Reaching pretty hard if that's the only parallel.
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It was a small scale mod for Half-Life 2 that some associates and I were working on. The plan was to replicate the Survival multiplayer gameplay mode from AVP2; every survivor team member killed resurrects as an alien and vice versa. This gamepaly type was great for drawing a team together on the survivor side and gameplay tended toward barricades and bottlenecks. The initial launch was going to be just USCM and aliens on two maps: a larger, more accurate leadworks from Alien 3 and a cargo ship map from one of the Dark Horse Aliens comics. Both maps were very fun to work on in their way; the leadworks as an exercise in exacting reproduction and gothic grimyness, the American (cargo ship) as a tight mechanical battleground with lots of Aliens vibe. I'd planned out traps on each map that could be used to score extra points for your team; the lead mould, piston and fan vent from Alien 3, as well as an airlock trap on the American. I was pretty proud of that last trap because it was potentially super lethal, but the players would want to go into it because we'd planned to make EVA suits part of that map. An alien could activate a trigger once they were sealed in and space them before the suit-up timer had elapsed, or vice versa if an alien player got stuck in (explosive forces launching them out and away from the map to a kill zone perimeter). We had hopes that the players would be able to take the fight into zero-g and hole up round back at the engines or something. Of course the aliens would be able to follow them out from other strategic exit points and have no need of air. This thinking led us to other cool sabotage ideas for the ship like the aliens disabling the gravity and lights — because tilting the balance in favor of the aliens seemed to lead to more 'in-character' gameplay: sneaking, cinematic kills, etc. Eventually technical, legal and real life hurdles groud progress to a halt and we abandoned the project in that form. We've not come back to it since, but with engines like CryENGINE 3 or UDK being so widely used with such rich development options, we might go back to it again... or mod Colonial Marines if such a thing is allowed by the devs.
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Dedicated to all the poor souls whose 3D glasses didn’t come with a spoon.
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From a thread on /tv/. I’m not going to write transcripts for them because that’s retarded.
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June 26, 2012 at 2:44 pm
So what was the point of the opening scene?
June 26, 2012 at 7:36 pm
I believe that it was an allusion to Prometheus, instead of stealing fire, it was creating life
June 27, 2012 at 6:26 am
Prometheus also created humans out of clay prior to the stealing of fire from Olympus.
June 26, 2012 at 2:58 pm
What’s this from?
“The trick is not minding that it hurts”…I first heard this line in All The President’s Men, attributed to G. Gordon Liddy –though I wouldn’t be surprised if earlier versions exist (Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, etc.)
June 26, 2012 at 3:29 pm
lawrence of arabia said The trick is not minding that it hurts the clip with Peter O’Toole is used in the movie
June 26, 2012 at 7:38 pm
Okay, that too.
June 26, 2012 at 4:02 pm
Is that Scorpius?
June 26, 2012 at 4:55 pm
the first picture looks like squidward when he turns into a “hunk”
June 26, 2012 at 9:47 pm
Nope, Scorpius.
June 26, 2012 at 6:00 pm
June 26, 2012 at 6:16 pm
Dedicated to those
whose 3D glasses
didn’t come with a spoon
so you can eat our asses.
June 26, 2012 at 7:44 pm
He was making the sacrifice of being the first living thing to incubate the bio weapon so they could unleash it upon the human race, which they created and decided was flawed, thus destroying them. Didn’t work out exactly as planned.
June 26, 2012 at 8:05 pm
That was supposed to be Earth, and the creation of the Human Species, not the bio weapon, so I believe that he was Prometheus giving life.
June 27, 2012 at 9:55 am
who said it was earth. i think it was lv 426 thousands of years ago, no?
June 27, 2012 at 10:06 am
think about it. why create the bio weapon on earth, fly hundreds of light years to build a temple on a another planet, only to fly thousands of light years BACK to earth to release it? why wouldnt they just build the temple on earth? doesnt make sense. lv 426 had water in the first scene, thousands of years later it didnt, and then thousands ( or hundreds ) of years later it had water again. planets change like that all the time, ( ie: mars)
June 27, 2012 at 1:02 pm
LV 246 was a remote Bio Weapons Facility, I agree however it also had a ring system and looked like it had a different primary. The opening scene was imo Earth, and the start of all life, also the reason not to build the weapons facility on Earth would Humans, and the possibility they would stumble across it, I still dont understand why they left clues as to where the facility was in cave paintings and other art. Especially going by the actions of the Engineer they release from Cryo……Again this is one of those things where we may never know which is the right answer
June 26, 2012 at 9:17 pm
“Dedicated to all the poor souls whose 3D glasses didn’t come with a spoon.” What does that mean?
June 27, 2012 at 9:02 am
Lots of people have taken issue with how many (blatantly) unanswered questions are left by the end of Prometheus. I’ve had a great time puzzling them out with a couple of repeat viewings and discussions with friends and online people. I’ve come to the opinion that many people didn’t like the film because it didn’t spoon-feed them the answers. Battleship is perhaps a Sci-Fi film that would suit them better.
June 27, 2012 at 1:14 pm
Ah… I see. I must say I rather enjoyed the lack of answers as well. Keeps the theories pumping and is fun to see which one plays out. Even the opening scene seems to be in question (I took it as a panspermia of sorts, though that is likely the improper noun as I believe it refers to strictly space-born spores/bacteria)
June 26, 2012 at 11:24 pm
All I know is that in the army we used to give our MRE spoon to people who were pissing us of and tell them “Here, why don’t you eat my ass”
Maybe another case of only making sense in a limited context.
June 27, 2012 at 9:03 am
“3D glasses”
3D* glasses.
I fixed that for ya.
December 2, 2012 at 7:56 pm
This movie ruined the series for me. I even saw it in the theater as opposed to downloading it like usual. Aliens is my favorite movie, pretty much perfect in every way, plot, effects, acting, etc. Prometheus was just idiotic. There are no heroes in space missions, no alcoholics, and no unplanned EVAs. Removing your helmet? That shit was not planned, and thus wouldn’t happen. And in at the end.. she planned on traveling to their home world to destroy them? I’m guessing she planned to starve 1/1000th of the way there, or figure out how to use the alien cryo-sleep module. But what about food when you get there??? But I digress. Stupidest movie EVAR.