Originally Posted by SNIPERMikeUK Nice to see a great video to acompany the review, showed some great stuff, and no american trash talking just nice calm talking english peeps....
hahahah at this - he is right but its nice that its pointed out!;)
Originally Posted by Hovis Regarding the marine being able to fight aliens and predators in hand to hand I don't know where people get the impression it's impossible or unusual. In Aliens Vasquez fights and beats an alien in hand to hand combat, just she happens to get maimed by the acid spray, but she does a pretty good job of pinning it's head to the side of a duct and shooting it through the face. Both Dutch and Harrigan in the Predator movies also have pretty drawn out hand to hand fights with the monster, although they look set to lose both the evidence is without the element of surprise the Predator doesn't always have it so easy.
There's also Machiko(? it's been a while since I read it), the (blooded) human that ran with a Preditor pack in the AvP book Hunter's Planet. She often held her own against the Preditor she nicknamed Shorty, so it's definitly not impossible.
Yeah Machiko slaps a few aliens about, but the books are just expensive fanfic. The AvP games are very much just Predators stepping into the Aliens franchise. The books seem to be a bit all over the shop. The AvP movies are Aliens turning up in the Predator franchise, and to be honest if it wasn't for the fact the games have been so good over the years the whole thing wouldn't have lasted longer than Freddy vs Jason. There's no consistency and nobody to address the simple fact that a smartgun is to Predators what a hungry bloodhound is to a poorly concealed sausage.
Much as I liked AvP and AvP2 I do miss the days of pure Aliens games. Aliens was arguably one of the very first ever First Person Shooters back on the Spectrum and Amstrad, and there was a really rather cool Alien game based on the first movie as well. Alien 3 on the Megadrive was pretty cool too. Predator just had a sideways scrolling shooter as far as I recall that I played on the Atari ST but it wasn't up to much, there was a Predator 2 game but I think that was even worse. I'm very interested in seeing what Colonial Marine turns out like. Without the Predators the Alien series has real potential, as does the Predator series if somebody was to pick it up. There's a new Predator-only movie in the pipeline so maybe things will take off again.
I have the full retail game now. Trying out the Marines single player and I'm not impressed. Graphically it's nice but I really hate the firing from the hip garbage. Not to mention that the pulse rifle is pathetic. I go through 50 rounds to kill an alien but 12 rounds from a pistol will kill one. Going to try the Predator single player now.
got the game this morning not happy as for some reason once you choose who you want to play and the intro finiishes nothing use task master and it says game not responding so uninstalled rebooted and it worked so thought i woulg give multi-player ago same as before not responding so at the moment pissed of lol:(
I have to agree though, the details and textures do look very crisp regardless of the fact it is DX9. Watching that video did impress me quite a bit. Shame the actual game looks boring and derogatory derivative.
Corrected. I'm gonna popularize the concept of Vocabulary Nazism :D
Originally Posted by llah66 got the game this morning not happy as for some reason once you choose who you want to play and the intro finiishes nothing use task master and it says game not responding so uninstalled rebooted and it worked so thought i woulg give multi-player ago same as before not responding so at the moment pissed of lol:(
I had the same problem but found if you select Dx9 from the launch options it works fine. I have a GTX260 so im annoyed you cant play on DX10 but i've had no problems since doing this. Played through Predator missions in under 2.5hrs but enjoyed it. Near the end of Marine missions now and its way better. Glad to see the aliens jump all over the place, was worried they would be more static due to consoles. Also wish id played on Hard because im finding it very easy
Originally Posted by runadumb I had the same problem but found if you select Dx9 from the launch options it works fine. I have a GTX260 so im annoyed you cant play on DX10 but i've had no problems since doing this. Played through Predator missions in under 2.5hrs but enjoyed it. Near the end of Marine missions now and its way better. Glad to see the aliens jump all over the place, was worried they would be more static due to consoles. Also wish id played on Hard because im finding it very easy
Supposedly Nvidia cards have issues when you enable VSync and Mouse... something.
ATi cards don't run when you use Catalyst 10.1 or 10.2 so you have to roll back the drivers.
