/v/ - Video Games

Did you know we have a board (several in fact) to discuss films?

>>14083224

Did you know we have a board (several in fact) to be a faggot on?

>>14083247

Meant for >>14083242

But I guess the other post works too.

Now that I caught your attention. Give me a goddamn first person base-building strategy team, resource management, mission undertaking horror shooter.

Aliens vs Predator 1 and 2 are really good and nail the "Aliens" film atmosphere perfectly.

>>14083412

AVP1 is really goofy and suffers from dated tech. AVP2 is fantastic but really drops the ball in the final act of the Marine campaign. To be honest, Alien as a franchise is full of so much potential but nobody can seem to take advantage of what it really has to offer. You could easily do better than just HURF DURF MUHREEN ACSHUN with horror elements.

I'm imagining a full-fledged MMOFPS style game, where the focus is essentially a sandbox survival game. Players are all marines/humans, and you have to survive the xenopocalypse on Earth. You can still wreck xenos with the right tech, but there's billions of the fuckers, and more being made every day.

>>14083557

>dated tech

Do you consider Quake and UT outdated? Because AVP1 plays just like a fast-paced arena shooter.

>You could easily do better than just HURF DURF MUHREEN ACSHUN with horror elements.

..But that's exactly what Aliens was all about? It was Vietnam in space.

The AVP games give you the same suspense and dread that the movie did. As a bonus it fucking allows you to play Alien and Predator campaigns as well. If you want something more in line with the first film then Alien: Isolation is just for you.

>sandbox survival game

So you want the fan-fic comic shit where earth has been overrun with xenos, fuck that.

The best alien game is a doom wad.

>>14083628

Quake and UT work pretty well for what they are, since they weren't trying to base themselves too hard off of any existing IP's. Don't get me wrong, AVP1 is still pretty good, but it lacks that thick atmosphere of Alien and Aliens.

And yeah, Aliens WAS HURF DURF MUHREEN ACSHUN with horror elements (which is fine, it's a great film), but you can still do better with the franchise in general. Aliens was the peak of its quality.

I'm saying I wish a game could do more than just "sorta get it". Alien: Isolation was pretty good, and captured the feel of Alien, but it's more of an Amnesia clone with a nostalgic kick. At least they got atmosphere and tone down pretty well, but still.

>>14083434

That was my first game I had for the playstation.

I was, like, 8 a the time. My parents knew how to raise a kid right.

>>14083656

>what is AVP on the Atari Jaguar

I like how they made it so you could cocoon marines as an alien in that game. If you die, you spawn as another alien from a cocoon. You had to tactically create these spawn points and wait for the embryo to grow.

The Predator had a 'honor' system. Kill with wrist blades or spear and you'll gain honor, kill with high tech and you'll lose honor points. The more honor you have, new weapons unlock and vice-versa. You had to be strategic about what weapons to use. You can just cloak and kill people but that won't gain you any points.

>>14083434

NOBODY REMEMBERS YOU. FUCK OFF.

>>14083628

>sandbox survival game

>So you want the fan-fic comic shit where earth has been overrun with xenos, fuck that.

I personally want a first person base-building game where I must create bases and escort my mining vehicles so nothing bad happens to them. Where I make raids against aliens, where I somewhat create my own base/exits/escape plans.

I basically want AvP2 with a good engine. I want to play as the colonists/soldiers/general working on the pods which can get infested and I have to seal off good chunks of my own base so I don't blow it up and lose 20 billion dollars.

>>14083147

That would be >>>/xen/1406

>>14083628

>Aliens was all about? It was Vietnam in space.

Aliens and The Thing are their own subgenre of horror, the crowd response scare: when people start panicking all around you and break up unity. We are much more used to the loner kind, that deals with the fear of being alone and dying.

>>14083133

what is your opinion on colonial marines VS aliens in SS13?

>>14084531

AVP Extinction is the closest thing to what you're describing, it's an RTS and console exclusive.

>>14084611

Alien

The Thing

Tremors

Jaws

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Aliens

Predator

Starship Troopers

Dog Soldiers

>>14084602

The graphic design is simply amazing and if you're a fan of the first Alien's aesthetic, I'd say it's a must-play. The issues with the game are forced "cutscene" prompts you do constantly i.e. open a door and the game is three times too long for its effect to hold. The first six hours? Fucking fantastic, I don't think you even meet the ayy until 2-3 hours in and the first few encounters, like in any "escape as you can't fight" horror game are terrifying, and the androids might even be more scary than the creature itself.

But by the end of the game, there's no fear left at all in the alien, it's just an obstacle that you might even try running past to a prompt/cutscene instead of sneaking past at some points because you just want the fucking game to be over. There's not two, but THREE false endings for Christ's sake.

>>14084726

It's shit.

I wish AVP2010 had released an editor and ACM had released the source code. Maybe we could have fixed that hot garbage with some serious intimate modding.

>>14084695

>SO STRONK

>gets it's assed handed to him by the first Alien Queen.

Search Space Beast Terror Fright on steam. Its pretty much the closest to "Aliens" you are going to get. Plus its coop online and local. Trust me its good.

>>14084726

Eh, it's a mixed bag. Playing xeno is pretty fun since you can become a Prae/Boiler/Rav/Crusher and have great fun killing marines, if you don't get to be T3 you can play as a Hunter/Spitter and be pretty usefull too. If you play marines, be prepared for rounds where you might die or get stuck in medbay for 15 minutes due to shitty doctors or overcrowded medbay, also the usual FF accidents where some retard blows a limb out off you with buckshot while trying to kill one runner, also the fact that SS13 has a stun-based combat and the fact that xenos are walking stun machines don't add up to the fun when you get dragged and tackled spammed to death by 1 xeno. Playing squad medic is the most stressfull shit ever. It's a pretty unique experience if you can put up with all the bullshit in it.

http://www.colonial-marines.com/wiki/Main_Page

They also try to add some spice to the lore by adding shit like space commies or militia type rebels.

>>14093653

There's also Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop, a good free game.

Can anyone be our camwhore/photographer? I need some pics of the alien bases and Derelict ship, maybe some videos. I want to brainstorm ideas about level design, bosses, extra enemies, alternate takes on the levels with my virgins.

>>14095252

What? Just play the games, you fag.

>>14095257

Without discussing it from a game dev's perspective? You disgust me.

>>14083557

>AVP2 is fantastic but really drops the ball in the final act of the Marine campaign.

I'm curious to know your reasons for why it "drops the ball".

>2 days later

JUST

FUCK MY SHIT UP FAM