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<!--QuoteBegin-dr.d+Sep 24 2004, 02:06 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (dr.d @ Sep 24 2004, 02:06 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Umbrella corp. has a good chance but not enough high power weaponry. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Umbrella has the most advanced weaponry for it's time, RE taking place in 97 I believe. Play Code Veronica and you'll see the weaponry. From Railguns to Nukes.
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Who the hell is voting for Black mesa? Seriously folks, I know this is a halflife mod, but have you played any other games? <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-moultano+Sep 24 2004, 04:56 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (moultano @ Sep 24 2004, 04:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Who the hell is voting for Black mesa? Seriously folks, I know this is a halflife mod, but have you played any other games? <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Yup, UAC > Black Mesa, followed closly by Umbrella.
But Tri Op is soo much greater than the rest . Its just because not many people have played the System Shock series and so have no idea how well they have a grasp on ALL technology.
Quantum Bio Reconstruction Modules: If the module detects no life signs or sombody that has given it a DNA sample it reconstructs them with full mental capabilaties. Ok downside is if its programing is altered it can by used to turn people into cyborgs.
Faster Than Light Drive: Alters reality, no need for teleportation or rebuilding things. Downside if switched off everything is undone.
Nanites: you need no explination if so please leave now, NOW I said, thats right keep going till you cant see this...good.
Stations: Built a station capable of destroying earth from space via use of a giant laser, if that fails use of virus created on the bio pods can be used, if that fails then cyborgs can clean up the mess.
SHODAN: Capable of entering practically every computer system in existance even her most basic module, code can create her majoirt program and still have increadable powers.
Xerxes: Shodan with over ride codes.
Starship: Can travel to Tau Ceti 5 in a mear 6 months while stopping at other planets, it is also fully independent and can survive on its own systems indefinetly.
Actually, this contest is kinda nuts. I mean, there's NO WAY the BMRF or Umbrella could stand up to the UAC or TriOp, they've got decades more research behind them than those two. And Weyland is pretty old too, I guess.(Not having watched the Alien/s movies.)
This thread is awesome. And look how many votes we have! I'm amazed BMRF got as many votes as it did.
Erm, anyone mind telling me what Durandel or Wintermute are? I figure they are AI's, but a link would help.
I think the next poll that Marik should start should be a WHICH AI IS BETTER. With the last option being ALICE. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Like I said both UAC and Weyland can't control their technology.
And BFG? Big deal, all you got to do is shoot the discharge and it blows up in the users face. I'll take a Tau cannon over a BFG anyday.
PS we have no idea whether or not Black Mesa is the only research facility in Half-life. Keep in mind Alien, Doom, Resident Evil, and System Shock have ALL had sequels. Black Mesa is the first step in the eveloution of Half-life and therefore must be factored in more.
Unless you want it to be Half-life vs. Doom 1, Alien, Resident Evil 1, and System Shock 1.
Wait oops wrong thread. I RUINED IT! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> You did but putting that post in here was the only way to make it make sense in context. If you had put it in that Godawful Dubya thread then no one would get it.
<!--QuoteBegin-Pulse+Sep 24 2004, 03:43 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Pulse @ Sep 24 2004, 03:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> No no no, Daedalus is too sane, what we need is SHODAN vs Durandal. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> oll Icarus
how can black mesa beat the UAC? the UAC OWNS EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE! they own bloody mars hell theyd give gordon a few trillion dollars and hed quit UAC is a major corporation black mesa is a tiny research facility
<!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif' /><!--endemo--> i agery with X_Stickman BM with G-man he is truly has invul so he woud win ..ya .......YA..........YAAAAAAAAAAA <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif' /><!--endemo-->
The FTL drive could alter the fabric of space-time around it, but it was AN EXPONENTIAL process.
If glasses hadnt interfered, Shodan would have been queen of the entire universe.
If glasses had died and the Many had succeeded, well...
"When you and your kind are extinct, we shall cleanse our collective memory of the stain of your existence..."
"Surely the void is preferable to your pointless solitary struggle..."
"We do not know death, only change. We cannot kill each other without killing ourselves. Is your vision so small that you cannot see the value of our way?"
