Quote from: Ash 937 on Oct 06, 2014, 09:42:19 PM
Does anybody else find it odd that (pre-judging from the reviews) the best game to date for this franchise is based Alien and NOT Aliens?
No.
I adore
Aliens, but I think it's obvious its action orientation lends itself to a more mainstream sort of game design than the original film - not that there's anything wrong with that. But I think that unfortunately, familiarity with those various shoot-em-ups and FPS over the last several decades has bred contempt and laziness among gamers and game designers. The aliens became bullet sponges and the stories and scares became crap. A lot of companies and execs decided all people wanted was to pew-pew the aliens and enjoy the iconography.
What I hope is that
Isolation - assuming it is a success - opens the door for more, varied and better games in the franchise of all different types, be they action shooters or RPGs a la that cancelled project a while back. I'd love to see an
Aliens RPG with multiple characters to control with their own little backstories, banding together, a la
Mass Effect, with a rich plotline.