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XCOM: Enemy Unknown is 5 Years Old

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Has it been five years already? Gamasutra put up an old postmortem interview published after the 2012 release of XCOM: Enemy Unknown in celebration of the five year anniversary. Originally a PC franchise, the reboot brought the XCOM series into the modern era and evening "consolizing" the turn-based strategy genre for the "Xbox generation." The game received critical praise and went on to become a successful title for Firaxis.

Design-wise, the team knew there would be feature parity between PC and consoles; the only difference would be the control scheme. While the design and UI team did an admirable job on this front, there were continuous challenges throughout development to accommodate multiplatform user interface design, specifically tied to this genre. The team had to ensure all tactical commands were accessible via gamepad, and this involved quite a bit more than accommodating a point-and-shoot mechanic.
 
monkeymagick said:
Has it been five years already? Gamasutra put up an old postmortem interview published after the 2012 release of XCOM: Enemy Unknown in celebration of the five year anniversary. Originally a PC franchise, the reboot brought the XCOM series into the modern era and evening "consolizing" the turn-based strategy genre for the "Xbox generation." The game received critical praise and went on to become a successful title for Firaxis.

Design-wise, the team knew there would be feature parity between PC and consoles; the only difference would be the control scheme. While the design and UI team did an admirable job on this front, there were continuous challenges throughout development to accommodate multiplatform user interface design, specifically tied to this genre. The team had to ensure all tactical commands were accessible via gamepad, and this involved quite a bit more than accommodating a point-and-shoot mechanic.
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Im getting old dam
 
This was a great game - I played it + the expansion and enjoyed every tense minute. I need to get the latest version - maybe upcoming Steam sale? (And I also need time to play it - damn grown up responsibilities!)
 
I never understood the reviews. They totally mismatched reality. Having played the first game to completion, it just was not that good. The major sticking point, the AI was just horrible and the results of a good or bad RNG roll had a little too much impact. It just was not smart in any sense versus games from a decade ago. Only thing that had changed was the graphics were better.
 
Hm, for some reason I thought it came out before then?

Fantastic game, fantastic series. Working through XCOM 2 now and looking forward to WOTC.

Just wish the graphics were a bit shinier.
 
6 squad members, 33% chance to hit, all miss, thin man takes out VIP. GG RNG. At least with xcom2 you can graze and superior stock them to death. Ah the great early game with peppered fire/poison rounds, and min 1 hit stock, with baddies only having 3-4 bars of health. Then the mid game hits you like a tank. If you survive mid game, end game you dont even need to use cover, the odds of a baddie getting a shot off is pretty low.
 
I got it free from Xbox Live and played it. Loved it so I bought Xcom 2 from Steam. After a while, I got sick of it because of the difficulty. I played it on rookie or whatever and made it to the last level but beating that level seems to be reliant on getting lucky with random enemy spawns.
 
whatevs said:
I never understood the reviews. They totally mismatched reality. Having played the first game to completion, it just was not that good. The major sticking point, the AI was just horrible and the results of a good or bad RNG roll had a little too much impact. It just was not smart in any sense versus games from a decade ago. Only thing that had changed was the graphics were better.
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Nothing will replace the original X-Com from the 90's (?). That game was awesome. I remember playing one mission for a few hours. I thought a Grey was in a building - so like an idiot, sent 3 of my soldiers in to kill it. Next thing I know, another alien shoots the football bomb (don't remember the name) and it kills all of my squad mates since it was a small scale nuke. I was pissed but humbled by that experience.
I also recall the dread psionic attacks - those sucked. If I recall, you found out some of your best soldiers were susceptible to the attacks and I'm not sure you could do much about it? Later games you could block it - but I was thinking this wasn't true in the original.
 
Bah!
get of my lawn
/me launches the blaster bomb which transits 32 waypoints to park on your lap
 
I meant first version of the new X-COM. Nothing really fun about it. Nothing smarter about it. It's like they were back in 1995 and made the game. Reminded me of the flat out cheating/stupid AIs of decades ago(but they had valid excuse of weaker hardware). There was no intelligence to the games flow either. We finished it, but very meh.

It's problem with getting old, you have so many turds to compare something to and know if it is a turd.
 
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