Roujin wrote:

Bollockoff wrote:

What was wrong with MWO in the end?

They completely failed to implement the daily progression of the clan invasion storyline and the community warfare aspect of having the Inner Sphere and Clans as warring player factions. The clan mechs were also gimped or buffed depending on how you want to look at it because the system they had in place for mech customisation made the Inner Sphere mechs way more optimal for the whole competetive pvp only angle the game ended up taking.

So it's just a slightly dull deathmatch game with many little imbalances?

Such different landscapes though. And I don't disagree, but I think they're scared of making something like the OG because polish and accessibility are so important to publishers these days. I think we're still seeing devs straining under the pressure of a primarily console based gaming market for the past decade or so - PC games just aren't as "PC" as they used to be. Only the indiesphere can afford to take risks, and even then they are very small, calculated risks a lot of the time. I mean just look at the RTS. It's fucked off seemingly for good now, Starcraft doesn't fill the gap for me. Also where are the big Wing Commander/Colony Wars games? We've got all this grunt and there isn't a space opera driven dogfighting game - instead we're stuck with Elite because apparently what the PC does best is vast emergent dross*

*i'm sure it's great, it's just not what I want.

Also yeah, add that to the list - I want Mechcommander 3 and Mechwarrior 5, thanks.

YOU GOT THE MANGO MADCAT!?

Freespace 2 is like what more then ten years old and playing it for the first time last year I still thought it was amazing.

I think those shits Harmony Gold are suing pretty much anything with a likeness to several mecha properties they own including Robotech. They've prevented pretty much anything SDF Macross related coming out in the west ever since Macross Plus.

It's something I will never let Skerret live down.

GooberTheHat wrote:

Tempy wrote:

GooberTheHat wrote:

When is that new not syndicate game coming out?

Satellite Reign came out to really good reviews late last year.

Ah, cheers. I didn't realise it had been released.  Will have to pick that up.

I was really looking forward to it but the reviews didn't sound so great to me, so I gave it a miss:
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/08/28/satellite-reign-review/
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-09-02-satellite-reign-review

Original X-Com was one of my fave games of all time. The remake was- while not perfect- also one of my fave games of all time. Everything i have read about this sequel makes it sound incredible. I am considering moving back to England for a month just to play it.

I need to properly play the last one first...

Im a bit meh about this one. It looks like they want to ramp up the pace considerably.
To me, thats not what these types of games are about.

The one thing I really didnt like about the reboot is the exact same way you ran into the aliens on the maps.
It was the same every time. i.e. you walk forward, you stumble across them and trigger them going WTF and running about.

That one thing you didn't like is something that, according to reports, they've done their best to remove completely. Videos and so forth that I've watched don't seem to suggest there is an upping of the pace per-se, but more a better meshing of the link between the tactical maps and the strategic overlay. The game counts down to critical events that you can attempt to stop, but it doesn't game-over you if you fail. 

Plus, any increase of pace may not be what XCOM was about, but XCOM2 isn't XCOM - you're on the backfoot and in that position, sitting back and consolidating victories would be utterly bunk.

Where once there were stupid choices between research that made no sense from an optimisation point of view, there is now the chance to spend elerium cores for different lateral upgrades. Instead of the game fudging itself to critically wound soldiers, it sounds like failure will be entirely in your hands - you'll die because you let them flank you, not because the game decided it was time for a one-in-a-million shot. 

Everything in this video makes it sound like they've improved absolutely everything, and to echo Rouj's issues with it not being OGXCOM, he suggests that this is very much them making their own game instead of a quasi-homage

Maps are (partially?)randomised this time as well, so none of that fatigue of playing the same map 2-3 times in a campaign setting in

Well they're procedurally generated which isn't the same as fully randomised

Edit: found the quote I was thinking of in that IGN exclusive where the Art Director confirmed certain set pieces and things were design to avoid non-functionality

Good old Random Ned, he always makes the best maps.

Until this gets a console release I'd love it if you could all refrain from posting about it. Many thanks.