There's an FAQ on the Steam forums which lists common problems and how to solve/get around them.
Tried the demo, consisted of nothing more then aliens and predators running around grabbing people, only for another alien or predator to line up behind and wait for the animation to end so they could then perform the insta-kill grab.
Marine was practicaly useless, for every 1 lucky kill you'd get the opporunity to watch yourself being grab killed 10 times.
Originally Posted by vdbswong Supposedly Nvidia cards have issues when you enable VSync and Mouse... something.
ATi cards don't run when you use Catalyst 10.1 or 10.2 so you have to roll back the drivers.
There's an FAQ on the Steam forums which lists common problems and how to solve/get around them.
VSync, Mouse Lag, and pre-rendered frames. All those options have to be turned off to supposedly "fix" the game, however mine still stutters/freezes every few minutes. Not that it really matters since I find the game crap either way, but still, very irritating.
Got stuck into the game now and am on Mission 3 of the Marine campaign. I'm reminded more of Alien Trilogy on consoles than the first AvP with the melee attacks letting you fight off a facehugger by hand in SP. That breaks my disbelief compared to the 1999/2000 game and it should've been left in - as a single facehugger is that deadly and I want to play in the world of the films.
My only gripe is making DLC out of MP maps that they gave away in a special offer last weekend - I'm assuming not even the people that overpaid by £13 on Steam will get those 4 extra maps for free, they'll probably be expected to pay a fiver. There's going to be a sequel now, so I'll move straight on to that and would only consider DLC when it was all bundled as an retail add-on like Fallout 3.
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ReplyThat does look rather swish... hopefully it'll look rougly similar if it runs in DX10.
hahahah at this - he is right but its nice that its pointed out!;)
There's also Machiko(? it's been a while since I read it), the (blooded) human that ran with a Preditor pack in the AvP book Hunter's Planet. She often held her own against the Preditor she nicknamed Shorty, so it's definitly not impossible.
Much as I liked AvP and AvP2 I do miss the days of pure Aliens games. Aliens was arguably one of the very first ever First Person Shooters back on the Spectrum and Amstrad, and there was a really rather cool Alien game based on the first movie as well. Alien 3 on the Megadrive was pretty cool too. Predator just had a sideways scrolling shooter as far as I recall that I played on the Atari ST but it wasn't up to much, there was a Predator 2 game but I think that was even worse. I'm very interested in seeing what Colonial Marine turns out like. Without the Predators the Alien series has real potential, as does the Predator series if somebody was to pick it up. There's a new Predator-only movie in the pipeline so maybe things will take off again.
Fear my Aliens nerd skillz.
Oh, DX11 graphics rock! Game looks amazing!
Corrected. I'm gonna popularize the concept of Vocabulary Nazism :D
I had the same problem but found if you select Dx9 from the launch options it works fine. I have a GTX260 so im annoyed you cant play on DX10 but i've had no problems since doing this. Played through Predator missions in under 2.5hrs but enjoyed it. Near the end of Marine missions now and its way better. Glad to see the aliens jump all over the place, was worried they would be more static due to consoles. Also wish id played on Hard because im finding it very easy
Supposedly Nvidia cards have issues when you enable VSync and Mouse... something.
ATi cards don't run when you use Catalyst 10.1 or 10.2 so you have to roll back the drivers.
There's an FAQ on the Steam forums which lists common problems and how to solve/get around them.
Marine was practicaly useless, for every 1 lucky kill you'd get the opporunity to watch yourself being grab killed 10 times.
VSync, Mouse Lag, and pre-rendered frames. All those options have to be turned off to supposedly "fix" the game, however mine still stutters/freezes every few minutes. Not that it really matters since I find the game crap either way, but still, very irritating.
My only gripe is making DLC out of MP maps that they gave away in a special offer last weekend - I'm assuming not even the people that overpaid by £13 on Steam will get those 4 extra maps for free, they'll probably be expected to pay a fiver. There's going to be a sequel now, so I'll move straight on to that and would only consider DLC when it was all bundled as an retail add-on like Fallout 3.
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