Randy Pitchford, a poor man's Denis Dyack

[Great Rumbler]

[Diunx]

This still isn't out?

[Great Rumbler]

Is it February 12th yet?

[Joe Molotov]

I thought this thread was going to be about it being cancelled.

[Sho Nuff]

Might I make the bold prediction this game will be really bad

[Joe Molotov]

Might I make the bold prediction this game will be really bad

Wait for the superior Wii U version before you pass judgement.

[Vertigo]

Will maybe get it when it drops to £17.99 two weeks after launch.

[Great Rumbler]

Already picked up my copy on PC for $37.50.

[rodi]

Already pre-ordered. 

[chronovore]

I thought this thread was going to be about it being cancelled.

Yeah, I was afraid of the same thing!

[Great Rumbler]

OP updated to reflect that Aliens: Colonial Marines is NOT, in fact, cancelled.

[DCharlieJP]

Will my MBP2010 piece of shit run this better than xburts or Pls3 ?

[Sho Nuff]

It's unreal engine so I imagine it'd be super speedy

[Momo]

There is ZERO chance I will be able to convince 3 bros to buy this with me :'(
I mean, we're all sure this is going to be a poo game but fuck .. it's aliens

[DCharlieJP]

yeah - PC version it is - the PC version is pretty much half the price of the X360/PS3 versions here in the SpewK plus ... Aliens!

[Robo]

Now I'm confused by this Ron Paul shit.  Oh, Great Rumbler, you're just too bad [at making thread titles].

[Great Rumbler]

Got my key from GMG and now I'm preloading!

[Stoney Mason]

Watched some video of this on YouTube. It does not look like a good game.

[cool breeze]

Lots of negativity from people who have advanced copies.  People who've reviewed the game are tiptoeing around the nda and warn others away.

[benjipwns]

Has there been any story about why this took so long to come out? IIRC Gearbox announced this before Borderlands even.

[Rahxephon91]

Has there been any story about why this took so long to come out? IIRC Gearbox announced this before Borderlands even.

This is what I want to know about most. Seems like it took forever to come out and not exactly how it was supposed to.

[drew]

even though i'm a big Alien fan I think i'm gonna try to pick this up as a rental.  you know there's problems when they can't make their game not look janky in their official commercials and screens.

[maxy]

http://wolfsgamingblog.com/2013/02/11/latest-issue-of-games-tm-scores-aliens-colonial-marines-4-out-of-10/

[BobFromPikeCreek]

However, they describe the Aliens as having no sense of danger about them, that your skin doesn’t crawl when the tracker starts to go off as it should: “At no point are you given a real reason to fear the Aliens: after all, they are pests and you are part of the intergalactic extermination crew.”

That's exactly the feeling I got from the most recent trailer. Game's tone seems to be "yeehaw, let's kill heaps of aliens!" which is soooooo the opposite of what makes Aliens great.

[hampster]

[Don Flamenco]

so, capcom's AvP beat-em-up is still the best game out of the aliens (or predator) franchise?

[Joe Molotov]

However, they describe the Aliens as having no sense of danger about them, that your skin doesn’t crawl when the tracker starts to go off as it should: “At no point are you given a real reason to fear the Aliens: after all, they are pests and you are part of the intergalactic extermination crew.”

That's exactly the feeling I got from the most recent trailer. Game's tone seems to be "yeehaw, let's kill heaps of aliens!" which is soooooo the opposite of what makes Aliens great.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

 

[Don Flamenco]

hold your breath, zack!

[drew]

[ManaByte]

Took the money I would've spent on this turd and renewed PS Plus with that +3 month offer. Now I'm paid until the end of 2014.

[Don Flamenco]

someone needs to add Deadly Premonition elements to that gif.  The hold your breath meter, maybe a cut to York and the kid holding their breath.

[Sho Nuff]

However, they describe the Aliens as having no sense of danger about them, that your skin doesn’t crawl when the tracker starts to go off as it should: “At no point are you given a real reason to fear the Aliens: after all, they are pests and you are part of the intergalactic extermination crew.”

That's exactly the feeling I got from the most recent trailer. Game's tone seems to be "yeehaw, let's kill heaps of aliens!" which is soooooo the opposite of what makes Aliens great.

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[MyNameIsMethodis]

damn thats a fine ass alien

[Howard Alan Treesong]

remember, the nearly complete Obsidian Aliens RPG was killed off 4 YEARS AGO so that SEGA could funnel all resources to the sure-thing Gearbox FPS!

[MyNameIsMethodis]

i played a bit of the aliens rpg it was alright wouldve bombed anyways

[Barry Egan]

 ahahahahahahahaha that gif

[ManaByte]

Gearbox seems to have two teams: the competent Borderlands team and then the interns who finished DNF and did this.

[Don Flamenco]

aren't there rumors that Gearbox used some of the money from this game to fund Borderlands 1 development?

