Aliens vs Predator vs Aliens vs Predator vs Aliens Colonial Marines
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- This video is a retrospective review and critique of the Aliens Vs. Predator shooters, from 1999's AvP Classic to the 2010 reboot. It also cover Aliens: Colonial Marines, and that game's DLC Stasis Interrupted. The idea is to look at how each game approaches translating what worked so well in the movies into the medium of gaming. It talk about the games as they compare to the movies, as they compare to each other, and what's unique about them as video games. It also briefly looks ahead to Alien: Isolation. If you enjoy this video, please post it where other may find it.
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Aliens vs. Predator Classic 2000-- 1:17
Aliens vs. Predator 2 (2001)-- 10:17
Aliens vs. Predator 2: Primal Hunt-- 22:04
Aliens vs. Predator 2010-- 27:41
Aliens: Colonial Marines: Stasis Interrupted-- 41:01
Aliens: Colonial Marines-- 50:29
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I'm kinda amazed that your style was already so clear and solid 8 years ago. Excellent work, as always ❤
"At least they fucked up in HD." Love that quote.
"I may not always find a lot of pleasure in that, but I admire its purity" I see what you did there
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You sir need to get more views and publicity. Your videos are great and the reasons are:
1.The way you speak/read
2.The words you choose
3.The way you explain things
4.The footage you use
& much more
please make more videos like these , for me you are one of the best reviewers.
I would love to see Deus Ex compared and explained like this video here
He needs to work on his editing. The videos are almost 100% him talking, and while that's fine, his style changes very little. The bare bones Errant Signal's videos are more fun to watch. Stimulating these are, but fun to watch hours on end maybe not.
Oh god I'm typing like him now.
I think they're more made to be podcast like content, at least that's how I *ahem* "watch" them
Marcel Cummings P.I I love these to drift off to sleep and to do 1-2 hr tasks at work
I choose to believe upvotes for this comment correlate to Noah's subscribers.
Thank you for reminding me to subscribe, I enjoy this content very much but have simply forgotten to click the subscribe button. Done now.
Ahh AvP2, how I missed it. The retrospective doesn't mention it but it's multiplayer was great too, especially on large open maps when marines, aliens and predators duke it out in a battle royale.
You mean on large open maps, where the smartgun was so overpowered every battle went in the marine's favor? Sometimes the predators too but never the aliens, and especially not if alien lifecycle was enabled.
smartgun-OP, grenade launcher-OP, invisibility+shoulder cannon-OP, my friends reactions when my alien suddenly pounces on them and they jump out of their seats-PRICELESS. My score was usually low but I won in the shock department ;)
Just found your channel and I like it. It's very simple, just you on the mic analyzing a game series. No obnoxious memes or cutaway gags. It's refreshing to be honest.
I'd like to add that in AVP 2010 there is a shit load of stuff that is simply never seen in several campaigns. If you hand around long enough or run ahead in some spaces, particularly in the Marine and Alien campaigns, you can hear a lot of dialogue that you wouldn't hear normally. There's hidden Predator traps in the Alien campaign and in the first level of the marine campaign if you rush ahead you can actually see an alien stalking you.
"I Admire it's purity."
...well played, Noah. Well played.
This is seriously a beautiful channel, thank you from the bottom of my heart and soul for what you do.
I've been waiting on this video for a long time and I can confidently say I was not disappointed with the quality!
You're seriously one of my favourite UA-camrs, keep up the great work
There was an RTS that came out i think in 2003 that I played as a kid that had a real impact on me. Aliens Vs Predator Extinction. It was really really good and completely overlooked and the nostalgia from playing it really gets me excited
21:00
re: the scriptwriters - the original script was actually quite different to what ended up being filmed. David Fincher was brought on as a replacement director and, to be fair, I think he did a good job with what he was given.
Originally, the prison colony was supposed to be a space monastery made entirely of wood. I don't think the producers thought too deeply about the metaphor you're alluding to when they decided on the change; rather, they were probably just trying to ground the concept and bring it a little closer to reality than a giant wooden death-star filled with abstinent space-monks, and an isolated prison colony seems only a few logical steps away.
