PC Gamer - While Firaxis’ Jake Solomon and I were talking about the addition of The Second Wave to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, our conversation shifted to the game’s poorly-received first paid DLC, Slingshot. From there, he also reflected on players’ response to XCOM’s difficulty and how 2012 was a banner year for “consequence” as a concept in video games.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown rebooted the series back in 2012, and has since inspired numerous new strategy game series to be born.
If someone gets into this I'd recommend getting the enemy within version. It's got all the dlc included so it's the better version. Wish the author would've atleast mentioned it. I didn't see it.
Fantastic game though. Xcom 2 is top notch also. I've spent countless hours in these games.
Phoenix point if I remember was created by the original xcom developer or something to that affect. I did try gears tactics some months ago and I just couldn't get into it. It's probably just me
It was, but it was really closer to the newer XCOM than the older ones. Gears Tactics was okay but was hard to get into knowing there probably wont be a sequel.
RPS talks to Marvel's Midnight Suns director Jake Solomon about how he reacted to the public negativity around its card based battle system.
Honestly game was a real pleasant surpise. I dont even like marvel like that, but I loved the gameplay. Really fun and addicting, sad to see the game just didnt do well.
Yeah over 100 hours of play from me and I enjoyed every minute. Hope it gets the support that it deserves.
I really loved it. It sucks it didn’t do well.
I actually want a sequel badly.
Did it inspire you to get more into Marvel at all? I know when I played Ultimate Alliance 3, I wasn't that into Marvel, but I enjoyed the heck out of it. I enjoyed it so much that I ended up seeking out lots of Marvel comics that the movies didn't touch on much yet! I was wondering if something similar happened for you after playing and falling in love with this one?
I'm still looking forward to it. I have yet to buy I but I do plan to. I'm a huge xcom fan and I feel this will hit the spot. Card base battles is a bit of a turn off but I feel they could pull it off.
It was great until the DLC trophies bugged out and they never fixed it. I beat the game twice and then they wanted me to beat it another 4 times for the dlc trophies. That was pretty lame and I moved on.
Yeah it’s a great game though it’s just that one issue. The dlc characters are thrown in the middle of the story and if you have already beat the game the trophies won’t unlock. You have start a new game for each dlc character lol. That’s not fun after you spend a ton of time building your decks.
The price tanked like 2 months after launch. It was bad. Wait for the last dlc and then get the complete version for 20 bucks. I recommend it. I will probably play it again someday with all of the dlc.
Imagine X-Com 2, with Marvel characters and powers.
Yeah, would have rather had that
Firaxis Games is about to experience major changes at the management level. Jake Solomon is leaving, and the Studio Head is being replaced.
I hope it kinda stays the same. Maybe develop for consoles simultaneously with PC. Please also port the xcom chimera to consoles. I've seen people be down on it but I just want more xcom.
