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I'm not holding out much hope for this
Thread: Alien Isolation sequel proof
The very first bullet point is what I think people need to understand. The people who made the first game are long gone and the few that are there are 10 years older.
You simply can't go back home.
But despite that, hope they put out a good game for fans of the original.
You simply can't go back home.
But despite that, hope they put out a good game for fans of the original.
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skeem
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They're going to replace the Alien with a tranny aren't they
Excuse me, it's a xenomorph.... not an alien.
macapala
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I think that is a great idea. Being chased by a tranny would be terrifying.
I still hate that everyone calls them xenomorphs now.
It's literally just a Latin name placeholder classification for any unknown alien species not yet officially identified. It just means 'strange form'. It was used in Goremans speech purely to foreshadow how unprepared and overconfident the military were, giving a fake label that just meant 'Alien' in a very poncy manner to make it all seem mundane and in hand, rather than the reality of going into the situation blind and naively expecting to win because of their big brains and bigger guns.
Strictly speaking even if you're going with that placeholder, it should be Xenomorph Acheronis, which means 'the Alien from Acheron', and is the species full placeholder designation in canon.
Because it was never officially admitted to having existed, it never got a real name, and thus should just be 'Aliens' still, because that is a far more apt admission of how terrifying other and unknown they remain.
Using Xenomorph is the same to me as the prequel films, stupidly missing the point of the the original two movies and better additional material by trying to explain something which is best not explained.
That way it might get a 7/10 from IGN instead of a 5.9/10.
You have evidence the word was used before Aliens? It's being called that because alien could refer to any alien from any movie.
Hostile_18
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The game released ten years ago and a lot happened during that time. I've read about many studios that have been completely revamped, studios that barely resemble what they've been before. That's why we're seeing, studios that always delivered great games suddenly delivering turds. A radical transformation happened in the industry, all the DEI and diversity initiatives aren't just talk.
For many years now, the bonus payments of managers were/still are tied to DEI goals, so they had to force big changes inside of the dev teams, the whole hiring process was designed for DEI etc. meaning the classic male nerd dominated based teams were specifically targeted, got deconstructed and replaced by diversity quota driven mandates. That happened industry wide, just look at all the devs in the events & videos that promote the games. It's all about females, minority representation and inclusion. The core of many teams has changed, and the remaining people were forced to bow down.
It's not some abstract DEI panic that we've been preaching here for years, it had very strong consequences on the industry as a whole, starting with the core values and core people in the teams.
Many good based devs were driven out of the industry.
Dreamlord
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It's been a decade+. Most people in IT move jobs every 5 years or so.
Ferdinand the Cowfish
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Probably not. It looks like a 4Chan shitpost that everyone is taking as gospel.
That said, I'm sure there's been some attrition. Alien: Isolation was released 10 years ago and since then, Creative Assembly's focus has been on Total War games.
It's from Aliens, but in universe it's a generic term.
Goreman: "All we know is that there's still no contact with the colony, and that a xenomorph may be involved."
'A' xenomorph. Not the 'the' xenomorph. It's just how chodes like Goreman write 'unknown alien' on their official reports.
Or as the marines colloquially call them, 'bugs',
Frost: "Excuse me sir, a what?"
Goreman: "A Xenomorph."
Hicks: "…It's a Bug Hunt."
And for years the Alien was mostly referred to in the comics and books between movies as either bugs (by marines), spiders (by space truckers, like an urban legend), or simply as The Alien by most everyone else in universe and throughout the movies.
That one exchange on the Suloco is the only time it's used seriously and it's meant as foreshadowing for the fact that Goreman is out of his depths and is inexperienced, hence why the marines immediately question him on the use of the term and translate it into their of terms, because they instantly recognised he was bullshitting them and pretending he knew more than he did.
Xenomorph really only came into use in the late 2000's when there was the increase in adult children focused toys and merchandising, and the companies selling that tat needed a copyrightable name to use in promotional material.
Calling them Xenomorphs was always the ultimate sign of a tourist, because it meant you'd not paid proper attention to the films and had no exposure to the extended universe materials.
Infact there is even a second species of 'Xenomorph' talked about in Aliens, Xenomorph Arcturia, AKA the Arcturians, who Frost and Spunkmire reminisce about fucking on shore leave once, however as that species had been fully documented and was commonly interacted with by humanity, no one used the first half of their Latin name to describe them.
Planes will be dropping out of the sky shortly with this DEI garbage. Hire the best person for the fucking job, you lunatics.
In the current gaming landscape...."the job" is not the same as it was before.
They are hiring what they think are the best people for the job because the job isn't to sell games made by passionate people and delivering fun, catering to the audience & giving them what they want.
The job is to spread "the message", with managers wrongly believing that this will also generate enough sales for them to survive. They're deconstructing the market, trying to change the core audience. That's their job. Luckily, they're failing at it with glorious commercial failures.
The definition of the job to do has to change.
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It feels accurate. And if thats not the real number, its probably very close. When I was working at EA Tiburon making Tiger Woods games, our dev team(of ~75 people) would lose 10-20 people after each release. And that was an annual release.
After a release you expect heavy attrition as that is when a developer is most 'valuable' and if they were thinking about jumping ship, then is the time to do it. Then annually you plan on 5-10% attrition. After 10 years you will likely have an almost entirely different team.
And that's actually one of the reasons why so many devs switch to UE5. High fluctuation, a lot of people coming and going all the time. Way easier to onboard new people, easier to find people that are already familiar with it, makes the whole process that more efficient. Saves a lot of money and time, doesn't frustrate people as much as needing to learn a 15 years old convoluted in-house engine.
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My body was ready the moment I finished Alien Isolation in VR.
LET"S GOOO!!
LET"S GOOO!!