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Offtopic / Penny Arcade X-Com Let's Play

« on: July 12, 2011, 11:58:18 am »

I'd like to show you guys something that has over the years always succeeded in renewing my interest in X-Com.

Over in the penny-arcade forum, a user called Fishman has been doing a Let's Play of X-Com for nearly three years now. The narration is amazingly good, the deaths of all the posters and their ensuing commentary is also top notch.

It might take a while to read, but you should certainly start at thread one and continue from there and I guarantee, it's like an X-Com visual novel and it is definitely worth it.

Here is the latest thread and there is a link to the first thread there
https://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=134251

Enjoy!

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Suggestions / Battlescape Resolutions

« on: February 27, 2011, 02:39:06 pm »

I love what you guys are doing, I just wish it was further along! There are too many people that seem to be trying to remake X-Com but they always put in too much of their own unique stuff and it ends up ultimately ruining the product I am looking for, which is a pure X-Com remake.

If I as a big fan of the X-Com games could come here and tell you what I am expecting out of this project (and have been pleased by so far), it would be please don't make any changes that will change how the game plays. The only things that should be changes should be ease of access, such as support for higher resolutions and the ability to zoom in or out of the battlescape, saving soldiers weapons. Don't try and balance the game or add new shots or change the research or what not. Just give us a base, an updated bugfixed open-source original X-Com games and then people can mod their fine tunings and balance from there.

I love the original X-Com and the only thing I wish to see is support for higher resolutions. A battlescape interface that doesn't take up 1/4 of my screen and the ability to see more of the map on my screen at the same time.