Hobbes Posted January 13, 2012 Report Share Posted January 13, 2012 Three new XCOM: Enemy Unknown screenshots released today on an article comparing XCOM with other franchises. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorondor Posted January 13, 2012 Report Share Posted January 13, 2012 Featuring pigeons - the new menace! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted January 13, 2012 Report Share Posted January 13, 2012 I've always wanted a turn-based Resident Evil strategy game. You're playing as perhaps 2-3 Raccoon Police Department officers during the T-virus outbreak, the whole city is populated by zombies, zombie dogs, horrible mutant creatures, etc, and you have to escape. Day/night cycle, lots of survivors around who are more or less useful and can be recruited (random dispersal every game), nice big map full of buildings to explore, you can hole up anywhere and barricade the place, scavenge weapons and items, attack Umbrella facilities to find out more about the plot, etc. You could even have encounters with rival groups of survivors (consisting of people you could have recruited had you got to them first) and Umbrella soldiers. /heartbroken XCOM is certain to be a lot more difficult than Final Fantasy Tactics If he'd played FFT he'd know there are some bastard hard difficulty spikes in that game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapnKill Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 This is looking better and better with each screen shot I see! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 If he'd played FFT he'd know there are some bastard hard difficulty spikes in that game.He'd also know that it was the game itself that gave Cid the "thunder god" nickname (for those not in the know, Cid was a total game breaker. Not in the least due to his instant-use ranged lightning blast attack, but mostly because his stats were through the roof. Heck, the fricken' sword he came with was a game breaker, but he himself still broke things pretty well on his own). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silencer_pl Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 Tis strange that this game gets more hype than the 2K Xcom..... And strangely this game will appear no sooner than Q4 2012 or Q1 2013.... not that I don't like it I will pre-order it as soon as I will be able too. If he'd played FFT he'd know there are some bastard hard difficulty spikes in that game. Fallout tactics - Iron man mode - hard settings anyone ? Or Jagged Alliance Wildfire or 1.13 Iron man mode You can exclude iron man mode if you don't abuse save/load too much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbes Posted January 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 Tis strange that this game gets more hype than the 2K Xcom..... And strangely this game will appear no sooner than Q4 2012 or Q1 2013.... not that I don't like it I will pre-order it as soon as I will be able too. Last XCOM game we had was Enforcer about a decade ago, which general consensus seems to classify it as mediocre. Then another first person shooter is announced, but with a completely different setting, and again the franchise keeps away from the strategy genere. Then they announce a remake of the original XCom - and, this time it's by a major company with a history of strategy games. And they start putting out these really nice pics. This is just something that everyone who played the original game wanted for a long long time. If we want to play FPS there's plenty of other titles already well established. PS - I hadn't played the original game for some years... just had my first night mission with Chryssalids 2 days ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowBlade Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 Tis strange that this game gets more hype than the 2K Xcom..... And strangely this game will appear no sooner than Q4 2012 or Q1 2013.... not that I don't like it I will pre-order it as soon as I will be able too.Whoa, whoa, whoa. The official website says XCOM:EU will be released this fall, which means Q3 2012. Well, it might mean Q4 too I guess... but don't go scaring me with your speculations! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Strike Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 This looks pretty, so far. I need to see more before I say yeah or nay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silencer_pl Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 Whoa, whoa, whoa. The official website says XCOM:EU will be released this fall, which means Q3 2012. Well, it might mean Q4 too I guess... but don't go scaring me with your speculations! I too want this game NOW! But I try to look on todays gameing markets - every big title (and this one is pretty big one) had their release dates moved once or twice by few months.... or were a masacre on the release (or both). Now I don't wish Firaxis anything bad, but I want this game to be good at start hell we can all live with Superhuman to Novice save bugs as long as the game is playable... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flark Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 This is looking better and better with each screen shot I see!I agree. I've gone from cautious skepticism to uncontrollable excitement in the space of 3 or 4 days. Tis strange that this game gets more hype than the 2K Xcom..... And strangely this game will appear no sooner than Q4 2012 or Q1 2013.... not that I don't like it I will pre-order it as soon as I will be able too. Fallout tactics - Iron man mode - hard settings anyone ? Or Jagged Alliance Wildfire or 1.13 Iron man mode You can exclude iron man mode if you don't abuse save/load too much Of course it gets more hype than the 2K Xcom! How hyped can anyone get about ANOTHER FPS. On the subject of Iron Man mode. I really hope they add that feature. I'm one of those people who ruin my own fun by totally abusing the save/load feature. I just can't help myself. I LOVE Jagged Alliance 2 and Silent Storm in Iron Man mode. What's the point in creating a challenging game when it's so easy and tempting to cheat with the save/load. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 I LOVE Jagged Alliance 2 and Silent Storm in Iron Man mode. What's the point in creating a challenging game when it's so easy and tempting to cheat with the save/load. As long as the difficulty is not ridiculously high that save/reload (or the accursed checkpoint save/reload system) isn't the only way to get through some parts of the game, I think it should be fine. Just let it be something you can choose to do as you play - not an enforcible game mechanic that you can toggle permanently when creating the campaign. - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 As long as the difficulty is not ridiculously high that save/reload (or the accursed checkpoint save/reload system) isn't the only way to get through some parts of the game, I think it should be fine. Just let it be something you can choose to do as you play - not an enforcible game mechanic that you can toggle permanently when creating the campaign. - NKF I remember my first (or thereabouts) Superhuman game in Enemy Unknown - I seem to recall jumping from Beginner straight to Superhuman after playing the former for many years. I wished at the time I could have switched to an easier setting part-way though, but soon appreciated the fact that I couldn't, else it makes the whole thing a bit of a farce. I like to be able to say "I completed it on Superhuman", not "I completed it mostly on Superhuman" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowBlade Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 Just let it be something you can choose to do as you play - not an enforcible game mechanic that you can toggle permanently when creating the campaign.Thing is, if you can disable Iron Man mode mid-game it kind of loses its purpose. You go back to square one, in which your willpower's responsible for not letting you cave in and reload if things go wrong. I'm not sure a small checkbox in the way would be much of an obstacle, since you'd know the game's not really forcing you to suck it up and move on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silencer_pl Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 The only Superhuman lvl I didn't pass in X-Com game was Interceptor - god the finall mission was so hard and the AI so dumb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 There are two things I want to know about this game that need to be clarified ASAP... 1) Will my comp run it?2) What is a goddamn preorder link? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 Thing is, if you can disable Iron Man mode mid-game it kind of loses its purpose. You go back to square one, in which your willpower's responsible for not letting you cave in and reload if things go wrong. I'm not sure a small checkbox in the way would be much of an obstacle, since you'd know the game's not really forcing you to suck it up and move on. I was thinking along the lines of a tickbox that enforces Nethack/Rouge-Like styled save/reload rules. Could be rather frustrating if this game continues the trend and includes the good old blaster-bomb-into-the-Skyranger type gameplay. The other option is stat collection. Every time a tactical mission is reloaded, you'll get to see how many times it was done on the end-mission tally. Perhaps even keep a running total in some stats screen. Something that supports but doesn't get in the way of playing the game. - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapnKill Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 One of my big questions is regarding destructible environments... I know they will be there, but is it like the old one where you take out the first floor and the rest of the building floats, or will it all come crumbling down now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbes Posted January 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 One of my big questions is regarding destructible environments... I know they will be there, but is it like the old one where you take out the first floor and the rest of the building floats, or will it all come crumbling down now? Hopefully it should be more advanced than the original game, at least as in Apocalypse where you could send entire buildings coming down by blowing up their foundations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGCSG1 Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 Has anyone hear played (or tried to play) CIV V? What a buggy disaster. It's been out for almost a year and a half and it's still a mess. After that cluster-frak I pretty much swore off any Firaxis game, ever. If it wasn't for the 'screw the customers' experience I had with Civ V I'd be a lot more excited about this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 To be fair, Firaxis have put out great hits in the past like the earlier Civilization incarnations, Alpha Centauri, etc. Also the people working on the title aren't necessarily the exact same bunch that messed up with Civ 5. Best take the wait and see approach (as always, unfortunately). - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 Well it's about time. This is soooooo long overdue. The Snakemen are back in town ! And pigeons are only the nemisis of the Stone Golem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azrael Strife Posted January 15, 2012 Report Share Posted January 15, 2012 I found Civ V to be a very enjoyable game, and pretty stable too, never had a crash to desktop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silencer_pl Posted January 15, 2012 Report Share Posted January 15, 2012 I had in DX10 version, but DX9 was stable and enjoyable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted January 15, 2012 Report Share Posted January 15, 2012 Well it's about time. This is soooooo long overdue. The Snakemen are back in town ! And pigeons are only the nemisis of the Stone Golem Hi Doug Long time no see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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