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AHaegh...... that captures how I felt

2K is now a cute girl who's want to kiss you then try to knee you. But mostly wants to kiss you.

It is?Cool!

@ Bridget

totally agreed, luckily a small game developer has pickt up the Shadowrun license and might plan to make a new game, this time a proper rpg.

Shadowrun did the EXACT SAME THING.

Best Tabletop RPG ever created, adapted well in the Sega Genesis title with the same name got reprinted ten years later as a first person shooter. I threw up.

Must you tan-ize everything?! I just think this is going a bit far... but whatever.

I really loved the original X-Com games, but the series wasn't as pure as we fans pretend. What about X-Com Intercepter? Micropose itself clearly wanted to explore other genres. Hasbro bought it, put out Enforcer and planned, yes, an FPS.

But yes, I'd have loved a game like the original.

In the final panel her skirt looks a bit like a moustache. >.>;;

That was my exact reaction to the announcement. I have once again lost hope.

Rejoice!
http://www.xenonauts.com
Someone finally took it up again. Lets hope these guys will do it right.

The concept worked well enough for Shadowrun... (sigh)

Your fanboy is showing, Josue.

How about waiting to see the final product before casting doubts upon it? Just a thought.

@Brazilian guy: I thought it seemed pretty clear that I am from Brazil >_>

Current copyright owner for Alpha Centauri is EA. In other words, a new AC in any form is unlikely to happen.

I'd really like a proper new TBS XCom game. These spiritual successors from Eastern Europe and fan remakes don't really cut it.

Let's say as a joke. Since 2K games own Firaxis. They take Alpha Centauri (Turn based strategy) and make it into a FPS. Btw I don't know who is the current copyright owners. Imagine it!

Renegade sucked. River city Ransom was loads better.

BAARF!

[url=#user_comment_27470]@sauceror[/url] Hey dude! what do you mean? i know a bunch of people into xcom here in brasil! i've played it since the 90s! where you from?

This is my fetish.

Wait, what? who just dissed renegade? The game was awesome, the multiplayer even more! Come out so i can shank you! Or like havoc used to say: "I got a present for ya!"

Grrrr... some nerve!


...Though the story did sucked...

http://kotaku.com/5518361/another-new-x+com-game-and-its-not-a-shooter

Personally, I liked C&C Renegade. It was ahead of its time, in my mind. The multiplayer was solid, and the story was satisfying. I genuinely wished for a Red Alert (2, maybe?) sequel of it.

Roderick: It was mediocre as fuck. About the only fun thing was watching a NOD base getting blown up, but that only happens once, in one level. Also, enemy ai was crap.

You can already get all five of the old games for $2.50.

If you don't like FPS, do not buy.

If you do, buy.

are you sure you're from Brazil? X-Com is completely unknown down here :P

Reminds me of Starcraft Ghost. That game really did look fun, the multiplayer at least.

It was kind of similar to Battlefield 2142 but with flying command centers instead of titans.

the problem with all those attempt's to make UFO: Enemy Unknown better was that their trying to improve an already perfect in every way game.

No idea how this 3d thing will turn out, but every attempt to *improve* UFO has completely failed.

It wouldnt be so bad if they made a up to date Xcom:Enemy unknown direct clone with updated graphics It would sell so many copies it'd be silly. Difference between Alliance and this new one is Alliance was based off of True X-com canon, This isnt.

I saw the announcement and was absolutely ecstatic. Then I read further and was betrayed!! First-person Shooter?!! oh well, I guess we can just play UFO: extraterrestrials 2.

Provided they manage to make this a modern System Shock with even /more/ inspiration drawn from X-COM, I will be very, very happy.

I have never played X-Com, but I think see your point.

Sure is a lot of butt hurt here.

I was so happy at first.

And then I was not.

And then this comic cheered me up a little bit.

And then I was sad again.

i don't know Xcom.
But they must have been stoned on something the scientists of the world haven't discovered when they did this.
Strategy to FPS. IT DOESN'T WORK.
not for me, at least.

Seriously. If you want to make another FPS just make another goddamn FPS. Don't piss off a group of old fans so you don't have to do any design work (the basis of the aesthetics/story in X-Com isn't even that original).

To quote AVGN, WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?

Unless there's base-building, it's not X-Com. The synopsis they gave doesn't even come close to original X-Com.

I was 8 when the first one came out, and this disappoints me.

X-com as an FPS!?! Sweet merciful fuck! What were they thinking?!?

The only way I can imagine this being any good is if is done similar to Valkyria Chronicles. That game had a good mix of both FPS and turn-based strategy. And regardless of the setting, I just hope they have lobstermen.

Not only is it an FPS but it sounds almost identical to BioShock 2, right down to the art style.

I honestly would consider this a wasted opportunity even if it was loyal to XCom.

