The new X-COM game

    So this new X-COM game from 2K Games Marin looks SO FAIL! FUUUU!! Why do they do this for us X-COM fans. [Blocked Image: https://migrationtest.mapcore.org/public/style_emoticons/default/mapcore_smilies/emot_shakehead.gif]

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    I remember when me, my brother and a couple of ppl made an X-COM mod for Half-Life 1, we were first with smoke grenades (Just before CS), ranks and xp (FU Battlefield and Modern Warfare!). It was so fucking great but Infogrames owned the rights for X-COM back then and shut us down.

    Makes me wanna mod again, just to make 2K Marin feel bad for sucking so amazingly hard. X-COM needs to be reborn properly. Shut this mother effin game down.

    It's different. But it's not like I wanted. Same name, totally different game. Still I'll pick up the demo, maybe it's a good game...

    When we were making Call of Juarez: Cartel, there was lots of comments like "it's not western anymore, fuuuu" and yep, it wasn't western, people had bad thoughts about the game just because of change of genere. I think poeple don't like changes and new XCom is a good example. Some things just won't make it cool and can hurt the title. I'm still waiting for tactical/economy X-Com like parts 1 and 2 were... <3

    They never said it would be XCOM (for one thing they even tried to rename it X-COM), but a shooter based in a loose interpretation of the XCOM universe.

    Problem with fanboys is that's the kind of message that falls on deaf ears since "they're touching on our beloved franchise and ruining it". Thing is, if you're 2K and you're sitting on this license, you'll try and make a new game that somehow uses the franchise even loosely, since you can at least have some free marketing in the process.

    2K doesn't know how to make an XCOM game, that's not their business. So they don't even try. And that's a good thing. We'll see whether they can make something appealing enough to those with no prior knowledge of XCOM to outweigh the few fanboys that cry wolf

    I'm a huge fan of the original. I love the simplicity of it and the turn-based strategy style game play.

    After watching the trailer for this new game, in my opinion,... they should not have named it XCOM. Yes, they kept SOME elements from the original (like the research stuff etc.) but from what I've seen everything else is different except for the fact that the game revolves around an alien invasion.

    I understand that from a business side it makes sense to use an already existing and very popular franchise and try to profit from the popularity and cult status it has but at the same time it makes me a little sad that they seem to have strayed so far away from what the original game was all about.

    It still looks like it's an awesome game and I will probably buy it because I'm really into this whole alien conspiracy stuff but it's too different to be called XCOM in my book.

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    They never said it would be XCOM (for one thing they even tried to rename it X-COM), but a shooter based in a loose interpretation of the XCOM universe.Problem with fanboys is that's the kind of message that falls on deaf ears since "they're touching on our beloved franchise and ruining it". Thing is, if you're 2K and you're sitting on this license, you'll try and make a new game that somehow uses the franchise even loosely, since you can at least have some free marketing in the process.

    2K doesn't know how to make an XCOM game, that's not their business. So they don't even try. And that's a good thing. We'll see whether they can make something appealing enough to those with no prior knowledge of XCOM to outweigh the few fanboys that cry wolf

    It's not like they couldn't just, you know, make a strategy game. It's not even like it's a foreign genre to 2K, they publish civ...

    Its like naming Assasins Creed after Deus Ex. Just wrong. Or making a new Syndicate set in 1850´s wild west. Wrong wrong wrong wrong. Does´nt matter whos fault it is, you don´t name it X-COM if it aint X-COM. This aint no X-COM fooo shoo.

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    They never said it would be XCOM (for one thing they even tried to rename it X-COM), but a shooter based in a loose interpretation of the XCOM universe.

    I wouldn't mind this CoD/Mass Effect hybrid in the XCOM universe one iota. A true XCOM atmospheric FPS would be amazing. The first two games had a terrific terrifying atmosphere (both were scarier than Resident Evil or Dead Space could ever hope to be). This isn't a loose interpretation of the XCOM universe. This is 2K Marin not being able to let go of Rapture.

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    I wouldn't mind this CoD/Mass Effect hybrid in the XCOM universe one iota. A true XCOM atmospheric FPS would be amazing. The first two games had a terrific terrifying atmosphere (both were scarier than Resident Evil or Dead Space could ever hope to be). This isn't a loose interpretation of the XCOM universe. This is 2K Marin not being able to let go of Rapture.

    Yep, the title could be awesome if they would get the mood element of XCOM. That music, that screams, night mission on the farm, never know where alien can be, shots from nowhere. Come on, that could be a great FPS game!

    I think someone could release a strategy game like X-Com these days and make money on it. NIS mainly release TRPG's and I think they're doing okay right now (they were in trouble for a bit). But as much as an FPS? Especially if they hit the big time? No way.


    I still love the quote "We don’t want players to micromanage the combat" when talking about squads.

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    I think someone could release a strategy game like X-Com these days and make money on it. NIS mainly release TRPG's and I think they're doing okay right now (they were in trouble for a bit). But as much as an FPS? Especially if they hit the big time? No way.

    I still love the quote "We don’t want players to micromanage the combat" when talking about squads.

    Multiplatforming it would be a great idea. Still I'm not sure with the interface and if the game would be big enough to make it as full prize title...

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