Kratos

Hello, I am planning on starting a kickstarter in the distant future for my 8-bit game project, Quantum Dragon, when I reach beta and was wondering if any of you like the concept and/or would potentially back it and help spread the word. I suppose this is more of "getting a feel" of a pre-kickstarter as I'm not officially ready to do. I know some familiar faces here and was very curious what your input is, such as what type of features would you be interested in a turn based RPG (ie: single player, online play, co-op, etc) similar to old school Final Fantasy / Dragon Warrior. You can visit my deviantart page in my signature to see more of the preview artwork if you're interested.

Hi! Let's see how it turns out, it looks promising to me for once...

Long time no see. I originally found this site again due to the new X-com coming out, but I was curious on this issue lately. I've never constrained my time into politics, but these bills really made me wake up that I"m living in a fantasy just to ignore this stuff. Yes, I agree with the maddox analogy. Don't even bother supporting these crappy industries, ever. You can protest now by just finding alternatives. The world is going to hell, and I think it's about time we woke up and actually did something about it. MegaUpload is just proof they don't need any of this regardless. Read maddox's article to see who supported this bullshit: http://maddox.xmission.com/

It's been a long time since I posted on these boards, and xcomufo's. I haven't necessarily vanished form the web, just am elsewhere for specific interests. If you're wondering where you can find me in a more active manner, you can check out / follow my new blog page (game development blog): http://keizgon.blogspot.com/ I know this appears a little spammy, but hey, I known you awesome fellas for awhile, I think you'll not kill me for it.

Who cares what it actually is...my point it's a very simple creature concept. I can come up with a giant organ (brain, whatever) moving around on the ground, causing everything to catch fire as it rubs its ass on the grass, and mauls people randomly. My point is it's just as simple of a concept. I don't need concept art to preview a game. What are you talking about? Wait until a full game review is out and it's released? Honestly, we have too little information to judge. Calm down.

I think there just is too little info, like many people said, to judge it. There are different people's views how X-COM SHOULD be, but all in all, everyone has different taste. I loved the tactical part of X-COM yes, but I also liked how it scared the shit out of me as a kid when I first played it. Personally, from the video, I felt something quite interesting build up right at the cinematic beginning. There's something about the 50's that just immerses a good scenery for this type of "alien invasion" game. Having said that, gameplay is NOT cinema. No matter how hard you try to impress gamers with your cinematics, it all boils down to gameplay. I, myself, don't find the need for "ultimate graphics" and straying for such an endeavor has led to many disgraceful games. In fact, it downright pisses me off nowadays when I see a game trailer with a fucking cinematic and hardly (if ANY) gameplay. Seriously a game is NOT a movie, so stop it. If you can make a good game with a movie feel, good for you. Just stop scrapping an important part of the formula. Now AFTER the cinematic, I got kind of disappointed. The blobs are OK (though the screams are kind of fun!), however, those floating totum poles or whatever they are, it better not be an alien (I may believe it being a craft?). A flying totum pole being an alien...now that would be a disgrace to not just the X-COM title, but all character designs. If there are more than just a blob and a totum pole (which I'm sure there is, who in their right mind would make a game with ONLY 2 types of enemies), then I would call it a disgrace along with many of the new games today. Oh and remember, Silacoids were borderlined blobs (ok, brain blobs?) in X-COM 1. So TECHNICALLY, if I developed X-COM 1 today and just showed you that as a trailer, people being mauled by Silicoids, you would flip probably. But I'd quit this "THIS IS NOT X-COM" or you may never find out if they pull the plug on the thing from so many damn hate mail. While I'll end up probably hating it like any other new game today, I'm going to find out before I send in the "You suck" mail to the developers. Time will only tell...

Lol, I see you posted that link I gave you. Damn, beat me to it. Absolutely the best fan flash game ever. I never play flash games, they're usually designed horribly. This one blew me over.

Nevermind, the person who runs the game will ban you for disagreeing with them "outside" their game and ToS even if you A) Subscribe B) Promote it C) Be a good boy in game

Well it looks like they've been working hard up until after 2008, and recently in Feb.

