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I know that it's a bug thing, but it's less known and therefore more alien (that's the point). If you would ask some random people if they knew about queens and how that works, and then ask them about egg-morphing, you would probably see that more people would know about the queen-version. Egg-morphing fits the franchise better since it's more alien, but the queen is alright.
“how are you going to make an ALIEN game built around the Engineers?”
“ALIEN games have always either been about gunning down xenomorphs or hiding from xenomorphs since the good old atari days.”
I didn't say that you only got to have them as enemies, you can have Engineers and other things. To just have Xenos when you can also include other things (like for example hammerpedes, what ever) would a missed opportunity and boring to me. What you can do is also to heighten the importance of the Engineers in the game, kind of like how they tried to make the Engineers important in Prometheus. Don't limit the franchise to just Xeno-monsters (monsters with Xeno-traits), it gets repetitive. I would like to see new things, not just things that get re-chewed so to speak.
“... they can have very diverse forms due to the xenomorph caste system/take on their hosts' traits…”
Yeah I know, fair enough, but there could be other things than just Xeno-like creatures. I would like to see new things and not just Xeno-isms that we've had since the late 1970's. Not that Xenos are bad, but because I'm more interested in new things.
“... androids would be no different then the human players just with white blood.”
Eh, no. Androids are synthetic, humans are organic, but I see what you mean. Maybe, it depends on how they are made. There could be ways to build them as characters, in ways that I might not be able to see.
About the Engineers, I would probably give the same answer to you as I did with the androids. What's good about games is that you can come up with new stories and therefore try new things, they don't need to be strictly tied to what came before. You can add things, remove things. In case those things are interesting enough they might show up in a movie sooner or later, who knows. I would rather get new things instead of just having what we've seen a lot of times before. Just because you try new things doesn't mean that you got to start completely new, from square one so to speak.
Your thing seems to be that they (Disney or what ever) can't introduce some new things into the franchise, since they are in your world not alien, as in the franchise. My approach is that you can introduce new things and still have it in the alien-franchise. This seems to be a thing where we have different opinions, but that’s alright.
In general, I would rather take something new, instead of having a movie or game with the Xenos again and again. Just because you add new things doesn't mean that it can't fit with what's already there. As long as it makes sense, then why not? Prometheus for all its flaws added something new (Engineers) but at least it tried. You can have something new there that connects things, but at the same time try new things.
Not interested in Rey, she came off as a miss perfect in the sequel trilogy. There was nothing that she had to fight for to improve her skills. Keeping episode 7-9 in mind, I’ll pass on this one, and it's not because of what some call woke stuff, feminism, or anything like that.
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UPDATE 4/9/2023:
Last week Shin Kamen Rider fell to 5th place in its 3rd week in theaters. It's not exactly looking great for the latest SJHU flick which now sits at 1.5 Billion Yen ($11.6 Million ~estimated~). In terms of third week draws from similar franchise films, it's trailing behind both the Monsterverse and SJHU, with the exception of Godzilla vs. Kong, which bombed in 2021. Its attendance has crossed 1 million with 1,008,634 admits.
Gridman Universe continues to bomb in its second week as it drops from a 5th place opening to 8th with only 334.9 Million Yen ($2.5 million ~estimated~) and only 231,083 admits. If it drops out of the top 10 and never hits 500 million Yen, it will be next to impossible to know what its final gross/attendance is unless reported by the studio. The good news is it will beat each of Polygon's Godzilla movies--which isn't a high bar and were only in theaters for 4-6 weeks before being released to Netflix. (Box Office Theory via Kogyotsushin)
3rd Weekend Comparisons:
Shin Godzilla:
3.36 Billion Yen/$32.6 Million/>2.59M attendance
Shin Ultraman:
2.69 Billion Yen/$21.2 Million/1.77M attendance
Godzilla: King of the Monsters:
2.21 Billion Yen/$20.5 Million/1.51M attendance
Godzilla 2014:
2.05 Billion Yen/$20.1 Million/1.42M attendance
Shin Kamen Rider:
1.5 Billion Yen/$11.6 Million/1.01M attendance
Godzilla vs. Kong:
1.4 Billion Yen/$12.9 Million/0.90M attendance
Charts updated.
Explain to me, Thoughts_Dreams, how are you going to make an ALIEN game built around the Engineers? Hmmm?
ALIEN games have always either been about gunning down xenomorphs or hiding from xenomorphs since the good old atari days. It works, because the xenomorph has alot to offer for a video game enemy, they can have very diverse forms due to the xenomorph caste system/take on their hosts' traits, whether you like that idea or not, (it's been part of ALIEN canon since the original, according to the creator commentary)
This why Alien vs Predator games are very popular because when you throw in the Yautja, you get more enemies to fight and more gameplay options. Also the ability to play as a Colonial Marine, Xenomorph, and Yautja will always be a popular.
Androids are okay as enemies and while it would be cool to play as one, (we can in the Alien RPG), however gameplay wise, androids would be no different then the human players just with white blood.
