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Offline TrashMan

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Re: X-COM Enemy Unknown by Firaxis
Reply #140 on: September 11, 2012, 02:02:15 am
Ironicly, that's what many players like.

Managing your team to details(if necessary). Tons of options.

It can get clunky with many soldiers, but that's whay it's a squad-based game. You really shouldn't be running around with an army.

I'd recommend you try Xenonauts.
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Re: X-COM Enemy Unknown by Firaxis
Reply #141 on: September 11, 2012, 02:18:24 am
the challenge of tactical shooters like X-Com is to squeeze the best out of your team
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Re: X-COM Enemy Unknown by Firaxis
Reply #142 on: September 11, 2012, 09:56:54 am
Quote from: TrashMan on September 11, 2012, 02:02:15 am
Ironicly, that's what many players like.

Managing your team to details(if necessary). Tons of options.

It can get clunky with many soldiers, but that's whay it's a squad-based game. You really shouldn't be running around with an army.

I'd recommend you try Xenonauts.
Except XCOM is perfect for introducing people like me to these games that since there's only 4-6 men per team, maximum, and the UI looks pretty clean and easy to use.

Headdie, I've already said I'm going to be downloading the demo if/when Firaxis releases one, so we'll see if I end up liking that sort of challenge.  I certainly won't buy a game in a genre I've never played before and hope I like the game.
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[21:51] <@Droid803> I now realize
[21:51] <@Droid803> this will be SLIIIIIGHTLY awkward
[21:51] <@Droid803> as this rich psychic girl will now be tsundere for a loli.
[21:51] <@Droid803> OH WELLL.

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[07:57:32] <Caiaphas> inspired by HerraTohtori i built a supermaneuverable plane in ksp
[07:57:43] <Caiaphas> i just killed my pilots with a high-g maneuver
[07:58:19] <Caiaphas> apparently people can't take 20 gees for 5 continuous seconds
[08:00:11] <Caiaphas> the plane however performed admirably, and only crashed because it no longer had any guidance systems
 

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Re: X-COM Enemy Unknown by Firaxis
Reply #143 on: September 13, 2012, 02:58:47 pm
"Load sabot. Target Zaku, direct front!"

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Re: X-COM Enemy Unknown by Firaxis
Reply #144 on: September 13, 2012, 03:44:12 pm
I have no real plans to play this game, but I got invested enough in those LPs that I'm getting very excited by proxy. :D
 

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Re: X-COM Enemy Unknown by Firaxis
Reply #145 on: September 13, 2012, 04:13:47 pm
I'm interested in some xeno-blasting of my own with all the new videos coming out.  The little cutscenes of soliders on both sides getting blasted and falling down as bleeding corpses adds to the movie-like atmosphere, especially with the voiced quotes from soldiers in the field.  Plus if things get too difficult for me I can always mod in plot armor for my XCOM soldiers so a plasma bolt to the chest is just absorbed by the padding women tend to have there.  Yes, I fully intend to have XCOM's main force of alien-killers be a squad of vengeful Valkyries. ;7
17:37:02   Quanto: I want to have sexual intercourse with every space elf in existence
17:37:11   SpardaSon21: even the males?
17:37:22   Quanto: its not gay if its an elf

[21:51] <@Droid803> I now realize
[21:51] <@Droid803> this will be SLIIIIIGHTLY awkward
[21:51] <@Droid803> as this rich psychic girl will now be tsundere for a loli.
[21:51] <@Droid803> OH WELLL.

See what you're missing in #WoD and #Fsquest?

[07:57:32] <Caiaphas> inspired by HerraTohtori i built a supermaneuverable plane in ksp
[07:57:43] <Caiaphas> i just killed my pilots with a high-g maneuver
[07:58:19] <Caiaphas> apparently people can't take 20 gees for 5 continuous seconds
[08:00:11] <Caiaphas> the plane however performed admirably, and only crashed because it no longer had any guidance systems
 

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Re: X-COM Enemy Unknown by Firaxis
Reply #146 on: September 13, 2012, 05:21:58 pm
Quote from: Mongoose on September 13, 2012, 03:44:12 pm
I have no real plans to play this game, but I got invested enough in those LPs that I'm getting very excited by proxy. :D

A Very Firaxis Sequel is pretty much a go at this point, I admit.
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Re: X-COM Enemy Unknown by Firaxis
Reply #147 on: September 13, 2012, 05:37:13 pm
Quote from: NGTM-1R on September 13, 2012, 05:21:58 pm
Quote from: Mongoose on September 13, 2012, 03:44:12 pm
I have no real plans to play this game, but I got invested enough in those LPs that I'm getting very excited by proxy. :D

A Very Firaxis Sequel is pretty much a go at this point, I admit.

Dibs on the pilot!

EDIT:  Or, perhaps this time I should be the air wing commander.  Too many missions in too many wars. :P
 

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Re: X-COM Enemy Unknown by Firaxis
Reply #148 on: September 13, 2012, 05:53:22 pm
I volunteer for Assault duties.
17:37:02   Quanto: I want to have sexual intercourse with every space elf in existence
17:37:11   SpardaSon21: even the males?
17:37:22   Quanto: its not gay if its an elf

[21:51] <@Droid803> I now realize
[21:51] <@Droid803> this will be SLIIIIIGHTLY awkward
[21:51] <@Droid803> as this rich psychic girl will now be tsundere for a loli.
[21:51] <@Droid803> OH WELLL.

See what you're missing in #WoD and #Fsquest?

