Alien: Covenant

[JasonPratt]

Michael Wadleigh's Wolfen was another (pretty great) movie with a pre-Aliensesque Horner soundtrack. Heck, some of the chime instruments typical of his film scores can be seen, and heard, as props in a New York park during one of the early murders!

An Trek2ish Horner score along with Krull (which might have come after ST2 actually) is Battle of the Planets the great lo-budget Seven Samurai adaptation to sci-fi on Star Wars' coattails, featuring among many great character actors Robert Vaughn as basically his same character (but older) from The Magnificent Seven!

[JasonPratt]

I am absolutely going to buy Alien: Isolation during the Steam Holiday sale.

You can buy it; and the dev team sure deserve to be rewarded with sales.

But buying it and playing it are two quite different things.  :hide:

[Gusington]

I am not afraid - I'll play it.

[mirth]

An Trek2ish Horner score along with Krull (which might have come after ST2 actually) is Battle of the Planets the great lo-budget Seven Samurai adaptation to sci-fi on Star Wars' coattails, featuring among many great character actors Robert Vaughn as basically his same character (but older) from The Magnificent Seven!

You're thinking of Battle Beyond the Stars ;)

[mirth]

I am not afraid - I'll play it.

I'm going to pick it up too, Gus.

[BanzaiCat]

Yup, it's Battle Beyond the Stars. Another excellent movie that at the time made lasting impressions on me. The score was excellent.

And f*ck all of you and your Alien: Isolations right in the dookie hole. The last thing I want is nightmares and more stress in my life, game or no. I've barely been able to watch the gameplay vids online. Plus, I'm not much of a fan of stealth games.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

The alien was annoying.  The god-damned, twitchy, discount bin synthetics were the real menace as far as I was concerned.

[Gusington]

The Aliens: Colonial Marines game gave me nightmares. And I paid 2.99 for it. Still felt ripped off.

I've seen Alien: Isolation on sale for ~10.00 and I'm in between games right now...I should just get it and start playing tonight.

[BanzaiCat]

Aliens: Colonial Marines was, unfortunately, a joke.

The Aliens vs. Predator PC game was tough for me to get through - the thing gave me serious heebie jeebies.  That was the 1999 version - I looked it up and didn't know there was a 2010 version.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Do it Gus!  They Isolation designers nailed the look and feel of the first movie.  Love the late 70s retro sci-fi vibe.  I also think the setting is great.  Much of the game takes place on a space station operated by a company that competes with Weyland-Yutani.  The company comes across as a sort of space K-Mart.  They sell cheaply produced junk products and they're going bankrupt.  The station itself is in the process of closing up shop so lots of stuff doesn't work right, lots of burnt out lights, lots of disgruntled email exchanges between management and employees, etc.  Stuff like that really add to the already great atmosphere.  I stopped playing about 2/3rds of the way through as I got myself stuck in an impossible situation and hadn't saved for quite a while and didn't want to repeat a bunch of stuff, but I may just dust the game off and start again from scratch.

[Sir Slash]

Sounds like an AAR to me.  :clap:

[Gusington]

I know people rave about Isolation...the one reservation people seem to have is that it's too frightening 💀

[Sir Slash]

Backing-off a little now are you? Afraid of that sound in the dark behind you? Me too!  :-\

[mirth]

Hold me.

[Gusington]

Of course