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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 / Re: Battlescape Resolutions

« on: July 12, 2011, 11:14:15 am »

YES!

Either one of those actually would be so amazing. The UI size honestly doesn't bother me too much, though admittedly I like the one where it scales just because you can see more of the screen. But the UI is not a dealbreaker as either of those pictures would be an improvement imo. When playing the old X-Com the old resolution kind of is, though.

Stats on the equip screen make sense. But again, that is just a UI ease of access thing. I wouldn't want to game changed, but just be able to have the option to make it "easier to play".

Hell maybe just make these things optional? That way you still have the original game for those that want it, but these improvements would be available.

Just so long as you don't change the gameplay and keep it to UI (and don't change the UI like UFO:TTS did) it would be perfect.

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Also, if you can make the resolution higher so that I can enjoy playing x-com, I will test the crap out of it for you. Need anything else? You want a coffee from down the street? I am yours.

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Suggestions / Re: Battlescape Resolutions

« on: February 28, 2011, 01:23:26 pm »

Well I will say that whatever the guys over at "X-Com The Two Sides" have done they seem to have made the battlescape pretty much perfectly like I would imagine it. The only problem is they have made so many changes from the original with the UI and the rest of the game that I am just not interested in it.

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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.