Sorry to say but the ending is disapointing.

[Bird_Dog]

Overall I realy do like the game.
There's a number of things that could be done better - and also quite a bit that just isn't to my taste - but overall a positive impression.
But.. the ending...

Placing my gripe in spoilers as the game is stil quite new.
So, the last "mission" is just runing once up and then back down a long corridor - although the way back admitedly in a somewhat greater state of alarm...
The boss "fight" is the "running away from the advancing line of instakill" variety and about as satisfying as a QTE.
We also play a merry round of "let's kill off almost the entire cast at the last minute" for very little narrative gain.
Seriously, other than Hanslet, Maeko and Cassandra everyone who had more than two lines of dialogue in the game dies. Why? What narrative gain?
Especialy Harper's... yea, let's call it a sacrifice... falls flat narratively because for one, he's not that interesting or well written a character and secondly, he and his girl have basically no connection. So it fails emotionaly.
Cassandra is almost a literal McGuffin Girl - not quite, as she does something, it's just extremely vague and poorly explained what this something actually is or why she and her late daddy have it...

So where does this leave us?
Hanslet is just a number of sassy one-liners and Cassandra, as mentioned, mostly a non-character. Maeko, while not a bad character is not well enough written and fleshed out to carry the story on her own. And everyone else dies...

So, yeah....
The ending is both gameplay- and story-wise a disapointment and that sadly does retrospectively taint my overall experience of the game somewhat.

[Freziod]

The ending was annoying until I figured out how to fight it. Once that happened, it seemed more like a dramatic cut scene than gameplay. Was over pretty quick. I agree it was boring as hell. I was HOPING LIKE A ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that the New Born would be brought into the game. Spoiler: It isn't.

[Rex]

Ending was awful. Great game but really missed the mark at the end. I wasn't a fan of not playing my marines in the finale and having Stern and Martinez escort Maeko just to die stupidly really undercut the tone of it all. Stern would never choose to die holding off Xenos for people he barely knows and doesn't really work for. He has no attachment to Harper, Cassandra or even Maeko really.

I don't know if my game glitched but all of the characters were invulnerable on the last mission. Nothing could hurt me and there was zero tension. Should have just been a cutscene and saved me 20 minutes of walking.

Also the humans altering themselves with the Xeno DNA was cool and worked fine for the story but the weird psychic connection for Harper was so cringe. Why can't the game just be about our heroic marines trying to save people and get them off the planet? I would have even tolerated a last stand at the end.

[kordelas]

The last mission is just an interactive epilogue.

[kordelas]

Originally posted by Rex:

Ending was awful. Great game but really missed the mark at the end. I wasn't a fan of not playing my marines in the finale and having Stern and Martinez escort Maeko just to die stupidly really undercut the tone of it all. Stern would never choose to die holding off Xenos for people he barely knows and doesn't really work for. He has no attachment to Harper, Cassandra or even Maeko really.

I don't know if my game glitched but all of the characters were invulnerable on the last mission. Nothing could hurt me and there was zero tension. Should have just been a cutscene and saved me 20 minutes of walking.

Also the humans altering themselves with the Xeno DNA was cool and worked fine for the story but the weird psychic connection for Harper was so cringe. Why can't the game just be about our heroic marines trying to save people and get them off the planet? I would have even tolerated a last stand at the end.

You do not know what Stern would do.
Every fan of Aliens has their own vision of ideal Aliens game.

[LegTheFish]

i just beat the game on my first playthrough really enjoyed it but yeah i was feeling like oh this is the actual end.
still had 5 days left only leveled 3 marines to 10 and just cant see any replay value in the game.
wish it unlocked more stuff when you beat it or somthing.

[Bad_Lieutenant_666]

That’s true, the ending is real disappointing, this is such a amazing game but the ending feels a bit underwhelming.

[R.J.Travis]

More than one ending btw.

