/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.9118549]

ITT: Games that were better than the movie

[Anonymous No.9118607]

>>9118549

[Anonymous No.9118632]

I had no idea it existed, on Steam, until a week ago.

[Anonymous No.9118640]

>>9118549

[Anonymous No.9118653]

[Anonymous No.9118662]

>>9118549

[Anonymous No.9118664]

>>9118549
>Alien^3

The movie (all versions) and game sucked but the movie is slightly more entertaining than that mess of a game they ported to every device known to man.
Amazingly the Gameboy version is completely different and does follow the movie though.

[Anonymous No.9118696]

Youre gonna think I'm shitposting but I'm not, this is an actual good videogame.

[Anonymous No.9118834]

alien 3 is a great movie. i'm glad fincher killed off newt and hicks to start a new bleak story showing that aliens are ripley's only family. it was the only way not to repeat Aliens and it works really well, Weaver clearly loving her new cynical side. The sci-fi name of the rose setting is also such a great idea. And the bold and beautiful ending closes the saga perfectly.

[Anonymous No.9118864]

>>9118653
Impossible.

[Anonymous No.9118913]

>>9118549
Alien 1: Original cut
Alien 2: Director's cut
Alien 3: Assembly cut

That's how I spent an evening.

[Anonymous No.9118918]

every one, because movies are boring shit made by decrepit old jews.

[Anonymous No.9118931]

>>9118918
>made by decrepit old jews.
Kinda like Sega then?

[Anonymous No.9118932]

>>9118549
that's not saying much

[Anonymous No.9118947]

>>9118913
I'll never get my head around Ridley Scott, he made some of my absolute favourite movies but he also directed completely hapless crap, it's hilarious that he thought Alien had to be updated for a modern audience, resulting in the Director's Cut being shorter than the original Alien.

[Anonymous No.9119091]

The Secret of Monkey Island

[Anonymous No.9119110]

>>9118549
i really like the goldeneye 007 movie but the game was better

[Anonymous No.9119117]

>>9118549
Not the PS1 version though

[Anonymous No.9119269]

>>9119110
>i really like the goldeneye 007 movie but the game was better

For me, Goldeneye, was the first Bond movie that I saw at the cinema. I was 14 years old when it came out. I was familiar with Bond through TV airings of the Moore and Connery era movies, and the James Bond Jr. cartoon. It was a solid movie overall. The first time Pierce Brosnan gets to play Bond. It has some great action set pieces. The Tina Turner intro is still one of the better intro songs. I still like the movie. The game was delayed quite a bit, and came out two years after the theatrical release of Goldeneye the movie. It wasn't even released alongside the home video releases. I know some magazines make fun of the game for being released two years after the movie. The game Goldeneye was released a couple months before Brosnan's second Bond movie: Tomorrow Never Dies. Hype for the second movie was big, but the game was released on its own, with no strong advertising tie-ins, like Die Hard Trilogy on PS1 was released beside the Die Hard Trilogy box set on VHS (for example). Nintendo of America didn't think it was going to be a big hit either. Goldeneye became one of the best selling games on the N64 and most popular 4-player split screen games outside of Mario kart 64 and the Mario Party games. Goldeneye was the reason why I bought the console. I loved the single player campaign and all the challenge levels, as well as the 4 player Bond matches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcCq4uOoI6g

[Anonymous No.9119284]

>>9118834
Based Alien 3 appreciation. I always thought it was a worthy conclusion to the series, even if they ripped off the ending to Terminator 2.

[Anonymous No.9119316]

>>9118947
>>9118947
Ridley's only as good as the writer he's been assigned to. Alien and Blade Runner both had pretty good writers, while Prometheus was written by one of the clowns that did Lost.

[Anonymous No.9119343]

>>9119269
>The game was delayed quite a bit, and came out two years after the theatrical release of Goldeneye the movie.


