ITT : games you wanted to be good so fucking bad
>>336689861
pic related?
it was good.
>>336690773
>>336690773
It lied about mechanics in trailers
>There still hasn't been a good The Thing game made
It's so fucking easy, god damn it. Have us be The Thing invading people's bodies and trying to complete certain objectives, meanwhile people get paranoid as fuck.
>>336693265
There was a game online just like this but instead of Anatartica it was like a Jason Voorhees summercamp. Think it was called Slasher or something
>>336693783
>Online
Ruined just like that. When players know what's going on and start using meta bullshit to win, it's no fun anymore.
It has to be single player.
>>336689861
Not making literally every teammate turn within two levels could have added to the suspense. They are all scripted too, I clearly remember that you need to escort a mechanic somewhere in the middle of the game through a room full of necromo-- I mean things, and he dies very easily. I think that's right after the part you are captured and lose all your weapons. After he fixes the panel for you, which was the only reason you needed him, he becomes a monster within two steps inside the next room. What's even the point? There are also guys who need some "trust" or whatever to follow you, which you simply gain by giving them a weapon from your inventory which you are hoarding anyway. The game implies you need to do a blood test on yourself in front of them but that's bullshit.
ITT games no one played.
>>336689861
the thing was alright though. it could've been alot better but for the time it was decent. adapting the movie's feel over to a video game would be very difficult regardless. the only way I could see it working is a multiplayer focused thing like TTT or The Ship.
I really hope you guys actually understood the ending of the movie
>>336698403
What exactly?
That both of them are infected?
>>336698525
They weren't infected, you find Childs dead and MacReady saves you at the end.
>>336698403
of what? the thing? what's so deep about that? two guys left with ambiguity over whether or not they're human, seems pretty straightforward to me.
>>336693265
sounds like Geist for gamecube
>>336698525
>>336698718
The "alcohol" at the end is actually gasoline
>>336698613
Just as with Colonial Marines I refuse to accept the game as canon
>>336698403Mac didn't give Childs whiskey, he gave him the gasoline he was using to blow shit up. That's why he chuckles to himself when Childs drinks it up and doesn't react in any way to it.
>>336698805
where is this said?
>>336698805
>>336698982
This has never been confirmed.
And even if that was the case why wouldn't the thing just kill MacReady with the flamethrower?
>>336699015
It isn't, just a neat theory people bring up.MacReady shoves alcohol down the computer to win against it at the beginning of the movieMacReady shoves "alcohol" down the thing to learn of its identity at the end of the movie
Pure kino
thing ending theories are so fucking retarded.
the whole movie has a running theme of ambiguity and paranoia, and that's how it ends. Carpenter meant for it to be that way, there are no hidden messages or true endings
NOOT NOOT
>>336699286
that's some neat pottery even though the gasoline thing is kind of an asspull.
>>336693265
The closest thing I've played to a good the thing game is an arma 3 custom scenario that's on steam workshop. The thing is seriously the best horror movie ever made.
>>336699408
It isn't really an asspull even if that's the intended ending. You can see MacReady throwing bottles to blow shit up just the scene before it (hell, arguably in the same scene)
>>336699343
What is this
Mind that you find Childs frozen to death at the beginning of the game. Which makes no sense, because that implies he wasn't infected, yet MacReady lives which doesn't explain why would he leave Childs freezing to death instead either incinerating him or escaping together with him.
>>336699540
some pingu/the thing parody
just search for thingu on yt
My personal theory is that MacReady was able to kill The Thing (and save the world in the long run), but both him and Childs die miserably at the end of the movie completely paranoid over one another.
A really neat thing about The Thing's ending is that it's ambiguous, though, it really could be some of the crazier theories people drop.
>>336699638
In the last scene, Childs doesn't have any visible breath while MacReady does.
>>336699638
To be completely fair, whether that's true or not, this is most likely just Carpenter fucking with people like he loves doing.
