My thoughts for an XCOM-like (Contetructive Critisism Appreciated)

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Ekster: Jul 18, 2013

I only play games that include furries and bronies.

Please include furries and bronies.

# ? Nov 25, 2015 23:20

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# ? Apr 19, 2024 23:49

cuntman.net: Mar 1, 2013

Junpei posted:

Can't. Randomly generated soldiers.

But their names are pulled from a preset list, aren't they?

# ? Nov 25, 2015 23:20

Junpei Hyde: Mar 15, 2013

Junpei posted:

Shut it, pothead!

That's not very nice!

# ? Nov 25, 2015 23:21

Meme Poker Party: Sep 1, 2006; by Azathoth

How about a Mathematician class? If it was good enough for Final Fantasy Tactics it should be good enough for Junpei!

# ? Nov 25, 2015 23:21

Junpei: Oct 4, 2015; Can't post for 11 years!

FactsAreUseless posted:

Do you think pot turned him gay?

I meant his picture, Facts!

# ? Nov 25, 2015 23:22

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Pikestaff posted:

Okay, for classes, you should do it like Final Fantasy Tactics. You can customize your own classes depending on what weapons and armor and things you give to the characters. Be sure to include Summoners and things like that for extra appeal.

This is good but let's go further: Make it so every character is tracked along every skill independently, like in Skyrim. They get better as they do things. So their Glock 18 skill increases when they use it, and their Beretta M9 skill increases when they use that gun. That way you can help build characters into whatever you want naturally.

I agree about Summoners though, and we definitely need Geomancers and Calculators and stuff too!

e; Chomp you fucker! :argh:

# ? Nov 25, 2015 23:22

Junpei: Oct 4, 2015; Can't post for 11 years!

Okay, let's stop arguing.

# ? Nov 25, 2015 23:24

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Junpei posted:

Okay, let's stop arguing.

You still need to name three LGBT characters from your game.

# ? Nov 25, 2015 23:25

Raged: Jul 21, 2003; A revolution of beats

Junpei posted:

So I was thinking of two main ideas.

1. Non-alien required research projects, like Pyrotechnic Weaponry or Biological Weaponry.

2. Branching research paths, three in all.
Human: take what we know about the aliens, and make it ourself.
Tech-Thief: steal their weaponry, use and improve it.
Fusion: splice traits from aliens into ourselves (Gene mods from Enemy Within, but expanded and tweaked)

So talk about them, give some criticism, and tell me your own ideas!

Note: I am not a coder or moder. If you wish to take my ideas and make your own game, that'd be awesome.

Have you thought about bitcoin integration within the game?

# ? Nov 25, 2015 23:25

Junpei Hyde: Mar 15, 2013

FactsAreUseless posted:

You still need to name three LGBT characters from your game.

# ? Nov 25, 2015 23:26

Junpei: Oct 4, 2015; Can't post for 11 years!

FactsAreUseless posted:

You still need to name three LGBT characters from your game.

Junpei posted:

Can't. Randomly generated soldiers.

# ? Nov 25, 2015 23:27

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Junpei posted:

Name three.

# ? Nov 25, 2015 23:28

Davincie: Jul 7, 2008

FactsAreUseless posted:

If you create a kickstarter, I'll sticky this.

wheres the kickstarter?

# ? Nov 25, 2015 23:30

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Junpei posted:

Then have three storyline characters be LGBT. :colbert:

It's not difficult, I mean Dr. Vahlen clearly goes both ways (and for aliens) while Dr Shen is as gay as Christmas. I don't think Bradford actually has a sexuality either, when he lies in bed he thinks about the paperwork he did that day and quietly cums in the night.

e; VVV :colbert:

# ? Nov 25, 2015 23:31

Junpei: Oct 4, 2015; Can't post for 11 years!

FactsAreUseless posted:

Name three.

I am not having my games Bradford, Shen and Vahlen Expies all be gay/les!

# ? Nov 25, 2015 23:31

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Too bad. You have to.

# ? Nov 25, 2015 23:32

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Junpei posted:

I am not having my games Bradford, Shen and Vahlen Expies all be gay/les!

Then make all the bad guys gay!

# ? Nov 25, 2015 23:35

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Mister Adequate posted:

Then make all the bad guys gay!

Wait, that... that might send a bad message.

