UFO:Alien Invasion
Offtopic => Offtopic => Topic started by: xcom9 on November 01, 2009, 06:49:53 am
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http://www.neoseeker.com/news/12156-fresh-hint-indicates-x-com-remake-in-the-works/
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Yeah, cant wait to see what 2K does with it.
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Any hope of a version for Mac?
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no offence to MACs, but who cares? You'd have to spend $1500 on a new MAC just to be able to play it becuase something in your old MAC was too slow
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no offence to MACs, but who cares? You'd have to spend $1500 on a new MAC just to be able to play it becuase something in your old MAC was too slow
so that would be Yes? Lol! Guess I'll find out, huh?
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no offence to MACs, but who cares? You'd have to spend $1500 on a new MAC just to be able to play it becuase something in your old MAC was too slow
maybe he has a new MAC ... ???
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either way, 2K has a good history with games, but X-Com will be a challenge to not be a flop. If they screw up, all their good rep will go down the pooper
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2K was fine reincornaiting civilisation.
I hope they will remake ufo.
If they will do exact copy of xcom adding just very few features they will have something to upgrade later.
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I think 2k will do a good job with this. They seem to be doing a great job with everything they have put out, with the exception of MLB 2k lol
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I think they could do it. But they'd better not bodger it up. Hope that old curse that follows X-com spirtual sucessors doesn't strike again. /X-com fan that remembers interceptor. and UFO. :-X
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I hope they improve the grphics to a higher higher quality just because i like and can run very high quality
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so far every single remake I have ever seen has gotten worse. They should quit doing that real time thing.
It's like the game gets worse and worse as time goes on trying to a game it's not supposed to be.
I mean a 3d first person shoot for x-com? I rather they take a page from starcraft, command and conquer and
star control to make a better game.
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so far every single remake I have ever seen has gotten worse. I personally I would like to find the company
and ship them off to some war torn country so they would quit doing that real time thing.
It's like the game gets worse and worse as time goes on trying to a game it's not supposed to be.
I mean a 3d first person shoot for x-com? I rather they take a page from starcraft, command and conquer and
star control to make a better game.
Looks like somebody got here first to say the bad news.
But on a slightly related thing, how would they have taken a page from Star Control?
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From Star Control..
A few things, the aliens coming after our world, probably would have some enemies of their own.
Having a few "converted" aliens, or alien verse alien violence as a playable character would be useful.
As well as the easy to use Alien artifact upgrades to weaponary and stats.
For example, in star control, you can add more crew to a ship if your found a precursor object.
This can be added to X-com on certain missions that could point to an alien technology or be utilitzed for alien technology.
Maximum 60 rounds of ammunition to say a machine gun.. improvements via another alien technology
may allow for 100 rounds of ammo per clip, or new kind of rounds of ammuntion. if you stop to think
about it, why didn't X-com develop new kinds of armor piercing ammo made out of alien material?
Others could be direct interrogations with the aliens, as a storyline side feature for dealing with alien races.
If not the hundreds of weapons ideas from star control, how about a cloaked alien, or an alien with a power shield that
is rendered bulletproof etc..
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I heard that this new remake is to take place in the 50's. Sounds like a bad move imo, as the tasteless, boring, and almost comical qualities that usually characterize 50's aliens don't belong in the X-Com universe. Not to mention all the chrome and shiny metals used in construction. It's just too sterile for X-Com. Hopefully they won't go down that route.
Besides that, I feel as though the way the original X-Com was set in modern, present times gave it a better fear factor. Almost as though an invasion could really happen. It at least made you think about the possibility.
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I heard that this new remake is to take place in the 50's. Sounds like a bad move imo, as the tasteless, boring, and almost comical qualities that usually characterize 50's aliens don't belong in the X-Com universe. Not to mention all the chrome and shiny metals used in construction. It's just too sterile for X-Com. Hopefully they won't go down that route.
Besides that, I feel as though the way the original X-Com was set in modern, present times gave it a better fear factor. Almost as though an invasion could really happen. It at least made you think about the possibility.
on the other hand, aliens could never have a chance against modern weapons of humankind.
50-s means the cliche ww2 weapons would not be out of date, and i think that is very good news.
and i hope the flamethrowers would blow up when shot (which is actually not entirely correct, afaik).
i hope the scientists will have thick glasses with thick black frames (i hope that is what you call it in english), and trousers just a little bit higher than their navel, and still look very serious.
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The trailer is out now, just watched it on IGN. It looks... good... for a FPS.
I should clarify, the trailer only shows some of the FPS action, but there's a lot more to the game than that. It has the central XCOM base, which you can roam about freely, where you'll take missions off of a map of America where those missions will be to do things like gather data or rescue people or a bunch of other things. You can leave the missions anytime you want and return to base. Using info and artifacts and other things opens up new tech trees at your base to research new weapons and stuff. The base will also expand over the course of the game but it's not clear if you get to choose how to upgrade it or it just handles that itself. So there are definitely some core elements of the original XCOM in there. Sounds pretty good actually, and looks great.
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Yeah, based on the trailer, looks like it has some potential. As long as they don't try to focus on the FPS part too much and turn it into just another shooter game. At least this is being done by one of the more reputable developers. Bioshock 1 and 2 were good games. So here's hoping they can do XCOM justice!
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Its been a while, but its officially official.
http://www.xcom.com/xcom.html
but its not the TBS we all knew and loved
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Updates on that topic:
Release date: 3-6-2012
Videos:
E3 2011: Classified Matter Trailer:
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2011-xcom/714655
E3 2011: Mechanics Interview HD:
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2011-xcom/715992