"The individual is obsolete. When you and your kind are extinct, we shall cleanse our collective memory of the stain of your existence (stain of your existence...)..."
"The machine mother told us of the planet of her birth. We know how you have harmed this place with your pollution (your violence) and your discord but when we arrive there, we will cleanse the surface of that place, and merge it, with the harmony of the many"
TRI-OP FTW!
The Many, however, make it on Biggest Villain EVAR!
<!--QuoteBegin-Ice-Phoenix+Sep 24 2004, 11:12 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Ice-Phoenix @ Sep 24 2004, 11:12 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> this is slighty varying from the topic but... your all disapproving of black mesa.. but isn't HL2 the most anticipated game ever.. so in fact thats still kinda black mesa(kind of) but we all know that game is gunna own all the other games coming out about the same time <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> HL2 was the most anticipated game about 2 years ago. I could care less about it. It has no new technologies, it is bringing nothing revolutionary to the genre, (personally I thought the story behind HL1 was pretty weak) and the only reason I can tell people are getting hyped about it is so they can play their same dumb mods, but with RAGDOLLS LOL OMG (I'm dead serious, I asked what was so great about CS:S and got told 'ragdolls'.)
Everyone is going 'ROFL LOL BLACKMESA G-MAN' except you're never stopping to think about how pathetic the GMan was as a character in-game. You see him every now and then. Oh boy. Then the game finishes on an <b>INCREDIBLY CLICHE NOTE</b>. "Oh by the way I work for the aliens" or some crap. I saw that coming the first time he showed up in-game. There was no real plot building behind him, there was no twists or anything. You just see him and then 'END OF THE GAME OKAY CRAM THE ENTIRE STORY DOWN GAME OVER'. And Gordon? I've said before, he's the only character out of these other games that got caught. Great hero? Half-Life was not only probably the easiest of these games, but he nearly loses just by getting conked on the head. Yeah I'm scared of him!
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->4) Have the best technology in the universe; BFG 9000 works on the principal of FUSSION -- A object basically gets imploded instead of exploded. Basically they can control nuclear reactions. wow.gif<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Don't talk about technology you don't understand, for the love of science.
They have resources everywhere, lots of money, and the the USCMC, which own the UAC and the Black Mesa facility. They also have guns that auto-track targets, I think that's a lot cooler than a Tau gun or something. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> They have space stations, space ships, (going back to the USCMC) they have futuristic weapon systems, hell...Weyland Yutani even probably still has an assload more Xenomorphs than they did in Resurrection. What better way to win than use them as the biological weapon they were designed to be?
I think Moultano is right - A lot of people live in damn caves and have never played any game besides Deer Hunter and Half-Life... it'd be funny to ask which of the games listed the people voting have even played. Chances are people voting for BMRF haven't even played half of the others.
I've played:
HL (duh) AvP2 and a huge fan of the movies Resident Evil and Resident Evil Zero, as well as seen the first movie System Shock 2 Doom Trilogy
<!--QuoteBegin-EEK+Sep 24 2004, 09:39 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (EEK @ Sep 24 2004, 09:39 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Ice-Phoenix+Sep 24 2004, 11:12 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Ice-Phoenix @ Sep 24 2004, 11:12 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> this is slighty varying from the topic but... your all disapproving of black mesa.. but isn't HL2 the most anticipated game ever.. so in fact thats still kinda black mesa(kind of) but we all know that game is gunna own all the other games coming out about the same time <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> HL2 was the most anticipated game about 2 years ago. I could care less about it. It has no new technologies, it is bringing nothing revolutionary to the genre, (personally I thought the story behind HL1 was pretty weak) and the only reason I can tell people are getting hyped about it is so they can play their same dumb mods, but with RAGDOLLS LOL OMG (I'm dead serious, I asked what was so great about CS:S and got told 'ragdolls'.)
Everyone is going 'ROFL LOL BLACKMESA G-MAN' except you're never stopping to think about how pathetic the GMan was as a character in-game. You see him every now and then. Oh boy. Then the game finishes on an <b>INCREDIBLY CLICHE NOTE</b>. "Oh by the way I work for the aliens" or some crap. I saw that coming the first time he showed up in-game. There was no real plot building behind him, there was no twists or anything. You just see him and then 'END OF THE GAME OKAY CRAM THE ENTIRE STORY DOWN GAME OVER'. And Gordon? I've said before, he's the only character out of these other games that got caught. Great hero? Half-Life was not only probably the easiest of these games, but he nearly loses just by getting conked on the head. Yeah I'm scared of him!
