Alien Isolation
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Billy Idol
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Mine looks quite different though...
Mine has bigger teeth and suckers like an octopus tentacle
Picture please!!!
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AFAIK, the xenomorphs' reproduction is presented in all possible detail and it's a main subject in all movies, comics and games.
The queen lays eggs which produce face-huggers and the former contain an incomplete DNA sequence, which is why they need a second species to infect and reproduce.
Which is what makes the species naturally brutal and aggressive in the first place.
I think there are some deleted scenes showing the ability to turn a victim into a cocoon/egg. But it's a deleted scene, hence not really belonging to what one could call canon.
Actually, there are several ways to look at the life cycle of the alien:
- Fans have assembled a more or less cohesive but complicated unifying theory based on all the various sources like the movies, books, comics etc. This is pretty much what you've posted, but AFAIK it also includes various subspecies and of course the Predator race and even the predator-alien hybrid. One might consider this to be canon, however there are several inconsistencies which require some really creative thinking to overcome. I think it's also overly convoluted and robs the concept of most of its weirdness.
- There's Cameron's work in Aliens, which has the queen laying eggs and the drones maturing to warriors. Since this is the first time it's been explained on screen, one might also consider this to be the canon explanation.
- There's the creature (the "runner" or dog) from Alien 3 which hatched from an animal and looked different to any previous incarnations, which is probably why this DNA mixing theory was introduced. Still, Fincher's version also had a queen, although in just embryo form, so it's still close enough. Of course at this point we can't ignore that the addition was based purely on the intent to add something new to the creature.
- Prometheus has of course messed up everything with the black goo and the trilobite and the deacon whatever thing. I'd prefer to ignore this completely, mostly because of Lindelof's... mystery stuff, although Spaith's original script wasn't really consistent with the previous movies either.
- And finally, there's the originally intended version, which was depicted in the deleted scenes of Alien: there are no queens or any castes at all, any single creature can use prey (probably even just corpses) to mutate them into new eggs. Its life cycle is also very very short; the original explanation for the alien to hide on the Narcissus shuttle was to die alone, after it has created a new egg. In the movie it was Brett being turned into a new egg and the still living Dallas was coccooned right beside it as a host for the facehugger parasite. I think this version makes the alien the most dangerous as it can reproduce very fast,as there's no need to waste time conceiving and raising a queen.
We did a lot of research on this stuff back when we were working on the (unreleased, incomplete) trailer for Colonial Marines, sometime in 2008-2009 or so. The original ideas got quite diluted through the various iterations and a lot of the themes from the first movie got lost along the way. Personally, I see it as two universes; Cameron's version is different enough for that but the execution on the queen-hive concept is good enough to warrant it, whereas the original is in my opinion the more unsettling idea.
- Fans have assembled a more or less cohesive but complicated unifying theory based on all the various sources like the movies, books, comics etc. This is pretty much what you've posted, but AFAIK it also includes various subspecies and of course the Predator race and even the predator-alien hybrid. One might consider this to be canon, however there are several inconsistencies which require some really creative thinking to overcome. I think it's also overly convoluted and robs the concept of most of its weirdness.
- There's Cameron's work in Aliens, which has the queen laying eggs and the drones maturing to warriors. Since this is the first time it's been explained on screen, one might also consider this to be the canon explanation.
- There's the creature (the "runner" or dog) from Alien 3 which hatched from an animal and looked different to any previous incarnations, which is probably why this DNA mixing theory was introduced. Still, Fincher's version also had a queen, although in just embryo form, so it's still close enough. Of course at this point we can't ignore that the addition was based purely on the intent to add something new to the creature.
- Prometheus has of course messed up everything with the black goo and the trilobite and the deacon whatever thing. I'd prefer to ignore this completely, mostly because of Lindelof's... mystery stuff, although Spaith's original script wasn't really consistent with the previous movies either.
- And finally, there's the originally intended version, which was depicted in the deleted scenes of Alien: there are no queens or any castes at all, any single creature can use prey (probably even just corpses) to mutate them into new eggs. Its life cycle is also very very short; the original explanation for the alien to hide on the Narcissus shuttle was to die alone, after it has created a new egg. In the movie it was Brett being turned into a new egg and the still living Dallas was coccooned right beside it as a host for the facehugger parasite. I think this version makes the alien the most dangerous as it can reproduce very fast,as there's no need to waste time conceiving and raising a queen.
We did a lot of research on this stuff back when we were working on the (unreleased, incomplete) trailer for Colonial Marines, sometime in 2008-2009 or so. The original ideas got quite diluted through the various iterations and a lot of the themes from the first movie got lost along the way. Personally, I see it as two universes; Cameron's version is different enough for that but the execution on the queen-hive concept is good enough to warrant it, whereas the original is in my opinion the more unsettling idea.
It talks too. It told me it's shy to take pictures of itself
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Yeah, I think the intention was always that the alien/xenomorph took characteristics of the host. Exactly like the one from Alien 3, where it runs on four legs like a dog. I guess the host could be seen as the female since they provide some DNA to the xenomorph.
It's mostly likely wrong to try and see the reproductive systems as we know them and try to apply them to the xenomorph. I mean, it is after all, an alien.
I guess you could define several genders; the female queen which produces the "eggs", which are only really eggs for the facehuggers and they actually require no seed. The facehuggers are somewhat male since they seed the hosts, who would be then become female (regardless of what their normal reproductive gender is), which then propagate the drones who capture further hosts to feed the cycle.
After this talk about science fiction phalluses, and while it's not fully related to the game....
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Definitely not something made of a lot of dicks -unlike an Aliens face and mouth-, but I've rarely seen a picture crying Photoshop as that one. What's that? The surface of the earth? A map?Out of curiosity what do you guys see here?
Sigfried1977
Legend
Lovely game. Also long-ass and exhaustingly stressful game. I never felt like it dragged though, and I never really got bored of it either. On the contrary, I thought it was paced quite expertly. So far it's been two-for-two as far as good horror releases in October go.
I must say I quite appreciate the return of the get-better-or-get-nowhere trend in AAA games.
I must say I quite appreciate the return of the get-better-or-get-nowhere trend in AAA games.
RenegadeRocks
Legend
THat should be the MANTRA for every game. Too many too easy "treat you dumb" games around
!Sigfried1977
Legend
Unfortunately you're more likely to get a get-better-or-just-skip-it option in most modern games.
And before anyone whines about games that have you replay 30 minute chunks because you weren't paying attention: The scarcity of save stations in A.I has been blown out of proportion to say the least. The things are usually spaced apart within a 10 second walking distance.
And before anyone whines about games that have you replay 30 minute chunks because you weren't paying attention: The scarcity of save stations in A.I has been blown out of proportion to say the least. The things are usually spaced apart within a 10 second walking distance.
Yeah the save stations are spaced like in Dead Space. Dead Space however has some silent checkpoints and it did seem awkward to not have them in a modern game. But whatever not a big deal.
One thing I would've liked to see is a lack of loading zones. If I were behind the development of a game like this, I think that would be a priority. Stream the data in somehow. Don't make it disjointed and feel like it's "loading levels".
One thing I would've liked to see is a lack of loading zones. If I were behind the development of a game like this, I think that would be a priority. Stream the data in somehow. Don't make it disjointed and feel like it's "loading levels".
