XCOM: Enemy Unknown - FIRAXIS, TURN-BASED

Yeah it is exceptionally good. The simplified actions and inventories do take a little bit of the OCD pleasure of complete control away, but honestly that and the locked-in classes don't ruin anything. The game is as fun and as tense as ever. Even the simplified interceptions dont really take anything away. All of the stuff tha made the old game great is there an it is glorious. I am hooked again. I agree on skipping the tutorial, way too long.

This game is truly fucking excellent. I will be playing this once a year over the original. It's that good.

This game makes me kick out some OCD Jams. Also, my wife wanted to use my computer and I had stepped away from it. Instead of alt-tabbing like a normal human being, she quit to desktop with only 2 x-ray's left on the map. MAD.

I forgot my real point: with all the systems being a little more streamlined it feels much more like a pure tabletop game than a video game. All the nitty gritty stuff like time units and inv management etc etc in the original made it seem less like a tabletop game because all that shit on a tabletop would be way too cumbersome, but it would be very easy to translate this directly onto a tabletop.

The only thing I really miss is incremental passage of time. It either goes by 1 min or 30min/hr it seems. Not sure which I wasn't paying attention. I really really liked having control over that. But you don't really lose much not having it. The geoscape just becomes a little less like a sweet bonged out screen saver.

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Originally Posted by Chux

This game makes me kick out some OCD Jams. Also, my wife wanted to use my computer and I had stepped away from it. Instead of alt-tabbing like a normal human being, she quit to desktop with only 2 x-ray's left on the map. MAD.

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omg she is such a mom now

I passed out on the couch, came back and was like "wait what?". Her response was that last night when she asked I said yeah, just quit to the desktop. I had just saved and was on the command center screen.

I can't wait until the day Lily bitches at her dad for doing that to her.

I would never.

Playing on Classic. Feel like I'm over the hump right now. Got plenty of money and materials, while my team is just wasting the aliens. Did a terror mission against a dozen or so zombie-makers, and not only did I not lose a single solider. None of them took any damage at all. I just waited outside and snap-shotted the shit out of anything that crawled out. There are tougher enemies on the horizon I hear, but I just loaded up my squad with plasma weapons.

I have plasma rifles, and light plasma rifles, Plasma Snipes are like 2 days away. My global panic level is down to one bar for everybody, except one nation has 2 and Nigeria dropped out.

It was mega hectic up until the one event that I just passed and dropped the panic level though.

I lost Egypt. I don't think it's possible not to lose a country on Classic. Sats take too long to build.