beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
MightyHedgehog said:
yeah, i don't mean to seem protective with my comments. i've actually never played an X-COM game. i suck at strategy games.
this just looks like a crappy game though. i like the concept just fine.
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XCOM Debut Trailer and Preview
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yeah, i don't mean to seem protective with my comments. i've actually never played an X-COM game. i suck at strategy games.
this just looks like a crappy game though. i like the concept just fine.
EmCeeGramr
Member
The goo looks really bad. It keeps flipping out and the trail is all janky, like it keeps hitting a seam and stops.
And you can see a seam down the dude's arm in the first first-person part, where the goo or whatever is clearly off.
And you can see a seam down the dude's arm in the first first-person part, where the goo or whatever is clearly off.
MightyHedgehog
Member
Not my fault if people like to make the terms interchangeable when they're really not quite. I mean, the words do have meaning.charsace said:
S sounds better than T inside of those particular acronyms, I agree with that much.EmCeeGramr
Member
Well then they should make something that's supposed to look good.Htown said:
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
mujun said:
me too, man. but you gots to calls em like you sees em.
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
monocromo said:
i think many of the developers of the o.g. bioshock work at 2k marin and worked on bioshock 2.
TheVampire
Banned
So much hate
I thought it looked really good
I thought it looked really good
The Faceless Master
Member
Suburban Shock
SpeedySwaf
Member
I'm kinda hoping the game is somewhat episodic, with each episode having you face off with a different species of alien.Router said:
So, the first episode could be the blob aliens in suburbia, the next could be insect aliens in coal mines, then reptile aliens in a city, etc.
Also, saying it's by the people who made Bioshock sells the game better than by saying it's by Irrational Canbe-- sorry, 2K Austra-- sorry, 2K Marin.
There are MicroForte and Freedom Force Irrational guys on the Aussie side of the team, so I do believe they understand X-Com and can make a great 're-imagining'; it's just not one I'll be able to play, since I'm horseshit at shooters.
There are MicroForte and Freedom Force Irrational guys on the Aussie side of the team, so I do believe they understand X-Com and can make a great 're-imagining'; it's just not one I'll be able to play, since I'm horseshit at shooters.
Alex Connolly
Member
I love the setting! I really enjoyed the old XCOM games, but very intrigued to see a new take on it.
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
monocromo said:
no, i agree it's misleading. but that's marketing for you.
It's not supposed to look good it's supposed to look like something that doesn't belong on this planet or maybe even this reality. And that doesn't mean slapping Star Trek prosthetics on a human. Or making something that looks exactly like the jelly in your fridge.EmCeeGramr said:
jim-jam bongs
Member
EmCeeGramr said:
I rarely say this, but /thread
On the other hand, that Deus Ex 3 preview from Eurogamer actually sounded better than expected!
Rapping Granny
Banned
~Kinggi~ said:
Yeah it looked different until the bioshock shotgun and sound effetcs popped up and then it was all boom boom boom boom dude bro.
EmCeeGramr
Member
This is great.Htown said:
The bad uneven graphics, which look exactly like unfinished and buggy video game graphics on Earth, are actually alien biology.
Maybe next they can throw in clipping, screen tearing, bad animations, and missing textures. You know so that "doesn't look right" feel is perfect.
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
they should've used those aliens from the end of AI
harry4000uk
Banned
worst looking game i've seen in a while
even if you ignore the fact that it's called x-com but has nothing in common with actual x-com games, it stilll looks horrible
an ugly, pedestrian looking shooter
even if you ignore the fact that it's called x-com but has nothing in common with actual x-com games, it stilll looks horrible
an ugly, pedestrian looking shooter
Big Chungus
Member
<watches 2 min trailer>
The game is going to be crap obviously.
The game is going to be crap obviously.
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
fna84 said:
totally
Fragamemnon
Member
Trailer doesn't match the posted blurb at all. 2K wanted to trot out a big new shooter and not tease us with the things that really make us want to actually play the game, which is disappointing.
terrdactycalsrock
Member
it reminds me a lot of bioshock but it also looks fresh to me which is what i thought i would see going into the footage
Macmanus
Member
mujun said:
I hope it rocks as well. It's hard to imagine people actively hoping for a game to fail.
With that said, I just watched a trailer in which 90% of the game play involved someone shooting at a black puddle while moving in a very cumbersome manner.
I imagine for most of us, even those that enjoyed UFO Defense, our feelings would be the same regardless of the title.
MightyHedgehog
Member
I thought it was just cool enough by itself that the player was given an option to flee and abandon a mission location to avoid death. That risk/reward system wasn't even well explained in that video, nor was the action of how there is a need to first expose the weakness of your blob enemies before finishing them. They really need to show more than just random cuts of shooting shit since it's clear, from previews, that there's much more to the game than that. I mean, there's a tactical element and choice in missions as well as research options which lead to new weaponry, gadgetry, and insight into how to deal with the alien threats based on collected alien technology and physical evidence at the sites ala X-COM. The whole intrigue of finding out more about your enemy based on how much you're willing to risk and how good you are at managing to survive the decision to extend your stay at a site to search and collect that critical item or how you can choose to risk death to save a fellow agent who can, themselves, essentially level up from survived experiences in the field. They're not doing themselves any favors by looking like an ever-so standard FPS.~Kinggi~ said:
Really, read the previews and don't rely on the video so far available.
Future PhaZe
Member
The enemies look incredibly annoying....
I am really surprised that 2k decided to release that trailer. It really does not look good. I liked how someone described it as a Bioshock mod, that's what it looks like, but made by a talented but inexperienced and chronically underfunded mod group. And I'm not hating on it because it's got X-Com in the name, I don't really care. It just looks really really bad.
