Monsters =d

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  • FireFroFireFro Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 426Members
    Wow, more and more impressive.  Can't wait to play as one of those.  Imagine a number of them swarming you like bats.  I wonder what the flight controls will be like.  Damn this game captures my interest the more I see of it.

    As for the aliens not looking scary enough, I agree they aren't the most frightening of alien designs (can't get anymore frightening then Aliens aliens anyway), but NS isn't so much about frightening people as combat and gameplay.  And if you ask me the aliens in NS look very original in art and design, and very very very mean.  I might not get spooked at the prospect of a bob lurking in the dark, but when it starts biting me (or whatever it'll do to me) I'm sure I'll crap my pants.

    As for more information, the waiting is killing me, but anticipation is part of the fun.
  • RhoadsToNowhereRhoadsToNowhere i r 8 Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 33Members
    The aliens are the way they are for a few reasons.  First off, the mod is already being compared to Starcraft, AvP, the Quake 2 mod Gloom, etc, enough as it is.  I'm glad they've put so much originality into their alien concepts and avoided the insectoid stereotype.  Also, the aliens aren't so much horrible, twisted beasts engineered to be an utter nightmare to humanity as creatures just trying to survive.  The mammal-like representations of the aliens gives you a completely different outlook.  Nevertheless, you will be assured that the aliens as they are will kick, skewer, and eat as much human butt as any other kind of alien out there <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
  • GobyWanGobyWan Join Date: 2002-02-22 Member: 234Members
    The aliens have some human-like body structure and influences, most notably limbs (Bob has human-like arms and legs up till the point where they turn into spikes) and torso bone/muscle structure. That, I find scary. Maybe later on, some aliens that are partially made from humans that have been... alien-a-fied? Freaky as hell, no? (now that I think of it, Infested Terrans from SC... ######, no idea is original anymore&#33<!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->
  • Hida_TsuzuaHida_Tsuzua Lamarck&#39;s Heir Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 79Members, NS1 Playtester
    What I like is the unity of the alien forms.  Pinky looks like he can from a Bob.  Even the Lvl 5 looks like a Bob is some aspects.  

    Nic pictures!
  • MoleculorMoleculor Namer-of-Bob Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 9Members
    Yeah, the <a href="http://www.natural-selection.org/team.html" target="_blank">NS team</a> didn't want the aliens to be insects, because that had been done, and wanted the game to be more about survival of the fittest.... so they made the aliens mammalian.

    As for the unity in the models, that was actually something they worked on getting.
  • The_ButcherThe_Butcher Join Date: 2002-03-30 Member: 363Members
    Hmmmmmm, I look forward to fill this poor level 3 with tons of lead, I don't think he'll be able to fly anymore after I'm done with it...  <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->

    O, and whoever said alien-a-fied (or something close) were like infested terrans also forgot the headcrabed zombies in HL.
  • the_stalkerthe_stalker Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 49Members
    thats if you can even hit this lil thing  <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->
  • XTS_HighlanderXTS_Highlander Join Date: 2002-04-13 Member: 429Members
    Man.... It's images like that that inspire poets to write sonnets <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->

    Wherefore art thou ugly?
    For ugliness and beauty art pieces
    In thy tremulous visage, thine eyes
    Ensconcened in flame, wreathed in hate,
    Yet at time the same regal and angelic,
    As heaven's cherubin, hors'd 'pon the couriers
    Of the air.  Thy form be stunning and dreadful
    Both, yet neither one nor t'other.  Beauty
    Be in thy ation, of thy creation, marvell'd
    As Heaven's clear crystal song, envied by
    Thine fellow aliens, who art yet unskinned,
    Unmodelled, and above all, unmade.  Thout art
    To me as a Golden Flame; breathless be my
    Amazement and intrepid wonder.  Yet as a
    Fool who touches flame, so doth I fear thine
    Attack, thine acidic spore cloud o'poisounous
    Fume and bile, choking life, love, amazement
    -For be that what caused me death.  So standeth I
    Upon a precipice, indeciveness be my bane.  Doth I
    turn to thee, and embrace thy beauty, or run away
    From thine spores and thine spikes of brutal homicide?

    /me runs
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