I think A:CM is quite good. I found one reviewer that gave it a 4/5. The graphics are a little dated, but the AI is quite good if you put the game on hard, and the level design is decent. Very decent.

I can honestly say that I don't regret paying �30 for it. The graphics in AvP we're a little bit more modern looking. But not by much. But the characters and story in A:CM is better. The voice acting is better too. The musical score is well implemented.

I don't think it's bad at all TBH. I've been enjoying it. I've heard that the 360 version looks bad or is buggy or something. But playing it on the PC here (with Anti Aliasing forced on the GPU which runs nice and smooth too), it seems perfectly OK to me. And the levels are pretty, well designed, crafty in places and BIG.

Maybe I'm biased. I like Aliens. 

like Aliens? 

I built prologue and chapters 14-15 start to finish, but i also did the LD block for 10, 11, 12, 16, and parts of 17 & 18, but those levels were handed off to other LDs after that. 

http://i.minus.com/i212wUcwcU0eE.gif

Fail cake! 

I got killed by one at least three times.

:( 

I thought the gay Alien was Ricky playing in DM... 

http://gifsound.com/?gif=http%3A%2F%2Fi.minus.com%2Fi212wUcwcU0eE.gif&sound=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DvgiDcJi534Y&start=50 

By the way; http://www.indieroyale.com/

SS3 for $6 and a few other indie games thrown in. 

oh. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_588812&feature=iv&src_vid=3z2qVebxlUo&v=6lGXDM3LGnk

I still can't believe that a developer did this, it looks like all the dynamic lights and lots of the decals were removed from the final game. Maybe it was some performance pass because it was a multi-platform release. The demo looks amazing, the final game is worse! 

Now there's talk of an 8GB patch. That's crazy - the game is only 6.8GB or something. Still - maybe it will put a bunch of things back in that have apparently been stripped.

I must admit that Sock's video shocked me a little. You don't really notice that stuff but when you see it side by side you realise what you're missing.

It's like they accidentally gave everybody else the WiiU version, and just canned the PC version completely. And now they apparently are cannign the Wii version completely. 

maybe they decided to not to risk falling into the doom3 trap where everyone hated how dark it was. the demo was much darker.

hadley's hope was completely ruined though. 

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/jimquisition/6832-A-LIE-ns-Colonial-Marines 

I would guess it's performance / multi-platform woes. I think it's common to run your tradeshow demos on a beast of a PC and sort out the performance later. The art looks damn good, bring on the next console generation and hopefully the rendering / post-processing will stop letting the side down. 

that was in response to the comparison video, obvs 

So I don't play any modern shooters; here's some firsrt impressions.

Too many mechanics, some good most not, diluting each other.

Sprint buttons suck.

The bullet storm style melee insta-kill button is meh. Especially when there's a satisfying weapon (hammer) that does the same job.

Iron sights make it harder to aim.

Enemy design is varied, some are great... but again they threw in a generic shotgun trooper who could be from any game for no particular reason.

The bigger an enemy is the better it's AI needs to be - not the case here :[

Where are the hordes?

Spiders are cool, although the larger version is made pointless by the melee instakill.



Despite all the niggles the game isn't broken, just has rough edges and seems to have lost some of its soul (hordes). Still the core mechanics feel good, and there's plenty of variety in the things to shoot at. 

Hordes are back, all is forgiven.

The melee mechanic now makes sense although sprint is still meh. 

aka Dead Space 3.

Only about 2 hours in so far but daaaaamn son dis shit is off da hook yo. Etc etc.

The weapon system is just fucking awesome. Seriously whoever designed that needs to be given the videogame equivalent of an oscar. So many hilarious combinations and I'm sure I'll unlock more as I get further in.

Gameplay wise it's pretty much standard DS so far. Don't think I've seen anything particularly new added there, aside from the weapon system.

It's the constant tense atmosphere that really makes the game shine, it's done so brilliantly just like the other two titles in the series. There are moments of horror but mostly it's a slow burning dread that permeates just about activity in the game. Pressing a button in this game is scary, haha.

So far things seem super easy on normal difficulty. I've got health kits, ammo and stasis packs coming out of my arse and can craft 300x more if needed at the work benches. I think I really should have picked hard! I decided against it as I'm quite slow playing with a 360 pad, but in hindsight I think I would have been just fine. Tip for you lot! :)

Now go map Quake metl :) 

Visceral Games just need to make an Aliens 3rd person survival horror game and I'll be in heaven. 

http://www.gamefront.com/destiny-not-for-pc-cause-no-one-plays-with-mouse-and-keyboard-bungie/

studio�s co-founder Jason Jones reasoned that the PC would not be a suitable platform for the first person shooter simply because nobody plays shooters with a mouse and keyboard.

Is the PC FPS market really a thing of the past? 

even if it is, that's still a flimsy reason not to develop for the pc since you can plug any usb controller into one. 

Online shooters are evolving, even for the PC.

Look at Blacklight, Planetside and Natural Selection 2. All better than Halo, all modern shooters, all on the PC, all played by skilled players with keyboards and mice. The dude is obviously high on glue. He probably owns an iPhone..... 

...a fucking bellend. It's demeaning to even consider replying to someone who is so self-evidently wrong, but Far Cry 3, Crysis 2, Rage, Dishonoured, Deus Ex, MW3, BLOPS2, BF3, TF2, Quakelive, etc etc DAFUCK.

So they made Halo shit and dumbed down and consolised, well done. Fucking choads. Mouse and kb is still the proper control system. 

http://xkcd.com/386/

rage and quakelive are commercial failures. and the others are consolised games anyways.