06-03-2003 09:51									#1
	Sid Meier's X-COM update Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

Remember back like over 6 months ago when I came up with the theory that Firaxis was still making an X-COM type game despite the earlier rumor being supposedly discreditted?

Then Sid said there would be an announcement about the next game in October or November.

It's been over 4 months and still no announcement. This can really only mean one thing. They aren't liking how the gameplay/design is turning out. Just like Dinos.

Anyway, I'm just throwing some thoughts out there. I'm trying to get my mind off other things.

	06-03-2003 11:13									#2
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They must hire more people to work on failing projects then...

	07-03-2003 01:17									#4
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They're now working on "Sid Meier's Tetris".

	07-03-2003 08:59									#5
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At least they learned their lesson from Dinos - wait to announce the game until you have enough developement that there has been some progress. Any other reasons for the delay (i.e. people left the company, they were working on some patches for PTW, they have a problem with licensing rights)?

	07-03-2003 09:39									#6
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Well the PTW team is not the new game team so patches have nothing to do with it. If it was license problems I'd expect we'd hear about it. I haven't heard about anyone leave the company either.

I really just believe they can't come up with a good design.

	07-03-2003 09:51									#7
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I don't think it's a game design problem, XCOM has a solid design. It's probably they have a problem coming up with a new story, with various alien techs and humand techs.

Personally, I don't mind they do it in stages. First, there are these aliens we fight on Earth. After we defeat them, we find they are sent here by their bosses at Alpha Centauri. So we go there and fight those, etc. Maybe on the way we find some other aliens that are enslaved, and we can free them to help us.

	07-03-2003 19:12									#8
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How about in an ironic twist on that we blow up their planet and then discover 99% of aliens were on our side.

	07-03-2003 22:39									#9
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"What have we done!"

It would be way too melodramatic of an ending. Just consider all the movies or books that have the same kind of ending.

	10-03-2003 07:21									#10
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger I don't think it's a game design problem, XCOM has a solid design. It's probably they have a problem coming up with a new story, with various alien techs and humand techs.

How do you know that it has solid design? We are theorizing that is what they are working on and you know that it already has solid design. Maybe your Sid!

	10-03-2003 07:26									#11
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The XCom series has a solid design.

	10-03-2003 18:25									#12
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quote: Originally posted by Skanky Burns The XCom series has a solid design.

Yeah, but so did Civ1, Civ2 and SMAC.

	10-03-2003 20:44									#13
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quote: Originally posted by tniem How do you know that it has solid design? We are theorizing that is what they are working on and you know that it already has solid design. Maybe your Sid!

That was pretty easy.

	12-03-2003 18:56									#14
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They're working on Civ4.

	12-03-2003 19:00									#15
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Hopefully the team is working hard to fix the dodgy screen resolution bug that makes it impossible to play UFO: Enemy Unknown on my PC.

And hopefully they're fixing the bugs in Terror from the Deep that made it hopelessly ****.

	14-03-2003 21:03									#16
	Put an end to popups!

Terror from the Deep is pretty much a hopeless case. They just tossed a bunch of junk together to ride on the fame of the original UFO. It's the same game, just the aliens became a lot more bad-arsed.

	17-03-2003 05:13									#17
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They also increased the rate that aliens built bases such that at the end of 5 years in the original, the aliens had about 8 bases. In TFTD, they were building them at the rate of 1 a month. Also, they introduced a bug in the two-level missions where all equipment not carried to the second map would be lost forever. Considering some aliens only appeared on the first of two-level maps and were required for the research tree, that made the game very difficult.

In its defence though, at least the aliens still looked as though they were out to kill you, rather than the Apocalypse aliens who looked as though they would be more at home on a muppets set.

	17-03-2003 05:31									#18
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quote: Originally posted by Skanky Burns In its defence though, at least the aliens still looked as though they were out to kill you, rather than the Apocalypse aliens who looked as though they would be more at home on a muppets set.

True, but at least Apocalypse wasn't an opportunistic pile of sh1t.

	17-03-2003 06:55									#19
	Put an end to popups!

Yeah, the gameplay was mostly good, and not too many exploitable or game-breaking bugs either.

	18-03-2003 13:39									#20
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For what its worth, UFO: Aftermath is coming along nicely.

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