mystery nigga
in retrospect that game was woke as fuck>intro is about a totalitarian regime oppressing le heckin minorities>final cutscene is a nigger fighting back against advent>the whole "the trains always run on time" thing during one of the missions
>>724231251COMMANDER NIGGA, ITS UP TO YOU
>>724231517Fascism is bad, this is not a woke statement
>>724232601It's a surprisingly hot take in the current environmentIdk who thinks they will benefit under a fascist regime but I can promise those people it most certainly will not be them
>xcom is dead and buried probably forever due to marvel slopGod i fucking hate marvel and disney
>>724233024were the returns on the xcom games that bad? never seemed like a AAA game to me with a gazillion dollar budget.
I liked new Xcoms. Shame there won't be any new ones.
>>724233269Xcom did great, both of them. The marvel slop they did after is what killed the studio. The guy responsible for xcom 1 and 2 left, along with few others
>>724233440To be fair they DID do another xcom game after 2 but it was woke so no one bought it. The bisexual lighting was enough to put people off.
>>724233563>Great gameplay>Everything else sucked ass
>>724231517>aliens mass harvesting humans to replace them>woke
>>724233563>game about beating invading illegal ayyliens off earth>what if there was a mixed multicultural interracial city where humans and ayylians lived together peacefully and worked together?wtf were they thinking?
i miss when games used to talk directly to me, the player
>>724233563I dunno if it really counts, I always saw it as an experimental spin-off to test some stuffI do like the idea of ayylien squadmates tho, but as generic soliders instead of unique characters
>>724234240it counts. Fireaxis said it was canon.
>>724234392I meant moneywise
>>724233880>xcom 1 and 2>This is OUR planet>Earth is for HUMANS>chimera squad>uhmm sweaty have you thought about the poor alien refugees? don't be a bigot..
>>724233880If i get my state mandated snakefu, id be down for selling out my fellow human and earth
>>724234648I did find it funny how the vipers were racist against other aliens because they were born on earth so that makes them earthlings right?
>>724233880all aliens you fought (except a few ones) were under mind control with a surgical device implented in them, humanity in XCOM2 was undergoing the same shit the other did until you wrecked it all and now the aliens had nowhere to go but stay on earth.
>>724234802is this you?
>>724231251Nu-xcom fags getting fucked by 2k and the capeshit niggers at firaxis will never not be fun
>>724234986Maybe they shouldn't have lost and start shit here, not my problem.
>>724233024Midnight Suns was fun
>>724233024Honestly goodImagine if they had kept pimping out the IP like cowadooty
>>724237185its shit
>>724233880The human-supremacist viper made it all worth it for me, althought I wish they didn't try to make her face human-like. Should've kept it on-modelatleast fanart rectifies that issue
>>724237806can't they shapeshift into being near humanlike like they did in xcom 1? why didnt they do that?
>>724238910That was genetic engineering, not shapeshifting.
>>724239156Genetic engineering didnt start yet in xcom 1. at least not yet incorporating human genes. Which is why the sectoid became large and human like in 2 while in 1 it was just a typical gray like alien midget.
>>724231517>>724232701>you know thing you like?>it's actually thing you DONT like!!!>pls feel sad I really need this :(
>>724233880The aliens were getting fucked just like humanity. It makes perfect sense and working together with them (giving you a ton of new units to play with) to fight the greater threat is a natural progression.
>>724234851I mean, doesn't it though?
>>724234118>"Stop driving so fast, you freakin' jerk!"How do you respond without sounding angry?
>>724232701You trannies turned most western nations into the Weimar republic, only to act shocked people don't want to be browbeat and replaced by third worlders in their own countries.
I miss long war sometimes.
>>724241737health bars
>>724231517trumpist retards have been brainwashed to say the same shit every time>this media depicts a fascist regime as a bad thing>this is woke
>>724242631isnt it the same with every socialist and communist regime?
>>724241634Trump is importing more Indians than any president before himunless he's a tranny I doubt it's them who are replacing you
>>724241737How the fuck do you keep up with that level of enemy power creep, where everything can oneshot you and undo a dozen missions of progress? It looks like they made a core xcom problem a thousand times worse.
>>724242792Some people are sadists and hate themselves.
>>724241634People hated the Weimar republic because of its economic collapse, which was caused by postwar conditions. Ironically the subject natsocs care least about is how the economy works.
>>724231517>when you become so right wing you start defending the aliens who want to turn humans into bio fuelsomething something horseshoe theory
>>724242724>Let's see. The user I am replying to has opposed my support of a pro-dictatorial status quo. I should counter this with a tribal ad-hominem. </think>>COMMUNIST
>>724242961Except I'm not refuting it I am pointing out it is the same therefore I am not a trumpist maga retard nor a socialist communist cuckold.