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->4) Have the best technology in the universe; BFG 9000 works on the principal of FUSSION -- A object basically gets imploded instead of exploded. Basically they can control nuclear reactions. wow.gif<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Don't talk about technology you don't understand, for the love of science. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> I'd generate opinions like that If I also lost touch of reality and forgot it was a game.
BMRF would be a crater within seconds. It has no defenses. At all. Gordon would be childs play - put a health charger in a room, turn off the lights, and conk him in the head. Then feed him both barrels of a shotgun. The only possible 'weapon' BMRF had was the missile... and that was only to launch a satellite.
Racoon City wouldn't fare much better. I imagine it'd last longer because Weyland/TriOp/UAC might be a tiny bit reluctant to blast an entire city to bits. It'd also take longer because you'd have a lot of buildings to blast through to reach The Hive. Their virus would be worthless since it won't be transmitted through a space vacuum, it'd be vaporized by the intense heat of orbital doom, and potential zombies (Racoon City inhabitants) would probably be unable to reach space. Probably.
UAC wouldn't be that much trouble either. Its ships aren't capable of FTL speed, Weyland and TriOps are. You'd simply have to blow up mars on the way. UAC could be trouble with their intra-dimensional hijinx but ultimately it matters little.
Weyland-Yutani vs. TriOp would be an interesting fight. On one hand, TriOp has a psychobitch AI, on the other, Weyland has the xenomorphs.
Oh, and please don't give me crap, Cheese. I know which other account you use and I'm sure the mods would be happy to compare IPs.
Anything involving the Weyland Yutani corporation also involves the following:
-Lots of money -Militarized spacefleets -United States Colonial Marine Corps -The weapons of the USCMC, smartgun, pulse rifles, and other uber smexy weapons -Xenomorphs, you know Weyland Yutani owns more of them, and they were engineered to be biological weapons by the 'Jockeys' or whatever, so why not use them like that against the UAC or BMRF...they wouldnt stand an snowballs chance in hell. -Where there are Xenomorphs and the USCMC, there are the Yautja, just another alien species for everyone to mess with. -The ability to make nuclear strikes from orbit -Ripley -Probably a biological weapon version of whatever they are fighting. Seeing as Weyland Yutani is hell bent on capturing whever it's fighting.
<!--QuoteBegin-Perdition Flamethrower+Sep 24 2004, 10:20 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Perdition Flamethrower @ Sep 24 2004, 10:20 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Anything involving the Weyland Yutani corporation also involves the following:
-Lots of money -Militarized spacefleets -United States Colonial Marine Corps -The weapons of the USCMC, smartgun, pulse rifles, and other uber smexy weapons -Xenomorphs, you know Weyland Yutani owns more of them, and they were engineered to be biological weapons by the 'Jockeys' or whatever, so why not use them like that against the UAC or BMRF...they wouldnt stand an snowballs chance in hell. -Where there are Xenomorphs and the USCMC, there are the Yautja, just another alien species for everyone to mess with. -The ability to make nuclear strikes from orbit -Ripley -Probably a biological weapon version of whatever they are fighting. Seeing as Weyland Yutani is hell bent on capturing whever it's fighting. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> See this is why I'd say it would come down to TriOp vs. Weyland. Weyland has a lot of goodies and hardware, but the seem to have a lot of corruption at the top. Right hand vs. left hand. On he other side, while Weyland has the hardware, TriOp too has a lifeform that is used for combat. This lifeform however, I think is better then the Xenomorphs, as it also attacks your mind, filling you with propoganda... the glory of the flesh... Also, Weyland has the hardware, TriOp has supersoldiers. It'd be a very close match <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-EEK+Sep 24 2004, 09:39 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (EEK @ Sep 24 2004, 09:39 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Everyone is going 'ROFL LOL BLACKMESA G-MAN' except you're never stopping to think about how pathetic the GMan was as a character in-game. You see him every now and then. Oh boy. Then the game finishes on an <b>INCREDIBLY CLICHE NOTE</b>. "Oh by the way I work for the aliens" or some crap. I saw that coming the first time he showed up in-game. There was no real plot building behind him, there was no twists or anything. You just see him and then 'END OF THE GAME OKAY CRAM THE ENTIRE STORY DOWN GAME OVER'. And Gordon? I've said before, he's the only character out of these other games that got caught. Great hero? Half-Life was not only probably the easiest of these games, but he nearly loses just by getting conked on the head. Yeah I'm scared of him!
