It seems as Sega has secured the Alien/s license.. so far they are making a fps and an rpg. I wonder if this has anything to do with Obsidian? Hmm hmm hmm? Probably not since the Obs/Sega press release mentioned a new ip. Then again would Kotor be considered a new ip in the SW universe? The old forum is gone but I could have sworn someone from Obs went into detail about the difference between a new ip based of an existing ip or something like that.

 

Anyways.. for what its worth.

 

EDIT: forgot source.. Darkhorizons newspost of The Hollywood Reporter article

 

EDIT2: "Did it mention the predator licence as well? Aliens vs Predator is better than just aliens (except in movie form of course)?"

 

Nope.. it does mentions Lance Henriksen reprising his role.

 

Heres to hoping.. but not too much!

Edited December 11, 200619 yr by Darth Barth

omg! omg! omg! :joy:

 

FAN-tastic! :joy:

 

Did it mention the predator licence as well? Aliens vs Predator is better than just aliens (except in movie form of course)

Awesome. Thanks for the added link. :D

YESSS!!!! SEGA becomes ny favorite publisher if they continue like this. So maybe there's hope for an AvP3 developed by Monolith (already worked together with Sega on Condemned) too? Nonetheless, it's great Sega shows interest to continue the Alien franchise.

This could be interesting. And I mean the RPG Alien, not the FPS version. But I wonder what they'll do with it? I mean, Alien was restricted to one alien in a claustrophobic spaceship. Aliens (Alien 2) was restricted to a space station on a mining planet (best movie ever!!1). Alien 3 was so bad I'd rather forget about it entirely. Alien 4 was all about a huge spaceship, with a mutated Alien. And a slimy blob. And a girl in a thong.

 

I'm guessing they won't be making an open-ended RPG with sprawling maps and tons of interesting locales. Or I might just be narrow-minded and unimaginative.

Did the ever say that Project Georgia was a new IP? I haven't payed too much attention so they probably have.

 

I know they said that about Project New Jersey, which is the one that had a forum, but that doesn't exclude anything.

 

Still, if it's not the game Obsidian is working on it just means more RPGs in the future. That can only be a good thing.

 

(and I for one am hoping they'll leave the Predator license out of it. AvP may have been good games, but I think Alien is a much stronger setting)

How exactly do you make an Alien RPG?

 

System Shock style?

I was going to say no deal until I saw this.

 

Nope.. it does mentions Lance Henriksen reprising his role. 

 

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No predators in my Aliens please. Smoothely designed scary communal insect type Alien > Wifebeater T shirt wearing crabfaced WWF wrestler rastaman.

Edited December 11, 200619 yr by Gorgon

Hmmm, I'm interested to see how that would work out as an RPG. Aliens is awesome, but I can't see much potential variety in characters and story. I'll be cautious.

Hmmm, I'm interested to see how that would work out as an RPG. Aliens is awesome, but I can't see much potential variety in characters and story. I'll be cautious.

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FPS/RPG hybrid would probably work quite well.

 

Then there could be pure RPG where different companies would be pretty much as different factions to join and first half or 2/3 would be all kinds of political, commercial, stealthy, and battle controversy between them. The big threat would of course be Aliens. Something similar as how Fallout dealed with super mutants and how Fallout 2 dealed with those oil rig guys.

I won't mind the first person view if we have a third person view toggle like what is in Oblivion.

Third person action-combat sucks. Always. Just look how Bloodlines turned out.

Wrong. JE, and G3 both have pretty good 3rd person action combat. So does Gauntlet series, BGDA series, etc., etc. In essence, you have made an error.

I have to agree with Volourn here. Third person comes into its own whenever there's melee involved.

YOU know that an Alien FPS is supposed to be played in First Person, how else would you get frightened? By running around in Tomb Raider style and smash everything that gets into your way? *yawn*

An Alien FPS, whoever will make it (hope it's Monolith) just has to be slow-paced, frightening and in FP. We're not talking about fighting some dumbass aliens there. We're talking about Aliens.

Alien RPG? Hmmm. Turn based would be more intetesting there, unless the AI kicks so ass that realtime would be more fun. But never ever make twitch-based action in 3rd person. That's just too cruel for this awesome franchise.

 

PS: Oh and Volly, JE and G3 are Action RPGs, whole lot of a difference there. My post was related to the Alien FPS.

Edited December 11, 200619 yr by Morgoth

Then why use BL as an example? :crazy:

 

 

"YOU know that an Alien FPS is supposed to be played in First Person, how else would you get frightened? By running around in Tomb Raider style and smash everything that gets into your way?"

 

You get frighteneed? To me, a game's 'frightfulness' has nothing to do with the view. *shrug*

 

I don't Alien is 'meant' to be played in any certain way except in the way the devs decide.

Hmmm, I'm interested to see how that would work out as an RPG. Aliens is awesome, but I can't see much potential variety in characters and story. I'll be cautious.

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FPS/RPG hybrid would probably work quite well.

 

Then there could be pure RPG where different companies would be pretty much as different factions to join and first half or 2/3 would be all kinds of political, commercial, stealthy, and battle controversy between them. The big threat would of course be Aliens. Something similar as how Fallout dealed with super mutants and how Fallout 2 dealed with those oil rig guys.

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So ... Deus Ex with Aliens? (w00t)

We can only hope.

 

And I remember Feargus saying somewhere he'd like to make such a game. Perhaps this is it.

Then why use BL as an example? :crazy:

 

 

"YOU know that an Alien FPS is supposed to be played in First Person, how else would you get frightened? By running around in Tomb Raider style and smash everything that gets into your way?"

 

You get frighteneed? To me, a game's 'frightfulness' has nothing to do with the view. *shrug*

 

I don't Alien is 'meant' to be played in any certain way except in the way the devs decide.

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Obviously you never played a decent FPS, so I view your "opinion" as disqualified for now.

Define 'decent'. Define 'played'.

Of course there should be both, with seamless transitioning. Few games seem to have managed that though. Perhaps due to technical limitations 3rd person games that allow you to switch into weapon view always leave the weapon view something to be desired.

Define 'decent'. Define 'played'.

 

He's talking about System Shock 2, I think. A game which I've seen you declare as overrated.

Edited December 11, 200619 yr by Pidesco

Yeha; but IIRC I 'played' SS2 for all of 5 minutes years (or whatever) after its release so that's a poor way to judge what I know of FPS. Heck, usually when I say it's 'overrated' it's more along the lines of 'I didn't really play it so it must suck, LOL'. The same attitude I have towards BIO's early non RPGs.

 

I have played other FPs though I'm not a fan of FPS in general.

Third person action-combat sucks. Always. Just look how Bloodlines turned out.

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There are plenty of good third person action games. I seem to recall both the Tombraider series and Prince of Persia series being quite popular. Or how about Splinter Cell? Ninja Gaiden? The list goes on.

 

Yeah, all of the above are console titles (at least primarily), but nowhere in the original article does it say that they aren't making console games. In fact, it's quite the opposite, it says they're working for both PC and console. Personally I'm not a huge fan of third person for the PC, nor do I like First person for the console. But that has to do with the controls not agreeing with me rather than their inherent quality.

 

Anyway, I find the point kinda moot. It clearly says they're making an Alien FPS, which kinda excludes a third person game. FPS standing for First Person Shooter and all.

 

Edit: Oh, and I have played a few decent FPS, although not SS2 if that's the benchmark. I do love F.E.A.R though, and am currently having a blast with Dark Messiah. The latter, by the way, is evidence that melee combat can work in first person as well (directed to the world in general, not to Morgoth).

Edited December 11, 200619 yr by Spider