NICE!

Use more words, though I agree it was definitely "Nice".

Let's Hope that You're right, Angry Joe. Nice Cameo with james Rolfe. ;)

Cheers.

is he really a developer?

no

Very good vid. I like it a lot. keep up the good work :)

Spooning with the nerd???

[color=red][i][b]Are you sure he's a developer and not an extra from a Guy Ritchie movie? :D

But methinks they're doing a Fallout 3 with the FPSness![/b][/i][/color]

James took it right on the chin!

Saw the Nerd's E3 vids on his site, and i'm wondering, where was his white shirt? Did he only wear it when he was filming his own vids or did he take it off for your punch out?

haha, james is such a good sport

In my opinion I will make my opinion when it is out and I get it. Though this may make me get DOSbox and the earlier games providing I can find them

its so sad that the essense of the game is gone... those dumbs let us down... the prefer a game of action, NAME IT DIFERENT!!! damn!

Wow, Joe. You WERE very lucky to have James make a cameo on this video. I would watch that all day, and I would never be tired of it.

I'm not a hardcore gamer, but "XCOM" looks like a decent game.

the production of Joe's videos are really improving!

First of all, it is really awesome how things worked out with James Rolfe. I guess, sometimes, things can work out even better than you plan, huh Joe? It was a great little cameo.

As for XCOM, I never played the original, so I have no frame of refernece for this. From what I've seen however, the game looks pretty cool. I'm having trouble getting excited because I am totally FPSd out at the moment, but I can see some real potential in this if they take it in the right direction.

Cool interview Joe. As I've said previously, always nice to see more of what was happening at E3. :)

Oh my God! Angry Joe just punched out the Nerd! YOU BASTARD!!!! :D

[b][color=red]I got Linkara's back. Remember The Nerd Punches Linkara in his opening.[/color][/b]

Besides the Critic and the Chick, you seem to be the only other person from TGWTG to attack the Nerd.

The better question is ''Why XCOM?''

This obviously has absolutely nothing to do with the original games, so why even call it that?

As the rebirth of XCOM, it looks terrible, but as a stand alone game it looks excellent.

[b][color=red]An Alien Invasion, a Home base, Upgrading and researching aliens and their tech. Agents that accompany you on missions. Im pretty sure it has "something" to do with the original game.[/color][/b]

I remember Spoony talking about how pissed off he was that the game was set in the 50's and didn't feature the old aliens like Sectoids and whatnot. I agree, it would have been nice to see those again in full 3D, but, if you think about it, the point of the original was to research these races, find out what makes them tick, where they come from, and how to take them out. If they'd kept the same aliens from before, the fans would already know everything. The way I see it, this game's new aliens, new settings, and overall new story will allow you to have the same mystery-solving experience from the first, but from a new perspective.

[b][color=red]Great point.[/color][/b]

[color=green]I'm actually looking forward to this.[/color]

:dry:
I know people say Australian accents are rugged, but he wasn't that hard to understand.

[b][color=red]Did you not even watch the video?[/color][/b]

Hey what happened to my Comments!?
Can't accept a little criticism towards yourself?!
Who R you Stephenie meyer?!

I LOL'd on James' cameo :lol:

I like strategy games but not much in FPS so I don't know what to say about XCOM turning into FPS but like Angry Joe said, let's just wait for while til that game will release.

I guess what I wonder is why they even had to name it XCOM at all. The setting is different, the aliens are different, and it's not even the same genre. So why call it XCOM? No matter how I look at it, it still pisses me off.

There's a lot of time to go before this game comes out, but for now I'm holding a completely dismissive position toward this game.

[b][color=red]Because its a great franchise that needs to return. If this game does well other possibilities open up.

Ever since the kotaku article, it seems alot of people ask this question. Its pretty simple, it has XCOM elements, just because its in a different time period and perspective doesnt mean it CANT be named XCOM. What about terror from the deep (underwater) or Alliance/Enforcer or Interceptor - they are all XCOMS.[/color][/b]

I was intrigued by this game since I first saw the trailer. I never played the original game, but this draws my attention. It has a Bioshock look and feel to it, and I love vintage 50's stuff. Even if it had nothing to do with the old XCOM, I would still like to play this.

