Established franchises don't really need to be messed with, IMO. If you want to go all freaky experimental, create a new IP. 

Where you are a face hugger. or a baby. first level starts in some dudes intestines.

Oh, and I hope they digitally insert Arnold Schwarz into the game. Or at least Danny Glover. 

All the best franchises constantly evolve (this is a statement I'm pulling out of my ass, but just play along.)

Terminator introduces newer and better terminators each movie, etc etc.

Star Wars constantly adds new things, different ways to fight with light sabers, aliens, etc etc.

Hell, Quake is a COMPLETELY NEW GAME each and every iteration. And Quake 4 = Doom 3, so that counts as a new game.

For a species as technologically advanced as the Predators to have cloaking technology, laser targeting shoulder cannons,and arm-band nukes, they sure as hell could have a ton of different, interesting gadgets with which to battle, more interesting armor, etc. A warrior-centric society where each Predator tries to display his (or her?) own trophies and badges of honor, etc, has a ton of room to evolve. 

Firstly I LOVE Aliens. What a fantastic movie! I really hope they dont can Aliens: Colonial Marines, because I would love a game like that - set in the Aliens universe, likely to stay with the established themes of my fave movie!

Without bringing a predator into the equation at all, as a games designer (creature artiste or whatever) you could have so much fun with the Aliens species (the Alien/Aliens/Alien3 and maybe (just maybe) Alien Resurrection). You could have all types of Aliens! It begs the question - do aliens favour humans/humanoids as hosts or were they just using them because that's all there was? What if aliens made it to earth - you could have snake aliens, bull aliens, dog aliens, cat aliens, tiger, lions, elephants, horses, sharks, you name it!

Imagine if aliens made it to a planet with dinosaur like creatures on it?

I dont personally feel offended by the idea of any of these, a movie would be fucking scary as could a game. But making the predalien out of AvP2 Requiem have dreadlocks was a TERRIBLE idea. Really. If the artwork is done true to the style of Giger/Camerons alien, and the space marines are bad-assed enough then it would work.

Its a shame that the imagination has been taken out of the aliens franchise. It was a franchise which originally was about imagination. Its the stuff schoolboy's dreams are made of (quite literally) and TBH I think the only thing which has been capitalised and perverted in a worse manner is probably the bible! or something.

Think about it in terms of "what we know about the alien". What did we know about the alien by the end of Alien3?

Facehuggers impregnate large animals (always mammals? or large creatures?) which then "hatch" into aliens which although have a recognisable form do inherit many features from their hosts.

Acid for blood
Inner jaws
Queens
Intelligent agressive behaviour
Blah blah blah.....

I mean you could have countless different scenarios with different hosts and environments!
But the recent stories have all seemed completely cliched, the aliens havent been allowed to be anything other than "human" aliens and "predator" aliens, so as not to break the "iconic" laws of marketing, the posters, the glyphs, the hardware. Rotten tomatoes!!!!!!!! 

I'm thinking specifically of the series Aliens: Colonial Marines, there were a shit fuck ton of different aliens. Somehow there was a water planet and there were like squid aliens and whale aliens, which, as I remember, totally scared the crap out of me as a kid (mainly because of my fear of the wide empty ocean + unknown oceanic life combined with aliens.)

Also: if you can find it, check out the Aliens: Colonial Marines trailer for the Nintendo DS. They have crazy kinds of aliens in that game it looks like. There was a scene of a 30-foot giant alien who just picked up marines like ragdolls. Looked like fun. 

http://www.dukenostalgia.com/Kscope/Aliens/Images/toys.JPG

You can probably find a better picture of these toys, but yeah, I had (have, actually) the Mantis Alien. How a face hugger impregnated a mantis, I'll never know. 

Should Be A Player Mode where you are a face hugger. or a baby. first level starts in some dudes intestines.

This was actually in the original alien vs predator game. First level you were a face-hugger, second level a chest-burster. Dunno if doing it again would be too much of a retread... 

variety is great, its good to kill things that look different from each other, gives personality and makes for a well rounded experience 

E3 fucking rocks. L4D 2 announced, Project Natal, etc etc. I'm so tingly! 

Timeshift - quite good, I liked it a bit more than Nitin, solid feel to the combat, good but not great shooter.

WOT - great game, might have said this before. A fantasy classic. It didn't inspire me to read the books but it was atmospheric, stylish, distinctive, and interesting gameplay.

AVPwotever - looks good still. 

Hm. So you can't release a large DLC because of the Xbox limit, so you have to make it an entirely new game, justifying the expense by adding HDR and the phong shading from TF2.

Does look like it'll be good though, but basically torpedoes the previous version. 

"Valve employees decide which game gets made"

Wtf is that supposed to mean? I know what they want us to think; that there's some kind of democratic system in place. 

All the games in 1 handy post

http://bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewstory&threadid=98921 

I cant even get this game to install. google tells me its physx related but I dont even have physx installed.

what the hell EA? 

Nice set of quirky flash games. 

short point and click adventure with nice art:

http://fastgames.com/littlewheel.html 

but it's a lot like an interactive movie ;) 

http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/994/994129p1.html

I hope this is true! I know that I'm making myself succeptible for a severe dressing down about how its a console game and not designed for the PC, but I dont think I would have any problems with the controls. I for one would definately buy it!

UE3 engine games always run very well on PCs with half decent processors, just ashame theres no anti-aliasing, but thats no big deal really..... 

I for one would definately buy it!

Personally I'd just d/l it...

*snigger* 

"Personally I'd just d/l it...

*snigger*"

Dude, really? That's pretty insulting. 

And you fell for it..... 

Bait.

But yeah, probably. The thing is, I run into jerks like that all the time so my natural compulsion is to take it at face value. 

Surely you've seen enough of my posts to take _nothing_ I say seriously?

Don't make me posts the photo of my GoW case held up in front of a screen with func on again (I would do one with the GoW2 case, but I completed it co-op at a friends and holding up someone else's copy wouldn't really prove the 'I buy games' point).


But yeh, it was a mixture of showing inertia how to bait, a throw back to previous piracy conversations (including the hissy-quit one that led to the afore mentioned photo) and a minor commentary on one of the main reasons for delayed PC releases. This isn't just flame bait, it's Marks & Spencer's Organic Meta-textual Flame Bait. (reference lost on all non-UK residents deprived of M&Ss food pr0n) 

Altho part of me is tempted to get a list of every game Willem's ever worked on and pirate them all on principle (the principle of humour, but still ;) 

It would not have any more impact to anything in this world than if you clapped your hands and shouted "harrharrharr!". That's what many don't get about some individuals personal reasons to pirate stuff.