Forum Overview :: Guess Who Fucked Up X-Com Now
 
They deserve the benefit of the doubt due to Enemy Unknown. by Fullofkittens 06/01/2015, 7:59pm PDT
WITTGENSTEIN wrote:

1. Pushing the reset button and giving a fuck you to people who beat XCOM is akin to killing Shephard at the beginning of Mass Effect 2. It's a crutch, and it stinks.


... much in the way that Wolfenstein: the New Order shits all over WW2 vets' legacy by pushing the reset button and assuming Hitler won. The Greatest Generation!!! How could they?

2. Mobile base. Guerilla warfare? So I guess they not only went fuck base building but went fuck bases as well? These people never fucking learn.

Base building was the weakest part of XCOM: EU and I wouldn't miss it. A good ol' fashioned tech tree would suffice as long as there's a sexy scientist, a wizened engineer, and a sweater-wearing personal assistant or some permutation of those. (e.g. Sexy engineer, wizened assistant, sweater scientist would be a-ok.)

3. How are you supposed to have intercepts when the aliens control everything? So crash-landed UFO operations are out. Terror attacks are out because why would they have terror attacks on a population they control. That just leaves...what, raiding different places?


Intercepts could be fine: you shoot them down with an interceptor and then you drop in with a transport and clean shit out before the authorities arrive. Just like a saucer mission but with a timer. Sounds fun!

Terror attacks could be fine: you now have objectives in areas full of civilians keeping you from using AoEs, and maybe it adds an element of stealth because if the aliens are alerted they start wasting the locals or using them as meatshields.

XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a really great game, if they can even just do as well as "make a new campaign with similar mechanics" I will totally buy that and love it.
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New trailer out for XCOM2 by Mysterio 06/01/2015, 2:59pm PDT NEW
    GUESS WHO FUCKED UP XCOM NOW, THE ANSWER MAY SURPRISE YOU by WITTGENSTEIN 06/01/2015, 5:49pm PDT NEW
        They deserve the benefit of the doubt due to Enemy Unknown. by Fullofkittens 06/01/2015, 7:59pm PDT NEW
            I'm ignoring most of your post because of your faggoty first sentence reply by WITTGENSTEIN 06/01/2015, 8:11pm PDT NEW
                Yeah, but we all like him way, way, WAY better than you! NT by pinback 06/02/2015, 5:48am PDT NEW
                Good job trolling the trolls, FoK by dr. no 06/02/2015, 11:26pm PDT NEW
        That... that wasn't "in-game footage", you understand. NT by pinback 06/02/2015, 5:47am PDT NEW
        I dunno, UFO Aftermath and Aftershock went the same route and were fine by Eurotrash 06/03/2015, 12:57am PDT NEW
    Okay, the strategic phase looks great. I'm sold. by WITTGENSTEIN 08/15/2015, 7:47pm PDT NEW
 
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