ALIENS: COLONIAL MARINES ON TRACK FOR 2012 RELEASE

Consider me excited. I have not played any of the previous games and gearbox is a good developer so I have hope!

The AvP2 game was good. Last year's thing was the wrong sort of bug hunt.

Saw stuff about this years ago and was excited then.

That AvP game really dampened that though. God release a solid title please.

So hang on, is this different to the game Creative Assembly are working on for consoles?

...and if so does that mean Sega have two of their game studios working on separate Alien games at the exact same time?

That doesn't make a huge amount of business sense to me personally if true. 

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Originally Posted by The Rain Dog 

So hang on, is this different to the game Creative Assembly are working on for consoles?

 

...and if so does that mean Sega have two of their game studios working on separate Alien games at the exact same time?

 

That doesn't make a huge amount of business sense to me personally if true. 

There was AVP3 and now Colonial Marines and a rarely mentioned Alien RPG that may or may not be canceled, all published by Sega.
 

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There was AVP3 and now Colonial Marines and a rarely mentioned Alien RPG that may or may not be canceled, all published by Sega.
 

 

All at the same time tho? I dunno, I just see two Alien games on the market at once competing with each other rather than the rest of the games out there.

 AVP came out in 2010 and Marines is due in 2012(?) so that's not really the same time. I don't think they will be competing. The Aliens RPG hasn't been mentioned for awhile. who knows when or if it will ever see the light of day.

I have every faith that Gearbox are gonna make this a must-own game next year. I'm not even a big Aliens fan, but the idea of a new co-op shoot by Gearbox has me salivating.

This game is my Duke Nukem Forever. I remember reading about it back in Official Playstation Magazine back when it was a PS2 title and the disappointment that came with its cancellation. This works out better, I suppose, since it's no longer a shitty PS2 game.

I'm of the mindset that after 30 years of shitty sequels, Halloween costumes, and endless memes, Aliens can't possibly be scary anymore. I see the Alien in the trailer, and I shrug. Facing down a phalanx of pale-faced Bela Lugosi vampires would cause more anxiety for me than watching these bugs crawl out of the walls one more time. Gearbox is great, but this seems like striking the iron when it's been cold for ten years.

They may have done a redesign, but the preview from two years ago had a ton of shitty QTEs.

Most fictional monsters stopped being scary when I turned 10. I'm just hoping for a good game.

To clarify, I'm not talking about being literally afraid of monsters outside of the context of a game, Mr. Tough Guy. Aliens are second only to zombies in their inability to elicit a built-in stress response. They're stock villains at this point.

Also, I am still a little afraid of Gargoyles at age 32.

Yet L4D2 is an awesomely fun game despite the zombies. I'm only praying for a playable Vasquez analogue. "Let's Rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

I was so massively excited for AvP last year, I'm hoping this one is a bit massively better. If it's like Dead Space with Aliens, I will play nothing else all year. Especially if there's multiplayer. God, let there be multiplayer.

The teaser trailer they released recently sets the scene in the remains of Hadley's Hope on LV426... Which should have been a long since dispersed cloud of vapor the size of Nebraska.

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The teaser trailer they released recently sets the scene in the remains of Hadley's Hope on LV426... Which should have been a long since dispersed cloud of vapor the size of Nebraska.

It's been a while, why is that again? Ripley and Newt escaped at the end of Aliens, but didn't actually nuke the planet or anything. Exposition in part 3 or something?

There's only one Space Marine game I'm excited about. The Warhammer 40K one. Accept no alternative space faring infantry. Ultramarines, fuck yeah!

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There's only one Space Marine game I'm excited about. The Warhammer 40K one. Accept no alternative space faring infantry. Ultramarines, fuck yeah!

A lowly Space Wolf marine would beat the shit out of Magnus Calgar.

Off topic: Imperial Guard all the way! Only xenos and heretics need a sissy +3 armour save.

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It's been a while, why is that again? Ripley and Newt escaped at the end of Aliens, but didn't actually nuke the planet or anything. Exposition in part 3 or something?

 

The colony's fusion reactor went critical after the Marines damaged the cooling system in their initial encounter with the xenomorphs. It blew up as Ripley, Hicks, Newt, and Bishop escaped on the dropship Bishop remotely piloted down from the Sulaco.

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A lowly Space Wolf marine would beat the shit out of Magnus Calgar.

Ooooh, look at us we're space vikings!

Utramarine is best marine. You can take your sub-par geneseed and your unfabulously colored suits and shove them. 

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I'm of the mindset that after 30 years of shitty sequels, Halloween costumes, and endless memes, Aliens can't possibly be scary anymore. I see the Alien in the trailer, and I shrug. Facing down a phalanx of pale-faced Bela Lugosi vampires would cause more anxiety for me than watching these bugs crawl out of the walls one more time. Gearbox is great, but this seems like striking the iron when it's been cold for ten years.

 

They may have done a redesign, but the preview from two years ago had a ton of shitty QTEs.

To be fair, the old Aliens vs. Predator 2 did a pretty excellent job of keeping the tension high, at least for the opening (it helped that you didn't actually fight anything for a good 15-20 minutes). It wasn't pants-soiling scary or anything, but they at least kept you on edge. Then you got a sniper-rifle, and it all sort of went out the window. Still, gonna give Gearbox the benefit of the doubt.

I'm pretty sure the Alien RPG was canned and the next AvP game probably won't hit until 2013.  Color me excited for Colonial Marines.  Last year's AvP game wasn't all that great, but it was also a title that was rushed into development.  It was rushed into development, so there was no way in the world it wasn't going to come out half-assed.  I have a feeling Colonial Marines and the next AvP game will turn out a whole lot better considering they are actually taking the time to develop them.

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Ooooh, look at us we're space vikings!

 

Utramarine is best marine. You can take your sub-par geneseed and your unfabulously colored suits and shove them. 

 

 

I was always more of a Dark Angel fan, but I don't know what that says about me. I had a few squads of Space Wolf Terminators and a Space Wolf Leman Russ, but my Dark Angel battle company, my Ork Speeda-Boyz Horde and my Moridian Iron Guard defence force were my go-tos.

Sadly I've only managed to play a couple of games of 40K at game shop when I was a teen. Too poor to have my own army. And a few games of Space Hulk. Other than that strictly on the PC.

But I'm in love with the fluff. It's too insane not to love. 

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Sadly I've only managed to play a couple of games of 40K at game shop when I was a teen. Too poor to have my own army. And a few games of Space Hulk. Other than that strictly on the PC.

 

But I'm in love with the fluff. It's too insane not to love. 

I've not played in about a decade. But I was a hardcore Warhammer Nerd, even went to the Golden Demon a few times, and I still pick up a copy of White Dwarf whenever I can. I just love the world building in the Universe, just how terrifying and batshit insane EVERYTHING is.
 

I've always like the description that TV Tropes has for Warhammer 40K.

And that's countered by the Orks who are literally an entire race of insanely homicidal comic relief characters. It's why I loved my Ork horde, because the Codex stuff for them was awesome. Especially their latent magical abilities which meant that stuff painted red actually went faster.

We REALLY need to make a thread for SPACE MARINE and stop messing up this one.

Done.