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->4) Have the best technology in the universe; BFG 9000 works on the principal of FUSSION -- A object basically gets imploded instead of exploded. Basically they can control nuclear reactions. wow.gif<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Don't talk about technology you don't understand, for the love of science. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Duly Noted. <CRAZYNESS> HOWEVER: That doesn't matter one bit. Why? Because in the game the G-Man was indestructible, quite literally. You hit him and sparks would fly. <i>Sparks</i>!! Therefore just using him as a weapon, and not bothering with his story, he is a useful tool. (I mean, if they are fighting, why would the other side care about how good his story is? I mean, <i>WTH, are they going to sit down together and have tea and biscuits and discuss their various storylines? I think not! The G-Man is going to turn around and lay some serious smackdown on each and every one of those pathetic Aliens/Zombies/Demons/Nanites/Etc. And you know what happens then? Maybe AFTER he kills them all, he will stand on a mountain of corpses and whilst proclaiming himself their corpse-god, he might <b>THEN</b> tell them his story.</i> </CRAZYNESS>
In any case, story hardly matters. The only reason anyone cares even a bit about G-Man is his invulnerability. If he didn't have that he wouldn't be mentioned.
And yes I have played all of those games. System Shock 1 & 2 were absolutely marvelous. I always went for the Psychic stuff. Even though I ended up getting hacking abilities and using them more often through out the game. Similar to my half hearted attempt not to be a hacker in Deus Ex. Never could stay away from the mad hax.
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Umbrella has the most advanced weaponry for it's time, RE taking place in 97 I believe. Play Code Veronica and you'll see the weaponry. From Railguns to Nukes.
Yup, UAC > Black Mesa, followed closly by Umbrella.
Quantum Bio Reconstruction Modules: If the module detects no life signs or sombody that has given it a DNA sample it reconstructs them with full mental capabilaties. Ok downside is if its programing is altered it can by used to turn people into cyborgs.
Faster Than Light Drive: Alters reality, no need for teleportation or rebuilding things. Downside if switched off everything is undone.
Nanites: you need no explination if so please leave now, NOW I said, thats right keep going till you cant see this...good.
Stations: Built a station capable of destroying earth from space via use of a giant laser, if that fails use of virus created on the bio pods can be used, if that fails then cyborgs can clean up the mess.
SHODAN: Capable of entering practically every computer system in existance even her most basic module, code can create her majoirt program and still have increadable powers.
Xerxes: Shodan with over ride codes.
Starship: Can travel to Tau Ceti 5 in a mear 6 months while stopping at other planets, it is also fully independent and can survive on its own systems indefinetly.
The list goes on.
Erm, anyone mind telling me what Durandel or Wintermute are? I figure they are AI's, but a link would help.
I think the next poll that Marik should start should be a WHICH AI IS BETTER. With the last option being ALICE. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Wait oops wrong thread. I RUINED IT! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
And BFG? Big deal, all you got to do is shoot the discharge and it blows up in the users face. I'll take a Tau cannon over a BFG anyday.
PS we have no idea whether or not Black Mesa is the only research facility in Half-life. Keep in mind Alien, Doom, Resident Evil, and System Shock have ALL had sequels. Black Mesa is the first step in the eveloution of Half-life and therefore must be factored in more.
Unless you want it to be Half-life vs. Doom 1, Alien, Resident Evil 1, and System Shock 1.
Wait oops wrong thread. I RUINED IT! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
You did but putting that post in here was the only way to make it make sense in context. If you had put it in that Godawful Dubya thread then no one would get it.
oll Icarus
Alice FTW.
THEY HAVE SPACESHIPS AND ROBOTS, MAN
The FTL drive could alter the fabric of space-time around it, but it was AN EXPONENTIAL process.
