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as you all know, i'm very outspoken

so i'm going to troll my opinion here too

AVP 1
=
shit

sorry, it couldve been wicked, but the game had one flaw which felt unrealistic - made it less scary and alone couldve made it a tonne better

you ran too fast - "unreal / duke 3d" feel to the engine

didnt feel gamey, give it the doom feel, but at the walking speed, WOW scary

alien, slow down 15%
predator 10%
marine 10->15%

i wouldve been v.happy...

Way to start lobbing grenades guys. All you've seen is a couple of screenshots, you haven't seen the gameplay or story-line or anything else, but somehow you manage to know that the game sucks. Someone even managed a totally groundless personal insult directed towards the guy making the game. Sad.

I don't care about this game one way or another, I'm waiting to see what it's like, so I'm not some mindless fanboy pissed because someone dissed my game (the first game did scare the crap out of me though). My bitch is directed at the mindless, elitist, & uniformly negative comments some people seem compelled to make in order to show how "intelligent" they are.

kthxgg

Well, I think it looks f-in great. NOLF was fantabulotastical.

The postive bias I think I have revolves around the fact I never had the opportunity to play AvP 1 ... I can understand peeps that did play it having a diff attitude than I. I guess I was too busy playing HL and q2-to the Q3 techdemos and such ( I was and always be a QuakeWhore...)

I almost got the AvP Gold ed... then I heard about AvP 2 and decided to save my time and money for a "modernized" version ... I'll be grabbin this the day it hits the shelves. I have messed with the demos of the first game... they were pretty kickass ... but I never was "pushed over the edge" towards buying it.

here's my thoughts about how some folks think the screens and such are looking a bit too brightly lit and all: maybe they are just releasing/featuring those type of shots , because a pile of near black screenies with an Alien limb sticking out here or there or nothing visible 'cept a marine spot light would not show off the improvements they've made? just a thot.

I kinda remember a video shot over someones shoulder of a tradeshow (a pre-E3 one I fergit) demo ... the levels then looked reasonably spooky (the interiors NE way)...

looking forward to this sucka and max payne and u2 (whooda thot an id fanboi like meself would sey that?)

Screens = not bad, but this game should be dark, depressing, and scary. Looks like a standard DM level thing from a generic FPS game with custom models.

However, I don't think the 3D engine looks bad at all. I just think they're going down the wrong path with this. The brightly lit alien areas just don't cut it for me.

I guess I'm not as jaded/negative as the average shacker, but I think the screens look pretty damn good, and I'm looking forward to playing this.

Just cause it's based on Lithtech doesn't mean it'll necessarily suck. NOLF had graphics which paled in comparison to UT or Q3 yet I enjoyed it better than both those games.

Sorry, the engine and color scheme are crap in these screenshots. Lithtech blows chunks anyway, it's the kmart brand of gaming engines.

This one's mildly interesting, despite the dull color palette and the boxy appearance of the levels and the less than frightening aliens and the fact that it was all done about as well as you can do it two years ago and now we're being invited to buy a less impressive looking clone. Yawn.

"If I weren't producing [the games] at Fox, I'd be producing a game that looked awfully like it somewhere else," he jokes.

Well, actually, yes. And that's the problem.

I'd be kind of weary of slicing open an alien, considering their acid-blood.

At least they have a reason for the knife; in Serious Sam, the knife was almost totally worthless. The Schofield pistols had infinite ammo, and they were good at any distance.

second one today!

I think there should be more games with pointed sticks.

is it just me or are these shots * NOT IMPRESSIVE'D *

You know I would buy more games if I didn't have to look at the same engine, somewhat similar textures, same storyline, etc, etc. Hell I would buy a game just to support the developer if they actually wrote their own engine or didn't take 3 years to make. And yes, that is a Team Fortress 2 reference

wooohaaa biznatch