>>336693265
Literally spacestation 13
>30-40 real players
>changeling round has 3-4 players disguised as humans
>you have to kill and absorb 10 other people's dna and escape
>you can transform into people you've absorbed and steal their clothes to make the look
>regular crewmembers can out you if they draw your blood and use a heat source on it
>you can turn into a shambler and fight off a crowd
>if you die, you headspider onto the nearest player and eventually control him if surgery isn't done
Paranoia ensues as soon as a changeling is reported, sometimes regular players murder eachother if they're stupid enough/jump to conclusions without testing for forensics
>>336699441
I wouldn't say THE best, but it's definitely among the best. Hard to be beat that constant feeling of dread, paranoia, and top notch practical effects that still look great to this day.
>>336699638
holy shit
goddamnit how could they have fucked up the prequel so badly? that shit is non canon right? I'd rather just have them seeing the aftermath of it all at the Norwegian camp in the first movie be the only thing you see of that incident than treat that piece of shit as a true prequel.
>>336699819
Wrong.
In case the image doesn't look clear enough, you can see his breath right before MacReady gives him the bottle to drink.
>>336689861
Only because Carpenter actually worked on it
>>336699819
Yes he does, especially towards the end of the scene.
>>336689861
This game was good
>>336699819
That's because blacks don't have a soul
>>336699834
That's no fun, m8. I've played Space Station, but it's not the same thing. People know it's a game and they're metagaming. That's the inherent disadvantage of multiplayer games.
I want to be in a game where I'm The Thing and people are paranoid as fuck and I have to use stealth to complete objectives. People that were coded that way, not neckbeards that are fucking around.
>>336699638it was macready. Blair had a crawler somewhere ready to get him after he blew the building up
The Thing is not just the best horror movie. It's the best movie as far as I'm concerned. Love it.
>>336700108
If MacReady was infected then why did he kill the big motherfucker?
>>336699972
>goddamnit how could they have fucked up the prequel so badly?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMHv2Gd743s
One of the directors told the crew to scrap all of these models after they painstakingly made them actually move on their own and said they're using CGI instead.
>>336700194
I know don't remind me anon. shits a goddamned crime.
>>336700108
lolno. Macready is in the game, and game is canon.
>>336700296
if the game is canon, and Carpenter has said one of them is a thing in them final scene, then why do you find Childs dead body as a human?
>>336699972
What prequel? I only know the remake, which was pretty gud.
>>336699972
Tried seeing if John Carpenter said anything regarding it, and it seems like he's mostly ignored it, but here's something interesting
>Upon finding John Carpenter's 1982 film The Thing, the two convinced Universal to create a prequel instead of a remake, as they felt that remaking Carpenter's film would be like "paint(ing) a moustache on the Mona Lisa"
At least they knew they could never live up to the original. I think modern prequels are a "give or take" type deal. If you like them, consider them canon, if not? Forget them like time itself.
>>336700194
Well at least they got paid.
And not having practical effects was the least of the movies problems.
>>336689861
nothing gold can stay
>>336700397
not a remake m8. it's a prequel, just has the same title. its ending scene literally leads right into the first movie's opening scene with the dog.
>>336700390
Why would it transform? It had no way out anyway, so it had nothing to gain, and there was the off chance someone might find the body and bring it back for an investigation.
>>336699638
To anyone wondering and not shitposting
The liquor bottle MacReady gives Childs at the end of the movie has gasoline in it not alcohol
MacReady smiles because he knows and still has the flamethrower ready
>>336699819
I think someone said that was an error in post-production, as you can see Childs' breath earlier in the scene.
why does /v/ always have good Thing threads?
>>336690773
its really bad actually
>>336700194
>>336700286
Wow, didn't know this.
>Hey we know you guys worked hard on this and the money is likely already spent, but fuck you
Practical effects, especially today when they can be legitimately enhanced with CGI, will always trump pure CGI.
>there will NEVER EVER any good movie like the thing again
The Thing is a great movie, just a classic whodunnit turned up to 11 with cool alien elements added to it.
There should be more movies like it. Shape-shifting parasite is hardly a concept that belongs to The Thing alone.
>>336700738
How 'bout you stop crying on /v/ and go actually explore all the options available to you.I get what you mean though. The creative industries are all in recession it seems. But we can hope and hold out for a renaissance, yeah?
The closest thing we have to a video game The Thing is Hitman. I love Contracts, Blood Money and the new one that has no subtitle.