If glasses hadnt interfered, Shodan would have been queen of the entire universe.
If glasses had died and the Many had succeeded, well...
"When you and your kind are extinct, we shall cleanse our collective memory of the stain of your existence..."
"Surely the void is preferable to your pointless solitary struggle..."
"We do not know death, only change. We cannot kill each other without killing ourselves. Is your vision so small that you cannot see the value of our way?"
"The individual is obsolete. When you and your kind are extinct, we shall cleanse our collective memory of the stain of your existence (stain of your existence...)..."
"The machine mother told us of the planet of her birth. We know how you have harmed this place with your pollution (your violence) and your discord but when we arrive there, we will cleanse the surface of that place, and merge it, with the harmony of the many"
TRI-OP FTW!
The Many, however, make it on Biggest Villain EVAR!
HL2 was the most anticipated game about 2 years ago. I could care less about it. It has no new technologies, it is bringing nothing revolutionary to the genre, (personally I thought the story behind HL1 was pretty weak) and the only reason I can tell people are getting hyped about it is so they can play their same dumb mods, but with RAGDOLLS LOL OMG (I'm dead serious, I asked what was so great about CS:S and got told 'ragdolls'.)
Everyone is going 'ROFL LOL BLACKMESA G-MAN' except you're never stopping to think about how pathetic the GMan was as a character in-game. You see him every now and then. Oh boy. Then the game finishes on an <b>INCREDIBLY CLICHE NOTE</b>. "Oh by the way I work for the aliens" or some crap. I saw that coming the first time he showed up in-game. There was no real plot building behind him, there was no twists or anything. You just see him and then 'END OF THE GAME OKAY CRAM THE ENTIRE STORY DOWN GAME OVER'. And Gordon? I've said before, he's the only character out of these other games that got caught. Great hero? Half-Life was not only probably the easiest of these games, but he nearly loses just by getting conked on the head. Yeah I'm scared of him!
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->4) Have the best technology in the universe; BFG 9000 works on the principal of FUSSION -- A object basically gets imploded instead of exploded. Basically they can control nuclear reactions. wow.gif<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Don't talk about technology you don't understand, for the love of science.
They have resources everywhere, lots of money, and the the USCMC, which own the UAC and the Black Mesa facility. They also have guns that auto-track targets, I think that's a lot cooler than a Tau gun or something. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> They have space stations, space ships, (going back to the USCMC) they have futuristic weapon systems, hell...Weyland Yutani even probably still has an assload more Xenomorphs than they did in Resurrection. What better way to win than use them as the biological weapon they were designed to be?
I've played:
HL (duh)
AvP2 and a huge fan of the movies
Resident Evil and Resident Evil Zero, as well as seen the first movie
System Shock 2
Doom Trilogy
I voted Weyland-Yutani but also support TriOp FYI
HL2 was the most anticipated game about 2 years ago. I could care less about it. It has no new technologies, it is bringing nothing revolutionary to the genre, (personally I thought the story behind HL1 was pretty weak) and the only reason I can tell people are getting hyped about it is so they can play their same dumb mods, but with RAGDOLLS LOL OMG (I'm dead serious, I asked what was so great about CS:S and got told 'ragdolls'.)
Everyone is going 'ROFL LOL BLACKMESA G-MAN' except you're never stopping to think about how pathetic the GMan was as a character in-game. You see him every now and then. Oh boy. Then the game finishes on an <b>INCREDIBLY CLICHE NOTE</b>. "Oh by the way I work for the aliens" or some crap. I saw that coming the first time he showed up in-game. There was no real plot building behind him, there was no twists or anything. You just see him and then 'END OF THE GAME OKAY CRAM THE ENTIRE STORY DOWN GAME OVER'. And Gordon? I've said before, he's the only character out of these other games that got caught. Great hero? Half-Life was not only probably the easiest of these games, but he nearly loses just by getting conked on the head. Yeah I'm scared of him!
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Don't talk about technology you don't understand, for the love of science. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I'd generate opinions like that If I also lost touch of reality and forgot it was a game.
