XCOM: Enemy Unknown interactive trailer is next-best thing to playing

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• That's pretty neat. Game looks great. : Haxim
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  I was telling my woman about this game... mostly about how I would be unavailable on Oct 9th-Forever. Th... : Genetic Strife
  • Time to buy a laptop : OverloadUT
  • treat it like a LAN... pack that PC up. : usmcmueller
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  Exposed heads always bugs me. : CrankMonkey
  • You can customize them with helmets. I think exposed is just the default. : gooblerampling
  • I believe you can put helmets on them if you want : utgaardsloke
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  Cool trailer! These interactive YouTube videos are really interesting to me. : BlackCat9
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    I am glad you say that because this trailer was my brainchild :D : OverloadUT
    • Your brain should have more children, then! : BlackCat9
    • Very nice! A great trailer methinks. : utgaardsloke
    • Good work, OverloadUT! : Rice-Rocketeer
    • Genius idea! Kudos : The Key
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      Oat-Child!! : CrustaR
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        That's what I originally named the video but people told me to change it I have no idea why : OverloadUT
        • It will always be that to me. :[ : CrustaR
    • I could have guessed as much... wait I did, as I was loading it up I said to my brother that this had to ... : yemeth
    • OAT, you rock. Did you pick a mixer yet? : LoioshDwaggie
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      this is like having the credits roll and then having my name at the bottom of the special thanks exce... : dahanese
      • PS i love you Oat. you are my brainchild. : dahanese
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        DAHANESE AND I CAME UP WITH THE IDEA TOGETHER LIKE A MILLION MONTHS AGO I AM SORRY DAHANESE : OverloadUT
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          Oat, I forgive you. : CrustaR
          • I can always depend on you C*Star : OverloadUT
        • Never apologize. : Haxim
        • you ruined your life producing it, dude. NEVER FORGET THAT : dahanese
        • Your drank her milkshake. You drank it up. : iamgoat
      • The idea is now dumb. : Rice-Rocketeer
      • Hahaha... your joint idea is amazing : singlespace
    • Yeah Oat!! : The Grolar Bear
    • well done : hanged_man
    • Congrats dude, well done. : VenDrake
    • Any comment on the demo editor for XCOM? Good/bad? : alias
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      Your brain must've had sex with greatness. : Kojak2000
      • Should've read the whole subthread. Awkward. : Kojak2000
• Choose your own adventure, video style. I like it. : thetangent
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  speaking of XCOM: Enemy Unknown: I've played the demo like 20 times and I really really can't wait for... : MisterPhoton
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    Frozen Synapse! : OverloadUT
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      neat. anything that's all 3D like XCOM, though? : MisterPhoton
      • UFO: Afterlight, it's like dodgy Russian xcom. : nem00
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        UFO: Extraterrestrial with this mod, apparently.
        
        http://www.ufo-scene.com/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?1576
        
        Supposedly it turns a so so game into something that recaptures the xcom feel, but I've not tried it myself. Has anyone here given it a shot?

        Sep 28, 2012 4:28pm PDT
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        UFO: Extraterrestrial with this mod, apparently. http://www.ufo-scene.com/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopi... : not a crook
        • Jesus Christ, the changelog is far too long to read. I have played the original game for few minutes and ... : Kub666
      • Check out the demo for Silent Storm : megarust32
      • Silent storm is the closest TB game, for the same experience you're best off going back to UFO Defense or... : MercFox1
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  Not sure why they are hammering at the idea throughout the trailer that playing aggressively is synonymou... : Poor Yurik
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    Haha, yeah that wasn't necessarily the intention. We just wanted to show terrible strategy (like staying : OverloadUT
    • I understand, although the trailer comes across like there's a cut and dry right (defensive) and wrong (a... : Poor Yurik
• Someone on here tell Solomon to put in co-op in the game. Two people running bases and coordinating beat... : jingletard
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  When they panic they run behind cover? On the one hand that's an improvement over running in a random di... : losder5000
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    I think the panic routine is run to cover if exposed, otherwise do something random like shoot at an alie... : OverloadUT
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      Yeah, just in the old game theyd drop their shit, including primed nades and run halfway across the map. ... : losder5000
      • Yeah, this way is panic as in "not following orders" rather than "becoming a raving lunatic" : OverloadUT
    • I think it's great that they also shoot their own guys. I know if I was surrounded by aliens that could m... : not a crook
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      In the Gametrailers video one of the guys panicked and shot at another squad member. : Tchest
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        One time I had two dudes panic, and the random thing they did was shoot and kill two Cryssalids. BEST PAN... : OverloadUT
        • If I hit the end game and ended up with a guy who had terrible psy, I would load his ass up with primed g... : losder5000
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      They've said that they will shoot randomly also. So they can tear into teammates. : kingdepork
      • Yeah I meant to say shoot in general, not shoot an alien necessarily! : OverloadUT
    • Do they scream "suppressing fire!" and shoot the one black astronaut? : TheMongbat
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  The demo was 2 levels, right? Super short? : Navy Spitfire
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    right. your first time through both levels takes about 20 minutes. : thecray
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      I wanna play the game, but I'm not downloading 5g for 20 min. Deus Ex demo was one LARGE level, and th... : Xulu
      • yeah, it's a bit of a bummer. I downloaded it as soon as I saw it was live, which was before I found out ... : thecray