Analysis: Aliens Colonial Marines - Why Did It Fail? - JarekTheGamingDragon
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@@laserbeto910 the dude gets money so he can eat and make videos for us, just shut up and deal witha few seconds of commercial
@@willz3344 and thats your problem. Just be happy that he puts out videos and next time you get a job, refuse it because you will be a sellout
Can you do an analysis video on Goldeneye: Reloaded please?
not as bad as ride to hell retribution but still looks pretty terrible.
@Kristopher Wickline ghosts was actually made with effort, colonial marines was made in a rush by a school dinners chef
"the Xbox 360 is 15 years old."
_Old Snake_
Hrnnngh
@@GuyOnAChair Colonel
Hard to believe that the Xbox 360 and PS3 are now Retro. I vividly remember playing Fable 2 back in '08 like it was yesterday
@@bronzin1445 Ehhhh old yes retro nah. They lasted quite a while for better or worse. Some gold nuggets aside it felt like a sort of stagnant era.
I refuse to call the 360/PS3 retro. My definition for retro is if games were made for arcades in mind. The market shifted drastically to console development after that. We need a new term for the 2000's.
And after that, Creative assembly (the developper of total war) made Alien Isolation a true love letter to the first Alien movie and a great survival-horror.
I think Alien Isolation is one of those games that did really well and deserves a sequel but somehow I don't think we'll get one.
@@elektra81516 I fucking know it and I hate it. (We don't count the mobile game).
@@elektra81516 I blame ign as they reviewed it poorly
@@somik-i3x I was as depressed at that mobile game as the people who expected Dipblo game got a mobile instead
@@elektra81516 they possibly could be scared of doing a sequel with marines because of A:CM.
Randy Pitchford should never be allowed to forget this abomination he birthed upon the gaming world
Oh he will never forget because he never shuts up about it he is way too proud of it
That and... Duke Nukem Forever.
Also, those dickish level he "made" on Shadow Warrior.
That would imply he can feel shame and remorse.
Problem is he is proud of this game he said people just expected too much lol
@@battlion507 duke nukem forever, isn't his fault they took it over to release the game. so they could stop the studio he used to work for from going out of business. Duke nukem forever is solely the responsibility of the guy in charge of it for 20 years.
Talk about lack of passion, Pulse rifle doesn't 99 in the magazine! Heresy!
heh?
Not really. The game equivalent resemble the one with 50 rounds used by Vasquez in the movie.
That one's actually true to the technical manual for the Aliens franchise. The mags for the Pulse Rifle COULD go to 99, but due to feeding issues its suggested to only load them to 95.
Ya stooged yaself op
the pulse rifles in game are a different variant with more power but less rounds in the can BUT you can find hudson's pulse rifle which has 95 rounds in the can and 5 round burst
It's hard to express just how mind numbing this game was on stream, but I'll try by explaining the fact that for a large portion of the stream the chat stopped caring about the actual game or anything relevant, and instead started to debate which alien in sci-fi would give the best b---------.
The politics...oy! Wonder if Jarek is going into Law Enforcement?
Hmm... Predators.
I got it for five bucks on steam many years ago and it supported game pad so I enjoyed myself. Certainly not appreciable as an aliens game but as a way to waste some time it was fine.
big chap [ the alien from the orginal] is the best, she would be fire
4:50 The demo you are showing I believe was revealed in E3 2011. I remember being amazed and so hyped for the game to be released. Years later I learned that the "gameplay" was actually pre recorded and the person was just acting like they were playing the game in real time.
The demo was very impressionable at the time. Now it’s one of the most notorious moments in gaming history.
"No smoke and mirrors, pre-recorded bullshit!"
Not to defend the dumpster fire, but pre-recorded demos aren't that unusual for E3. A funny side-note, I remember Uncharted 4 had a live E3 demo that bugged out as soon as it started so they had to switch to a pre-recorded version.
