How would you change the ACM story?

[Local Trouble]

An Aliens prequel featuring a colonial marshal like Sean Connery in Outland would be interesting.

Especially if he survived for quite a while and then sacrificed himself to save Newt shortly before the marines arrived.

[Elicas]

An Aliens prequel featuring a colonial marshal like Sean Connery in Outland would be interesting.

Especially if he survived for quite a while and then sacrificed himself to save Newt shortly before the marines arrived.

Could be a pretty epic ending actually, the lone security guard desperately throwing all his weight at the door to try and keep it closed as the little girl Newt scuttles through the airducts to escape. Just as we see her enter her safe hiding hole we hear his last desperate scream. You know your character just got f**ked, but he made sure she'd live for a little while longer.

[SM]

Make it the colonist they find in the hive instead of a man though.

[acrediblesource]

 No story in the world could save people from conjuring up some kind of BEEF with it, haven't you already heard every type of Alien story being bashed to bits?

However if the story was changed to including an  enemy type REPLACING the boiler enemy type, it would have been much more better addition/ added dimension to the universe. I'm afraid the Broiler was too much of a BABY STEP towards something more interesting.
Like many others here have suggested, a POTENTIAL addition would have been the HUMAN morphing into hive/eggs/aliens which would ultimately become part of your enemy obstacles.

Story is nothing unless you can convince an audience of the FEAR you are supposed to get with this franchise. I just didn't feel much fear with the Boilers, just a quick sense of creepy and then it subsided after a closer inspection.

[Local Trouble]

Boiler would be a lot scarier on a ship if the blood actually had any corrosive effect on the hull whatsoever.

[Elicas]

Make it the colonist they find in the hive instead of a man though.

I could dig that, would explain why she was still alive and everyone else was dead, if she had been taken those extra four or five days later than the rest.

[YutaniDitch]

Make it the colonist they find in the hive instead of a man though.

I could dig that, would explain why she was still alive and everyone else was dead, if she had been taken those extra four or five days later than the rest.

yeah, but who would she believably be? I dig it too, but her background would need to be rock-solid... I dig the Newt being saved by her ploy... But wouldn't it make the coccooned lady a Ripley-clone out of her? But yeah, she would be a good link to ALIENS...

[SM]

She could literally be anyone with strong survival instinct.

You'd need to take into account Newt's backstory though.

[Blacklabel]

Also - Alien campaign as the alien that came out of Newt's dad.

[Local Trouble]

She could be the voice of the audience.

"What are you, stupid?!  Don't send even MORE people into that ship!"
"Why don't we send a distress signal right now?  The marines could be here inside of three weeks!"

[Elicas]

Make it the colonist they find in the hive instead of a man though.

I could dig that, would explain why she was still alive and everyone else was dead, if she had been taken those extra four or five days later than the rest.

yeah, but who would she believably be? I dig it too, but her background would need to be rock-solid... I dig the Newt being saved by her ploy... But wouldn't it make the coccooned lady a Ripley-clone out of her? But yeah, she would be a good link to ALIENS...

Doesn't have to be a Ripley clone in any way, shape or form. We know the Colonists had Pulse Rifles and some small arms on base, it stands to reason they'd have some sort of trained security force to keep the peace. You can't have all those Colonists with nothing else to do on their day off but to visit the bar wandering around the control centre pissed as a fart after all. She could have been a Security Guard, some sort of operations manager who happened to be near enough to the Security lockers/checkpoint when the shit first hit the fan, perhaps some sort of ex military who retired out there for ten years hard work followed by retirement and a nice fat payday. The novelization states they were all on pretty damn good money. There are a lot of ways you could work it, I'd particularly like the Security Guard route, as that would at least make her not an officer like Ripley. Maybe just some bog standard grunt, in well over her head with no idea what's going on except she's trying save some kids. Perhaps while trying to get the kids out during the last stand at medlab, the only one she manages to get out safely is Newt.

