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Dec. 19th, 2007 04:30 pmI confess: watching any Alien or Predator-related movie with me is no fun.
I'm not even the hugest nerd about these two fandoms. I just like the movies a lot. Except for Alien Cubed and most parts of Predator 2 (like the parts with Gary Busey). Those sucked pretty much a lot. I did, however, really like the premise of Aliens Versus Predator the movie, and I don't apologize for that or for planning to see Aliens Versus Predator: Requiem. I like the movies a lot and I think they're totally awesome.
What I'm really annoying about is the computer game Aliens Versus Predator, which came out years before they ever got the movie off the ground and is one of the only FPS I've ever played but it easily my favorite computer game...well, ever. ( My love, let me show you it )
I could never play the human levels in that game for very long because it scared the crap out of me. The lighting was terrible so you could never see. The enemies were quick or cloaked or melted into the background so you always got munched. And the weapons at my disposal fell far short of nuclear so I was never satisfied that I wasn't going to die.
The only time I played a human with any satisfaction was in a local multiplayer game with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
feiran and this is THE BEST GAMING STORY OF MY LIFE, so please pay attention to me (please!?):
Knowing my utter terror at being stuck in the dark with aliens of any sort, when I picked a Predator Deathmatch (one Predator, anyone kills it becomes it),feiran picked out a human with a grenade-launcher. Eventually, after many rounds of me sniping her with the (and I quote) FUCKING DISC (hee! Predator 2 was good for something!), she killed me, and the shoe was on the other foot. She killed me so dead a hundred times because, gee, the Predator can cloak and humans suck at seeing and she (bastard!) stayed still so much of the time that she never registered on my tracker.
I decided to get tactical. I dropped the floor of a square room with a metal walkway that ran all around the walls. I tucked myself into a corner and flicked flares into the opposite corner up onto the walkway. I was in the shadows, and I had a perfect view of the spot I was bombarding with flares. I'd see anyone coming because there was no exit on the ground floor where I was and the door was over my head (so no one would enter from across the room and spot me).
Sure enough, this vaguely blobby invisible outline came to investigate. Chick-chick...BOOM Only after I resumed my rightful role as Predator, did I get the goggling "HOW THE HELL!?! WHAT JUST HAPPENED!?!" from my fellow player.
And that's why it's my favorite game ever. Well, that and the fact that Aliens head-bite people to restore their health. You wouldn't believe how fun it is to watch some unarmed engineer cower while you position yourself just right to eat their melon. YUM!
I'm not even the hugest nerd about these two fandoms. I just like the movies a lot. Except for Alien Cubed and most parts of Predator 2 (like the parts with Gary Busey). Those sucked pretty much a lot. I did, however, really like the premise of Aliens Versus Predator the movie, and I don't apologize for that or for planning to see Aliens Versus Predator: Requiem. I like the movies a lot and I think they're totally awesome.
What I'm really annoying about is the computer game Aliens Versus Predator, which came out years before they ever got the movie off the ground and is one of the only FPS I've ever played but it easily my favorite computer game...well, ever. ( My love, let me show you it )
I could never play the human levels in that game for very long because it scared the crap out of me. The lighting was terrible so you could never see. The enemies were quick or cloaked or melted into the background so you always got munched. And the weapons at my disposal fell far short of nuclear so I was never satisfied that I wasn't going to die.
The only time I played a human with any satisfaction was in a local multiplayer game with
feiran and this is THE BEST GAMING STORY OF MY LIFE, so please pay attention to me (please!?): Knowing my utter terror at being stuck in the dark with aliens of any sort, when I picked a Predator Deathmatch (one Predator, anyone kills it becomes it),
feiran picked out a human with a grenade-launcher. Eventually, after many rounds of me sniping her with the (and I quote) FUCKING DISC (hee! Predator 2 was good for something!), she killed me, and the shoe was on the other foot. She killed me so dead a hundred times because, gee, the Predator can cloak and humans suck at seeing and she (bastard!) stayed still so much of the time that she never registered on my tracker.I decided to get tactical. I dropped the floor of a square room with a metal walkway that ran all around the walls. I tucked myself into a corner and flicked flares into the opposite corner up onto the walkway. I was in the shadows, and I had a perfect view of the spot I was bombarding with flares. I'd see anyone coming because there was no exit on the ground floor where I was and the door was over my head (so no one would enter from across the room and spot me).
Sure enough, this vaguely blobby invisible outline came to investigate. Chick-chick...BOOM Only after I resumed my rightful role as Predator, did I get the goggling "HOW THE HELL!?! WHAT JUST HAPPENED!?!" from my fellow player.
And that's why it's my favorite game ever. Well, that and the fact that Aliens head-bite people to restore their health. You wouldn't believe how fun it is to watch some unarmed engineer cower while you position yourself just right to eat their melon. YUM!
