Game News More Aliens RPG: A gameplay video appears!

[Infinitron]

Tags: Aliens: Crucible; Obsidian Entertainment; Sega

Follow on the heels of the animation reel discovered yesterday, the website Unseen64, which is dedicated to reporting on cancelled videogames, somehow acquired a mysterious 13 minute Aliens: Crucible gameplay video.

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It appears to be a garden variety Mass Effect/Alpha Protocol-style console RPG. Keep in mind though that the existence of aliens with human soundsets means that this was far from a finished game.

UPDATE: Former Obsidian developer (and frequent Codex contributor) Anthony Davis had a few words to say about the cancelled game.

 

[Larendav]

Even though it's a hybrid between Mass Defect & Alpha Popamole, I'd take it over that piece of shit abortion known as Aliens: Colonial Marines any day.

 

[Duraframe300]

Anthony Davis made a post about it in the other thread. Can you update the OP Infinitron?

Edit: Just saw your post asking Davis for permission

 

[Brayko]

Looks Banal. Shit. Boring. and that's my honest opinion.

 

[Infinitron]

Anthony Davis made a post about it in the other thread. Can you update the OP Infinitron?

Edit: Just saw your post asking Davis for permission

Bah, where'd he go off to.

 

[IDtenT]

Looks Banal. Shit. Boring. and that's my honest opinion.

The combat looks terrible.

 

[Excidium]

That it does.

 

[tuluse]

Why has the acid blood been nerfed so badly? The little amount they spill melts through how many inches of steel?

Also, it looks like it's really hard to keep track of what's going on around you. Not in a good way like the chaos of battle, but just a really small field of view for no reason.

 

[Infinitron]

really small field of view for no reason.

Console gonna console

Hopefully the FOV would have been modifiable if it had been released.

 

[tindrli]

Bros, that was. a lamest "and i mean THE WORST " WE' VE GOT INCOMING" from 00:15 EVER ..shit.. who hire those people.. i mean, WTF!!!!....it is so bad that im seriously considering not to use that word ever again.. i just couldn't watch any more...

 

[ghostdog]

Rumor has it SEGA asked for a video showcasing the combat.

They got this.







R.I.P. Aliens rpg.

 

[Duraframe300]

Bros, that was. a lamest "and i mean THE WORST " WE' VE GOT INCOMING" from 00:15 EVER ..shit.. who hire those people.. i mean, WTF!!!!....it is so bad that im seriously considering not to use that word ever again.. i just couldn't watch any more...

Voice Acting was probably placeholder.

 

[Davaris]

The engine looks nice apart from the first person viewpoint. As for an RPG set in the Alien universe, I think it would be difficult to make that work.

 

[tindrli]

Bros, that was. a lamest "and i mean THE WORST " WE' VE GOT INCOMING" from 00:15 EVER ..shit.. who hire those people.. i mean, WTF!!!!....it is so bad that im seriously considering not to use that word ever again.. i just couldn't watch any more...

Voice Acting was probably placeholder.

It is a motherfucking ALIEN god damnit.. you just can not use any placeholders .. its just sad

The engine looks nice apart from the first person viewpoint. As for an RPG set in the Alien universe, I think it would be difficult to make that work.

ITS A GOD DAMN ALIEN!!!!.. it could be done beautifully.. fuckin retards..

 

[Naked Ninja]

That looks like it would have been awesome. Dig the party chatter.

Now I'm sad it'll never see the light of day.

 

[Semper]

it didn't look that bad, considering that it was probably just an alpha build - but the cancelation came without surprise. compared to the first vids/pics of colon marines crucible appears like utter shit.

 

[Crispy]

Not sure what you two are talking about. No offense to Anthony but that looked... horrifying. Absolutely not what I had in mind when reading all the previous info about the game.

At this point I'm actually glad it'll never see the light of day. If it wasn't going to be done in TB, or at least in RTwP, and if it wasn't going to be isometric, but rather in that ridiculous... like, what, one-quarter OTS view???... then forget it. It would've been very disappointing.

 

[Cosmo]

It would be stupid to criticize this thing from a technical standpoint.
Having said that, it appears to have a very forgiving gameplay, which means no scare, and no fidelity to the original material...

I am disappoint.

 

[IDtenT]

Dig the party chatter.

You serious? Seemed fucking out of place.

 

[SuicideBunny]

man, that would have been much better with incubation style tb combat.
or at least less bad...

 

[Crispy]

The part where the marine stands there toe-to-toe with a xeno just getting whittled down is particularly egregious...

 

[Duraframe300]

It would be stupid to criticize this thing from a technical standpoint.
Having said that, it appears to have a very forgiving gameplay, which means no scare, and no fidelity to the original material...

I am disappoint.

Pre-Alpha

Also, permadeath according to Anthony.

 

[Lockkaliber]

I was kinda digging the vibe from the video. Obviously needed a lot of work, but yeah, pre-alpha. I'm still sad that this was cancelled.

 

[Sannom]

Why has the acid blood been nerfed so badly? The little amount they spill melts through how many inches of steel?

That was a face-hugger, not an adult. In Aliens, droplets of their blood can't even go through a human's leg, even though it still stopped the character from using it. In Resurrection, it takes all the blood of an adult to melt though steel.

 

[ghostdog]

permadeath

LOL :reloads:

Unless it was going to have checkpoints. Which is another highly questionable feature, which I personally hate.