I've never heard Alien (the first movie at least) be described as a slasher before. Interesting take! I don't really see how though, I always looked at it as a Sci-Fi movie first, horror movie second. It's been a couple years since I saw it but I don't recall enough scenes really glorifying the Alien cutting people up to consider it a slasher, imo.
Or set it post-Judgment Day and your primary objective is to deliver packages to other resistance members. YOur personal ratings for said deliveries can be uploaded to Skynet.
Yeah, the slasher influence is definitely there in Alien. Ridley Scott has talked about how much he liked The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and how it had a huge influence on him when he made Alien. It's been said that it's really a B movie with an A movie's budget. If it weren't for all of the right elements coming together, it could've easily turned into shlock. Fortunately, we got something much more special instead.When you think about it, Alien is essentially Friday 13th in space. It's a closed environment where a group of people get slowly picked off one by one until a final girl manages to outwit the killer and escape. It uses the sci fi trappings to allow itself to be taken seriously. Hell it even has the weird interplay of sex and violence that slasher movies have, with the xenomorphs being essentially an anthropomorphic personification of sexual assault. Where I think you are getting caught up is that most slasher films are cheap schlock and alien is not. But the elements are the same.
Although Ripley is saved not by her virginity but by cold emotionless pragmatism.
I like the idea that unlike Alien, maybe you'd be walking down a street and there will be crowds on the sidewalk and somewhere among the crowd is the terminator just slowly walking towards you.
It's like the early days of Assassin's Creed where Ubisoft wanted to push this unique form of stealth gameplay where you're hiding in the targets viewpoint but by blending into the crowd except with this game he's the character in your view point, you just got to hope you can spot it before it sees you.
Maybe you could listen to the crowd for clues, say if the terminator pulls his gun out and aims at you members of the public will start screaming or you can hear a commotion when he just pushes past people and pedestrians get angry.
It's a different kind of horror where even among a crowd you feel vulnerable which isn't something typically done. Usually it's just you in a dark area crawling around in these types of games.
I would say a Terminator Isolation game could still retain those areas in buildings where its just you crawling around with only the enemy but when you have to move from building to building the stealth gameplay would change to what I mentioned above. This could add some variety as one criticism I have seen of Alien Isolation is that it lasts too long.
I know now why you cry. But it is something I can never do.This thread let me depressive.
I was already nostalgic and mad that we will possibly never get a good Terminator movie ever again. Dark Fate was a huge let down.
And now Resetera remember me that we may never get a good Terminator game as well. Like shown by the amount of ideas in this thread, there are so many possibilities.
My day and week are ruined. Thanks Resetera.
I know now why you cry. But it is something I can never do.
Because I really liked Terminator Dark Fate it surprised me so much. Safe as fuck? Absolutely. But so damn enjoyable. Obviously it helps that it was the follow up to Genisys so my expectations couldn't have been any lower.
This topic gave me nostalgic vibes for what IMO are the last really good Terminator games, Bethesda's Future Shock and SkyNET, from 1995-1996. They were FPSes set after the nuclear apocalypse, with level designs that had a very open-world feel. You could wander around exploring bombed-out buildings, scavenging for gear, driving vehicles, and working with John Connor and the resistance to undermine and sabotage Skynet operations. Future Shock in particular was also very technically impressive for its time; I think it was actually the first shooter to use polygonal models? It was buggy as hell per Bethesda norms but a lot of issues were fixed by the second game.
With the current open-world trend in gaming, I believe a Terminator game like Future Shock could be done again today with modern systems and actually be successful. That's not the problem. The problem IMO is the Terminator IP itself which has become diluted with some fairly mediocre films in recent years, and as a result the franchise means something different to modern audiences than it does to us old hats. Still, I think someone could pull it off. What I'd give for a MachineGames production set in this universe!
Yeah now this would be really interesting. Again, I question how this could hold up an entire game. But I suppose this could just be one mode of the game?It could be a hit-man and watch dogs:legion like game where you could play as the T-1000 and can morph as any NPC you want to get your target, but in order to get the NPC you want to morph into, you have secretly kill them without raising suspicion. Dogs and the way your character talks to people could alert others to you being a terminator. I think that could be a cool idea.
Or set it post-Judgment Day and your primary objective is to deliver packages to other resistance members. YOur personal ratings for said deliveries can be uploaded to Skynet.