Siledas it was a fantastic idea for a film and could have been incredible but then the producers thought fuck that we need money and made a shit movie
A fundamentally insightful and indepth look at an iconic series of games. Shit, man, you're becoming quite the Gaming Academic.
please dont stop making videos. i look forward to setting aside blocks of time to watch and rewatch your content.
Alien v predator 2 is one of my all time fave games, still play it today.
Now THAT'S what I call a title!
Seriously, my day is immediately made better when I see there's a new video from you. Thanks again for another great video =)
I had only watched your latest videos, and it's great seeing how far you've come. I can't imagine making multiple hour videos and not tripping over my words much more often
AVP2 and Alien Isolation are the best of the bunch
AVP2 is like a James Cameron/John McTierman action adventure.
where as Alien Isolation is very much like a Ridley Scott' classic film.
True dat! AVP2 also taps into a lot of the expanded universe material in the various comics and graphic novels and feels right at home. One of my favourite games, especially as an aliens game. Nice to see it getting some love here as it was very much overlooked and generally under-appreciated.
I still like AVP over AVP2. The Alien movement is much better and you can spend a lot more time on walls and ceilings, while AVP2 forces you down to the floor very often, and there are too many areas without a ceiling. AVP2 sacrificed the dynamism of lighting for image quality, and I think that was a mistake. I'd love to see a remake of classic AVP.
Also, Isolation is a masterpiece and a love letter.
This is actually the first review I’ve seen from you several years later and you are one of my favorite UA-cams.
Really like the fact you don't edit out tiny errors in pronunciation, refreshing in the day of constant cuts and over editing. Helps maintain the stream of conciousness.
I've been watching your videos for over a year now & you just keep getting better. I've not even THOUGHT about this game franchise for a long time & you brought me right back to sitting in the dark room from my childhood in front of the monitor I used to have that made a quite distracting humming sound, yet not caring one bit 'cause I heard that Predator rattling sound somewhere.
And get a Patreon, dude! It's entirely feasible for niche content creators with smaller audiences to make a some nice money on the side, perhaps even allowing for a few extra days per month dedicated to making videos.
10:18 "... I admire its purity."
HURR HURR HURR.
:P
I as well noticed this reference.
When I first started watching your videos I didn't think they were all that great. Now, having watched 8-10 hours of your channel, I've completely changed my mind. These are awesome analyses, and I really appreciate the huge amount of work you put into each video.
Noah. I wish i found your channel years ago. You are hilariously witty and have great statements that describe the situation perfectly. and the best part is that you are one of those guys who is funny an it seema like your not trying. Awesome stuff dude
having watched all of Noah's videos of games that I've played, it's time to go back and watch all of his videos of games I haven't or have never been interested in playing. it's really impressive to see how thoughtful and biting his analysis was even in his fledgling days as a UA-cam critic.
AVP2 is best aliens game hands down.
Hell freaking YES!!!
When I played AVP2 years ago I had the good fortune to have an amazing feature on my video card that the game actually supported: active shutter 3d glasses. (way before the current crappy 3d gimmicks) I was too young to appreciate what I had and facehuggers scared the shit out of me, more-so in 3d, but looking back it was amazing.
***** Yes I play most aliens games but AVP2 has everything from Alien and Aliens to offer. Nothing can beat the game. My hope is Alien isolation comes in 2nd behind it. AVP3 is fun but it certainly not the best.
Spooky799kil AvP 2 game is the best, for sure. Especially for the marine campaign. I preferred hunting humans in the 2010 AvP as the predator, but being an alien is awful in that game. The marine campaign in AvP 2010 was ok, but pretty generic and far too short, with most of the last half being against those bots, which was just terrible.
AvP 2 was almost faultless in every way.
If AVP2 had the gun noises from Colonial Marines it would be even better.
Noah you are honestly the best UA-camr I know and your content is incredibly good ! Please carry on.
This has got to be the most comprehensive comparison of these AVP games. Marvellous!
Here's my thoughts quickly since this was a long video.
1. AvP Classic is one of my favorites. I played it so much, like every day, until the disc physically broke in the CD Driver.
