At what point will xcom be obsolete? / scifi literature topic

[kharille]

I'd suppose it'll evolve and there will be new versions, but aren't some of the features a little out of date?  I heard they discovered element 115.  Perhaps one day it'll all be mobile combat vehicles rather than soldiers.  And UAVs rather than piloted craft.

[luke83]

people still play games based around other past events, like WW2 , Xcom is just based on a past event in a alternate dimension

[clownagent]

I believe when the real aliens land on earth and start enslaving humanity openXcom is maybe out of date   .

[sectoidwhisperer]

ummmm......NEVER!

[pilot00]

  I heard they discovered element 115.

What? When?

Wait a sec, you talk about an element that just happened to be element 115 on the periodic table right? Not an element that has the properties of X-com 115.

[Phoenix7786]

I believe when the real aliens land on earth and start enslaving humanity openXcom is maybe out of date   .

At that point OpenXcom will become educational, a fate worse than death for video-games!

[Solarius Scorch]

Wait a sec, you talk about an element that just happened to be element 115 on the periodic table right? Not an element that has the properties of X-com 115.

That's because those dumbasses can't even make a proper Elerium crystal!

[Dioxine]

Bah, element, shmelement. What's good of an element if you don't have the proper isotope

And about the crafts - seriously, in 1994 we were comparing Interceptors to F-22s and they seemed almost within reach. Now we compare to F-35s and they seem ages ahead of our tech

Oh and about the robots, Japan was still kinda on it in 1994 and HWP seemed not much of a stretch. I was recently on a presentation made by the leading Polish robot producer (don't laugh, their robots are used by US and Israeli forces, so can't be that bad). Production process of a modern robot which is sorta comparable to a HWP takes several years, the thing costs millions of $$$ and it's rather unimpressive to be honest, a dirt-cheap run-of-the-mill suicide bomber is more effective So I think in robotics we're lagging behind X-Com even more than back then, if only because the limitations of robotics route the western civilization took became more apparent (and Japan is pretty much out of business).

[davide]

HWP of year 2010

today

[Solarius Scorch]

I think I'll make the tanks researchable, with some prerequisites.

It would be cool to only have access to these real-life drones at first. (I don't think they'd be popular though.)

[pilot00]

That's because those dumbasses can't even make a proper Elerium crystal!

Lulz right, dumb asses indeed. Who doesnt want infinete energy right?

Bah, element, shmelement. What's good of an element if you don't have the proper isotope

Thats why (short of) I asked if they discovered an element that just filled the 115 "slot" on the periodic table or if they did actually discovered something similar. When I thought about it calmly ofc I realised it is former rather than the later. If they did discover something like this, it would be the news.

[Arthanor]

As a game, I don't see why xcom would become obsolete. It's still one of the most complex games I know, maybe with the total war games.

I found it funny when I learned there already was a 115 element. But that doesn't really mean much. Too bad the scientist who named it wasn't an xcom fan though (or it was maybe before xcom?). Having elerium in real life would be neat.

Technology surpassing what is in the game isn't really an issue. XCom:EU is an alternative history just like any game set in the past. It just happens to be a bit more recent. The red alert games are still entertaining even though it's not the cold war.

As for robots, a cheapish crappy scout drone kinda like what we use now for bomb disposal could be nice as an early scout, to keep your rookies alive and allow them to get better. With a rifle or smoke as weapons, maybe, then HWPs after some research in alien tech for remote control or sensors.

[kharille]

I suppose I meant the technology.  In this day and age its all UAV's flying everywhere.  I wonder whether in the coming decades they'll do a contemporary remake.

and the 2012 doesn't seem to have much in the way of improved technology for the humans to begin with. 

[Hobbes]

I'd suppose it'll evolve and there will be new versions, but aren't some of the features a little out of date?  I heard they discovered element 115.  Perhaps one day it'll all be mobile combat vehicles rather than soldiers.  And UAVs rather than piloted craft.

Is H.G. Wells 'The War of the Worlds' out of date? I mean, now everyone knows that there aren't any Martians but the book is still considered a classic even if it takes place on the beginning of the 20th century. To me that's how XCom goes

[Dioxine]

Is H.G. Wells 'The War of the Worlds' out of date? I mean, now everyone knows that there aren't any Martians but the book is still considered a classic even if it takes place on the beginning of the 20th century. To me that's how XCom goes

So true. And curiously it also proves that "modernized" remakes are often far worse than the original (shame on you, Steven Spielberg, you could've done much better than that).