Forum Overview :: Guess Who Fucked Up X-Com Now

Shotguns AND cameras? by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/11/2010, 11:43pm PDT I was gonna make a long list of everything this ripped off, but for the same reason that none of us need to actually see gameplay footage to know a game is going to be terrible, we all know what it stole and from where. I have to admit I'm impressed they are this far along, what with them recording brand-new sounds for the shotgun and so forth. The part I wish I could've seen is - okay, they probably hired some additional staff for this, and brought a whole bunch of people in for interviews. There's all these poor kids in this terrible economy hoping, hoping!!! to get a video game job and then the producer smugly tells them a few details about how HE has re-imagined X-COM (sorry, XCOM) and mentions how he's setting it in the 1950s. And at that point the producer can't help but smile at how creative and precious his amazing vision is, and these poor fucking kids have to sit there and choke on their words, unable to state that someone just made a billion dollars in video games off that literally last year. That's why you accept the water they offer you, so you can sip it right there instead of calling the guy in charge of this piece of twitchy filth a miserable hack. (Note: still hoping for a great game here.) Here's another American decade that would have been a better choice than the fifties: the forties. Wait, don't click over to Metafilter, I have another one: the thirties. How do I do it. One of the side quests for the game set in the '30s could be a Kaboom!-style mini-game where you work to SAVE the people the aliens throw off the tall buildings, but mercifully let the failed stockbrokers committing suicide splat and die. Oh, I've got one last decade that is so amazingly creative, there's not even a catchy name for it: 1910-1919. God, my cock is hard, I'm going to go acquire the Freespace name and make it card-cataloging software. BE-WARE THE COLOSSUS. Also, it would be a nice touch if the funding in "XCOM" here was in 1950 dollars, so you could hire engineers at $11,000 a year, but I know they'll either fuck that up or not have any hiring in the game. the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey!

No X-COM forum? by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/13/2010, 11:32pm PDT     NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! NT by Fortinbras 04/14/2010, 1:55am PDT     Tom Clancy's Majestic 12 by Jerry Whorebach 04/14/2010, 8:11am PDT         Re: Tom Clancy's Majestic 12 by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/14/2010, 10:46am PDT             What about Jagged Alliance 2? NT by Mischief Maker 04/14/2010, 11:01am PDT                 Re: What about Jagged Alliance 2? by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/14/2010, 11:12am PDT                     Wasn't the last X-Com game an FPS? Or was that one cancelled? NT by Entropy Stew 04/14/2010, 11:59am PDT                         You mean X:Com Enforcer? by Mischief Maker 04/14/2010, 12:35pm PDT                             Re: You mean X:Com Enforcer? by Mr. Kool 04/14/2010, 1:06pm PDT                         X-Com Alliance NT by McMoo 06/15/2010, 10:05pm PDT             Re: Tom Clancy's Majestic 12 by Jdano Cable 04/14/2010, 11:41am PDT                 Did she set it on Easy? Because, you know, when you set it on easy... NT by IT'S FUCKING EASY. 04/14/2010, 12:41pm PDT                     Re: Did she set it on Easy? Because, you know, when you set it on easy... by Jdano Cable 04/14/2010, 1:19pm PDT             Re: Tom Clancy's Majestic 12 by Jerry Whorebach 04/14/2010, 3:24pm PDT                 Finally my chance to be a mommy! NT by Sassy Q. Whorebach 04/14/2010, 8:06pm PDT                 Re: Tom Clancy's Majestic 12 by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/14/2010, 11:14pm PDT     This is somehow my fault for buying Fallout 3 isn't it by jeep 04/14/2010, 5:19pm PDT         Hold on I'm remaking Trism as a FPS NT by jeep 04/14/2010, 5:19pm PDT             I sure enjoy puzzle pirates let's throw a BFG9000 in there NT by jeep 04/14/2010, 5:20pm PDT                 You know what needs a good stealth level? Battle Chess NT by jeep 04/14/2010, 5:21pm PDT                     We're gonna find out what's going on under blue queen's dress.... quietly. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/14/2010, 10:24pm PDT                         She could be you! She could be me! She could even be - (shotgun blast) NT by Blue Spy 04/15/2010, 8:14am PDT     Jed Clampett: The Game by bombMexico 06/11/2010, 2:49am PDT         I know you grew up in Mexico or whatever, but the 1950s != Jed Clampett by Fussbett 06/11/2010, 4:16am PDT             STALEMATE by Jerry Whorebach 06/11/2010, 5:11am PDT                 Ah, the shooting (X-Com 2011: studying) oil angle. NT by Fussbett 06/11/2010, 11:39am PDT         Re: Jed Clampett: The Game by motherfuckerfoodeater 06/11/2010, 11:59am PDT     Re: No X-COM forum? by Orange Mischief Maker 06/11/2010, 11:04am PDT         Shotguns AND cameras? by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/11/2010, 11:43pm PDT             Re: Shotguns AND cameras? by Orange Mischief Maker 06/12/2010, 9:09am PDT                 Yeah, the problem isn't the year, it's the total FPS devotion. by Fussbett 06/12/2010, 2:27pm PDT                     IGN preview says it might not be terrible by Fussbett 06/12/2010, 2:43pm PDT     testing the move NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/11/2010, 1:42pm PDT         excellent work, sir NT by Fullofkittens 06/11/2010, 4:03pm PDT