Ufo- Enemy Unknown

Crazy_Vasey · Post by **Crazy_Vasey** » 2003-01-17 12:37pm

It would be badass if someone did a proper remake of UFO with modern technology.

Maybe someday when I get a bit better at programming...

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2003-01-17 12:44pm

It would be EXTREMELY cool if someone just improved the damn graphics and added some more human weapons.

I'd be perfectly satisfied with JA2 level graphics and cool character models (clad in black, body armor, helmets, tactical flashlights strung uder the barrels of their weapons, etc)

Plus good grenade mechanics (eg. you should be able to throw a grenade around a corner) and maybe some real armored vehicles, and thermal viewers, and air support, and cool radio messages from your team during tactical combat, and...

Whew. I got to get back to writing my X-Com fic, excuse me

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2003-01-17 04:20pm

I'd be perfectly happy with another X-Com game that is just as good as Apocolypse. And it has to have the real time option. No going back to turn based for me!

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-01-17 06:35pm

I can live with X-com graphics, as long as the gameplay is there. A remake with a good man to man combat engine would be a bit hit in my book. I would replace the autocannon with regular squad level machine gun.

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-01-18 02:43am

Do I need to tell everyone about UFO Aftermath again?

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-01-18 02:58am

Yes, what is UFO Aftermath?

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-01-18 03:02am

TrailerParkJawa wrote:Yes, what is UFO Aftermath?

http://www.gamerankings.com/itemranking ... wid=127594

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2003-01-18 03:39am

Thanks for the linky.

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2003-01-18 04:15am

UFO Aftermath has a spelling error in the title, and doesn't have base management. While the former is forgivable, the latter is not. I refuse to play an X-Com game without base management.

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-01-18 04:27am

PeZook wrote:UFO Aftermath has a spelling error in the title, and doesn't have base management. While the former is forgivable, the latter is not. I refuse to play an X-Com game without base management.

Why? Base management is nothing but tedium IMO. What's fun about it?

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2003-01-18 04:35am

Ah, you see, it's the businessman in me speaking again

But seriously - every time I played one of the X-Com games I quickly got bored with endless streams of tactical combat and liked the break of some strategic planning. I always like to have some control over the way your troops are supplied and supported on the field.

Yomin Carr · Post by **Yomin Carr** » 2003-01-18 07:34am

he he

x-com terror from the deep was the expensived game i ever buyed
and it was a grate game

ufo and x-com apocalypse was cool too

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2003-01-19 06:27pm

To be honest, cool though it was, the real time mode in Apocalypse made the game far too easy.....toxiguns fired fast enough you had to try pretty damn hard to let the aliens hit you and once you got the personal teleporters the game was so easy it wasnt funny...
Equip a guy with 3 teleporters and a pile of vortex bombs/explosives/grenades/anything that goes BOOM!

1.Pause
2.Teleport into the general area of the aliens....
3. Use a second teleport to land right beside them....
4. Drop all your explosives
5. Use your final teleport to retreat to a safe staging point
6. Finally, unpause and laugh.

I much prefered the skill involved in carefully moving your team, sweeping and clearing buildings....

Artanis · Post by **Artanis** » 2003-01-20 01:32pm

the real time mode in Apocalypse made the game far too easy

I ended up using Civil War-style "firing line" tactics: back your guys into a dead end or other choke point, and let the aliens simply walk into you (literal) rain of bullets. Aliens with boomeroids, dimension missiles, and vortex mines were too rare to offset the advantage of a tightly-packed deathtrap.
While you could do similar things in X-Com: UFO Defense, it wasn't nearly as effective, and you still had to actually sweep an area to kill all the baddies.

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-01-21 04:25am

Why not just play it on turn-based like it was meant to be played?

Yomin Carr · Post by **Yomin Carr** » 2003-01-22 06:51am

i found this site today

http://www.xcomufo.com/forums/index.php ... act=SF&f=3

they make a remake of xcom ufo and tftd

maybe someone is interested

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2003-01-22 06:58am

Yomin Carr wrote:i found this site today

http://www.xcomufo.com/forums/index.php ... act=SF&f=3

they make a remake of xcom ufo and tftd

maybe someone is interested

So far, they have a geoscape....bloody nice looking but thats about it thusfar....

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-01-22 07:55am

Jeez it can't be that hard

*cracks whip*

Move it goddamit!

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2003-01-22 08:02am

Vympel wrote:Jeez it can't be that hard

*cracks whip*

Move it goddamit!

It is nice....they took sattelite photos and used them....if they keep going for that sort of style and detail it'll be worth the wait.....well....depending on how long the wait is....

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-01-22 08:11am

Keevan_Colton wrote:
It is nice....they took sattelite photos and used them....if they keep going for that sort of style and detail it'll be worth the wait.....well....depending on how long the wait is....

How long ago was X-COM Genesis cancelled?

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2003-01-22 08:27am

Vympel wrote:
Keevan_Colton wrote:
It is nice....they took sattelite photos and used them....if they keep going for that sort of style and detail it'll be worth the wait.....well....depending on how long the wait is....
How long ago was X-COM Genesis cancelled?

It died a slow death in the changeovers between microprose - hasbro etc....it just sort of fell through the cracks....

DocHorror · Post by **DocHorror** » 2003-01-22 08:39am

Without meaning to highjack the topic, are there any plans for another Syndicate game...

The last one I played was Syndicate Wars & it was fucking brilliant...

Id love to see it updated...

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-01-22 08:44am

No luck, just another classic game screwed by the big wigs... assholes.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2003-01-22 08:53am

*sits on a porch in a rocking chair trying to look old and decrepit....succeeding scarily well....*

Aye, I remeber when things had gameplay...back in the good old days...and you could get a whole program on a 5 1/4" floppy....those were the days

Crazy_Vasey · Post by **Crazy_Vasey** » 2003-01-22 09:35am

DocHorror wrote:Without meaning to highjack the topic, are there any plans for another Syndicate game...

The last one I played was Syndicate Wars & it was fucking brilliant...

Id love to see it updated...

Nope Bullfrog now appears to be the theme park company

Syndicate owned as well. I wasn't as much of a fan of the sequel but the original blew my socks off when I first played it.

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