Hey DarkSaber2k, can I ask you something? If this shooter somehow had Research, Manufacturing, Base Building, Agent Control, and Strategy, would you play it? (But from the looks of things, it won't have any of that)
@Shanks_D_Chop @PodXCOM Because tactical squad shooters has been done to death, and they don't seem to be trying anything new.
When you say "bunch of XCom games with all that", you do know you're talking about games from over 15 years ago?!
On the other hand, how many FPS games let you see everything from the ground and still let you have Strategy? Only two games Have ever did this: Dungeon Keeper and Battlezone 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwGnzS4eTfE
If this game doesn't let me feel what it must have felt like to be a real X-COM commander on the groun and control my agents, then it pointless to call it X-COM in the first place, and will problemly play like SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs.
But will it have Research? Will it have Manufacturing, or Base Building, or Agent Control, or even any Strategy? It better have all that, or I'm not playing this crap.
I got burnt two times now, because I believed in them and got nothing for it. I don't want a linear game, with a poor Mass Effect like you did before; I want an X-COM game, not a stupid social commentary.
If I see anything like this again, I'm not buying:
1. xcom Interceptor and Enforcer ruin the whole concept of X-COM-- so, in a way, yes.
2. Mario has hundreds of games, so it's ok for him to go off. But X-COM doesn't have hundreds of games.
3. 2K Marin said this game isn't about X-COM or aliens; it is all about the 60s. They don't care aboutX-COM, strategy, or even being part of X-COM's history. They could rename it Halo and they still wouldn't care.
And I wanted a FPS X-COM (like Alliance), but not like this! I wanted a FPS X-COM with Research, Manufacturing, Base Building, Agent Control, and all the things that make up an X-COM game.
@Pyrosa You shouldn't give them a chance, because this is their third chance already. I was hoping after the first outcry, they would get it together. But everything they did was a very watered down version of what X-COM was about.
But the biggest problem is that they just don't care for X-COM. They just wanted to make a Bioshock On Land, but they were given the X-COM name and they didn't want to have anything to do with it.
And it shows: Just look at the 20 minutes playthrough on youtube. They rip-off Mass Effect's power wheel and they have the balls to say it's like X-COM.
But of course, they couldn't tell us the truth, because if they did, everyone would know what a bunch of giant liers they are. Then came 2011's 20 minutes playthrough, and it played like Mass Effect with some of killzone's cover-based gameplay! just look:
Then the new game was leaked, and it showed that for the third time, Marin didn't learn a thing, and just moved it from a first-person to a third-person perspective:
What about the Research? What about Manufacturing, or Base Building, or Agent Control, or even any Strategy? They had more then 3 years to show us what makes this a X-COM game, and they show us nothing. If all that they are going to do is make a boring, linear game, then I don't want X-COM to have anything to do with this awful crap.
@blackothh @PodXCOM @LiquidGold Do you guys have something less depressing and less intense then those? Not that I don't think they're cool and all (I will take a look at them), but do you know something more happy and fun, but with a great story/plot? Like Princess Tutu, Summer Wars, Patlabor, or Cencoroll?
.... Wow! Thank you for naming all those cool anime.I haven't seen most of those ( I did see Akira, Ghost In The Shell, and Ninja scroll however), but maybe I'll take a look.
As for Jin-Roh, I was going for a art thing, like Dune or Destination: Void. Art isn't so exciting all the time, after all. And Jin-Roh did started Killzone.
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