Mission Impossible by Ocean had the exact same issue, as the game was originally announced right alongside the original 1996 Mission impossible movie. But the game was delayed and released in 1998. by the time 1998 rolled around, there was very little interest in the first Mission Impossible movie. Mission Impossible 2 didn't come out until 2000. When Mission Impossible came out for the N64, nobody cared. Goldeneye was late, but still came out between other Brosnan Bond movies.

[Anonymous No.9120217]

>>9118696
First time I finished the game I was playing alone and it was quite of fun, but the best of the game is that you could play al the history mode with a friend.

[Anonymous No.9120259]

Not to imply the movie is bad by any measure, this just stands head and shoulders above the usual licensed shit.

[Anonymous No.9120274]

>>9118549
Alien 3 is the best Alien movie though, sad Aliens kiddies can never appreciate it. Literally everything about that movie is kino.

[Anonymous No.9120314]

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[Anonymous No.9120318]

>>9120259
This game was fucking brutal difficult.

[Anonymous No.9120339]

[Anonymous No.9120527]

>>9120339

The sequel to the movie that never was. Ma Fratelli gets her revenge on the Goonies by kidnapping them all, except for Mikey, and kidnaps a mermaid as well. because.

[Anonymous No.9120531]

>>9120274
It's not bad I just get more enjoyment out of the game.

[Anonymous No.9120538]

>>9120339
This game was a bit weird. There was a Goonies 1 game made for the japanese Famicom, but it never came out in NA. The sequel 'Goonies II' comes out for the NES, and it is actually a bit confusing. There was never a Goonies II movie. What a weird movie too... Ma Fratelli gets her revenge on the Goonies by kidnapping them all, except for Mikey, and kidnaps a mermaid as well. because.

[Anonymous No.9120541]

>>9120274
wow man you like the thing that the majority dislikes. you must be very smart and cool.

[Anonymous No.9120546]

>>9120541
>instantly appeals to popularity
as expected of Aliens kiddies

[Anonymous No.9120583]

>>9120339
Holy bait

[Anonymous No.9120593]

>>9120546
going against the current isn't a personality, brainlet.

[Anonymous No.9120636]

>>9120593
alien 3 is kino. I legitimately love that movie and especially the music. I'm not just pretending to like it.

[Anonymous No.9120703]

>>9120593
the current isn't always right, giga faggot, remind me what's the average IQ of consumers? why do you want to have the same taste as people who barely scratch 3 digits?

[Anonymous No.9120726]

>>9120703
>muh IQ
holy midwit

[Anonymous No.9120739]

>>9120726
IQ is proven to be the most accurate prediction of your outcome in life. I am sorry you are a brainlet and share taste with the "average" person (aka drooling retards who can't even tell a square from a triangle)

[Anonymous No.9120740]

>>9120739
I’m professionally tested at 133 and that didn’t stop me from being a retarded loser.

[Anonymous No.9120753]

>>9120740
I'm professionally confident that anecdotal evidence isn't enough to trump mass scale studies.

[Anonymous No.9120793]

>>9120753
See this is why I called you a midwit. That there is a correlation between IQ and life outcome does not mean IQ *dictates* life outcome. A fundamental property of statistics is they’re only accurate at the mass scale; at the individual level aberrations start to appear.

What’s your IQ btw?

[Anonymous No.9121168]

>>9120538
>There was a Goonies 1 game made for the japanese Famicom, but it never came out in NA.
It was released on the arcades as a VS. System pak.

[Anonymous No.9121383]

Better than all of the Disney sequels

[Anonymous No.9121384]

>>9120636
>alien 3 is kino
Alien 3 is what? Go back you fucking faggot.

[Anonymous No.9121428]

>>9120538
The game is a sequel to the movie.

[Anonymous No.9121439]

I'm not gonna say better but definitely on the same level of quality

[Anonymous No.9121446]

>>9118549
Alien 3 the movie in unfairly hated. Alien 4 was fucking horrible.

