[General Battuta]

Guys, seriously: there is no point in responding to TrashMan in discussions like these. Just ignore his posts, by one method or another. You do nothing but clutter up the thread.

[Akalabeth Angel]

I'm not that fond of rigid classes (only a heavy can throw grenades, only a sniper cna climb on roofs, etc..)
I'm not fond of catroony proportaions (the heavy looks like it came from Gears of War, sniper is skin and bones, etc..)

And X-Com? It's an old game. With that kind of graphics you couldn't do much in the first place.

I'm guessing part of that is due to visual recognition. So the player can know which guy is which without squinting at the screen sort of thing. (Oh there's my heavy, oh there's my sniper, etcetera).

I don't mind cartoony graphics/proportions, just as long as the creepy atmosphere is maintained. Compare this to xenonauts (on the kickstarter thread) which seems to have taken a super-realistic look to the squads and so forth, it's just not interesting to me personally.

Either way I'd encourage anyone to not pass judgement on a game until they've had time to play it, or, at least watch someone else play it. (like the WTF is series for example)

[TrashMan]

Guys, seriously: there is no point in responding to TrashMan in discussions like these. Just ignore his posts, by one method or another. You do nothing but clutter up the thread.

 

Is there a point to arguing design preferences AT ALL?
Why do you insist on singling me out?

Or am I EEEVIL because I'm not drooling over the hype? Must I join the herd?
"Praise the game/desing or GTFO?"
Seriously, this kind of behavior really pisses me off. Especially comoing form you Batutta.

[General Battuta]

There's no problem with you registering your points, I even agree (to varying degrees) with some of them. It's the pointless ****ty waves of back-and-forth arguments that need to be avoided.

[NGTM-1R]

Nother Dev Doc

Includes flying suits, Chrysalids and SpzKpfw I

Where what? I SAW NO TANKS.

[General Battuta]

No there was definitely a 'tank' (though I think they're called UGCVs or something now)

[NGTM-1R]

Hmm. Have to watch again.

[Titan]

Definitely a tank.

[Rodo]

Nah, it's a small UGV alright.

[NGTM-1R]

It's not exactly small, bigger than your average bomb squad robot. It appears to have plasma weaponry or whatever the green highlighted gun type is.

EDIT: scratch that, the light isn't on the gun. It's still a pretty large weapon, though. Maybe the rocket tank in the first few shots? It's hard to say but the second tank, the one we see firing first, seems to have smaller gun than the one in the first few shots background and the one we see firing second.

[Spoon]

Without having played any of the X-COM games and only really knowing about them recently due to the LP threads. I must say that I'm more or less looking forward to this game. Looks like they are doing most of the things right.
I hope they release it on steam too.

[General Battuta]

god almighty

[Commander Zane]

Dat trailer music.
Dat everything.

[Scotty]

It showed nothing gameplay.

It didn't have to.

[General Battuta]

It showed nothing gameplay.

It didn't have to.

A lot of that was stuff you'll see in gameplay, though mostly in reaction to player input. A mixture of combat animations, enemy intro vignettes, research vignettes from the base, mission start vignettes, blah blah.

[The E]

i want this game so much

[NGTM-1R]

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY GODDAMN MONEY.

EDIT: Well, there's the Spoonzerkampfwagon 2 Laser Tank.

And there was a bit there that looked like you might get a robot, at 1:32ish.

[karajorma]

I loved the nice touch of getting a British sounding reporter on the voice over. The guy really does sound like a BBC reporter.

Between this and Carrier Command it's like someone decided to bring all the favourites of my youth back again.

[NGTM-1R]

They poked a little fun at us all with the Latin motto you see on one trooper's armor there.

[StarSlayer]

Money sent c'mon October...