# ? Nov 25, 2015 23:35

Junpei Hyde: Mar 15, 2013

I'll make it easier and name 1 for OP: Me, as I give permission for op to put me in the game

# ? Nov 25, 2015 23:35

Junpei: Oct 4, 2015; Can't post for 11 years!

FactsAreUseless posted:

Too bad. You have to.

Okay, how about this.
After a randomly generated soldier is created (Gender, race and name) I will roll for straight/homo/bi, so I'm pretty sure you can get at least 3 gay/les/bi soldier.
Happy?

# ? Nov 25, 2015 23:35

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Junpei please write 500 words on how you will work to improve LGBT representation in your game.

# ? Nov 25, 2015 23:35

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Junpei posted:

Okay, how about this.
After a randomly generated soldier is created (Gender, race and name) I will roll for straight/homo/bi, so I'm pretty sure you can get at least 3 gay/les/bi soldier.
Happy?

That sounds fair to me.

Now, please describe all the genders which soldiers can be in your random generation process.

# ? Nov 25, 2015 23:37

Tijuana Bibliophile: Dec 30, 2008; Scratchmo

FactsAreUseless posted:

Junpei please write 500 words on how you will work to improve LGBT representation in your game.

I understand where you're coming from, but you're not really helping the creative process here

# ? Nov 25, 2015 23:38

Junpei Hyde: Mar 15, 2013

FactsAreUseless posted:

Junpei please write 500 words on how you will work to improve LGBT representation in your game.

But I'm not making a game.

# ? Nov 25, 2015 23:46

CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

I really feel like proper values are an underserved market though. Don't we want shelf space at Wal-Mart because we're not going to get that with all this same-sex ickiness

# ? Nov 25, 2015 23:48

tap my mountain: Jan 1, 2009; I'm the quick and the deadly

Have you thought about a campaign where you play as the aliens? I was thinking you could even have separate tech trees for them, and perhaps the ability to anally probe (in a nongay way) humans to learn from them and steal their tech.

# ? Nov 25, 2015 23:58

Junpei Hyde: Mar 15, 2013

Broseph Brostar posted:

Have you thought about a campaign where you play as the aliens? I was thinking you could even have separate tech trees for them, and perhaps the ability to anally probe (in a nongay way) humans to learn from them and steal their tech.

You could also do it in a gay way.

# ? Nov 26, 2015 00:02

Control Volume: Dec 31, 2008

A possible and incredibly feasible subplot in XCOM 2 might be Bradford being incredibly homophobic against the gay anal probing, which would introduce an element of moral grayness and raise the question of who are the real monsters, the aliens, or man. This sort of social commentary consideration really helps a game's storyline and I think you would be remiss to so glibly dismiss LGBT representation or issues like you're doing in this thread. Just my opinion.

# ? Nov 26, 2015 00:09

Junpei Hyde: Mar 15, 2013

Also OP your username is confusing.

# ? Nov 26, 2015 00:14

Junpei: Oct 4, 2015; Can't post for 11 years!

I'll be Junpei, and you can be JH!

# ? Nov 26, 2015 00:20

Junpei: Oct 4, 2015; Can't post for 11 years!

So, next item on the agenda; classes. Should i go classic XCOM with no classes, maybe go Half long war and have two to three variations on the same basic class, or something else?

# ? Nov 26, 2015 00:32

tap my mountain: Jan 1, 2009; I'm the quick and the deadly

Whoa wait, what about the probing idea? I don't wanna get my coder friends involved if there isn't a clear plan of the whole game first. You don't want to be taking systems on to a completed game, that'll lead to poor polish on the final product.

# ? Nov 26, 2015 00:38

Ekster: Jul 18, 2013

Is anal circumference randomly generated.

# ? Nov 26, 2015 00:42

Asymmetrikon: Oct 30, 2009; I believe you're a big dork!

Maybe it could be a minigame. Like lockpicking.

# ? Nov 26, 2015 00:45

Junpei: Oct 4, 2015; Can't post for 11 years!

Broseph Brostar posted:

Whoa wait, what about the probing idea? I don't wanna get my coder friends involved if there isn't a clear plan of the whole game first. You don't want to be taking systems on to a completed game, that'll lead to poor polish on the final product.

No, there will be no probing.
Alien alternative story though, I think that has potential!

# ? Nov 26, 2015 00:48