2. AvP 2 was a worthy follow-up that improved upon AvP storywise, but I still prefer AvP classic.
3. Primal Hunt's, and likewise AvP2's best story was that of the Alien. As was AvP Classic.
4. While initially cool to have the LifeCycle, in the long run I didn't care much for it. It wasn't *fun* to be a worthless chestburster.
5. AvP3 ( _2010_ ) is essentially a remake of AvP1 but with a more sensical plot and I love AvP3's storyline. Another games I played a relative amount. Though we did have to complain on the forums because Predator's overpoweredness with the disc was just insane. Predator had never been more powerful than in that game and it went so far that it eventually just evolved into grudge matches online with Predators against Predators and whomever threw the first disc won like if they were from Tron. I personally think that the strongest story in all AvP games have always belonged to the Alien because it's always in the same lines: *Serve the Queen, further the Hive*.
The Marine does as the Marine does in these games.
The Alien hunts and furthers the hive's progress, saving it or creating a new.
The Predator gains honor. But while the Marine ending is bleak, the Alien ending is terrifying, the Predator's ending is just fucking awesome.
They really completely managed to capture the essence of the Predator and the Alien, Rebellion did.
6. Aliens Colonial Marines was crap, and I first saw the warning signs when we got to see the kamikaze aliens but no one would listen to me. Ironically, when the game was released and now affirmative shit, I cut the kamikaze aliens some slack because I felt they fit really well into the alien lore. And that whole segment was terrifying and fun, that combined with the " _King Alien_ " and the final figth against Alien Queen was the three legitimately good parts of the game. The rest was shit.
7. I never played Statis Interrupted but I did watch a playthrough of it, and just then, as now in your video ending, the death of Lisbeth still makes me physically ill to watch ( _Alien 3 on Amiga traumatized me so badly as a kid that I still have nightmares and pseudo-nightmares, 23-25 years later or so, as during that time, I had never seen anything quite like that_ ).
8. I love Alien 3 as I thought it was a great underrated movie, with a fantastic finale to Ripley's story. Not to mention the amazing orchestral score.
Alien 3 just have a great feeling to it - Despair, bleak, hopelessness, *utter doom*. I think the biggest reason why so many don't like it is because they can't handle all that negative sensation.
Final: Makes me wonder if you've ever played the PS2 / Xbox game, Predator Concrete Jungle. Another great Predator game that captures the essence of the Yautja.
Zeithri I like you sir. :)
holy shit, I actually found someone who likes AVP 2010 other than me!
+zeubersandvitch I actually found someone who likes Alien 3 other than me!
+zeubersandvitch I like avp 2010
I just came across this video and I did not mean to watch it from beginning to end, but after going from one minute to another and hearing the analysis, I ended up doing just that. Loved it.
I really have no idea why you don't have hundreds of thousands of subs
Low production value. His microphone sucks, editing etc. And very long videos. Most people prefer 5 - 15 minute long videos. Same reason reviews with scores will always be more popular than thought out, explanation ones without a score at the end.
He does now. I’ve been here since a couple videos before this and although he didn’t have a great mic or camera he had an almost nostalgic feeling to his videos. His videos now are an obvious evolution of his style here
UA-cam's finest video-game reviewer and informant.
Noah, I'm convinced you're the best part of the gaming youtube community. Thanks for being awesome.
Why does Colonial Marines look like a 2008 game?
Pretty much everyone who paid full price asked the same question, at differing volume levels.
Deliverygirl Because it began development in 2006, was dropped in 2006, and outsourced to timegate studios a year before it ultimately ended up coming out. It was developed half way through, scrapped, then rushed through by a company too small to pull it off. It ultimately killed Timegate.
+Noah Caldwell-Gervais Us suckers that did the preorder thing did it at a very high volume.
+Colonel Commissar that doesn't make the situation any better.
+Deliverygirl
I recognize that avatar.
Thank you for the great video!
This and your other productions are up there with the best you can find on UA-cam. At least for people that appreciate the level of detail that you put in your analysis while nevertheless being absolutely entertaining (which I definetly do).
