Does anyone else feel like these aliens are too human?

[Kurio]

I understand them being humanoid but these aliens don't seem like aliens anymore. They seem like comic book villains. I just watched the trailer for the hunter and aside from his skin color....there doesnt seem to be much alien about him at all.

Theres no feeling of the aliens being bizzarre alien creatures we can't understand. They're like english speaking predators. I would enjoy reading the autopsy reports on aliens and the flavor texts and stuff. These guys, while cool to fight, dont seem very interesting beyond that.

More content is more content though. I'll buy it cause it does look fun. Just sayin though...theres really no mystery to these guys. They're just generic, Saturday morning cartoon, super villains.

[Roderick]

What would you rather like to see? Startrek, Starwars, Stargate... most Aliens in SciFi do look humanoid.
I must admit, having an alien like Alien would give the game a more ... alienlike touch, though.

[KRON]

I'm pretty sure the elders used human DNA in these Chosen, as well as in any other alien.

[Gin-chan]

Yeah i prefer more monstrous looking aliens mysled however its probably kinda hard to work them into the XCOM narrative atm . Well here's to hoping future aliens looking more alienlike or preferably more monstrous and freaky :)

[LeftPaw]

Yeah much better with alien looking aliens. This is looking more like a futuristic COD on every release/DLC.

[Fringehunter7719]

Yeah, I pretty much agree with the OP instinctively. But this is always going to be the case for anything they decide to give a personality, which is required if you want actual characters.

I'll see how it works out when I actually play the content before I make any real judgement though.

[Lead Paintchips]

From what little I saw, I'd have to agree. The grey men, the slender men (before they became sneks) felt great, and all the other ones actually felt off enough to be alien.

slight spoiler for the ending here:

I'm actually interested in what the Elders are running from. They mention it in the last mission in vanilla, and I dunno if that's them trying to mess with us, or there was something that terrified them so much that decided to mind control whole races while they were fleeing it, to buy themselves more time.

I like the idea that the Elders had a society that had ethics and morals, which might not be the same as our own but similar in how they held them. The Darkness or whatever came and they felt the need to abandon them because of survival.

Hopefully this threat will have alien threats that are, well alien, and not just either formless black blobs or balls of tentacles/teeth/whatever.

[Ludovico]

Are the aliens genetically modified with human DNA too human? No.

[mckracken]

In appearance no - there is certainly a place for humanoid aliens. What im worried is the melodrama from the cutscenes, it has a bit of a soap opera feeling to it.

Also im missing the creepy enemy unknown from Xcom1 (especially the music)

[theworld]

Originally posted by Roderick:

What would you rather like to see? Startrek, Starwars, Stargate... most Aliens in SciFi do look humanoid.
I must admit, having an alien like Alien would give the game a more ... alienlike touch, though.

Play it on Alienware.

[arekasama]

Most regular people feel more comfortable with human-like "foreigners". Star Trek or Star Wars was more of technical limitations of their age too. Humanoid or not, without truly alien minds/behaviours, who cares? Altough how can a human know how an alien would think? We can only create things based in our experience, after all.

Anyway, one must assume that these games are not alien simulators (hey, another potential indie game right there!) and from a pure design/development point of view, they are easier and cheaper than non humanoid animations, gear, vehicles,...

[Star¤Dagger]

Not enough people played, and won Ironman Impossible in X-Com (2012) so they have taken our women and genetically engineering the fetuses.
This is what happens when you do not play on the 'real mode' aka Ironman.

[anachoret]

Alien Chosen look like purple LOTR Orcs to me.

[Sovereigndrake]

I will admit i dont know all that much about XCOM lore, but i was always of the impression that humanity had the potential to become superior to the elders/ethereals and that's why they came to earth. That's why they didn't lead a full on invasion.

With this in mind, i assumed that the "chosen" were exactly that. Humans--like the commander--with untapped potential that were chosen to become something greater.

[Star¤Dagger]

They want Emma Watson and Lily James, it is that simple, everything else is propaganda!

[Barrelmaker]

What, you mean ghoulish purple skin, carnivorous teeth, and monstrous eyes are too human for you? You've got to be a lot more puritan as to the purity of the human race than that -by which I mean, their status as abominations is to be taken for granted