Why do we never see a Queen?

[FoxHound]

Played through this game a bunch of times since it was released 6 years ago and while I love it dearly there's just one thing that ultimately annoys me and really ruins the ending to this game.....

Why the hell do we not see an Alien Queen? Seriously, we're forced to fight our way through multiple areas of the game where there's both eggs and face huggers all over the place.... You're captured by the aliens and somewhat "coccooned" towards the end of the game and this is it, we're all thinking oh yeah we're about to have a showdown with the badass queen! instead we get nothing but more sneaking and more leaver pulling....

A final showdown with the Queen would have been incredible, it would have been the absolute perfect way to end this game and yet all we're left with is a giant middle finger "To Be Continued" type situation for a game that looks like it will never see a sequel.....

I just don't get why Sega did this to us fans..... They force us to pay for their game and insult us with this dull as sh*t ending.....

Keen to hear thoughts on this guys....

[WhiteLezard]

The developers confirmed that there is a queen on the station and said that they wanted the game to stay grounded as a survival horror game inspired by the first Alien movie and a queen, which debuted on Aliens, would mean a boss battle.

[Just Aaron]

Originally posted by WhiteLezard:

The developers confirmed that there is a queen on the station and said that they wanted the game to stay grounded as a survival horror game inspired by the first Alien movie and a queen, which debuted on Aliens, would mean a boss battle.

I don`t buy their excuse. I think they just didn`t know what to do with it and chose the route that involved less work. They may have been feeling rushed to release the game.

Showing the queen doesn`t mean it had to be a boss fight. It could have been a simple cut scene. Or they could of had a scene where it chases you and you have to run away from it. That would make sense and still follow the same basic gameplay. Imagine a queen chasing you through Sevastopol. That`d be pretty cool.

[Vzzdak]

It would actually take restraint to *not* show the queen, so it's remarkable that they could stick to their vision. You don't even see a queen in the various DLC.

[NinthElement]

It would have involved a lot more work for sure, and the devs were probably already feeling the crunch. An alien queen is as big as a house, so it would probably have needed a whole new area, or maybe they could have done the reactor section differently and had the alien queen climbing up slowly as you do the mini games to overload it. Maybe we'll see a remake one day and then they can include something like this.

[Dayve]

Originally posted by FoxHound:

Played through this game a bunch of times since it was released 6 years ago and while I love it dearly there's just one thing that ultimately annoys me and really ruins the ending to this game.....

Why the hell do we not see an Alien Queen? Seriously, we're forced to fight our way through multiple areas of the game where there's both eggs and face huggers all over the place.... You're captured by the aliens and somewhat "coccooned" towards the end of the game and this is it, we're all thinking oh yeah we're about to have a showdown with the badass queen! instead we get nothing but more sneaking and more leaver pulling....

A final showdown with the Queen would have been incredible, it would have been the absolute perfect way to end this game and yet all we're left with is a giant middle finger "To Be Continued" type situation for a game that looks like it will never see a sequel.....

I just don't get why Sega did this to us fans..... They force us to pay for their game and insult us with this dull as sh*t ending.....

Keen to hear thoughts on this guys....

1. Because the game is based on the first movie alone, just a single alien (except when there's more than one at the end because only one alien isn't a challenge anymore) with a heavy focus on survival horror.

2. If players saw a queen they'd expect to fight the queen. If they expected to fight a queen they'd also expect a power loader suit and a pulse rifle.

Although the game probably would've sold better if there was a boss fight, a power loader and a pulse rifle... all those things go heavily against what the game is supposed to be. In that respect I think the game suffered in sales and expectations from players. For lots of people, when they think of the Alien franchise, they think of power loaders and pulse rifles. The first movie is that old one where the alien doesn't show up until half way through and isn't shown very much because it looks kinda dumb. The second movie, with its pulse rifles and action, is the best one in the franchise, so they expect something like that from an Alien game.

