Why didn't they just make Xcom 3 instead?
>>739147991Xcom 3 would've been better but midnight suns is way better than it's reception would have you think
>>739147991this game was so ass, i uninstalled the moment that i needed to make conversation with tier c marvel characters for a second time
Apart from the writing Midnight Suns is great, one of the best Marvel license games easily
>>7391479912 floppedThe Bureau floppedChimera Squad flopped
>>739149975The writing was petty cringe, but in a comic book way so I was ok with it. I appreciated that they veered more towards the comic interpretation of characters rather than the movies.Though I really wished there was a way to remove Nico's piercings. I'll tolerate everything else, just let me hide those.
>>739147991Imagine wasting your talent making a good game nobody was going to play instead of making Xcom 3 like everyone wanted
>>739149975Eh, it needed more 90s gooner outfits. No one cares about superheroes unless they dress like strippers. Studio execs have lost the plot on that
this game was like a fever dream, some of the most cringe writing ever in a video game but with an actually pretty good combat system
>>739150074God you guys are always going on about the writing but man is the art style itself my biggest fucking issue with this game.After rivals and now tokon it really pisses me off they went for generic realism slop. Could've just chose an iconic artist and raped his style but noooo...
>>739150359we had an era of realistic marvel games btwty mcu
>>739150359If Midnight Suns had Rivals or Tokons artstyles it actually would have sold 3 times as much.
>>739150359>>739150410>>739150508you weird fags are so weirdshit games dont selleven pic rel didnt sell
>>739150561>Four spider people >Captain here me roar front and centerGood
Was my game of the year
>>739147991I started the game not too long ago and the pacing kind of baffles me. I enjoy the actual card game, but it's very padded beyond that. Walking back to and fro from bed, jog to the training square, jog to pick up your new card of the day, check in with people, check your phone, ration compliments like they're dog treats, attend clubs, wander around for scavenger hunts and farming mushrooms, etc. etc. Maybe it wouldn't bother me if it wasn't about Marvel characters. I don't even hate Marvel, but because they're all famous pre-established characters you know there aren't going to be any real twists, or major character deaths, or unexpected romance and betrayal. It's just a hang-out sim, where you can say your OC watched a movie with Spider Man.
>>739150561>>739150410>>739150359Honestly around this time it had less to do with whether the game was good or not and more to do with everybody just had marvel fatigue.Better art style would have helped but at the end of the day people were just tired of it plus it was a card game
>>739150561>developed by Team Ninja>Switch exclusive what were they thinking with this one
>>739150561pic rel did sell and Midnight Suns is a good game but it commited the cardinal sin of looking ugly while not being a game with balls and guns. Looking good is so important you could make the best fighting game ever and nobody will touch it if the artstyle sucks ass.
>>739150561fuck the mcu synergy shit it made me depressed to replay the first MUA and then see that crap
>>739150359I just wish I liked the costume design more. Magik's default hero outfit is really lame compared to something like Marvel Rivals.
>>739150359What artist would you choose as the basis?
>>739147991Im just pissed that they buried a great turn based strategy game in a weird homosex fan fiction dating sim were blade keeps trying to buttfuck me at the lake
>>739151219There are a shit ton of costumes you can buy in the game. My Hunter for example, looks like he stepped straight off an 80s hair metal album cover.
every character plays the same, pickup a milk crate tackle a dude into a generator knock 2 enemies together in a square room
Because viperbros got to horny and scared off the developers
>>739148096I think what hurts midnight suns is the fucking abby sections and mass effect shit where you can't fuck Illyana>>739147991marvel might have offered them money to make it or something. There are different types of contracts like Blood 2 is famously ass because Monolithic or whoever made it and the first game were basically only paid an initial lump sum to make it and didn't see the backend profits so they just shipped the game when they ran out of budget
>>739150042>2 floppedwait, really?
>>739150359>>739150410it's a combo of the MCU and because a lot of modern marvel slop is le realistic traced style
>>739151281Blade wants you to help him fuck Captain Marvel, how did you misread the situation that badly?
>>739151663Bro, he keeps asking me to go on a picnic......
>>739151718Picnics are nice anon
>>739151718>he didn't go on picnics with his bros
>>739151718It's just a manly picnic
>>739147991Midnight Suns was funbetter than XCOM 2 (I mean this entirely unironically)
>>739151791>>739151827>>739151895
>>739152287Would have been funny if it wasn't slop
>>739152287You're supposed to bring whiskey, not wine to a manly picnic
>>739150359Is there a mod that models swaps the characters in midnight suns? I was thinking of doing another playthrough but that would really bump it up the list
>>739150042>2 floppedI call fucking bullshit
>>739150042>2 flopped>"Publisher 2K Games was satisfied with the game's performance, saying its successful launch has contributed to the company's better-than-expected financial results for the fiscal year 2016.">xcom 2 sold 1.1 million copies in 2016>ranks 8th in most sold for its year of releaseI hate XCOM 2 but you it was absolutely not a flop. Thanks to it succeeding we got the even more dogshit Chimera Squad that almost certainly killed any desire to make 3.
