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Crazy Ted posted:You know what would have made the Thin Men better? If they were dressed up as creepy clowns instead of just Dude in Suit #73. Dude. gently caress you. That's horrifying.
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Oct 3, 2013 21:40
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There should be a special animation where MEC soldiers lose their poo poo and kill thin men in a horribly graphic way. If only to reinforce the belief that the in-game soldiers hate them. Because everyone does. I'm fairly certain that literally everyone agrees with this.
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Oct 3, 2013 21:42
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$45 for an expansion? I paid that much for the actual game!
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Oct 3, 2013 22:22
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FauxGateau posted:There should be a special animation where MEC soldiers lose their poo poo and kill thin men in a horribly graphic way. If only to reinforce the belief that the in-game soldiers hate them. Because everyone does. Thin Men should be used as improvised melee weaponry for MEC troopers.
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Oct 3, 2013 22:23
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WarpedNaba posted:$45 for an expansion? I paid that much for the actual game! I don't know about your currency, but enemy within is showing up for $30 US, discounted to $27 US for preordering on steam That's half of the price of the main game on release, and $30 was a pretty standard price for an expansion back when full games where $40-$50 US. It seems pretty reasonably priced to me. VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV If that's the case you might as well grab the entire shebang off of steam for $40 today and save five bucks. That really sucks for console users. FoolyCharged fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Oct 3, 2013 |
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Oct 3, 2013 22:37
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I'm pretty sure its 45 on consoles, but its also a standalone game on consoles. Sucks if you bought EU there first, though.
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Oct 3, 2013 22:39
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FoolyCharged posted:I don't know about your currency, but enemy within is showing up for $30 US, discounted to $27 US for preordering on steam If you have the pleasure of living in AU/NZ it costs $45 US because AAA developers and Steam hate us.
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Oct 3, 2013 22:41
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Geight posted:Thin Men should be used as improvised melee weaponry for MEC troopers. They need to be wielded as poison clubs, that the MECs light on fire before swinging.
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Oct 3, 2013 22:49
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Sooo I haven't played this since I beat it at launch (XBOX) and I seem to have missed out on a few things. Has the multiplayer been balanced? Has any meaningful DLC come out? Can someone bring me up to speed please?
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Oct 3, 2013 22:55
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The real question is whether or not MECs will panic and kill all your squadmates.
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Oct 3, 2013 23:06
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I always assumed the money unit in XCom was either millions or billions of dollars. You guys are completely missing with solider costs though. The actual salary of a Super Elite Special Forces Navy Seal is a very small fraction of the cost. It all goes into the training, as well as the training for the other 19 guys who washed out for every one who passed. That's why there's no monthly cost for soldiers, when you're dealing in units of a million/billion, the 20k or whatever they're getting a month in pay doesn't even register.Groetgaffel posted:Not to mention, who the hell would say no to being Adam Jensen? The most obvious answer to this question is Adam Jensen.
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Capoeira Capybara posted:Sooo I haven't played this since I beat it at launch (XBOX) and I seem to have missed out on a few things. Has the multiplayer been balanced? Has any meaningful DLC come out? Can someone bring me up to speed please? No on the multiplayer, but the Enemy Within expansion is coming out soon. It's looking to be loving amazing with lots of new poo poo. As for stuff that's already out, Slingshot was the only one. Enemy Within is basically the result of the bashing it got.
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^^^ - to expand, don't buy slingshot. It's a waste of money for what you get. Completely worthless.counterfeitsaint posted:That's why there's no monthly cost for soldiers, when you're dealing in units of a million/billion, the 20k or whatever they're getting a month in pay doesn't even register. I've always liked to think that since they're paid monthly you never actually have to cut them a check because they all die before you need to send one out.  Don't know if it was posted here, but TheMopeSquad posted:You can get it [Enemy Within] for $21 on GameFly with a 20% discount code (GFDOCT20). Drifter fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Oct 3, 2013 |
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Oct 3, 2013 23:16
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Drifter posted:^^^ - to expand, don't buy slingshot. It's a waste of money for what you get. Completely worthless. It's $1.74 today, which I can honestly say is worth the price of the hats. But yeah, don't play the Slingshot missions.
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Well, I put 90 hours into it before I finally finished a game. I'd definitely rank it up there with some of my favorite games, and I almost reflexively started a new game. Sorry X-COM, it is time for you to go into the closet for awhile. Godspeed "Bull". 
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Drifter posted:Don't know if it was posted here, but Do you know of any expiration date on this? Edit: I guess it's kind of suggested by the code itself, huh Space Hamlet fucked around with this message at 08:40 on Oct 4, 2013 |
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Oct 4, 2013 08:06
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Drifter posted:Don't know if it was posted here, but For the UK site, it works out to £17.99 after the 20% discount. On GMG it has a 10% discount and is £17.99. Huh.
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Crazy Ted posted:You know what would have made the Thin Men better? If they were dressed up as creepy clowns instead of just Dude in Suit #73. And one of the 'activiation' animations for them is about 8 sliding their way out of a parked car.
