PurePareidolia said:
What? Hadley's Hope still has aliens in it?
But they detonated the terraforming thing, the entire colony and everything surrounding was obliterated, not to mention they killed the queen and torched the eggs personally. How the hell are there any Aliens still alive there?
I mean, I'm all for saying Alien 3 didn't exist, but this is just invalidating Aliens in a different way.
Nothing wrong with Alien 3. There is something wrong however, with the way Fox ruined the film with meddling and rewrites and general dicking around. The Assembly Cut is pretty good, and despite its flaws, which are standard move flaws for the most part, I don't see it in any way as detrimental to the Alien series or aesthetic. The first film I saw in the 'trilogy' was Alien, so for me, ALIENS is the odd one out.
Otherwise, it is possible to bring the alien's back intelligently and cleverly. That explosion would not have destroyed the planet, and considering how hard it was to find the original relic craft again, it must be shielded and far away from Hadley's Hope. Thus, it is still there and filled with eggs.
As for the life cycle of the Alien, it is reasonable to suggest that a colony's genetics follow the colony's needs, as seen in a great many colony and communal creatures on earth, and a new queen will result in order to re-address the balance.
It is quite possible that the humans in this game will not travel back to the planet to COUNTER an alien 'infestation', but inadvertantly create one themselves. I wouldn't be surprised if the marines find themselves pitted against Weyland Yutani back there. It took Riply almost 50 years to return to the earth the FIRST time she went to LV426. We don't know how long it took the Sulaco to find LV426 again and thus return. Clearly space travel is all sub-light speed. It is entirely possible that were Weyland Yutani to have preempted the second marine mission, they'd have a secret installation already there in the making.
(NOTE - Ripley had a daughter and clearly expected to return to her in reasonable time, thus, it is possible that the Nostromo was taken far, far off course at the Company's command, and that the ship and crew were therefore 'overdue' for many years. This is not explicitly addressed in the films, but it fits logically. So, in the game, the Marines could return to LV426 to find a new, secret, Hadley's Hope. There'd be time enough.
Or, the story could just be really crap.)
