Kordanor spotted that UFO 2 Extraterrestrials: Battle for Mercury will be released today:
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UFO2: Extraterrestrials - Released
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Is there an "UFO1" game? Honest question.
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Every alien base/ship in an X-com game must have:
- rooms either dimly lit or with purple, fluorescent neon tubes,
- chambers with eggs because aliens are usually cross of humans/insectoids,
- weird giant mushrooms
- rooms either dimly lit or with purple, fluorescent neon tubes,
- chambers with eggs because aliens are usually cross of humans/insectoids,
- weird giant mushrooms
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Blame Ridley Scott's Alien.
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I was about to post about this game looking interesting, then saw the £28 Price tag. Whatever these guys are smoking, it must be fabulous.
Soon to be 50% off.
Carnifex
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Nod, that launch price will tumble quickly, I bet. And when that happens, assuming reviews are favourable, I'll likely check it out.
Irian
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Honestly, the video looks terrible. The explosion has problems with the tiles and stuff. Might still be interesting gameplay-wise, but not for 30$.
Kordanor
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or 30€, yeah, its a bit more on the pricey side.
I think I will have a look at it at some point, but I am still busy with Phoenix Point and playing two of this games at the same time is probably a bad idea.
Guess when I am finished with Phoenix Point, the price will also be reduced. I also don't think that 30€ is a good price mid to long term. Short term it might be a good choice if still enough hardcore fans buy it. Also might influence reviews the one or other way. (more critical because you pay more money, or less critical in numbers because less "casuals" are playing it)
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I'm not quite understanding the outrage.
It's obviously not a AAA title, but the price reflects that. For something like this, I think $35 seems about right.
It's obviously not a AAA title, but the price reflects that. For something like this, I think $35 seems about right.
Thank you! I didn't know it!
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It's weird to me how the whole XCom concept seems to be basically public domain, with a whole bunch of extremely similar iterations. There's a lot of other franchises that if a company did the same thing, making a smaller game that follows its blueprint, they'd get the pants sued off.
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Couldn't resist.
Unplayable mess.
For a 10+ year old game I expected font size to be bigger.
Geoscape UFO chase is the best looking feature of the game.
Skyranger starts easily as well, no soldier reconfig needed. On site there is a strange interceptor-looking floating tank or drone, controllable as the soldiers. Weird..
Soldier animation is very basic and annoying looking. Same with aliens.
UI couldn't recognize my digipen, had to switch it to mouse mode.
Combat plays bad.
Unit selection sound apparently was stolen from XCOM, or very closely re-generated.
Uninstall is a BAT file, which is badly written, looks for admin rights for some reason.
Refunded.
Bookmark deleted.
Unplayable mess.
For a 10+ year old game I expected font size to be bigger.
Geoscape UFO chase is the best looking feature of the game.
Skyranger starts easily as well, no soldier reconfig needed. On site there is a strange interceptor-looking floating tank or drone, controllable as the soldiers. Weird..
Soldier animation is very basic and annoying looking. Same with aliens.
UI couldn't recognize my digipen, had to switch it to mouse mode.
Combat plays bad.
Unit selection sound apparently was stolen from XCOM, or very closely re-generated.
Uninstall is a BAT file, which is badly written, looks for admin rights for some reason.
Refunded.
Bookmark deleted.
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Zloth
I smell a... wumpus!?
Troubleshooter spoiled us, asking $25 for such a big game.
Actually, with GOG's sale going on, plenty of games that are AAA can be bought for cheaper than this one.
Yeah, common wisdom seems to peg any non-AAA title at $15 maximum. Some people even complain about that.
Uh right, good thing Fallout and Diablo are properly copyrighted!