Starting to understand the Disney Alien canon...

Morik:

https://roguereviewer.wordpress.com/2020/10/12/defining-canon-in-an-alien-world/

Fireteam Elite is very video-gamey. It almost feels like a retro arcade game in the way it forces you to start over if you die in a particular way. Insert coin, start again. The number of aliens is ridiculous.

All of that said, I guess I just consider a video game a video game. I've played AVP, AVP 2, AVP 2010, Colonial Marines, Isolation, Blackout, and Fireteam. I don't think Fireteam is particularly amazing as a video game, though it beats Colonial Marines. But I do like that it brings in some elements from other parts of the canon. I liked moving through the Prometheus inspired bits. And, generally, I thought it was fun. Not ground breaking by any means, but fun. I'm still about 4 missions from the end and still enjoying. But its going to be different mileage for everyone. I always wait until things are patched and on sale before I buy, and by then I've seen the reviews and have my expectations lowered adequately.

I've also read all of the novels, and this too has lead me to temper expectations. Some of them are fantastic, some of them are awful. In general, I have enjoyed them all in their own way.

Honestly you said it better then I ever will. 
all I know is if I do t get to see riddley Scott’s ending to Prometheus I’m gonna end up extremely heart broken. I found myself looking him up earlier today…. My man’s 84 yikes I really want him to be giving free rain to make as much alien stuff as possible before you know what happens. Let him go out like 2pac  

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I mean Aliens versus Predator 2 and Alien Isolation have phenomenal story telling that pays respects to the prosperities they are based on, so just because its a video game that doesn't give the developers an excuse to be half-assed with their stories.

I hold AVP2 in high regards because its what reignited my interest in both the ALIEN and PREDATOR series since 2003

"My only complaint, lore-wise, so far, has been the repeated statement that humans have not encountered intelligent beings in the alien universe.

Both the movies and the RPG have mentioned the Arcturians"

I think it Depends on the TIME-LINE... now we had Encountered Engineers before 2100 but maybe any Information about them was KEPT like TOP SECRET.

By the TIME we get to ALIENS then Humans have had Contact it would seem Quite a Lot with the Arcturians.  But nothing much was given about them in the Movie, i would always had wanted to see them Explored, i had Read they was Explored in a Game before?  And Described as Insect like..... thats a COP OUT if you ask me.

It would be Interesting to see what the RPG says about them.

While on this Subject (ALIENS)  we learn that they have NEVER encountered anything like the Xenomorph before in all their Surveyed Worlds... but i GUESS this could be PUT DOWN to a COVER UP.... but the more that Canon is Changed so we have MANY MORE ENCOUNTERS... it Really begins to CONFLICT that NOTION from ALIENS.

By the TIME we get to 2150-2200 its likely that we would have Encountered Various  Species.... both Intelligent and Monstrous.

The Prometheus Plot opens up a GALAXY of Many Races and Horrors which we have YET to Scratch the Surface with.

@Kapkhronic

I agree its Unfortunate that RS had NEVER got to Explore his Plans, which had been Changed Quite a LOT from Prequel to Prequel by the POWERS THAT BE!

Ridley Scott had seen more Potential in the Engineers and WHAT ELSE they have Created and Been up to.... rather than just to Concentrate on them having those EGGS and WHY.  He seemed to FEEL that ONCE you had Explained as to WHERE/HOW/WHEN those Eggs got on the Derelict.... its WHAT THEN?

It seems that after doing this (Earlier Prequel Drafts) then what do you do then?  More Eggs, Face Huggers, Chest Bursters etc?  And so their Involvement with HOW we have Eggs was just ONE THING.... there is more to Mankind than Gunpowder and its Various uses in WAR/WEAPONRY... there is MORE to Mankind than that...... where the Reasons for WHY we have CONFLICTS is more Important than WHAT we USE to Deal with them.

Prometheus had GIVEN us enough Clues but it was NOT SPOON FED and you had to USE your Brain a bit... but also it was Ambiguous to was STILL a Mystery Box.

Prometheus wanted to MOVE AWAY from ALIEN... but it could NOT do so Because it NEVER GAVE enough Answers and NEVER had any Monsters on Screen Long Enough to Relate to ALIEN.... and so the Sequel had became SHACKLED to ALIEN and the Xenomorph.

I dont think we will see the Completion of what RS may have wanted to SHOW....

But ONCE the Xenomorph has been MILKED too DEATH.... i think we will see more Variations of other Monsters from the Black Goo and maybe even MORE kinds of Species in the GALAXY as the PROMETHEUS PLOT had HUGE SCOPE!

At the Moment the Xenomorph is Synonymous with the Franchise, its what is Recognized as the Franchise, and its WHAT SELLS..... but i agree there is so MUCH more that can be Explored within Context to ALIEN via Virtue of the Engineers Plot.

"It would be Interesting to see what the RPG says about them."

They are featured in the Alien RPG: Colonial Marine Operations Manual and are broken down into two distinct species.

The Arcturians proper are what were described in ALIENS being humanoid and all, possibly an engineer seed species.

And the Arctura, an anthropodal simian that inhabits the same world as the humanoids. A blue monkey with a horn in the center of its forehead.

Fireteams is basically Left4Dead in an Aliens skin. My friend and I cleared the campaign on Stanford difficulty. Not much to do now aside from bumping the difficulty up and maxing out classes. And a new class arrives about a week before Alien day. No new missions sadly. 

