Alien RPG - New Job Openings

Dhruin · February 12, 2009

No, not exactly exciting but I thought some readers might be interested to see Obsidian's Alien RPG is obviously alive and still getting new resources. Senior Graphics and Senior Engine Programmers were added to their job listings over the last few days.
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PatrickWeekes · February 12, 2009

Is the "obviously alive" in response to this? I read it this morning and was concerned.

JemyM · February 12, 2009

Darn. I wanted to get the job as the Alien.

Brother None · February 12, 2009

PatrickWeekes said:
Is the "obviously alive" in response to this? I read it this morning and was concerned.

Not unless Dhruin can cast a newspost from today into the past to retroactively post it on Monday...as in, this newspost predates the Kotaku rumour by a few days.

There's no official word or even a credible rumour (outside Kotaku, who are often well-informed) on the street about the Aliens RPG as far as I've heard. It seems eerily likely with the trouble SEGA got themselves in, if not cancelled then suspended...we'll have to hear more later.

danutz_plusplus · February 12, 2009

According to gamespot the Alien rpg from Obsidian was pushed back to next year.

EDIT: That's a weird news-posting. The headline is about the Alien rpg and the Alien fps from Gearbox, and the news article is about Activision-Blizzard. Maybe some sort of mistake.

PatrickWeekes · February 12, 2009

Brother None said:
Not unless Dhruin can cast a newspost from today into the past to retroactively post it on Monday...as in, this newspost predates the Kotaku rumour by a few days.

There's no official word or even a credible rumour (outside Kotaku, who are often well-informed) on the street about the Aliens RPG as far as I've heard. It seems eerily likely with the trouble SEGA got themselves in, if not cancelled then suspended...we'll have to hear more later.

Yeah, I knew about the relative timestamps. I've been away from the computer, mostly, for the last week, and I didn't know how much either side was rehashing.

Gorath · February 12, 2009

Updated rumor.

Good luck to Obsidian. I sincerely hope NWN 3 and / or another NWN 2 add-on are in the works.

Dhruin · February 12, 2009

Bad timing with this newsbit.

I suspect NWN2 stuff is underway and NWN3 seems likely. Hopefully. Maybe.

DArtagnan · February 13, 2009

I should have expected this

The market for an Obsidian-style Aliens CRPG is probably not attractive to the suits.

Naturally, it was the one I was most looking forward to.

Oh well.

That leaves Risen and Drakensang - as I recall. There's still hope yet.

JDR13 · February 13, 2009

DArtagnan said:
That leaves Risen and Drakensang - as I recall. There's still hope yet.

For me it's Risen, Arcania, and Dragon Age. I'm also looking forward to the expansion for King's Bounty.

I tried the demo for Drakensang and it just didn't pull me in. I'll probably give it another chance after hearing some feedback from others here.

DeepO · February 13, 2009

Haha, what a well deserved backslash for a misleading headline, Dhruin!

Regarding Dragon Age, most of the feces thwown at it will be probably more creative than the game itself.

Maylander · February 13, 2009

If SEGA has decided to shut down development of the Alien RPG, these job openings prove that it came as a surprise to Obsidian (they certainly wouldn't have posted such job openings on their website if they had any idea the project was about to be stopped).

Alien RPG - New Job Openings

Dhruin

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Okay, now roll sanity.

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