Have the demo downloaded but at work now. Will try it when I get home. Hope they have a setting like the original. Would suck for the remake of such a great game to be easy mode.
Have the demo downloaded but at work now. Will try it when I get home. Hope they have a setting like the original. Would suck for the remake of such a great game to be easy mode.
Sir Robin, the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot.
Who had nearly fought the Dragon of Angnor.
Who had almost stood up to the vicious Chicken of Bristol.
And who had personally wet himself, at the Battle of Badon Hill.
I hope you can destroy key points and have 7 floors of building crash down at once as in XCOM-3, was such a good time
Xcom, one of my favorite games ever, I'm sure I'll prepurchase it too. Just need to wait for payday so I can afford too.
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Video time.
Five parts up, so far.
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Sir Robin, the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot.
Who had nearly fought the Dragon of Angnor.
Who had almost stood up to the vicious Chicken of Bristol.
And who had personally wet himself, at the Battle of Badon Hill.
Actually to add to this was Alien Movement turn where you were blind. Just being blind but hearing footsteps, doors opening and closing, and hearing people dying adds to the creepiness factor a lot.
My overall impression was a positive one though.
I really missed the blackened areas when you land and I am not sure if there is line of sight anymore. I personally would like to see night missions like they were with limited visibility and having to use electro flares to light up areas where many times enemy fire is coming from.
Just finished the demo. Quite a bit of fun actually. Looking forward to the full game.
Sir Robin, the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot.
Who had nearly fought the Dragon of Angnor.
Who had almost stood up to the vicious Chicken of Bristol.
And who had personally wet himself, at the Battle of Badon Hill.
I just finished the demo as well and noticed one thing. Aliens move when it's not their turn? Huh?
My Gaming Setup | WoW Paladin (retired)
"This is not a dress. This is a sacred robe of the ancient psychedelic monks."
Haven't downloaded the demo yet but I'm thinking about it, got a billion games to play right now. I played the original XCOM on the Amiga somewhere in the 90s, 94 or 95 I guess? And then at least 2 versions later on the PC in the late 90s but don't remember their names... then forgot about the game totally until a few weeks ago.
The only reason I haven't pre-ordered it yet is because I'm already playing 4 or 5 different games and I'm not entirely sure how many I can manage at once.
Sigh... and then they say it's the government's fault that they are badly integrated in our society
Well in the original XCOM aliens and players alike could do "reaction fire" if they had enough time units left over at the end of their previous turn. So they could shoot, but could never run around outside their turn.
I was quite sleepy while playing the new demo, but I'm pretty sure during my turn some aliens saw me and ran into cover, accompanied by a short cinematic. I'm thinking it might just have been a scripted thing in the demo to show off the cinematic, though.
@Shamanic: check your inbox already, girl!
My Gaming Setup | WoW Paladin (retired)
"This is not a dress. This is a sacred robe of the ancient psychedelic monks."
It's more just a way of showing their reaction to you arriving on the scene, they move into cover, then stop from what I've seen so far, normally going into an overwatch mode.
I guess there was a lot of players of the old school X-Com, who complained about aliens just shooting their troops dead without ever being seen to get this added in, or perhaps it was testers who disliked them remaining cloaked until a direct visual was made. Nothing worse than landing at a terror site, your plasma tank moving out one square and getting hit by 3 lots of heavy plasma fire and exploding next to your troops, without a single alien being sighted. Even worse was when you tried to move a soldier forwards, he got shot and died, then moved another forwards to a different spot and the same happened again. You could lose a whole squad to an invisible enemy on harder difficulties.
My Gaming Setup | WoW Paladin (retired)
"This is not a dress. This is a sacred robe of the ancient psychedelic monks."
Never played the other XCOM's but after playing the demo I am really psyched.
I just hope for the high price it has a lot of gameplay, even though I ended up shelling out something like $30 off a different site :P
Been waiting months for this, huge fan of the series and own all the previous x-com games. The stuff I have seen from Firaxis so far looks good, it seems like they have really tried to keep what made the original x-com good and improve on it's weaker areas.
I remember playing the shit outta the original back in the 90s so couldn't wait to play the demo just now, took about 1hr and I can say its really good.