Dominos?! EEEEEWWWWW!
And I was under the impression Yahtzee didn't particularly care for Mass Effect.
And I was under the impression Yahtzee didn't particularly care for Mass Effect.
Zero Punctuation: The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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Pioneering cosmonaut exploring unknown, seemingly abandoned vessel found on the moon.
Cosmonaut: I must find the monsters!
Strange Formless Voice: No, mankind. You are the monsters.
And the mankind were the monsters.
And that is why the Soviets gave up on the moon, burning the related archives (and relations) associated with it. Then a fragment was found and released on the internet, disguised as a rubbish Doom fanfic.
Cosmonaut: I must find the monsters!
Strange Formless Voice: No, mankind. You are the monsters.
And the mankind were the monsters.
And that is why the Soviets gave up on the moon, burning the related archives (and relations) associated with it. Then a fragment was found and released on the internet, disguised as a rubbish Doom fanfic.
When I first heard about this game I knew right then I'd be giving it a wide berth. Nothing Yahtzee has said makes me regret my decision.
Oddly enough, much to my surprise, I find my Gran was incredibly interested in this game when she heard that the main objective was to mercilessly gun down invading aliens. Then she found out they meant aliens "from space" and was terribly disappointed.
Oddly enough, much to my surprise, I find my Gran was incredibly interested in this game when she heard that the main objective was to mercilessly gun down invading aliens. Then she found out they meant aliens "from space" and was terribly disappointed.
Clint Eastwood and Gordon Freeman together with a stack of 11 pizzas. Now that's a concept I like!
I liked The Bureau, I thought the gameplay was pretty decent and the plot was alright. Granted, the gameplay wasn't as good as X-COM:Enemy Unknown and the plot was quite clique with only one interesting twist to it.
Oops, there it was.
Anywho, my advice is to rent it or wait until it comes down to $20. The game's fine, just not as substantial as the Glorious PC Gaming Master Race deserves.
On a final note:
You're actually playing an ethereal and the game isn't actually a third person action game at all because you're seeing it through its eyes the whole time.
Anywho, my advice is to rent it or wait until it comes down to $20. The game's fine, just not as substantial as the Glorious PC Gaming Master Race deserves.
On a final note:
Try the very bottom of the sea [http://list25.com/25-most-terrifying-deep-sea-creatures/]. Once you see your first leftvent you'll know we've a real jackpot of monsters down there.Yahtzee said:
Yeah Bowie is awesome, but he didn't choose to follow Queen's set, it was organized for them as live aid was a charity gig with multiple artists. The day belonged very much to Queen that day though as their set is known as ''the twenty minutes that changed music'' it even comes up as that on google.Darth_Payn said:
Back in 2010, I said that the XCOM shooter looked like a generic cover based shooter set in Norman Rockwellville.
From what I've seen and read, that sentence is more interesting than the actual game.
How ironic that in an industry that acts upon the notion of "people don't know what they want, but we do" manages to constantly get this shit wrong... Even when they get it right.
Like so much mediocre shit before, we can finally flush this turd and move on.
From what I've seen and read, that sentence is more interesting than the actual game.
How ironic that in an industry that acts upon the notion of "people don't know what they want, but we do" manages to constantly get this shit wrong... Even when they get it right.
Like so much mediocre shit before, we can finally flush this turd and move on.
That's pretty scary, being followup to alive Freddie Mercury. Tough act to follow. Yah, I'm a pretty huge Queen fan. 
Heck, regardless, Freddie Mercury's a tough act to follow.
Pretty good analogy, too. I know I infinitely prefer the old style of X-com. Flight of the Valkyries FTW!
Captcha: oh wait
on what? *Waits on Escapist* >.>
Heck, regardless, Freddie Mercury's a tough act to follow.
Pretty good analogy, too. I know I infinitely prefer the old style of X-com. Flight of the Valkyries FTW!
Captcha: oh wait
on what? *Waits on Escapist* >.>
I can almost taste the salty tears of the execs that were ballsy and reckless enough to authorize the idea of an FPS reboot...
2K Execs, a few years ago: "Hey, guess what? People like shooters! People liked XCOM! XCOM SHOOTER! MONEY! PRINT! NAO!"
*a few revisions later*
2K Execs: "Print money? Please?" *puppy whine*
*a few more revisions*
2K Execs: "Aw, fuck it. I'll just go and get drunk and mail some ricin-laced letters to Jake Solomon. Asshole KILLED MY IDEA WITH HIS BETTER GAME!" *tortured alcoholic sobs*
2K Execs, a few years ago: "Hey, guess what? People like shooters! People liked XCOM! XCOM SHOOTER! MONEY! PRINT! NAO!"
*a few revisions later*
2K Execs: "Print money? Please?" *puppy whine*
*a few more revisions*
2K Execs: "Aw, fuck it. I'll just go and get drunk and mail some ricin-laced letters to Jake Solomon. Asshole KILLED MY IDEA WITH HIS BETTER GAME!" *tortured alcoholic sobs*
It would have been fine if they made the game they wanted to make instead of caving to XCOM's fanbase. Ink monsters hiding in the walls of suburban homes and monolothic weapons of mass destruction were far more interesting threats than what we got.Daystar Clarion said:
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I played that game for about 5 hours. I seem to recall that everything was going good until about the 4 hours and thirty minutes mark, then the difficulty spiked and I simply could not win a mission after that. I really enjoyed Apocalypse though, I beat it four times.rembrandtqeinstein said:
It would have been even better if they hadn't shoved the Xcom name on it so it could have been judged on its own merits you mean.RaNDM G said:
You have to wonder what the execs were smoking when they came up with that particular idea.
It was. There were mindless missions that pretended to offer something different, but always degraded to "if it moves and, it is not you, kill it, a lot". It was also far less of a meat grinder, than a kiddie ride (until modded), except for all the magical bugs where enemies appear out of nowhere and kill half the team. I hear they just got that patched, so perhaps I will play it again . So really it was just a third person version of this mouthful (tB:XD), though to mod EU we were forced to hack the EXE. If I thought tB was worth the time I would probably find out if it can be fixed (aka modded by those the know what they are doing). Since it is too generically lame and with far too small an audience, I will go back to my mega-mod for Xenonauts (due out sometime in 20<mumble, mumble>).Thunderous Cacophony said:
HalfTangible - No. Fire codes prevented it, unfortunately. Yahtzee will have to wait until he is state-side, where I believe it is called the Pizza Royale. To date it has only claimed 639 lives, so it is still legal in most states.
I'm a tad surprised at Yahtzee for not liking this game, since it had more than just what you'd expect when you think of "shooter", the enemies are aliens and not other humans, and all the characters appear to share his taste in hats.
Now all I can hear is Clint Eastwood doing that video game "Tell me more about..." response to dialogue trees.
Now all I can hear is Clint Eastwood doing that video game "Tell me more about..." response to dialogue trees.