[Eel O'Brian]

they obviously don't give much of a fuck about anything other than borderlands

...and maybe brothers in arms

[MyNameIsMethodis]

the story goes iirc ist hat you had gearbox that was led by jace hall, who work on borderlands now. this is the good gearbox that was around pre halo port. once they did the halo pc port htey got loads of money, jace hall left and made a new team which is what worked on sambo de amiga wii after coutner shit zero. then that team went onto this aliens project while hte A team was working on the first brothes in arms then borderlands iirc

[ManaByte]

the story goes iirc ist hat you had gearbox that was led by jace hall, who work on borderlands now. this is the good gearbox that was around pre halo port. once they did the halo pc port htey got loads of money, jace hall left and made a new team which is what worked on sambo de amiga wii after coutner shit zero. then that team went onto this aliens project while hte A team was working on the first brothes in arms then borderlands iirc

I remember when Jace Hall was running Warner Brothers Interactive/Monolith and he came up with this rule that if someone made a shitty licensed WB game; they would owe Monolith/WB money to make up for the shit game based on its Metacritic score. Monolith made Matrix Online, it was REALLY SHIT, and then he shut up about that "rule".

[MyNameIsMethodis]

maybe im confusing monolith for gearbox i forgot one of the stories is true for a developer

[Purple Filth]

However, they describe the Aliens as having no sense of danger about them, that your skin doesn’t crawl when the tracker starts to go off as it should: “At no point are you given a real reason to fear the Aliens: after all, they are pests and you are part of the intergalactic extermination crew.”

That's exactly the feeling I got from the most recent trailer. Game's tone seems to be "yeehaw, let's kill heaps of aliens!" which is soooooo the opposite of what makes Aliens great.

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[MyNameIsMethodis]

It's not even a bug. Game spoilers:

"It's not a bug. There's a ~sewer level~ where there's all these weird shambling zombie xenomorphs that track you by sound because they can't see you (the developers obviously didn't notice that the xenomorphs in the movies didn't have eyes...) so you walk around slowly while these zombies get up and wander around randomly.

The objective is to flick these switches that turn machines on and make noise to distract them, right? So then they hear the noise, run towards it in a neat line and explode one after the other. There's no explanation given as to why they randomly commit suicide by exploding.

I wish I was making this shit up "

[Don Flamenco]

maybe im confusing monolith for gearbox i forgot one of the stories is true for a developer

do you mean Randy Pitchford?

[Joe Molotov]

It's not even a bug. Game spoilers:

"It's not a bug. There's a ~sewer level~ where there's all these weird shambling zombie xenomorphs that track you by sound because they can't see you (the developers obviously didn't notice that the xenomorphs in the movies didn't have eyes...) so you walk around slowly while these zombies get up and wander around randomly.

The objective is to flick these switches that turn machines on and make noise to distract them, right? So then they hear the noise, run towards it in a neat line and explode one after the other. There's no explanation given as to why they randomly commit suicide by exploding.

I wish I was making this shit up "

There's also no explanation given for why they look like they need to poop and they're rushing towards the bathroom.

[drew]

(the developers obviously didn't notice that the xenomorphs in the movies didn't have eyes...)

yeah, they do.  their eyes are located underneath the translucent part on the top of the head.  xeno skulls actually have eye sockets almost identical to humans.

[Great Rumbler]

However, they describe the Aliens as having no sense of danger about them, that your skin doesn’t crawl when the tracker starts to go off as it should: “At no point are you given a real reason to fear the Aliens: after all, they are pests and you are part of the intergalactic extermination crew.”

That's exactly the feeling I got from the most recent trailer. Game's tone seems to be "yeehaw, let's kill heaps of aliens!" which is soooooo the opposite of what makes Aliens great.

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[Don Flamenco]

It's not even a bug. Game spoilers:

"It's not a bug. There's a ~sewer level~ where there's all these weird shambling zombie xenomorphs that track you by sound because they can't see you (the developers obviously didn't notice that the xenomorphs in the movies didn't have eyes...) so you walk around slowly while these zombies get up and wander around randomly.

The objective is to flick these switches that turn machines on and make noise to distract them, right? So then they hear the noise, run towards it in a neat line and explode one after the other. There's no explanation given as to why they randomly commit suicide by exploding.

I wish I was making this shit up "

There's also no explanation given for why they look like they need to poop and they're rushing towards the bathroom.

oh shit, that's why that gif is funny...that's exactly what I walk like when i gotta shiz

[MyNameIsMethodis]

laughing hard

[Great Rumbler]

Whatever. I don't care. I'm gonna get right up in some alien grills and blast them in their stupid faces with my awesome gun because I'm a cool army man and that's what I do all day.

[Sho Nuff]

That sounds like the best level, I've always wanted to know what it's like to explore a sewer with xenomorphs

[Sho Nuff]

Alien face punching sounds like it's the adventures of HERK MONDO, star of what must have been the dumbest aliens comic ever



My dad wrote this one! It was pretty boss

[chronovore]

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[Raban]

I didn't really care about this thread when you first made it, GR. But now, it is a constant source of entertainment Can't wait for GiantBomb to do a video.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

its like a little baby alien tip toeing into the ktichen to steal a cookie and trying not to wake up momma alien

[ManaByte]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=512813

Hate to say it, but I wouldn't get your hopes up too high for Colonial Marines. I used to work at Gearbox, and the development of that game has been a total train wreck, going on what, 6 years now? Gearbox isn't even making the game, except for the multiplayer. Primary development was outsourced to TimeGate Studios, which has a less than stellar past.

[Eel O'Brian]

alien drank way too much and stayed at the bar way too late without calling, is stumbling through the darkened house hoping she doesn't wake up and start a whole big thing about it

[MyNameIsMethodis]

all the while murmuring "fukkin bitch lol"