Sci-Fi Alien: Romulus (2024)

[DyeLorean]

Ok, I might give the first one a chance!

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Surely you guys played Alien vs Predator at your local arcade back in the day?

 

[Drizzle]

Surely you guys played Alien vs Predator at your local arcade back in the day?

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I don't remember playing AvP in the arcade surprisingly but I do remember this one which came out maybe 10ish years later:

 

[Zantera]

The first AvP is fine. It's kind of a lesser Alien Resurrection to me. You have a crew of characters dropped into a place where they will soon be dead, the downside of AvP is that most of the characters are pretty boring. But it's a perfectly serviceable "if it's on TV and I have nothing else to do, I'll watch it for a bit"-movie. The second one is bad but it's amplified a lot by how dark it is. And we're not talking Zack Snyder "my Batman would get sexually assaulted in the prison"-dark, we're talking "crank up the brightness on your TV to 85% to see something"-dark. There's two scenes/deaths that stand out in the second one just for how gnarly they are (as in, can't believe they actually did that to this character) but the rest just feels like a made for TV canadian production or something.

 

[Captain Tired]

Requiem is the Dolph Lundgren Masters of the Universe of the franchise.

Although not nearly as enjoyble.

 

[Sithborg]

AvP 2 for the PC needs a remaster.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

They shouldn't have chickened out from Prometheus. That's what makes Covenant such a disappointment, it feels like a desperate course-correction that killed creativity.

Yep, all that energy setting up the Engineers in Prometheus I kill them off virtually off screen. And then killing Shaw off also off screen after the journey she wnent on in the first movie.

I can’t stand Covenant.

 

[Captain Tired]

In fairness, the elaboration on the Engineers in Prometheus was wildly seen as a disappointment at the time. To this day I think it really takes away from the Space Jockey in the original.

 

[DyeLorean]

In fairness, the elaboration on the Engineers in Prometheus was wildly seen as a disappointment at the time. To this day I think it really takes away from the Space Jockey in the original.

It was a new tangent for the franchise to move on to. It had new, different ideas. It wasn't the same thing over and over again. It could have gone into this whole different pocket of sci-fi away from the Alien world and, yet, they could still make the safer Alien movies if they wanted to. But with Covenant they just ruined both.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Prometheus I think had some good ideas and could have been great. The execution was awful, though. In the end, that's why it's legacy is what it is and why they pivoted with Covenant

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Prometheus I think had some good ideas and could have been great. The execution was awful, though. In the end, that's why it's legacy is what it is and why they pivoted with Covenant

Did you ever play or watch the cutscenes for Alien Isolation? I feel like it’s something you would have dug.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Did you ever play or watch the cutscenes for Alien Isolation? I feel like it’s something you would have dug.

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I started it many years ago, but didn't get very far. I should really just start it from scratch and just power through it

 

[Snow Queen]

Alien Isolation is my favourite thing the franchise has to offer after the original film. One of my favourite games.

 

[Lily Adler]

I wonder if Prometheus will get retitled as Alien Prometheus?

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

It was a new tangent for the franchise to move on to. It had new, different ideas. It wasn't the same thing over and over again. It could have gone into this whole different pocket of sci-fi away from the Alien world and, yet, they could still make the safer Alien movies if they wanted to. But with Covenant they just ruined both.

Yeah this. It was familiar but new. The Engineers were intriguing and I wanted to know why they turned on humanity and how they created the aliens along with it.

 

[Arnold Rimmer]

OK, there's some mild discourse about something that I need to clarify on after some research. It's a mild spoiler that I don't know the context for yet, but I want to head this off at the pass:

Spoiler

Apparently, there's an (I guess) android character in this named Rook who, at one point, vocally mimics or is a similar android to Ash from the original movie. Some people are accusing this of using AI to copy Ian Holme's voice, but in reality according to IMDB they just used Holme's voice as reference and got a sound alike to try and replicate how he sounded.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Drizzle]

Did you ever play or watch the cutscenes for Alien Isolation? I feel like it’s something you would have dug.

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Alien Isolation is my favourite thing the franchise has to offer after the original film. One of my favourite games.

It's really an amazing horror game and one of those rare movie games that perfectly captures the exact feel of the source material. The base game itself is great enough but the bonus DLC levels covering the events of the original movie where you get to play as Ripley and some of the Nostromo crew was the icing on the cake.

 

[Snow Queen]

It's really an amazing horror game and one of those rare movie games that perfectly captures the exact feel of the source material. The base game itself is great enough but the bonus DLC levels covering the events of the original movie where you get to play as Ripley and some of the Nostromo crew was the icing on the cake.

I think I might just have to boot it up again. Don't have time for a full playthrough at the moment, but maybe the Nostromo DLC before I go see the movie.

 

[Drizzle]

I think I might just have to boot it up again. Don't have time for a full playthrough at the moment, but maybe the Nostromo DLC before I go see the movie.

Apart from just being a quicker fix, the DLC might actually be less stressful because these hellish nightmares aren't in it:



Seriously, the Xenomorph might not actually be the scariest part of the game and that's really saying something.

 

[Elayis]

It's also only worth playing on the hardest difficulty. One of the very rare games where changes in difficulty are actually meaningful and make the alien AI smarter, it's not just health/damage modifiers.

 

[Luigi]

AVP 1999 is the one that holds a special place in my heart.

 

[Gothamsknight]

Alien Isolation is the scariest game I've ever played. Shocked I even completed it.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[blueharvest]

It's not the alien, is it?