit where Sexy Bikini Lady drives a jeep and I shoot the gun, except it's the hardest one I've ever played. Even on a run where I do really well and take down every enemy vehicle really quickly, I still get killed very easily. I think this may be my cue to quit. However, I'm taking a break from FPSes for a couple of weeks, so I might leave this installed and see if I somehow breeze through this section when I return to it. If not, it'll be onto Painkiller.
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Kevin Smith read the same spiders article and discussed it on his 'cast: http://www.smodcast.com/channel/smodcast?audio=373
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@eot Did you just coincidentally reply a few seconds after I did? If so, see my latest post - the openness of that level was really cool.
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Click on this thread about Prey, it's definitely not a mimic
Ben X replied to Vasari's topic in Video Gaming
Incidentally, the bit I've heard described, right at the beginning, where sounds very similar to a cool early moment in Deus Ex Invisible War. -
Mission 14 was pretty cool thanks to the layout that has three towers on a group of small islands and lets you go at it however you want. My tactic of choice is to snipe the gunner and pilot off a boat, then drive it past shore mowing down all the landlubbers. Unfortunately, it ends with a bullshit bossfight that requires you to shoot a helicopter six times with nowhere to hide on a boat that is sinking. It is incredibly difficult, especially because it requires pinpoint accuracy and speed with the rocket launcher, which lends itself to neither of those things. I finally got past it and returned to awesome outdoor shooting around some old temple ruins, hiding behind big Aztec heads and stuff. But now I'm in the temple and it's turned back into a really tough corridor shooter. It's not going to take much for me to give up on this game now - that boss-fight almost had me - but I'm still enjoying it enough to keep going.
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Nice one, thanks!
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Alien: Covenant (and all other Alien-related stuff)
Ben X replied to baekgom84's topic in Movies & Television
As I've just linked to this thread from elsewhere, here are some other Alien franchise discussions: Feminism and Alien Prometheus discussion A little bit of Alien3 discussion while I fail to organise a cinema trip Some crazy people don't like Aliens (carries on to Apr 6 2010 with a little Alien 3 discussion) Some more anti-Aliens madness in the Colonial Marines video game thread @Woodfella and @TheLastBaron - wanna tell us why Covenant was so bad? -
There's a thread for that!
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No responses to this a year ago. Does anyone here use VPNs now? Are they worth it? Got any recommendations? My primary motivations would be circumnavigating regional restrictions, and safe torrenting... (for future searches: virtual private network)
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Just watched the trailer - at first I was worried it looked far too CG, but there seems to be a lot of physical sets and stuff in there too, which will be needed to capture the same sense of wonder as the first film, I think. I wasn't put off by one character having clouded eyes, anyway..! I suspect it will be merely okay, but at least doesn't look dreadful from this trailer.
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What's wrong with Jared Leto? Surely not the Suicide Squad stuff which was mainly not down to him? His actual performance in that was fine and he was good in Dallas Buyers Club, Requiem For A Dream etc.
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I'm on mission 14 now, the one where you start on a dinghy, get onto a small island and pick up some explosives then have to blow some comm towers up. It's definitely nice to be back out in the open air fighting mercs, but so far it's not particularly different to any of the other outdoor levels...
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About halfway through now, really enjoying this season, probably more than the first. Really adventurous but still funny - the stuff with was straight out of Seinfeld. Also, good to finally see some pro- media.
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Yeah, first episode was really good! I don't know if Chris will be able to split out more old posts into this topic as previous mentions have tended to be within mega-posts, but here's what I said about season 1: tl;dr I really enjoyed it.
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Christmas Special and season 2 both great! Really hope we don't have another two year wait for the next season, though...
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Uhh, it's the one where you first see the gun-toting trigens. You come out into this big square fort thing where there's a big battle. I legged it out of there and found a glider, which I used to get all the way to a beach. I have to make my way up a path but there's a fair few trigens. It's pretty tough and the latest save-game is at the glider so I have to fly that down each time; I've only had a couple of tries at it. It's garnered a lot of goodwill with me, so I'm going to stick at it, but I do get the feeling that you're right about me having seen the best of it already.
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That does sound interesting, thanks for describing! Far Cry is getting very tough now, the Fat Boys have shown up amongst other things. Judging from a walkthrough, I'm only on mission 11 out of 20. I'm definitely not going to make it to the end! In fact, I'm actually not sure how much of this I'll continue on for. It's regularly turning into a corridor shooter now, and now the trigens are outside it's not so stealthy there either. I wouldn't mind but they are really tough - you could often get face to face with a merc or two and scrape through, but get within 20 feet of a trigen and you're toast. I think I might need to adjust my play style to be more cautious, and try to shoot trigens from as far away as possible! I do have the night goggles now, though, which introduce a nice new mechanic to the game thanks to the draining battery - balancing keeping them on to spot any trigens running around, with keeping them off to recharge for as long as you dare.
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Sorry about Butcher's Bay - I did try! Was there any good stuff coming up? I'm playing Far Cry on normal, and currently finding it tough but manageable. Like I said above, I don't expect to finish this game because I know it gets stupidly hard towards the end. I've encountered a few Trigens now and it's actually a nice change of pace. You go from hunting mercs in the jungle to firefights with them in big maintenance bunkers to monsters leaping at you in science facility corridors. It's gone from a Lost vibe to a Jurassic Park vibe. I've been itching to get back to it, which I haven't had with a game for while!
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I haven't seen the Christmas Special, so my excitement is not muted either!
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Season 2 just arrived on Netflix! I am now re-watching season 1 in preparation.
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I read the book years ago and found it interesting but not that satisfying. Though I had a sneaking suspicion it was too clever for me. The pilot was pretty cool, just lots of weird stuff basically.
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