Hi Larian! Thanks! Could you guys buy xcom from 2k so we could get our favorite franchise back?

[Speaker For The Dead]

Thanks!

[Speaker For The Dead]

oh shoot...I just saw you have an OT. Ummm, sorry, you can move it if you want...

[★REM★]

Originally posted by Speaker For The Dead:

Thanks!

It's your favorite game, not everyone else. It's very niche

[DYNIA]

but xcom is trash game

[JuX]

Don't think X-COM is a good fit for Larian. Primarily because the series itself has done it pretty well. Not to mention the community mods and other games like xenonauts and phoenix point.

I personally would like to see Larian doing something like Cyberpunk with their formula. Utilizing it in more sci-fi setting for giving us more broad spectrum of equipment/item capabilities and even having cyber augmentation for character customization.

[Gnasty Gnorc]

Originally posted by DYNIA:

but xcom is trash game

Sounds like a skill issue on your end.

[Captain_Narol]

No need too, some former Devs from Firaxis (around 1/3 of the team that made XCOM and XCOM2) are now at Bit Reactor studio working on XCOM-like in the Star Wars Universe, Star Wars Zero Company, and it's basically XCOM3 in disguise :

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2075800/STAR_WARS_Zero_Company/

More infos on the game on this excellent fan-made website :

https://swzerocompany.com/

As a fan myself of both XCOM and BG3, I'm VERY hyped !! (they seems to take a few pages from Larian's book, notably for cinematic storytelling and companion interactions)

[Veylox]

Originally posted by Captain_Narol:

No need too, some former Devs from Firaxis (around 1/3 of the team that made XCOM and XCOM2) are now at Bit Reactor studio working on XCOM-like in the Star Wars Universe, Star Wars Zero Company, and it's basically XCOM3 in disguise :

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2075800/STAR_WARS_Zero_Company/

More infos on the game on this excellent fan-made website :

https://swzerocompany.com/

As a fan myself of both XCOM and BG3, I'm VERY hyped !! (they seems to take a few pages from Larian's book, notably for cinematic storytelling and companion interactions)

They said the same thing about phoenix point and it was terrible

[Speaker For The Dead]

Published by EA.

HARD pass.

[Captain_Narol]

The case of Phoenix Point is quite different, it was made by Julian Gollop, the creator of the original X-Com, and he wanted to experiment with new ideas...

SWCOM is clearly gonna be the XCOM3 that so many of us are waiting for and stay faithfull to the formula that made the success of XCOM and XCOM2, with the bonus of taking place in the popular Star Wars Universe !

Have a look at the fan site I linked, there's lot of infos already there and the game looks very promising...

I'm not a big fan of EA either, but Bit Reactor is a new indie studio that deserves a chance and EA seems to be quite hand-off on this project so far (fingers crossed hoping it stays that way)

[Speaker For The Dead]

Anyone who would be willing to work for EA is just a big red flag for me. Even if they were ACTUALLY making XCOM 3....

HARD pass.

I mean, those guys are the origins of everything wrong with videogames.....

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by JuX:

I personally would like to see Larian doing something like Cyberpunk with their formula. Utilizing it in more sci-fi setting for giving us more broad spectrum of equipment/item capabilities and even having cyber augmentation for character customization.

I sure hope not.

[valium]

Did I miss some Firaxis news that sparked this thread?

[JuX]

Originally posted by Speaker For The Dead:

Anyone who would actually be willing to work for EA is just big red flag for me. Even if they were ACTUALLY making XCOM 3....

HARD pass.

I mean, those guys are like the origins of everything wrong with videogames.....

Well to be fair, it's not like they tell to make bad games. But they do order them to add terrible things in to the games and then build their game around it, which does give them a level of accountability.

Thou it is shocking to me that they just don't crank out Star Wars games with Mass Effect formula, as it would work so well with it. Both use space magic in sci-fi setting.

[JuX]

Originally posted by wtiger27:

Originally posted by JuX:

I personally would like to see Larian doing something like Cyberpunk with their formula. Utilizing it in more sci-fi setting for giving us more broad spectrum of equipment/item capabilities and even having cyber augmentation for character customization.

I sure hope not.

What wrong with Cyberpunk setting?

[DYNIA]

Originally posted by Gnasty Gnorc:

Originally posted by DYNIA:

but xcom is trash game

Sounds like a skill issue on your end.

rofl what skill have to do with this is trash game?