X-Com being made into an FPS (Again?)

Right now the best thing that could happen to gaming would be if the Gaming INDUSTRY would collapse.
 
Well that's easy, considering how popular remakes and reboots are just get some to remake the Atari ET game which will in turn remake the 80's gaming collapse.
 
PainlessDocM said:
UnidentifiedFlyingTard said:
I wonder what older franchise is next on the FPS Remake/Sequel list
Click to expand...

Syndicate

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-06-02-new-syndicate-to-be-an-fps-report


:|

ffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Click to expand...

No, just DON'T! :x

Why this fixitation with FPS? Warcraft III wasn't FPS and had 3D graphics, you wannabe fuckers!
You know, the same type that says "but FO1 and 2 graphics aren't good or 3D, that's why FO3 is better".

Hope they don't rape the lore or setting, but who am I kidding?
Shit.
 
You know? I was curious about Fallout 3. I don't even think I can be in the same room when someone gives this game a play.
 
I remember making the "what would be remade" thread about a year back and there was some interesting ideas. I figured Crusader: No Remorse would be the obvious choice, and I'd love to play that with a 1st/3rd person option if it kept the puzzle elements in it. Syndicate is just dumb.
 
Yeah, it would be so 'easy' to make a new Syndicate with a modern engine without going FPS.
Probably wouldn't sell enough copies though.

Press a button = awesome



"Yo, the best part is when the dude, like, jumps right on top of you! And the music goes nuts! Some serious shit brah! This is gonna be, like, twice as good as Halo! Shit, it's gonna be better than Call of Duty! The multiplayer's gonna be the bomb! I'm gonna headshot everybody with the lazer, man!"

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8otmMpaIdQ[/youtube]

:roll:
 
Sorry, but if this is the better they have, I still prefer this one.

At least they are honests about what you'll get for your money.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78KH4UqhXRs[/youtube]

or you can watch a commented review.
 
Exactly. But the commentators have a point. At least Fallout 3 used identifiable elements from the previous games. They were very lazy and pointless, but at least they were there. XCOM looks very alien to the franchise :drummer:

And i like the enemies, even if i don't expect them to be used in their full potential.
 
That game comes out in my birthday.

Fallout 3 turned Fallout into anotehr kind of RPG and an FPS, it wasn't that good of an rpg but it still was a les drastic change, X-com is a turn based strategy game where you have to really progress thru tecnology, spend a lot of time looking at your map, thinking before deploying your units, building your base, etc, but they decide to make a FPS were you control 2 other guys, thats completely fucking stupid.
And the best of humanity is a bunch of guys in their thirties wearing casual clothes? WTF? this game is so obviously just jumping on the wagon that is sad. Spoony's video actualy leaves you sad, he is pretty much right in what he says there.

I can't play X-com in my pc (it goes batshit with the speed), But I have played it in at a firend's PC.
 
They should have just come up with their own name for this rather than slapping X-com on it and made a semi-creative game. It doesn't really make sense to try to associate a FPS with a turn-based strategy. It seems that the only connection this has with earlier X-com games is that there's an organization that fights aliens, and they're not even the same type of aliens.

Hell what's next, Civilization FPS?
 
Why can't they just give new games NEW names?

Yay, we'll make a new derivative, generic FPS, and slap on an X-COM sticker so all the people who played X-COM in the -90s will buy it (hint: they won't) and all the people who've heard about this awesome game X-COM but were too young to play it and never bothered to later will also buy it (I guess they might).
 
Dead Guy said:
Why can't they just give new games NEW names?
Click to expand...

That would require effort, instead of hopping on the bandwagon of "reviving" good old series, just liek teh Falloutz Tree.
 
Tremer said:
if only he would have been a fallout fan

http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/06/16/e3-2011-xcom/
Click to expand...

I was thinking the same thing when watching this (big Spoony fan), though I suspect he does know the old Fallouts, since he's a very old-school PC gamer. But as said here, the jump just isn't the same.

X-Com did have an interesting angle with its alien invasion but the game was never about that. This is a game that had TB strategy gameplay at its best and not a lot else because it didn't need that much else. So XCOM was a failure the moment they abandoned that core. And then they abandoned the setting as well. Though the new aliens look kinda neat and original.

Fallout just had more going for it. It's a TB RPG with its own character system and an original setting. At the end of the day, in broad strokes, Bethesda just removed the TB factor, which is more important than many realize but isn't the only thing defining the franchise. We don't feel they treated the rest of the franchise particularly well either, but at least they didn't cut it out outright.

It's a good sober reminder for us Fallout fans TBH: it could've been worse. Much much worse.
 
They should do the same with Wasteland. Making it a Third but better a First person shooter set in our modern times before the apocalypse fighting people with machine pistols like in CoD. Or Battlefield 3.

Hmm ? What has that to do with Wasteland you say ? Well it has the name. What else would it need ? :mrgreen:
 
Jagged Alliance is getting the same treatment btw. The reboot is a RTwP game.

They're not content with just abandoning TB strategy games, they have to rape its corpse.
 
You know. Funny that you mention it because I probably loved JA even more then Fallout (I feel pretty much like the dude in the video about X-Com).

And to say that. I really do not see why they actually had to "resurrect" it. I mean no one was really crying for it. It was also not even a game with a strong story! Just like X-Com it was about the turn based combat. Take that away. And you simply don't have JA anymore. Fighting with your mercenaries was half the fun (because they have thrown awesome one-liners at you). But the combat was what made it REALLY great.

I would rather see JA staying dead then getting a threatment it simply does not deserve. Not that there are not other alternatives which show that GOOD TB combat CAN be done with modern engines/games

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6-5BEs7-kM[/youtube]


JA, X-Com. It is also the same shit they done with Commandos changing it from a Top-Down tactic/strategy game to a "first person shooter" which killed the franchise simply because it did not offered more then any Medal of Honor (WW2 shooter ..:) or Cod Clone of that time but completely alienated the original Fan

Commandos 1
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilUPgeDTMyobase.[/youtube]

Commandos 4
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G27EXekqnRE[/youtube]
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top