Thread 718927861

This game was kino why did it get shit on so much at release?

Multiplayer was 10/10 too

bad servers

Playing with voice chat as a marine against genuinely competent Aliens and Predator enemies is a great horror experience
Unironically feels a little ahead of its time with the rise of all these coop verses horror games like Dead by Daylight even if it really was just a modern update of the games from the 90's/2000's

>>718927861 (OP)
We unironically didn't know how good we had it back then.
The game was hated for having consolized controls and not being AvP3.
But in hindsight the game was very solid and I kept replaying it years after release.
Just last year I replayed all the AvP games, and while you don't get to live the full alien lifecycle and the story is a bit meh, it's great in terms of graphics and immersion.
We literally had no idea how bad it would get...

>>718927861 (OP)
the campaign with the alien going from facehugger to alien queen was kino

>>718927861 (OP)
Took 10 minutes to get into a game and more often than not d/c'd anyway.
Marine and Predator campaigns were very samey once you'd done a few glory kills.
Aliens was interesting until you get to the forest and it becomes samey

>>718927861 (OP)
Playing as the Xenomorph in multiplayer was always fun. Loved stalking Marines and Preds.

>>718927861 (OP)
Anyone else find the actual Alien vs. Predator matchup to be the most boring one?
Playing Predator against Marines in the campaign and multiplayer is so much fun, as you pick them off one by one, lure them into traps, separate them from the group, etc.
They all goes right out the door when you fight Aliens, who can always track where you’re at and turn a fun first-person stealth game into a boring beat ‘em up that breaks down the moment you have more than 3 opponents.

>>718927861 (OP)
Hi actual millennial gamer here.
It was the end of knife melee with QuickTime animation kill moves and was the biggest piece of dogshit ever made.
We threw that shit into the garbage bin with barbie and Dora the explorer. It was literally unsellable.
The alien chorister even jump. Predator could only jump by QuickTime event like some dogshit resident evil game.

Go play Aliens vs Predator 2's alien and predator (it's free) and find out how fucking horrible this game feels mechanically in comparison.

1.5/10
At least it's not Barbie's Summer Festival

>>718930925
>actual millennial gamer
Kill yourself. You can't hide your zoomer stench, faggot.

>>718927861 (OP)
>Balance in theory should be simple
>Marines win sheer firepower
>Aliens win sheer melee
>Predator somewhere in between with gimmicks and shit
Instead, the predator gets a literal 1 hit KO weapon that can be used at any range and he's the best at melee.
What's the point of playing PvP when it's rigged against you?

Best Campaign?

>>718931815
For AVP:2010? It's obvious the marine campaign got most of the focus.

>>718931698
Aliens can spam the parry proof instant knockdown tail (mouse 2) while wall climbing. Just saying.

>>718931994
>The alien has an unintended exploit that only works in specific circumstances
Yeah in otherwords it's a non-issue, go ahead and try knocking down the pre-nigger who just cut you in half with a disk 30 meters away

Katya is an underrated android waifu

>>718927861 (OP)
It hard filtered lil bros who thought they were MLG ready Halo 2 pros by introducing very light combo and block mechanics. I fucking loved it and Halo 2 would've been better with stuff like that for a higher skill ceiling, it was so insanely casualized I lost interest in tournaments.

>>718927861 (OP)
Press E to win

>>718931698
Didn't the teams have less predators on them compared to the other races?

>>718932881
Nope, same amount.

way too short, especially the Xeno campaign (only one that matters)

I got this game when I bought a GPU back in the back, it was really fun, the alien campaign was the best. I wish you still got free games when you bought GPU's

>>718932097
>not bro hissing for backup

>>718931037
All the points he made are valid. The game was casualized because game reviewers shit on the originals for being too hard.

Personally I still liked the campaign but the multiplayer was ruined by laggy instant kill grabs. Even if you killed an alien as it initiated a grab on someone they would just both die. In infection mode it made it trivial to win exploiting that.

>>718927861 (OP)
It had a lot to live up to regarding Aliens vs predator 2 + primal hunt
It focused too heavily on a multiplayer that nobody played and I assume that bit a chunk out of the resources they had to develop the actual campaign, the predator/alien campaigns felt really gimped

>>718931815
marine campaign but you cannot beat the alien campaign, running across the walls and murdering niggas is just too much fun

>>718933113
People would unfortunately rather play zog propaganda cawadoody than anything actually interesting it seems

>>718933224
call of duty was better because it didn't have one or two guys playing a predator and raping everyone else

>>718927861 (OP)
I don't know either. My main complaints are that the Marine campaign ends on a gay cliffhanger and that Alien and Pred have super short campaigns. But every AVP game has that problem, 90% of the budget goes to the Marine campaign and then Ayylium and Yautja get the left over scraps.

