Alien - Colony War

[Corporal Hicks]

I know there was a lot of dubiousness prior to Isolation release because of Amanda, but I think her involvement in its success is being undersold here. And I say that as someone who hates being tied to the Ripley name as much as anyone. But despite Burke's comments, Amanda had reason to go looking and be in the same area. And I personally thought she brought some personal depth to the story, especially when we finally get to the black box.

[SiL]

She absolutely had a reason to go looking. Nobody's questioning that.

But that she found an Alien, had this massive adventure, it resulted in the destruction of a space station, And then all of this gets covered up and all that gets back to Ripley is "Yeah nah she got married, died of cancer, not much to it?"

That's my problem. It's that bullshit "tHeRe wAs a coVerUp" handwaving to shoehorn whatever ridiculous scenario for no good reason.

[426Buddy]

WY covered up the Prometheus disappearance, the Nostomo disappearance, and the destruction  of Hadleys Hope so what's one more cover up for Isolation?

[Kradan]

Yeeeeah, actually

I really enjoyed Alien: Blackout!

It's a good game, but Xenomorphine's right that playing it on a small screen is pain in the ass

[Voodoo Magic]

I really enjoyed Alien: Blackout!

It's a good game, but Xenomorphine's right that playing it on a small screen is pain in the ass

That's fair and probably generally relative to many mobile games. I had no problems personally playing it on my phone, but I used a Samsung Galaxy which tends to have larger than average screens.

[SiL]

WY covered up the Prometheus disappearance, the Nostomo disappearance, and the destruction  of Hadleys Hope so what's one more cover up for Isolation?

Neither the Nostromo nor the Prometheus disappearances were covered up. The ships went missing. People knew that, if not why. Hadley's wasn't covered up.

[426Buddy]

Regarding the Nostomo and Prometheus, the company or at least certain people working their had details about these missions. Even transmissons from Shaw and David. Obviously those details were kept hidden, not sure if that's meets the criteria of "cover up".

As for Hadlley's Hope, well I'm sure the company doesn't tell the world that there was an outbreak of Alien parasites. But thats conjecture I guess.

The station in Isolation was old and being decommissioned. The disappearance of the station could be hand waived as easily as missing ships and colonies.

The question would be why would Amanda keep quiet?

[SiL]

Hadley's wasn't just a Company venture. The Sulaco wasn't just sending information to WY on its return.

That last bit's the most important. Nobody was around to tell about what happened to the Nostromo or the Prometheus (at least at first), so it's easy enough to just lie about why they were sent where they were. It's not like they had specifics about what happened when they got there.

Amanda's alive and gets picked up at the end of Isolation, so you lose that convenience of nobody getting left to tell the story. Why would she keep it a secret?

[Kradan]

Why would anybody believe her ?

[SiL]

They don't even need to. You might still expect "Oh hey I found your daughter, turns out she claimed to see the same thing you did!"

What people forget it's that the first movies really don't present the Company as all powerful. Corporations had to be underhanded because there was government oversight. If Amanda got her story out it wouldn't be the companies controlling the information.

[Samhain13]

Ripley's name sells more or at least those making the decision seems to think so. Amanda space adventures don't bother me as much as Out of Shadows' asspull.

[SiL]

Does it though? I'm pretty sure all the non Ripley EU sells just fine.

[Samhain13]

I can't say. I felt that would be the reason for them to keep bringing Ripley's name all the time. How much having Amanda helped with Isolation's marketing and sellings? Who knows.

[Kimarhi]

Maybe the Amanda in Aliens is just some WY hired Crisis Actor and not the real Amanda at all!

[Samhain13]

Retcon time yay.