>>336700525
That's not the point, that means MacReady left him to die despite knowing he is a thing, instead just blowing him up.
Is Carpenter's The Thing now considered a masterpiece or does it just have a strong cult following?
stream pls
>>336700972
I'd argue SS13 low population Changling rounds are more similar, back in the days when everyone didn't metagame to hell and back.
>>336700984
A strong cult following, not a lot of people know about it.
>>336700984
Both, probably
>>336698782
mah nigga
>>336701118
>Multiplayer
Into the trash it goes
>>336701240
And yet I'm always surprised when people don't know about. It's so damn good, if you like horror movies you owe it to yourself to see it.
>>336701294
People actually being paranoid will always be better at it than AI being paranoid.
>any thread
>any topic
>The Thing gets mentioned
>fuck the topic, this is now a Thing thread
>every time
I love /v/ sometimes.
>>336701597
Nope, because people know they're in a video game and just meta the hell out of it.
>>336701710
But I made specific mention of:
>back in the days when everyone didn't metagame to hell and back.
If you were actually on a decent server where people roleplayed, changling was the best fucking round type.
>>336701867
>Have to get to a specific round type to actually start playing The Thing
Just make a fucking good Single Player The Thing game, fuck you MP fags.
>>336701118
I'm talking good games, though. If you want to get technical, then the closest is The Thing game in OP.
Contracts, Blood Money and Hitman 6 are the good games that are closest to The Thing. Although I should try out Geist for the Gamecube, never heard of it before.
>>336702184
>I'm talking good games, though.
But SS13 is good.
Or rather, was good, it went to shit in 2012 so fair enough.
>>336702289
SS13 is and always has been trash, m8. Sorry. I fell for the memes early on as well and tried it out, it's not fun.
>>336702289
SS13 is a meme game
>>336702289
This. I'm glad I stopped playing that game two months ago. Five fucking years of that game
>>336702289
>But SS13 is good.
Someone explain SS13 to me
I don't understand it.
>>336702565
>Someone explain SS13 to me
>laggy 2d multiplayer game on a godawful engine
>a crew of autistic retards staffed with different jobs ranging from security officers, doctors, engineers, janitors and clowns
>some of them might be bad and have free reign to kill anyone
>you used to be able to poop, throw your turds at people and eat them but they removed it
>learning curve matched only by dorf fortress
>absolutely no good communities
>never seen The Thing
>this thread has me wanting to see it
>not on Netflix instant queue
Oh well mustn't have been that good then
>>336703947
yeah it's actually pretty shit, don't watch it
>>336704051
this man tells lies
>>336703947
You're right, Netflix is pretty bad.
>>336704051
Thingposter detected
>>336702390
I dunno man, the sheer variety of shit to do combined with playing with 30+ other people gave me some of the most memorable multiplayer experiences I've ever had.
>>336704245
>netflix more like sexflix amirite?
Oh wait you guys wouldn't know
>>336704259
Things don't exist and even if they did we wouldn't spend our time shitposting on anonymous image boards.
>>336704051
yeah fuck you too
>>336703947
To be fair it's just a glorified slasher film with the alien gimmick, the visual effects looked good at the time but now there is not much point in seeing it anymore, the story is gliche at this point and it's been done a million times already.
>>336700689
They might look more realistic but there limiting in what you can do with them. You can animate anything you want in CG, the animatronics allow for much less freedom.
>>336704378
>we
>>336700954
>The creative industries are all in recession it seems
The thing was a remake.
>>336689861
every bad game
>>336704481
Animatronics elicit a more visceral response from both the actors AND the audience.
You can enhance the practical effects with CGI from that point and not lose that initial "this is a real thing I'm looking at" feeling.
Just watch Jurassic Park vs World.
I dont know if a jump scare has ever gotten me like this one did.
>>336704378
>we
Prep the nukes.
>>336704454
>implying
>>336704898
The good thing about The Thing is that in the entire movie it only uses like... 2-3 jumpscares at most, all of which are backed up with a ton of tone setting and atmosphere.
reboot with all female cast when?
>>336705227
sounds kinda hot tbqh
>>336693265
So basically SS13 as a changeling?
