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I never got where those people came from.

I think they're the inspiration for those people who worship the xenomorphs in the comics.

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In the first film they make a clear point that the crew are basically just space truckers and that they have no weapons or experience to combat such a creature. They have to scrounge up what they can to make a flamethrower and the other things are just cattle-prods. Of course the alien kills all but one of them. Had the crew been all ex-marines who were armed with guns the only person Big Chap would've killed for sure would have been Kain. The threat of the alien in the first film was that it was alone and could hide to pick off the crew one by one with little opposition. In Aliens the threat wasn't that each alien was capable of killing five guys on its own the threat was that there were a ton of them fighting a single unit of soldiers in confined spaces.

Yes, and even then, Cameron had to stack the odds in the aliens' favour, by leaving no one onboard the Sulaco to keep an eye on things, taking away most of the Marines' primary weapons in the hive and killing several through a string of extreme bad luck (Dietrich toasts Frost which kills Crowe, because Frost had the ammo-bag, which freaks out Gorman which distracts Apone, and so forth). Regardless, the surviving handful of Marines likely killed off the majority of the 150-or-so aliens on LV-246.

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The alien is supposed to be the perfect biological killer but that doesn't mean it's ultimate above technology, this is why Predators use advanced weaponry to hunt aliens.

I don't know if I'd go so far as to call it "perfect." The only evidence we really have in favour of this is Ash's comments (who'd only been able to examine the facehugger and maybe the embryonic chestburster) and we don't have any reason to doubt Bishop when he observes that the Ash models were prone to being "twitchy."

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Re: games; I never played Isolation but I watched a playthrough online and I will say that it didn't look like a game for me. I'm not huge into games where I'm gonna be hiding in a locker for minutes waiting for the AI enemy to leave the room.

Yeah, that's definitely not to my taste, either. Also, most of the time that isn't spent hiding from the xenos consists of opening and shutting doors.

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I also thought the ending was poo since it just sorta ends. Isolation did look great though but then most current gen games look good thanks to video-tech advances. I did play CM because a friend of mine got it and it was just so mediocre. I was clipping through everything (that was actually funny when I wound up inside the other marines so I could see through their teeth but it's still bad) and then multiple times I would run face-first into an alien only for them to just stare at me and do nothing. It didn't feel like I was playing in the world of Aliens when the aliens weren't threatening to attack me at all.

I encountered the odd hesitant alien once in a blue moon, and once saw one hanging by its tail from the ceiling after I killed it, but that's pretty much the extent of my experience with bugs. I did get the PC version though, which seems to be substantially less buggy than the console equivalents.

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It sucked the most because I remember thinking that the first trailer was pretty damn cool, the one that they ended up getting sued over for claiming it was "actual gameplay" even though the final product didn't look half as good. Hey on the bright side it's still not the worst video game about aliens, that title goes to the champ of bad: ET.

There's definitely a substantive complaint to be made about Gearbox's handling of the game's development, considering they apparently took most of the cash Sony gave them for it and funnelled it into the development of Borderlands 2 instead. Still, I enjoyed playing the game. All I really wanted going in was the opportunity to blow away xenomorphs with a pulse rifle (without any obnoxious Predators crashing the party) and that's pretty much what I got.

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I'm sure we'll learn more about this sculpt withing following weeks or by Toy Fair for sure (I don't know of any other conventions/showings in between now and then where they could show more). I feel like some Kenner homage is the more likely guess but I suppose we'll just have to see.

Indeed.