Game News Jagged Alliance 3 announced

[bionicman]

Experience the campaign with friends in online co-op mode

Hecking yes! I'll finally be able to play Jagged Alliance with my wife's boyfriend!

 

[unseeingeye]

Wonder if it will measure up to classics like Brigade E5: New Jagged Union or Hired Guns: The Jagged Edge.

 

[MartinK]

Looks like shit.

 

[Ol' Willy]

There are only two JA games

 

[Ol' Willy]

First one and Deadly Games?

Straciatella and 1.13

 

[zool]

I didn't realize that was Vicki till the gameplay footage named her. The dreads are new and she looks a lot darker (I always thought she was mixed race, but that could have been a tech limit on colors). Still, she doesn't look or act like generic CURRENT YEAR black woman so, eh. Also Ambidexterity IS her skill and starting equipment in JA2, so there's a reason for her to have two pistols.

I thought for a long time too that Vicki had her hair cut short but actually, if you look closer to her JA2 picture, she might well have a ponytail, only you can't really see it because the background is so dark.

 

[anvi]

This reminds me of the new Syndicate game from 2009 or whatever.

 

[Shin]

I hope they'll take some inspiration from Urban Strife, which I'm slightly optimistic about:





Obviously there's more to a good JA2 successor than just ballistics, but the attention to such detail tells me the Urban Strife guys have their hearts in the right place. This trailer is a marketing push by THQ and thus 'has to sell this idea to the general public' but I do hope that Haemimont Games will demonstrate that they *understand* what made JA2 so good and not just reskin XCOM and tweak some mechanics. Obviously these (nu) XCOM games have sold more copies than the entire JA franchise ever has so I'm pessimistic about their chances to swim against the THQ tide so to speak. Ah well.

 

[Maggot]

fanta Here's your citation: https://github.com/dariusk/ja2/blob/master/ja2/Build/Strategic/Strategic AI.c just scroll past the headers

 

[Fenix]

fanta Here's your citation: https://github.com/dariusk/ja2/blob/master/ja2/Build/Strategic/Strategic AI.c just scroll past the headers

Hah! Thanks for quality reading!

 

[Humbaba]

I hope they'll take some inspiration from Urban Strife, which I'm slightly optimistic about:





Obviously there's more to a good JA2 successor than just ballistics, but the attention to such detail tells me the Urban Strife guys have their hearts in the right place. This trailer is a marketing push by THQ and thus 'has to sell this idea to the general public' but I do hope that Haemimont Games will demonstrate that they *understand* what made JA2 so good and not just reskin XCOM and tweak some mechanics. Obviously these (nu) XCOM games have sold more copies than the entire JA franchise ever has so I'm pessimistic about their chances to swim against the THQ tide so to speak. Ah well.

Why does every fucking game have to include crafting

 

[RNGsus]

I hope they'll take some inspiration from Urban Strife, which I'm slightly optimistic about:





Obviously there's more to a good JA2 successor than just ballistics, but the attention to such detail tells me the Urban Strife guys have their hearts in the right place. This trailer is a marketing push by THQ and thus 'has to sell this idea to the general public' but I do hope that Haemimont Games will demonstrate that they *understand* what made JA2 so good and not just reskin XCOM and tweak some mechanics. Obviously these (nu) XCOM games have sold more copies than the entire JA franchise ever has so I'm pessimistic about their chances to swim against the THQ tide so to speak. Ah well.

Why does every fucking game have to include crafting

Not sure. Maybe its easier to itemize junk than good loot placement.

 

[Catacombs]

catfood: where's typo in my previous post?

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

catfood: where's typo in my previous post?

My guess is that the first letter of the first word was considered unnecessary.

 

[Maggot]

Why does every fucking game have to include crafting

JA always had basic crafting, there just wasn't a special menu for it.

 

[Alter Sack]

I don't know why they even bother.

Was there even one JA2 successor that was halfway decent and a financial success?

Hell, I mean even the original JA2 wasn't exactly a success financial wise.

No matter what they release, even if the game is good, you are always better off playing the original.

I don't think that they are able to improve the game gameplay wise (I fear they will dumb it down).

And I am pretty sure that they won't be able to implement even half the mercenaries of the originals (let alone design some funny interactions/dialogues between them).

 

[deuxhero]

And I am pretty sure that they won't be able to implement even half the mercenaries of the originals (let alone design some funny interactions/dialogues between them).

AIM screen in trailer looks like it has more mercs than JA2 did.

 

[agris]

Darth Roxor do we still have ppl who do interviews? We should try to talk to this team, I’m sure we can crowdsource some good questions.

 

[deuxhero]

The official website (Steam page links to it) has a https://community.jaggedalliance.com/ section which advertises

Here you'll be able to interact with fans from all the Jagged Alliance games, read the latest developer posts about Jagged Alliance, and engage with each other and the developers. Many of the developers will be active on the site, reading your posts.

 

[I'm Big Into Anal]

dont care about thus game but AM looking forward to titan quest 2

 

[anvi]

Has there been any remake or sequel to in the past 20 years that wasn't worse than the original?

 

[Bigg Boss]

Has there been any remake or sequel to in the past 20 years that wasn't worse than the original?

Resident Evil Remake.

 

[deuxhero]

Has there been any remake or sequel to in the past 20 years that wasn't worse than the original?

Zero Mission, FireRed/LeafGreen, and HeartGold/SoulSilver are all within 20 years. Sequel is really easy since there's countless meh games with better (still still not good) sequels (Also New Vegas came out within 20 years).

The problem is finding worthwhile games from the last 10 years.

 

[Jason Liang]

Has there been any remake or sequel to in the past 20 years that wasn't worse than the original?

... Rance X > Rance IX > Rance Quest Magnum > Rance 5D > Rance IV > Rance II > Rance I

Bloodlines > VtM: Redemption

Dragonfall > Dead Man's Switch

Sid Meier's Pirates (remake) > Sid Meier's Pirates

Civ 4 > Civ 3

KoF 13 > KoF 12 and arguably all of the KoF games that came before it

Artificial Girl 3 > Artificial Girl 2 > Artificial Girl 1

EU3 is overall slightly better than Europa Universalis 2 > Europa Universalis 1

Vicky 2 > Vicky 1

Crusader Kings 2 > Crusader Kings 1

Samurai Shodown (2019) is arguably the best game in the Samurai Shodown series

 

[I'm Big Into Anal]

dont forget bikini bottom