Soldiers will fall, supporters will defect, keyboards will be smashed. But before you descend fully into the world of alien invasions and 80% shot accuracy (which equates to about 15% in XCOM world), here's why XCOM is the greatest strategy series of all time.
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Firaxis veteran Jake Solomon hasn't seen mass layoffs like this in his whole 25-year career.
Alot’s changed in 25 years. We have games with $300 mill budgets, people not interested in games other than Fortnite and Minecraft, the older generation of gamers giving up the hobby or dying off, a period of super bad inflation where the industry decided to hike up prices on games, Gamepass harming game sales, GaaS games being pushed left and right with obnoxious monetization and worse looking/playing (Suicide Squad vs Arkham Knight).
The industry is just shite right now. Games ain’t selling, games cost massive amounts, businesses can’t bleed money and this is what happens. Part of it is on them and part of it is on consumers not buying.
Consumers ain't buying because of what they're selling; There is no new SSX or Burnout, everything is now Online Required, everything is 'service', etc.
Indies are still delivering the goods, perhaps even better than ever, because those are often the guys and gals who know what they want to make and just make that and hopefully we dig it as well and support it ...
... but when you look at those multi-million budget AAA games, are they improving on what we have had before? Is the new Forza Motorsport better than a Forza Mototsport 4? Is Halo Infinite better than Halo 3? Is Dragon Age 2 such a huge improvement over the first Dragon Age? Etcetc.
Yeah, graphics have gotten better, worlds have gotten better, but I think a gaming generations stands or falls with diversity and experiences, and a few gens ago we had access to whatever we wanted, so if we wanted a boxing game we picked up one of the boxing games, if we wanted snowboarding we'd pick up one of the snowboarding games, if we wanted to do a rythm game we had DJ Hero, or Guitar Hero, or Rockband. If we wanted to sneak around we had Splinter Cell or MGS or whatever.
We had variety and we had options, and that makes or breaks a generation, imo. You're in a foodcourt of games and they're serving all kinds of different cuisines, and so you'd pick and choose whatever you felt like that day.
Right now, you're in a restaurant, and you're only allowed to pick from one menu, and there's a dress-code, and you have to register, and you have to stay in your seat, etc etc.
One of the best.
I'm no fan of strategy games, but xcom enemy unknown/within are very fun games. Once unknown became a free ps+ game that is when I found out about this franchise. Led me to buy enemy within when it released on PSN.
Patiently waiting for xcom 2 to hit psn as well :)
If you haven't tried 'The Long War' Mod for Xcom you need to go try it now, brings the game up to a whole new level. Seriously, chess vs checkers is a fair analogy for 'The Long War' vs 'Enemy Within'. The other exciting thing is that they are bringing 'The Long War' team in to Firaxis to do mods for them!
you mean the best right? lol
The VC remaster from Sega is on the way. Looking forward to your adjusted evaluation.