X-Com Creator Weighs in on Remake
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Its true, people aren't pissed off at the concept of the game, its the fact its trying to say "look at me, I'm just like the original" even though it BLATANTLY isn't.
Another example for me was the doom movie. If you had just released a movied called..."Mars" or whatever with the same script it would have been much better, because I wouldn't have had false expectations. Alien mutants? what happened to hell invading? Same thing with this. You can CALL it XCOM all you want, but it ain't XCOM.
To all you that haven't played it yet, go on to steam and grab the complete pack. Skip enforcer, interceptor is probably easiest, then apoc, then ufo, then terror. The UFO:A* series was quite good, just missing something from the originals. As for being a link, didn't cenega manage to get some of the original microprose team working on it?
Another example for me was the doom movie. If you had just released a movied called..."Mars" or whatever with the same script it would have been much better, because I wouldn't have had false expectations. Alien mutants? what happened to hell invading? Same thing with this. You can CALL it XCOM all you want, but it ain't XCOM.
To all you that haven't played it yet, go on to steam and grab the complete pack. Skip enforcer, interceptor is probably easiest, then apoc, then ufo, then terror. The UFO:A* series was quite good, just missing something from the originals. As for being a link, didn't cenega manage to get some of the original microprose team working on it?
Anything would've been better then a fricking FPS. Theres plenty of FPS' games out already that do this better. If you want an FPS then piss off and play MW 2 or Halo. This is supposed to be a TBS. And theres good ways in making modern TBS games, Valkyria Chronicles being a step in the right direction.sneakypenguin said:
The thing of it is, I loved the transition Fallout made from top-down turn-based to the FPS model. In part because, to me, it still felt like Fallout. I honestly don't see how one can say this'll feel like X-Com. It lacks the setting. It lacks the creatures. It lacks the squads. Could this game be good? Heck, it very well may be. But I don't see any X-Com fans picking it up, playing it, and feeling like it captured the spirit of the original.
I wish the gaming industry wasn't run by people who slept through the topic of "Market Saturation" in their marketing class.
This is also why I hate the argument of "Well if you don't like how they're doing business don't buy their stuff." That only works if it's done en masse. I'm not going to buy this game. I bought X-com, TFTD, and even X-com Apoc, never bought any of the non-strategy-based X-Com games and yet FPSs are the defacto game of choice.
I do agree with other people if they had come up with their own property instead of re-using the X-Com label it would probably go over better with people who actually liked the original X-Com.
They're basically setting themselves up for failure before they even wrote one line of code, that's tragic.
This is also why I hate the argument of "Well if you don't like how they're doing business don't buy their stuff." That only works if it's done en masse. I'm not going to buy this game. I bought X-com, TFTD, and even X-com Apoc, never bought any of the non-strategy-based X-Com games and yet FPSs are the defacto game of choice.
I do agree with other people if they had come up with their own property instead of re-using the X-Com label it would probably go over better with people who actually liked the original X-Com.
They're basically setting themselves up for failure before they even wrote one line of code, that's tragic.
It's a bit different adapting a Turn-Based Tactics game into a First Person shooter, it's like turning an RPG into a Bejeweled clone, there's literally no relation. At least GTA and Fallout remained in the same genres.