Alien: Isolation

[BanzaiCat]

Alien 3 sucked huge rotting donkey balls. I choose to ignore that it ever happened.

There were so many good Alien-themed scripts for the third installment out there, several of which are online.

Interesting fact - the actress that played Newt never did another movie after Aliens.

[mirth]

You mean "was" a badass of sorts. I was pretty annoyed at how cavalierly Rebecca and CPL Hicks were killed off in their sleep in the beginning of Alien 3.

You and a lot of other folks. It pretty much negated Ripley's actions in Aliens.

It wasn't supposed to be that way, but Alien 3 went through so many rewrites that what made to the screen was a mish-mashed mess of story ideas.

This early draft would have been a much better third film

http://www.awesomefilm.com/script/Alien3.txt

[JudgeDredd]

Alien 3 sucked huge rotting donkey balls. I choose to ignore that it ever happened.

There were so many good Alien-themed scripts for the third installment out there, several of which are online.

Interesting fact - the actress that played Newt never did another movie after Aliens.

Too f***ing scared I'd think!  ;D

[JasonPratt]

Here's Angry Joe's official review, which is not the livefeed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGX2WE4QUw8 argh, sorry, that was Colonial Marine, sorry. His actual review hasn't gone up yet, just the livefeed still.

I'm kind of amazed Totalbiscuit hasn't gotten his WTF review up yet, but I'll pass it along when so.

Yahtzee's should go up this afternoon, I'd expect, as we know he and Jim Sterling were playing it earlier. That'll be interesting, because he hates to admit he likes a game and is super-critical, though partially for sake of the humor.

[JasonPratt]

Argh, Yahtzee did Shadow of Mordor this week, which does make sense as it was released first.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/9802-Shadow-of-Mordor-Review

Last week's Uncivil War between him and Jim involved them seeing who could molest more orcs before time expired (i.e. rushing them and throwing them down and running away).

[sandman2575]

Interesting fact - the actress that played Newt never did another movie after Aliens.

Oh well. If nothing else, at least she provided the inspiration for an early South Park episode where Cartman, for no apparent reason, keeps riffing on "they mostly come out at night...mostly..."

;D

[undercovergeek]

Thanks Banzai Cat for that detailed post.

I think it's a sale item for me...though I seem to be trying to convince myself otherwise...mainly because I LOVE the original ALIEN movie.

I'm just not convinced it's enough for me to be scared throughout the game to be able to enjoy a game. I think I'd have much preferred the visceral blasting of hundreds of xenomorphs charging at me and my marine buddies. That game (an early Aliens one who's name escapes me) was scary enough AND I had a shit load of weapons.

I think the idea is pretty cool...I'm just not sure it would be my bag. In fact, I'm convinced it won't be...but then I question that because the retro look and the lighting and the atmosphere and the xenomorph and the feel of the ALIEN movie...they make me all confused again.

As with yourself and JH - a huge cut in price would persuade me to give it a punt.

plus you wont like the UI

[Huw the Poo]

LOL Geek!

Watching Let's Plays of Isolation is what made me want to buy it.  I'm a massive fan of the films, and seeing how faithfully they've recreated the look and feel, and seeing how plain nasty that alien is, made me want it badly.

(Jason, as an aside, you know the whole point of lucid dreams is that you have complete control over them?  This is an area of interest for me - PM me if you like)

[JasonPratt]

Huw, yes, and once upon a time I did (when I could recall it was a dream, which didn't always happen -- consequently the more 'normal' dreams were the ones which tended to actually 'kill' me. ;) )

Even so, that took me several years to learn how to do as a young boy, and there's a big difference between lucid dreaming for ten or fifteen minutes and lucid dreaming for around eight hours. I burn around 3 lbs of weight every night just from the electrochemical expenditure. That's a MASSIVE amount of biochemical energy, and the stress naturally feeds back into the content.

Seriously, I wish I could turn it off. If you know how to do that, pm me! Multi-decade exhaustion plus increasing external stress is what probably burned out my control around 10 years ago -- the source of the external stress has mostly waned and I'm verrrrryyyy slowly getting the ability back, but I noticed that at about the same time my very-short-term memory was shot (more than usual ;) ), which I expect is connected with the loss of being able to force content manipulation the dreaming state. (I can't judge fencing bouts anymore in real life, specifically not foil or sabre, the ones requiring a judgment of right of way.)

[Gusington]

I really liked Alien 3. It wasn't the original or Aliens, but I enjoyed the setting, lack of high tech weapons and the medieval feel of it.

[Arctic Blast]

I'm kind of amazed Totalbiscuit hasn't gotten his WTF review up yet, but I'll pass it along when so.

TB just had surgery a day or two ago, so I'd imagine he's out for a short bit.

[BanzaiCat]

I really liked Alien 3. It wasn't the original or Aliens, but I enjoyed the setting, lack of high tech weapons and the medieval feel of it.

The setting was kind of cool - isolated alien planet with even more isolated prison.

Roc was pretty cool.

Everything else was shite. Though the movie was pretty much doomed from the start since it went through so many changes and reorganizations. I'm actually surprised it made it to the screen.

I did like Alien Resurrection to an extent. Thought it was a lot better than Alien 3 but not as good as the first two. The human/alien hybrid thing at the end was just retarded and it lost just about all of its cred with me at that point.

[Gusington]

Meh I did not like Resurrection :/

[BanzaiCat]

It's hilarious how studios have pretty much been responsible for ruining movies - the very movies they sponsor and shoot. If they'd leave the moviemaking to the directors and producers at STFU, 'development hell' would disappear. For the most part.

[JasonPratt]

That's partly because studios prepay a lot of the ridiculous amounts of money necessary to get a movie made at all.

When that happens, it's hard to resist the temptation to try to manage your godawful amounts of money at risk out there in production, so as not to lose it at least.

Also, I like Alien 3 and 4, but I originally had trouble adjusting back to a more first-movie vibe after Aliens -- we know the creatures can be killed en masse even though it's difficult, so the threat level felt off -- and when they sacrificed the other survivors to the plot at the very beginning I felt pretty betrayed and couldn't get past that. Some years later I rewatched A3 and felt better about it. Also, while the director's cut of a movie doesn't always help (it tends to bloat Aliens for example), I thought it did in this case, though I haven't watched even that version for a while so I couldn't tell you why I thought there were improvements. Probably just in fleshing out the characters some more, would be my guess.

I own the amazing Blu collection, though I haven't watched any of the movies that way yet; but I did watch a lot of the A3 extras, for more information on the difficulties and on what the movie might have originally been. Some of the original ideas, I have to agree, just weren't going to work (a wooden spaceship monastery, with a pool and kind of a garden of eden on top exposed to space...? am I remembering that right, it couldn't have been THAT crazy, could it??), but I do wish they had managed to keep a little more of them.