(06-06-2015, 02:01 AM)Ryuujin Wrote:

(06-06-2015, 01:42 AM)Battle Bee Wrote: I really hope for some kind of event in XCOM 2 that makes us think "Is this truly the right thing to do?". (Without shoehorning emotions, etc. into it, hopefully.)
EW had that, even if rather subtle, and it was great.

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I want more to the story in XCOM 2, damn it!
I like stories.

I want more procedural generation. The original (1993) XCOM had fully procedurally generated maps. (Yes procedural generation has been around a LONG time), XCOM:EU seems to have a large selection of prebuilt maps; granted those prebuilt maps are pretty numerous, and their exact content is randomised, but after a while they start getting familiar... (Having scripted missions breaks things up nicely though)

(06-06-2015, 01:36 AM)Ryuujin Wrote:

(06-06-2015, 01:21 AM)Battle Bee Wrote: Even though XCOM is portrayed as the definitive saviors of humanity, they're actually quite based around the "the end justifies the means" morality.

They might as well be using anthrax sprayers, gruesome torture and nerve gas in XCOM 2. :p

I do hope they don't miss out on the potential to highlight the irony and hypocrasy seen in the real world.

XCOM spoilers follow

The aliens in XCOM fundamentally had honest intentions, even if their ways of going about it were alien and horrific to our sensibilities, even up to the end the ethereals were surprised that humanity didn't offer them a hand in unity, but instead pointed a plasma cannon at them. Assuming that the ethereals ultimately got their way after the events of XCOM 1 anyway, and united humanity under their banner, and XCOM has arisen as an insurgency force, then this should all be painfully familiar.

It's a scenario that has played out a few times now in the Middle East, where a more advanced, more self professedly "civilised" nation (You know which one...) has decided that the current status quo is just plain backwards, and they need to be civilised, and uplifted in the name of progress and mutual benefit (trade, oil). Even though the local population is basically happy with their current situation, and the occupying faction's ways are alien to the point of horrifying in their eyes; right up until the end that occupying force never understood how the local population were never going to accept it.

In XCOM2 they are in basically the same position as the Taliban of Afghanistahn, the Muhjadeen of Iraq (Not to be confused with ISIS, which is a religious sect that has taken advantage of the power vacuum to create a new state of it's own). An insurgent force trying to reinstate the old status quo in a land that has been reshaped and new culture enforced by an occupying faction. It'd be extremely hypocritical for them to paint the aliens as nothing but the bad-guys, or to paint X-COM as saints in the upcoming sequel, it's a good time to make players reflect on how they percieve world affairs.

(06-06-2015, 03:08 AM)Segolia Wrote: I'm really not cut out for warframe anymore:

>200 plat of trading later

(06-06-2015, 03:19 AM)SilverOtter Wrote:

(06-06-2015, 03:08 AM)Segolia Wrote: I'm really not cut out for warframe anymore:

>200 plat of trading later

Ever tried playing the CS:GO market?

cringe worthy