[07:57:32] <Caiaphas> inspired by HerraTohtori i built a supermaneuverable plane in ksp
[07:57:43] <Caiaphas> i just killed my pilots with a high-g maneuver
[07:58:19] <Caiaphas> apparently people can't take 20 gees for 5 continuous seconds
[08:00:11] <Caiaphas> the plane however performed admirably, and only crashed because it no longer had any guidance systems
 

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Re: X-COM Enemy Unknown by Firaxis
Reply #149 on: September 13, 2012, 06:05:57 pm
Hold the **** up people, I've still got leftovers from the last LP who need assigning before we get in new volunteers.
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Re: X-COM Enemy Unknown by Firaxis
Reply #150 on: September 13, 2012, 06:37:09 pm
I'm not a new volunteer.  I was in your EU and TFTD games as a veteran alien killer.  In EU I was second only to The E in kills and graduated first in class from X-COM's University of Psionics with a Psi Score of 98.
17:37:02   Quanto: I want to have sexual intercourse with every space elf in existence
17:37:11   SpardaSon21: even the males?
17:37:22   Quanto: its not gay if its an elf

[21:51] <@Droid803> I now realize
[21:51] <@Droid803> this will be SLIIIIIGHTLY awkward
[21:51] <@Droid803> as this rich psychic girl will now be tsundere for a loli.
[21:51] <@Droid803> OH WELLL.

See what you're missing in #WoD and #Fsquest?

[07:57:32] <Caiaphas> inspired by HerraTohtori i built a supermaneuverable plane in ksp
[07:57:43] <Caiaphas> i just killed my pilots with a high-g maneuver
[07:58:19] <Caiaphas> apparently people can't take 20 gees for 5 continuous seconds
[08:00:11] <Caiaphas> the plane however performed admirably, and only crashed because it no longer had any guidance systems
 

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Re: X-COM Enemy Unknown by Firaxis
Reply #151 on: September 13, 2012, 06:56:11 pm
He means people who didn't get to fill out the roster but volunteered for duty.
 

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Re: X-COM Enemy Unknown by Firaxis
Reply #152 on: September 13, 2012, 07:37:38 pm
Oh.  I though he had just forgotten about my contributions to saving mankind in favor of people that are more well-known on the forums, like for example The E and Spoon, especially because they were the ones who got hailed as badass alien slayers.  It wouldn't have been so bad if NGTM-1R had started to use psionics and let me mind-rape the alien hordes with my godlike powers.
17:37:02   Quanto: I want to have sexual intercourse with every space elf in existence
17:37:11   SpardaSon21: even the males?
17:37:22   Quanto: its not gay if its an elf

[21:51] <@Droid803> I now realize
[21:51] <@Droid803> this will be SLIIIIIGHTLY awkward
[21:51] <@Droid803> as this rich psychic girl will now be tsundere for a loli.
[21:51] <@Droid803> OH WELLL.

See what you're missing in #WoD and #Fsquest?

[07:57:32] <Caiaphas> inspired by HerraTohtori i built a supermaneuverable plane in ksp
[07:57:43] <Caiaphas> i just killed my pilots with a high-g maneuver
[07:58:19] <Caiaphas> apparently people can't take 20 gees for 5 continuous seconds
[08:00:11] <Caiaphas> the plane however performed admirably, and only crashed because it no longer had any guidance systems
 

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Re: X-COM Enemy Unknown by Firaxis
Reply #153 on: September 13, 2012, 08:48:33 pm
Quote from: NGTM-1R on September 13, 2012, 05:21:58 pm
A Very Firaxis Sequel is pretty much a go at this point, I admit.

Are you going to practice a bit first, or just get straight into the LP when it releases?
 

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Re: X-COM Enemy Unknown by Firaxis
Reply #154 on: September 13, 2012, 08:51:19 pm
Quote from: Scourge of Ages on September 13, 2012, 08:48:33 pm
Quote from: NGTM-1R on September 13, 2012, 05:21:58 pm
A Very Firaxis Sequel is pretty much a go at this point, I admit.

Are you going to practice a bit first, or just get straight into the LP when it releases?

I'll probably start the LP but move slowly so I can practice a bit as well.
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Re: X-COM Enemy Unknown by Firaxis
Reply #155 on: September 14, 2012, 07:11:47 am
"No"
 

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Re: X-COM Enemy Unknown by Firaxis
Reply #156 on: September 14, 2012, 10:14:15 am
dat video.

looks... so full of win.
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Re: X-COM Enemy Unknown by Firaxis
Reply #157 on: September 24, 2012, 07:24:45 pm
Demo is out. Not sure what I think.
 

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Re: X-COM Enemy Unknown by Firaxis
Reply #158 on: September 24, 2012, 08:42:06 pm
Quote from: General Battuta on September 24, 2012, 07:24:45 pm
Demo is out. Not sure what I think.

what do you mean?

It's no good?, vids made it look like a nice game.
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Re: X-COM Enemy Unknown by Firaxis
Reply #159 on: September 24, 2012, 08:58:22 pm
It's really hard to say from the demo, but on the tactile level of mouse movements and interface it is a little console. It does not capture the spirit of the original X-COM, but it might turn out to have a cool spirit of its own.

Right now I am just mourning a lot of the stuff that's been removed and strange artistic decisions they made. Sectoids are feral and animalistic, there's no way to loiter your Skyrangers, everything's all dollied up in scripted sequences (even out of mission, in your base)...I'm not sure.
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