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Author: wolfqueen001
Posted: July 12, 2014 (05:43 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Nice review! So this is the game you were talking about a week ago. It sounds like it'd be worth checking out, especially for first timers to the X-Com franchise. |
Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: July 12, 2014 (06:34 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Yeah. I think this started getting made when The Bureau was announced and all us X-Com fans starting nerd raging out. Of course, then Firaxis came along to soothe us, but this was still happening in the background. It has issues that still existed back in original X-Com, and it certainly invents a few of its own, but I love it and have real trouble pulling myself away. |
Author: wolfqueen001
Posted: July 12, 2014 (07:11 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Which one is the Fireaxis one, then? The only reboot I remember seeing was that one where they turned it into an FPS or something and was supposed to be awful for it. (Unless I'm completely confused) |
Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: July 12, 2014 (07:19 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
This is the Firaxis one. |
Author: Suskie
Posted: July 13, 2014 (02:33 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Very good review, EmP (and I particularly liked the sneaky working-in of Will's second opinion). Do you think you'd recommend this game to me? Bear in mind that I always found the original X-COM too unwieldy for a youngster like myself to get absorbed in, but as you know, I did quite enjoy the reboot, which I felt did a better job of explaining/contextualizing everything. Can I get into Xenonauts? Is it accessible enough? |
Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: July 14, 2014 (03:32 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
What a handsome question. I’m pretty confident in recommending Xenonauts to people who enjoyed the Firaxis game, because it works really well as a bridge between the remake and the original. It’s not as rigid and linear as the reboot, but nowhere near as sprawling and chaotic as the original. |
Author: zippdementia
Posted: July 14, 2014 (02:38 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Never did play X-Com. The people I know who played it are the kind of people who laugh at Starcraft and consider it's multiplayer beneath their notice. You know. Because they can multi-task seventeen times faster than the average human. |
Author: Suskie
Posted: July 15, 2014 (10:18 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Ben's backlog = whatever I've been praising lately :)
You exist because we allow it. And you will end because we demand it. |
Author: WilltheGreat
Posted: July 16, 2014 (07:45 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Actually, Xenonauts also uses an equirectangular globe projection - it's just up-front about that fact so you don't make assumptions about flight routes that turn out not to work. |
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