Alien: Blackout - Alien: Isolation mobile sequel

[Wirdschowerdn]

https://gematsu.com/2018/11/20th-century-fox-trademarks-alien-blackout-for-use-with-video-games

20th Century Fox trademarks Alien: Blackout for use with video games

posted on 11.24.18 at 08:25 AM EST by Sal Romano (@salromano)

Alien: Blackout” for use with “computer game discs; software, namely game software,” and the like.

The teaser image for The Game Awards 2018, which will air on December 6, teases “Worlds with Change” repeated over and over with a 70s-themed font and a giant “W” in the upper left corner—similar the the Weyland-Yutani Corporation of the Alien franchise. Game designer Hideo Kojima, a friend of awards show host Geoff Keighley, has seemingly also helped tease an announcement.

Stay tuned.

Also this:



Notice it's Alien, not Aliens.

Carefully optimistic.

 

[Wunderbar]

They will find a way to fuck this up.
Probably some game-as-service bullshit, where you play as colonial marine and alien eggs are lootboxes.

 

[Alienman]

Probably a mobile game with loot eggs.

 

[karoliner]

It's going to be a FPS made by cold iron studios.

 

[Tweed]

Such a deceptive title, all of us Sigma Team fans have been taken for a cruel ride.

 

[ortucis]

Ugh, like others, thought it was the good Alien Shooter series. Fuck Aliens franchise, like the movies have.

 

[agentorange]

Was always more of a Zombie Shooter person myself.

 

[Siveon]

Damn I was actually hoping for a modern Alien Shooter sequel. Like a horde FPS shooter, or maybe just another charming nonsense loot 'em up.

 

[ortucis]

Was always more of a Zombie Shooter person myself.

Same. Zombie Shooter has better visuals too. But I played AS first (I think back in 2009).

Is it just me or their visual quality keeps fluctuating between games?


EDIT: Just checked, WTF is this Alien Hallway crap?

They've gone down in quality like Alien movie sequels.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

I'm not against a FPS if they can capture the frenzy of AvP99.

Better still, an isometric action game with RPG elements and world exploration would be neat.

 

[ortucis]

I'm not against a FPS if they can capture the frenzy of AvP99.

Better still, an isometric action game with RPG elements and world exploration would be neat.

So, clone Alien Shooter?

 

[Astral Rag]

"Cold Iron adds a whole dimension of game development and play to our arsenal: long play-session MMOs targeted to PC and console gamers. The kinds of games Cold Iron develops will enable us to deeply explore the worlds of our franchises, starting with the Alien universe."

 

[orcinator]

I was mildly optimistic this might be better than Outlast In Space(Isolation) but with MMO devs making an actual MMO it might just turn out even worse

 

[LESS T_T]

Possible teaser:

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Possible teaser:

I think this is just about the upcoming Dark Horse comic:
https://nerdist.com/alien-isolation-resistance-aliens-comic-dark-horse/

 

[orcinator]

Possible teaser:

I think this is just about the upcoming Dark Horse comic:
https://nerdist.com/alien-isolation-resistance-aliens-comic-dark-horse/

#ReadPlayWatch
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It's clear they're trying to turn isolation into a franchise or subfranchise.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

"They" can smother inside an Alien's anus.

 

[Wunderbar]

“Alien: Blackout” is a mobile game in development from FoxNext Games, D3 Go!, and Rival Games that puts players in the boots of Amanda Ripley aboard an alien-infested Weyland-Yutani space station..The game will be available for download on the App Store, Google Play, and the Amazon Appstore, according to the publisher.


FUCK!

 

[LESS T_T]

So it looks like the (co-op) shooter from Cold Iron Studios is not this Blackout thing.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

https://d3go.com/games/alienblackout/

 

[Fedora Master]

They just can't leave well enough alone.

 

[Don Peste]

 

[Unkillable Cat]

'Please disregard the support I am getting from the developers as I push their product for my own agenda, whilst also shitting upon the target demographic.' - Ambient_Malice.

And to answer that "entitled" argument - the reason for the "virulent hate" is because mobile games have failed, up to this point, to:

#1 show that they're a better alternative to gaming on a desktop computer, laptop, current-gen console or even an older generation of console as far back as the third generation (read: mid-1980s).
#2 successfully play on the strengths of the mobile platform to create an unique gaming experience, instead of a watered-down experience drawn directly from any of the aforementioned platforms. The sole (possible) exception is Pokémon Go, and therein lies the problem - it is a single game in a market that is supposed to contain tens of thousands of titles and reach hundreds of millions of users, anywhere, anytime.
#3 successfully make a 'killer app' - a term used to describe a game that draws people towards the platform. Past examples include the latest Zelda game on the latest Nintendo console, Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Genesis, Dungeon Master on the Atari ST and Doom for PCs.
#4 shake off the stigma of mobile games being nothing more but blatant money grabs, with intentional malevolent game design so that people sink endless money into the games.

Case in point, this looks to be a Five Nights at Freddy's rip-off. BUT... I've said it before, the Alien franchise is the only franchise that could possibly pull that off, so I'm not going to dismiss this outright. In fact I'd like to see more... though for obvious reasons there's no chance in hell I'll ever buy it or play it.

Another point from gaming history (and a huge point of irony for this game) is that before Alien: Isolation there was only one game worth talking about that was based on the original film, and that was the eponymous 1984 release on the ZX Spectrum and other 8-bits. In that game you control the crew of the Nostromo as they try to get rid of their unbidden guest by issuing orders and moving them about the ship in a boardgame-style manner, from a top-down perspective game made to look as if you're seeing the ship's layout through a viewing screen. So in a way one can claim that Alien: Blackout is a remake of the original Alien game, 35 years later.

EDIT: Wrong date, corrected.

 

[lightbane]

´[...] "Entitled".

No need to say more. Fuck that loser.

May or may not contain microtransactions and more anti-gameplay features.

 

[Fedora Master]

Wait isn't that exactly like the very first second Atari Alien game??

Alien is an omniscient menu driven game. The player is put in charge of all of the crew members of the Nostromo. The game starts with one of the crew members being killed by the alien, which mirrors the death of Kane when he gives birth to the alien in the movie. The player moves the characters around on a map-grid representation of the ship as they search for the alien.