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  1. Posted · Edited by Robin Graves

    Jeez... I know the squeaky axle gets the grease, but come ON. People complaining about the scale, people complaining about points costs, people complaining about a million things that we really know nothing about yet... Seriously?

    I am baffled by how some folks are already so negative about such a fantastically cool looking, and long awaited, game. Come on, you guys.

    Look this is how it works; most of us are gonna end up buying this stuff and give FF all our money, least thing they can do is let us complain and whine a bit on the forums.  Except for the xcom mandatory app- that stuff just needs to change!

  5. Posted · Edited by Robin Graves

    Favorite horror story: "The shadow over Insmouth". People should check out the movie "Dagon" (2001).

     

    Favorite fantasy story: "The quest of Iranon", great twist at the end.

     

    Favorite story that made me laugh: "Herbert West -Reanimator". West, while still a student, is experimenting on bringing the dead back to life. When the abandoned house he uses for his experiments burns down he has to hide the demented creature his experiments created on campus. When somebody notices the mewling shambling monster, West pretends it is a DRUNK FRATBOY that he's helping back to his dorm. Thats just amazing...

     

    I also like "The haunter of the dark". Not so much for the story itself but more because H.P. is playing literary tag with some of his

    friends. 1st Robert bloch writes a short story in wich a character that obviously is meant to represent lovecraft get killed by a star vampire. Then in haunter of the dark Lovecraft retaliates by killing Andrew Blake- Blake being a stand in for Robert Bloch.

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    So the app randomly chooses wich invasion plan (out of five) it will use, right?

    What if it ends up using the same one 2 or 3 games in a row? Can we opt to choose a diferent mission manualy?

     

    Also if you need an app to run part of the game i start wondering how complex and convoluted the rules might be. Look at Ghost stories: that game plays itself against 4 players, using only cards and dice and it's streamlined and hard as nails. I'm sure FF could make something good without imediatly jumping to the app!

     

    I'm definatly in the camp of people who don't like the requirement of the app.

     

    a board game should be a board game, There's something ironic about having to use an xcom boardgame app on the same laptop i have the xcom pc game! Also, people's concern over wether this thing will still be playable in 5 years are valid.

     

    Perhaps i'm being a bit unfair here but ingame apps seem about as succesfull as those atmosfear vhs games. And we all know we play these games once, and then we grow tired of them.

    - be honest!

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    To bad the Tantive IV still isn't in scale with the star destroyer. (same goes for the x-wing tie-fighters)

    It's a nitpick i know, but still if they had made the star destroyer 3 or 4 times bigger it would look a lot better.

    Oh well i'm glad we can now play with the big ships and the B-wings will have something proper to shoot at.

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