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http://www.siliconera.com/2013/10/2...demark-suggests-fox-hasnt-given-aliens-games/
It's likely the Creative Assembly game.
It's likely the Creative Assembly game.
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Fox trademarks "Alien: Isolation"
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Why? What's there left to tell about Aliens?
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dancrane212
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While the lack of an "s" in the title does peak my interest SEGA has swung and missed two times now with this franchise for a "AAA" release. Sad to see those games quality follow along the same path as the films.
I'll still hope for the best though, that Aliens DS was a great surprise.
I'll still hope for the best though, that Aliens DS was a great surprise.
I Stalk Alone
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Where is that Fassbender Perfection GIF when you need it?
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SymbiantXenos
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Would lend itself well to the survival horror genre.
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This dude hypes it a lot: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/alexwrightmanning
The engine is proprietary: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mbonanno
Reading all the linkedin profiles I can find they keep referring to it as "console Alien game", I hope they are not crazy enough to skip PC.
The engine is proprietary: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mbonanno
Reading all the linkedin profiles I can find they keep referring to it as "console Alien game", I hope they are not crazy enough to skip PC.
I would not mind a mix between Amnesia and Metroid Prime (like another poster said). You're weak at first and have to run and sneak around, but as you progress and survive you find new tools, access new areas and eventually can fight the Alien head on like Ripley with the flame thrower.
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Goddamn I just want a decent Aliens game... hopefully Isolation works out better than that POS CM.
Noisepurge
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Mr. Pointy
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An Alien game as an Amnesia / Outlast / Metroid Prime / Metroid Fusion where the only enemy is SA-X-style game could be AMAZING.
I would just like a sequel to Infestation though.
I would just like a sequel to Infestation though.
Miles Quaritch
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Shouldn't be too difficult to be a damn sight better than AvP 2010 and Colonial Marines with Creative Assembly at the helm.
I just hope it's still an Action RPG as was the case a few years ago. Hard to tell what direction it's now going in from this image that was leaked some months ago...
I just hope it's still an Action RPG as was the case a few years ago. Hard to tell what direction it's now going in from this image that was leaked some months ago...
we.are.the.armada
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Will it use Alien or Prometheus looking xenos?
Jawmuncher
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I'm all for more Alien games.
Really love that universe even if lately its been treated kinda bad.
Really love that universe even if lately its been treated kinda bad.
dancrane212
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Shouldn't be too difficult to be a damn sight better than AvP 2010 and Colonial Marines with Creative Assembly at the helm.
I just hope it's still an Action RPG as was the case a few years ago. Hard to tell what direction it's now going in from this image that was leaked some months ago...
There was a pretty long gameplay video that got leaked a while back. It's pretty messy in a technincal sense but you can get an idea of what they were going for.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xxmb1s_ac_videogames
Miles Quaritch
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Hey, I hadn't seen this before. Thanks for posting.
Yeah, it does look like it has the usual Obsidian jank, but that's pretty much part and parcel of their games these days, just wouldn't be an Obsidian title if there wasn't some level of jank.
Overall though, it looks surprisingly good. Can't wait to see what C.A have been working on...
Agent Gibbs
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Slow paced? so dark souls style third person? RPG (which we know they almost developed) or survival horror..........
if its one of those, well god damn !
if its one of those, well god damn !
Miles Quaritch
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I have faith in C.A. They haven't made a bad game yet (in my opinion at least) and their two forays into third person action games have been great. Spartan: TW especially. What I wouldn't do for a sequel to that fantastic title...
Actually I wouldn't say no to another RTS Alien game and it would be pretty damn sweet with C.A at the helm.
Not really a fan of the RTS genre, but I definitely agree with you that focusing on the 3rd person and not the burned out 1st person is a good step in the right direction.
dancrane212
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Yeah I've enjoyed the games from CA I've played but I'm concerned about how the project will be run on the Sega end. Hopefully the silver lining to the shake ups over at Sega will help prevent garabge like Colonial Marines from happening again.
i don't usually do this, but damn lol
An Alien game as an Amnesia / Outlast / Metroid Prime / Metroid Fusion where the only enemy is SA-X-style game could be AMAZING.
I would just like a sequel to Infestation though.
Oh man, the timing on this gif is fucking glorious.
There will never be a good Alien/Aliens game again, people. Get used to it.
Maybe if someone works some Oculus Rift magic we could get a half decent horror game, but even then it would be tough, given the fact that if you're ever close enough to see the alien there's like a 98% chance you're about to die.
fabricated backlash
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If this happens I hope they:
-do a new story unrelated to LV426
- retcon the shit out of Aliens Colonial Marines
- don't use Colonial Marines at all or...
- actually think about what the Alien Franchise wanted to explore when Cameron introduced Marines
- bring back the rape symbolism and actually make the xenos scary because of their cruelty, not their appearance
- take a cue out of Metroid Prime, Dead Space 1, Batman Arkham Asylum when it comes to game design. Semi linear with tons of exploration and a location that oozes with character.
But all of this is meaningless, as we're sure to get another turd, filled with un-ironic macho bullshit, fascist narratives and a cast of characters that makes the Teletubbies look like character actors.
Sprinkle some meaningless AAA PR bullshit on it so the Internet has some new buzzwords to repeat ad nauseam, and you'll have a basic gist of what this is going to be.
-do a new story unrelated to LV426
- retcon the shit out of Aliens Colonial Marines
- don't use Colonial Marines at all or...
- actually think about what the Alien Franchise wanted to explore when Cameron introduced Marines
- bring back the rape symbolism and actually make the xenos scary because of their cruelty, not their appearance
- take a cue out of Metroid Prime, Dead Space 1, Batman Arkham Asylum when it comes to game design. Semi linear with tons of exploration and a location that oozes with character.
But all of this is meaningless, as we're sure to get another turd, filled with un-ironic macho bullshit, fascist narratives and a cast of characters that makes the Teletubbies look like character actors.
Sprinkle some meaningless AAA PR bullshit on it so the Internet has some new buzzwords to repeat ad nauseam, and you'll have a basic gist of what this is going to be.
redmetal86
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Well, how do you get from that one alien at the end of Prometheus to the egg pods at the beginning of the first movie?
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Wait a minute. Creative Assembly is the Total War guys, right? So shouldn't this be Aliens: Total War?
Metal Gear?!
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They also made VIKING and a bunch of sports games... so I assume this is going to be an action game more in the vein of VIKING?
But we just got one two years ago
It's their console team.
They're making a survival horror game like Dead Space, which is why it's "Alien" instead of "Aliens".
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You don't because it's not the same planet.
redmetal86
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In that case, how is the alien on LV-223 related to pods on LV-426?
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Ah I get it... well one simple solution would be an Engineer ship discovering the remains of the military installation on LV 223. One gets impregnated by the cute black goo worms and in the following exodus they crash land on LV 426.
In fact, I'd wager that one of the ships got away 2000 years before Prometheus took place, but they were already infected and crashed on LV 426.
Given that the Prometheus Alien is designed after Gigers original design and not the ones from part 2, and that they went back to the original metamorphosis idea from Alien 1 (people being absorbed into becoming eggs, instead of a Queen that lays the eggs) it's pretty much feasible that the aliens transformed the Engineers on board to eggs.
Heck a game where you play the last Engineer on board of the ship crashed on LV 426, the game could end with you dying in the chair sending the warning beacon.