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KickStarter Phoenix Point - the new game from X-COM creator Julian Gollop
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ArchAngel
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There is another major patch coming this month so I would wait for that one and then you can play it.
Wyatt_Derp
Arcane
Isn't a gog release set to happen same time as Steam as well?
Van-d-all
Erudite
Nah, you'll have finished 40k to play by then.
Maybe now he finally willl be able to be objective about this mess of a game, and stop spreading corporate bullshit.
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Here's hoping for some dirty laundry. Who knows, maybe we'll get some quality entertainment out of this yet!
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lightbane
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Drama incoming?
TemplarGR
Dumbfuck!
I am so happy this game failed. They had promised a Linux version and after they got Microsoft shekels they backtracked. God's justice is at work. Good riddance.
ArchAngel
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Where did you get the idea it failed?! They are still alive and making big patches almost every month and all their DLCs are still planned. Now if once it releases on Steam and still gets bashed by people and then has low sales there, then one can talk about failing.
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Nothing is a more resounding sign of the greatest success than having to release big patches implementing key features like the mutation system months after the official release.
But I think you are right, the true failure is yet to come on Steam.
But I think you are right, the true failure is yet to come on Steam.
ArchAngel
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It is not not much different than 1000s of early access games on Steam, except this one did its early access on Epic and got paid in advance.
Also Kingmaker was released with more bugs and had much more patches to bring it to its final state and it didn't make the game bad.
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True, but Kingmaker had the feeling of a flawed gem from the start, it had soul. With these devs I have the feeling that they don't have a clue what they are doing, and their game feels like a bland xcom clone. Their combat engine is better, but everything else is a lot worse and I don't see it improving. The entire research system is fundamentally flawed, and there is no real sense of progression. I also don't give a shit about the lore. The only I hope I have for this is a total conversion mod reusing their combat engine.
It does feel very much like an early access game, only it's not supposed to be.
Wulfric Pinewood
Prophet
This was not called execution. It was called retirement.
jac8awol
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Good riddance, that guy was so arrogant in his interactions with the community.
A horse of course
Guest
Have they added that cute ayy gril from the art when it was first announced? That's all I care about.
holla_cabezas_de_mierda
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That is what I am hoping for too, some Longwar type total conversion. To me after they released the new art, and game direction I sort of felt like that was where the best result would happen if it were to happen. Its still a possibility, because there will be a lot for somebody to work with and the possibility make something really amazing.
Once I saw the new art direction....I just can't understand how they thought that was a good idea, or that it would sell better or look better. To me, that was just a sign somebody with really bad taste and decision making was wrecking things, I still just can't understand the bumpy motorcycle Armour and bland theme they decided to roll with. Its baffling, and seem to say either they had given up or wee retarded beyond belief. I lost almost all hope at that point.
MadMaxHellfire
Arcane
it's always a tragedy when a game fails. every time it happens we miss a unique, unrepeatable chance. we are the first to lose. more often than not, we are the only one to lose, because the big money has already been earned by the undeserving.
TemplarGR
Dumbfuck!
No, we only have to gain when bad developers and bad publishers fail and go out of business. Video gamer public has finite amounts of dollars to spend on buying new games and of hours to actually play them. Everytime they give money and time to worthless garbage is time and money they don't spend on good stuff. Cull the industry, i say. Good riddance to bad garbage.
MadMaxHellfire
Arcane
so you're fine in living in a world without the ode to joy only because beethoven once rated one of your posts "cuck", aren't you?
Iluvcheezcake
Prophet
I cant remember ever being so bitter about a game as much as phoenix point.
Serious_Business
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Keep up the Good Work buddy
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