Secret Xbox 360 Games: Aliens

 

The RPG will span a more ambitious period of time than the FPS, possibly the entirety of the series - 260-odd years - and the fact that Obsidian refer to the look and feel of the original films means that key forces and allegiances from them will be included or referenced: the crew of the original

Edited December 17, 200718 yr by funcroc

I've never known an RPG to span more than a year. Possible exceptions include Planescape: Torment (in the form of flashbacks and TNO's previous incarnations) and... yeah that's it.

 

Glad to hear Obsid will probably be working on KOTOR 3. Hopefully they can polish off the messy ending of KOTOR 2 and show us what they really meant to do with the SW universe... assuming Lucas Arts doesn't try to BLEEP them in the arse again.

 

Though it's slightly disconcerting that an MMO in the same universe could be released at the same time.

Edited December 17, 200718 yr by Krezack

There are obvious questions this brings up. Namely, if it takes place over the course of the entire franchise.

 

1) How are they going to make it about one Player Character, short of using the "cold sleep" plot device and a number of incredibly implausible coincidences to keep the story on track? It's safe to assume we won't be playing as Ripley, else there wouldn't be much use in making the game an RPG. The only plausible way that I envision this working would be if the PC is a synthetic, which is an interesting idea. Very interesting.

 

2) How will Obsidian prevent the game from fluctuating in quality with its time periods, ie getting worse as it goes on? The easiest and best solution would seem to be operating outside the scope of existing canon the way KOTOR did with Star Wars.

 

And if it does indeed take place over the span of several centuries, we can expect it to be a Fallout-esque lone wolf kind of game. There's not much use in creating deep NPCs if their entire lifespans constitute as little as 10-15% of the game's chronology, barring the aforementioned cold sleep device.

Edited December 17, 200718 yr by Pop

Doing over a 200 years timespan of the series?

 

It can be possible with just one same main character, through the means throwing the PC into the refrigerator every chapter or so.

 

But won't it risk convulting the story?

 

Update: Oops. Pops conveyed the exact point I have in mind.

Edited December 17, 200718 yr by Zoma

It's my belief that we will be playing as Burke, in a rare piece of solo fanservice to Gorgon.

I'm going to simply presume they misinterpreted part of it or that the above posters are misinterpreting it. It could easily be that it takes place at a single point within that 200 year span, not the entirety of the 200 years. Or it could be that it takes place early on and the character sleeps once for 150 years to come back and finish the game off.

 

The person they interviewed very well could have said "we want to use the unexplored time between the films" to mean they simply want to use a non-film time period and the writer could have taken that to mean they wanted to use the entire span.

Edited December 17, 200718 yr by Tale