Sega has released a new trailer to announce the release date of the upcoming Aliens: Colonial Marines videogame. Some of the footage was already seen in recent single player video previews but most of it is new and 100% in-game material. Unfortunately the game has been delayed yet again, this time until February 12, 2013. You can download the video here in HD.
Same happened with AvP 2010, there are those that love and those that don't, people were really exited before hand and it turned out to be not a lot of peoples cup-of-tea.
The there is Urban Warfare, most of you probably never heard of it but it's an indieish game that is fantastic but there aren't as many players due to not being known of.
Either way.....a game is a game, if you don't want it. Don't get it.
More than anything I hate is someone who will lay their cards down to try change someone's opinion. Not saying you are, but they are out there
Oh come on! even in the unlikely event that it's all been some elaborate ruse and it's been the same game right from it's 2000/2001 announcment, it certainly wasn't a Gearbox game then. To complain that this specific game game we are currently waiting for has been in development for 10 years, and that Gearbox is responsible for that is a bit off the mark, isn't it?
Or am I getting an "Oh lordy..." for trying to reason out the unreasonable?!
Yeah I get you. Borderlands is a great game... GBX just seems so touch-and-go, and DNF really didn't help their reputation.
Maybe I'm just playing devils advocate, and I very much don't agree with some of the members in this thread and their levels of hate. I'm still excited for the game, but it's definitely dropping because of all of the unknowns that these delays could mean.
At any rate, more waiting. Sigh. It's definitely time for GBX to shit or get off the pot.
I wonder if this is why all of the trailers for A:CM only show cut scenes so far. Sure, they might be using the in-game engine to render those scenes...but what if they are only showing us that to hide some sort of problem with the gameplay itself? I know we've already seen some gameplay footage but it hasn't been a lot...and I have a feeling that what we've seen has been very carefully selected by GBX. Who knows, this might just be a game that spends more time trying to tell a shoddy story through cut scenes instead of through an actual video game. Maybe that's the lesson they learned from DNF.
DNF took bloody forever, and the end result was mediocre at best. What were the delays for, to allow them time to assemble the basics of this shoddy product? I just can't imagine if they'd released it without delays, would the game even have been playable at all?
I think that's why fans are impatient and untrusting now. That's why I am. Take developers at their word? No, no thanks. They can say whatever they want, regardless of what's actually happening or what their product really looks like. I'll save my excitement for concrete evidence of something great.
So far, Colonial Marines has delivered on the graphics and the effort making it look like a perfect Aliens clone, but that means very little as far as the game itself is concerned.
Bitching is justified, why would you try and stop people from complaining when they have very clear, and very justifiable, reasons to complain?
And I could counter by saying it's equally wrong to outright condemn a game just for being delayed, as you and some others have. Just wait until you play it, it's that simple.
I'm expecting that it will, it's almost a joke at this point for me.
A game being delayed is not a prerequisite for being bad or good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6fFKkmIrWM#ws
Oh lordy...
Well that's interesting.
I know you're having trouble with this, but maybe it bears saying again: the game 'Aliens: Colonial Marines' which was meant to come out in 2002 was a different game. It is categorically not the one we're waiting for now. Gearbox's game just has the same title, 'cause - y'know - it's a good title.
the original title was cancelled and hence scraped so they had to start again
According to an old source can't find again :/ said by unknown (can't remember)
Announced 2007. Feb. 2008 I believe was when it was featured on the cover of Game Informer. Late 2008 it was delayed for the first time.
In reality the game has been in actual development about 2 years ago i think maybe 1 and a half years
In the beginning of the development they didn't give us many info but now they gave us info in the interviews, magazines and videos.
The only thing that really bothers me is that people will try to find out videos of A:CM on the youtube and probably will get a gameplay from 2011, one from 2012 and another from 2013.
It's kind of hilarious that we will have a gameplay video for each year
The production will never get anywere for that game, it's been 10 years now.
They sure love dragging it out.
They are not pushing it because of other franchises.
If they needed to compete with Halo or CoD they would be launching it a little after Prometheus.Giving more hype to the franchise, but well...they are not doing this
I need to say too that the more this game is being polished the more i am getting exiting to it.
This shows me that Gearbox do care for this game.
A game like this doesnt stand a chance against the bigger gaming franchises, makes perefct sense they moved the release.
Wow that would be a nightmare .
man I really dislike those space lizard or raptor sounds you are talking about. The fact that those aliens (and now the ACM ones) are aimed to the casual audience and primarily kids really sours me.
I've heard a few shorter shrieks which sound nothing like the sound work done for Aliens. Which I do have, by the way. I created an entire sound library of Alien/Aliens sound work. They sound like some of the stuff mixed for AVP/AVP:R (which contrary to popular opinion did not just reuse Aliens sounds, it had some new stuff mixed in there too.)
Some of them are not from Aliens.
Also, I'm pretty sure this new delay has a lot to do with Borderlands2. GB is lying once more
The tracker at the start is a bit too low in pitch, but it still sounds like a tracker.
And Resident Evil 6. I still think September would work since I don't think anything major comes that month then Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and Far Cry 3?
i enjoyed the past AvP games, and found myself really enjoying the marine campaigns, and this one seems to be pretty solid in that vein while also making it feel more immersive, because the last Avp game really felt like it was rolling with the marine side of things.
As long as the story refreshes the franchise I'll be ok with it even after the long wait, but man is this thing becoming more unbearable to gestate than a baby queen, but when it finally bursts forth its gonna be a rip roaring monster.
I despise online deathmatch demos as well. I never bother with them.
What a waste, they made that for no reason because the game was delayed.