Thank god for the overhaul mod
I blame gearbox whenever their names brought up
The mismanagment and redirection of funds was so disgusting and a disservice to gamers, and fans of the alien franchise. I guess its fine if you like border lands but it is still scummy.
@@josesosa3337 looking into this, I do feel sad for Alien fans. Why is it so hard to make a good Aliens, or AVP, game? And looking that they took the money to make Borderlands 2 and DNF, makes me guilty. And look how that turn out.
DNF bombed so bad that it is dead. And seeing that Gesrbox won't give up the IP for some reason, good luck seeing a revival.
@@pancholopez8829 the best we can hope for is better games by better developers and support the good games that are coming out. Sadly, being dissapointed is part of life.
@@josesosa3337 along with constant "game as a service".
@PUPPET MASTER yea. Duke, while a product of his time, can be resurrected to show why he was awesome. Look how it turned out for Doom. I would say Wolfenstein, but Colossus and Youngblood did do way to much damage for the franchise.
And then there's the PC culture around Gearbox, but correct me if I'm wrong. I don't trust them with another Duke Nukem game AT ALL.
Man avp 2010 is still one of my top 10 great games I made a discord just so people could play it.
Not all heroes wear capes
Whats the discord??
I am going to say we have gotten slow due to people losing interest but if you are active others will be active. Here is the link for anyone who wants to join.
discord.gg/NZZ39xx
@@dudeletsplay4792 discord.gg/NZZ39xx
If you want a good aliens game but are nit picky about old graphics, definitely give AVP 2010 a go, its a hidden gem, despite its obviously glaring issues.
All of the Rebellion AvP games where stellar going all the way back to the jaguar. It’s unfortunate that Sega just didn’t go through them
The Game was a guilty pleasure for me to play on PS3 and I must say had a lot of fun actually
Same i might get some hate for this but when I got this on 360 it was my favorite game and still is to this day. I also met my friends on that game too tho
Strangely had fun with it too, grab a few friends and break its jank
Same with Duke Nukem Forever. No, it's not a particularly good game and certainly not what we were expecting but believe it or not, there is fun to be had with DNF. I think the reason why it got so hated aside from the overwhelming hype is that people just simply weren't interested in Boomer Shooters as the time. The late 2000s and early 2010s was when the Dude-Bro military shooter genre completely dominated the market. If you weren't playing Call of Duty, then you were playing Battlefield and vice versa. 2011 just happened to be the year where Military Shooter peaked in popularity with releases like Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
If that game cause you to have fun then anything can
You must be the happiest person alive
Same. It's my favourite bad game.
TemplarGFX's ACM Overhaul Mod has made this game really fun (and real pretty too).
You should review Brothers in Arms Hells Highway. Its underated compared to the others. Also Troy Baker voices the main character. I think it was his first big voice gig?
Brothers in arms road to hill 30 was his first
Hell's Highway was my entry to the Brothers in Arms franchise
And then Troy would follow it up by voicing The Playa/The Boss in Saints Row The Third.
He voiced Baker in all three.
@@DCGMatthew1 He did? I'll have to go back and see. I wonder if Nolan North is in there somewhere? Also now that THQ Nordic own Gearbox. We might finally get a Brothers in Arms game.
I’m still heartbroken about this game, my grandma came home with this game when it came out and I was so excited. Little did I know :/
same, i remember getting hyped due to the trailers. Luckily I decided not to preorder
...my parents did the same with Pac Man for the Atari 2600 when I was a wee lad. I'm not sure whether you or I got the worst end of the stick with that.
@@Tearsheet I've seen footage of that Pac man, I can't tell either who got it worse.
I haven't bought or played a Gearbox game since 2013. This and DNF are why.
Same here, Randy Pitchford is why! That said I would consider another Brothers in Arms game.
Same, thank God Blood Dragon came out a few months after this abomination in 2013.
