@Spenze: @cyhborg: @TheSpiller: True, videogames were not covered by the WGA strike, but still, their boss, Ronald D. Moore, not only participated in the strike, but wrote publicly about how passionate he was about the strike, going so far as to say that he knew he was making a tremendous sacrifice by going on strike, and risking the end of BSG from being produced, but he still felt it was worth the risk.

So, yeah, games not covered by WGA. But I would not be surprised if some writers out there would respond with something like: "We put our jobs and our livelihoods on the line. Where were you during all of that?!"

BtownDesignGuy

Lemme guess. By the end of the game, EVERYONE is an alien.
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Angryrider

screw the aliens game just give me AvP 3 damn it.

taftsearlobe33

You had me worried for a second there.. that the people behind that absolutely terrible Battlestar game on Live were making the Aliens game. Crisis averted. I hope the writers do a good job, I've always felt games in the Aliens franchise lack a certain cinematic flare.

furrot

My god. I've never before seen such a confluence of talent on a video game. And only very rarely in movies!

What's it using for a graphical engine, the HOLY TRINITY? Will the lighting bloom be supplied by ACTUAL FUCKING ANGELS?

Insomnia Bob

I will definitely check this out.I'm a huge BSG fan.If Moore ever does a game,I think it'll be a day one purchase regardless.

enewtabie

I think I just filled the cup.

AlKusanagi

YES

Snake726

Wow, sounds a lot less like a run of the mill rip-off shooter now! BSG being my favourite show ever, I'm sold!

coffeehair

Interest in game: blown to the roof!

Looking forward to this one, actually, its been a while since I've gone on a xenomorph killling spree.

Shiryu

OK, we always knew that the Alien FPS would be at the very least, decent. But what about the Aliens RPG?

Spoit

"You had me at Gearbox..."

Actually, they did, I've been hungering for a new Aliens game ever since AvP by Rebellion and to me AvP2 by Monolith, while very dear to many gamers for some reason, was a huge disappointment in my eyes. Lithtech just wasn't up to snuff compared to the amazing ray-tracing engine of the original.

But Gearbox, Aliens and BSG all thrown into one... this has "must buy" written all over it in big fat red letters and unclosed html blink tags.

Blue_Six

BSG doesn't mean much to me...but Aliens and Gearbox does. I'm gonna have to start watching this one more closely.

skyoon

Wow I'm almost sold on this game now. Fuck it I AM sold on this game with Gearbox and BSG's head writers behind it.

GreyFoxV1

Isn't this shit like... heresy?

I expect a fracking awesome script.

Medicine Seller [ZTF]

@Spenze:
Why? Writing for videogames wasnt covered under the writers strike, i believe.

TheSpiller

@Spenze:

the strike didn't involve writing for games, i think.

cyhborg

I'm shocked they admit to writing this during the strike. I'm sure that's not going to make them any friends among their peers.

Spenze

Thompson and Weddle are cool, but they're kinda like the "B" team... they worked with Ronald D. Moore on Deep Space Nine as well. They wrote some of the most rubbish episodes of the series... still, their work has definitely improved since they started on BSG. Here's hoping they can keep it tight!

freakout

yep!

that was definitely a cash register i just heard in the back of my head!

(if the tests come back and i'm not excited about this game, someone please recommend a good neurosurgeon -- might have a tumor!)

108

they mostly wrote at night.....mostly.

gooberbaby

@everybest: *not by syd mead, it has his foreword. Got my artists confused, I would check out that book anyways though!

everybest

Also, I would totally check out this book by Syd Mead: [www.amazon.com]

Really good stuff.

everybest

I'm not very interested, but I would like to see what Syd Mead came up with and how it will look and be implemented into the game. Very sci-fi, no doubt.

everybest

Awesome.

'nuff said.

Gwynna

Then it definitely won't have a satisfying conclusion.

humongous_mouse

@humongous_mouse:
It'll probably just make you go oh shit..Best show on tv easily.

enewtabie

BSG writers? Original artists? Craig Mullins!? Hell yeah! If only it wasn't being developed under Sega I'd say there's no way this could disappoint.

Absent Blue

Oh. So in the end, we'll find out that we were the Alien all along.

L_K_M

Attention game developers:

A space-sim or space-rts set in the *new* Battlestar Galactica universe is a LICENSE TO PRINT MONEY.

Rjak

wait wait wait! there's another alien game in production that isn't colonial marines?!

it's like christmas, but instead of presents, we get acid blood!

exion

@Rjak: Unless you frak it up like the XBLA game.

Now read that again in Tigh's voice.

thefais

Bummer, BG acts like its the most important show on TV, with goofy wrestling terms like "Final Five" or "Fatal Four Way", one of those two. When I saw the mock up of the Last Supper painting with the BG characters, I almost threw up.

Thrillkiller

@BtownDesignGuy: Most script writers had to find some way to survive during the strike, and video-game and comics got quite some of them interested. Take into account that the strike was quite long and their low wages was the reason why they protested.

EloraHRanma

Cool. They certainly do a serious plotline. Craig Mullins? Woah, neat. H.R. Giger? Oh, they didn't mention him. So another slight mod of the old fashioned aliens then?

Trying to think of Giger alternatives, I've failed, but realized that Chris Cunningham would make a great creative director for an Aliens movie or game...

For those who don't know Cunningham, this is his video "Rubber Johnny" with sound by Aphex Twin (NSFW for seconds)

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fuchikoma

@fuchikoma:
Fuck, that was one weird video. I like it! Thanks!

Everything i've seen of Cummingham gives me this good "WTF" feelings i get from David Lynch movies...

If you like this kind of videos i recommend you this video from ISIS.
Heavy stuff. Great music:

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Superuser

@fuchikoma: I couldn't agree with you more.

Patient

I hope they keep the dumbass religious stuff out of it. That ruined BSG.

Placentasaurus

AvP2 has been a favorite game that my friends and I still play from time to time. I can't wait to pick up this title

@BtownDesignGuy:@Spenze:@cyhborg:@TheSpiller: The whole point of the writers strike was to raise wages for movies and tvshows, not games. If the writers would get a job writing a book, newspaper article, video game, or anything else that does not deal with the video industry, than thats fine. It would have no impact to their cause because in the end the companies would still need someone to write their movie and the fact that Joe Blow is writing this great Video Game story does not make them think about not giving in, it actually helps because now they have to worry if their writers are going to flock to other mediums like Comics or Games.

equalsP

wow, this might be the first interesting media making use of aliens since... 1986 i guess (outside of the aliens comics from darkhorse, but those are two wrapped in nostalgia for me to think critically about them).

adaorardor

While I am hopeful that this is a good portent, I am also leery of the asinine love/sex plots we'll have to sit through. See season three, BSG.

Lokicharms

BSG team...

in before aliens that can turn into humans and 3 seasons of trying to find which one's the alien :o

ydraliskos

For the love of all things Gaming, they had better have an 8 person on-line Story Mode Co-Op for this game to get the authentic Colonial Marines feel for it. Put me on point with the heavy machine gun please.... ;)

tiekmir

Frack!

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