Comment on Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life'

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• Ioughttamow@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I just want XCOM 3 and dishonored 3… is that really too much to ask for?

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  • CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You just need to convince Satya Nadella that it’ll be profitable. Like, billions of dollars in ROI profitable.

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    • Thorry@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Why? He’s been pushing AI like crazy and I don’t think anyone has seen an ROI on that?

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      • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s why you need to convince, not show proof :)

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  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Xenonauts 2 is the balm you desire. Nothing worthwhile will ever come from Firaxis again.

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  • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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      • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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.

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    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Deathloop is a masterpiece. It does not get the credit it deserves.

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      • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah I didn’t even like Dishonoured, but Deathloop was legit.

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    • Ioughttamow@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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

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      • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well, Deathloop is set in Tyvia…

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• phx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sorry, gotta wait for a Quake 6 developer to find it in an SSD in an old laptop they bought online

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• warm@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  All the devs have 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.

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  • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • warm@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He wasnt involved in the reboot series IIRC. Jake Solomon was the creative director.

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      • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That might be true, except I’m not talking about Firaxis’ reboot.

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  • albbi@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why? Xcom has its first game released in 1994. The IP has been around for a long time.

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    • Jesus_666@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Technically we already had XCOM 3. Apocalypse wasn’t half bad, actually, despite the weird realtime/turn-based combat system.

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    • warm@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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  • UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What do you mean “gone” did I miss some kind of dev genocide after 2005?

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    • warm@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, lots of layoffs and devs just moving on.

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      • UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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.

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• SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ‘Xenonauts’ is probably your best bet, since it’s said to be faithful to the original games and received very good reviews.

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