what kind of boss characters do you think will be in the game?

[Huol]

Srsly a boss fight would totally spoil the atmosphere of this game.  Not to mention the fact that in all likelyhood, even a queen Alien is not going to stand up to combined firepower from a handful of marines.  Especially if she's attached to an eggsack.  If I start seeing HP bars in this game, bad things are going to happen.

The fact that ppl would want linear level progression and boss fights reinforces my opinion that there are a whole shitload of A/P/AVP fans out there who should never, ever be listened to in terms of "what the fans want".

so in theory they shouldnt listen to the fans but they should listen to you? 

anyway i think once they meet a boss such as a queen (which i'm pretty sure she will be introduced in the game) i would want her to be with the drones so that other squad can beat the shit out of the drones while me( the character i'm controlling) and maybe one other marine trying to beat down the queen. there are millions of possibility which may or may not work.

A squad of marines beating the shit out of aliens?

Three marines.

They wont stand a chance, and that queen you want to "beat down" would just step on you. 

[Porkus Maximus]

so in theory they shouldnt listen to the fans but they should listen to you? 

No, just don't listen to them.

[Master]

Three Marines with smartgun would kill every alien.

[xenomorph36]

Srsly a boss fight would totally spoil the atmosphere of this game.  Not to mention the fact that in all likelyhood, even a queen Alien is not going to stand up to combined firepower from a handful of marines.  Especially if she's attached to an eggsack.  If I start seeing HP bars in this game, bad things are going to happen.

The fact that ppl would want linear level progression and boss fights reinforces my opinion that there are a whole shitload of A/P/AVP fans out there who should never, ever be listened to in terms of "what the fans want".

so in theory they shouldnt listen to the fans but they should listen to you? 

anyway i think once they meet a boss such as a queen (which i'm pretty sure she will be introduced in the game) i would want her to be with the drones so that other squad can beat the shit out of the drones while me( the character i'm controlling) and maybe one other marine trying to beat down the queen. there are millions of possibility which may or may not work.

A squad of marines beating the shit out of aliens?

Three marines.

They wont stand a chance, and that queen you want to "beat down" would just step on you. 

actually queen is not that big, (at least not the one from aliens) so it cant step on me. plus if you look at games like avp2 you had no back up and you were suppose to kill the queen and the rest of the drone all by yourself. (if my memmory is correct)

[Private Hudson]

An empress could survive bullets from marine firepower.

[Byohzrd]

Perhaps even a Metroid-esque ending where you have to blow up the final stage and return to your docking ship before the explosion would fit nicely somewhere too.

YEAH! and you get this super cool green armor with a helmet that has a bright orange visor and you get in a cool car with a big turret gun in the back!

[Private Hudson]

Then we have Halo!!!

[Huol]

Three Marines with smartgun would kill every alien.

Just like two marines with smartguns lasted only a minutes before they ran out of ammo and would have died was it not for the slim chance that someone came back to pick them up?

[Master]

Queen under concantrated fire power of three smartguns is a dead meat like anything else.

[Byohzrd]

Three Marines with smartgun would kill every alien.

Just like two marines with smartguns lasted only a minutes before they ran out of ammo and would have died was it not for the slim chance that someone came back to pick them up?

well look at the situation they had absolutly no clue what was happening and could not lock on to targets due to the cramped space of the hive.

[Ash 937]

This game has to be about numbers, not bosses.  THe odds of your survival need to be progressively dimished as you go on.  Marines need to die so that you have less firepower at your disposal.  No bosses.  Just a decent in bleakness.

Sure a smart gun at a distance is no match for an alien.  But what if there are five of them coming at you at once in the first level and in the second there are ten and so on?  How fast can you move and aim to kill them all without getting killed yourself?  In that question lies the difficulty and how I think this game should be structured.  Very slow moving and full of anxiety with bursts of action that becoime increasingly overwhelming for the player.