I hope it gets a console release but I am very glad it has been designed with the PC in mind, so they can make the best game they can. That said, the requirements are slight and it sounds so well optimised that there's every chance even my shitheap of a PC will run the thing.

Tempy wrote:

I hope it gets a console release but I am very glad it has been designed with the PC in mind, so they can make the best game they can. That said, the requirements are slight and it sounds so well optimised that there's every chance even my shitheap of a PC will run the thing.

Tbf they nailed the controls for the last one. I played it on PC with my 360 pad.

regmcfly wrote:

Tempy wrote:

I hope it gets a console release but I am very glad it has been designed with the PC in mind, so they can make the best game they can. That said, the requirements are slight and it sounds so well optimised that there's every chance even my shitheap of a PC will run the thing.

Tbf they nailed the controls for the last one. I played it on PC with my 360 pad.

The pad controls were fine, but playing it with a Mouse and Keyboard felt incredibly restrictive, which means that the pad controls were overall a negative for me. I'm all for pad control when I'm feeling lazy, but I don't want to feel like someone is restricting my interaction with a game because pad controls are a priority.  I hope that with the PC as the lead platfrom there isn't a repeat of that.

UFO is a mobile cave analogy/allegory.

/splooodge!
4 days to go!

I am as confident as i have ever been that this will be one of the best games i have ever played.

GOTY 2016 CALLED IT BROSKIS

isanbard wrote:

hmmm. The Eurogamer review seems to suggest that it's obviously the same as before with  a load of fail timers on it. The reviewer says this is great... I haven't found this to be true for most any other games I've enjoyed, especially any strategy ones. I don't particularly like the time pressure on every state and move. I would prefer to have a think about how and what to do rather than just lunge about desperately with the clock constantly ticking..  I'll grab it in a steam sale when it s bobbins and not play it then. Its a PC release after all...

I understand the idea behind this line of thinking (especially if you are a fan of the armchair strategy genre)  but for my money, if the whole game is about a desperate battle to save humanity from the brink, if the setting is designed to be a pressure cooker of threat, failure, and hard choices, then encouraging you to scrape and scramble for each victory via the formal elements fits the thematic thrust of the game very well. If you were able to sit and scritch your chin at your leisure, it wouldn't really fit the whole ton and narrative structure of the game, and nailing that mesh is exactly what the last XCOM lacked, heck, it's a binding of intent and function that a great many games lack.

In a way it just like they've learned from the best parts of boardgame design - including FG's wonderful XCOM boardgame which introduced the threat timer, which added more pathos to each dice roll than any carefully curated XCOM-moment-crit could ever hope to.

There's none of that in the XCOM boardgame, it's all run through an app.

Fury as your best sniper misses a 99% shot on a rogue alien that then proceeds to chew up your entire squad.

I really should get round to finishing up the first one again (would need a restart by now I'd imagine) but had issues with the change form the 90s. They made it all different with the graphics and the classes and the .. arcadeyness. 
I'll give it a  crack at some point.

I need to get around to Invisible Inc too now I think.. people told me that was a bit of a belter?

I'm debating whether to Ironman this beast like I did with the other one, sounds tougher.

Installing now Temps. You'd better be telling me the truth or so help me.. 












I'll delete it. And start on some more Dragons Dogma..

I didn't play Invisible Inc in the 90s Sparky so I hope I'm more open to it being different to XCom. 

I am an idiot, yes.

It has to come to consoles in time? They did  a great job with the controls after all although day 1 mods are the new rage it seems.