01-09-2002 23:14									#1
	Firaxis to do XCOM (?) Increase Your PM Length

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	01-09-2002 23:17									#2
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	01-09-2002 23:46									#4
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Now if they just would get it right this time...

* Ari Rahikkala dons an asbestos flying suit

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	02-09-2002 00:41									#6
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hmm

so Apoc can finely stop trying to guess..

Jon Miller

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quote: Originally posted by moomin $LE_comment =~ s/they/someone else/g;

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	02-09-2002 01:32									#8
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Errr...what is X Com?

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quote: Errr...what is X Com?

*recovers*

It's a turn based combat game... eh, like the combat system in Fallout. You have a team of soldiers, and you are in charge of them. The team is X-Com, the eXtraterrestrial COMbat force. Your mission is to intercept UFOs with jet planes and later on with UFOs of your own, and then attack the wreckages or when they have landed. Also there are terror missions inside cities where you will have to rescue civilians. You can research new equipment and weapons and reverse engineer stuff captured from the aliens. Excellent game. I've played UFO Defence (fairly easy, slightly buggy though) and Terror from the Deep (horribly difficult). There's a third X-Com of that sort too, and then there are flight sims with the title X-Com, that take place in the same universe... unless I'm entirely mistaken.

	02-09-2002 02:39									#10
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The X-Com games had a wonderful atmosphere- you could cut the tension with a knife as your assault teams edged into occupied buildings, ducking, covering eachy other, just knowing that something horrible would be lurking behind that doorway....


The games were great. Too great to be sat on. The fact that Firaxis have bought the rights doesn't fill me with optimism about seeing any new X-Com games within the next few years. It would be far easier (and lucrative) to slip out a barely warmed up Civ 4 than take a sideways step into a game that's slipping from memory.

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Hope of a new version is much better than the game completely slipping from memory.

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Mark, if Firaxis does a new XCom game, would this site cover it?

	02-09-2002 04:55									#13
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X-Com: UFO and X-Com: Apocalypse both rocked, though the learning curve for the latter was rather steep. I look forward to any additions to the genre.

	02-09-2002 05:17									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Jon Miller hmm so Apoc can finely stop trying to guess.. Jon Miller

It is sad it took this long for my name to be mentioned. I have to post my web site for this game now.

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I like it better when my name is mentioned.

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The first game was awesome, particularly the terror missions at night. The suspense hung in the air like a dense layer of fog as your team creeped through the unknown.

The third one (Apocalypse) was okay but not as good as the first.

Currently there is already a XCOM-lookalike called UFO: Aftermath in the works. For those who don't know UFO: Enemy Unknown is the original name of XCOM.

Anybody who hasn't played the game should definitely download it from an abandonware site.

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Yeah, I miss night missions.

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Those are really well done. The first time you saw a chrysallid charging

	02-09-2002 09:09									#20
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I've heard that Novermber 17 is trying to do do Xcom and that therfore fireaxis should stick to Pirates!!!!

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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger Those are really well done. The first time you saw a chrysallid charging

Or the first time you fired on a Cyberdisk... and suddenly had 3 less squaddies.


If Firaxis and Nov 17 are both doing an XCom style game, then chances are the quality of both will be greater than if they were the only XCom style around.
* Skanky Burns thinks back to CtP
... well, in theory it should make them produce better quality products.

	02-09-2002 09:38									#22
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I didn't understand that and I'm not that drunk...

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quote: Originally posted by DanS I've heard that Novermber 17 is trying to do do Xcom and that therfore fireaxis should stick to Pirates!!!!

I think it is cruel that November 17 keeps coming up.

	02-09-2002 11:20									#24
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quote: Originally posted by Apocalypse I think it is cruel that November 17 keeps coming up.

Heya babe, I haven't even mentioned those marbles the Greeks lost to the Britains yet!

	02-09-2002 11:22									#25
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Oh my, oh my... DanS seems to have flipped completely now. If things get worse, he'll need a permanent residence in Mingapulco.

	02-09-2002 11:25									#26
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Ming has no power here...

	02-09-2002 11:29									#27
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quote: Originally posted by Rasbelin Oh my, oh my... DanS seems to have flipped completely now. If things get worse, he'll need a permanent residence in Mingapulco.

I have flipped before and could not post on apolyton for a total of 1 day (I think).

Jon Miller

	02-09-2002 11:34									#28
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DanS,

you'll regret your words when you see a nice little Mingapulco announcement sent by Ming.