BMRF would be a crater within seconds. It has no defenses. At all. Gordon would be childs play - put a health charger in a room, turn off the lights, and conk him in the head. Then feed him both barrels of a shotgun. The only possible 'weapon' BMRF had was the missile... and that was only to launch a satellite.
Racoon City wouldn't fare much better. I imagine it'd last longer because Weyland/TriOp/UAC might be a tiny bit reluctant to blast an entire city to bits. It'd also take longer because you'd have a lot of buildings to blast through to reach The Hive. Their virus would be worthless since it won't be transmitted through a space vacuum, it'd be vaporized by the intense heat of orbital doom, and potential zombies (Racoon City inhabitants) would probably be unable to reach space. Probably.
UAC wouldn't be that much trouble either. Its ships aren't capable of FTL speed, Weyland and TriOps are. You'd simply have to blow up mars on the way. UAC could be trouble with their intra-dimensional hijinx but ultimately it matters little.
Weyland-Yutani vs. TriOp would be an interesting fight. On one hand, TriOp has a psychobitch AI, on the other, Weyland has the xenomorphs.
Oh, and please don't give me crap, Cheese. I know which other account you use and I'm sure the mods would be happy to compare IPs.
-Lots of money
-Militarized spacefleets
-United States Colonial Marine Corps
-The weapons of the USCMC, smartgun, pulse rifles, and other uber smexy weapons
-Xenomorphs, you know Weyland Yutani owns more of them, and they were engineered to be biological weapons by the 'Jockeys' or whatever, so why not use them like that against the UAC or BMRF...they wouldnt stand an snowballs chance in hell.
-Where there are Xenomorphs and the USCMC, there are the Yautja, just another alien species for everyone to mess with.
-The ability to make nuclear strikes from orbit
-Ripley
-Probably a biological weapon version of whatever they are fighting. Seeing as Weyland Yutani is hell bent on capturing whever it's fighting.
-Lots of money
-Militarized spacefleets
-United States Colonial Marine Corps
-The weapons of the USCMC, smartgun, pulse rifles, and other uber smexy weapons
-Xenomorphs, you know Weyland Yutani owns more of them, and they were engineered to be biological weapons by the 'Jockeys' or whatever, so why not use them like that against the UAC or BMRF...they wouldnt stand an snowballs chance in hell.
-Where there are Xenomorphs and the USCMC, there are the Yautja, just another alien species for everyone to mess with.
-The ability to make nuclear strikes from orbit
-Ripley
-Probably a biological weapon version of whatever they are fighting. Seeing as Weyland Yutani is hell bent on capturing whever it's fighting. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
See this is why I'd say it would come down to TriOp vs. Weyland. Weyland has a lot of goodies and hardware, but the seem to have a lot of corruption at the top. Right hand vs. left hand. On he other side, while Weyland has the hardware, TriOp too has a lifeform that is used for combat. This lifeform however, I think is better then the Xenomorphs, as it also attacks your mind, filling you with propoganda... the glory of the flesh... Also, Weyland has the hardware, TriOp has supersoldiers. It'd be a very close match <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Don't talk about technology you don't understand, for the love of science. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Duly Noted.
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HOWEVER: That doesn't matter one bit. Why? Because in the game the G-Man was indestructible, quite literally. You hit him and sparks would fly. <i>Sparks</i>!! Therefore just using him as a weapon, and not bothering with his story, he is a useful tool. (I mean, if they are fighting, why would the other side care about how good his story is? I mean, <i>WTH, are they going to sit down together and have tea and biscuits and discuss their various storylines? I think not! The G-Man is going to turn around and lay some serious smackdown on each and every one of those pathetic Aliens/Zombies/Demons/Nanites/Etc. And you know what happens then? Maybe AFTER he kills them all, he will stand on a mountain of corpses and whilst proclaiming himself their corpse-god, he might <b>THEN</b> tell them his story.</i>
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In any case, story hardly matters. The only reason anyone cares even a bit about G-Man is his invulnerability. If he didn't have that he wouldn't be mentioned.
And yes I have played all of those games. System Shock 1 & 2 were absolutely marvelous. I always went for the Psychic stuff. Even though I ended up getting hacking abilities and using them more often through out the game. Similar to my half hearted attempt not to be a hacker in Deus Ex. Never could stay away from the mad hax.