>>739147991Cut out the life sim and OC DO NOT STEAL and this game was an enjoyable puzzle/deck builder.
>>739147991Because the studio wants a new superhero turn based RPG instead of the usual actionslop.
>>739151398That's me I'm sorry
>>739147991Isn't Midnight Suns meant to be horror characters only?>IronmanWhat the wtf
>>739155173The game is called midnight suns but it's mainly a cross over between them and the main avengers cast.shit would have don't way worse if it was just a bunch of c listers only tumblr knew about
>>739147991I liked itThe dialog has its moments
>>739147991This game was made around the peak of MCU craze and they where hoping the Marvel license would have meant easy money.
>>739153524Plus guys that likely grew up reading those comics have the people that make those comics ask them if they would like to make a game based on those comics. You really think they're gonna say no to that?
>>739155297No it was conceived during the peak it was actually finished during its waning days
>>739155228>cross overAh, that makes more sense. Seeing an edgy Ironman (because he's got black on his armor) was just a huh moment.
>>739147991They fucked up, and a better question would be why the fags that did The Long War made Terra Invicta...
>>739147991because Jake is a fucking idiot
>>739147991I don't really like the card mechanic. I think it would have been better as a tactical rpg with regular levels like final fantasy tacitcs.
>>739156268>why did the fags that made an extremely autistic XCOM mod (twice) make an even more autistic grand strategy game (the most autistic of all genres)truly a mystery
>>739156428tbf TI is barely autistic in the same way that TLW is, its even more normie code than a Paradox game.
>tfw this, Xenonauts and Phoenix Point killed the genre.
>>739156697there's still some coming out. Star Wars XCOM is this year and might be good
>>739156848I actually count Menace too in the promising XCOMlike gaems, its feels a lot more like a XCOM game than a Battle Bros in space.
Xcom Files for XCOM2 when?
>>739150561Was this really bad? Surely it was better than the live service game.
>>739156848Never heard of this
>>739158856Zero Squadron or something, made by half the XCOM 2 dev team that left because they didn't want to make Marvel slop
>>739147991I thought stargazing with doctor strange would mean he would use portals and shit to show me galaxies, not laying in the grass like a couple of fags. The gameplay was okay but the mansion stuff makes it unplayable.
>>739158991>don't want to make disney slop>go make other disney slop
>Blade starts a book club to try and break the ice with Captain Marvel>"Would anyone like to chat about The Art of War by Sun Tzu?">Captain Marvel: "No thanks">Captain America:
>>73918096https://youtu.be/NGhXe3OK3jA
>>739162019The best part is Steve knows Blade started the book club to get closer to someone in it, but he thinks it's because Blade wants to be his friend.
>>739150561This game is amazing. Recently started playing with the dlc etc on the lite. Yep. Best recent marvel game for sure. And I was there for avengers live service at launch. I’ve already put in some heavy hours and you unlock everything the old fashioned way. Easy 300+ hours of content
>>739158550It was pretty grindy and repetitve, but it was good funOnline multiplayer was fucked because of grindan autism and poor lobby systems though.
>>739147991Xcom fan here: Midnight Suns actually kinda slaps. You can usually get it for like 5 bucks on sale, and yeah it has some flaws, some of the out of mission stuff is tedious, but it's actually a really fun game on it's own. I had a great time with it, and would recommend it to anyone who likes some casual turn based fun.
It's atrocious dogshit. XCOM without the fear is nothing. The fear of permadeath. The fear of abhorrent aliens. The fear of sending rookies to save mankind. Midnight Sons is nothing but capeshit, the polar opposite.
Robbie is best boy.
Midnight Suns sold me on Magik being a top tier capeshit waifu, and I appreciate and even Midnight Suns for what it is. But I do agree that it was a sharp change in direction for the studio, and Firaxis misread what their community wanted. How do you go from alien war turn based tactics to Marvel dating sim?
>>739151006everything about the game screams that it was originally designed with a live service model in mind, with a daily log in thing and gacha and etc. You can still see the skeleton of it in the inventory system.
>>739147991XCOM is a niche genre with no wider appealJust be grateful we have 3 good iterations on the XCOM formula, all perfectly playable and with their own unique charmI just wish original XCOM (UFO) had a less godawful UI
>>739167321The first nu-COM is the only good one. 2 was complete fucking dogshit mechanically and Chimera Squad was a retarded gimmick game for children.Firaxis doesn't have any talent anymore, the state of CIV 7 made it very fucking clear.
>>739167695>2 was complete fucking dogshit mechanicallyincorrect
>>739164865>Midnight Sons is nothing but capeshitXCOM 2 with the expansion was already capeshit, complete with characters being overpowered superheroes
>>739167805It was a straight downgrade in every way, there is a reason everyone still plays modded 1 over touching 2 at all.
>>739150359Yep, this is my big gripe. Gameplay is fun and the writing is decent enough but man these guys are hard to look at. I'm glad we're in an era of getting so many cool stylized Marvel games now over realism between Rivals, Cosmic Invasion and Tokon.
>>739167885Is "everyone" you and the voices inside your head?