You could even retcon it slightly and say that Newt was so traumatised by losing this first 'protector' she didn't want to mention her to Ripley, for fear Ripley would go the same route. Not much of a change to the canon (if any at all really) but it would allow for an absolutely rock solid prequel at a completely different tone.

[Local Trouble]

How do we know the colonists had pulse rifles?

And I think one marshal and maybe a half dozen deputies would be enough for a colony of only 158 people.

[Elicas]

How do we know the colonists had pulse rifles?

And I think one marshal and maybe a half dozen deputies would be enough for a colony of only 158 people.

God I hate digging out these quotes . Luckily enough I got my bookcase of Aliens stuff behind me

Apone tilted his head back so that his helmet camera would simultaneously record the evidence of the firefight and transmit it back to the APC. 'Pulse-rifles' he murmured, explaining the cause of the ragged holes.' Somebody's a wild shot.'

We can also presume they had access to flame-throwers of some description.

Several of the rooms Hick's squad passed had not just been turned upside down; they had been burned. Black streaks seared walls of metal and composite.

The colonists were moderately armed, and killed several Aliens at least before they were overwhelmed.

[Local Trouble]

Too bad the marines didn't stumble onto the colony's supply of pulse rifle ammo.  Assuming there was any left.

[szkoki]

I assume Gateway Station has marines stationed there.  I'd basically cherry pick the best elements from the Gibson script for Alien 3 and use that as my framework for the story.

Can't be worse than what we got.

btw playing one part of the game on Getaway would be cool
what about the backstory of your character?
does it really have to be a colonial marine?

my idea quickly following this thought ...
how about 2 playable characters a female recruit colonial marine and a veteran guard like guy who is really misterious and who stationed on getaway, a real though guy  but a real man like...dunno the earlier John McClane , their story would cross each other in some ways like in the RE games...there would be other important non playable chars ...maybe another harmless, innocent younger women from the medical department and a handsome cocky guy (possible love intrest for our marine) from a rescue team like the one saved Ripley in the beginning of Aliens

any of the non playable characters could die ofcourse to make the story dramatic after a good character development
there would be a lot of differences though between our characters:
- marine is quicker, able to hack, has motion detector, less life but has armor, would have a helper in his comm center, a bishop model u would almost never see him only hear his voice
- guard is stronger, can carry more stuff i dunno the usual stuffs (there would be a story telling during the game about him)
and we could add several abilities ...cmon we all played with resident evil,

And this game would be a SURVIVAL HORROR...low ammo, lack of medi packs and save points...aliens can appear almost anywhere...and yeah a Raven type WY alien product would be cool, a crature who appears several times to catch u...Nemesis style...just raising the tension

the 1st level would be then the getaway station....there would be a slow introduction, tension building....then after the arriving an Auriga like WY ship would be chaos we were trying to figure out whats happening...blabla...then we somehow get onboard the auriga, second level...maybe trying to find, use its escape pods because there is no ship/escape pods left to use on Getaway....AND THEN could have been some evil WY guy(s)...dunno by maybe adding a 3rd non playable main character who wants to get onbard the Auriga like ship to save the speciments or to get some kind of an info...he would have a hidden agenda and u would never know till one point that he is a bad guy

OR f**k Auriga...the WY ship is carries some part of the derelict from lv-426 wich is survived the blast ...and that guy wants the data wich contains the origin of the aliens homeworld and wants to navigate the ship there in secret ....  and so we get there...mehh im too tired to think the most exciting part of the story ...maybe the most obvious stuff , bring back the mother queen to earth etc.

ummm but what about the marines...oh yeah u would meet them, see them fighting, dying, first u would have to meet up with the others (that would be a long road)  and as the marine u would have to complete simple orders from your CO alone and/or with another marine ...ofcourse your whole squad would die by the end...your boss and another marine would last till the end ...and the other marine would be a hidden corporate member whos helping the another WY member all along and some times by sabotaging the mission, sacraficing your team..etc.etc

so much potential...and what we got? THAT

Spoiler

SHIT ACM

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