Aliens RPG now "officially canceled."

[santino27]

Hi guys, The Guildmaster here. Rumors have circled around a bit regarding the fate of the Aliens role playing game that Obsidian and SEGA had been working on. Unfortunately, it is true that we are no longer working on the game, and we wanted to finally announce that officially to everyone who has been following its development. We’re going to keep this forum up for another week for archival purposes and to allow you guys to finish up any open threads, and then we will shut it down since it is no longer a product that is in development.

All of us here at Obsidian would like to thank you for your interest and support during its development, and we encourage you to check out the recent news about Alpha Protocol, which is coming to the PC, Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3 very soon!

Thanks,
-TG

http://forums.obsidian.net/index.php?showtopic=52620

[Chefe]

Color me unimpressed.
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[Kron]

Meh.
They don't have the creativity or the guts to correctly handle something like alien anyway.

Obsidian is just the lap dog of Bioware and Bethesda, the one time they get to do a game of their own, AP is what we get.

I'm just wondering how this half-assed studio has managed to survive this long. Hope they just die away once and for all when this generic piece of shit of a game turns out to be a major flop.

[Occasionally Fatal]

From what I've seen of Alpha Protocol, I can't say I'm very sorry. If AP manages to be decent maybe I will change my opinion. It seems to me as if Obsidian is about as much from Troika as Troika was from Black Isle.

[Raapys]

Well, the Aliens RPG sounded alot more interesting than AP is turning out to be, so in that way it sort of sucks.

[Kron]

[Chefe]

At least Troika's broken games has some gems in them. Troika also didn't make any expansions and half-assed sequels, or rip off anyone. They were the last true RPG developers.
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[denizsi]

And Black Isle only has Fallout and PST going for its name that can hold water to Troika games.
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Spiralling to the ground below, like autumn leaves left in the wake to fade away
Waking up to your sound again, and lapse into the ways of misery

Two to one... from pain to fun

I see the sign, it's on the road, and I think it's crazy

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[Suchy]

so
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[denizsi]

I'm actually disappointed. Regardless of how AP would turn out, I had hopes for Aliens RPG. SEGA and C&C, I guess.

Maybe it's not such a bad thing that this got the shaft:





Silly me for thinking that a mainstream Alien game could be anything other than a <s>shit</s>grind-fest.
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RPG Codex: putting the "Retards" back with Perverts & Gays.

Spiralling to the ground below, like autumn leaves left in the wake to fade away
Waking up to your sound again, and lapse into the ways of misery

Two to one... from pain to fun

I see the sign, it's on the road, and I think it's crazy

qbdjotld

[Dicksmoker]

Well, fuck.

So, Sawyer, can you release any details on the game now?

[Kron]

WOAH, H. R. Giger would probably puke if he saw how they modified his creation...

That behemoth-thing, completely out of line with what alien is, and the other one looks like a fag, more like a D&D 3E monster than a killer that makes you shit your pants.

[Multi-headed Cow]

Alien escapes the terrible clutches of Obsidian, but Fallout is still in it. Fuck.

[bhlaab]

[Kron]

CHOSE YOUR RACE:

HUMAN

ALIEN

ANDROID

HALF-ALIEN

Plus, the game was going to feature romantic interests with female aliens, but you had to chose the dialogue options in like less than 3 seconds, else the alien would eat your balls off with that other little mouth it has inside its mouth.
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[Multi-headed Cow]

Alien romance, you say.

[Kron]

Rule 34'd

It cannot be unseen, but still...
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[Liberal]

Good riddance. They wouldn't be able to pull it off anyway. They are a sequel/addon studio, and they should stick to that.
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[Hümmelgümpf]

I fucking hate you, guys. What happened? A lot of you liked MotB and SoZ. Where does this RAGE come from?

[MetalCraze]

[Hobo Elf]

What the flying fuck did Obsidian think when they made those concept arts? It's like they had NO idea what Alien was about and what they were supposed to be like. I'm glad the game got canned for good. They would've fucked Aliens up the ass instead of making Aliens that fuck the player up the ass. As it should have been.
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[MetalCraze]

But you see that picture clearly shows that the guy is using an alien diplomacy on a big smart alien instead of putting all his clips into it. And they are about to hug. Isn't that what you fuckers wanted?
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[janjetina]

[Fat Dragon]

I don't really see anything wrong with those concept arts, but then again I've never really been much of an Alien fan so eh.

Pretty dumb to say it would have been shit anyway, especially since we knew nothing about the gameplay, other than they were looking at Bloodlines for ideas at one point.