Alien Isolation and Aliens Colonial Marines PTSD

[Nouw]

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Apparently, they hired a whole new team to Creative Assembly that specifically do Survival Horror.

Sounds good but the question is then who? I'll find it myself don't worry, you've already elevated this game for me.

 

[Iwata]

I was meaning to make a thread about Colonial Marines to answer this very simple question - is it really that bad? Haven't played it myself but it seems like one of those band wagon hate trains everybody jumps aboard without really playing it or even feeling very strongly about it. It mostly just looks mediocre. Did anybody NOT hate the game?

Hello, my name is Francisco Guerra and I really liked Colonial Marines.

Here's the thing: I'm a HUGE Aliens nerd. I love the movies and own a few exclusive items myself. Since I wanted to avoid spoilers, I never watched the infamous trailer, so I didn't have the dubious pleasure of having that as a comparison to the actual game. But when I got the game, based on people's opinions, I was prepared for a train wreck...

... and what I found instead was a game that, although far from a masterpiece, was still a hell of a lot of fun, and one which I still play on multiplayer with a friend. Hell, I even bought the DLC for it!

I saw the complains and videos about technical issues and glitches... well, I never ran into a single one, playing it on the PS3!

I saw the complains the game was 'too easy'... but I played it on Ultimate Badass (I tend to go for the higher difficulty) and found it to be quite challenging, especially without the HUD.

I saw the complains about the story... and it's no Shakespeare, but it's also not the worst thing this side of AvP.

I saw the complains about the game having human enemies... but Alien Trilogy, Infestation and a few others critically acclaimed Aliens games also have human enemies and no one complained about those.

In all, I found it to be a case of bandwagon hatred. Hell, most of the people whom I talked to about the game and were ragging on it eventually admit to never even having played the thing!

So yeah... my name is Francisco Guerra, and I liked Colonial Marines.

I don't like that it's an Xbone or PS4 or PC game

I'm pretty sure I saw somewhere that it's also coming out on PS3 and 360.

Yeah, on this very site, about the game not coming out on the WiiU:

"While releases for PS3, Xbox 360, PS4, Xbox One and PC have all been confirmed, Creative Assembly and Sega haven't given much lip service to the Wii U"

 

[LaoJim]

Right now, I'm just gonna sit back and see how this turns out. If it turns out to be good I'll buy it and if it's bad well the Alien Franchise will be dealt another painful blow that will make it impossible to gain costumer interest.

Haven't played A:CM. It's three quid second hand now so I might pick up a copy just to see what all the fuss was about.

At the end of the day, a developer is making a game.
We won't know if it's any good until it's released.
After A:CM you'd be wise not to pre-order it.
But lets wish the developers success, no one sets out to make a bad game.

 

[Werewolfkid]

Right now, I'm just gonna sit back and see how this turns out. If it turns out to be good I'll buy it and if it's bad well the Alien Franchise will be dealt another painful blow that will make it impossible to gain costumer interest.

Haven't played A:CM. It's three quid second hand now so I might pick up a copy just to see what all the fuss was about.

At the end of the day, a developer is making a game.
We won't know if it's any good until it's released.
After A:CM you'd be wise not to pre-order it.
But lets wish the developers success, no one sets out to make a bad game.

So True.

 

[Chemical Alia]

I would be wary of any game in development for more than four years, especially not a licensed game. To be afraid of a game just for having Aliens in it seems to be totally missing the point of what development hell really means.

On the subject though, never heard of it, and don't really care one way or another. I only saw like one Aliens movie (two if Prometheus counts).

 

[Mzuark]

I don't like the fact that's its gonna be about Ripley's daughter. I mean, come on. She's been in the movies for like what, 2 minutes? I smell a case of "MUST. MAKE. CONNECTION. TO. RIPLEY." Ugh.

Well what's wrong with that? A character like Ripley's daughter SHOULD be important.