Engineers would be interesting as a boss-type enemy but at a gameplay point of view, the engineers would just be tankier version of the Predator/Yautja player/mobs. Especially if we give the Engineers any advanced weaponry.
Yeah like the last three Star Wars movies weren't annoying with a low reception
"My body, forged of steel; My brains, flowing electrons. Stunning crying children into silence, and silent children into tears. Jet Jaguar takes the stage!"
(Goro Otaki)
Godzilla Singular Point
Hopefully they make something new, going back to something that has been successful is to play safe, but it becomes too limiting. It's safe to travel a familiar road, but sooner or later it gets old, so I prefer if they make something new. Maybe games is something where they can try to make new things in the franchise? Somewhere there got to be a place to introduce new things, so we don't get limited to Xeno-monsters (Xenomorphs, not Neomorphs and so on, but the original Xeno-monster). Xenos are awesome, but there is a place for other things too. A franchise where you don't dare to have new things gets limited, stagnates, and eventually dies.
“A king has his reign and then he dies” Im not a huge fan of Prometheus but that line is interesting. We are born, live, and die. It’s what we do in our lives that count
Hopefully the reign of the Alien-franchise can be expanded, so it can continue to live and not die by just being repetitive (for example by always have Xenos in it). One thing to do this is to expand on the Engineers, games might be a way to do that. When you throw in the Engineers you can also create new things from there, maybe new worlds.
The tripod design in this looks like a mix of Spielberg's 2005 tripod, and a sentinel from The Matrix.
I wonder if there will be more Martian machines, most film adaptations leave those parts out and only include the fighting machines.
This movie's CGI looks terrible especially compared to the 2005 Movie
@Jonesy, I don't think anyone is hearing our prayers for an Alien: Isolation 2 unfortunately... haha
Also, the "Embed" button works to add YouTube videos directly into your post so it's fewer clicks for people looking to watch the video.
Nicozilla,
Do you even bother looking at the news section:
A Legend Returns in New Gamera Rebirth Trailer
there is literally a watermark at the bottom of that image that says not to repost it.
you are stealing.
yep, this news is 9 days old.
well at least its not 3 months old like your previous "news" posts.
bleh.
“It’s a battle to the death! Hear for yourself the cries of these terrible monsters!”
- TTV Announcer, Destroy All Monsters (1968)
I actually quite enjoyed watching 65, it raised a lot of interesting questions.
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Nah, I’ll pass because it seems to be repetitive. Another problem with trailers nowadays is that they often seem to be giving too much away, so why bother with the movie?
Good to know another new Alien game coming up so soon. This one looks similar to Fireteam (which is a great game) but I prefer a Alien Isolation part 2. Anyway, I am looking forward to it and the trailer looks good.
UPDATE 3/31/2023:
Sort of difficult to say what happened last weekend as my usual translated sources didn't deliver. According to Kogyotsushin Shin Kamen Rider only fell to 3rd place to earn an estimated total of 1.14 Billion Yen. ($8.7 million estimated) (Pixiin) The estimated attendance sits around 728,000.
Also Gridman Universe opened #5 for the weekend. It earned and estimated 160 Million Yen ($1.2 million estimated) with, again as an estimate, 102,000 in attendance. (Pixiin) I don't expect the movie to stay in the top 10 for long. It opened to 151 theaters which is only 51 above limited release numbers.
Posting charts because this is the most info we had, even though it's not confirmed actuals.
Son of Godzilla (1967)
All Monsters Attack (1969)
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)
All Monsters Attack (1969)
“Maybe they were right. Maybe cockroaches will inherit the Earth.”
- Takeshi Shima, Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)
The fact that a Rauisuchian survived into the freaking cretaceous period is dumb at an evolution stand-point. The Rauisuchians had to go extinct so dinosaurs could rule the earth. Also they have Lagosuchus in the film which are the ancestors to dinosaurs. 65 is a dumb dinosaur movie.
If they wanted triassic animals, then set the movie in the triassic period, don't bring triassic animals to the cretaceous period!
That poster with the baby is pretty striking, I have to say.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=594593419366723&set=a.558931926266206&paipv=0&eav=AfarkwywB52LlxI5tR39WJCCzjVhRUZbwE-6BYyrVRA3YunznELEXQewLPLMzvSpb40&_rdr
https://www.deviantart.com/lagrie/art/Alien-Romulus-942145002
I checked out the movie, I actually pretty liked it. The big "dinosaur", I don't know what to call it so I'll just call him Big Guy so yeah hes big but what is he supposed to be? People are calling him Postosuchus T.Rex or something.
I'm not a podcaster myself but I'd love to listen to one
This is why if I ever write a sci-fi work I'd either set in like 10.000 years in the future of keep it really vague.
With all the reorganizing and cancellations of projects many studios are doing right now I'm kinda having a hard time getting excited about anything that hasn't started filming yet. I worry anything I look forward to can get snatched away in the blink of an eye.
The lack of eyes is one of the most striking design elements, and a thing that truly makes it scary and 'alien' to humans.
I wish this would have happened
