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I have managed to keep hype level to minimum. Mostly because I cant afford $90 CAD for a video game right now.  e: The Bureau is currently $4 on Steam, is it worth $4?
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Furnaceface posted:I have managed to keep hype level to minimum. It's a cover based shooter and there's a bunch of levels where you have a hat and if it gets shot off you can run out and hit a button to put it back on. So I'd say it's worth it.
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Jan 30, 2016 02:17
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Furnaceface posted:I have managed to keep hype level to minimum. Buddy, just buy the base game with the 27% off Green Man Gaming code. I mean, I went for the Digital Deluxe because I'm a dork, and THAT came up to 80 CAD, more or less.
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Jan 30, 2016 02:23
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27% off code isn't working anymore it seems like vvvv Yay, thanks. mrs. nicholas sarkozy fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Jan 30, 2016 |
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Jan 30, 2016 02:37
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mrs. nicholas sarkozy posted:27% off code isn't working anymore it seems like You can still find it in the VIP section.
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Jan 30, 2016 02:38
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Coolguye posted:OpenXcom is cool and good the Final Mod Pack is really good, and hell, so is the anime pirate babe titty one
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Jan 30, 2016 02:52
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Luceid posted:the Final Mod Pack is really good, and hell, so is the anime pirate babe titty one The final modpack is some spergy bullshit and the tech tree is impossible to wrap your head around. But i's fun, it's so much fun. I still put it down after I discovered the modpack puts all your stored items in the hangars during base defense though, because that's when I realized the mod is made by people who don't want you to have fun.
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Jan 30, 2016 03:09
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Furnaceface posted:I have managed to keep hype level to minimum. Do you like the Mass Effect 3 combat system? It's basically a lot like that. It's a decent game, though the story and art direction is kinda blah.
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Jan 30, 2016 03:30
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Save your $4 on that heretical piece of poo poo, and go buy some bulk cookies at Dollarama (might I suggest anything by Biskwi? They're generally quite good) or a lovely plastic dinoausre you can pretend is an alien instead. The Bureau really shows the development hell that it was caught in for so long. Avoid.
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Jan 30, 2016 03:33
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Excellent OP Coolguye. Very  right now, gonna be a long week.
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Jan 30, 2016 03:54
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Darkrenown posted:What kind of 3rd world hellhole do you live in? Augusta, Georgia. Fuucccck Comcast. What really sucks is that I'm only a few miles away from a decent unlimited 25down 5 up cable ISP. It's almost enough for me to want to move.
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Jan 30, 2016 04:35
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Claverjoe posted:Augusta, Georgia. Fuucccck Comcast. What really sucks is that I'm only a few miles away from a decent unlimited 25down 5 up cable ISP. It's almost enough for me to want to move. And also a few miles away from Fort Gordon, which is where the US Army Signal Corps is based and trains. It is probably literally the biggest concentration of communications specialists and infrastructure in the entire world.
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Jan 30, 2016 05:05
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Just got done listening to a summery of Xcom 2: Resurrection. My theory was wrong. Xcom failed in the first 2-3 months. Only ever downed 2 UFOs (one of them being the Avenger). They did not even get attacked and wiped out, they just got shutdown and disbanded. Also the book is awful and a massive waste of time to even listen to a summary.
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LordNat posted:Just got done listening to a summery of Xcom 2: Resurrection. My theory was wrong. Xcom failed in the first 2-3 months. Only ever downed 2 UFOs (one of them being the Avenger). They did not even get attacked and wiped out, they just got shutdown and disbanded. Oh, man, it's sad when my writing is better than officially licensed novels. (because I'm not getting paid...)
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Jan 30, 2016 05:46
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Space Wizard posted:Save your $4 on that heretical piece of poo poo, and go buy some bulk cookies at Dollarama (might I suggest anything by Biskwi? They're generally quite good) or a lovely plastic dinoausre you can pretend is an alien instead. The Bureau really shows the development hell that it was caught in for so long. I enjoyed it for a couple hours when I got it in a pack with TFTD and Apoc. And Enforcer. Which I actually enjoyed (other than the voice acting) BTW is there a better deal than full price in the US or should I wait? Keiya fucked around with this message at 05:50 on Jan 30, 2016 |
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Jan 30, 2016 05:47
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Bureau is not directly offensive, it's just kind of mediocre. It OK to play with, honestly. Speaking of Final Mod, I've started a game of it. The techtree IS kind of a glorious mess, but I love all the options it gives and have. Not to mention I love sending dogs to rip sectoid apart.
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Jan 30, 2016 05:50
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Furnaceface posted:I have managed to keep hype level to minimum. I'd say so. It's kind of the poster child for an honest 6/10. Good art style, decent gameplay with some really frustrating bits, a fairly dumb plot. I don't actively regret beating it.
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Jan 30, 2016 08:53
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So I have a rather old laptop. I mean its okay and it runs Xcom just dandy apart from the cutscenes (for no adequately explicable reason), do you think it'll be okay for X com 2?
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Jan 30, 2016 09:09
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Van Dorn died first mission he was on  Is he needed to complete any story arcs in long war?
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Jan 30, 2016 09:20
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Nah, he's just a fun little dude with his own voicepack at that point. You're still a monster though 
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Jan 30, 2016 09:25
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Not my fault, a he was in full cover and got shot by a mutton at 1/7 HP and red mist option enabled.......... 1 shotted edit: He had my best armor on and was full health 
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Jan 30, 2016 09:27
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Speaking of Van Dorn, he gets a bonus Steadfast perk in LW now - does it stay if I MEC him?