I think part of the reason why DNF failed aside from it being a mediocre shooter is that it came out at the exact wrong time. The late 2000s and early 2010's was the era of Dude-Bro monster energy drinking military shooter. This was the era where Call of Duty and Battlefield just completely dominated the market. It was just unavoidable. 2011 happen to be the year where the genre peaked in popularity. 2011 also had Call of Duty: MW3 and Battlefield 3.
Man, this a game that could've been awesome, then gearbox pretty much said "Nah, how about we don't do that".
I've played more than 40 hours of _Colonial Marines_ and I do not regret it. I have no shame
Yikes
I love play it too. But that game is buggy. Not that I am saying something new. Actually I do enjoy it. If that game wasn't handled that could have been much better game.
Yeah, it's not a good game. Not by a longshot. But, eh, it's easy to play, and sometimes that's all I want
It's the reason why I can't look at Borderlands 2, they took the budget of both Duke Nukem Forever and Aliens to work on it.
"sophisticated artificial intelligence"
tfw there's a typo in the game's AI code
This came to my mind too.
I'm not joking when I say that Alien: Infestation, a 2D Nintendo DS platform game is a way more fun and scarier than this "triple A" game..
Infestation is a hidden gem. Also, an Aliens metroidvania was a great move, since Metroid itself borrowed a lot from aliens.
I totally forgot about that game. It was really good.
I love that game and play it to this day!
Borderlands 2 was made with the funds of this game...
A soul by another soul.
Gearbox makes really good games but this was so fishy from them. I do not wonder why sega must hate them too much.
yeah. A shitty game is unfortunate, but a shitty game that started out on track to be a really awesome game, and was killed by mismanagement? that's a tragedy
Not just Aliens, Duke Nukem too, Two souls for one.
@@maboilaurence8227 Duke nukem isn't gearbox's fault. They took over a project that was 10 years past due finished it, put out the door to stop a studio from going out of business.
@@RusticRonnie That's not an excuse to take its budget away from it.
Yes, the game had few chances of succeeding, but that doesn't mean you can just half ass it and still sell it to the market, it's just wrong.
@@RusticRonnie no lies detected. The original creator should've just released regardless of whatever state it was in n call it a day. I doubt it would be a terrible experience have it orginal released was back in the early 2000s
Another thing about the gunplay is that the muzzle sway doesn't matter, because all guns shoot to the center of the screen and not the crosshair. A LOT of games do this, and i don't know why.
This game is a 1 adult content USB stick out of 10.
Colonial Marines made me really appreciate AVP 2010. That game has it's flaws, for sure, but I really enjoyed the Marine campaign in that game and there were parts that actually had me scared. Ok that's not a super difficult thing to do, but Colonial Marines never came close to unnerving me.
I love that one of the trailers said it was going to be released on the WiiU
“Waow.... this blows!” LOL
This is the reason why I never bought another gearbox game again.
You want a great Aliens game? Play AvP Classic 2000! You want a great Alien game? Play Alien: Isolation!
It's really that simple...
funny thing about the weapon sway, where the reticle/sight is aiming isn't where your bullets will go. they'll simply go to the center of the screen, so when you readjust your sight to compensate for the weapon sway, you'll miss.
Oh, so that is the reason of why I missed so much, and I used to thing that the zero of the the weapons sights was fucked up in the games code.
I was a total sucker and an Aliens simp, so like an absolute mug I bought the special edition with Sgt Apone and Drake as multiplayer skins. That was the last time I ever pre-ordered a game.
Despite everything I actually had a lot of fun with the multiplayer... for about a week before the player base nosedived.
13:41 it’s literally one of the first things I was taught in programming class: just one small mistake in your code can ruin your whole program
heya Jarek! try review Brothers in Arms franchise. it's an underrated WWII FPS that has yet to be concluded.. now reaching 12 years later.
If Randy actually showcases us something.
