X-COM Announced and it's an FPS

[Darth Roxor]

Pff, I bet it will be good for what it will be

 

[YourConscience]

This makes me wonder - do we even matter at all? With 'we' I mean all those tens of thousands forumsgoers, core gamers, whatever these mediaguys call us. No matter how much we bith about Ubisofts new copy-protection - they are making dough like mad with it. No matter how much we bitch about the Fallout rape, they made dough with it like mad. No matter how much we bitch about the Elders scrolls rape they made dough with it ...

Do we matter at all? No, we don't. And all this marking blurb about listening to fans is just wasted energy on behalf of the marketing guys, because no one cares.

There is only one field where we matter: Our praise of indie games like Mount&Blade, Gratuitous Space Battles, etc. etc. made these titles successful. So let's just start praising all the alternatives out there. Make lists of best X-Com (with the hyphen) clones out there, especially those commercial ones.

 

[analt]

What the fuck is this shit? An FBI agent stopping aliens all by himself?

No silly, you will be partnered with a skeptical redhead to help you find your lost sister. Just like in the first game.

 

[YourConscience]

Actually, this FBI thing is so much off, that I started believing that this is some kind of belated April fool's joke.






























It must be.

 

[Haba]

You really have to be some kind of a special type of retard to think that modern day "re-imagination" of X-Com would work at all.

Government cover-ups by men in black seemed possible then. But that was the time before mobile phones and Internet.

 

[Gragt]

I'm so tired of this shit.

 

[Tails]

 

[Elwro]

“With BioShock 2, the team at 2K Marin proved themselves as masters of first-person, suspenseful storytelling, and with XCOM they will re-imagine and expand the rich lore of this severed franchise”

Fixed.

 

[Tails]

 

[Micmu]

Holy crap. A new gameX-COM and, naturally, it's a console shooter!

didn't see this one coming.

it's worse than you thought.

Nope. It's exactly as IMPOSSIBLY horrific

 

[DiverNB]

Why re-use an IP that has a relatively niche market? Seems like there is little creativity in the gaming industry.

 

[Micmu]

No, now they're just making casual shooters and slapping old names to it to make them n,nnnn% more marketable. And that's it.

 

[JudasIscariot]

Did they even PLAY X-COM or did they just wander over to MobyGames and look at the screenshots for about 5 minutes before deciding to "reimagine", I mean rape, the franchise?

 

[Tails]

Our buddies from StrategyCore can't wait for the game.

 

[jazzotron]

Moreover, they're using the title X-Com - yet one plays an FBI agent.

I would have thought that in playing X-Com you would be in control of, well, an X-Com operative.

Bah, regardless, this is an abomination and must be destroyed with fire.

 

[King Crispy]

That a strategic, turn-based isometric game can't be expected to sell in today's market, I can understand, and bear.

That the X-COM name has to be slapped on a FPS in order to help it sell in today's market, barring the namesake from ever being recreated someday in tomorrow's market the way it SHOULD be remade, is where I balk.

indeed.

 

[JudasIscariot]

The funny thing is that this is not the first time something like this has happened. Anyone remember Shadowrun??

 

[Jason]

No

didn't see this one coming. Rolling Eyes

While aware this was in the realm of possibility, I honestly thought we would see something more along the lines of Freedom Force: UFO Defense (i.e. still a strategy game but with RTwP and nods to being an "action" strategy game). Guess I still have some growing up/butthurting to do before I can become a true Codexer.

 

[Vault Dweller]

That a strategic, turn-based isometric game can't be expected to sell in today's market, I can understand, and bear.

Civ seems to be doing well (although it would be kind of cool to play an FBI agent tasked with expanding the American Empire and taking over towns and countries, and feeling all that tension and fear).

While aware this was in the realm of possibility, I honestly thought we would see something more along the lines of Freedom Force: UFO Defense (i.e. still a strategy game but with RTwP and nods to being an "action" strategy game).

Same here. Freedom Force, maybe Dawn of War 2, but a shooter? Definitely didn't see it coming.

 

[analt]

Government cover-ups by men in black seemed possible then. But that was the time before mobile phones and Internet.

I would like plane tickets to your country, please. Where I live, mobile phones and the Internet are just another way for the government to spy on you. And we didn't even have gulags when the first X-COM came out.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

I don't get why they do this. There hasn't been an X-COM game in years no? The sort of people that they'll be targeting have never heard of X-COM so why even use the name?

Same reason they used the Fallout name for a fps. Even if you never played the earlier games, the "3" gives the product an aura of respect.

btw, I love this topic

 

[Zomg]

I cannot articulate this anger

 

[denizsi]

Teh KKKodex has failed at teh internets!

FFS, it IS an april's fool joke.

 

[Zomg]

Lemme just click this tinyURL lawl

 

[Zomg]

This won't happen but it would be gratifying if they gave the original game the Street Fighter II HD/Bionic Commando treatment where they throw out an indie-like remake of the original game to piggyback off of their marketing investment, with new art, done by extremely nerdy developers that understand the ever loving shit out of it, at like a $20 price point.