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Jan 30, 2016 09:29
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i payed the price of free for The Bureau (thanks weirdo card buyers) and it's okay I guess? It's real janky, being tied to 2012 xcom makes it feel goofy, everyone talks like they've had an aneurysm, and somehow they never patched out the issue everyone complained about at launch where your squad mates don't want to loving stay where you tell them. Other than that it feels like a weird Bioshock/Mass Effect mash up with xcom aliens awkwardly smashed in.
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Jan 30, 2016 09:47
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and to think it's what executives thought would actually sell turns out there are niches in the market to be filled
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Jan 30, 2016 10:03
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The only ill will I ever held towards The Bureau was when I thought it had usurped the X-Com name and spiked the chance of an actual sequel/remake for good (like at the time the closest thing were those janky UFO Aftermath games). Now that the actual remake was released, amazing, and did well enough for a sequel, it seems worth being magnanimous about the whole thing
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Jan 30, 2016 10:21
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People were a lot more angry about The Bureau before they learned of XCOM EU, before they learned it wasn't the only XCOM game coming out. Oh god, the rage was pretty big. I don't think I even FINISHED the Bureau, I didn't really like it all that much. It was pretty janky, it's true.
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Jan 30, 2016 10:23
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I remember those times. People were like XCOM SEQUEL/REBOOT OH MY G- wait what the gently caress
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Jan 30, 2016 10:27
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It's worth remembering that when they first revealed the bureau it was just straight up called XCOM, and when some executive/marketer was asked why they were making a shooter out of that IP, they basically said that no one wanted to play turn-based games. I'm not sure if Enemy Unknown had even been greenlit at that time. That said, I'm almost glad for those doldrums because it made watching the Enemy Unknown E3 trailer that much more amazing. That music, those designs, everything about it was so good CharlieFoxtrot fucked around with this message at 10:30 on Jan 30, 2016 |
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Jan 30, 2016 10:28
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thread friends, please make sure to spell van doorn's name correctly. he was a hero who fought valiantly to save humanity. thank you and god bless
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Josef bugman posted:So I have a rather old laptop. I mean its okay and it runs Xcom just dandy apart from the cutscenes (for no adequately explicable reason), do you think it'll be okay for X com 2? define "old laptop" Because I wouldn't want to run EW on anything less than Haswell integrated graphics. Xcom 2 will probably want a discrete card unless you're willing to turn down the resolution to like 720p.
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The Bureau was ok it was a really average game though. I remember the story being fairly interesting my issue with it was that it was supposed to be a squad based shooter but just ended up playing like a long mass effect combat sequence.
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Jan 30, 2016 13:02
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Furnaceface posted:I have managed to keep hype level to minimum. Multiple goons are saying this site is legit. For $50 CAD you also get the resistance warrior dlc. http://www.cdkeys.com/pc/games/xcom-2-pc-cd-key-steam
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Jan 30, 2016 13:33
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Strobe posted:And also a few miles away from Fort Gordon, which is where the US Army Signal Corps is based and trains. It is probably literally the biggest concentration of communications specialists and infrastructure in the entire world. My real problem is that I live downtown, close to work... but also where ~*those minorities*~ live, so literally all proper infrastructure is either put off, shiftily done, or never built. The deep south tries so hard to be anything but decent.
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Khagan posted:Multiple goons are saying this site is legit. For $50 CAD you also get the resistance warrior dlc. Also if you want to futz around with Russian IPs g2a has a bunch of sellers with the Russian region one for $18. $38 for the others.
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Jan 30, 2016 15:35
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Cosmic Afro posted:People were a lot more angry about The Bureau before they learned of XCOM EU, before they learned it wasn't the only XCOM game coming out. Oh god, the rage was pretty big. I thought until recently that Xcom came to be due to backlash from the bureau announcement.
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Ilustforponydeath posted:I thought until recently that Xcom came to be due to backlash from the bureau announcement. It was in development at least as long as the Bureau was but for some drat reason 2K decided that Bureau was the big-money project everyone would be excited about and so only advertised it at first while Firaxis' strategy game was kept hush-hush until only a year before it came out. It was a strange and stupid year for games. And not the first time a beloved strategy game got replaced by a first person shooter (they also did that with Syndicate).
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Speedball posted:It was in development at least as long as the Bureau was but for some drat reason 2K decided that Bureau was the big-money project everyone would be excited about and so only advertised it at first while Firaxis' strategy game was kept hush-hush until only a year before it came out. Syndicate is another great example of a company attempting to revive an old beloved franchise by wedging it into the FPS genre with a crowbar, except in the case of Syndicate there wasn't a real Syndicate game waiting in the wings to make everyone forget about the FPS. It's a shame, too, because the Syndicate FPS was actually pretty OK and would have been fine if it had been its own thing.
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I have to say, Resurrection is not that bad. Like yeah it isn't a work of art but...it's a video game tie-in book. Like I'm not sure what people were expecting (well ok I know r/xcom seem to have been expecting Long War: The Novel and thus was surprised when the officially authorized book stuck to vanilla nuCOM's action movie logic), these things are designed to really only tide you over for a bit in an information drought as you wait for the release of the game, and just had the misfortune to have its release date delayed by quite a bit in time for a lot of stuff about XCOM 2 to be revealed.
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Has 2K or Valve announced when the preload will begin? I need to coordinate with a friend to use his place's internet connection since I've got really lovely internet where I live right now.
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The Bureau is a good game, hamstrung through years of being stuck in development hell and frequent rewrites. It's also super bad at explaining itself, and it's full of evidence of it's rewrites and redesigns. All that aside, it's a fun, neat game. There's a LP of it in on the archive, and most of it features co-commentary from one of the developers, forums user Silent W (he also did an episode of JadeStar's XCOM:EW LP). It's actually really neat and very fun, but it takes some getting used to.
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