We all know it was sacrificed to bring us another smash hit for Gearbox: Battleborn!
get that Raid money Jarek!!
Jarek Uploads always make my day.
Indeed
@@FluttershyBTK Any more to recommend ?
It’s Alien: Isolation time Jarek. You can hide no longer
"C O I N C I D E N T A L L Y"
My god Gearbox is just cancer...
And that cancer has a tumor.
I love your reviews so much dude, I'm really glad your sub count keeps increasing!
I just refreshed feed and I saw the upload few seconds ago
Nice timing
When you said go watch the OG trailer, I was like nah, no point making myself feel like crap
For a second after starting the video I thought jarek lost an eye
Played this year's after it came out, was spooked through a couple levels and while I noticed a lot of bad stuff, it was almost a guilty pleasure. I still play it to this day and enjoy it enough, despite its flaws
I remember seeing the trailer for this game on Adult Swim in my middle school year. At the time, my stepdad had gotten me into the Alien films, I had AvP on my PS3, and I played Aliens: Infestation on my Nintendo DS. When my stepdad saw the final product of this game, he was upset that it ruined my love of the franchise
it wasn't his fault... he should have known that
I love Aliens as a movie as it is an awesome sequel to a classic, though over the years I wish there had been a couple of changes such as no queens and just egg morphing instead (it makes the creatures just more alien).
My major complaint with it however is how it changed the creature, by making it more like an angry bug and cannon fodder I think it reduced how threatening it is.
Now it could be mowed down by the dozens.
I don't think all future games should be like Alien Isolation which was a pretty good game at the time in which the creature is invulnerable.
Rather I think there should be more a middle way between Alien and Aliens when it comes to game portrayal of the creature. It can be wounded and even killed, but it takes a lot of effort as the creature is cunning, fast, and will retreat when overwhelmed.
If you actually want to kill it you have to chase it down but this only increases the chances that it will ambush you.
So you have to choose between keeping it at bay but it slowly wearing you down, or try to kill it permanently but risk facing it in a place where it has the advantage.
It's already a red flag if the game has Randy "Egomaniac" Pitchford anywhere near it.
Hi "It's always Jarek here". It's always a joy to see a video of yours.
Thx for the new upload jarek. Can we have a video about I.G.I series in future? Never saw any RUclipsr talks about it
Whatever happened to that sequel teased a year ago?
@@rayyanali4471 They said the release would be in the year of 2021. But we don't know the exact time of it
You know it's bad news when Corperal Hicks says that the dveelopment of Aliens: Colonial Marienes was passionless.
I got the achievement for beating the game on the hardest difficulty by doing a true pro-gamer move; run past all the enemies. There are few moments where you actually have to kill the aliens or goons. The vast majority of the campaign is made on seemingly only simple triggers.
Was this before or after the code patch?
@@matteodelapaz1698 I did it on Xbox 360, so most likely not. However, if I remember correctly you should be able to still do it due to how levels are constructed. Most mission end triggers are simple waypoints (mission ends when the player is present in the trigger area). I don't believe the code patch addressed that, so I think only the enemies are more difficult.
@@kyleperry8640 I mean I remember Charlie did that exact strat after the code patch.
Tried to have fun playing this but it just doesn’t feel like AvP shooting at all
damn speaking of passionless games you should do a review of RE3 remake, clearly a somewhat decent/ok game that had absolutly no love and personality put into it. well, compared to the original
This looks like a case of bait and switch. They probably had better builds of the game that once had all the demo elements but then they were like "nope, change it and cut costs, we dont want to spend too much on resources because we spent too much on paying actors!"
Hey.
Hey, Jerek.
Remember when you reviewed the Snow Wolf Pulse Rifle on your airsoft account and said you were excited for Colonel Marines?
Good times.
I traded Halo 4 for Aliens Colonial Marines at gamestop upon release which I don’t regret til this day. Aliens has always been in my top 3 favorite films since I was a kid.
