X-Com: UFO Defense
This is a thread for discussing X-Com and how maddeningly difficult it is and how awesome it is because of it. It is also a thread for people like MILF and Skyblade and myself to cry and lament about the so-called "new version" that is actually nothing like the original.
Anyways! Report in if you've played it, and then we shall discuss.
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I am more of a fan of Terror from the Deep since it was the first one I played. Plus, I get to pretend to be cooler because I fight Tentaculats instead of those pussy Chryssalids.
This new one is going to be a first-person shooter? UGH. It may turn out to be a cool game, but where is my isometric grid-base, turn-based, time unit-managed strategy game of brilliance?
I saw the thread title and hoped Marick had made his long overdue return to EoFF X-COM. I was wrong. smurf you, Marick.
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Ditto.Originally Posted by Old Manus
Obviously, the only solution to this is to make Pike start up an EoFF X-COM and hope that she's not as fail as, well, the King of Fail himself.
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
She's already lining up to do a SMAC LP but I'm sure after that she can be persuaded to do an X-Com one.
Also, X-Com, true classic amazing game yadda yadda. I hope you all use X-Com Util.
Fornicate enemy blaster bombs.
Wait, what is EoFF X-Com, and why are we nominating me for it? :o
Unsure, but I am interested.
I did do a forum X-Com once, before I reached EoFF. Basically, I named each squad member after a forum poster and let them follow their own progress and contribute as to what sort of weapons they would like to wield, and that sort of thing. It was fun, though people do sometimes get frustrated when they die due to my poor strategy (really, it's not my fault they can't aim sometimes).
Unfortunately, I've had some problems running X-Com on DOS-box lately. Controls are too sensitive, and I wind up overshooting all the time. Very hard to control combat that way.
Great game though, and I would love to see it redone correctly. But Spoony's thoughts pretty much sum up my opinion of the new game.
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Oh man, if I did that the entire forum would be dead in pretty short order. Mostly by way of friendly fire. Fitting, I guess?Unsure, but I am interested.
I did do a forum X-Com once, before I reached EoFF. Basically, I named each squad member after a forum poster and let them follow their own progress and contribute as to what sort of weapons they would like to wield, and that sort of thing. It was fun, though people do sometimes get frustrated when they die due to my poor strategy (really, it's not my fault they can't aim sometimes).
For an example of "EoFF [game]" running, check out previous ones for your inspiration...
http://forums.eyesonff.com/general-g...ress-time.html
http://forums.eyesonff.com/general-a...o-woo-hoo.html
http://forums.eyesonff.com/general-g...ost-450-a.html
http://forums.eyesonff.com/general-g...e-midwest.html
http://forums.eyesonff.com/general-g...yeson-f-c.html
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
I loved Marick's LP, and I was going to do an EoFF X-Com a couple of months ago myself and even had all these cool little graphics to use. I was going to split everyone into teams when they got off the plane (which is my usual tactic) and then chronicle how each little team fared in battle.
Aren't they neat? Then when I recorded the first battle it turned out all blurry (so I couldn't take screenshots from it, and the ones I took with FRAPS during the battle itself were all shrunken and tiny) and the file was a bajillion GB so I just lost all interest and effort.
Don't suppose anyone knows of any decent, free (or can provide a "borrowed" copy) video cap software?
SMAC? Alpha Centuri? smurf yeah. I request, nay, demand, to be furnished with a link to this when she starts.
Also... X-Com Utill...? Enlighten me, sir.
We need to do a new Dwarf Fortress....just saying.
We should have one where me and BoB alternate between years. I fix it one year, he takes over and breaks it the next, and then I take over and desperately try to restore order before he takes over to smurf it all up again. Potential for comedy gold? I think so!
Ahahaha. Like there would be anything left after I run it for a year.
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
Jesus Christ on a pogo stick somebody make another EoFF LP, they're usually brilliant. I'd do one if nobody else was willing.
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