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XCOM: Enemy Unknown |OT| Neo GAF is Under Alien Control
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I think it will do well, but I don't know if it can really break through with the console crowd to become a big hit.
Ugh, thanks to Amazon, now I have to choose whether I want to play it at midnight on the 9th or wait until later in the day for the special edition at the same price. I guess I could go to work on Tuesday...
Ugh, thanks to Amazon, now I have to choose whether I want to play it at midnight on the 9th or wait until later in the day for the special edition at the same price. I guess I could go to work on Tuesday...
BabeSlayer
Member
i'll be waiting on my physical CE copy, but I also have the xbox360 version that i'll pick up at midnight so....
I couldn't not support this game twice over...
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
I'd be afraid Jake would murder me in my home if I didn't buy XCOM.
jediyoshi
Member
Dev walkthrough on IGN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FUDvEoamWM 37min
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FUDvEoamWM 37min
bigboss370
Member
just saw the Jake trying to sell preorders video, felt bad for him. wish the video had at least one person who knew about xcom or was interested to buy it >_>
are there spoilers?
are there spoilers?
It's 37 minutes of footage of the game, how could there not be?
bigboss370
Member
well there are multiplayer matches that don't spoil anything.
Unknown Soldier
Member
The Steam preorder thingie reached the last stage. I wonder how many preorders that was.
A general rule that I follow when it comes to media coverage is that once I'm convinced I'll be playing something, that puts an end to videos and whatever else.
Only thing people won't experience is the difficulty modes being broken! So annoying playing on higher difficulty and it reverting to beginner. Beginner to a new player back then was hell though, made it much more nostalgic because of that. Classic Iron Man for me! That really will be the way to play and I'd recommend that mode to even complete new people. Even if they only play classic I view it as a homage to Xcom.
Yes, On the second mission they take a super powerful unit along. His weapons and abilities are probably pretty late game.
Unknown Soldier
Member
I played through the entire demo on my laptop with FRAPS on to test how it runs. I can confidently say that this game runs great even on toasters. Hooray for Unreal Engine 3. Um, not hooray that I can be addicted to XCOM anywhere I can take my laptop.
My laptop can be found here:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=39995851&postcount=4485
With this configuration, I was able to use the native 1920x1080 resolution and set everything to High, including Ambient Occlusion. I was running comfortably at 30-35 fps throughout the demo with a couple drops to 25 fps during in-engine cutscenes, which seems more than adequate for a turn-based strategy game. The GPU in my laptop is pretty modest by gaming standards, so if it can max this game out in native resolution, laptops with much weaker GPUs should easily run it with lower settings.
Speaking of the demo itself: Is the difficulty locked at Easy for the demo, or is it because the demo mission is scripted? I don't mean the tutorial mission, that's obviously scripted. But the second mission I had a couple of shots which had 52% chance to hit and they landed and instantly killed the aliens.
My laptop can be found here:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=39995851&postcount=4485
With this configuration, I was able to use the native 1920x1080 resolution and set everything to High, including Ambient Occlusion. I was running comfortably at 30-35 fps throughout the demo with a couple drops to 25 fps during in-engine cutscenes, which seems more than adequate for a turn-based strategy game. The GPU in my laptop is pretty modest by gaming standards, so if it can max this game out in native resolution, laptops with much weaker GPUs should easily run it with lower settings.
Speaking of the demo itself: Is the difficulty locked at Easy for the demo, or is it because the demo mission is scripted? I don't mean the tutorial mission, that's obviously scripted. But the second mission I had a couple of shots which had 52% chance to hit and they landed and instantly killed the aliens.
Yeah, the difficulty is set to Easy in the demo. You can change this via an ini file, however.
Edit:
Gamespy linked something a step better for the demo
That article details a demo editor three 2k forum posters made which allows you to alter difficulty, soldiers and some equipment, number of soldiers, and what types of aliens you will fight.
WARNING!: You can choose to fight some alien types that have not been shown in media. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
That article details a demo editor three 2k forum posters made which allows you to alter difficulty, soldiers and some equipment, number of soldiers, and what types of aliens you will fight.
WARNING!: You can choose to fight some alien types that have not been shown in media. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
I'm quite broke but hunkered down and bought the thing on GMG with that 25% off voucher. They also announced GMG customers will be getting free Civ 5, so it was a great deal for 27.
Can't wait. Haven't played an X-Com game in like 10 years. Would be cool if we'd get a Terror from the Deep remake at some point down the line.
Can't wait. Haven't played an X-Com game in like 10 years. Would be cool if we'd get a Terror from the Deep remake at some point down the line.
edit: I will wait and see.
Sure, but as per usual it's going to be more informative browsing the fan UFOpedia
Impeccable
Member
Jake Solomon reminds me more of John Drake from Harmonix.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
6 days and 21 hours? Yeah, LESS!
You're not my real dad.
Dakota47
Member
Impeccable
Member
As much as I wish this was true... it'll probably bomba on all but PC.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
I have to admit, at first all I read was this:
And I was ready to destroy you.
And I was ready to destroy you.
Psychoward
Banned
So now that it's Thursday I doubt they're releasing a 360 demo.... I wonder how it plays.
Gorgon
Member
I can confirm this. I played the demo on a 5+ years old PC I assembled in early 2007. Played at 1080p native with almost everything set to maximum, including AA: runs like butter.
Ramocalypse
Member
I dont get it, it runs like shit on my PC , which is decent -
4100 3.6 Quad core processor
8 gb RAM
4gb Radeon 6670
Game runs like 10 fps, i can tfigure it out! I was going to get it on PC, ubt i switched over to xbox. Anyone have any idea what may be the issue?
Captain Bluey
Member
Bought 2 copies on PC (one for my son) and thinking of getting it on the 360 as well. Am i an Xcom fan or what!
Ramocalypse
Member
Sploosh. Just a few more days just a few more days
HundredEyeMonk
Member
Help me GAF.
I never played any of the originals a tall. My college football team is off this weekend and the wife is going to be out. Basically, I will have tomorrow night and all weekend to try to get something productive in- and I have decided I would like to play the best of the old XCOM games before throwing myself relentlessly (classic ironman oh yeah!) at this one.
From what I gather, I should just go straight for UFO Defense until Tuesday, correct?
Fersis, yes. I will be on the PS3
I never played any of the originals a tall. My college football team is off this weekend and the wife is going to be out. Basically, I will have tomorrow night and all weekend to try to get something productive in- and I have decided I would like to play the best of the old XCOM games before throwing myself relentlessly (classic ironman oh yeah!) at this one.
From what I gather, I should just go straight for UFO Defense until Tuesday, correct?
Fersis, yes. I will be on the PS3
This generation has gone on so long it's hard to remember when turn based SRPGs were actually quite popular on consoles, rather than just handhelds or whatever. Disgaea selling out all over the place based on nothing but word of mouth comes to mind.
XCOM is obviously a very different game but yeah, feels like there's a misconception that console gamers are completely hostile to anything that isn't actiony shootbang and I'm hoping XCOM can turn that around. I'm a little worried about the PS3 version since as far as I know they have not shown that at all. But I mean, UE3 is not exactly known for terrible porting issues, right?
Either way it's selling pretty well on steam ever since the Civ 5 preorder bonus got unlocked, at least based on the top sellers list.