>>336698403
Trying to give a definitive ending to The Thing is the best way to ruin it. Let the 'what if' be.
>>336705385
>So, basically this trash game that has already been posted here a dozen times and shut down?
Yes, JUST like that.
A good Thing game would be similar to the Blade Runner game where the replicants were different each playthrough.
I'll admit I liked the 2011 version of The Thing.
>>336705093
At least Alien had a budget.
You know, the iconic Giger alien and all those locations, the tension, it's literally a better movie.
>>336703324
Fuck me but that actually sounds fun.
>>336704357
>you guys wouldn't know about some shitty meme
>>336705493
(You)
>>336704778
I agree but that doesn't refute the point I made.
>>336705493
Shut down? Trash?
>>336706226
Just a buttblasted clownplayer that got airlocked one too many times, pay no mind.
>>336690879
>>336691697
be that as it may, it was still a decent game.
it would've been better if every single trust-betrayal wasn't scripted as fuck, but it still had solid atmosphere and decent story.
>>336705719
That and managing a synthed up Fallout settlement
>>336706709
I remember people bringing up the concept of a Thing: Isolation in a previous Thing thread from before, and while that sounds neat in a way, that whole scriptedness issue that the Thing game had would definitely kind of ruin it, especially for repeat playthroughs.
how hard would it be to make a system where things change every time, even in the major story elements? sounds like it would be a bit too ambitious. Unless the game was pretty short.
>>336705734
gross
SC:BW had a great "The Thing" map
that not many people played
surely there must be a The Thing themed game mode for Garry's Mod
>>336705864
Oh anon, it's fun at first.
But 8000 1 hour rounds later and the completely toxic community ruins your fucking life. Do not play it.
I am warning you.
>>336709475
not him, but what's so bad about them? I'm morbidly curious now.
>>336689861
The game was awesome apart from the trigger points where one of your squad would suddenly become The Thing
>walking down corridor
>one guy turns
>kill him
>load save from one minute ago
>test the guy to see if he's infected
>all clear
>ten seconds later he turns
They did some cool shit with it at certain set pieces but it would have been better if they actually implemented it in the actual gameplay more.
Testing your men was basically just a way to raise squad morale
>>336709716
The community?
When you play the game, you make yourself a wee character. A 32x32 thing, you change the hair and colour.
Fuckers will still obsess over these things. Waifu and husbando posting killed /ss13g/.
There's MMO tier "THEY CHANGED THE TINIEST LITTLE THING I CANT BELIEVE IT GAME RUIIIINNEEEEEED" shittery.
The players themselves are the greatest scum of the earth. Its like Hues and Slavs inbreeding for thousands of generations.
The admins are always jaded and broken. No fun allowed.
They hate newcomers. There's never more than 600 people playing it at once. Anytime a /v/ thread about ss13 goes up, the "panic bunker" goes down, preventing any new connections to the server.
>>336710431
That's just great, I got banned from online communities even before I could introduce myself in a game, even though a friend recommended me into their circlejerk. I know where you are coming from.
>>336706993
a man can dream I guess
>>336689861
Is it canon? I mean it pretty much begins when the movie ended and it got John Carpenter's blessing.
>>336689861
decent game but crippled by console limitations. You can see how they had all these big ideas but could not follow through... the test needles being an obvious point. Just about everyone turns on you in scripted moments so who cares about testing? Also you can test a guy just before he turns and he is fine, walk a few steps to the trigger point and he loltransforms. Also the trust system is not properly used ever, its just toss me some guns bra
>>336699638
he meant that childs was a nigger
even though it lacks the whodunit element, I'd say the first Dead Space is probably the best Thing game there's been yet.
>>336713000
pls refrain from calling based Keith David that word
>>336704454
the new thing movie trounced it in every way
>>336701668
Your welcome best girl
>>336713284
>mfw dumbass high school kids I worked with when I was at Best Buy actually thought this, and only because they thought the CGI was better than the animatronics
>>336700006
>google it
>it's true
>>336712493
Childs' fate makes no sense nevertheless.
>>336710431
>Anytime a /v/ thread about ss13 goes up, the "panic bunker" goes down, preventing any new connections to the server.
