Developers make the correct choice to ignore Prometheus

[Mr Carrot]

Can I just say that as well as making an excellent game the game developers are far more respectful to the franchise than the last two Ridley Scott entries.

By maintaining the Geiger designed engineers as ineffable, lovecraftian beings instead of... giant pale evil space jesus (which is that the engineers are in Prometheus) they restore a key component of Alien universe lore.

Along those lines, I felt far more terror playing this game then the eye rolling silliness of Covenant or the rank stupidity of the crew of scientists in Prometheus bumbling about.

[BlackjackGT]

Part of my peeves with the last couple movies was that Ridley seemed way more fixated on / interested in Fassbender's android than on the human characters, and nearly ever human character at some point was required to go "hey, i hear a weird noise in the distance, I'll wander off over there without telling anyone because there's strength in going alone." p Also ruins suspense because you already know said dumb character is already dead....

Although to be fair, nearly ever horror movie works that way, including Alien. :D

[Mr Carrot]

Originally posted by BlackjackGT:

Although to be fair, nearly ever horror movie works that way, including Alien. :D

I felt he didn't know the rules of his own films when it comes to the creature he played a part in creating. You miss the 'infestation' component as this game puts it. You're facehugged, then 10 seconds later the alien comes out. Missing out the tension of that whole element, the suspense of waiting for it to happen.

[lynchie72]

RS is/was a good director. But he seems now to be unable to tell a good script from a bad one. The stories of Prometheus and Covenant were absolute garbage. Full of silly ideas, plot holes, charmless characters doing nonsensical things. Just a hot mess with some nice SFX.