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That wasn't a lamp. :p

 

Anyway, although I'm disappointed by how the 1950s seem to dominate all styling at the moment, I have to concede that in terms of fighting aliens it kind of works. Personally I think they should have gone with the 1980s.

20s-30s or bust.

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That wasn't impressive. Not that screenies matter so much, but it didn't look very good regardless. If that's their "best foot" at this moment, it looks like Generic Shooter Number 1982645463.

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That wasn't impressive. Not that screenies matter so much, but it didn't look very good regardless. If that's their "best foot" at this moment, it looks like Generic Shooter Number 1982645463.

I'm not too happy with the 50s style myself. Somehow I was hoping they'd make this X-Com Alliance thing again. You know, future setting, SWAT style squad with full control, and fighting real aliens, not just goo.

 

But it's too early to be pessimistic.

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It's never too early to be pessimistic. I agree they should have gone the Alliance route, was pretty cool the idea of the squad cameras and so on.

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Ok, now I have a bad feeling about this...

 

I'm kind of disappointed with the 50's theme myself, I was expecting some wacky futuristic stuff... :p

 

But goo as aliens? All over? I hope that's not the best this game will have to offer...

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But it's too early to be pessimistic.

 

 

Don't get me wrong. I'd love it if the game were a great action/shooter/other stuff game. Haven't played one in quite a while. I'm just repsondinng to what I've seen, which isnt much. And what's been said, which is just empty words at this point.

 

It doesn't matter to me if the game is squad TB or action/shooter as long as its good. I like both genres and probably like System Shock action-type games more so than TB squad combat/

 

But, the truth is, if this game weren't called XCOM, this thread wouldn't exist and we wouldn't be talking about the game like we are. It woudl just be another in-development game barely worth a mention at this point. Which is obviously why they choose the name XCOM in the first place.

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Wait, wasn't the original XCOM about space marines vs lizard-men?

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It was about managing humanity's last-ditch effort to fight off the advanced alien invasion already in progress. A desperate struggle against the odds with you being out-manned, out-gunned and having vastly inferior technology.

 

It did also have lizard men, among other things.

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Hm...Skaven vs Imperial Fists.

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Looks interesting to me :)

 

Of course, I never played any of the old Xcom games, so I guess that leaves me a bit unbiased. :)

You really need to work on your bias, otherwise you can't hate this next gen abomination properly :)

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Looks interesting to me :)

 

Of course, I never played any of the old Xcom games, so I guess that leaves me a bit unbiased. :)

You really need to work on your bias, otherwise you can't hate this next gen abomination properly :)

Seriously. They brought this series back for... a cartoonish fps starring the black blob from startrek as the antagonist?

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Looks interesting to me :)

 

Of course, I never played any of the old Xcom games, so I guess that leaves me a bit unbiased. :)

You really need to work on your bias, otherwise you can't hate this next gen abomination properly :)

Seriously. They brought this series back for... a cartoonish fps starring the black blob from startrek as the antagonist?

Hey, I've done my civic duty and hated this game duly from page one of this thread:

 

Epic Fail! :)

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I think it looks great. I'm a huge fan of the originals and I still hope for a TB strategy game some day, but this looks like a very promising FPS with a neat setting. I admit the black goo looks a bit odd, but hopefully they will also have the more traditional aliens to blast.

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Holy crap, that trailer was bad. Who cares about the title, it was just baaad.

 

 

It amazes me that anyone would contend that games are better now than they were ten years ago. Amazes me to no end.

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