I don’t know about you lot, but I wept when Obsidian’s Aliens RPG was cancelled last June. Okay, maybe I didn’t actually cry real tears or anything*, but it was a total tragedy regardless. I mean, Obsidian? Feargus Urquhart? You know, that guy who made those games like, you know, Planescape: Torment and Fallout 2? You know, only the two greatest RPGs ever made, ever? Yeah. But it gets so much worse – apparently the game was pretty much in the box when it was chucked.
In an interview with Joystiq, Urquhart drops the nuke with, “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. That’s how close we were. It looked and felt like it was ready to ship.” He also describes some of the gameplay, mostly involving awesome Colonial Marines with awesome sentry guns and other awesome stuff. Meanwhile, SEGA can die in a fire for cancelling the project. With the Aliens bit of the recent Aliens vs Predator being a load of boring, predictable rubbish, all hope is now on Gearbox’s Colonial Marines to deliver a proper Xenomorph fix.
Although whether or not SEGA dropped that too remains a topic of some speculation.
*They mostly come at night. Mostly.
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