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Lee Friend wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I reverted back to UFO,last night after quite a while.
> I spent 8 hours addicted to it... glad to say I'm still alive, with 3 bases,
> though a couple of my teams got wiped :-(

	Reminds me, when I first bought the game I was just coming into my
vacation and I had nothing planned.  I played Xcom nearly every waking
hour for two weeks.  Damn!  That was a fine vacation although my neck
hurt and my eyes watered like hell from looking at a glowing screen in a
dark room all day.  :-)

> Not being negative, I can't really see a remake of this game would be
> needed, for it's quite perfect.  I see though addition patches would be
> great!

	SVGA graphics, easy user customization, native Windows interface (GODS
but I loathe DOS!), base game speed adjusted for the processor speed,
trashing that damnable 80-item limit to the 10th pit of hell from which
it oozed, other bug fixes, improved interactivity with the environment
(barns collapse after the lower floors get blaster-bombed), eye candy
like cut scenes of researched technology and plot advancement.  Just
about everything about the squad combat of the original works for me
(and in fact I'd consider it sacrilege to mess with it TOO much), but I
wouldn't mind an expansion in the interception department.
	Really, I'd consider it as a perfect opportunity to apply general
improvements to the game as a whole in the same manner that
Civilization2 improved on the original Civilization.  An EVolution
rather than REVolution.

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In article <36120...@newsread1.dircon.co.uk>, "Lee Friend" <l...@friend.globalnet.co.uk> wrote:
>>Hi
>>
>>I reverted back to UFO,last night after quite a while.
>>I spent 8 hours addicted to it... glad to say I'm still alive, with 3 bases,
>>though a couple of my teams got wiped :-(
>>
>>Not being negative, I can't really see a remake of this game would be
>>needed, for it's quite perfect.  I see though addition patches would be
>>great!
>>
>>I look forward to X-com 6 with a smile.
>>
>>Lee
>>100% ZX Spectrum editor
>>
>>
>>


6?? umm what happened to 4 or 5?

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X-COM 4 is Interceptor (space combat... sorta like a sim --- or is it?)

X-COM 5 is Alliance (first person shooter using the Unreal engine)

Hi,

To be honest, if you are making that many changes, should it be incorprated
into XCom 6 instead?

Lee

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> SVGA graphics, easy user customization, native Windows interface (GODS
>but I loathe DOS!), base game speed adjusted for the processor speed,
>trashing that damnable 80-item limit to the 10th pit of hell from which
>it oozed, other bug fixes, improved interactivity with the environment
>(barns collapse after the lower floors get blaster-bombed), eye candy
>like cut scenes of researched technology and plot advancement.  Just
>about everything about the squad combat of the original works for me
>(and in fact I'd consider it sacrilege to mess with it TOO much), but I
>wouldn't mind an expansion in the interception department.
> Really, I'd consider it as a perfect opportunity to apply general
>improvements to the game as a whole in the same manner that
>Civilization2 improved on the original Civilization.  An EVolution
>rather than REVolution.
>
>--
>Duane VanderPol: dua...@earthlink.net or dua...@aol.com
>Castle of the Glowing Sky: http://home.earthlink.net/~duanevp/index.html
>"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards for they are subtle and quick
>to anger" - Tolkien
>"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" -
>Clarke

Lee Friend wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> To be honest, if you are making that many changes, should it be incorprated
> into XCom 6 instead?

	Perhaps.  If there IS in fact an Xcom 6 to be made.  The thing is NOT
to lose the present-day or near-future time setting, the general
unfolding of the storyline, etc.  I absolutely despised TFTD with the
underwater theme and Apocalypse did nothing for me either.  The
far-future setting was all wrong, the troopers were too small onscreen,
the aliens were just "bugs" and not tied to the present-day myths of
aliens as presented in UFO.  Sticking close to the original in that
respect is a must for me - so if you want to call it Xcom 6 after all
the updating or Xcom Gold, or whatever, so long as the original game
still shines through at the core of it I'll bite.

-- 
Duane VanderPol: dua...@earthlink.net or dua...@aol.com
Castle of the Glowing Sky: http://home.earthlink.net/~duanevp/index.html
"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards for they are subtle and quick
to anger" - Tolkien
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" -
Clarke

> 6?? umm what happened to 4 or 5?

4 = XCOM Interceptor
5 = The forthcoming XCOM Alliance
6 = The rumoured "UFO" remake! Cool! :)

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