So where is this project? I currently don't have any links and didn't grave dig it in the xcomufo forum... Is it still alive? If so, any links? If not, why is this forum section existing?

I remember when I reloaded all the time for this game...all the way up to playing UFO2000 where I realized I couldn't do that against online players. Then I stopped altogether...well just 1 here and there. But yea, reloading is just horrible excuse to play a game IMHO.

I haven't looked at the entire site, but it seems pretty good! At least I think, has many people been actively using your site and participating? Just curious because sometimes it just seems dead around ufo2000's community.

Now go create sounds my minions!

I don't have cutting edge, but I know you can get pretty close to it for pretty cheap by building your own computer. Just buy the hardware separately and the 2nd or 3rd best of the product. When Nvidia came out with their 8900 GT 512mb video cards, they were $400 and I went for the $200 8800 GTS 512mb. http://tigerdirect.com is pretty good for finding low cost hardware. It works perfectly for Blender (3D design). Of course, I use Linux, so I have yet (or never should I say) to say anything about how well its performance is for Windows Vista. @zaimoni: Not bad 8bit themed artwork going on with your avatar. Did you make it?

You misunderstood what I was saying. I meant "Micro$oft has no business in this affair.". Of course, Nvidia needs to get on the ball.

I am not an expert in this whole situation, but doesn't Nvidia have the right to do whatever the hell they want with their drivers? And who says it's not Vista's fault for being a poor OS to maintain?

Of course. They're volunteers, not paid professionals. They're having fun and getting experience being an actor. It's part of the whole fan making film fun. You can't compare it to Hollywood.

"I want suckers with chocolate in the middle, you are the only one who use to sell them, please make them again!" Yea...nobody would get sales from that. On a more serious note, I could say the same thing about you, but I'm not an ignorant man who wants to close off from the world and brush off what tons of people are thinking and consider I am never doing something wrong regardless. And on a less serious note again, GIVE ME MY DARN LOLLYPOP! Nobody cares how you feel. Now take in what I just said to you and use it as my argument against DRM. That's exactly how I feel about DRM. (meant as an example, not to flame.) Any form of bull that constantly checks to see if you are being a good boy that YOU bought on YOUR PC is intrusive to the extreme. Yes, pirating is considered "wrong", but isn't the exrememity of the intrusion just as "wrong"? Or is it the cliche "two wrongs make a right?"? Um, no, what it says now is "We apologize for excessively intruding on the consumer. We now changed our ways and will only intrude on you less frequently. Oh btw, you still don't own the damn product even though you bought it." Who the hell are you to defend them anyway? The only thing you are doing here is creating an entertaining pointless discussion against everybody here...oh wait it's entertaining, keep going. Slap a copyright logo on it and go back to the old ways of finding out. Nothing is stopping piracy, ever. Now if DRM would go away and companies can see this, they may actually make some money! Please Kratos, do tone down on the swearing part. I'm sure you can get your message across without it. And I spent too much time editing your post... SV

Last night I stumbled across http://www.returnoftheghostbusters.com/ to find a decent fan made film! Those who remember Ghostbusters from the 80s...well here's a interesting fan made movie. I was stunned with what fans can create with their dedication! It's not a Hollywood movie that's for sure, but it's the best fan film I have ever watched.

They recognize and support Linux. Now that's something I didn't expect.

I'm quite skeptical of MicroProse's return. Even if they did return...they sold the rights to their games (unless they want to buy them back...). So that means they will have to do an extreme job in making new original games. I doubt they have any of their original developers. It probably will be just like Azrael said, they will just be another company from the bunch.

It's not easy to see, it's under the Team page: http://ufo.yaa.dk/index.php?categoryid=8 svn Developers (image) link: https://opensvn.csie.org/traccgi/ufo_cf The link is no longer broken, they set up a user and password now.

Well if these are possible interview questions, I would like to point out I still have some important questions not being told.

The original X-COM theme...finally a project that made one, and an impressive one if I may add. @Alpha Monkey: X-COM doesn't need to be remade, it looks great as it is.

A long waited release. And a major one to boot too!