Even Halo 4's Multiplayer is WAY better than this wreck and that's saying a lot.
@@Jarekthegamingdragon I played the game’s multiplayer in its prime and the community was great along with the modes plus the customization was fun to mess around with. not to mention the added bonus that i was apart of the Roblox colonial marines at the time so I also played with a few of the members of that group on the xbox 360 port and met one of them irl after we would play A:CM daily because he lived a town over. We always had fun finding bugs on our own in the game like clipping out of the maps.
As for Halo 4 I still can’t play that wreck today on MCC. I had to play it through with one of my friends on legendary in 2019 and couldn’t stand it. It’s a big rivalry for me on if Halo 4 or 5 is worst because the multiplayer on 5 is amazing in it’s current state but the story is 10x worse. while 4 to me seems depressing and void of life at every turn.
on the brightside, Alien Isolation is great
Great job with the review. This is one of the few reviews out there that I feel like properly addresses the problems with game and disappointment without overly exaggerating how bad the game is. It’s really tiring to hear the “worst game of all time” narrative that completely ignores games like hunt down the freeman. I’ll always agree with it’s the most disappointing game but it’s so mediocre it doesn’t even make me directly angry. To me it’s such a boring game that “worst of all time” implies that it’s remarkably bad and it’s not even that. It’s just flat out bad and boring.
Oh boy, this’ll be quite a video
This was the last game I took launch day off for. Never again.
Same
F
Ah, Gearbox, a company you would work in, if you want something more shadier and untrustworthy than working for EA
i remember playing thru this game all the way on the PS3 a year ago. yeah it sucked, the weapons had too much sway and were very inaccurate. the sawed off double barrel shotgun was kinda fun, but you had to pay for it (it was only $1 though) and it fired both barrels at once, woulda preferred an option to fire one barrel at a time
Please anyone knows where can I get that doom hoodie? can't really find the exact one that Jarek has
You should review Project Wingman when it comes out. There's a game with some passion put into it.
13:16 "Moves in anger"
When you said 15 years old I just slowly turned to look at my 360 wide eyed
I had a game breaking bug. Npc marine just standing in a doorway and he wouldn't move and I couldn't advance. Had to restart the level but he always blocked the door. Couldn't advance any further in the game.
Cockblocked :(
Anyone know what's the name of his outro music? Been trying to find it for a while now.
You are the first youtuber I have seen to mention rs 1 thanks for that that game is so underloved but so good
I have both Aliens and Aliens Vs. Predator 3. I play more AVP3 then CM, just cause I can have that Alien movie vibe while playing as the Rookie, the Predator and Specimen 6. CM just leaves me wanting more.
Also, now that you said Bioshock, have you done a review of the Bioshock games? Don't remember if you did or not.
Aliens colonial marines crawled so alien isolation could sprint
Still hoping if jarek would do analysis about Spec Ops The Line
Good into song of a classic jingle of ma childhood cool mustache good videos so far ur on a role
Back in the day, I played this one day before release day, I had an Xbox 360 with LT 3.0 and I bought a pirated copy, that was when I was at high school and it was impossible to afford an original copy, good that I only spent like 4 bucks on it
If you used the lurker xeno in the mp you could charge the jump and launch across the map. Flying xenoes
Kill me on the spot but while everybody hated that game, I found it started draging me in after 2 hours of playing. I played it from beginnning to end twice overall with a 3-4 years pause between that. And I think honestly that -while it wasn't what we wanted- it is not a bad game overall.
It's amazing the installation is still intact after they nuked the site from orbit.
i still want to play this for myself although what everyone says. this video might change that though. depends on what you say. bout to start !
I remember buying this game on launch and the guy at the counter reminding me that I had 7 days to return it, "return it..?" I said, "Yeah...a *few* people have been bringing it back"
Oh god we played 30 minutes and took it straight back
I'm still sad that we never got to play that part from that E3 demo back In 2011.
