Obsidian CEO: Aliens RPG felt like a finished game

[Cellien]

"Oh, if you had come in and played any of the last builds we were working on, you would have said it was a finished game," Urquhart told Joystiq. "That's how close we were. It looked and felt like it was ready to ship."

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/28/obsidian-ceo-aliens-rpg-felt-like-a-finished-game/

[Brother]

Is he cereal?

[Puks]

A gigantic waste if he is.

[ikarop]

Couldn't resist to come here when I read the news!

CEO's wishful thinking I guess! Direct sources disagree. Graphically maybe, the rest? not so much.

[Puks]

Still a waste.

And nice to see you again, ikarop! 

[ikarop]

Indeed a waste. The story was beautiful, kinda prequelesque I would say.

When are you going to change that avatar Puks , all I see now is boobs! Need some other kind of eye candy:

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Sorry, the file is huge. I was too lazy to upload the video.

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[AvatarIII]

hmm i didn't realise it was going to have turn based combat

[RidgeTop]

Indeed a waste. The story was beautiful, kinda prequelesque I would say.

When are you going to change that avatar Puks , all I see now is boobs! Need some other kind of eye candy:

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Sorry, the file is huge. I was too lazy to upload the video.

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They definitely went a bit overboard with those hybrid designs.  Good to see you back on the forum by the way.

[ikarop]

Yeah, this PR talk certainly grabbed my attention! Very unfortunate words on Feargus' part. Anyway, see you guys!

[TJ Doc]

That is a shame. But I still -

...

IKAROP?! It's... oh he's gone again. 

[Puks]

hmm i didn't realise it was going to have turn based combat

For real? Dammit now I'm even more pissed this promising title will never see the light. Turn-based combat is almost extinct in today's games.

They definitely went a bit overboard with those hybrid designs.

The rhino alien was a bit too much, but this -

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- I like this. The alien's different appearance would be justified in this game - the various fauna's genetic traits make up for different aliens and this would be an RPG after all - more enemy types are required, compared to FPSs.

F**k. This game had potential.. instead, we get an average/decent/fairly good AvP.

Oh well, what can you do - all hopes go to A:CM now.

[Brother]

Someone will recognize the potential and do it, will just take lotta' time.

[Puks]

As much as I would love this to be true - it'll probably never happen.

And to be honest - I'd rather see it die completely than become "the DNF" of the AvP franchise..

On the other hand, if Bioware got their hands on this one - now that would kick serious ass.

[Brother]

Not talking about this exact same project, I'm talking about a completely new alens based rpg project. This project is fubar.

[Puks]

Like you said - not coming anytime soon, though. At least not with A:CM and (come on, we all know it'll happen) AvP4 planned for the next few years.

And with the RPG market slowly dying out (essentially it already died a long time ago in the early 2000's), I doubt we'll ever get an Aliens role playing game.