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 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
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                      I thought the android quest was awesome because it was the only quest which had a creative way of solving it. However, when I did what I thought was a really creative solution, I actually caused the game to go a bit crazy. What I did was tell the android who he is and agree to kill the guy who is coming after him (and I got the plasma rifle). Then I went down and spoke to the guy who was hunting the android, told him about the android and got his reward. Then, before he could leave, I blasted him and his goon with my shiny new plasma rifle. However, this solution causes the android to act like I've killed the guy hunting him and the chick who replaces him spawns and talks as if he's dead..
                      
                      I think that sums up Fallout 3 for me. A lot of potential but the writing just wasn't there to support that potential. Plus, you can roleplay everything which feels ridiculous to me but I guess lots of people like that. :-)

                      Apr 30, 2010 5:00am PDT
                      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