StarDestroyer.Net BBS

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...

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

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!

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.

Do I need to tell everyone about UFO Aftermath again?

Yes, what is UFO Aftermath?

TrailerParkJawa wrote:Yes, what is UFO Aftermath?

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

Thanks for the linky.

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.

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?

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.

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

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....

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.

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

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

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....

Jeez it can't be that hard

*cracks whip*

Move it goddamit!

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....

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?

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....

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...

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

*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

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.