Please keep up the good work!
pizza boy or not , you'r an absolute fucking joy to watch , both entertaining and informative
and you'r the only youtuber/game critic that can make me watch a 1 hour video and still make me want to watch more !
oh , also , Noah , ever though of making a video about the dead space franchise or the F.E.A.R franchise ? :o
would love to know your answear :)
Great detailing on the series. Charming & eloquent voiceover
Great video. I fired it up thinking "i'll watch a few minutes of this, no way I'm going to sit through the whole hour".... an hour later. It was fun to relive playing all the aliens games, and I'm glad to see we agreed on a lot of the same points. My side note addition: AVP2's multiplayer survival mode was hella awesome with coop buddies. Thanks for making the video.
Noah I think I rewatch your videos once a year, you're just amazing my dude
Some of the best analysis on UA-cam
as a huge alien- and predator fan (especially the avp games), i really enjoyed this video. not only do you really competently explain what’s great and what’s not about the avp games, you also made me aware that there actually is a story dlc for colonial marines that i had in my steam library for years and didn’t even know about 😂
Great video but I'm most delighted by the idea the intro spawned in my head of Alien and Predator singing about their dysfunctional but loving relationship
Always a complete joy seeing a new video by you, Noah!
I adore your appreciation of old shit. It pleases me. Seriously though how are you not bigger on this platform? Your stuff is just rootin tootin amazing
Found you linked on a few different sites. You are fantastic at articulating and proving a point. Truly you have a talent. Please keep making videos they are both informative and entertaining and I really do mean that.
An excellent and thorough overview of the series. Thank you.
I created an AvP2 community of about 10 in my high school. Played this game weekly through 2007. Good days. The infection mode was always our favorite.
the immersion breaker shift in tones in that you describe in Stasis Interupted remind me of the Tomb Raider reboot where Lara Punching-bag Croft turns into a killing machine.
As usual Noah, your videos are a delight to watch and listen to. I eagerly await your contribution. Your works are still my most favorite out of all the channels I follow.
Exquisite entertainment. Videos like this are why I haven't watched cable in 4 years.
I'm just 20 minutes in and I love this video to death. These are the games and... facets of our nature, that rarely end up in a spotlight.
Excellent, as always.
Also, there is noticable improvement on your barration and writing, so kudos on that.
I really enjoyed AVP 2010. Sure, it wasn't as reliable and ambitious for its time as AVP 2001, but I loved the presentation, the sound FX, and especially the upgraded animations of the Alien campaign. I even enjoyed the single player bonus mode where you fought waves of Aliens in one arena. If only they had focused on more sandbox type level designs for the Predator campaign...
I liked AvP 2010 as many people did I believe, but all in all very good and accurate reviews. Well done
Colonial Marines didn't just have "graphical quality" reduced. The original trailer was a short either scripted or prerendered movie and then the developers tried to make a game based on that scene. You know: Your typical AAA publisher scam. I believe they call it "vertical slice"
I've never played or plan on playing these games, but god damn is it great listening to you talk about them. If there were some sort of prize for being the most underrated, you would win easy.
I'd give AVP 2010 some more credit, but it was definately not used to it's fullest potential. I think my main problem was that, aside from reusing maps over and over again, it was way too short. And it had barely any story going on.
AVP classic had little to no story, but it balanced it out by having more variety in levels and it wasn't too damn short. The game could hold it's own without a story. It was a game first and story third.
AVP 2 did put emphasis on story as well as the variety of the levels and the length.
AVP 2010 had little emphasis on all those points. It's still a fun game though and it still uses the Xeno's way, WAY better than Colonial Marines does.
The DLC Stasis Interrupted it pretty much the only good thing about the game, because it at least TRIED. The main game is almost worthless. It relies way too much on nostalgia to sell itself. Apparently it worked.
Alien Isolation is like the polar opposite of Colonial Marines.
