Evening Reading: What a Day!

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• Sound pretty good, but I'm a bit concerned that the strategic section is pretty much entirely removed. It... : Kentor
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  lead designer is the same lead designer on Fallout Tactics hmm i dont know what to think : spiderfill
  • aw shit.... : everybodysuncle
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    I'm quite puzzled by the hate for that game. : TShandy
    • i thought it was ok kind of fun : spiderfill
    • same as the hate for 2K's Xcom. Fallout should have stayed an open world RPG. I would have been very ... : everybodysuncle
    • It grew on me. I liked it after I figured out how to play with in CTB : judge
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      Fallout Tactics was good for what it was, I've probably played through it 4-5 times, but it fucked up as : JHelgie
      • True enough, but despite being anti-canon, I enjoyed the story, and the game itself was fun and well put ... : TShandy
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    Ed also worked on both Freedom Force games and both Bioshock games... : Drewus
    • Freedom Force was fucking fantastic. : thetangent
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    I quit enjoyed that game. Key thing they did there was call it Fallout TACTICS and not Fallout 3. I knew ... : jayacheess
    • I'm bummed that the PS2/Xbox game used the subtitle as its main title. Now whenever you want to dump on B... : roushimsx
  • I was the only person in the world to love this game. : massdev
  • Yeah, I'm not sure what to think either. Fallout: Tactics was pretty fun, but so absolutely fucking fl... : Rice-Rocketeer
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  Yeah I wouldn't mind a Men in Black FPS actually, I wouldn't mind it at all if it was called Men in Black... : SpaecKow
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    Anyway it sounds very much like an ME2 type setup, which is all you could expect. : SpaecKow
    • Well, if it turns out as well or better than ME2 I'll be happy, but it won't scratch that X-COM itch I ge... : Kentor
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    i remember some men in black mod for duke nukem 3d, that was awesome. : varsindarkin
    • Yeah I played that too, I can't remember if the flasher worked any good or not but I remember being so in... : SpaecKow
  • Hmm! Apparently your dudes can die! : SpaecKow
  • They should have gone for full rip-off status and called it Men in Suits. : StolenNosferatu
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  That would be because it isn't a strategy game with base building and manufacturing. : Drewus
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    Then why is it an XCOM game? : SpaecKow
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      Shit is like that Superman Reborn movie in which Superman wasn't going to fly or have a cape, except Holl... : SpaecKow
      • lol, that sounds more like Superman: Generic Hercules Clone : IndigoAK
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      GAMES HAVE TO EVOLVE!!!1 : jayacheess
      • Natural Selection has shown that only viable traits are kept, and the rest discarded (extinction) I th... : everybodysuncle
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      to be fair, there have been more xcom games that werent about base building than there have been games wi... : Morgin
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        No one really considered those 'real' X-Com games, though. : jayacheess
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          to be fair, there have only been two "Real" X-COM games: UFO Defense and Apocalypse. : roushimsx
          • We are in agreement. : jayacheess
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            This is a very odd post to make in light of the next one right down below. : SpaecKow
            • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Gollop I consider the two games that he worked on to be the two "t... : roushimsx
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      Does it matter? : Drewus
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        Also, where in the rules does it say that you can't branch off into different genres within an already es... : Drewus
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          The Shack has it's own private little group of X-Com fanboys that wish they could be NMA rejects. : roushimsx
          • /me raises hand : everybodysuncle
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            As long as it's a good game, why do people really care? : Drewus
            • They don't really care. : SpaecKow
            • Because there's a right way to cross genres, and a wrong way. Take puzzle fighter, its street fighter ... : everybodysuncle
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        Why wouldn't it matter? Why is it a good thing that you can just take a brand and put it on anything at a... : SpaecKow
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          Considering XCOM came out 17 years ago I don't see why they can't give the series a boost by attaching th... : Drewus
          • There is no big deal, it's just an idiotic thing to call a completely unrelated game. : SpaecKow
          • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=22701140#itemanchor_22701140 : thetangent
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      I'm still trying to figure out:
      - they decided to resurrect that dead Wolfenstein ip as a first person shooter.
      - why they did it again as an RPG
      - who the fuck thought it'd be a good idea to make a Star Wars FPS. What the fuck? Because Doom is taking off, everything has to be an FPS now? Fuck you, give me another X-Wing, bitches.
      - ditto for Star Trek, Aliens, James Bond, and Terminator
      - a Star Wars racing game from Sega AM2? Stupidest idea ever.
      - what the fuck are they doing making that 3d Zelda? It looks like Mario 64 with a sword. Lame.
      - Warcraft is an RTS, what the fuck are they doing turning it into a point and click adventure game?
      - oh good, they canceled it. thank god.
      - FUCK, NOW IT'S AN RPG? WHAT THE FUCK?
      - Resident Evil 4 lacks both the survival and horror...why is this shit even called Resident Evil? More like Generic Third Person Shooter 4.
      - lol @ adding graphics to Zork
      - Wait, removing the parser interface from my favorite Sierra adventures? Thanks for dumbing down the gameplay for the idiot masses, you fucking sell outs.
      - OBLIVION WITH FUCKING GUNS

      Apr 29, 2010 9:09pm PDT
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      I'm still trying to figure out: - they decided to resurrect that dead Wolfenstein ip as a first person s : roushimsx
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        ...but Fallout 3 was oblivion with guns, that's why everyone liked it. You see a Fallout 3 vs Oblivion th... : SpaecKow
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          Generalizations r tuff. Fallout 3's fun had "nothing" to do with why 1+2 were fun? No Nuka Cola or muti... : TShandy
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            I think New Vegas will have the same Fallout aesthetic, maybe, I dunno I haven't played the game, but Fal... : SpaecKow
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              If we're going to go full NMA retard, we could say that 2 didn't have the same aesthetic as 1. There's s... : TShandy
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                On subjects anatomical, there's an even better chance my pentadactyl forelimb is going to make its way in... : SpaecKow
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                  It's a general "you", not aimed at you specifically. I think Torment is in a different category than e... : TShandy
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                    The bests quests in Fallout 3 were Canteburry Commons and the android hunt. All the rest resolved in pret... : SpaecKow
                    • I thought the android quest was awesome because it was the only quest which had a creative way of solving : Aldebrand
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  That does sound cool, but it certainly doesn't sound like X-Com. They could have called it anything, for ... : jayacheess
  • Yeah, I don't understand why they're using the name at all. There doesn't seem to be any relation in gam... : Arcanum
• I dunno - something is telling me that this is not going to be a good game. I hope I'm wrong. : Nitrium
• This is not X-COM. Why the hell are they using this name? No Sectoids hiding in closets, no tactical turn... : Kub666
• It sounds intriguing, but as others have said, this is not an XCOM game, and (based on what we currently ... : thetangent
• Why the fuck is the player playing the role of an FBI agent in an "X-COM" game? They should just call ... : Omaha
• This will be another Chrono Cross. Good game, not Xcom :( : jayares
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  on a side note, who actually enjoyed taking pictures in Bioshock? It has to be one of the worst FPS mecha... : NoCopy
  • Well you'll get a chance because look! Here it is again! : Omaha
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    It was certainly better than the System Shock 2 version of the same feature - a progress bar. : SpaecKow
    • My first instinct to grab everything that isn't nailed down failed me in System Shock 2. There were so m... : Aldebrand