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Tech 4 Gamers - Around 90% of Original Alien Isolation Devs Reportedly Gone; Diversity Is Key Theme In Sequel

Source - Tech 4 Gamers

It's 4Chan, it could be full of shit.

Then again, plenty of things have come out of it that are right. So it could be true.

That said, there could be an inking of truth in there. A friend of mine who was made redundant at Sony London (who often complained about how PC it was there and very 'woke') applied at CA and was told by a few friends in the industry that the studio had changed a lot and gave off very PC tones.

I'm going to reserve judgement until we see something from the game in the next 18 months. But looking at this quote, if this is true, I can just see a bunch of toxic politically correct yes men figuring out how they can add as much diversity as possible.

The latest information about Alien Isolation 2 comes from an insider on 4Chan. He states that around 10% of Creative Assembly’s developers who worked on the original survival horror title are still part of the team.

Among the major developers, the Lead AI Programmer who pioneered the iconic double AI system has departed, too. The leaker further elaborates that nearly everyone from the original programming team has left the studio.
 

mansoor1980

Gold Member
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Holammer

Member
Actually I'm so onboard with the idea, make the protagonist a man.
Having a female Ripley substitute in everything is getting old. When you have a male protagonist, you can use some of themes Giger wanted in Aliens 3 before they kicked him off the project (if you know, you know).
 

analog_future

Resident Crybaby
noooooo T__T
how woke alien can be, i cannot imagine at all ....

The original Alien introduced one the most iconic female characters in cinema. A character that was stronger, smarter, and more resourceful than all of her male counterparts. And Aliens revealed one of the major characters to be canonically trans.


If those movies came out today ya'll would be bitching about them being "woke", too.
 
The original Alien introduced one the most iconic female characters in cinema. A character that was stronger, smarter, and more resourceful than all of her male counterparts. And Aliens revealed one of the major characters to be canonically trans.


If those movies came out today ya'll would be bitching about them being "woke", too.

None of that was forced or a box ticking excersize because someone in an office somewhere mandated it. I have 0 issues with either of these facts.
 

winjer

Gold Member
The original Alien introduced one the most iconic female characters in cinema. A character that was stronger, smarter, and more resourceful than all of her male counterparts. And Aliens revealed one of the major characters to be canonically trans.

If those movies came out today ya'll would be bitching about them being "woke", too.

There is a huge difference between a woke character and Ripley.
Ripley is not the strongest, nor the best warrior. But she is the intelligent, smart and wise. She can kick ass, but she also has a strong maternal instinct.
The other characters, regardless of being male or female, are, for the most part, brave and competent.

If Aliens were made today, Ripley would be the strongest and would not learn or hear from anyone.
She would know better than anyone, and have the emotional depth of a puddle.
The only intelligent and brave characters would be LGBTQ+.
All male, white, straight characters would be portrayed as morons.
 

TVexperto

Member
Source - Tech 4 Gamers

It's 4Chan, it could be full of shit.

Then again, plenty of things have come out of it that are right. So it could be true.

That said, there could be an inking of truth in there. A friend of mine who was made redundant at Sony London (who often complained about how PC it was there and very 'woke') applied at CA and was told by a few friends in the industry that the studio had changed a lot and gave off very PC tones.

I'm going to reserve judgement until we see something from the game in the next 18 months. But looking at this quote, if this is true, I can just see a bunch of toxic politically correct yes men figuring out how they can add as much diversity as possible.
Should be easy to debunk, who was the head of AI, we can check his LinkedIn and see if he still works there easy..
 

RCX

Member
It wont be out for ages.

It'll take them a long while to figure out how to canonically race-swap Amanda Ripley.
 
The original Alien introduced one the most iconic female characters in cinema. A character that was stronger, smarter, and more resourceful than all of her male counterparts. And Aliens revealed one of the major characters to be canonically trans.


If those movies came out today ya'll would be bitching about them being "woke", too.
Absolutely, some people would be screaming "woke" if those films were released nowadays.
The Alien franchise has always had a diverse cast. Female lead, whites, asians, blacks, latinos, straight, gays. So if this leak is accurate it might just be blown out of proportions.
 
Sometimes it's hard not to get the feeling that today Pvt Vasquez would get shit on as being a DEI girlboss hire.


I haven't heard anyone calling her that. She's a charismatic and heroic character, unlike the obnoxious DEI girlbosses of nowadays. The same applies to Ripley herself.


The original Alien introduced one the most iconic female characters in cinema. A character that was stronger, smarter, and more resourceful than all of her male counterparts. And Aliens revealed one of the major characters to be canonically trans.


If those movies came out today ya'll would be bitching about them being "woke", too.


Bullshit. The difference between these characters and woke characters is their writing.

Ripley, like Sarah Connor, are strongly motivated by their mother instincts. You can't get any more anti-woke than that.

And not so long ago we have KILL BILL, with a full cast of diverse female badasses. Nobody would call that woke.
 
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Garibaldi

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So you're saying we could have a melancholic romantic drama about a gender neutral xenomorph and they/them's struggle to right the previous generations of xeno-genocide that occurred to their ancestors?

Sign me the fuck up!
 
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