[kordelas]

Originally posted by R.J.Travis:

More than one ending btw.

Why do you mislead us?

[R.J.Travis]

Originally posted by kordelas:

Originally posted by R.J.Travis:

More than one ending btw.

Why do you mislead us?

I'm not.

[phroZac]

Yeah, the whole telepathy thing felt really out of place for Aliens. Other than that, I like the story, I just wish it didn't jump the shark. Hopefully it's all in service to story DLC or a sequel as Cassandra seems like she should be a significant character. I mean, you don't just introduce telepathy and then do nothing with it other than some deus ex machina.

[The Big Red 1]

the ending was real anticlimactic just like in AFE. urgh dreadful. stern and martinez were good people i wished they had lived. =( plus the most gut wrenching is those marines you bonded with in the game all die. clearly a story dlc expansion is needed and more.

[Renner14]

Man, ppl got strange opinions these days, for me this game is rly a gem, the ending is totally fine. How many ppl surviving the alien films? Not much. The telepathy thingy is a bit strange, but we dont know which race got xenomorphed down in the ruins on lethe...and how this affected harper&cassandra...

I like to talk about such things, but is the game rly bad because of one dislikes the ending?
Strange...over and out.

[Deepeye]

Overall I feel that ending was underwhelming for me.

I don't mind telephathy aspect, it's just not really fleshed out. Things happen a bit too sudden during last mission. It's acceptable that the mission is, as kordelas mentioned, an interactive epilogue. It's more about how this epilogue is presented. Everyone suddenly becoming invincible with infinite ammo in a reasonably repetitive scenario felt uninspiring. After all the setting isn't about reaching some superhero or mythical power level to suddenly become omnipotent :)

Final creature's design was a bit all over the place as rest of the xenos follow specific pattern (and it's not about different species). It's like seeing the huge pseudo-facehugger in Prometheus. Too far design wise for my taste.

Imho, the marines survive as everyone leaves with the only dropship they have. Why would they leave marines behind all of a sudden? Not in my scenario.

On that note, the story overall is great, it delivers the drivers to go forward, core aspects of gameplay are fantastic. There were so many missions that surprised me, made me feel profoundly uncomfortable in the right, alien sense. Often cutscene cinematography was mesmerising. Really well done overall.

As much as the ending/mission felt underwhelming for me, it doesn't overshadow the staying qualities of the whole game.

[kordelas]

Originally posted by R.J.Travis:

Originally posted by kordelas:

Why do you mislead us?

I'm not.

Then prove that there is more than one ending.

[Sojourner]

Originally posted by Deepeye:

Overall I feel that ending was underwhelming for me.

I don't mind telephathy aspect, it's just not really fleshed out. Things happen a bit too sudden during last mission. It's acceptable that the mission is, as kordelas mentioned, an interactive epilogue. It's more about how this epilogue is presented. Everyone suddenly becoming invincible with infinite ammo in a reasonably repetitive scenario felt uninspiring. After all the setting isn't about reaching some superhero or mythical power level to suddenly become omnipotent :)

Final creature's design was a bit all over the place as rest of the xenos follow specific pattern (and it's not about different species). It's like seeing the huge pseudo-facehugger in Prometheus. Too far design wise for my taste.

Imho, the marines survive as everyone leaves with the only dropship they have. Why would they leave marines behind all of a sudden? Not in my scenario.

On that note, the story overall is great, it delivers the drivers to go forward, core aspects of gameplay are fantastic. There were so many missions that surprised me, made me feel profoundly uncomfortable in the right, alien sense. Often cutscene cinematography was mesmerising. Really well done overall.

As much as the ending/mission felt underwhelming for me, it doesn't overshadow the staying qualities of the whole game.

I agree apart from the final creature design which I though was in the spirit of the universe and actually pretty horrific (and well animated). Bit of a strange ending but overall the story was interesting and captured the "Aliens" film vibe feel really well.