All I'm saying is A) B) In my opinion A)'s color scheme ups the horror factor. Both will eat your face off, but A) inspires more dread first.
Tyranids are never going to be as scary as the Alien from Alien. H.R. Geiger's Alien hides in shadows and is rarely seen during the movie, building suspense. Tyranids are a swarm, they'll be scary but only as scary as an in your face mass of monsters can be.
hehe going wildly off topic but I have heard that if you are being chased by a bear you can take off your jumper or tee shirt and dop it on the ground and the bear will stop chasing you to examine and smell the clothing giving you time to escape.... heh that could just be BS though and i hope I never have to find out
Whatever happened to the idea of playing dead in front of a bear? Too many people wind up actually dead? Also on the subject of things that supposedly get bears to not maul you: I've heard that wearing bells will keep most wild bears away, because they've got more important bear things to do than deal with whatever's making that noise. I've also heard that pepper spray is a reasonable deterrent.... I don't know about you, but I don't want to be the guy that maces a bear only to find out that instead of getting rid of it, I've only pissed it off.
TBH, the Alien is the main threat of a horror franchise, while the Nids are "just" another all-devouring alien species that threatens the galaxy. Have thought about just another day, what would happen if you let each other on in an Aliens vs. Nids showdown, but then I thought, the Nids would own the Aliens even for all their strengths in no time. The fore was built to sow terror in hearts, striking from shadows, unexpectedly. The latter is a miriad of organisms who slowly travel space and devours everything in their path, with downright planetary sieges and consumes in open warfare. So while they are terrifying beyond measure aswell, they are not employed the same way as the Aliens. Probably thats why you dont fear them.
Ofcourse we don't fear them, we don't have to confront them. It's like with tigers, everybody loves them but when they are up close to a real one they shit their pants. If we ever saw a real nid, we would curl up and start praying to the God Emperor. It's nice and fun to talk about an invented menace, we don't grasp the enormity of what nids are. They are laying siege to the galaxy ffs.
imagine something like going in a raid with your squad, get in a long dark forgotten hallway, span your camera around to see some dark alley and in one of them, a genestealer suddenly jump out and wrap its arms around your neck then whisper in your headphone something like " dude, i like your smell, wanna go grab some ork burger at my place"
Tyranids aren't meant to inspire the same kind of dread that the alien is. The alien is an apex predator (almost) when thrust into a human station. The dread it inspires is the dread of knowing you are being hunted, and that the thing hunting you is faster, stronger, and better built. And not necessarily stupid, either. The dread that the tyranids bring is the dread of annihilation and death. They are not silent hunters in the shadows seeking to track you. They are a swarm, a wave of chitin and meat and ichor, and how can any man stand up to an advancing tide such as that? It's looking over a hill and seeing a valley beyond that is moving, because the tyranids are so thick you could walk across the land without ever touching it. One of these fears is ingrained on a very very primal level in human beings, because for a long time we were not the apex on the planet, and in some cases we are still not. But the other fear is a fear not many people have had to deal with.
Personally I'd rather just shoot it if it looks like it's going to charge, I think I can handle a few people on facebook bitching at me for gunning down a "cyute cuddly bear," while I'm fairly certain a bear claw to the dome twould knock my head off.
