Poll: Do you want the XCOM FPS?

[Infernai]

Seeing as this seemed to be just an FPS set in the same universe rather then actually trying to bastardise the story/setting...i didn't really see the issue, but i can understand some people being pissy.

That said, the amount of hate this got did seem sort of disproportionate to me...but then again i make no secret about the fact i have a very big disinterest and a slight dislike for the strategy genre (There's a reason i say Samurai/Dynasty Warriors are my favorite RTS games)

Although...there was ONE series exception to my RTS dislike: Dawn of War.


Even now i don't understand why i like this RTS series so much, something about it just clicked with me..i guess being a fan of the setting helped immensely. Plus, Dark Crusades intro movie was just all kinds of awesome.

 

[pilouuuu]

Sure. It may be a nice game in the XCOM universe. Like a spin-off. Their mistake was announcing it before the real XCOM. It needs some work though. There are rumours that it's now a third person tactical shooter which sounds much better. We don't need another run-of-the-mill FPS.

 

[Hargrimm]

BETRAYAL! BE-TRAY-AL!
THIS GAME SUUUUUUUCKS!

Ahem...
No, I don't like what I have seen and I do not look forward to it.
It has nothing to do with X-com and I still have no idea why it is even called that.

EDIT: herpa derp.

 

[fat american]

I think I agree with some of the statements on here that they could have named it something other than xcom and it would have been fairly well received. It seriously has practically nothing in it that is similar to the rest of the franchise. I haven't really played a whole lot of the other two but I don't remember any of the aliens being...I guess artificial beings is what they are, I'm not quite sure. I'm definitely interested in following this one just to see how it turns out though. A little off topic here but you could probably combine the I don't know and I'm not sure options in your poll. They're pretty much the same answer.

Also here's a link to the most recent gameplay video of it I could find

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeVTqf0RHHc

It's a little lengthy (20 minutes) but it looks a hell of a lot better than those weird goo things.

 

[Frankster]

Seeing as this seemed to be just an FPS set in the same universe rather then actually trying to bastardise the story/setting

It does NOT take place in the same universe and DID bastardize the established setting.
Just so we are clear on that Xcom was founded in 1999, was a multinational organization not just an american one and there was no previous alien invasion before the one described in original xcom.

Sure. It may be a nice game in the XCOM universe. Like a spin-off.

Same goes for you, its not the same universe. Goddamnit people! It is a reimagining, pure and simple. It does not fit with previous cannon in any way, even previous xcom spinoffs that did something different (interceptor) fitted in xcom cannon but this one does not. Actually i take that back, xcom: enforcer was cannon breaking. And xcom: enforcer is generally agreed to be an abomination so clearly isnt the best example to follow.

Otherwise despite comments im curious enough about game to check it out when it will be released, assuming its not a reskinned bioshock there does seem to be some fun elements in the game.
Just regret the game was called xcom, it shot itself in the foot big time.

 

[Doclector]

I was actually looking forward to it.

I wasn't a fan of xcom though. I'd only heard of it through other people saying how great it was.

I'll agree, though, that to actually name it "xcom" was a massive mistake.

I wanted it for very different reasons than the reasons other people were excited about it, though. I like the asthetic, and the idea of these liquid blob parasite aliens was appealing to me, but what made me excited was that finally, this wasn't some super soldier/robot going up against the hopelessly big and terrifying alien invasion. This was just some regular guy, albeit a guy equipped with high tech weapons. I'm fed up of looking at the big, bad aliens in games and then looking at my own superpowers and thinking "Meh. I can take 'em." An alien invasion in games should feel threatening, and letting me play as a mix of captain america and iron man makes that pretty improbable.

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

Nope.

I was quite sad and raging and frothing at the first reveal, but that's a thing of the past now that we have what seems to be a splendid turn-based actiony game with bits and pieces that look well enough like brief 3D FPS sequences when your units are traversing, moving, prancing about or getting shot to bits by nasty, ugly, stark naked aliens.

Love it.

 

[Codeknight]

It seems pretty boring and, mechanically speaking, of poor quality. I have a feeling that the main inspiration for the combat was not XCOM, obviously, but Mass Effect.I know there are some people out there, but not many play it for it's combat system.

