man, the Ripley family has some shit luck.
Ripley and the crew of the Nostromo find a derelict Engineer ship on an non-surveyed world (LV246) and are terrorized by an unknown biomechanical organism. She barely survives the ordeal and drifts around in cryo-sleep for 57 years.
Her daughter, likely told via Weyland Corp that her mother perished in a deep space accident, just happens to find herself terrorized by the same unknown biomechanical organism(s)? It's likely this becomes another corporate cover-up, since members of Weyland's advisory board appear completely oblivious to any reports of hostile alien lifeforms when Ripley is at the committee hearing at the beginning of ALIENS.
Somehow the daughter survives & goes off to live to around 67 years old (? I think Ripley said Amanda was 10 the last time she saw her? I need confirmation from an ALIENS junkie
), where she succumbs to cancer.
Blah.
I hope the game is good, but using "Ripley's Daughter" is just fucking lazy, IMO. It seems like a cheap lifeline to the most recognizable
human character of the series. Whatever story they are cooking could probably turn out just fine with a completely new, unrelated main character. It's also seems a lot less messy to plug into the main ALIEN timeline.
I wonder if this is one of those 'creative suggestions' from FOX? Hell, the sequel to ALIEN ISOLATION could star Ripley's baby daddy as he goes off to uncover the secrets that Ellen and Amanda stumble upon, saving Amanda in the process, meeting up with Hicks' sister who he falls in love with, obtaining the cloned material of Ellen from Alien: Resurrection, and ultimately using a clone of Ellen as a super-soldier to fight off the alien horde that has now invaded Earth!
Call me, FOX. I'm cheap.