New X-Com incoming

[MetalCraze]

You are right. All turn-based strategy audience that existed 10 years ago died out of old age.

 

[Overweight Manatee]

Actually, from what I've read on other sites, it seems that the original X-com games are fairly popular and well known even among rather mainstream PC gamers, and a lot of people are dismayed at this pile of shit. We probably have Steam's $5 sales to thank for this.

Of course, this won't get developer's to admit there is a market for anything other then FPS's.

 

[Silellak]

 

[Spectacle]

Honestly though, is there even an audience for turn-based strategy games any more outside of masochists who like to play Jagged Alliance 2 mods? You can't really blame them for this decision to change the genre. They couldn't have turned it into a RTT game either because that genre is fail with a gamepad.

How would anyone know if there's an audience for turn based strategy games, when there are no games being released?
There definitely is an audience for dumbed-down console shooters though, so I guess this is a safe decision.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

There's still a chance Firaxis is secretly working a a XCOM startegy game.

I hope so, so that the Codex finally shuts up.

 

[Silellak]

There's still a chance Firaxis is secretly working a a XCOM startegy game.

I hope so, so that the Codex finally shuts up.

Yes, because the backlash against this terrible idea is limited to only the Codex.

 

[Luzur]

POPAMOLE.

yes, you heard me.

 

[Destroid]

Well, civ4 was extremely popular, although it's certainly not at all like xcom.

 

[Scroo]

2K Games Announces XCOM® - Suspense and Mystery-Filled First-Person Shooter

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[Awor Szurkrarz]

Honestly though, is there even an audience for turn-based strategy games any more outside of masochists who like to play Jagged Alliance 2 mods? You can't really blame them for this decision to change the genre. They couldn't have turned it into a RTT game either because that genre is fail with a gamepad.

There are at least four major publishers that publish turn-based strategy games that make X-Com look like a POPAMOLE DUMBED DOWN NEXT GEN BULLSHIT.

There's an audience. The problem is that all they get is UFO1 clones that somehow fail to be as good as the original game because the developers change wrong things.

 

[Joghurt]

That FBI thing...it's gonna be X-Files FPS ! ! !

 

[Destroid]

The new game will cast players as an FBI agent attempting to thwart the invasion.

You better get recruited into X-Com during the course of the game...

Wish wasn't vapour, it had a very cool aesthetic.

I sure am sick of opera labeling British spelling as incorrect.

 

[gromit]

Dammit, I can see how this game would work, and completely kick ass. SWAT4-style control and view splitting, and detail-drenched levels to complement a slow moody pace is what I was expecting from Irrational. Thankfully no market worries these days re: "scary" shooters, multiple-unit control from first/third-person, and indirect story-telling... in fact those are all in vogue. I'd play it. (Especially if it was while waiting for my sequel from Firaxis? Please?)

In my dream world, I'd have a major extension of the team/load-out screens where you specify equipment orders and dictate research priorities - all to apply no sooner than upon return from the next mission, MAYBE a "hurry" option with an inhibiting price.

That said... no offense or presumption intended here, literal question: who are these 2k Marin people, and what have they done besides a port and a sequel?

 

[SCO]

First person turn based combat.

I think that could be novel.
Unfortunately...

 

[VonVentrue]

There's still a chance Firaxis is secretly working a a XCOM startegy game.

That's just an unfounded rumor, most probably with no basis in reality.

By the way, it is certain that most Codexers posting in this thread will still buy the game, bah! - try to argue that it "captures the spirit of the original well", "is good for what it is". They loved Fallshit 3, they'll love this.

 

[Haba]

Who the fuck loved failout?

 

[Fat Dragon]

By the way, it is certain that most Codexers posting in this thread will still pirate the game, bah!.

Fixed.

 

[Hory]

It is becoming apparent to me that the sole goal of the games industry is to taint each and every pleasant memory that may I have.

Who the fuck loved failout?

Vault Seller.

 

[Vault Dweller]

What's not to like? It had vaults, and super mutants, and SPECIAL, and even the pip-boy. It's hard to imagine a sequel more faithful to the spirit of the original.

 

[Twinkle]

I wonder why the industry is so persistent in raping old franchises. It's hard to imagine average consoletard next-gen customer giving a shit about X-COM anyway.

 

[Occasionally Fatal]

 

[Kos_Koa]

:D

 

[Clockwork Knight]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

NO, NO, NO, NO, FUCKING NO

 

[PorkaMorka]

Honestly though, is there even an audience for turn-based strategy games any more outside of masochists who like to play Jagged Alliance 2 mods? You can't really blame them for this decision to change the genre. They couldn't have turned it into a RTT game either because that genre is fail with a gamepad.

There is on handhelds.... as long as it has anime graphics.

 

[Castanova]

If the game lets you stack crates to solve puzzles and lets you drive a cool vehicle while shooting stuff with its turret then I'm totally sold.