[FoxHound]

Originally posted by Just Aaron:

Originally posted by WhiteLezard:

The developers confirmed that there is a queen on the station and said that they wanted the game to stay grounded as a survival horror game inspired by the first Alien movie and a queen, which debuted on Aliens, would mean a boss battle.

I don`t buy their excuse. I think they just didn`t know what to do with it and chose the route that involved less work. They may have been feeling rushed to release the game.

Showing the queen doesn`t mean it had to be a boss fight. It could have been a simple cut scene. Or they could of had a scene where it chases you and you have to run away from it. That would make sense and still follow the same basic gameplay. Imagine a queen chasing you through Sevastopol. That`d be pretty cool.

Agreed. Don't how many people played this but Alien Resurrection on PS1 (remember that terrible Alien game that had god horrendous controls), even that piece of trash game managed to have an encounter with a queen....

If they wanted to include a queen boss fight they didn't have to make it into a huge event, they didn't have to have Amanda get into a power loader to fight it, she could have easily just driven it backwards with a flamethrower and made it have a bad fall and injure itself or something, just anything to show the fans what we really wanna see... But like other say it's like Sega just threw it in the too hard basket and said nah let's just stick to the lever pulling...

[Vzzdak]

As soon as you even had a model, just for the purpose of Amanda sneaking by it, there’ll be sales/marketing guys, oblivious to the amount of work involved, screaming like little children that there needs to be a big fight using the existing model.

The basic argument would have been, “We already have the model. Just rework the plot to fit it in.”

[Unseen]

A scripted encounter with the queen could of worked with a well placed power loader.

I think trying to remake the first alien in a game sense was a mistake, this games super boring so far... I really think this game was trying to cash in on walking sims like amnesia, its not what I expected, so far I'm not that impressed by this.

[NinthElement]

Originally posted by FinalFantasyLore:

A scripted encounter with the queen could of worked with a well placed power loader.

I think trying to remake the first alien in a game sense was a mistake, this games super boring so far... I really think this game was trying to cash in on walking sims like amnesia, its not what I expected, so far I'm not that impressed by this.

The first couple of missions are like that, but stick with it. It doesn't take too long to turn into a proper stealth/survival game, though you will get some slow parts mixed in.

[Unseen]

Great...
Tellin ya the first alien film was exciting cause it had roles and dialogue. And well scripted storyline, this is just annoying and boring. Glad I only spent 2$ and yea I'll finish it, I mean, its a 20gb hunk of my HD.. But the reviews, the game of the year stuff, the 9's and 10's... For a game that ripped off amnesia but does it worse? I don't get it so far guess I need to be on chapter 12 or something to get it.

[Dayve]

Originally posted by FinalFantasyLore:

Great...
Tellin ya the first alien film was exciting cause it had roles and dialogue. And well scripted storyline, this is just annoying and boring. Glad I only spent 2$ and yea I'll finish it, I mean, its a 20gb hunk of my HD.. But the reviews, the game of the year stuff, the 9's and 10's... For a game that ripped off amnesia but does it worse? I don't get it so far guess I need to be on chapter 12 or something to get it.

You're not a serious person. You know why? Because in your review for this game you told people to play Colonial Marines instead.

No serious person would ever recommend anybody play Colonial Marines. Only someone with absolutely no taste, or a troll, would ever say such an outrageously ridiculous thing.

[Unseen]

I'm enjoying marines more, you get cool weapons and level ups. In this you get a magnum, and lots of sneaking, and 3 or 4 death scenes, and it gets frickin game of the year...

[Vzzdak]

Different game styles. You want a shooter, then go play one.

[Unseen]

Originally posted by Vzzdak:

Different game styles. You want a shooter, then go play one.

That's why I beat and enjoyed amnesia DD, I'm not just a shooter fan, just the alien shoorters are miles better than this no game walking sim.

[Dayve]

Originally posted by DisneyChristmas:

Originally posted by Vzzdak:

Different game styles. You want a shooter, then go play one.

That's why I beat and enjoyed amnesia DD, I'm not just a shooter fan, just the alien shoorters are miles better than this no game walking sim.

Walking simulator? Lol.