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Posted: Aug 31 2012, 03:27 PM Forum Act III: Sonic's Game Stadium View full topic
My grammar is augmented.

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Posted: Aug 31 2012, 02:38 PM Forum Act III: Sonic's Game Stadium View full topic
Miracle Aug 31 2012, 12:28 PM Seems interesting. I might try getting my hands on this, as well as "Batman: Under the Red Hood", which came out years ago. XP Peter Weller = RoboCop RoboCop is Batman. I like where this is going.

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Posted: Aug 31 2012, 08:49 AM Forum Act III: Sonic's Game Stadium View full topic
Spymeleon Aug 31 2012, 08:29 AM FiniteZero Aug 31 2012, 08:20 AM Done correctly, if Silver was playable in the next Sonic game, it would be awesome. I mean, he IS a living Gravity Gun. Imagine if he was in Episode 3. That is all on EP3.

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Posted: Aug 31 2012, 08:12 AM Forum Act III: Sonic's Game Stadium View full topic
-roller blades into the Shack while throwing water balloons- Someone demanded lulz?

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Posted: Aug 30 2012, 03:58 PM Forum Act III: Sonic's Game Stadium View full topic
And then the rain became Reese's cups and cheesecake cubes.

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Posted: Aug 30 2012, 02:36 PM Forum Act III: Sonic's Game Stadium View full topic
Expose on the new XCOM game is up.

XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Posted: Aug 30 2012, 02:28 PM Forum Act II: Video Game Station View full topic
Genre: Hybrid Strategy (Turn Based & Real Time) Developer: Firaxis Games Publisher: 2K Games Players: Single Player Campaign, Multiplayer Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft XBOX 360 and Sony Playstation 3 Release Date: October 9, 2012 (North America), October 12, 2012 (International) ESRB Rating: M for Mature In an earlier retrospective, I introduced the community to the first X-COM game, UFO Defense, which was released in 1994 by Mythos Software and Microprose. A cult-classic, UFO Defense (called UFO: Enemy Unknown in Europe) spawned sequels Terror From The Deep and Apocalypse and spinoffs Interceptor and Enforcer. At E3 2010, a first-person shooter simply called XCOM appeared and has yet to be released next year. The X-COM fanbase reacted rather negatively: Rightly so. In anticipation of another franchise washed out by poor decision making, we were biting our teeth. Then came along a new GameInformer issue in January 2012 that showed a familiar looking alien in the headlights of a taxi cab. Along with a familiar franchise name. Since 2008, Firaxis Games (Civilization, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, etc.), another 2K Games studio and the spiritual torch-bearer for Microprose was working on a reboot of the first hybrid-strategy game. Now on October 9th and October 12th, the fruits of 4 years of labor will finally be revealed in XCOM: Enemy Unknown. So what is XCOM: EU about? Simple. In the near future, aliens target Earth for invasion and begin capturing people, while also terrorizing major cities. In response, a council of nations decide to create XCOM, the Extraterrestrial Combat Unit. In XCOM: Enemy Unknown, you are the commander. You are in charge of the organization's management. Research, manufacturing, personnel, logistics and tactical command. Which brings me to tell you about how this works. XCOM is a hybrid strategy game, part turn-based, part-real time. When you are managing the organization, you do so in real time using an interface called the Geoscape (alternatively known as the 'ant farm' as dubbed by the game's project lead Jake Solomon). When you are commanding the troops during missions, you do so in turn-based mode in what's called the Battlescape. In the 1994 version, troops were able to perform actions according to how many you could perform within a unit's Time Unit allocation. Each action had a Time Unit cost that deducted from that allocation. In XCOM: EU, that has been removed in favor of an action system. You can either move to a certain portion that allows shooting or another action at the end of that movement, or move for a very long range while sacrificing the ability to shoot. This however can be negated by special perks that you can attach to your soldiers as they progress in rank and ability, such as Run and Gun. Old enemies from the original game return in new forms and apparently there's still enemies that have yet to be revealed. Not only that but certain old enemies now have variants too. Sectoids, the easily identified classic 'grey' aliens now have a Sectoid Commander variant that can Mind Merge with another alien to give them enhancements. However the drawback is that if the Commander is killed, so's the alien that it's linked to. Floaters can jump from one part of the map to another, Mutons are very tough and very much on par with XCOM forces in appearance and attack style and also are paired with a dangerous Berserker Muton that is deadly at melee range. Chrysalids, Cyberdisks and Sectopods are back as well in new forms, and the Cyberdisk even has a little drone companion that can repair it. From footage shown so far, missions are much like the 1994 version. You can mop up the survivors of a UFO crash and take the UFO apart for research and other purposes and also rescue civilians in terror missions where the aliens are out in full force specifically to kill said civilians. Of course the main purpose of XCOM is to ascertain how the enemy operates and how to shut them down for good. From what's been seen so far, there's been a lot of positive response from the X-COM community and even from the gaming community at large, the game winning several titles at various gaming conferences and events. But of course, the best way to judge a game is to see it and maybe play it for yourselves. So without further ado, here is a full hour of gameplay footage as commentated by project lead Jake Solomon, lead programmer Casey O'Toole and 2K Greg from 2K Games. Addenum: There's multiplayer, I almost forgot to touch base on that. There will be multiplayer that allows you to put a squad of forces (alien and XCOM combined) against another player's squad. You have approximately 10,000 points to work with and each unit is priced a certain way. This price dynamically changes on the network based on demand.

XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Posted: Aug 30 2012, 02:28 PM Forum Act II: Video Game Station View full topic

Genre: Hybrid Strategy (Turn Based & Real Time)
Developer: Firaxis Games
Publisher: 2K Games
Players: Single Player Campaign, Multiplayer
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft XBOX 360 and Sony Playstation 3
Release Date: October 9, 2012 (North America), October 12, 2012 (International)
ESRB Rating: M for Mature

In an earlier retrospective, I introduced the community to the first X-COM game, UFO Defense, which was released in 1994 by Mythos Software and Microprose. A cult-classic, UFO Defense (called UFO: Enemy Unknown in Europe) spawned sequels Terror From The Deep and Apocalypse and spinoffs Interceptor and Enforcer. At E3 2010, a first-person shooter simply called XCOM appeared and has yet to be released next year. The X-COM fanbase reacted rather negatively:

Rightly so. In anticipation of another franchise washed out by poor decision making, we were biting our teeth. Then came along a new GameInformer issue in January 2012 that showed a familiar looking alien in the headlights of a taxi cab. Along with a familiar franchise name. Since 2008, Firaxis Games (Civilization, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, etc.), another 2K Games studio and the spiritual torch-bearer for Microprose was working on a reboot of the first hybrid-strategy game. Now on October 9th and October 12th, the fruits of 4 years of labor will finally be revealed in XCOM: Enemy Unknown.

So what is XCOM: EU about? Simple. In the near future, aliens target Earth for invasion and begin capturing people, while also terrorizing major cities. In response, a council of nations decide to create XCOM, the Extraterrestrial Combat Unit. In XCOM: Enemy Unknown, you are the commander. You are in charge of the organization's management. Research, manufacturing, personnel, logistics and tactical command.

Which brings me to tell you about how this works. XCOM is a hybrid strategy game, part turn-based, part-real time. When you are managing the organization, you do so in real time using an interface called the Geoscape (alternatively known as the 'ant farm' as dubbed by the game's project lead Jake Solomon). When you are commanding the troops during missions, you do so in turn-based mode in what's called the Battlescape.

In the 1994 version, troops were able to perform actions according to how many you could perform within a unit's Time Unit allocation. Each action had a Time Unit cost that deducted from that allocation. In XCOM: EU, that has been removed in favor of an action system. You can either move to a certain portion that allows shooting or another action at the end of that movement, or move for a very long range while sacrificing the ability to shoot. This however can be negated by special perks that you can attach to your soldiers as they progress in rank and ability, such as Run and Gun.

