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Author Topic: Phoenix Point : In the works X-COMlike from Gollop  (Read 56636 times)

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Re: Phoenix Point : In the works X-COMlike from Gollop
« Reply #360 on: November 11, 2019, 11:25:23 am »

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Re: Phoenix Point : In the works X-COMlike from Gollop
« Reply #361 on: November 11, 2019, 11:31:55 am »

Oh... I must've turned that down (I have windows 10). I guess the windows store is not an option for me then.
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« Reply #362 on: November 11, 2019, 12:52:01 pm »

Oh... I must've turned that down (I have windows 10). I guess the windows store is not an option for me then.
It shouldn't be hard to get if you actually want it. I have it, and find it to be generally innocuous. But I'm still going to wait until the game comes out on Steam, on general principle as well as for my own convenience.
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« Reply #363 on: November 11, 2019, 02:01:18 pm »

Also, I got a coupon for $10 off the Season Pass if anyone wants it. I'm getting the Season Pass for free for being a backer, so I won't need it.

I have the same coupon available should a 2nd person want it.
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« Reply #364 on: November 11, 2019, 03:07:24 pm »

I'm betting hard on this one (preordered both the game and the season pass), hoping Gollop still has spunk in him, unlike a number of other luminaries of an earlier age. Those who made one great work, made gaming history and then failed horribly when attempting a comeback 20 years later.

Not expecting a masterpiece, but something good enough at least.
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Re: Phoenix Point : In the works X-COMlike from Gollop
« Reply #365 on: November 11, 2019, 03:38:03 pm »

He's got some intermediate cred, too. Chaos Reborn, while not exactly a masterpiece, is pretty good and leverages interesting ideas well. Definitely one of the reasons I have faith in Phoenix Point having some cool stuff even if it's mostly just a NewCOM clone.
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Re: Phoenix Point : In the works X-COMlike from Gollop
« Reply #366 on: November 11, 2019, 05:30:09 pm »

I'm not too worried. Based on the gameplay I've seen, it should be decent at least. And considering I only spent $25 to back it and am getting the season pass thrown in there for free, I figure it'll easily be worth the money even if it's not as good as XCom.
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Re: Phoenix Point : In the works X-COMlike from Gollop
« Reply #367 on: November 11, 2019, 07:45:57 pm »

Those who made one great work, made gaming history and then failed horribly when attempting a comeback 20 years later.

Not expecting a masterpiece, but something good enough at least.

Except that doesn't describe Gollop. He's been making good games constantly, pretty much like clockwork, every three years, for a couple of decades. The hiccup for him however was in ~1999 - 2000. His studio was working for publisher Interplay on the next X-Com at the time, but then Interplay got bought out by a game company who are effectively IP trolls. They buy up IP / other companies, then gut the development teams, move everything in house then churn out shoddy titles. Gollop's studio went broke and he clawed back by developing tactical games for hand-helds in the 2000s, becomes kinda the go-to guy for that, for example he did Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars for 3DS, then helmed Assassin's Creed III: Liberation for Playstation Vita. So he's rebuilt his career at least once, and become known and trusted for doing adaptation for portables as well as the tactical stuff.

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« Reply #368 on: November 11, 2019, 08:55:46 pm »

that wizard war tactics game was pretty solid too. he needed something else to dress it up in, an IP or a larger game setting, but there was a good game there.
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« Reply #369 on: November 12, 2019, 01:46:15 am »

 I looked Gollop's body of work up because of Reelya's post and he also did Magic and Mayhem, which is a first class game that deserves to be remembered as fondly as any from that era. If Snapshot's MO is doing remakes and spiritual successors of his old stuff, I sure hope they don't skip that one. Between the way the narrative is handled, the highly functional and narratively consistent blend of RPG and strategy, and the consistently authentic old school fantasy vibes, with aspects of myth and mysticism in a structure both alien and inherently credible, I don't think I'm exaggerating when I call it the single most kino game I've ever played.
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Re: Phoenix Point : In the works X-COMlike from Gollop
« Reply #370 on: November 12, 2019, 03:44:02 am »

Oh shoot, he did Magic and Mayhem? Hell yeah, that game was ace for what it was. The sequel ended up falling a bit flat though, so I dunno how much oomph the IP has in it.

Would be pretty cool to see some kind of remake/reimagining though.

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« Reply #371 on: November 12, 2019, 05:14:10 am »

A lot of Phoenix Point seems to be completing the game they fucked up when the IP trolls took over Interplay, although the HP Lovecraft aspect is new. So with PP Gollop is like "finally I can finish what I started 20 years ago when they tried to destroy my career".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dreamland_Chronicles:_Freedom_Ridge

As for the company who fucked him over, it was the now-defunct Titus Interactive. The same company responsible for the infamous Nintendo 64 Superman game (see angry video game nerd review), and also responsible for a 2003 Robocop game with a 2.2/10 score on gamespot.
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« Reply #372 on: November 12, 2019, 09:40:17 am »

game with a 2.2/10 score on gamespot.

Fuck. I don't think they give war crimes less than an 8.
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« Reply #373 on: November 12, 2019, 10:50:12 am »

game with a 2.2/10 score on gamespot.

Fuck. I don't think they give war crimes less than an 8.

War crimes are at least usually fun.

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Re: Phoenix Point : In the works X-COMlike from Gollop
« Reply #374 on: November 12, 2019, 02:19:08 pm »

Oh shoot, he did Magic and Mayhem? Hell yeah, that game was ace for what it was. The sequel ended up falling a bit flat though, so I dunno how much oomph the IP has in it.

Would be pretty cool to see some kind of remake/reimagining though.
It seems you can blame Titus for the sequel.
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