Rumor: Sega pulls funding on Aliens: Colonial Marines, Aliens RPG

If that's true, it's a shame. Obsidian did a good job on KOTOR II I thought. While it wasn't up to what bioware did with the first one I thought it lived up nicely considering the expectations. I a solid dev scoops them up if they are swirling down the drain. Free Radical got bailed out, and IMHO didn't deserve it after HAZE.

(I hope a solid) not (I a solid)

I was just at Gamestop. And I overheard an employee telling a customer he should put $$ down on Aliens Colonial Marines, Since it was just announced as being back on schedule for release. I think I am going to call the fool on his typical Gamestop employee sleazy sales practice.

Come on EA/ActiBlizzard, pick these up!

Who cares about a couple of Aliens games that were going to be half-assed if they even saw the light of day in the first place...what about Alpha Protocol?! That game had promise.

FUCK. FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK. Goddamnitsonuvabitch!!!!!!! I wanted Aliens. Just fucking Marines fighting Aliens. I don't give a shit about throwing in the Predator. Only reason I can think of this happening was if the game wasn't good or if Fox is pulling some license bullshit. If it's the latter, FUCK THEM.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Oh well, I'm probably the biggest Alien fan there is, I've read all of the comics, as well as all of the novels, that's how addicited I am. I even liked the crossovers in the comics with Batman, Terminator, Superman, and the Green lantern.

This is terrible news, but it makes sense from a money perspective, my bet, is another AvP movie is in the works and they hope to tie the newly announced AvP game with the new movie.

I'm dissapointed about Colonial Marines, as that has always been my dream game, but I guess L4D will have to fufill my co-op desires against hordes of enemies for now. Which isn't a bad thing.
But man, what I would give for the intensity of that motion scanner.

beep...beep.......

They also have the Halo 3 expansion listed for 60 bucks imo.

Why can't Sega stop publishing crappy ass games that have almost no financial return potential, like the multiple Sonic titles that bombed this year, and actually fund/publish games that people want to see, like a Chromehounds 2?

It's official. Sega just sucks.

I never liked Obsidian but don't like they're losing their jobs.. but I can't say I'm surprised.. Interplay/Black Isle left overs.

However Gearbox makes good stuff so I don't like they're taking a hit and hope Colonial Marines comes.

An Alien RPG? This is the first I've heard of it, and now I'm sad I'll never get to play it. =(

I wonder how it'd have worked?

Jesus...this is frickin terrible!

To think I keep seeing rumors that Sega will one day return to the hardware business. Well that's a frickin joke if they can't even make the software profitable.

God...Sega used to be the frickin bee's knees...Who the hell is at the helm of that ship, taking it right to the bottom?

This game is going to be picked up by somebody... how could it not? It sounds too awesome, and the early screenshots were the stuff of nerd-legend.

Wouldn't it be cool if game developers got bailed out by the government?

i don't see the aliens game being canned this late in it's cycle. it would be extremely wasteful of the money put into the project EVEN if they used all of the tech gearbox made in the AvP game. with the way the games industry has been getting hammered by the economy lately, i think sega would be twisting the knife in their gut by canning a GEARBOX GAME.

GAME OVER MAN!

God damn it, I hope Alpha Protocol doesn't become vaporware. :''''''''''''[

it doesnt matter... im not surprised....they are just a terrible company, they make the worst decisions and whatever crap they publish (with some exceptions through their JAPANESE counter parts) sucks!!! they been really ticking me off!

well whatever, It doesnt matter, that game was going to suck anyway.....

GAME OVER, MAN! GAME OVER!!!!

This is heart breaking, but maybe it will find a way to burrow into some other developer and BURST onto the scene later. ;)

In all seriousness, I wanted to play the hell outta Colonial Marines. :(

I love all the people here with flux capacitors readily available. I never knew much of these games, but thanks to them, I know they would have sucked. I really didn't want to waste my time waiting for games from franchises I enjoy. And never mind they would be coming from companies that are rather decent. They probably wouldn't bring anything new or bad ass, I mean....a sci-fi rpg? No thanks, we have tons of those.

(somewhere)

That's it man, game over man, game over! What the fuck are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?

If this happens to be true, I'll have even less incentive to buy a Sega PUBLISHED game on any platform outside of the Wii. I understand and appreciate the current economic recession's impact on Sega, but pulling funding away from projects people have actually demonstrated a genuine interest in playing and buying isn't exactly the best course of action. Instead of pulling the financial rug out from underneath the feet of developers with promising games in order to save money, they could just as easily fire their entire Sonic team and simply reallocate those resources so they go to the development of products that are actually worthwhile; IMHO, even if there wasn't an economic down turn, Team Sonic and its boxes of desk shit should be thrown out the door simply because it's consistently run every franchise it's been put in charge of for the last decade so far into the ground Satan's most likely billing them for property damage. I know...punishing rather than rewarding incompetence and funding products people actually want to buy instead of something they'd rather throw in a bonfire even if given out for free are both such new, untried ideologies they simply can't be implemented right now. Oh...wait...they're not and any company worth a damn follows them both to the letter. I digress. Outside of Japanese arcades, this is a prime example as to why Sega's bleeding money; hopefully the pull their heads from their asses before it's too late to turn the ship around.

Noooooooooo! I don't care about another AVP3. I wanted Aliens RPG and Colonial Marines.

Damn it!

I cannot believe this crap, I just did a video the last time it was possibly Cancelled:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzQCW9KTsUY

Im going to flip a lid if this is true, make a second video even more angry!

Cancel an almost complete game in order to fund a completely new one... in the middle of a financial crisis....

Wow, well they've either got balls, or no brains...

AvP rocked, but right now i'd rather have had Colonial Marines.
An Aliens RPG sounds cool, but Obsidian have never released a decent game, so...

That's a real shame about Marines one. I was really hoping for another good 4 player co-op game.... never heard about an RPG though...