[chris_2xtreme]

I was just about to say the Kilrathi and the Nephilim (the giant bugs) from the Wing Commander games but their actions are almost human

Aracnids from Starship Troopers

Nomads from Freelancer

ah yes i remember the furies from battlezone (i have the game, it was pretty good)

[TopAce]

• The most alien in Starcraft is the Lurker.
• Toluens from Imperium Galactica 2.
• Orbb from Quake 3.
• Any creatures from the TV series of Tremors(I saw two episodes :D )
• Facehugger from Alien

I do not agree with HiG about the Predator being really alien-like. Practically, it is 'only' a reskin of human limbs and torso and a different looking head.

[karajorma]

You realise that this list would have been about half the length if we'd said that insectoid aliens were out too?

[TopAce]

It wasn't in my mind.

[Flipside]

I suppose I could be pedantic and say it depends on the definition of insectoid, there are lots of aliens that have carapaces, but unless they have, iirc, six legs and 3 sections of the body (Head, Thorax and Abdomen) they aren't strictly 'insects'.

[Bobboau]

I think a rule here should be that mentioning any alien with two legs two arms and a head, would generaly not count.

[TopAce]

In my dictionary:
Insectoid: Insect-like.
so whatever takes after and insect(even the Shivas or the Facehugger) are insectoids.

[Bobboau]

well all that does is removes one third (indo/exo/none) of the posable diversity, becase anything with an exoskeliton would fall under that catagory

[aldo_14]

The Blob

[Ghostavo]

Originally posted by HeX


Borg?
He said LITTLE resemblance. The borg look perfectly human except for the implants.

Borg as in Borg, not individual drones, not individual races, Borg as the "cybernetic life-form" that existed since the beggining of the Borg Collective.

[Janos]

There you go.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by TopAce
In my dictionary:
Insectoid: Insect-like.
so whatever takes after and insect(even the Shivas or the Facehugger) are insectoids.

Actually neither of those are what I'd call insectoid. The Face hugger is more closely related to a spider or crustacean than an insect and the shivans have no characteristics that are insectoid at all apart from having more than 4 limbs.

Both of those are good examples of multi-limbed non-insectoid aliens in my opinion.

@Janos. This is why I get so pissed off at seeing humanoid aliens in Sci-fi. When you consider that all of those creatures came from one planet why on earth should aliens look humanoid?

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by karajorma
t why on earth should aliens look humanoid?

'cuz it's cheaper on the special effects budget.

oh, and Pilot, from farscape, hell, even Moya counts on the nonhumanoid alien..

[Flipside]

Another ST one... The Medusans

[beatspete]

Starcraft's Zerg were an intresting lot (as mentioned before).

Many had recognisable features, like 2 eyes and a mouth, but you only really saw them in the unit 'face box' down the bottom.  On screen, and in battle they were really just purple pulsating blobs.

The queen was probably the most unique, it didnt have anything that could have been inspired by anything known to man.  Where as hydralisks were sort of like a snake V porcupine creature, and even the mutalisk had flapping wings and a lizard tounge... the queen was just ****ed up.



Ps, its a flying unit, if thats not apparent.

[Ghostavo]

The overlord?

[beatspete]

Originally posted by Ghostavo
The overlord?

It had an elephant trunk, didnt it?
And tenticles like a jelly fish....

But yeah, overlords were weird.

[Ghostavo]

The guardian



and the overlord...

[castor]

IIRC, humans were quite an "alien" species at the end of "Last and First men" (a book by Stapledon)

[Ford Prefect]

I don't know if anyone has read the Hyperion Cantos, but the Shrike, although its basic structure is comparable to that of a human, gives the impression of being very far from any normal kind of sentient life. (I would highly recommend those books; I think it's about the best science fiction I've ever read.)

And let's not forget almost every hideous monstrosity that makes an appearance in Half-Life.