>>718933341
skill issue

>>718933417
sure

>>718927861 (OP)
what a fun game, might be time for a replay

>>718927861 (OP)
I am still proud of getting a platinum in it

>>718933341
Aliens could literally rape predators when working together, hell just being stealthy and using your ability to see through walls was enough to hunt them down yourself. Preds only really had a major advantage in tight corridors.

>>718927861 (OP)
This game was the first game to brick my computer

>>718927861 (OP)
>This game was kino why did it get shit on so much at release?
Its inferior to AvP2 and perhaps AvP1 in terms of horror, but its a 8/10 fun game.
>Multiplayer was 10/10 too
I have managed to play some, it was fun, but the backstab attack was bullshit

>>718933839
yeah but nobody ever played species or team deathmatch, so the predator was the obvious best choice, they didn't add half the gamemodes until the multiplayer was long dead

>>718933224
Call of dooty became so big because its online mode was very addictive with its ranks, the weapon skins, the badge customization and the load-outs. AvP3 was barebones

Agree. This was one of the first games that made me realize reviewers and players didn't know what they were talking. Reviewers all called it weak. Players online said it was shit. I put like 200 hours just into the campaign because stalking as Xeno and Predator is just so much fun.

Predator: Concrete Jungle was better though

I wish we could get another one that just goes crazy making everything playable
>Predaliens
>Queens
>Hybrid (Ressurection)
>Hybrid (Romulus)
>Engineers
>Trilobytes
>Super Predators
>Fem preds
>Androids

I still remember backstab chains in mp.
Lmao

>>718934317
I remember the predator disk before nerf. It was OP as fuck.

>>718934306
Romulus and Resurrection monsters are called Offspring and Newborn respectively.

>>718931698
weren't predators just overpowered compared to marines? What did marines even have?
Preds awarded more points on death I think?

>>718934402
Yes, there was even a mode where it was a bunch of marines vs one predator.

>>718934402
The leaping animation was slow and couldn't be canceled, and switching tools was slow. In a straight gun fight, Marines won. Pred players had to be disciplined about not getting drawn into the open or Marines would eat you while you were switching tools or animation locked.

Games like this and Red alert 3 were considered bad back then, we just didn't know how good we had it

>>718934245
my fucking nigger
fuck the heavily armed androids that start showing up though

The devs were retarded and didn't include hosted multiplayer. So they just released it and then everyone got bored and the multiplayer was non-existent then they patched it in the game but it was too late. That's what you get for being corporate yesmen and fucking over your community. Get fucked.

>>718934245
>>718934956
Based beyond belief. Hope Nightdive gives us a PC port soon. It emulates flawlessly but I want more people to experience the game. I genuinely söyfaced when the Xenomorphs appeared in that one mission.

It is genuinely incredible what "Bad/Mid" games were considered back in the 6th and 7th gen

I know people can nostalgiafag hard but we genuinely barely get these mid level "Blockbuster" games anymore only thing I can think of are the Robocop and Terminator games that came out semi-recently

>>718927861 (OP)
The instant kills from behind or finishers upon knocking down your opponent were poorly balanced.

I think a lot of dev time went into them too when it would've been better to have more variety in the campaigns when applicable (maps, enemies, shit like that.)

>>718934815
but you could just use the harpoon gun and win all the time?

>>718927861 (OP)
>why did it get shit on so much at release?
Whinny faggots, as usual....

>>718927861 (OP)
I played it for the first time recently
I had some fun with Alien campaign and it really pissed me off how short it was. Like 5 missions wtf. It felt like game is only starting and it was over already.
I tried to play as Marines, but got bored halfway through 2nd mission. Didn't surprise me really given that I'm not an FPS player just strategy/tactics>crpg>stealth one, but I felt compelled to try it anyway

After this I had enough of action games and abandoned it for now, but I will try Predator next time I will feel like checking out some alternative for stealth games. I liked playing as Alien and Predator in first AvP too. Never tried second game

A lot of cool set pieces in this game. That Yautja Temple in last mission was fun too, but holy shit what a difficulty spike suddenly against those Predators. Game was super easy up until then.

>remember the graphics being insanely good
>it looks like >>718936373
time is going so fast my brain can't keep up anymore

>>718930925
>nooo game made in 2010 must play like it was made in 1998 or i WILL have a stinky poopy diaper tantrum on vee

>>718927930
This, it was almost unplayable during release.

>>718936478
It looks a lot better in motion to be fair but yes it is basically textbook Unreal Engine 3 7th gen for all the good and bad that brings

>>718936874
I still think it looks pretty good but it has that absolutely awful implementation of ambient occlusion that also plagued Far Cry 3 and many other games of the time.

I remember playing it a lot, played since the demo. It did feel too consolefaggy compared to AvP2, and glory kills spam was gay. Predator's jumping was also pure cancer compared to AvP2. But it was nice that you could actually parry melee attacks, and not just kite them like in AvP2. Don't remember much about the story.