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Crazy Ted posted:You know what would have made the Thin Men better? If they were dressed up as creepy clowns instead of just Dude in Suit #73. Could we call them 'Fun men' instead?
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Oct 4, 2013 11:47
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Geight posted:While I haven't found the time to play Human Revolution, the internet has made me aware that Adam Jensen himself, in fact, never asked for this. counterfeitsaint posted:The most obvious answer to this question is Adam Jensen. It just happen to be the one the internet made a meme out of. Personally I always used the line saying it's pretty drat sweet.  That said, this being XCOM soldiers, they'd probably end up more like Gunther Hermann than Adam Jensen. 
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Oct 4, 2013 13:11
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New thread title? X-Com: Enemy Within: Now everyone will see why I needed a skull-gun
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Oct 4, 2013 13:15
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quiggy posted:Well the soldiers are the best of the best in the world so governments don't give them up for cheap, while the interceptors are from Uncle Joe's Interceptor Rodeo ten miles down the road. Also, the cost of the barracks there is nothing, so I think we could consider the construction and even maintenance of a lot of things calculated funny. In short, we could probably just make up this crap as we go along and it'd all be justifiable somehow, it's a goddamn video game.
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I have a bigger deal with them shutting down the X-com project if you do poorly. I can see them saying, hmm let's replace the commander, not "we don't like these results, SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING"
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Oct 4, 2013 13:31
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Geight posted:Thin Men should be used as improvised melee weaponry for MEC troopers. Every melee attack against a Thin Man should have 80% miss chance, because they're so agile. That way, we can keep on hating them forever.
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Groetgaffel posted:I would like to point out that in contrast to the "What a shame." -line from it's grandfather, "I never asked for this." is only one of three or four responses to the same question. Ahem, I think you'll find he also said it in one of the CGI trailers released, before the game was out.
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The Biggest Jerk posted:I have a bigger deal with them shutting down the X-com project if you do poorly. I can see them saying, hmm let's replace the commander, not "we don't like these results, SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING" Well the you lose cutscene makes it pretty clear that the aliens have infiltrated world governments so far that they have the Council under mind control.
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It's also plausible that the X-COM project is one of many initiatives, and although you think it's the best, the Council has a few others that they can move funding toward (which won't work). Like how in Pacific Rim they pull funding for the Jaeger project in order to build a wall which gets torn down immediately. It's not an uncommon trope
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Alchenar posted:New thread title?  Well, I went and pre-ordered Enemy Within. Now to wait for it to be November. 
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Aww I got excited because the Steam page doesn't show a release date I thought it was out now  Oh well, I'm currently replaying it on the iPad where it works really, really well. I got a bit too excited on a flight back from Munich the other day and shouted BOOOOOM after killing 3 mutons and a cyberdisk with a well placed rocket. Didn't go down well with people around me for some reason?
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Oct 4, 2013 15:16
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Please stop ripping Australasians off Valve, $50 for an expansion is just ridiculous, and completely unjustifiable given it's digital distribution.
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Oct 4, 2013 15:21
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Aries posted:Please stop ripping Australasians off Valve, $50 for an expansion is just ridiculous, and completely unjustifiable given it's digital distribution. It's also labelled as DLC.
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Aries posted:Please stop ripping Australasians off Valve, $50 for an expansion is just ridiculous, and completely unjustifiable given it's digital distribution. 2K Games sets the prices, not Valve.
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Oct 4, 2013 15:28
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Aries posted:Please stop ripping Australasians off Valve, $50 for an expansion is just ridiculous, and completely unjustifiable given it's digital distribution.
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Strategic Tea posted:Well the you lose cutscene makes it pretty clear that the aliens have infiltrated world governments so far that they have the Council under mind control. Ah that makes sense, only heard about the game over, never had it happen to me  (I'm a pansy who is on first run through of normal)
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If you don't want to pay that much just wait 3 months for the Winter Sale. The game will probably be patched up by then too.
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The Biggest Jerk posted:I have a bigger deal with them shutting down the X-com project if you do poorly. I can see them saying, hmm let's replace the commander, not "we don't like these results, SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING" I took the game over cutscene as the aliens judging the human experiment a failure if you lose 8 countries. Shen says early on they could conquer us whenever they wanted, so the doom tracker is probably a literal counter the Ethereals have on their mothership. Of course I had to watch the game over scene on Youtube.
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This poster loves police brutality, but only when its against minorities!
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Darox posted:If you have the pleasure of living in AU/NZ it costs $45 US because AAA developers and Steam hate us. You can thank the ~value added tax~ for this.
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I don't know why but you know what else X-Com needs? A mod where every piece of dialogue is replaced with Simlish from the various Sims games. For some reason a soldier shooting off a rocket while spouting a bunch of gibberish is entertaining to me.
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FoolyCharged posted:That's half of the price of the main game on release, and $30 was a pretty standard price for an expansion back when full games where $40-$50 US. 30$ (30€ because gently caress you europe I guess) was the price for an expansion back when an expansion meant a new campaign at the very least. Not 1 extra class, 2 extra enemies and 10 more skills.
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