{"id":5848,"date":"2010-04-29T00:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"cancelled-aliens-rpg-was-ready-to-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/5848-cancelled-aliens-rpg-was-ready-to-ship","title":{"rendered":"Cancelled Aliens RPG was \u201cready to ship\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&rsquo;t know about you lot, but I wept when Obsidian&rsquo;s Aliens RPG was cancelled last June. Okay, maybe I didn&rsquo;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 &ndash; apparently the game was pretty much in the box when it was chucked.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\" http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2010\/04\/28\/obsidian-ceo-aliens-rpg-felt-like-a-finished-game\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joystiq<\/a>, Urquhart drops the nuke with, &ldquo;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&#8217;s how close we were. It looked and felt like it was ready to ship.&rdquo;  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&rsquo;s Colonial Marines to deliver a proper Xenomorph fix.<\/p>\n<p>Although whether or not SEGA dropped that too remains a topic of some speculation.<\/p>\n<p><em>*They mostly come at night. Mostly.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under \u201cNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}