Canon Status of Alien Isolation

[Påndathium]

You want to know something really funny?

People say Alien Isolation is canon, even tho the developers never said the game was canon, but people still say it's canon just because most people like the game.

But people say Aliens Colonial Marines isn't canon, even tho the developers clearly said it was canon, but people still say it's not canon just because most people don't like the game.

So basically, it's "if I like it, it's canon. If I don't like it, it's not canon". People's logic lol.

[Dayve]

Publicado originalmente por Sexual Predator:

Publicado originalmente por Judy Garland:

Alien Isolation IS canon.

I bet a million bucks none of the Alien movies acknowledge any of the non-movie materials. I cannot find a single article on Google that says Alien Isolation is canon to the movies. The only reason why you say it's canon is because you like the game. If Alien Isoaltion has horrible gameplay mechanics, you would say it's not canon.

Actually, even if Isolation had horrible gameplay mechanics, I'd still say it is canon-worthy. The story is excellent.

I want to believe that the space station "Sevastopol" exists in the Alien universe and that everything that happened in this game also happened in the Alien universe.

I want to believe that because it fits in the Alien universe. It's well written, it's terrifying, it's plausible.

Colonial Marines on the other hand... is....... not any of those things.

[Påndathium]

Actually, even if Isolation had horrible gameplay mechanics, I'd still say it is canon-worthy. The story is excellent.

I want to believe that the space station "Sevastopol" exists in the Alien universe and that everything that happened in this game also happened in the Alien universe.

I want to believe that because it fits in the Alien universe. It's well written, it's terrifying, it's plausible.

Colonial Marines on the other hand... is....... not any of those things.

even though the developers never said the game was canon to the movies?

http://metro.co.uk/2014/01/07/alien-isolation-interview-we-keep-scaring-ourselves-4253295/#ixzz4QxAQnitx

[Dayve]

Publicado originalmente por Sexual Predator:

Actually, even if Isolation had horrible gameplay mechanics, I'd still say it is canon-worthy. The story is excellent.

I want to believe that the space station "Sevastopol" exists in the Alien universe and that everything that happened in this game also happened in the Alien universe.

I want to believe that because it fits in the Alien universe. It's well written, it's terrifying, it's plausible.

Colonial Marines on the other hand... is....... not any of those things.

even though the developers never said the game was canon to the movies?

http://metro.co.uk/2014/01/07/alien-isolation-interview-we-keep-scaring-ourselves-4253295/#ixzz4QxAQnitx

Yes, even though the developers said it was never meant to be canon with the movies, I still want to imagine this game exists in the same universe as the Alien movies.

That doesn't mean I'm going to say this game is canon. Just that I think it should be. And the reason I think it should be is because it's f****** brilliant. It's better than much of the stuff that is canon, such as Colon Marines and Prometheus.

[Påndathium]

That doesn't mean I'm going to say this game is canon. Just that I think it should be. And the reason I think it should be is because it's f****** brilliant. It's better than much of the stuff that is canon, such as Colon Marines and Prometheus.

Look on the bright side, at least Prometheus retconned AvP.

[Lava Alien 1000]

It Should be canon.

Sevastopol is 100% a legit place that would exist in Alien Unverise.

[Påndathium]

Publicado originalmente por Darkalien100:

It Should be canon.

Sevastopol is 100% a legit place that would exist in Alien Unverise.

Yeah, it's too bad the developers avoided confirming the canon status of Alien Isolation

[нιт◈ᴘᴏιɴᴛ]

Why don't we just take a bunch of cannons and aim it at each other? Maybe it will create a mega paradoxical cannon that will implode on itself sending us back to 1983. :D

[Ezekiel]

The story of Alien: Isolation is watered down by the video game medium too much to be canon.

[нιт◈ᴘᴏιɴᴛ]

Publicado originalmente por Ezekiel:

The story of Alien: Isolation is watered down by the video game medium too much to be canon.

Wot? In most cases video game medium has far more depth to lore than a linear movie.. Pretty sure you got that backwards, and is the exact reason why movies based off of games generally suck a turd because it's hard to fit a game with rich lore into a 2 hour romp.

[Ezekiel]

Publicado originalmente por HitPointG:

Publicado originalmente por Ezekiel:

The story of Alien: Isolation is watered down by the video game medium too much to be canon.

Wot? In most cases video game medium has far more depth to lore than a linear movie.. Pretty sure you got that backwards, and is the exact reason why movies based off of games generally suck a turd because it's hard to fit a game with rich lore into a 2 hour romp.

Lore isn't everything. The storytelling, dialogue and cutscenes are ♥♥♥♥♥♥ compared to the movies. There's also too much padding/busywork.

[Tesco Value]

Is crew expendable any gud

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Interestingly, Isolation is canon in the Dark Horse universe. (It's not really that surprising since Dark Horse published the Isolation prequel comic book.) Their ongoing Defiance series makes several references to Seegson, Amanda and Sevastopol, but at least the first volume takes place right before Amanda leaves some Lunar base for Sevastopol. (This also means the volume takes place before all the other Dark Horse books.)
There are also lots of visual references, such as the hacking tool.

[magaxil]

I have just one question what's canon?

[Påndathium]

Publicado originalmente por magaxil:

I have just one question what's canon?

*sigh* Smh

[virtualmatrix258]

People are irrational but seeing as though this game was so good, it 'should' be canon while Colonial Marines was so bad it should be forgotten entirely. I still wonder why modders still try to polish that turd.