leafer Posted September 20, 2012 Posted September 20, 2012 http://www.xcom.com/enemyunknown/information I think this is the game that will break my seven-year streak in gaming hiatus. I can't wait! ED have been taking my money since 1995. :P
Toxe Posted September 20, 2012 Posted September 20, 2012 I played the old X-Com games back in the days and they were fantastic, can't wait for this one.
leafer Posted September 20, 2012 Author Posted September 20, 2012 Never played the original, but I'm sure it didn't become a classic on pure luck. :D I'm sure you have, but if you haven't then check out the game play vids of X-Com EU, it's just brilliant! ED have been taking my money since 1995. :P
lokitexas Posted September 20, 2012 Posted September 20, 2012 I miss Silent Storm, and its exp packs. Never played the original either, but XCom EU is looking really good. Will be a first day purchase for me. i5 3570k @ 4.3 560ti GTX 2gig 8gig RAM Intel SSD Win7 64bit
leafer Posted September 20, 2012 Author Posted September 20, 2012 Silent Storm! Such a brilliant but sadly such underrated game. I'd buy a sequel in a heartbeat. ED have been taking my money since 1995. :P
lokitexas Posted September 20, 2012 Posted September 20, 2012 Silent Storm! Such a brilliant but sadly such underrated game. I'd buy a sequel in a heartbeat. I still had a pile of the old CD's from SS, and then found Silent Storm Gold on gog.com for 10 bucks! Could not resist. Now if I could find some time to play it again.... i5 3570k @ 4.3 560ti GTX 2gig 8gig RAM Intel SSD Win7 64bit
leafer Posted September 21, 2012 Author Posted September 21, 2012 Man, X-Com gets so little love around here. ED have been taking my money since 1995. :P
sungsam Posted September 21, 2012 Posted September 21, 2012 (edited) This one Rocks. X-com Enemy Unknown will be one of the few games I 'll spare time besides Flight Sims !:thumbup: Another retro revival that rocks is this http://www.carriercommand.com/ Edited September 21, 2012 by sungsam DCS F16C 52+ w JHMCS ! DCS AH64D Longbow !
EagleEye Posted September 21, 2012 Posted September 21, 2012 Yeah, can`t wait since first announcement!:cheer3nc:Had a look trough the ton`s of gameplay vids recently from the "press"? preview version. Don`t know yet, if I should buy german or english version. The german speech sounds dull to me... Deutsche DCS-Flughandbücher SYSSpecs: i7-4790K @4GHz|GA-Z97X-SLI|16GB RAM|ASUS GTX1070|Win10 64bit|TrackIR5|TM Warthog/Saitek Pro Pedals
lokitexas Posted September 26, 2012 Posted September 26, 2012 Demo out on Steam. Going to DL it soon. i5 3570k @ 4.3 560ti GTX 2gig 8gig RAM Intel SSD Win7 64bit
leafer Posted September 26, 2012 Author Posted September 26, 2012 Thank you. Downloading now. ED have been taking my money since 1995. :P
EagleEye Posted September 26, 2012 Posted September 26, 2012 DLing since yesterday evening....it takes a while on my i-net connection.:music_whistling: Give it a try probably this evening.:thumbup: Deutsche DCS-Flughandbücher SYSSpecs: i7-4790K @4GHz|GA-Z97X-SLI|16GB RAM|ASUS GTX1070|Win10 64bit|TrackIR5|TM Warthog/Saitek Pro Pedals
leafer Posted September 26, 2012 Author Posted September 26, 2012 What utter disappointment. The terrible user interface I can live with, but why they don't let you control all the camera movements with your mouse is beyond me. Also, you can only move your soldiers to a grid specified by the game. WTH? You can't click at the enemy to shoot it! WHAT? The game tells you who to shoot and all you had to do is hit space and the game switches to some kind of cinematic mode where you have to wait until it's over before issuing another command. ARGGH! Deleted. ED have been taking my money since 1995. :P
lokitexas Posted September 26, 2012 Posted September 26, 2012 What utter disappointment. The terrible user interface I can live with, but why they don't let you control all the camera movements with your mouse is beyond me. Also, you can only move your soldiers to a grid specified by the game. WTH? You can't click at the enemy to shoot it! WHAT? The game tells you who to shoot and all you had to do is hit space and the game switches to some kind of cinematic mode where you have to wait until it's over before issuing another command. ARGGH! Deleted. Yeah, I heard the demo is crap, and you only have minutes worth of actually freedom. Most of it is scripted, and you have to do the tutorial. Oh well, not the best demo, but at least the game will be out soon. i5 3570k @ 4.3 560ti GTX 2gig 8gig RAM Intel SSD Win7 64bit
leafer Posted September 27, 2012 Author Posted September 27, 2012 I hope this isn't indicative of what is to come because this demo ruined it for me for sure. Back on the fence I go. I wanted squad-based Jagged Alliance in a sci-fi settings but I guess they thought it'd be cool to add cinematic crap to the action. ED have been taking my money since 1995. :P