Something New > Remake

Best comic ever. I think I actually managed to physically laugh my ass off.

Didn't Command & Conquer do a FPS version too? How did that turn out?

Another problem is that by necessity, the main concept of X-com (Run an organization to build bases, kill aliens, take their stuff, figure out how it works, and cackle maniacally as they learn what it's like to eat Heavy Plasma and Blaster Bombs) doesn't work for a shooter. At all. In any way.

[url=#user_comment_27419]@SkarmoryThePG[/url]: I agree the *After series were great! Especially Aftershock. Aftermath was also pretty good and afterlight was my least favorite of the *After series but i like all three of them never the less! Of course, nothing compares to the original X-com. Even terror from the deep was fun!

X-Com = Awesome, but hard
TFTD = Carbon copy of X-Com with new look, still awesome
Apocalypse= New, fresh, awesome
Interceptor= What is this...
Enforcer= ...I don't even

It's strange. Just recently I started another text file containing info on how I would design a new X-Com title.

This is like hidden himedere. Awesome comic.

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I disagree. The After* series were worthy successors. Not as outright fun as the first ones, but not bad.

You want bad, check out Enforcer/Interceptor.

The seriee have been raped since apocalypse, no counting that unofficial release from the modding scene but pretty much everything with aftermath and after is a fiasko... Now an FPS?

God save the franchise...

Impeccable performanth Enforther! I thuppose you are ready after all. With my brainth and your brawn, the aliens don’t stand a chance! Perform a full set of diagnosticth while I make preparations for your first field mission. I’ve got some cleaning up to do around here.

Oh lord, I just hope it isn't X-Com Enforcer all over again.

Awesome one :D

Take-Two Interactive ought to have given the IP to Firaxis Games instead. There sure is no respect for venerable IPs nowadays.

I simply cannot express enough how much anguish this travesty of a "comeback" causes to me.

once xcom become shooter, with xcom:enforcer

it's nice tradition to take nice game and turn it's in shit.
Just like fallout and failout3.

[url=#user_comment_27398]@Merc[/url]: Yeah, if it had anything to do with X-com, an FPS MIGHT (emphasis on might) have been decent. You are the rookie and all that, maybe something ala Rainbow Six and stuff. But no. You're not even playing an X-com, you're an FBI agent in this game, in a "narrative FPS", apparently ala Bioshock.

[url=#user_comment_27369]@MiniSoda[/url]: I'm more inclined to say Yangire. 2K never had any intent of a proper remake.

Yet another victim of nostalgia cancel to an tiger destruction.



Super Hyper Combo finish!

...Man, I was waiting for the Chyrssalids to show up. x.x

It's not like it's the first time they rape the rotting corpse of xcom. Anyone remembers x-com enforcer? (ugh)

This is why I never trust female representations of video game publishers.

Also, nice look on 2K-chan.

... I dont know... I'd think I like to see an X-com FPS. Shootin dem aliens in da face.

So how RECENTLY did you play X-Com to recollect on memories. FPS and Real time is too generic. Give me Turn Based Strategy or DEATH!

It could be a good game. What made X-com was part story, part missions, and the tactics.
If this new X-com is going to go anywhere it will need those parts, just altered for FPS and real time. 2K might be able to pull it off with squad tactics.

X-COM Alliance, you guys. It was an official X-COM FPS and it looked awesome. Like Ghost. It got cancelled. Like Ghost.

Did 2k learn nothing from X-Com Enforcer?

@don't say no: man you know what'd be awesome, an FPS WHERE YOU PLAY AS A GHOST MAN THAT'D BE SO AWESOME I WONDER IF BLIZZARD HAS THOUGHT ABOUT IT

@Don't say no

Starcraft Ghost was going to be a adventure/stealth game....

think about this what if starcraft was a fps? dont go and say no no no no... I know you want it dont even pretend

This is Fallout 3 all over again, the good news is that Fallout 3 turned out to be an awesome game. Hopefully Xcom will be good also.

Is anyone else more interested to find out what Irrational is working on?

I'm sorry, but all I heard was, "MORE XCOM" and then I did a dance. Awesome expressions in this one, btw.

Man, the dude probably had his stun rod ready but her reactions were too high.

Is it weird I'm aroused by this?

[url=#user_comment_27367]@Wraith[/url]: Tsundere is the other way around...

Oh what the fuck 2K.

I think Nerf Now needs comics with Chrysalids and Tentaculats, because FUCKING CHRYSALIDS AND TENTACULATS YOU KNOW VERY WELL WHY I'M RAGING ABOUT THEM.

"Tsundere game company."

Yandere is the more accurate term.

Looks sexy as cake.

Tsundere game company.

It's a real kick in the nuts.

Wait, thats the joke.

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