Let's see I've played 

Aliens arcade from Konami 

Alien 3 on NES, SNES, Gameboy, Sega Genesis, Sega Master system, Sega Game gear 

Alien 3 The Gun 

AVP on SNES 

AVP on Gameboy

AVP arcade

Alien Trilogy

Alien Resurrection

Aliens Thanatos Encounter

AVP Extinction 

Predator Concrete Jungle (There are Xenomorph late in the game) 

AVP 2010 

Aliens Infestation 

Aliens Colonial Marines 

AVP Evolution 

Alien Isolation 

Aliens vs Pinball 

Alien Blackout 

Aliens Fireteams Elite 

And some crappy java games as well as Alien Covenant In Utero which doesn't really count. 

That was really off topic...

I do like some of the lore fluff in Fireteam its just I wish they would have spent more time developing the story and characters because you can't just cut and paste gorman's marine's personalities to every colonial marine squad out there.

What I am trying to say, not every colonial marine squad/fireteam would be a band of misfits because if that were the case, the United America would have a very hard time maintaining their sector of space especially against their friend and rival, the Three World Empire or their enemies, the Union of Progressive People.

As for alien/predator games I have played, here it is...

Alien 3 (SNES)
Alien Trilogy
Alien Resurrection (PS1)
Alien versus Predator 1999/Classic
Aliens versus Predator 2 {My Favorite}
Aliens versus Predator 2: Primal Hunt {My second Favorite}
Aliens versus Predator Extinction
Predator Concrete Jungle
Alien vs Predator: Requiem (browser game)
Alien vs Predator 2010
Aliens Extermination
Aliens Arcade
Aliens Colonial Marine
Alien Isolation
Predator Hunting Grounds
Aliens Fireteam Elite

Bonus:

The Sims Alien and Predator mods
Predator vs Prey (AVP Morrowind mod)
Star Wars Battleground AVP Mod
Left 4 Dead 2 Aliens mod
Minecraft AVP/Prometheus mods
Starbound AVP mod
Neverwinter Nights ALIENS mod
Rimworld AVP mod
Predator The Lost Tribe (AVP Skyrim Mod)
ALIEN RPG

I forgot to mention Mortal Kombat X. An Alien and Predator are featured guest fighters. 

I also have Alien Fate of the Nostromo board game

Oh yeah Mortal Kombat X.

I am currently writing a fan fiction here called ALIEN VERSUS PREDATOR UNIVERSE and a spin-off novelization of the video game AVP2 called ALIENS VERSUS PREDATOR: THE PIMAL HUNT

I try to implement the ALIEN RPG in my fanfictions

@Xenotaris

I have Discussed on here Years ago the Arcturians based off what Little we are given in ALIENS.

Which led me to Conclude they are Humanoid, and seen as Attractive, where you cant REALLY tell the Males from the Females.  And so i Envisioned them as some kind of Amphibian looking Humanoids who would have Various Skin Color/Patterns that make them Stand Out.

The Males and Females would look Similar only the Males would be SLIGHTLY more Masculine/Muscular.  I Envisioned that they would NOT have Breasts (No Point if a Race is NOT MAMMAL related and so Do-Not Produce Milk).

Private Down Stairs Parts i would say would look Similar but the MALE ORGAN if you would is Tucked Away/Inside but would come OUT so to Speak for Mating.

I envisioned them THIS WAY as then there would be Confusion as to WHAT is a MALE/FEMALE.  When we look at Reptiles, Amphibians and Fish as well as other None-Mammal Species then its NOT that Easy to Tell a Male/Female apart unlike with Mammals where its Easy to Distinguish.

I think when we look at AVATAR and the Na'vi then if they had No Nipples then it would be HARD to tell the Males/Females apart and i think this would be the CASE with the Arcturians

I Envisioned their World to be Tropical, with Caves with Springs and where the YOUNG are Laid as a Egg that is then Placed in a Water Spring for Few Days before they Hatch and would have NO LEGS or ARMS but these would GROW as the Weeks go by.

Humans would go to their World as its a Tropical Paradise with Natural Hot Springs that give us Natural Hot Tubs so to Speak and so its a Relaxing Break for the Humans, but also the Arcturians are Attractive and they USE this as Part of their Business.

So i think THEY could have been Inventive with the Species, rather than them just be Very Human with some Minor Differences.  The same thing goes with IF we ever get Female Predators... would they just have more Feminine Characteristics and B@@BS?  This would ONLY make sense if the Species would Breast Feed the Young and NOT just for a Aesthetic Difference between a Male/Female.

Well that's the great thing about being a GM "game mother" with the Alien RPG you could fill in the blanks on how you want the Arcturians, heck you could even fore go the semi-official description and be very inventive in your campaign. The Alien RPG also allows the GM to reimagine the Space Jockeys so its entirely possible to either embrace the Engineers as the same thing as the Space Jockey or go with that they are two separate species. 

The Alien RPG is slowly adding new variants to the xenomorphs, most of which were either based on rejected concepts or off of Dark Horse comics.

As for the Yautja, so far its semi-official (concept art and Predator Hunting Grounds) the Yautja females have breasts making them akin or analogous to advanced Therapsids (mammal-like reptiles).