Absolutely. FUTURE SHOCK felt like a really big open world to young me at the time. Scary as fuck.This topic gave me nostalgic vibes for what IMO are the last really good Terminator games, Bethesda's Future Shock and SkyNET, from 1995-1996. They were FPSes set after the nuclear apocalypse, with level designs that had a very open-world feel. You could wander around exploring bombed-out buildings, scavenging for gear, driving vehicles, and working with John Connor and the resistance to undermine and sabotage Skynet operations. Future Shock in particular was also very technically impressive for its time; I think it was actually the first shooter to use polygonal models? It was buggy as hell per Bethesda norms but a lot of issues were fixed by the second game.
With the current open-world trend in gaming, I believe a Terminator game like Future Shock could be done again today with modern systems and actually be successful. That's not the problem. The problem IMO is the Terminator IP itself which has become diluted with some fairly mediocre films in recent years, and as a result the franchise means something different to modern audiences than it does to us old hats. Still, I think someone could pull it off. What I'd give for a MachineGames production set in this universe!
I want this to happen now simply because I want to see a T-800 breakdancing in a driveway lol.
That doesn't make any sense. The whole game running? The levels can be based on future earth after the fall. Have the player head into dark dangerous facilities and complete objectives and in the same breath have the tension and gameplay iof isolation thrown in.Great idea, but I think it would be better if you were running away from the terminator, rather then just hiding on a small level.
That doesn't make any sense. The whole game running? The levels can be based on future earth after the fall. Have the player head into dark dangerous facilities and complete objectives and in the same breath have the tension and gameplay iof isolation thrown in.
Yes, Terminator is a chase movie first and foremost, and it's important that a Terminator game translates that aspect well in an element of its gameplay.Yes your idea of a game set in some post war building could work, but to me does not represent the terminator franchise the best.
Running away from the terminator is one of the most prominent aspects from the terminator movies.
I love games where u run away from an incoming doom, it is rare though games like inside and the beginning of half life 2 had great running away parts.
I feel like Terminator is to deeply engrossed in the action genre now. It could absolutely work but you'd get a lot of people complaining about why aren't you blasting shit as Arnold.
This could be ridiculously cool.I've been playingSystem Shock:Alien: Isolation, and I just rewatched T1, and I couldn't stop thinking about how great it would be as a sandbox game.
Start out in 80s LA, no equipment. Get your bearings, and track down your victim before The Terminator does.
Could easily work as a game with endless variable gameplay loops, too. Different city layouts, different victims, etc.
Sadly, seems like all we're getting are shoot'em'ups out of the franchise, but maybe someone will run with this idea one day.
One of the very first Terminator games on the PC, just called "The Terminator", kind of tried this. You start out as either The Terminator or Kyle Reese and you have search LA to kill or find and rescue Sarah Connor, buying/stealing equipment and fighting police along the way. The trouble was that it came out in '91 and couldn't really do the concept justice.
First person, sorry. (Besides, it'd allow for either gender as the protagonist.)
Nah. I'd want third person.First person, sorry. (Besides, it'd allow for either gender as the protagonist.)
Or an Alien game similar to Until Dawn.I think the Terminator and Alien licences could be well served by a Telltale style game.
Take Alien for example, a group of people trapped on a ship with a hostile alien with you making decisions about who goes where and does what. No guns or action sequences.
I admit I'd actually prefer, and I think it makes more sense, with Predator.A big map where Sarah Connor and the Terminator are droped like in Fortnite/PUBG
Somewhere on the map, there's a player controlling John Connor, who needs to be rescued
Terminator's objective is to kill him, of course. Sarah's is to find him before the Terminator does and lead them to a boat, in order to escape
There's a timer or something like that to give urgency
I dig it. Could also work with Predator
That's pretty likely now, lol.Licenses are too expensive. If they handed it out somehow for free or minimum cost, maybe.
I think Terminator 1 has been surpassing it recently, you see T1 being remembered more fondly for its atmosphere and oppressive vibe(not that T2 isn't great too).It would be cool, but it will never happen. Most fans prefer Terminator 2.
I love both. Terminator 2 was always by far my favourite growing up and it was only when I got older that I started to really appreciate T1 more. It's definitely the more scary movie with a darker tone. But good god the action in T2 is special.That's pretty likely now, lol.
I think Terminator 1 has been surpassing it recently, you see T1 being remembered more fondly for its atmosphere and oppressive vibe(not that T2 isn't great too).