KickStarter Phoenix Point - the new game from X-COM creator Julian Gollop

[Infinitron]

Fig: https://www.fig.co/campaigns/phoenix-point

https://phoenixpoint.info




https://af.gog.com/game/phoenix_point_year_one_edition?as=1649904300
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/phoenix-point/home

Spoiler

Yes, that's all we know now.

 

[Turtle-Zone 3000]

Thats a nasty alien, or monster?

 

[Irenaeus III]

He did a good job with Chaos Reborn.

 

[Irenaeus III]

Thats a nasty alien, or monster?

Looks like Bizarro Sephiroth's mother, Jenova

 

[Jackalope]

That image kinda reminds me of Planescape.

 

[LESS T_T]

He is a writer of Talos Principle and indie game developer.

 

[Turtle-Zone 3000]

He is a writer of Talos Principle and indie game developer.

Is this good news or bad news?

 

[Athelas]

So basically X-COM with Cthulhuan monstrosities?

He is a writer of Talos Principle and indie game developer.

Alert Chris Avellone immediately.

 

[Irenaeus III]

So basically X-COM with Cthulhuan monstrosities?

He is a writer of Talos Principle and indie game developer.

Alert Chris Avellone immediately.

Paging Chris Avellone

 

[LESS T_T]

Is this good news or bad news?

Dunno. I didn't played Talos yet. His personal projects looks pretentious, though.

So basically X-COM with Cthulhuan monstrosities?

Reminds me one of Gollop's Reddit AMA answers:

Actually yes, although this is a little known story. After the first X-COM I was so worn out by the development that I wanted to do something in a new direction. I proposed an X-COM style game based on a kind of Lovecraftian Chthulu mythos set in the 1930s with cults, portals into a parallel world and Nazis. Microprose said that horror games don't sell. However, some elements of these ideas did make it into X-COM Apocalypse.

 

[Kem0sabe]

So basically X-COM with Cthulhuan monstrosities?

That would be fucking awesome.

 

[Jaedar]

He is a writer of Talos Principle and indie game developer.

Is this good news or bad news?

Probably good. Talos was perhaps a bit more lofty than an x-com game should be, but there were general cool stuff there. I don't know if he worked for the expansion too, which was definately more about humor/absurdity.

 

[MRY]

So basically X-COM with Cthulhuan monstrosities?

That would be fucking awesome.

They could call it "Terror from the Deep."

 

[Joined on the 4th of July]

Horror from the Depths.

Sounds good, Xcom is his better game. Chaos Reborn seemed good, but I really couldn't get into it.

 

[The Brazilian Slaughter]

If this is lovecraftian, hope there are SAN rolls.

 

[Melan]

Yes, that's all we know now.

"Julian Gollop" is more than enough.

 

[Makabb]

Terror from the Dark

 

[ColCol]

"
Actually yes, although this is a little known story. After the first X-COM I was so worn out by the development that I wanted to do something in a new direction. I proposed an X-COM style game based on a kind of Lovecraftian Chthulu mythos set in the 1930s with cults, portals into a parallel world and Nazis. Microprose said that horror games don't sell. However, some elements of these ideas did make it into X-COM Apocalypse."


Yes, this is what I thought when I heard of this project. God I hope.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

This oughta be good if Chaos Reborn is any indicator.

 

[nil]

He wanted to make the tactical combat world based too, but due to technological limitations he had to settle for turn based.

 

[Zetor]

Hell yeah. Is he going for a KS, or has Chaos Reborn made enough $$$? Looks like a D1P no matter what.

(That said, I'm secretly hoping it'll take place in the Laser Squad universe -- because we need more games in pulp sci-fi settings, dammit. Also, I'm still butthurt about that armoury droid in the last scenario murdering my entire squad...)

 

[GarfunkeL]

Now that's holding a grudge man :D

 

[LESS T_T]

"They mutate to counter your tactics"

https://twitter.com/Phoenix_Point/status/713402573772955648

Oh.

 

[LESS T_T]

Watched Gollop's PC Gamer Weekender talk. Actually he announced this game there, and no one, even PC Gamer didn't reported it before the last week's "first" teaser.

(43:54) "This will in fact be an X-Com style game. It will have tactical turn-based missions, geoscape, destructible terrain, character progression and so on."

 

[ColCol]

Aliens? Motherfuck!