John carpenter's the thing

[PitViper 0]

Do you think the black guy at the end was "The Thing" or not?

[PFC_Mike 2]

sounds pretty cool...

I know what movie I'll rent tomorrow.

[Moriv 0]

I think I'll just add in some basic info from the game so that you'll know what happened at the end of it and what happens to some of the characters.

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Childs(black guy at the end who was the only OTHER survivor) is dead. Blakes team found his corpse in the same place where him and MacReady had been sitting at the end of the movie.

MacReady makes his little appearence at the end of the game. Upon whitley transforming over the remants of the original alien craft a chopper appears on the scene. Blake mans a mounted M-60, and upon killing whitley he asks the pilot for his name, and he replies that he is R.J. MacReady of U.S. outpost Nor 31.

So...if you're gonna have MacReady, you should try to have Blake too...

[Frugo_PL 0]

I am really not concetrating on the game's story. I just skip it... In my version of the story, the team finds MacReady and flys offf since there is nothing left to invistigate.

[SFG 1]

I got the game "The Thing" funny thing is, the main character's voice is by the same actor as gastovski in ofp.

[Moriv 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (SFG @ Oct. 12 2002,01:51)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I got the game "The Thing" funny thing is, the main character's voice is by the same actor as gastovski in ofp. <span id='postcolor'>

I knew that I knew that voice from somewhere...

[Frugo_PL 0]

While the models are not done yet, I started to make the maps. The mod should be out in the first part of 2003 (earlier if some ppl help me with the models)

[UKSubmariner 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (PitViper @ Oct. 10 2002,15:42)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">"The Thing" is a great movie!

The only thing which bugs me:  The Americans see these Norwegians going crazy trying to kill this dog. Yet, after the "incident" where the Norwegians perish, the Americans don't quarantine this animal? What kind of scientists are these?  well, there wouldn't be a good story if that was the case I guess <span id='postcolor'>

A more important question in relation to the Carpenter remake is:

Why the hell did these Scientists, in the middle of nowhere, have such a huge arsenal of weapons (including Flame Units) at their disposal? They simply wouldn't need them.

And on the games ending..... One of the film's orginal draft endings was that they got rescued by a chopper sent to investigate,which I thiml pretty much would have been a joke. Simply put, McReady and Childs would have froze to death long before a rescue team (if one was sent) arrived.

And as for wether Childs was actually the Thing at the end, that is one of the ultimate head messing endings ever...

[Moriv 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (UKSubmariner @ Oct. 16 2002,00:13)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Why the hell did these Scientists, in the middle of nowhere, have such a huge arsenal of weapons (including Flame Units) at their disposal? They simply wouldn't need them.

And on the games ending..... One of the film's orginal draft endings was that they got rescued by a chopper sent to investigate,which I thiml pretty much would have been a joke. Simply put, McReady and Childs would have froze to death long before a rescue team (if one was sent) arrived.

And as for wether Childs was actually the Thing at the end, that is one of the ultimate head messing endings ever...<span id='postcolor'>

I suppose they would have weapons in case they went to war with Norway?...Well...Eh...I don't know.

Childs is frozen to death in the game, yet there is always a possibility he is a thing and he froze himself so that when someone arrived to get him he could get a new body (A thing freezing itself to survive was spectulated in the movie)

And as for MacReady being alive...well...My guess is he's a thing himself...but I really have no clue.

The rescue team sent for the Nor 31 outpost and the Norweigan outpost is sent three months after the movie ends, from GenInc, another research group up there. Bla bla bla...

[drewb99 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (UKSubmariner @ Oct. 16 2002,00:13)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Why the hell did these Scientists, in the middle of nowhere, have such a huge arsenal of weapons (including Flame Units) at their disposal?<span id='postcolor'>

Because it's darned cool

[UKSubmariner 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Moriv @ Oct. 16 2002,00:44)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">The rescue team sent for the Nor 31 outpost and the Norweigan outpost is sent three months after the movie ends, from GenInc, another research group up there. Bla bla bla...<span id='postcolor'>

A little off topic, but wasn't GenInc the name of the company in Jurrassic Park??

[Guest]

This is all very offtopic. Stay focused on the mod or I'll move the thread to OT where you can continue the discussion

[PitViper 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (UKSubmariner @ Oct. 16 2002,07:20)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Moriv @ Oct. 16 2002,00:44)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">The rescue team sent for the Nor 31 outpost and the Norweigan outpost is sent three months after the movie ends, from GenInc, another research group up there. Bla bla bla...<span id='postcolor'>

A little off topic, but wasn't GenInc the name of the company in Jurrassic Park??<span id='postcolor'>

Denoir, just let me answer this

No, it was Ingen.

[UKSubmariner 0]

Moving swiftly back on topic.........

The thing I don't get about this mod is that supposedly once the Thing got off of the Antartic, it would have imitateded the world populace within a year.... How is that gonna be workd out?

[Frugo_PL 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ Oct. 16 2002,08:45)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">This is all very offtopic. Stay focused on the mod or I'll move the thread to OT where you can continue the discussion <span id='postcolor'>

I don't mind if ppl go off topic... It's even BETTER if they do, it's always more ideas for me. Keep on postin' ppl!

[Frugo_PL 0]

I am kinda sad to anounce that I just can't get the anims for the models right That's why I will use existing game objects to make something Thing-like...

[UKSubmariner 0]

I hate to be a stickler (coz I love the idea) but wasn't the only way to disable (coz you never find out if they kill it with explosives) THE THING is with a flamethrower?

Is it possible to simulate a realisitic flamethrower?? Coz I remember reading somewhere it was pretty much impossible..

[USMC Sniper 0]

Go to ifp.info, theres a flamer addon that gets the effect right, imho it kicks ass. its pretty old and uses the mm1 addon model, but the flame looks nice and the people catch on fire. All it needs is a new model, if you ppl want i can make a new one.