Hey has anyone heard of recent news on Colonial Marines...last thing I found was that it was supposed to come out first quarter of 2009. If you have any information please share. Also let me know what you think of it so far...
Aliens: Colonial Marines
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Well since AvP was kinda a let down, I will say I'm hoping Gearbox does better.
2011 is what I'm hearing now.
2011 is what I'm hearing now.
Oh it's still in production? Sweet! That looked awesome. I just assumed the project had been integrated to be part of AvP, but if they're still going ahead with it, that's awesome.
Its gonna be set in multiple locations including LV-426 from Aliens, But my question is - didn't that place explode at the end of the movie?
Well, allow me to be a complete fucking nerd here as I say that according to my Aliens: Colonial Marines Technical Manual [http://www.amazon.com/Aliens-Colonial-Marines-Technical-Manual/dp/0061053430/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266920494&sr=8-1] supposedly the crashed alien ship from the first movie was behind a large mountain range relative to the colony and might have been sheltered from the blast.scnj said:
So that's where I'd set the game at.
Knowing however how most companies like to think they'll set it in "The second colony on LV-426 that is equidistant away as the first one was that you never heard about for some reason. What? That makes no sense according to the movie? Waah! Stop whining about and pointing out plot holes! We had our single underpaid writer work really hard on this for all of two hours and who cares about story in games anyway!?!"
I'd like to be able to say that makes me feel better, but seeing how in my opinion the new Battlestar Galactica took no time at all to jump off the deep end into the sea of 'hip political commentary' and plot holes I wouldn't be able to keep a straight face letting off a lie of that magnitude. It DID have good dialogue and fairly interesting characters though, so they might end up doing a good job.scnj said:
Don't mistake this as me being a needlessly negative naysayer in this case, this is the attitude I take for EVERYTHING new, that way if it ends up sucking I lose nothing and if it's good I get pleasantly surprised.
Oh man I have been waiting fo his game for sooo long. Its had so many delays and setbacks its almost reaching Duke Nukem forever levels. Well, maybe not that bad but I can remember seeing this game in previews from years ago.
Cant wait as the latest version looks awesome.
All together now...
'Thats it man, GAME OVER! GAME OVER MAN!!!!'
Cant wait as the latest version looks awesome.
All together now...
'Thats it man, GAME OVER! GAME OVER MAN!!!!'
Or maybe the derelict vessel the Aliens were originally found on.scnj said:
As I remember the colonists had quite a drive out to the crash site, so maybe it survived the explosion.
EDIT: Damn, beaten to it by like 10 people.
IMHO, the Alien ship would be a really lame mission, since reason would stand that it's just a bunch of Eggs in stasis.
For Alien Nerds out there, where you aware of what the ship was originally supposed to be?
I was reading commentary that in the first movie there was never any concept of a "Queen" or a collective hive mind. The original thought behind the first Alien was that it was a bio-engineered weapon from some other ancient Alien race, and the ship that Ripley and the Gang find is a crashed bomber, of sorts. The eggs are kept in a bombing bay in a sort of stasis (which is broken when the explorers break that light/fog cover as they explore). The team behind the original film was envisioning the ship owning species dropping the eggs on enemies and unleashing Xenomorph hell. Anyway, the Alien in the first movie starts cocooning it's victims to the walls of the ship, which was supposedly done to make more eggs (whether it's turning it's victims into eggs, or eating them so it can lay the eggs itself is not really discussed). But it was able to reproduce on it's own -- no Queen needed.
Which, if you think about it, makes much more sense than having a queen. There are all sorts of parasitoid [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitoid] Wasps and bugs (animals that lay their eggs inside living hosts, whose larvae then eat the insides of the host for nutrition before molting into adulthood and bursting out of the dead host). But none of the known parasitoids are eusocial--employing a sterile worker caste that helps a central queen do all the reproducing.
/nerd rant
Which, if you think about it, makes much more sense than having a queen. There are all sorts of parasitoid [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitoid] Wasps and bugs (animals that lay their eggs inside living hosts, whose larvae then eat the insides of the host for nutrition before molting into adulthood and bursting out of the dead host). But none of the known parasitoids are eusocial--employing a sterile worker caste that helps a central queen do all the reproducing.
/nerd rant
We actually do know for a fact that...Uszi said:
...the victims were supposed to be turned into eggs. You can see one of the crew members in mid-transformation in the Director's Cut version of the movie.
But I greatly prefer how the sequel handled it. Doesn't stop them from being weapons created by some unknown race.