[Anonymous No.9121450]

>>9119343
>Nobody cared
Bullshit. Everyone and their grandma anticipated this as we had nothing else to look forward to on n64. Everyone said it was the next goldeneye. While it wasn't everyone I knew who bought it liked it, including me.

https://youtu.be/S_oJ-U9ytBc

[Anonymous No.9121521]

>>9121446
nah its trash bro

[Anonymous No.9121536]

Does Aliens: Infestation on the Nintendo DS count?

[Anonymous No.9121540]

>>9121536
No but I like how they included some stuff from shelved Aliens 3 scripts like the space soviets

[Anonymous No.9121549]

>>9121521
>it's not as action packed as aliens so it sucks
>it's trash because ecelebs said so
The first Alien wasn't as action packed as Aliens and it's still a great movie.

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[Anonymous No.9121571]

>>9121521
Filtered

[Anonymous No.9121596]

>>9120793
85

[Anonymous No.9121606]

>>9118549
Alien 3 as a platformer is better than Super Metroid especially the music.
https://youtu.be/VSeSd836FbI

[Anonymous No.9121660]

>>9121571
You should've been aborted

[Anonymous No.9121706]

>>9118696
I only played the PC version which is a completely different game and mediocre platformer

[Anonymous No.9122096]

>>9121446
>Alien 4 was fucking horrible.
I enjoyed it. The entire premise of cloning Ripley after she felt into molten lava just to get the alien embryo that was inside her body is already kinda goofy to begin with and you can tell the filmmakers were just having fun without taking themselves to seriously.

[Anonymous No.9122195]

>>9121428
>The game is a sequel to the movie.

It's a sequel to a Famicom/ NES game that is based on the movie.

>>9121168
>It was released on the arcades as a VS. System pak.

Yeah, it was one of the games in the Nintendo Players Choice 10 arcade cabs. I actually got to play a Players Choice arcade machine, it had Super Mario Bros. 3 as a highlighted game, as SMB3 was 'brand new'. Sadly. I don't think Goonies was a game on it. I remember seeing copies of Goonies II (for the NES) at a local department store, and thinking to it was based on a Goonies II movie. Like Goonies II was a real thing. I was like 7 years old.

[Anonymous No.9122304]

>>9121521
>nah its trash bro
nah, Alien 3 just doesn't have a pulse one way or the other. The documentaries about making it are far more interesting than the movie itself, if only to see how much shit david fincher went through with the studio and how many concepts they shelved over a six year development process. Alien 3 is more entertaining than Covenant and 50% of Prometheus, though.


>video game
Alien 3: The Gun is more fun than the movie. There was an arcade in a small theater I went to as a kid that had one. It was still there in 2002. Guess it vacuumed up lots of quarters.

>>9122096
exactly. The franchise became self-aware and played on how much of a joke it had become by 1997.

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[Anonymous No.9122485]

>>9121446
The first part of Alien 3 where they build the characters is one of the best parts of the entire trilogy. Once the Alien shows up, it becomes an inferior rehash of stuff done better in the previous 2 movies.

[Anonymous No.9122517]

>>9122332
Imagine if Rockstar Toronto didnt make a tie-in movie game and instead worked on a completely original product in 2005. This could have been generational. Mediocre

[Anonymous No.9122586]

>>9121446
Alien 3 is bad, but Resurrection is so bad that it makes 3 seem decent by comparison. Covenant was even worse than Resurrection.

[Anonymous No.9122613]

>>9119284
Joining in on this one. It was my favourite of the series as a kid. I loved the grimy atmosphere and being British loved that I recognised a lot of the actors in the film.
Growing up I learned to appreciate the first film above all due to how fucking immaculate it is but I still have a soft spot for 3. Aliens is a fun film but it feels a bit plasticky in comparison to the others and was clearly designed with the American market solely in mind. Resurrection I loved as a kid but watching it again it's fucking awful.