lokitexas Posted September 27, 2012 Posted September 27, 2012 I hope this isn't indicative of what is to come because this demo ruined it for me for sure. Back on the fence I go. I wanted squad-based Jagged Alliance in a sci-fi settings but I guess they thought it'd be cool to add cinematic crap to the action. Just got done playing the demo, and its pretty weak. BUT....according to the xcom forum, the demo is so limited compared to the real game it has some folks pissed off. So, it looks like the hand holding demo is not how the game is. From the video gameplays, it looks totally different. So fear not. i5 3570k @ 4.3 560ti GTX 2gig 8gig RAM Intel SSD Win7 64bit
Rusty_M Posted September 27, 2012 Posted September 27, 2012 The last few posts remind me of an article I read several years ago about why a pre-release demo is always pointless. People who would pre-order have already pre-ordered. A good demo will bring in extra customers whether it's put up before or after release. A bad demo before release may put off people who had - or would have - pre-ordered. I think the article was in relation to the demo for the first Dead Space. A game whose demo was notoriously unrepresentative. The world is going mad. Me? I'm doing fine! http://www.twitch.tv/rusty_the_robot https://www.youtube.com/user/RustyRobotGaming
EagleEye Posted September 27, 2012 Posted September 27, 2012 (edited) I´m not impressed from the demo to. Same here with: "Why the hell we cannot rotate with mouse!?" and yes, all seems simplyfied. Moving grids, aiming helpers and so on. An inherited from the console`s again? Another observation was that it probably have a problem with Line of Sight(cliping?, collision detection?). My soldier was shooting from a roof through! the corner of that house and was hiting the alien. Sure with all that base stuff, research and so on not available in the demo a huge part left what made the original game for me. Soundeffects are nice, though the music in the original game was more oppressive to me. Allready pre-ordered it. EDIT: Haven`t seen that yet? Demo Editor: http://forums.2kgames.com/showthread.php?140536-Demo-Editor-I-just-Made You can play against other alien types. Cool. Edited September 27, 2012 by EagleEye Deutsche DCS-Flughandbücher SYSSpecs: i7-4790K @4GHz|GA-Z97X-SLI|16GB RAM|ASUS GTX1070|Win10 64bit|TrackIR5|TM Warthog/Saitek Pro Pedals
leafer Posted September 27, 2012 Author Posted September 27, 2012 Fortunately there is this: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/10/01/xenonauts-preview/. Something I stumbled upon while searching for sign of hope for XCOM EU. And there's hope for XCOM EU, yet. http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/tag/xcom-enemy-unknown/ ED have been taking my money since 1995. :P
YoYo Posted September 27, 2012 Posted September 27, 2012 I wait for this like on the very hot stones. It was my first game on PC - ups, PC was my girlfriend :D (1997 or 98...). And whole nights with monitor and ... just one mission, just one, ok next be the last, ops, poor score, take the new, just one... Sun starts shining... :D Played demo, yes - old memories come back. Im ready for the 12.10.12. Just pity about unlimited ammo of guns. Webmaster of http://www.yoyosims.pl Win 10 64, i9-13900 KF, RTX 5090 32Gb OC, RAM 64Gb Corsair Vengeance LED OC@3600MHz,, 3xSSD+3xSSD M.2 NVMe, Predator XB271HU res.2560x1440 27'' G-sync, Sound Blaster Z + 5.1, TiR5, [MSFS, P3Dv5, DCS, RoF, Condor2, IL-2 CoD/BoX] VR fly only: Meta Quest Pro
leafer Posted September 28, 2012 Author Posted September 28, 2012 Sounded like you're going to like Xenonaunts even more. Check out this guy's preview of Xenonaunts. He's awesome. ED have been taking my money since 1995. :P
Dudikoff Posted October 11, 2012 Posted October 11, 2012 (edited) Silent Storm! Such a brilliant but sadly such underrated game. I'd buy a sequel in a heartbeat. The engine was amazing at the time, but too bad the game mixed in the sci-fi elements. What a waste of an engine. With some Western company handling the story and the production (voice acting, etc.), it could have been a hit (e.g. smth like Wages of War missions and pre-mission stuff and this engine). Hammer & Sickle was a better attempt, but was rather hard and unforgiving. A few years back, they considered using the engine for Jagged Alliance 3 and there were even some youtube test videos of it, but then they canceled it again (for the umpteenth time). The engine was rather old by that time, though, although I guess I'd enjoy that game-play type more than the BiA style. Edited October 11, 2012 by Dudikoff i386DX40@42 MHz w/i387 CP, 4 MB RAM (8*512 kB), Trident 8900C 1 MB w/16-bit RAMDAC ISA, Quantum 340 MB UDMA33, SB 16, DOS 6.22 w/QEMM + Win3.11CE, Quickshot 1btn 2axis, Numpad as hat. 2 FPH on a good day, 1 FPH avg. DISCLAIMER: My posts are still absolutely useless. Just finding excuses not to learn the F-14 (HB's Swansong?). Annoyed by my posts? Please consider donating. Once the target sum is reached, I'll be off to somewhere nice I promise not to post from. I'd buy that for a dollar!
leafer Posted October 11, 2012 Author Posted October 11, 2012 I actually liked the sci-fi armors in SS. It was a rather good looking game with some funny one-liners, and the rag-doll physics was something else back then, too. :) They don't make turn-based game like that anymore. ED have been taking my money since 1995. :P
Recommended Posts