After I watched those clips of AvP 2010, I checked steam to see what the price was and found out that the complete editions of both AvP and Aliens: Isolation were on sell together for about $15.
I mean talk about a steal
Alien Isolation and AvP2 by Monolith are the best hands down!
I remember playing the multiplayer at PAX East one year. Honestly we thought it was just because it wasn't supposed to be a completed build. If only we knew.
I would advise anyone who wants to play this game, play the pc version but with the templargfx overhaul mod (currently at version 6) it does improve the graphics, the ai and rebalance the weapons and xenos melee attacks, basically if they get close to you your screwed which is what it should be like for and aliens game
I somehow remember enjoying this game. But I did play it mostly co op
Hey is the background music from the game, Legendary?
Yo, at the ad break around the minute mark, what headset is that? I love sennheisers and want to knab a good pair from them? Do you by chance have a link to where you bought em from?
Love the content bro, thanks for the great review!
Looks like a Sennheiser game one.
Got mine in 2015 and they are still going strong today
There's the Game One, and the Game Zero. I'm 99% sure the Game One is an open back headphone based on the 598 with a little bit more of a bass punch I felt. The Game Zero is closed back.
Would you consider doing an AVP 2010 or duke nuke forever review/video
Never played this one. I remember the launch however. Holy crap that was probably one of gaming's biggest flops
Yeah big difference in the lighting, atmosphere, and the bioscanner feeling like your heartbeat and a constant reminder that you are in danger, you could be surrounded.
AVP 2010 was ahead of its time
And let's not forget the MASSIVE (10GB I believe) patch they dropped. Didn't fix a hell of a lot...
I’m curious how much raid shadow legends actually sponsors youtubers anymore. It’s a bit rare to see the sponsor ad now than last year.
Well if the majority of people are happy with certain sponsors like Raid, you'll quickly understand why their ads keep popping up for a long time
There’s a overhaul mod that makes the game exactly like the gameplay trailers
AvP 2010
Damn i have good memories playing that with friends esspecially survival mode
Acm overhaul did improve aspects of the game and make it better on pc. But it still could have been so much more and better. Its on sale now and potentially worth it just to experience it with the mod.
Rebellion should make an alien game they well make it a lot more greater
Glad you played this so I don't have to.
Just replayed this game over summer I really do love this game in a so bad it’s good kinda way lol
Oh, god, Colonial Marines. I made the mistake of buying this poor man's F.E.A.R. earlier this year (IDKW, though). I actually began my attempt to play through this (after fixing the Teather bug) with Stasis Interrupted, the game's Downloadable Expansion Pack. Gameplay wise, it's a meh (definitely better than the main game), but writing wise, oh god. It felt like a butthurt Aliens fanboy's attempt to write the events of Alien 3 and the expanded universe material that followed out of canon by retconning the opening crash so that Hicks was replaced by some other marine, and that he attempted to save Ripley from committing suicide. As a true (read: sane and healthy) fan of the first three Alien movies, although it wasn't as insulting as Covenant, it still baffled me to no end. And then I tried to play the main game and OH GOOD GRIEF.
Basically, you're better off playing Alien: Isolation and the Aliens versus Predator games than this. I know that the person reading this comment is a reasonable adult who knows not to buy crap, and so it's mandatory to stick to those. I only recommend Aliens: Colonial Marines if you're curious. Or if you're a butthurt Aliens fan, if you want to see canon take it up the ass.
Or... for those of you with short attention spans, let me put it another way: *GET AWAY FROM THIS GAME YOU DUMB BITCH!!!!*
I love so much Alien universe that literally hurt when i see the trailers and gameplays...and remembers that the final thing is a mess...
Me and my brother loved the hell out of this game, we played splitscreen for hours
I think maybe just maybe the stuff the first showed off could have been what time gate worked on ? Maybe ? Xcx who knows at this point