Forum Overview :: Guess Who Fucked Up X-Com Now :: Re: Jesus, man. :(

[quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"][quote name="Eurotrash"]If you hate the game so much, why do you keep playing it? If you prefer the original, play the original or Extraterrestrials Gold. Fucking play Silent Storm.[/quote] Are you telling me to go back to Quake, but for squad-based tactics? I have to look it up, but I believe we agreed on "Go Back to Angry Birds" for S-BT games. =( [quote]What difficulty are you playing on anyway? Classic is unbalanced and the AI cheats. Play on Normal.[/quote] Not sure, I'll have to check. It's either Normal or Classic. The fact that the AI cheats on "Classic," when in Classic X-COM, the aliend did not cheat is not helping arguments that this is a good game. [quote]Look, man. You obviously play this game expecting a straight remake. It's not a straight remake. [/quote] It's not a bad game! I want to go on the record with that. [quote]If they included everything from the original it'd end up a jumbled mess, or, best case, it'd play a lot slower than the current version.[/quote] Waitasec, how would adding base invasions, the ability to take 12 dudes on a mission and more interesting loadouts result in it being jumbled? It worked just fine in X-COM. Here is my main criticism of XCOM, though, and I'll say it so I don't say it in every thread: every time you remove a decision in a squad-based tactics game, you are making your game worse. Because that's all there is with squad-based tactic games: decisions. They eliminated so many decisions from the player so quickly that the game itself is becoming a little pointless. I'll tell you something else that worries me: every mission I have been on so far had my dudes at one end of the map and the aliens directly ahead. The reason I couldn't get into Disgaea is because every battle was exactly like that and, compared to X-COM or Jagged Alliance, it feels artificial. Like a JRPG. I've only done four or five missions, but that shit really seems to be the case here. I hope that sooner or later these guys flank my ass. [quote] I'm not trying to suck Firaxis' cock here, I just found the game to be surprisingly fun, very streamlined and balanced on Normal difficulty. Maybe because I wasn't trying to nitpick each and every change from the original. Which there are a lot of, but get over it man. Enjoy life. Take a vacation.[/quote] I don't think you're trying to suck Firaxis's cock. But at the same time, all the previews on this did not communicate the fact that the dev team didn't understand what they were making, what they were doing, or the effect their decisions had. Or hell - they probably <i>did</i> understand. They are not stupid. But couldn't do anything about it. They really need to open this thing up to mods immediately. They have a 99/100 game if they let people mod it, with the one percent they don't get being the fact that they put five troops on the box for a game that lets you take 4. I don't think the mod tools are going to go as far as printing new DVD boxes. You'd pretty much need a Makerbot. Actually, there is one thing I would have liked them to go further with: so you start with 4 dudes on a mission. Fine. They make you pay for your right to take six guys. This is good! This is a great thing because I now have to make the choice to do that, versus pay for med kits or whatever, with my limited initial funds, and choices are interesting. But I wish that they had another thing where I could expand to 8. "Eight troops ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates Wait, I have one more complaint, but it's American-centric. They show the flags of where the troops are from, but not the names of the countries. To be frank, some "junior" nations in Europe and Africa change their goddamn flag, government and dictator all the time. I know that Europeans have the will to memorize flags, whereas American kids memorize which costumes the Flash wore against which foe. But this is how much I like X-COM, I want the thing to take place IN the timesteam of X-COM. The two mods I really can't wait for is the one where you can take 8 troops out, and the one where you can rightfully cram-pack that Skyranger with diamond-plated agents of ZAIRE. All right, this post is getting away from me. This is a fun game but they should have called it Alien Butt Crush or maybe gotten one of the geniuses at Blizzard to give it a hearty "x of y" name. The fact that I like it yet have complaints separates me from the No Mutants Allowed crowd, Eurotrash. It's fun! It is fun. All the models are ugly. But it's fun. God, the class system randomly deciding classes is awful. But <b>overall</b> it's fun. Holy fuck there's 9 different voices and none of them so much have a Scottish accent to them. But I am entertained for the most part. XCOM is just an easy game to nitpick. the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey![/quote]