Hmm, only three digits per limb. A horse-alien?

I think that's the dog alien from Alien3

I have yet to see a dog like that.

I think it would be funny if the facehuggers jumped everyone BUT you. With you they just wanted to sit and talk about their favourite bands, maybe play some pool.

 

Always a bridesmaid, never a bride. :sad:

Edited February 28, 200818 yr by Amentep

Given most of the posts in this thread, perhaps the facehugger should be renamed the crotchhugger!

I'd rather see some alien-to-alien facehugs.

Edit: Double wtf?

Edited February 29, 200817 yr by Accept

Jackass.

Having put some more thought into this, I'm just not sure how it'd work unless you could cure yourself. Or have a timer where you have to save the world before commiting a noble sacrifice and taking your alien chest-burster to the afterlife with yourself.

 

But I'm not sure it couldn't be done, just no idea how it would be done.

Having put some more thought into this, I'm just not sure how it'd work unless you could cure yourself. Or have a timer where you have to save the world before commiting a noble sacrifice and taking your alien chest-burster to the afterlife with yourself.

 

But I'm not sure it couldn't be done, just no idea how it would be done.

 

Chestbursters in the afterlife? Ew.

Having put some more thought into this, I'm just not sure how it'd work unless you could cure yourself. Or have a timer where you have to save the world before commiting a noble sacrifice and taking your alien chest-burster to the afterlife with yourself.

 

But I'm not sure it couldn't be done, just no idea how it would be done.

 

Chestbursters in the afterlife? Ew.

 

Once you're in the afterlife, you can have your chestburster freak out your friends at parties, without actually dying everytime you pulled the prank! :D

 

But really I mean you know killing yourself and it.

 

I dunno, I mean without face huggers attacking the player as a possibility I could still see an "Alien" 1st movie style game being made with a not reproducing alien, but I just can't wrap my head around a way to make facehuggers work with them being latched onto the player.

 

Or something

Edited March 2, 200817 yr by Amentep

It doesn't have to be latched to the player, it could be latched to your father... voice acted by Liam Neeson... you are the chosen one and you must save your father!

 

It has the added benefit, if he spends the entire game with a facehugger attached, you save a fortune on voice acting

Well that's what I mean, really. Facehuggers can hug any story character or NPC all they want and probably not kill the story, but I can't see a PC getting Facehugged and having it "curable" and "believable to the setting".

 

I imagine it'd make more sense for the facehugging(?) to be over by the PC gets in, so that its alien vs PC, but...I dunno. Maybe there's a way to make it work that I don't see, I mean there's a reason I'm not a game developer!

Er... aren't we forgetting

Ripley gets a special hug from a Xeno and acts as heroine

Maybe there's a way to make it work that I don't see, I mean there's a reason I'm not a game developer!

Well.. The obvious one would be that getting face-hugged leaves you with 20-30 hours to live. If you complete the game before your wee one pops out your chest with a big, enthusiastic "Dadda!" you get the bad ending. If not, well.. Who says the PC has to be immortal?

 

Personally I'd love facehuggers in the game. They make for a nifty obstacle, a gory death, and they look good doing it.

 

There's a lot of other things I wouldn't like to see in the game. Aliens as dumb, suicidal drones. Egg-laying queens. AIs with feelings. Colonial Marines. Fancy weapons. Basically everything that turned a superb paranoia setting into an action fest. Not because the sequel wasn't good, but because the original concept would make for a far more interesting cRPG.

 

Sure, it would probably get dialogue heavy, but that's what Obsidian does so well

Who are you and where did you come from? I have yet to see such a comprehensive post next to a profile that says "1 post".

 

I'm sure if they include facehuggers, they'll find a way to make them "curable", like the scavenger droids in Republic Commando that try to drill your head, but have to go through your shield first. Of course, after they drain the shield you die a horrible bloody death...

Er... aren't we forgetting

Ripley gets a special hug from a Xeno and acts as heroine

 

I'm not, but I'm not sure the video game market is reading for the

"you saved the world, now you die"

ending. Besides which, that ending kinda implies a sort of futility in the game itself

unless some form of self sacrifice is involved. Otherwise you'd spend the game trying to stop the alien infestation only to - at the very least - put one more of the little buggers back into play to potentially imperil others

. And I'm still not sure its what the RPG market is willing to accept.

Mabye they CAN jump everyone but you.

Mabye your character has an illness or something. It turns the huggers off.

Colgate, now with new 24 hour anti xeno protection formula!

 

Prevents plaque, paradonthosis, facehuggers, gingivities and bad breath. Available in fresh spearmint and peppermint flavour.

Colgate, now with new 24 hour anti xeno protection formula!

 

Prevents plaque, paradonthosis, facehuggers, gingivities and bad breath. Available in fresh spearmint and peppermint flavour.

 

Bah, how about a perfume that attracts facehuggers instead?!

Colgate, now with new 24 hour anti xeno protection formula!

 

Prevents plaque, paradonthosis, facehuggers, gingivities and bad breath. Available in fresh spearmint and peppermint flavour.

 

Bah, how about a perfume that attracts facehuggers instead?!

 

And sneaky skills so you can secretly splash some on NPCs you don't like? >_

Colgate, now with new 24 hour anti xeno protection formula!

 

Prevents plaque, paradonthosis, facehuggers, gingivities and bad breath. Available in fresh spearmint and peppermint flavour.

 

Bah, how about a perfume that attracts facehuggers instead?!

 

And sneaky skills so you can secretly splash some on NPCs you don't like?

 

Indeed! Though if you play the facehugger, perhaps on NPCs you do like!

 

On a slightly diffrent note, it could be interesting to play a game as an alien, starting as a facehugger, rather than as a human. I believe this was possible in one of the AvP games. As a facehugger, I recall having to find a lone person to latch onto to transform into a real alien. It was cool!

Actually that *does* sound really cool.

 

Wonder how that would work game wise. Would your adult Alien stats be based on whom you had facehugged to implant? If you hugged just anyone you'd have average stats, but if you were patient and found a superior person to bond with you had superior alien stats?

 

Would you get a brief mini game where you had to protect your lil' baby alien from the evil humans (sneaking around inside the walls and such)?

Perhaps the resultant alien would differ according to the type of creature it came from. Chosing a creature to develop within would be equivalent to chosing a class in more standard RPGs.

AvP 2 mutiplayer had that exact function! In a game, if the players chose the "Alien Lifecycle"-option, you'd have facehuggers faceraping predators and different kinds of humans and in the end there'd be praetorians, predaliens and drones cutting a bloody swathe to and fro.

 

Assuming that the chestbursters weren't obliterated by minigun fire in the next few minutes. Which was actually a very common outcome.