Firaxis making XCOM: Enemy Unknown

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No but they are doing a syndicate spiritual successor going by the name of "Cartel". SO if they manage to do this right they are almost sure to remake X-COM too.

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ppucci21

Is it just me praying for a Wii U version's release? It'd be nothing but PERFECT to play with the Wii U gamepad!!!! Both for the base and terrain squad-control!!!! ...may my prayers be heard!!!
AndreBarcelos
If I could pay five times the cost of the game to begin playing right now, I certainly would.
PatrickTumblety
I really can't wait for this. This has always been a landmark game for me, and one I return to more often than any other. I can't wait for this update!
radioactivez0r
I sometimes snigger at people who impose a blackout on their consumption of game information, but in this case I don't think I want to know anymore. I'm already convinced I want this immediately. The rest will just be a great surprise.
sciencestick
Does this stand a chance of reviving the 4X genre? I miss most turn based: Moo, MoM and X-com like games... I would have thrown Space Sims in their but Evochron Mercenary is scratching the Elite/Privateer itch wonderfully...

I don't want to sound overly dramatic but it's almost like a Golden Age of Gaming renaissance started some time ago with the return of 2D games ushered in by Bionic Commando Rearmed. At least for me. Can't have anything to do with playing Tribes Ascend, and Diablo 3 (which totally harkens back to Diablo 1 for me) a lot recently.
kevadu
This is easily my most-anticipated game of the year.
anton.bielousov
Can't wait for it. The proper turn-base strategy/rpg is something rear on iPhone and something that doesn't exsist at all on PS3. Would love to have it there too
jlsimms
I am unreasonably excited for this game. I played the original a bit when it was initially released, but this looks bat-shit unbelievable.
DavTheJew
This game looks like it's gonna be so freakin awesome. Im glad Firaxis was willing to buck the industry trend and develop a game more niche than another FPS or something. Hopefully this does well and we can see games in a similar vein down the line.
jayfivealive
Can't wait for this game!!

Ah, the only consolation is that all those are clearly written by the youths that'll inherit the earth long after we'r . . . Ah, most of them are in their late 30s, you say?

Oh dear.

Indeed, good sir, indeed. The is too powerful to resist, it seems.

Hehe, you said consolation.

Hurr durr. Xcom is a 4X game. The fourth X is in the title.


I would have to see this one in action to pass definitive judgment, but as it is... it looks pretty shite. Like an arcade game. The simplictic elegance of a top-down radar-like look is too much for the next gen to handle.
Heck, it doesn't even seem to have any sort of range indicator

BUT YOU GET POWERUPS!!!!!

I wonder how hard they'll fuck up the dogfight track, since it was easily the best one in X-Com.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOdRt_c8nfY

Bah, it'll probably be some guitar riff bullshit.

Overanalyzing the shit out of that picture, it seems weapon ranges are totally out of the picture right now - no range indicator, no range controls, and most likely no possibility to bring in multiple aircraft to the fight, which all sucks niggercock.

On the other hand, xcom dogfight desperately needed some changes. Consumable powerups could in theory liven things up, although in reality it would probably reinforce the arcade look of the minigame for me.

It was good for what it was.

Naive, pure, innocent . . . and mildly entertaining, despite the uselessness of the chaingun armament.

Okay, in all honesty, THIS is not that important. It is not as if it made any real difference where in a given country you stuck your base. Does anything REALLY change if you happen to stick your base in Turkmenistan rather than Kazakhstan? Not really? It's still in the same general spot? Yeah, that's what I thought.

collaborating with the decline, i see.

The pudding is on the combat fields. If they fuck *that* up, the whole game is fucked.

I don't think they can fuck a combat field any more after turning it into a popamole cover shooter.

Gears of War meets VATS...



...Sounds like a day 1 purchase

Did you miss the other 35+ page long thread where these same fucking points where mentioned months ago? Are you really that fucking stupid skyway?

No. It's a 4X game because you have to tap 'X' 4 times when the prompt appears and something awesome will happen.

Hey, don't diss the chaingun armament. I once shot down an entire battleship using only a single regular plane armed with nothing but two chainguns. Thing for some reason couldn't hit me at chaingun range. I thought that plane was totally a goner, too. Took all but like a dozen rounds of ammo. Welcome to Earth, motherfuckers.

My next play through . . . I'm trying that.

I want to see the video. Holy shit, a battleship!