KickStarter Phoenix Point - the new game from X-COM creator Julian Gollop

[Spectacle]

 

[Mustawd]

He is a writer of Talos Principle and indie game developer.

Is this good news or bad news?

IMO, bad. Played some of his old flash games and I found the writing is clunky and one dimensional.

 

[Luka-boy]

I feel somewhat underwhelmed after seeing that alien with the guns, after that first creepy pic from the website's background and the talk in this thread about the game potentially involving an Eldritch enemy.

And don't get me wrong, any news of an X-Com style game by Gollop makes my dick tingle with happiness. But just like Expeditions: Vikings, I was hoping we'd get a setting a bit more uncommon.

 

[Irenaeus III]

First pic looked much cooler without retarded guns-mutations, yes. Oh, well.

 

[Mustawd]

Yes, guns on that concept art looked completely forced onto the monster pic.

:S

 

[Lucky]

Is that the same monster, though? It doesn't have quite the same distinctively human face, and a different shape with fewer appendages.

I'm digging it either way, even if we're 'just' getting a spiritual successor to X-Com. One of the factors that keeps me from liking the Firaxis XComs is how they always feel like an unironic Starship Troopers, rather than Alien - all action and no tension. The designs shown thus far for this game look like Gollop's group is going more for the horrible and unnerving, with malformed human anatomy, odd locomotion and subdued lighting. Creatures that look 'off', not just intimidating. That's a much better direction to take things in if you're going to scale up to modern graphics. Still too early to tell if there's more of this and if they're able to effectively convert the effect to the game, though.

I'm hoping they do a kickstarter and bring in some serious cash. They could benefit from some of the disappointment surrounding Xcom 2 to draw in people who never even played the original X-Com, especially if they make sure to emphasise Gollop's history with the franchise.

 

[Infinitron]

The melding of aliens and guns reminds me of the monsters from Doom.

 

[Destroid]

The melding of aliens and guns reminds me of the monsters from Doom.

Why is there no doom mod for xcom?

 

[Mazisky]

i'm pretty sure gameplay and art will be awesome with Gollop, but i'm afraid about technical part, they have low budget.

Better they go 2d since it can be good looking without being expensive, instead of crappy low ugly 3d

 

[Latro]

The melding of aliens and guns reminds me of the monsters from Doom.

Why is there no doom mod for xcom?

Oooh, playing as the UAC having to re-take the bases with mercs. DOOM-COM 2 would have the scenario of UAC failing and just mimics X-COM with you defending geoscape Earth from teleported baddies establishing bases and etc.

 

[Irenaeus III]

Well, when you guys put it that way... Can't wait!

 

[orcinator]

The melding of aliens and guns reminds me of the monsters from Doom.

Why is there no doom mod for xcom?

Wouldn't be too hard to do with an OpenX-com mod,

full overhaul would take effort but inserting some new enemy types should be simple

 

[agris]

wait.. does this doom conversion for open x-com exist?

 

[GarfunkeL]

Just a dream, nothing else.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

He is a writer of Talos Principle and indie game developer.

Is this good news or bad news?

IMO, bad. Played some of his old flash games and I found the writing is clunky and one dimensional.

Yep. Talos is a fun game, but the writing was pretentious crap.

 

[agris]

Just a dream, nothing else.

(-1)*brofist

 

[Jimmious]

Is anyone spamming Gollop's Twitter already? We need more info!

 

[Mozg]

I feel somewhat underwhelmed after seeing that alien with the guns, after that first creepy pic from the website's background and the talk in this thread about the game potentially involving an Eldritch enemy.

And don't get me wrong, any news of an X-Com style game by Gollop makes my dick tingle with happiness. But just like Expeditions: Vikings, I was hoping we'd get a setting a bit more uncommon.

Eh, I figure it's gameplay-first, atmosphere and moodshit second, and guns bring in useful concepts like suppression and ammo vs. some doofy glowing blue magic fireballs for your ranged shit.

 

[lightbane]

wait.. does this doom conversion for open x-com exist?

Sadly, nope. Piratez! is a total conversion mod which supposedly includes some Doom enemies as an easter egg though: http://openxcom.org/forum/index.php?topic=1898.0

 

[Alienman]

Awww, that second pic killed my hype a little. Mutants with gun-arms. I was hoping the first speculations was correct. X-com Ctuhulu setting in the 1930's. Could already see myself equipping fedora wielding dudes with shotguns, pistols and such

 

[sser]

Is anyone spamming Gollop's Twitter already? We need more info!

I sent a feeler out to Snapshot Games. No response as of yet.

 

[Lucky]

I think I went overboard with the sacrificing today. 8 rookies, 1 seargent and 1 captain will help make this game great, right?

I'm really interested in seeing if Gollop really got his mojo back.

That's barely enough gore to make lunch with! You won't satisfy any spirit listening in that way, just today I've sacrificed over three fully staffed avengers upon the altar of proper superhuman - ironman, no armour, no using enemy weapons and no research beyond what is necessary to reach the final level. It's like a human meatgrinder, which makes for an interesting change of pace from the normal sending in of grossly overpowered killsquads.

The website has also been updated with that monster picture being added and the tagline "Phoenix Point - Turn Based Tactics, Turn Based Strategy." Seems like this won't be a scaling down of X-Com.

 

[Destroid]

 

[Zetor]

Come on, everyone knows the canon* name of Doomguy is Oleg Gontar!

* well, according to the best novelization ever

 

[Infinitron]

Come on, everyone knows the canon* name of Doomguy is Oleg Gontar!

* well, according to the best novelization ever

Wow, that's even better than Flynn Taggart's Mormon adventures. sexbad?