I don't like from idea that one of greatest strategy game series is turned into this wannabe Bioshock. I understand that games like this sell better than strategy games but there is already too much FPS games.

Let's just wait until the game is released...

...for what? To see if it will be a good shooter? A good shooter with "strategy elements"?

We have enough shooters on the market right now, thank you very much. But we could use more strategy games. So when I hear about a cult strategy franchise being turned into a fucking FPS, it fucking pisses me off.

What's wrong with the top down view? What's wrong with turn based gameplay? There's nothing wrong with them. It's efficient and it's fun. I shit you not.

There are people who tries to convince us that this type of gameplay is a relic of the past, that we should accept "change". In other words: shut up and enjoy games the same way as I do.

Yeah, sure.

This kind of gameplay just lost a popularity contest. FPS are more popular than strategy games, they sell better. Using a cult brand is good for the marketing, I suppose. That's about it.

Sure, can be a good game. Will it convince its target audience to try the old games? Will it create demand for strategy games?

I won't hold my breath.

Apocalypse was my favorite X-Com, personally. I loved the pause-anywhere quasi-realtime thing, as well as the urban setting.

As for this new one, IMHO they COULD have something good here depending on how much they carry over from the originals. If it followed more or less the same formula, carrying over many of the original elements but just in real-time with a first person perspective, that might be something I could get into.

....But that would be in effect a pretty innovative game, something fairly unlikely to be done with an established license like this, due to a combination of the risk and cost of making an FPS engine that can effectively handle levels that are both randomly generated and destructible. Doing this would be key to the experience.

If you look at Rainbow Six 1 and 2, youll see how an FPS can be quite strategic and tense. I don't believe the perspective & real-timeyness alone equal failure; however I'm not holding my breath for this developer to take the kinds of risks involved in creating the game i just described.

If they don't have randomly generated and destructible environments, along with other already mentioned features (base building, loadouts, etc) we ARE going to end up with yet another cash-in FPS. If we're talking about Half Life/Area 51 style rail shooting with pre-scripted events and a storyline dominating the experience and coming before everything else, despite the fact that we ALL care more about the gameplay, then this game will suck. You can't be "afraid" of, or disoriented by, a scripted event.

If you look at the X-Com franchise as a whole, they have almost never re-used the same alien races from one game to another. The fact that they came up with entirely new aliens is nothing to complain about, Spoony. Having "familiar faces" would COMPLETELY go against the idea of "enemy unknown"

Oh, and the 1950s setting, to me, SCREAMS "we're imitating Fallout 3 and Bioshock because they made money. Being the corporate whores we are, we fail to consider the possibility that those games were liked simply for flat-out quality - we just want something we can ape for a quick buck, and you kids like this 1950s shit, right? Yeah, they'll buy that." (until they make us all sick of it like they did with WW2 and space marine shooters). In a few years we are going to be BEGGING all the big publishers to STOP PUTTING OUT ALL THESE FUCKING 1950s THEMED GAMES.... Or maybe we've already reached that point...

I originally said something here about how it might also end up in a gray area and be somewhat decent, but actually fuck that. If it's yet another run-n-gun shooter in an already over-saturated market, then it's just whoring out the franchise, giving us yet another mediocre FPS which most likely doesn't truly do anything new. The footage may be limited, but it gives me the impression of running and gunn...

That 2K guy has such a magic voice... Personally I'm as puzzled as Spoony, and can't stand that choice for that licence. A mix between a great RTS licence and Half-Life 2, smells pretty bad to me. But time only knows...

I.E: For punching James, you deserve eternal damnation, AJ! :evil:

But that Dev looked like he hunts aliens in his spare time, I know Australia is a scary place to live but I never guessed the nerds needed to kill wild animals on a regular basis.

This dude's accent is so thick it's virtually a speech impediment. And I say that as a proud, born-and-bred Essex Boy.

I will NOT be buying this,does'nt impress me at all