Aliens: Colonial Marines (PC/360/PS3/WiiU)

[Colin]

Wait, wait, wait...

Se7enus joins the forum today to tell us all that despite everybody thinks it's an awful game, it's actually brilliant...

HE'S A GEARBOX SPY! SCREEEEEEEECH!

To be fair I thought the same though.......................

[Harry]

The rotters blow up near you.

Played the campaign co-op this evening and some moments (Xbox 360 vers), particularly creeping past those buggers, were intense. It looks shod in places, the shooting is generic, it totally spazes out at times....but it's Aliens - plenty of decent fan service and some cool bits.

I must admit, the co-op makes the game slightly better but you still have the dumb as **** friendly AI with you holding your hand the whole time. The thing they do I like the most is when I decide to backtrack in a level to find extra supplies then they follow me and stop at a random point in the level.

[fishbowlhead]

Jesus Zzap64, age shining through now, I remember spending my pocket money on those magazines and the familiar ring of my mother saying 'why do you keep buying that crap Richard?' Because it interests me mother dear and I get a mega cassette loaded with games, Text based adventures................ A lot of my mispent youth trawling through those well written delights.

Can you imaging trying to explain to a 10 year old now that a, games used to come on tape, what's a tape they would say, and that you have to load the game through your terminal via a command prompt, how times change and how old we get so quickly.

[dvdx2]

how times change and how old we get so quickly.

better believe it - i'm 41 this year

I can remember being 18, like it was yesterday....

golden days though - no internet, no mobie phones, 8 minutes for a game to load and not a care in the world!

[sj33]

Not far from 8 minutes to load a game today to be honest, after you've logged into your online account, dug your way through the advertisement-board, loaded your avatar, updated the game...

[originalbadboy]

Not far from 8 minutes to load a game today to be honest, after you've logged into your online account, dug your way through the advertisement-board, loaded your avatar, updated the game...

True enough but if it had the ocean loading music it would make it go quicker!

['Press Start']

True enough but if it had the ocean loading music it would make it go quicker!

It is advertising the film to kids! man the 80s were great.

[Mayhem]

Can you imaging trying to explain to a 10 year old now that a, games used to come on tape, what's a tape they would say, and that you have to load the game through your terminal via a command prompt, how times change and how old we get so quickly.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19055707

(yes, that's me heh)

[Kit]

"Hate to say it, but I wouldn't get your hopes up too high for Colonial Marines. I used to work at Gearbox, and the development of that game has been a total train wreck, going on what, 6 years now? Gearbox isn't even making the game, except for the multiplayer. Primary development was outsourced to TimeGate Studios, which has a less than stellar past.
I hope it proves me wrong, as I still have alot of friends still working at Gearbox, but I am expecting it to be average at best."

Well that explains a lot and why they were showing multiplayer only at all these events.

I think Timegate made Section 8 didn't they which was a bit of a shocker.

Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal...!

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

True enough but if it had the ocean loading music it would make it go quicker!

I remember this version:

It is advertising the film to kids! man the 80s were great.

I remember going into Woolworths as a child & seeing Robocop action figures in there even tho the film was 15 rated. Mental!!

['Press Start']

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19055707

(yes, that's me heh)

I watched that a few months back. Great article and the kids reactions were great too. I loved the quote by the girl at the end

For us its not that good, oh okay it is pretty good but for them it must have been incredible

[Harry]

SEGA should just give the license to Activision, even if they are money whores, atleast they'd deliver a competent COD clone.

I remember going into Woolworths as a child & seeing Robocop action figures in there even tho the film was 15 rated. Mental!!

18! It's still one of the most violent action movies to this day, I also had all the figures.

[vanpeebles]

I think my all time memory of the C64 is when I was round a friends house down the road playing a darts game on his c64. Not sure which one maybe 180 by Mastertronic or something, anyway we had a huge game and it came down to the final 3 darts each. He needed a single double to win and managed to miss it with all three darts and I went on next and did a three dart check out like a shanghai or something outrageous to win.

Such was the tension and pressure that he grabbed the joystick from my hands, turned it upside and started hammering away at the c64 shouting "STUPID COMPUTER STUPID COMPUTER!!" The spring loaded keys started spinning off all over the shop and I ran home in a panic. Later that day his mam brought him round to say sorry and also said they had managed to get all the keys back on ok.

[QualityChimp]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19055707

(yes, that's me heh)

Top beard, but why did you let the door slam on the cameraman's face?

[fishbowlhead]

I think my all time memory of the C64 is when I was round a friends house down the road playing a darts game on his c64. Not sure which one maybe 180 by Mastertronic or something, anyway we had a huge game and it came down to the final 3 darts each. He needed a single double to win and managed to miss it with all three darts and I went on next and did a three dart check out like a shanghai or something outrageous to win.

Such was the tension and pressure that he grabbed the joystick from my hands, turned it upside and started hammering away at the c64 shouting "STUPID COMPUTER STUPID COMPUTER!!" The spring loaded keys started spinning off all over the shop and I ran home in a panic. Later that day his mam brought him round to say sorry and also said they had managed to get all the keys back on ok.

Ha, those old systems were tanks! My atari st2400 had all sorts of physical abuse, pints of drink spilled into it, always kept going. Good times.