Poll: Dishonored or XCOM: Enemy Unknown?

[veloper]

Dishonered looks great and it's made by the studio that created Dark Messiah of Might and Magic so gameplay should be good aswell.

XCOM has a demo so you may have some idea what to expect, though I'm more excited about XCOM despite the stupid tutorial mission.
If you like TB tactics then XCOM is probably a must-have. There's so little coming out lately and nothing with anywhere near a medium budget.

Ultimately though, waiting for the release and real reviews and player feedback is the safest bet.
While XCOM offers some incentive for a pre-order as you get Civilization 5 and some minor XCOM DLC to go with the game, Dishonered only has a crapload of different kinds of pre-order DLCs, one for every major US outlet, all of which will therefor be trivial stuff, so you might aswell wait.
If you wait long enough there may even be a Dishonered GOTY version with all the little content cuts included.

 

[BrotherRool]

XCOM

1) It's a kind of game I like, and wish there were more of.
2) The people who make it seem to genuinely enjoy it and want others to as well
3) As a PS3 owner I have zero faith that dishonored won't be a horrid, buggy, unsupported POS port from my good friends at bethesda.

A lot of people seem to be making this mistake. Dishonored aint being made by bethesda, only published.

This is the place where publishing might actually have an effect though. Publishers influence the release date and when a game goes gold, heck when they published New Vegas, they actually decided that they were going to do the QA on it.

... I hope it's not going to turn out like that, Dishonoured looks sweet. I'm confused why reviews aren't out for these games yet though, they normally hit around this sort of time if the publisher doesn't ban pre-release reviews right? And I don't understand why they'd put a stop on what looks like might become one of the most talks about games of the year.

...still, lots of silent thumbs up, so hopefully it's just a bad decisions

 

[Bat Vader]

Alright, both come out next Tuesday. I'm getting both eventually, but I'd rather just get one for now. I'm completely torn. I'm totally psyched for both, but they're so different it's hard to tell which one I'd be happier buying first.

If you had to choose (most of you probably do), which one would you pick? Which one do you think will be worth the $60?

Which platform are you going to be playing them on? There is a demo on Steam for X-COM: Enemy Unknown.

If you are going to play them on a console I suggest waiting to do a day one buy and rent them instead. That way you can play both equally and decide which one you want to purchase first.

 

[BrotherRool]

Actually XCOM DID get a review.

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/xcom-enemy-unknown

Game Informer gave it a 95.

I'm so glad! But that makes things even more confusing, did Game Informer pay for exclusivity rights? =D Maybe they figured they could just risk breaking NDA or something

 

[Jandau]

Actually XCOM DID get a review.

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/xcom-enemy-unknown

Game Informer gave it a 95.

I'm so glad! But that makes things even more confusing, did Game Informer pay for exclusivity rights? =D Maybe they figured they could just risk breaking NDA or something

Naw, a bunch of sites got review code a week or two ago. The first reviews are popping up now, and there'll likely be more early next week, as the game's release draws near.

 

[Lawyer105]

XCom, no question. Dishonoured sounds fun, and I'll probably pick it up. Eventually.

But XCom was a pre-order (the first one I've pre-ordered in 2-3 years!), and I've already pre-loaded it and put in a couple of days leave, so when it releases Thursday morning, I'll be all over it!

Yeah, call me sad or whatever, but if it even vaguely lives up to the gameplay video's I've seen, this is EASILY my Game of the Year.

 

[Zhukov]

I find your poll woefully lacking in the "both" department.

 

[ImperialSunlight]

I never played Xcom, and it's not really my style. It just seems kind of boring from what I've seen of it.

Dishonored, however, looks like it has a lot of potential. Also, I like to support new IPs. One of the problems with the industry right now is that no one is willing to take a risk on something new and interesting.

 

[daveman247]

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From what i played (eurogamer) it ran very well while playing. It just crashed when i failed the mission XD

 

[TheOrb]

I'm getting XCOM. It's a bubble of brain-busting, turn-based stragedy in the sea of mindless action. I have never played this type of game before, the closest probably being Advance Wars. Dishonoured looks like it plays like Oblivion, which always felt a little off; and XCOM has a multiplayer, which would die out if I leave it too late.
I could possibly enjoy the plot of Dishonoured.

 

[Jaeke]

I really want Dishonored but I am on the fence. I already have the money in my Steam wallet for it, but I just dont know if its going to be good. There are no reviews out for it yet either...

As a customer and fan of Arkane Studios, I can safely say without a doubt that this game, at its worse, would still be a good game.

But it won't be, it'll be great

 

[Jaeke]

I'm a huge strategy fan but I've always found myself leaning towards the RTS than TBS (even though Civ 2 is still in my top 3 strategy games) and I've never heard of XCom till a few months ago.

Can't wait to stab me some corrupt dystopian autocrats.

 

[Candidus]

I'll get both eventually, but when I saw that they both unlocked at the same time I said "Ooooh, bad luck Dishonored."

Hypothetically, Xcom could only have lost to the Baldur's Gate EE where I'm concerned.

 

[Bvenged]

I don't know too much about Xcom, but is does look like a fun hardcore tactical game, might pick it up when it's cheaper. For now, however, I can't wait to get my hands on Dishonored.

 

[Victor Cross]

I find your poll woefully lacking in the "both" department.

I am getting both. This is about which one to get first (my funds are somewhat thinly-spread right now).

 

[lord Claincy Ffnord]

XCOM

1) It's a kind of game I like, and wish there were more of.
2) The people who make it seem to genuinely enjoy it and want others to as well
3) As a PS3 owner I have zero faith that dishonored won't be a horrid, buggy, unsupported POS port from my good friends at bethesda.

A lot of people seem to be making this mistake. Dishonored aint being made by bethesda, only published.

Which is a tad sad. Because while I like bethesda and all, this isn't the sort of game they have madea lot of. But arkane studios on the otherhand: arx fatalis and dark messiah....very similar in some ways.

OT probably Dishonored, but soooo hard to choose.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

I don't know too much about Xcom, but is does look like a fun hardcore tactical game, might pick it up when it's cheaper. For now, however, I can't wait to get my hands on Dishonored.

That was of the greatest sync kills I have ever seen.


I honestly don't know which one to recommend, I'm getting both myself.

 

[daveman247]

A lot of people seem to be making this mistake. Dishonored aint being made by bethesda, only published.

Which is a tad sad. Because while I like bethesda and all, this isn't the sort of game they have madea lot of. But arkane studios on the otherhand: arx fatalis and dark messiah....very similar in some ways.

OT probably Dishonored, but soooo hard to choose.[/quote]


Dishonored is definitley the most fluid game they have made yet Arx was cool, but really REALLY clunky.

 

[VoidWanderer]

At least, I will be getting both on launch day. Both look excellent and I actually can afford it, so why the hell not?

^^

But I am probably going to finish Dishonored first...

But if X-Com is as short as I fear...

 

[BreakfastMan]

At least, I will be getting both on launch day. Both look excellent and I actually can afford it, so why the hell not?

^^

But I am probably going to finish Dishonored first...

But if X-Com is as short as I fear...

From the one review I have read, one playthrough of X-com clocks in at about 20 hours. I dunno about you, but that sounds like a good amount of time to me.