“I came across this at a very sad point in my life, it was on a hard drive on a vintage computer I bought off Amazon,” Marshall explains on the expansion’s GitHub page. “Literally this essentially saved my life, I was going through a divorce and just happen[ing] to come across something like this was insane.”
Can we please have XCOM3?
‘Xenonauts’ is probably your best bet, since it’s said to be faithful to the original games and received very good reviews.
Sorry, gotta wait for a Quake 6 developer to find it in an SSD in an old laptop they bought online
I just want XCOM 3 and dishonored 3… is that really too much to ask for?
Xenonauts 2 is the balm you desire. Nothing worthwhile will ever come from Firaxis again.
Yes
You just need to convince Satya Nadella that it’ll be profitable. Like, billions of dollars in ROI profitable.
Why? He’s been pushing AI like crazy and I don’t think anyone has seen an ROI on that?
That’s why you need to convince, not show proof :)
Technically, Deathloop is Dishonored 3. Death of the Outsider kind of killed the base gameplay premise that Dishonored 1 and 2 were built on, though, so I wouldn’t expect a true Dishonored 3… ever, really.
Deathloop is a masterpiece. It does not get the credit it deserves.
Yeah I didn’t even like Dishonoured, but Deathloop was legit.
Even if the gameplay loop is changed, I’d like a game set it Tyvia, Morley, and the Pandyssian continent each. I rather liked the setting
Well, Deathloop is set in Tyvia…
Ah, didn’t realize!
What’s the dishonored game that came out after 2? I have the first one and saw two others on my wishlist just the other day.
Death of the Outsider is the game after 2. It’s technically a stand-alone expansion rather than a game, though; it’s more like Dishonored 1’s Knife of Dunwall and Brigmore Witches expansions than it is a proper Dishonored 3, it just runs on its own executable rather than from a menu within Dishonored 2.
All the original devs are gone, it would be a shell of its former self. If the original developers are still together somewhere, we would be better off getting a new IP.
Original devs like Julian Gollop, who made his own spiritual successor ‘Phoenix Point’ in 2019? Which unfortunately turned out to be so-so.
Or you could look at third-party developers instead, since ‘Xenonauts’ was received much better.
He wasnt involved in the reboot series IIRC. Jake Solomon was the creative director.
That may be true, except I’m not talking about Firaxis’ reboot.
I was, as that is what people usually mean with XCOM 3. A sequel to XCOM 2.
Why? Xcom has its first game released in 1994. The IP has been around for a long time.
Technically we already had XCOM 3. Apocalypse wasn’t half bad, despite the weird realtime/turn-based combat system.
Because the industry has changed a lot over the last decade and XCOM would be more likely to be dragged through the dirt than to be faithfully resurrected.
What do you mean “gone” did I miss some kind of dev genocide after 2005?
Yes, lots of layoffs and devs just moving on.
Ah, so they still exist, but because they aren’t still making stuff for you they no longer have any right to the things they created. Got it.
They have made stuff for me, just getting them back together to make another XCOM is very very unlikely. Do you understand how IP ownership works?
Yes. Do you?
You DO understand that just because the original developers don’t still work in the same room that things do not become public domain, right?
I think you are confused. I am simply saying, the developers, the individuals, who designed and created the reboot series are no longer working at the studio who owns the IP “XCOM”. Unless they are all rehired by 2K, them individuals cannot develop another XCOM. Do you understand now?