ALIENS THE RIDE【Planet Coaster】 (SLYT, 15:09)
August 19, 2020 11:50 PM Subscribe
Stuck inside? Missing amusement parks because of Reasons? Youtube user Hin Nya has spent countless hours in an unmodded version of Planet Coaster making a first-person POV roller coaster ride unlike anything you've ever seen. Everything in the video was put together by hand using pre-existing game assets, including the titular aliens. Strap in, we're going to space. (Warning: flashing lights)
Extras:
The making of: ALIENS THE RIDE (SLYT, 16:49)
Steam workshop link: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=1273226509
Extras:
The making of: ALIENS THE RIDE (SLYT, 16:49)
Steam workshop link: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=1273226509
Never seen Aliens, nor played Planet Coaster, but this video is amazing. It's shiny and colorful and suspenseful and it conveys a narrative!
posted by one for the books at 2:45 AM on August 20, 2020
posted by one for the books at 2:45 AM on August 20, 2020
This is great - was interesting that one thing which immediately struck me is how this is designed over a space about the size of some whole theme parks, and how much work must be done to keep irl coasters compact, making really thrifty use of the space.
Thunder Mountain is kinda brilliant like that, because that is not that huge a space for the length and variety of ride you get out of it.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 3:47 AM on August 20, 2020 [1 favorite]
Thunder Mountain is kinda brilliant like that, because that is not that huge a space for the length and variety of ride you get out of it.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 3:47 AM on August 20, 2020 [1 favorite]
Okay, I just finished the roller coaster video and the making-of video. Three observations:
1. It's amazing how much that score can get my heart racing after all these years.
2. They missed a real opportunity at the end. The coaster should have stopped dead in the room that looked like you were getting off, only to shatter the sense of calm by throwing you into the power loader fight.
3. What the fuck kind of roller coaster construction program needs giant maggots as a design option?
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 4:38 AM on August 20, 2020 [1 favorite]
1. It's amazing how much that score can get my heart racing after all these years.
2. They missed a real opportunity at the end. The coaster should have stopped dead in the room that looked like you were getting off, only to shatter the sense of calm by throwing you into the power loader fight.
3. What the fuck kind of roller coaster construction program needs giant maggots as a design option?
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 4:38 AM on August 20, 2020 [1 favorite]
The maggots are from the Halloween/Spooky content pack IIRC.
The PlanCo Steam modding/park-sharing community is freakin' amazing and this is one of its highlights. Theme park nerds may also be intrigued to know that many users have spent uncountable hours on various types of accurate reproductions of real-world parks.
posted by CheesesOfBrazil at 5:53 AM on August 20, 2020 [1 favorite]
The PlanCo Steam modding/park-sharing community is freakin' amazing and this is one of its highlights. Theme park nerds may also be intrigued to know that many users have spent uncountable hours on various types of accurate reproductions of real-world parks.
posted by CheesesOfBrazil at 5:53 AM on August 20, 2020 [1 favorite]
Anyone else reminded of Nuka World?
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 5:55 AM on August 20, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 5:55 AM on August 20, 2020 [1 favorite]
First off, this is really really well done. Excellent use of the music and lighting and game assets.
I am a tiny smidge disappointed that the creator went to all of the effort to sculpt the aliens using game assets but didn't attempt to make any of the mechanical design from the movie, like the APC, Dropship, Sulaco, or power loader.
posted by Fleebnork at 6:17 AM on August 20, 2020
I am a tiny smidge disappointed that the creator went to all of the effort to sculpt the aliens using game assets but didn't attempt to make any of the mechanical design from the movie, like the APC, Dropship, Sulaco, or power loader.
posted by Fleebnork at 6:17 AM on August 20, 2020
Really well done. Loved the incorporation of the music, sound effects, and dialogue snippets from the movie.
posted by nubs at 7:49 AM on August 20, 2020
posted by nubs at 7:49 AM on August 20, 2020
We're on an express elevator to hell, goin' down! And then up! And then down again, but faster!
posted by EndsOfInvention at 8:14 AM on August 20, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by EndsOfInvention at 8:14 AM on August 20, 2020 [2 favorites]
Following Alonzo's comment, that's what's great about the story structure of Aliens: You think it's over, but it's not over. Seems like a perfect model for a ride.
posted by Verg at 9:05 AM on August 20, 2020
posted by Verg at 9:05 AM on August 20, 2020
Wow. This video reminds me a bit of Cedar Point’s Disaster Transport.
posted by oceano at 12:14 PM on August 20, 2020
posted by oceano at 12:14 PM on August 20, 2020
Never seen Aliens
Oh, you poor thing... Hearing the clips from Aliens really makes me want to watch it again, it's been too long. I may be in the minority, but I feel it's even better than the original. Hearing that score takes me back.
posted by zardoz at 2:20 PM on August 20, 2020 [1 favorite]
Oh, you poor thing... Hearing the clips from Aliens really makes me want to watch it again, it's been too long. I may be in the minority, but I feel it's even better than the original. Hearing that score takes me back.
posted by zardoz at 2:20 PM on August 20, 2020 [1 favorite]
Never seen Aliens
Torn between "We got a live one!" and "Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen!"
posted by nubs at 8:12 AM on August 21, 2020
Torn between "We got a live one!" and "Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen!"
posted by nubs at 8:12 AM on August 21, 2020
That was so much better than I expected it to be! The descent followed by the arrival at the base reminded me a bit of arriving at Rapture in Bioshock. Now I want one of these for Bioshock!
posted by treepour at 11:54 AM on August 21, 2020
posted by treepour at 11:54 AM on August 21, 2020
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