That said, when I saw the first scene of the first trailer for it I was excited. From that little bit with the alien disguised as a lady it brought to mind investigation. I think the game would be awesome if they ditched the combat and went instead for a system where you didn't know who your enemy was. You where plopped down in a neighborhood (or wherever the mission takes place) and you had to look around and talk to people to figure out which person or people had been body snatched, where the aliens where hiding, or what they where trying to do. Something along those lines would fit infinitely better with their shoehorned story about it being many years before the full on invasion as well. Who the hell would consider the events in the new trailers and game-play footage to NOT be a full on invasion?

tl;dr So yeah, this game would fit much better being more X-files, less Rambo.

 

[Schtoobs]

It didn't look good. Didn't look like it couldn't be a good game though. I tried the demo of the strategy one on Steam and really liked it despite not being a fan of turn based stratagy. But the XCOM FPS I saw in a trailer looked like clips of a multiplayer deathmatch edited together with scripted bits from the single player. Like they were trying to convince someone that the game was further along in development than it was. I wasn't impressed at all but its not really enough to go on.

Could just as easily be really good. We need a playable demo.

 

[Hargrimm]

Seriously?

Can you handle this fucking rectangle?!

Seriously, the FPS was a bioshock ripoff with laughable enemy design. If the team is so lazy the enemies are basic geometric shapes, you can't say they have talent.

These are the same people who made Bioshock 2, the worst Bioshock game. And yet they have the audacity to try to make Bioshock 2.5 and try to pass it off as not-bioshock.

Don't forget the Inkblots man, those things are vicious!

And the circles. They will fucking wreck your shit, mang!

 

[Nouw]

It has potential and I'd love to see it happen. If it pulls off the 50's feel, even better! Also, I don't really see the problem with geometrical enemy designs as long as there come in varieties and at one point we get the aliens we know and love. I mean come on, how many times have you seen and fought cuboids in a shooter? It reminds me of some of the Angels from Evangelion. Was anyone really expecting the next Angel to take the form of an octahedron?

snipped for the emprah

I love your avatar, Imperial Guard memes are the best!

 

[Terrible Opinions]

You might as well ask "Do you want to play a random FPS."

Because that's about all the X-Com FPS was to me, and I think that's true for a lot of people.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Eaaagh.

If they hadn't slapped the Xcom name on it, I would have been more interested in it.

Now that they have desperately changed things around without dealing with the actual issue (ie calling it Xcom), I do not give a damn about it anymore.

 

[saleem]

Since they announced it to be in third person I'm only more excited about it. I love the classic and the new strategy one looks awesome but I have been waiting for this one. If it plays anything like ME does then I'll be all over it.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Another CoD clone with a twist... I mean seriously how could you ever think it would be anything but the greatest game ever made.

I do like how the blind consumerism is outlined in the poll, in case you wondered this is why they keep making these.

 

[Savagezion]

It's flawed at its core. It is being made because FPSs (read CoD/BF) are market leaders in pop culture right now and X-Com was popular enough to inspire many spiritual successors. It isn't being made because FPS is the only way to fully realize the experience they intend on delivering as it is clear that they don't know the type of experience they even want to deliver yet considering that part of the mission statement has changed twice and is possibly undergoing a third ATM.

I voted I don't care. I don't have hate for the game, nor a positive outlook. This game is merely trying to appeal to statistics and chaotic feedback.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

I'd rather it was called Xcom: Generic subtitle rather than calling it Xcom. They only called it Xcom for brand recognition and if you are doing that just call it a spin off and be done with it.

 

[Pink Gregory]

I'd rather it was called Xcom: Generic subtitle rather than calling it Xcom. They only called it Xcom for brand recognition and if you are doing that just call it a spin off and be done with it.

Was it announced/demoed before or after the Syndicate shambles?
Would have left a bad taste in anyone's mouth, more so for fans of older IPs.

From the demo I saw, it looked as if it could have some interesting mechanics, and being made by 2K, who made Bioshock (and Bioshock 2, for better or worse), both of which I enjoyed as FPSes; but ultimately, it comes down to what Yahtzee has said before; the standard template for this generation of AAA games is FPS, and it's become so stale it's powdered, like platformers before it.