I want to believe this is made up, but it's something the people who hate free weekends would do if they could.
>>336703947
what the fuck is netflix instant queue?
i have netflix and i can just watch whatever the fuck i want, no need to queue anything
is this some americlap bullshit?
>>336713721
This is 100% true. Ask the /vg/ thread.
When the bunker is up you have to PM an admin and ask to be let in.
>>336713976
these people sound like a hoot.
>>336710431
>>336703324
im honestly sad i never got into this game when it was first popular
i tried it but it looked so damn hard to get into...
>>336714128
It's all memes and waifu posting in there. Excep these waifus aren't cute animes. These are emotionless 32x32 sprites that barely resemble humans.
It's not a good place.
>>336714336
In it's prime, SS13 rarely exceeded 1000 players at a time.
It is hard to get into, but when you get in and you understand the culture, it's a blast.
But then you get burnt out. And you burn out like Fort McMurray
>>336704454
it's still good today. Animatronic shit is way better than cg garbage. Millennial here.
>>336689861
Screw ye.
It was good despite being hard and sometimes rage inducing.
>>336693265
Worst part? There was supposed to be a superior sequel in production...BUT WAS CANNED.
>>336700296
>He's in the game.
And it's hinted that he was either snatched when the military waltzed in, or that he was a Thing.
how would you even make a good thing game? that shit sounds really hard to design..
>>336710404
It was either scripted, or they made it so to show that The Thing was learning.
>>336713284
Dear God no. That was horrifying but not in a scary way.
>>336715097
that is even more stupid than having friends that turn out to be things after they help you blast on them... although hero guy is supposed to be highly resistant to it?
Why would mcready help you take out the asshole villain who wanted to fly them out of Antarctica? Inb4 he was an out of control giant flower monster... well he was I guess but whatever. If mcready was a thing with access to a chopper why didn't he just fly out and infect shit all over
>>336715117
It's not impossible, but it's indeed hard to pull off.
Simply put, just make the atmosphere heavy, make everyone start going crazy and paranoid, and if you really need to include cliche shit like jump scares then make them really rare and only after some intense build-up.
>>336715735
Yeah. Blake was resistant somehow to being assimilated despite being continuously bitten, mauled, lubricated with some bizarre shit and so on.
And yeah, MacReady turning out to be a Thing would be also stupid.
Also dunno about the later part of your post. He may have used it to make himself trustworthy...or dunno. Just dunno. Everything involving The Thing is complicated.
>>336690773
>>336689861
First half was alright, then it turned into a really shitty generic shooter
>>336689861
it's got a few unique gimmicks to it. the squad trust system was never really done again and it was cool that larger humanoid things could only be killed by fire.
>>336718875
It got boring pretty fast, blasting them until HP hit red then switching to flamethrower.
>>336700856
Del Taco's propossed Moutains of Madness was very influenced (or infected) by the Thing. Look up the leaked screenplay.
>>336719231
when i was 13 it was the scariest shit ever though.
>>336719441
I know right. I played it when I was 12, I got through my spook by saying fucking it, closed my eyes then ran blindly into the next area. I did huge leaps so I could be sure that I'm aggroing some monsters on me. Still, when my friends transformed it was the scariest shit ever. Especially when multiple ones did at the same time outta nowhere.
>>336706993
I think what we agreed to was that the game would have to be completely random, both in who you play and the layout of the base. This way, you could start off as the Thing without knowing it, or be a human and find out your coworker is a Thing because you decided to punch them in the back of the head to test their humanity.
>>336699540
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAoONl2P8fw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT7AH4JyuNs
>>336720637
Heh. Sweet.
Fuck this game.
who is the most based horror protagonist of all time and why is it R.J. Macready?
>>336722653
fuck. both that and avp2010.
at least avp had a little bit of decent fun to squeeze out of it I guess.
>>336693265
just play dead space
>>336706709
Video are inherently scripted. Literally they are scripted in every sense.
why do I get a feeling that Telltale is eventually going to make a Thing game?
>>336722818
AVP was ok though, at least for the Alien campaign. Pred was meh, and CM was pretty bad except for the Predator fight, which got a scream from me.