If I would give Alien games a score then:
Alien Isolation 10/10
AVP2 9/10
AVP classic 8/10
AVP 2010 7/10
Stasis Interrupted 5/10
Colonial Marines 4/10
+nexusshark I agree.. I actually played through that game more times then I should of.. I found it was the best game in that universe for me... I mean damn. We got 3 campaigns (Even if there mostly the same levels) as the 3 iconic creatures we know and love from the AVP universe, so I enjoined it.. But kept wishing it could of had an actual Poignant story and better more default helmet wielding marine. I liked the crazy gruesome deaths tho..! Overall a Ok game, but the property deserves so much more.
I LOVE Alien Isolation. But I hated the Working Joes part, where you had to power w generators to turn on the Space Stations "Mother"; also the Working Joez before and after the Alien Hive (also that Hive was a pain in the ass).
I love watching your videos!
It combines 2 things i enjjoy a lot:really well done documentaries and video games.
Please keep them comming!
I really enjoyed this. It takes a very thought-provoking look through the series. You should definitely make more of these kinds of videos!
Loved the Bioshock one too by the way.
You always do great analysis of the games .
Also I love your choices of classic country music at the start of your videos
"Really Hicks, did you happen to find the last seven hours of my life in there, too?"
They do actually explain the lower ammo count in the Pulse Rifle in Colonial Marines.
They mention that it is the Mk 2 which has a lower ammo count but has a higher damage output. It is said right in the weapons customization menu.
32:00 that alien just casually walking into camera view just cracks me up
That got me too. "ohheywhat'sgoingonhere" lmao
This was a great video. I agreed with all points and found it to be very insightful. The only criticism I can come up with was its length, but that is unavoidable given the amount of material you had to cover. Liked, and subscribed! Good work.
AVP2's MP is legendary to me. I still recall with absolute clarity 3 things.
I was playing with a friend of mine, a 1 vs 1 match, I as marine, he as predator. Of the many back-and-forth battles we had his best moment was when he freaked me out by nailing my head to the wall from across one of the more open maps with the combi-stick, or whatever it's called. It was so sudden and out of the blue, I freaked out completely.
Later on a different map, my best come-back was teaching him why he should not fuck around with nets. I tailored my loadouts for anti-Predator work ofc, and when he netted me and cam over to collect my head, I got him back by shooting him in the mask and then his face with my pistol. He wasn't expecting that.
The last moment was a massive LAN party in a school-hall in Norway, we had traveled a long way to take part in this event and one of the games we played was AVP2 MP with filled-out roosters. I was an alien, and on the full-cycle type of play tried to get my poor facehugger up a flight of stairs. I bounced to hard and flew up the stairs from the mid-way point, PERFECTLY connecting with the face of a marine player who was running down the hall. The sudden change made the both of us yell out in surprise, where we found out we were playing from right behind each other. Everyone around us got a good laugh out of that.
AVP2 was awesome for it's time, and it's such a shame it's so hard to get a hold of today, I would love to play it again, even though I've beaten it enough times to know the whole thing by default.
Great video. The original AVP still is my favorite and the scariest. The marine weapon sounds were spot on. For some reason they changed that in AVP 2. They got the predator sounds spot on in AVP2 though and had a fantastic multiplayer. Alien Isolation has left us hope for more great games to come.
Kotaku brought me here. You're very thorough and I'm glad you saved me from playing Stasis Interrupted.
Its very good I wouldn't miss out on it. Theres a very cool easter egg to find if you do play it.
Very well made in-depth video. I kinda missed mentioning the Alien: Resurrection PS1 game though, since it played kinda like Dead Space long before Dead Space was released with amazing graphics for PS1.
Glad to see you uploading again! Keep going!
You are one of the best long-form analysts out there. I love every single one of your videos! Thanks for giving me something awesome to watch :-D
AVP Classic really zinged me with its trilogy of campaigns and unique playing styles. The levels are definitely labyrinthine and I got frustrated often but I'll never forget the experience.