>>724233269why is there a dude on your team
>>724242774Lol you faggots can't get your talking points straight. Is he a fascist because he has evil ICE deporting too many Mexican grandmas or is he aksually just as bad because he's replacing everyone with Indians so why bother voting against the left?
>>724231517if anything making a holocaust joke in reference to aliens literally concentrating humans into genetic goop is in surprisingly poor taste for a AAA video game
This is my earthling wife. Say something nice about her.
Seeing retards here defend Chimera Squad makes me glad this series died>NOOOOOOO THATS SO PETTYblow it up your ass
>>724244545Out, not up.
>>724233269>women soldierscringe
>>724245779>he's never seen Haloid
>>724245779>>724245874https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL-mR79GErU
>>724245874>>724245941I was like 11 when I watched this fuuuuuug
>>724244201Your wife is a 102% alien with a 2% margin of error
>>724247425minor spelling mistake
>>724241737Tryhard cringe.
>>724231517>making excuses for accepting mass immigration while liquefying native population.
>>724231251if the first game was revealed to be a simulation why is player not to assume the second isn't also a simulation?
>>724231517Not likeing the government isnt woke. What are youna fucking communist?
>>724236085>That one dev that was just like "lol i had no idea people would like these sexy snake ladies we put in. So weird haha"
Snakemen>vipers
>>724248313ok homo
>>724248724Coomers ruined X-COM.
I still like XCom Enemy Within the most.
>>724248313Each is good for their own game. Snakemen are x-files shit, which fits the tone of game 1. Secret glowies fighting ayys in plain sight and such. Vipers are good for game 2, since that one is about a rebellion against a regime that doesn't need to hide.
>>724248795oomerspeak won't help you evade you liking men more than women, homo
>>724231517“Le heckin minority” is literally the entire human species you dumbass.Aesthetics aside, this is a game about killing and expelling a vile and depraved foreign power that has taken over your society, instituted spineless collaborators, and is actively filling your streets with filthy fucking aliens and half-breed abominations.One could make a serious case for Advent being globohomo
the thing is, what concept/premise would you do for XCOM3 that doesn't feel like treading old ground? XCOM 1 and 2 both basically did two sides of a standard alien story and anything else might be more niche like Chimera Squad. You have to remember it has to be a premise that promises engaging strategy gameplay as well. The best thing I could think of is taking the war to an alien planet, and managing your military outpost in an uncharted land. I doubt the developers would be interested in that premise, though.
>>724239357Thin Men weren’t incorporating human dna afaik, they were just genetically modified to superficially resemble humans on the outside. The DNA itself is still whatever genetic soup the ethereals were using from the start.
>>724231517terminally and irredeemably retarded
>>724248795X-COM is a very narrow window in time. It must be the story of first contact with mysterious hostile aliens, who don't go full d-day across the planet and instead do weird shit like abductions so humans have time to catch up. It also has to be kept secret from the population, so the war proceeds quietly for some time.Straying from this concept doesn't make the game bad, but makes it less X-COM. I do like war of the chosen a lot, but enemy within has way better "secret war" vibes.>>724249261>The best thing I could think of is taking the war to an alien planet, and managing your military outpost in an uncharted land. Man fuck yeah, that'd be cool. Maybe a middle planet of some kind, so both sides are not present in full force to keep the feeling of an arms race?
>play enemy within>miss the gameplay of 2>play 2>miss the atmosphere of enemy within
>>724248925Enemy within was funI liked having my endgame lineup being all gene-modded, psykers, or MECs.Also killing a Muton Berserker with the Kinetic Strike module will never ever stop being satisfying.
>>724249261Take the fight to the elders going on the counter attack. going to Alien worlds with space ships and invade them. (mostly so we can fly the alien refugees back to their homeworlds.)
>>724249747having a MEC brawl with a muton was kino
>>724249156in X-COM 2 the good guys>Refuse to get the alien vaxx>Refuse to eat the bugs(mostly lol)>Go innawoods with their guns>Wage a guerrilla war agains a global powerAdvent IS globohomo
>>724249692why not play enemy unknown?
>>724248724>>724248974
>>724241634>muh Weimar save me hitlerman/pol/niggers need to stay in their hole
>>724249747>>724250004Can't you punch things with a SPARK? How come SPARKS were like 10x less cool than MECs despite being nearly the same thing?
>>724249261Do XCOM2 again but on the alien homeworld. Rather that an all-out war you're a small force making guerilla strikes against key targets. This gives an excuse for why you wouldn't be facing the aliens' strongest troops immediately and why XCOM would have time to be investigating and researching.
