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Offline MicroPsycho

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on: July 25, 2004, 08:30:22 pm
I was wondering what movies and games (and books) have truly alien-looking aliens. I mean with as little resemblance to any earth-dwelling creature.


The allmighty Shivans looked looked truly alien, IMO. well, the most alien I've ever seen at the very least.
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Offline Zakalwe

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Reply #1 on: July 25, 2004, 08:41:59 pm
Not movies, but in Stephan Baxters books he cooked up some really alien aliens, pretty strange stuff.
 

Offline LOKO

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Reply #2 on: July 25, 2004, 08:45:41 pm
Star craft, the zerg where good with the gaurdians and those flappy dude, unless u say they look like flying prawns with wings :D

the face hugger is good from aliens aswell.
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Reply #3 on: July 25, 2004, 08:54:50 pm
Master Of Orion - Silicoids
FreeSpace - Shivans
Homeworld: Cataclysm - Beast
StarCraft - Overlords (zerg support units)
Babylon 5 - Walkers of Sigma 957
Star Trek - Borg
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Reply #4 on: July 25, 2004, 08:59:15 pm
Books? No shortage of 'em.

Movies? Err... if you really wanted to stretch, you could count Solaris in there. Not an awful lot, otherwise.

Games? Hostile Waters's "aliens" (I don't know why, but HW was blessed with no one but two sets of the COOLEST BADGUYS EVER. Anyone who doesn't have this game, even just for the cutscene monologues, officially sucks balls), as well as the games already mentioned. Half-Life's tentacle monsters?
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Offline .::Tin Can::.

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Reply #5 on: July 25, 2004, 09:23:58 pm
The aliens from Aliens! :D
 

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Reply #6 on: July 25, 2004, 10:18:14 pm
you know, when you look at probability, the differences between species just on this planet, and the shear number of planets in the universe, even shivans look way too much like humans.
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Offline Liberator

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Reply #7 on: July 25, 2004, 10:28:14 pm
Well, you have to take into account that something truly alien that resembles nothing on Earth won't have the same impact on a Human veiwer that some resembling a giant insect with incandescent claws and a built in photon cannon would.  Human generally considers insects to be scary, because they are so unlike anything else on Earth.
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Offline .::Tin Can::.

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Reply #8 on: July 25, 2004, 10:38:58 pm
I wish I was alive the day we discover another race of beings. :D
 

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Reply #9 on: July 25, 2004, 10:50:42 pm
What, like as in sentient? Me, I wonder whether they'll be better be-teched and "colonize" us, or vice versa.

Either way, should be entertaining for a few centuries 'till one side or the other's finished getting the Indian treatment. And I'm most certainly glad it's unlikely I'll have to be there to see it.
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Offline Falcon

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Reply #10 on: July 25, 2004, 11:08:11 pm
IMHO the Sulogars from Urban Assault were pretty wierd.
 

Offline Falcon

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Reply #11 on: July 25, 2004, 11:09:32 pm
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I wish I was alive the day we discover another race of beings. :D


What if these aliens turned out to destroy the human race

:p
 

Offline ShadowWolf_IH

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Reply #12 on: July 25, 2004, 11:14:26 pm
star wars has some good ones......the "guild" in dune.....and predator.  I always like the one's in predator.  

as far as them coming to destroy the human race.......:rolleyes: newbs....
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Reply #13 on: July 25, 2004, 11:24:58 pm
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as far as them coming to destroy the human race.......:rolleyes: newbs....

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Reply #14 on: July 25, 2004, 11:28:58 pm
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Star Trek - Borg


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

You want one from Star Trek try Species 8472.
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Reply #15 on: July 25, 2004, 11:49:18 pm
Hyperintelligent shades of blue.
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Offline Liberator

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Reply #16 on: July 25, 2004, 11:50:51 pm
The only truly alien species in Star Trek are the Tholians.  Everything else is more or less humanoid and driven by more or less human motivations, even 8472.
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Many names, but always me.

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Offline Martinus

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Reply #17 on: July 25, 2004, 11:54:16 pm
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Hyperintelligent shades of blue.

[color=66ff00]Good call.

The aliens from Abyss count?
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Offline HeX

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Reply #18 on: July 25, 2004, 11:56:19 pm
Should. Living "water" mimicing a human face once or twice doesn't count as looking human I would think.
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Offline ShadowWolf_IH

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Reply #19 on: July 25, 2004, 11:57:18 pm
the water wasn't alive...it was being manipulated by the aliens who live under the water.
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