Looks cool...but why can't game companies stop copying each other with the freakin' location/storylines? This game sounds exactly like Fallout (1,2 or 3) and Borderlands combined. I'm getting tired of tromping through "post-apocalyptic wastelands" and would rather play in a different locale for once this decade.

>> ^gwiz665:

Feels sorta more like X-com apocalypse to me (which was shit). Still, looks interesting.
>> ^darkrowan:
I like how this works, but I refuse to consider this part of XCOM canon.



Apoc was great. The real time wasn't well implemented, but watching a facesucker jump on your men or a popper decimate your squad in turn base mode was every bit as intense as fighting chryssalids and ethereals. Of course the intensity suffers later on once you get better armor and personal shields, but so did the original X-COM once you can just blasterbomb and mind control the shit of the aliens. Apoc was a great game in its own right, just different than the original.

Now this abomination called XCOM has barely anything to do with the original. At least Fallout 3 used the iconic post-apocalyptic setting filled with pipboy and supermutants. This XCOM could might as well be a videogame adaptation of Men in Black or Mars Attacks.

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With no prior knowledge of this clip, I had to deconstruct what was going on with the characters myself. I think I'm pretty close to the original storyline.

*Scene set, by the beach, with a fat guy, and obviously, there's a trampoline there*

//Moves to guy sitting down, paving slab man, who has bad eyesight, sitting at picnic table with his paving slab//

Note: Paving slab man is friends with fat guy

Paving slab guy notices someone bouncing on the trampoline, but is however unsure (with his terrible short sighted vision) if it's a hairy guy or a pretty woman.

Paving slab guy does the 'is it a woman' check. On closer inspection and severe eye straining, it is found that trampoline person has breasts.

Paving slab guy reckons that they've sure got the trampoline skills and the breasts to warrant further investigation, so decides to check out the situation taking his paving slab with him to hopefully impress the individual.

Paving slab guy scrutinizes the individuals trampolining ability while initiating stage 2 of the 'is it a woman' check. Yes, indeed, she has a vagina and what's this? She can do the splits?!

Paving slab guy moves in for the kill, showing off his paving slab to his best ability.

//A CHALLENGER APPROACHES//

Paving slab guy is cock blocked by post-apocalyptic sunglasses woman.

Paving slab guy hugs his paving slab of fertility to to stop post-apocalyptic sunglasses woman from getting aroused.

End scene.

That's actually right on the money. The Anime/Manga and Film/TV industries of Japan saw a huge boom in terms of artists/directors in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the years following the bombings. The children who were very young when it happened grew up in a post-nuke society and in the late 60's and 70's began to express themselves and the dystopia-oriented themes that were happening following the recovery. A lot of the visionaries involved in the field who would be considered as creating that "strange Japanese sense of entertainment" had direct involvement in some form or another in the bombings. It's what happens when you grow up in a post-apocalyptic minded society. So in other words, the nukes are actually a large reason why these forms of entertainment evolved into what they are today.

>> ^gwiz665:

If you look at japanese tv shows, it's fairly obvious that the two nukes already screwed them up pretty bad...

This goes too far. Obama's going to look like a fool 6 months from now when the US is a barren, post-apocalyptic wasteland roamed by sadistic biker gangs!

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I'm not sure I could live with myself if there was another one. It was like taking candy from a scared baby.>> ^deathcow:
cool story... I did a lot of work as an independent contractor inventorying various pieces of telecomm equipment across Alaska for Y2K prep... great project , we should convince everyone they need 2012 post-apocalyptic certifications now

cool story... I did a lot of work as an independent contractor inventorying various pieces of telecomm equipment across Alaska for Y2K prep... great project , we should convince everyone they need 2012 post-apocalyptic certifications now

Will you, Shawn, take me, Kristy, to be your post-apocalyptic love slave until death do us part?

Note to the ladies: The love slave bit works on a guy every time. Just don't expect them to remember the rest of what you've said once those words are uttered.

Wow. As I watched that I heard a dirge of a wailing electric guitar, the studio set morphed into a post-apocalyptic battle ground, wiener morphed into a muscle-bound cyber viking and the fox people turned into an army of mindless automatons.

Awesome.

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Completely at odds with westy, I'm really looking forward to this. Post Apocalyptic wasteland is by no... no... no means original, but it's a cliche because it's a wonderful world to set a narrative and game. I think this looks like it could be seriously good fun.

Death Track + Fallout... nice

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>> ^budzos:


Have you played HL2: Episode 2? I'm not sure that would be inconsistent with the logic of the HL2 universe. It would have to be done subtly and carefully, but that's not beyond the G-Man's ken.

That said, they won't do it. Besides the problem of converting any video game to Hollywood, Valve has made it explicit that any (male) player is supposed to be able to project himself on Gordon with minimal difficulties. Valve has explicitly said that this is why you can't see your feet and why there are no mirrors in City 17. For similar reasons, you only see the heroine of Portal briefly and in profile.