I don't know if it's deliberate or just the way you read/talk, but you sound almost EXACTLY like Richard Dreyfuss narrating in Stand By Me and it makes your videos absolutely awesome, especially with the descriptive language you use and the way you phrase things, very much in the same style he often spoke with in that film. I do have one minor point of contention though with regards to your analysis. You mentioned the fact that the marines can't sponge bullets well, but you must remember that even though they do have that plated armor, that same armor was very vulnerable to acid, wasn't very thick, and their guns/bullets were portrayed as being far more powerful than typical modern weapons/bullets (this is why they sounded differently for the most part, were able to shred the hard-shelled aliens and very likely would have blown literal chunks out of other marines had they fired on one another at any point in the film; this can be illustrated throughout the films whenever an alien gets shot and chunks are literally blown off with acid spraying everywhere). I think if a space marine's assault rifle were compared to a standard modern machine gun, it would be like comparing a 45 to a min grenade launcher; yes, both are reasonably powerful, but the latter does WAY more damage on impact. I mean their main guns were so huge that they literally had a mechanical/hydraulic arm on their waist to help them support/carry and aim the thing. That wasn't just because of the high capacity clips; the entire thing was like one massive barrel with an absurd rate of fire and a very unique firing sound with a literal jet of flame shooting out the barrel as they fired and they were blowing off limbs, heads and chunks out of the aliens they hit while they could still themselves be pierced by an alien's organic claws/talons, teeth and tails, including through their full armor and helmets, so there is no way their body armor could withstand even a single round from their own weapons.
Anyway, sorry to be all nitpicky, and all in all I loved your analysis of these games and it really makes me want to grab the 2010 title if for no other reason than to play that marvelous looking Predator campaign.
Subbed and I know what I'll be spending the rest of the day watching. How I'd never heard of you before now is beyond me.
I'm really glad you keep making these! :)
Love this video. One of your best. Any plans on ever doing a video on the Halo franchise? I always felt the story was really well done, and there is so much lore to look at, that a video on it would be really interesting to see.
10:15 "...I admire its purity" - hee hee!
I really liked the detailed look at the AVP series. Thumbs up to you, sir! :)
BTW, Kotaku mentioned a Fallout analysis video that you did a year ago. Unfortunately, the video is no longer available. :(
Excellent video, enjoyed every second of it! Thank you.
These are amazing videos dude, if you get more time i would love watch more. Its super rare that we get these types of videos
It's a magazine, not a clip that feeds the pulse rifle (as well as the handgun). Hollywood always gets that screwed up, but they are two different things when speaking in terms of firearm ammunition feeding devices. An example of a clip would be the WWII M1 Garand or the stripper clip that loads an SKS's fixed magazine. A clip is usually just a stamped piece of metal that is used and tossed aside. A magazine is more complicated, holding the ammo but also containing a spring and follower that actually feeds the ammo. A clip just holds it and cannot actually feed the ammo on its own.. You know how the Mauser rifles are fed in the WWI-WWII type games? That's a clip....holds five rounds and allows quick feeding into the rifle's internal magazine. Inside the rifle's magazine (which is fixed in the case of a Mauser rifle) is a spring loaded follower that maintains upward pressure on the rounds to present them for feeding as you cycle the firearm.
You do an awesome job with these, sorry to nitpick but as intelligent as you are I figured you would want to know.
Great video man, summed up the games perfectly. AVP2 is also my personal favorite, and yes I still have my copy :D
I’d love to hear your take on AVP: Extinction as well. I've never played any of these but that game was one of my childhood favorites. Who knows if it's good, maybe nostalgia but I loved it.
Aliens: Colonial Marines and Stasis Interrupted were fantastic. 20th Century FOX and Ridley Scott should make Stasis Interrupted a TV mini series. Lisbeth, Samwell and Rick Levy are really great characters.
I actually like Alien 3. Thematically at least. Its take on the theme of incorruptability is actually pretty clever, with its religious overtones and Elliot Goldenthal's masterpiece of a score. In terms of action, tension and drama it's not quite so good, admittedly.
Also, dance music and disco-lighting make any scene better. See the fist fight with the velocirapter in Telltale's Jurrasic Park, and Karma's capture in Black Ops 2.
Finally, Colonial Marines did get one thing right. The way the blue hue of the screen mirrored the helmet cams in Aliens was pretty smart.
RE: Alien 3 the workprint cut is also much, much better than the theatrical cut. It's genuinely good, albeit not on par with Alien or Aliens. I do like how it dials things back from Aliens though.
