Quote from: UDA on Dec 21, 2013, 07:57:59 AM
All we have on Amanda Ripley is a screen shot, and yet you're calling her the next Ripley (from the movies). I mean, how do you draw those conclusions at this early stage, because if you really can, I'll hire you. Sign on bonus and all.
We know nothing about Amanda. And you can't draw those conclusions. End of story. Nice to hear opinions though.
It's an ALIEN game. There will be numerous parallels to the film. It stars the main character's daughter. Look at the characteristics that made Weaver's character so admirable: her courage, will power, intelligence, etc. If we don't end up with a Ripley-style character with, basically, a different name (and coincidentally, a blood relation to her), what kind of character would people expect to play? Even Shaw in Prometheus is another Ripley from a previous time in the series. Because that's the kind of female role people come to expect in the franchise. I'm not arguing with you, but I most certainly can draw just those conclusions. I will be pleasantly surprised if it isn't the case.
Quote from: Powerloader on Dec 21, 2013, 07:49:32 AM
Yeah, let's have a marines vs aliens game. They've never done that before.
Boo! No more Ripley clones. How about Hicks 2.0 instead.
Not even gonna touch that
Quote from: JokersWarPig on Dec 21, 2013, 08:20:44 PM
I'm not giving the Amanda Ripley idea the benefit of the doubt. I think its a terribly stupid idea.
See, I don't truly hate it, but it's another case of missed potential. They could move away from the movie characters, similar to how the comics and books did, and say, "hey, the EU states there's plenty of colonies on other planets and interstellar travel, so why not do a story about one of them." I'd like to know who's actually writing this story, be it CA, SEGA or someone at Fox, just to understand more about why it can't be about something other than Ripley or characters she's met at one point or another.
Quote from: Engineer on Dec 22, 2013, 02:24:33 AM
I think the reason why characters are continuously reused, or referenced in this way, is because it's the company's lazy way to make it cannon or validate their efforts.
Probably. It's always simpler to use something already in existence rather than make up something new. I'm not sure how the canon argument plays into it, since usually only fans care about that and we typically agree on the movies being your "purest" canon and everything else in existence is up to one's discretion.
Quote from: Its_Auto on Dec 21, 2013, 02:33:41 PM
As for our constructive debates, theories and speculation being "off topic" I apologize, I didn't realize you were hoping for 13 pages worth of "Cool" and "Hope its not like Colonial marines" posts.
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