Renzatic on 6/6/2017 at 20:35
I ain't care none. XCOM is good. More XCOM is great. XCOM with crab monsters is grand.
Plus, it's not exactly the same. There are a few extra features in there I haven't seen previously in XCOM. Plus, the grand strategy portion of the game promises to be considerably more indepth than what we had in it's...ahem...inspiration.
EvaUnit02 on 6/6/2017 at 21:00
I cancelled my pledge for the Fig.co campaign for this. I heard anecdotes of Snapshot Games being shitty with rewards fulfilment for Chaos Reborn.
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Err, okay. I have to say this. This game is a complete ripoff of Firaxis' XCOM. Everything is the same, style, mechanics, abilities, classes, grenade/rocket indicators, camera work, hell, even the cover system and related icons. Everything is literally copied from XCOM. :tsktsk:
1. Firaxis' XCOM is a "rip off" of Gollop's own cancelled X-COM spiritual successor Dreamland Chronicles and by-proxy, Valkyria Chronicles.
2. Pre-alpha footage, the likes of place holder art is likely.
3. Games iteratively building off one-another is common place, anyone with half a brain know this. Eg Far Cry 3's character progression mechanics and sandbox design were HEAVILY influenced by Read Dead Redemption.
Malf on 6/6/2017 at 21:22
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There's an 8min boss fight video with Gollops commentary:
Hah! Klesk and Sarge pain barks from Quake 3!
Starker on 7/6/2017 at 03:08
The boss battle doesn't look half bad. If there's a nice variety of these, it could carry the game by itself.
Vicarious on 7/6/2017 at 17:36
Heavily influenced is an understatement here, it's literally the same but with crappy animations. Don't get me wrong, I'm hyped for that as all hell. I'm just surprised that they didn't even try to make it any different from XCOM.
Renzatic on 7/6/2017 at 17:40
It's still an alpha, not due out for another couple of years at least. I expect the animations and things are in a rough state at the moment.
I expect the end result, if they're able to implement all their planned features, will be fairly similar to XCOM in a lot of respects, but far from being an outright clone.
faetal on 7/6/2017 at 17:47
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Heavily influenced is an understatement here, it's literally the same but with crappy animations. Don't get me wrong, I'm hyped for that as all hell. I'm just surprised that they didn't even try to make it any different from XCOM.
They've literally rushed this demo out to generate hype for the remainder of the Fig campaign. Most of the assets are placeholder and it makes sense to copy an existing system which works well for the purposes of getting it up and running for showcasing the combat. This game isn't due for another 18 months - don't judge it by its first pass demo.
Vicarious on 21/2/2018 at 17:56
Here's a new demo. And yup, for those wondering, it's still identical to Firaxis' XCOM. :) I mean it's cool and all but come on, they could have at least come up with their own interface. Also, still waiting for the presentation of the strategic layer.
[video=youtube;XCKet4O8jP4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=XCKet4O8jP4[/video]
Renzatic on 21/2/2018 at 18:34
I don't care how close it hews to XCOM. More XCOM is more good.
Plus, there are a couple of subtle differences here and there, so it's not, like, EXACTLY the same.
Starker on 22/2/2018 at 07:29
Still suspending my judgment, but I certainly hope it will be much more than a XCOM clone. Let Firaxis and modders do those.