In fact, thinking about it, Alien 3 is to Alien what Alien Resurrection is to Aliens. Both are flawed re-interpretations of the style of a former film in the series.
I love your video game analysis videos, they are all excellent! My only suggestion is that you go for a more level audio delivery, or edit the volume afterwards. I'm regularly increasing and decreasing the volume as you go from low to very loud with little warning. Some sections are quieter, then others recorded at apparently different times are louder. Just some fine-tuning of the audio levels in an editing program after you're done would do wonders!
46:20 - the guy shoving a random marine into Hicks' cryo pod like "WHY!?"
Realize this was made a while ago, but it would be neat to add the Doom: Aliens TC to the beginning...
EXCELLENT VIDEO loved every minute of it
You might use editing software from 1999, but your voice and retrospectives are top notch!
19:14 Damn man! You know how to pick your words at the right time! x)
10:13 I see what you did there haha. That's my favorite line Alien
*from Alien
Amazing rewievs! It is great to listen to someone that knows about this stuff.
Wow noah....you are killing it bro. Keep up the grade A work.
Excellent documentary. Very well thought out in every aspect. Made one mistake right in the beginning though. My favorite movie in the series, ALIENS, was released in 1986, not 87. Back in the day when the special uncut edition was put out on VHS by way of conventions, I spent a few years, on and off, redoing my supposed final draft script for the film (which I got SPX master Bob Skotak, who did the effects in the movie with this brother, to sign through an interesting situation) to be just that - a word-for-word, scene-for-scene script of the uncut version of the flick. It's available on several AvP websites. Shows you how much I loved and love the film. :) Alien and Aliens, especially the later, have had a major influence on sci-fi films after it's release, especially in the sounds department. It's amazing how many times I hear sounds from Aliens in movies and Japanimation, more so anime. It's a real shame how "Aliens: Colonial Marines" tried to screw up the timeline of the series by coming up with even more B.S. on how the facehugger got onboard the Sulaco to impregnate Ripley. It was massively stupid in Alien3, and made no since considering the Queen didn't bring any with her onto the ship for the final fight in Aliens and the marines wouldn't have had a hidden xenomorph storage area in the ship. Ugh, makes my head hurt at the sheer stupid of what writers can do to destroy the series story wise, and A:CM didn't help. Too bad Michael Biehn had to be involved in it.
It's sad that so many previously talented and dedicated Devs, Gearbox, Bethesda, even Valve among many others, have fallen so far in the past decade or two. Who back in the early 2000s would have thought that one of the most celebrated and loved game studios of the 20-teens wouldn't be any of the ones listed- but would actually be a little studio from Poland, among a few other unlikely upstarts such as Telltale? What is it about success that corrodes?
EDIT: Also, I actually did enjoy Alien: Resurrection. I last watched it a few years ago, enough time to view it without the forgiving veneer of childhood and to see it for what it was. I like Sigourney Weaver's performance, as well as Ron Perlman's, and I even thing there's something about Winona Ryder's goofy acting that's endearing. I think Resurrection came out at just enough time past the original trilogy and took just enough of its own direction to really boil the blood of "purists" but looking back I did have fun with that movie. There was some admittedly cool action sequences but even beyond that I have to give it credit for attempting to create a new setting for the franchise - complete with its own style of weapons, technology, and behaviors. Something more sci-fi than even the original setting of the franchise, they obviously spent a lot of time trying to "world build" and I think it would have paid off, if only the script had gotten as much attention.
The title is a work of art in itself
14:10 iirc the original AVP had this as well, it's just that they didn't get access to the sound libraries until far into the first game's development.
Very excellent review an commentary, I really enjoyed that :)
AvP10 was soooo sooooo beautiful. I mean visually IT STILL HOLDS UP and looks amazing even beside modern games. It's HOW it looks, not even the tech itself - tech allowed artists to create that beauty. And back in the day those visuals were out of this world, stuff from the future that never came. And them Aliens never ever looked this good even in the Alien Isolation game (that one fittingly looked more like rubbery big serpent from Alien than them wall crawling bugs from Aliens).