Old enemies from the original game return in new forms and apparently there's still enemies that have yet to be revealed. Not only that but certain old enemies now have variants too. Sectoids, the easily identified classic 'grey' aliens now have a Sectoid Commander variant that can Mind Merge with another alien to give them enhancements. However the drawback is that if the Commander is killed, so's the alien that it's linked to. Floaters can jump from one part of the map to another, Mutons are very tough and very much on par with XCOM forces in appearance and attack style and also are paired with a dangerous Berserker Muton that is deadly at melee range. Chrysalids, Cyberdisks and Sectopods are back as well in new forms, and the Cyberdisk even has a little drone companion that can repair it.

From footage shown so far, missions are much like the 1994 version. You can mop up the survivors of a UFO crash and take the UFO apart for research and other purposes and also rescue civilians in terror missions where the aliens are out in full force specifically to kill said civilians. Of course the main purpose of XCOM is to ascertain how the enemy operates and how to shut them down for good. From what's been seen so far, there's been a lot of positive response from the X-COM community and even from the gaming community at large, the game winning several titles at various gaming conferences and events. But of course, the best way to judge a game is to see it and maybe play it for yourselves. So without further ado, here is a full hour of gameplay footage as commentated by project lead Jake Solomon, lead programmer Casey O'Toole and 2K Greg from 2K Games.

Addenum: There's multiplayer, I almost forgot to touch base on that. There will be multiplayer that allows you to put a squad of forces (alien and XCOM combined) against another player's squad. You have approximately 10,000 points to work with and each unit is priced a certain way. This price dynamically changes on the network based on demand.

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Posted: Aug 30 2012, 11:47 AM Forum Act III: Sonic's Game Stadium View full topic
And then Cy ran in with as much steam as what his augmented legs could push through and full-on locomotive punched the potential explosion subject through the wall and into Activision's executive offices.

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Posted: Aug 29 2012, 03:59 PM Forum Act III: Sonic's Game Stadium View full topic
Or watch Hollywood Squares for that matter. Not only is that Iago from Aladdin but Digit from Cyberchase. BRAIN BLEACH. PLEASE.

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Posted: Aug 26 2012, 06:04 PM Forum Act III: Sonic's Game Stadium View full topic
Solid Snake Aug 26 2012, 11:05 AM Here is your daily dose of fail. Take responsibly. ..For once I'm going to have to agree with Snooki on something.

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Posted: Aug 26 2012, 10:03 AM Forum Act III: Sonic's Game Stadium View full topic
Oh my god.

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Posted: Aug 26 2012, 08:50 AM Forum Act III: Sonic's Game Stadium View full topic
-rolls off of his mattress, gets up and stretches out the kinks in his body with a yawn, then dashes for his fire gear-

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Posted: Aug 25 2012, 05:38 PM Forum Act III: Sonic's Game Stadium View full topic
Utterly wrecked? How would one get wrecked in that fashion?

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Posted: Aug 25 2012, 05:37 PM Forum Act III: Sonic's Game Stadium View full topic
Would anyone be interested in an online board game of Axis & Allies?

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Posted: Aug 25 2012, 05:21 PM Forum Act III: Sonic's Game Stadium View full topic
Sleeping Dogs? More like True Crime Streets of LA 2. -snort-

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Posted: Aug 25 2012, 05:15 PM Forum Act III: Sonic's Game Stadium View full topic
>:C It's hiding Coke from us.

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Posted: Aug 25 2012, 04:56 PM Forum Act III: Sonic's Game Stadium View full topic
-crawls up to his knees and then goes over to attack the fridge for Coca-Cola-

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Posted: Aug 25 2012, 04:12 PM Forum Act III: Sonic's Game Stadium View full topic
I kinda got that way myself back then, but the school called it senioritis.

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Posted: Aug 25 2012, 04:11 PM Forum Act III: Sonic's Game Stadium View full topic
Melancholy is what you're going through.

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Posted: Aug 25 2012, 03:58 PM Forum Act III: Sonic's Game Stadium View full topic
Well what's going on? o_O

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