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Kaffis Mark V
PostPosted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 4:56 pm 
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Okay, I'm channelling the wrong Marvel character for my name. So sue me.

But this deserves it. It looks **** terrible. Way to take a franchise that needs to be resurrected to fill a genre that has been almost entirely neglected for a decade, now, and then change it to NOT BE THAT GENRE! And be a pretty uninspiring entry into the new genre, from the looks of the gameplay in the trailer.

/cry

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Ummm, why call it XCOM then?

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Exactly!

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Raell wrote:
Ummm, why call it XCOM then?


Name recognition. Sell a few more copies you wouldn't have sold otherwise.

Lame.
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Reeks of "hey, Fallout 3 was a great success, let's cash in on another old, beloved title we can get our hands on!" to me...especially with the 50's setting. Only problem is, even though Fallout 3 made some significant gameplay changes, it was still an RPG at heart. Hafta agree with ya, Kaffis...this genre switch from turn-based squad strategy to either a straight FPS or some sort of Fallout 3-like FPS RPG kinda leaves me cold.

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Wow that is depressing. When I saw it was XCom I was totally pumped... now.. FPS? WTF OMG BBQ!

Damn now I want to play some XCom.

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I loved Xcom, but this looks like it will suck.
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For those of you all pissed about x-com (which sounds like everyone), the complete collection is on sale for the next 24 hours on steam for 3.74.

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/964/
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Purchased ;)

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Will it run on windows 7, the combined versions that is?
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Darkroland wrote:
For those of you all pissed about x-com (which sounds like everyone), the complete collection is on sale for the next 24 hours on steam for 3.74.

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/964/


Awesome.

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Ranelagh wrote:
Will it run on windows 7, the combined versions that is?


They all appear to support 2000/XP/Vista, almost anything that supports vista will run on 7 (better). :)
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I got the XCom set on steam and I've been playing Terror from the Deep =o

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