[Anonymous No.9122620]

>>9121450
I rented it and liked it back in the day. Playing it again recently it's interesting that Hitman took some ideas from it.

[Anonymous No.9122627]

>>9122613
Aliens is cool, because it has the best Alien costumes in the whole series. The sets are also great. The characters are really flat and it is a much less tense movie than the others, though.

[Anonymous No.9122630]

>>9120593
Aliens is the brainlet choice to be fair. Good film but it's just guns n' action for the American audience. Pure brainlet popcorn material.

[Anonymous No.9122638]

>>9121596
I'm sad that I'm the only person that got that very relevant reference.

[Anonymous No.9122645]

>>9122517
They also did Bully and Max Payne 3 which are two of the best games under the Rockstar umbrella. Or was that Vancouver?

[Anonymous No.9122648]

>>9122627
I was about to disagree then I remembered the few times you see the Alien fully in the first film looking pretty bad and the shit puppet/CGI of the 3rd film.
I'd actually argue Resurrection has the best looking aliens. They're just trapped in a shit film.
Best sets belongs entirely to the first film though and it's not even close. I've always thought Aliens looked weirdly cheap compared to the first even though that can't possibly be true.

[Anonymous No.9122654]

>>9122648
The alien head animatronic in the first is very cool. The whole body costume does look very "guy in rubber suit" though. Which is why you only see the whole thing in a few shots.

[Anonymous No.9122658]

It was maked to forget shitty kids movie, but 2002 og better

[Anonymous No.9122662]

>>9122658
We're in /vr/ bromeo. It's ok though, you're forgiven.

[Anonymous No.9123249]

>>9118549
Don't mind me, just posting the best Alien game.

[Anonymous No.9123261]

>>9118549
everyone loved that movie as a kid, fuck all the bandwagon zoomer fags these days
everyone loved ghostbusters 2 as well. Dude in the painting was scary as shit.

[Anonymous No.9123263]

>>9122613
Resurrection gets a bad rap. It's a joyful success of an action schlock film. It's everything the Resident Evil films tried to be, but good. Alien^3 is much worse, because it tries to be Alien and fails.

[Anonymous No.9123502]

>>9122613
>Resurrection I loved as a kid but watching it again it's fucking awful.
Complete opposite for me. I love how absolutely no one looks like they’re taking the movie seriously and it was probably a blast to film. It’s silly, fun garbage.

[Anonymous No.9123518]

I like all of the first 4 Alien films.

[Anonymous No.9123525]

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[Anonymous No.9123546]

>>9118549
>implying
Alien 3 is legitimately great.

https://youtu.be/njC0f8QCEOw?t=78

[Anonymous No.9123768]

>>9118549
The Assembly cut is pretty good, except they changed the end, though the new end is actually very similar to the end of the SNES game, where Ripley just falls in unceremoniously. I wish Assembly cut kept the chestburster part at the end, otherwise it was better.

[Anonymous No.9124013]

>>9121606
>Stage 4
First time a game ever made me paranoid as fuck. Foreground effects making it super-difficult to see the alien coming at you from below until it's too late.

[Anonymous No.9124028]

>>9121384
>seething this hard
Back to r/games kiddo

[Anonymous No.9124108]

>>9124028
No he's right. Go back, we don''t want your faggot kind here.

[Anonymous No.9124135]

>>9120318
Okay, so im not a bitch for getting my ass whipped trying it recently.

I remember almost beating it as a kid somehow

[Anonymous No.9124142]

>>9124108
Dilate samefag

[Anonymous No.9124470]

>>9123249
I loved this game I played a lot in my psx in late 90s

[Anonymous No.9124574]

>>9118662
Fantastic game

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[Anonymous No.9126278]

>>9125740
The sequel to this was better than the subsequent films too.

[Anonymous No.9126302]

>>9126278
>The sequel to this was better than the subsequent films too.

I don't completely hate Die Hard 4, but making it PG-13 was a mistake. Die Hard 5 was whatever.