>>724234802>selling out my fellow human and earthThe Vipers are pro-Earth
is there anything that scratches the xcom itch? i tried Gears tactics and i thought some changes that it had were great but the campaign is too linear for replayability.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeLC55FOUCI
>>724250279The design just kind of sucks, even ignoring the story one with the ugly ass headpiece. They're too lanky compared to the brick shithouse MECs. The MECs had the opposite problem with their comically small human head on the giant robot body but you could at least put a helmet over it.Honestly I liked capturing advent mecs way more than fielding sparks myself, even though they mostly look the same.
>>724250858OpenXCOM has like a dozen mods to choose from, if at least one doesn't catch your attention that's a (you) problem and not a lack of content problem.
>>724231517LOOOOOOOOOL
>>724243147the HRT hasn't fully warped his mind yet
>>724250401>The Vipers are pro-EarthHonestly the funniest part about them, that also makes perfect sense. Because duh, they never known other planets. And people who flown their parents (their embryos?) here to hatch are both evil and dead, so they're team earth now.There's a cool story there, just not one fitting for an xcom game. I'd reckon there's still way more humans on earth than ayys, even after xcom2. They'll probably segregate? At least there's plenty of empty space on earth, if you clean up lost sectors. Maybe there's gonna be race wars on earth a generation or two after chimera squad after the spirit of jolly cooperation against the elders wears off.
>>724250279For me, there are two critical differences:1. SPARKs are overall a bit slighter in build compared to a MEC, and seem a bit more agile. Therefore they don’t quite feel as much like a cyber-hulk as MECs.2. They’re full robots instead of cyborgs. SPARKs have no nationality, no name beyond what you give them, no unique backstory aside from the two found in the story mission for them. Every other SPARK, no matter how much you customize it, is ultimately just something you had Lily build in the Avenger’s garage. A MEC by contrast starts out as a normal soldier that you then turn into a cyborg warrior. They inherently are still one of “your dudes” in a way SPARKs can never be.
>>724243147idk having a female ''heavy'' just doesnt feel right.
>>724250858I'm waiting on MENACE form creators of Battle Brothers. BB itself is nothing much like xcom (besides being turn based, % based, and having your best mercenaries die to 5% crossbow headshots), but I like it a lot and have trust in the devs.Maybe mechanicus 2 will turn out to be fun too.
>>724251254a bit of this but also they just kind of suck as a class. MECs were incredibly strong units that you always wanted to have on your team, almost to a fault and getting them killed from overuse. Sparks have all of the other overpowered classes to compete with and there's not really anything they do that someone else can't.
>>724251228i figure the vipers would do fine on otherwise uninhabitable deserts
I tried playing this game saying i wont savescum but i always end up doing it anyway when i think I'm being bullshitted by RNG. I tried ironman mode but that just made me quit after the first losses.
>>724231517>this is your brain on /pol/
>>724252210Lmao git gut savefag.
>>724251228>Maybe there's gonna be race wars on earth a generation or two after chimera squadCan vipers and other ayys even reproduce properly? They're genetic mashups of humans and aliens, new species created on the spot basically. Idk how much care elders would put into their bioweapons longevity. They're not AS cheap as combine at least, ayys designed by elders can at least function without external support systems.
>>724248724>>724248795Coomers IMPROVED X-COM
>>724231251Literally started to play this for first time today and suddenly thread on /v/ appears, curious
>>724233563>Canonized snake pussyIs this really so bad?
>>724252864they can, in the SWAT XCOM sequel you'll be going through mixed-species apartments and in the viper households there's eggs in baskets beneath heatlampsand there's a HUMAN MAN living in the same apartment
>>724231251The Gazel Ministry are still the coolest mystery niggas
>>724252942Good luck, commander.>>724253035Not a bad turn-based tactics game. Not really an xcom game. No long-term projects, no arms race.
>>724250858Not really no. Things like mechanicus and that mario xcom were decent, but they miss the RND and base building on xcom
>>724253183You know that kind of implies earth inherited most of the elders gene-modding tech, for that kind of pairing to be even possible. Which is horryfying, because I know what furries will use that kind of technology for.
>>724233563>purple color scheme + pic related "disney+ marvel" faceI did end up trying it and it really was shit.
>>724251228Built for special stealth missions.
>>724252864The ayy rulers only made female vipers for this reason. When the viper king got loose in 2 he immediately started plapping and you fight newborns in his cave.
>>724242792>Shinobi Reapers>Cones of Death>Double Nades>Death from Above Snipers>Flashbangs>Healing DroneMy squad is ready
>>724253582
>>724253947>viper king got looseisn't that the guy Vahlen had in her sex dungeon?
>>724254158an yes, the population pie-chart annihilator
>>724254346shame they changed it, hybrid species were fun, if they could figure out a way to avoid it lagging your game
