AlHazred Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 Re: Aliens, as in ... well, "Aliens" I used to work with a bunch of PC techs. You would think they'd never seen a real live girl. Speaking for PC techs, we resemble that remark... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 Re: Aliens, as in ... well, "Aliens" The first and second movies disagree with each other though, for "canon" purposes... There is no queen and no castes in the first movie - the Aliens are self replicating and convert bodies into facehugger cocoons. BTW - I think the superleap of the computer games comes from the scene in the medlab in the second movie. Although that is a bit dubious. Most likely it is a play balance issue because all the other characters in the game have distance weapons and the Alien needs to close fast. The AVP movie was bad. If they had stayed closer to the comics from which it derived its characters and plot, and had less Tomb Raider elements - and if it had gone for an older audience - it would have been a better movie. The movies have the following types of Alien- The original, dome headed, self replicating (first movie) The warrior/guard, rib headed, mule (second movie) The queen, the massive egg layer of the hive (second) The dog breed guard (third) The slightly more human-than-alien warrior/guard breed (fourth movie) The slightly more human-than-alien queen (fourth movie) The newborn (about 50/50) live birthed from the queen (fourth movie) Ripley - some alien (fourth movie) The comics included- The predalien - an alien born of predator Aquatic aliens - based on native seagoing animals. A bit like mermaids various others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupus Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 Re: Aliens, as in ... well, "Aliens" The sting is in the original script for ALIENS. I put it in as I recall seeing it in the novelization... (I think...).Yeah' date=' those things often have a habit of dropping out of play, though. The deleted scenes from the original film included Ripley finding an area of the ship covered with secretions and Captain Dallas coccooned there, asking her to kill him (exactly like similar bits in film 2). Yet, in film 2, Ripley had never seen something like that (she didn't recognise the secretions). It's fair enough to include a writeup, because the stingers weren't explicitly written out by anything but the AvP movie, but I'm glad they're added in as optional powers. I only used ALIEN and ALIENS for the adaption. Thus anything else is suspect in my book. Especially anything from AVP, which looked like utter crap in my opinion.Yeah - was really talking to the GM here. One thing I did like about your writeup was that it drew essentially from the first two films. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupus Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 Re: Aliens, as in ... well, "Aliens" ... and that's exactly what I was looking for. Of course' date=' against 19th-century British colonial infantry, the Alien might be rather more deadly, but I'm sure that my players will enjoy the challenge at least briefly. Ah! Well, that's a bit different. YEah, in that case, a single alien might provide a serious challenge for a whole unit. Those musket balls will probably do some nasty damage, but I probably wouldn't describe them as armour-piercing per se...I missed that at the cinemas; it really did strike me as a watch-on-DVD release Yeah, pretty much. I saw it in the cinema, 'cause I'm a fan of both franchises. I went in expecting a crap film, I got a crap film. It was still fun, though, in my opinion. More or less like watching kinda good fanfic with a $50m budget (or however much they spent). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 Re: Aliens, as in ... well, "Aliens" Yeah' date=' those things often have a habit of dropping out of play, though. The deleted scenes from the original film included Ripley finding an area of the ship covered with secretions and Captain Dallas coccooned there, asking her to kill him (exactly like similar bits in film 2). [/quote'] This was put back into the director's cut. Makes the film much better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupus Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 Re: Aliens, as in ... well, "Aliens" This was put back into the director's cut. Makes the film much better. Yeah, I agree, was a great scene. Creates a slight continuity problem between film 1 and 2 (Ripley's reaction), but that's not a big problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlHazred Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 Re: Aliens, as in ... well, "Aliens" This was put back into the director's cut. Makes the film much better. I just wish I'd picked up the Japanese release of all the Aliens films. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 Re: Aliens, as in ... well, "Aliens" I'm a fan - but not THAT big of a fan... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 Re: Aliens, as in ... well, "Aliens" Yeah, but that is a one heck of a cool display case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhollyRandom Posted December 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 Re: Aliens, as in ... well, "Aliens" I like the way you think... Well, I've already run a similar game using GURPS; it worked well, but I had a few ideas for changes to the background and setup and felt like running it under Hero this time around ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Major Tom Posted December 22, 2004 Report Share Posted December 22, 2004 Re: Aliens, as in ... well, "Aliens" Speaking of the 19th Century: Just imagine what Rorke's Drift would've looked like with Aliens as the main enemy instead of the Zulus... Major Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Obvious Posted December 22, 2004 Report Share Posted December 22, 2004 Re: Aliens, as in ... well, "Aliens" Probably like a frog in a blender multiplied several thousand times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted December 22, 2004 Report Share Posted December 22, 2004 Re: Aliens, as in ... well, "Aliens" Speaking of the 19th Century: Just imagine what Rorke's Drift would've looked like with Aliens as the main enemy instead of the Zulus... Mass slaughter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted December 22, 2004 Report Share Posted December 22, 2004 Re: Aliens, as in ... well, "Aliens" It wouldn't be mass slaughter - there weren't that many British. If the British were Aliens, it would be mass slaughter... But it's close enough historically to that, anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Major Tom Posted December 22, 2004 Report Share Posted December 22, 2004 Re: Aliens, as in ... well, "Aliens" I was thinking more along the lines of kippers with afternoon tea myself (Now there's a mental image for you...). Major Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhollyRandom Posted December 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2004 Re: Aliens, as in ... well, "Aliens" Speaking of the 19th Century: Just imagine what Rorke's Drift would've looked like with Aliens as the main enemy instead of the Zulus... Major Tom That's essentially the game I ran; I set it on Mars via Space 1889, essentially to throw the players slightly and, more importantly, to be able to use a liftwood airship to evacuate them at the end ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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