Debaser wrote:Corporal fag, Private Assmunch, and Lt. Commander Shitwank probably don't think it's as great a feature as you do, but only because they're pissed about their CO's puerile sense of humor.
Lt. Commander Shitwank got promoted in the game. He made it all the way up to General!
Here's is a portion of the "magic" of X-COM, at least for me. Maybe this will convince someone else teetering on the bridge to play it:
The game generates a bunch of new soldiers for you when you buy them. You can immediately dismiss them... but you'd have to be insane to do so! They cost money.
I had one such guy show up a few years into the game. He had some Japanese name I couldn't pronounce. I thought, "boy, wouldn't it be nifty if the alien invasion spawned a superhero." I immediately forgot his name and put in "Dark Avenger" or some such nonsense. I gave him one of those flying battle suits in one of the game's equipment distribution menus. I then took him into combat.
Now...
The thing is, you can see what your guys and girls look like when you are fitting them out before a battle with equipment. Since this would-be superhero guy had his flight suit on 100% of the time, I never knew what he looked like. Ever!! It's a mystery. All I know is that the Dark Avenger guy hates aliens, loves to fly, and shoots them from five stories in the air.
(For what it's worth, the first Dark Avenger did get blown away by some aliens on his second mission. Fried right out of the sky and dropped to the earth with a satisfying squish. Ha ha ha! So I did the same process but told NO ONE. I don't even know why I am mentioning it now, maybe because I am mad. But a new soldier took over 'the armor' and has fought quite well since.)
I'm not going to try to talk the game down on you, because I simply haven't played it enough to say more than "I could never get into it". But, ultimately, a series of set-piece tactical encounters is a series of set-piece tactical encounters. The destructable environments are kind of fun, but the generic soldier dudes and UFO Invasion window dressing just don't get my dick hard enough to suffer through the slow parts.
Yeah. I made the soldiers less generic. Did I tell you there are robots in X-COM 3? That was one of the few bright spots of that game. Slumming around town with Subcommandante Dickride and Mr. Chmod (robots don't get rank in This Man's Army).
On the other hand, if you're a fan of, or at least on tolerable terms with, the idea of entertainment software as experience rather than challenge, then really it's the best thing out there.
I am!
I should warn you, however, that you're stuck with the characters the game provides and can't sub-out in favor of additional player-defined characters. I know this has traditionally been a deal-breaker for you. The sundry NPCs are all for the most part cool enough both in terms of character and in-game abilities that I couldn't imagine wanting not to use them, but, well... there you go.
Yeah, that used to bug me. Then Baldur's Gate II came along. Nobody will ever do it better than that one. At least we have ONE decent squad-based RPG. We used to not have any. (Devil Whiskey giving freedom was also great.)
So yeah, normally I think it's a terrible decision, but I'd be all for it in this case. Lately the thing that really shocked me was the Neverwinter Nights game. What a fuck up. It actually made me hate video games when I saw some people who helped make that game get all indignant on the forums over at
www.quartertothree.com about how it "Was
not!!! Baldur's Gate!!" I have a great idea for a game, personally. I'm going to make a first person shooter and then eliminate shooting. It is
not!!! Doom! Who wouldn't like a game designed to specifically not-include kick-ass portions of the genre? What a bunch of losers. That game can't fall flat enough for my purposes.
Uh, anyway. I do have a friend's copy of Torment around here. I'll queue it up! I don't know what I would do if I actually played a decent PC game again. Probably freak out and start putting egg yolks in the lightbulbs.
[quote="Debaser"]Corporal fag, Private Assmunch, and Lt. Commander Shitwank probably don't think it's as great a feature as you do, but only because they're pissed about their CO's puerile sense of humor.[/quote]
Lt. Commander Shitwank got promoted in the game. He made it all the way up to General!
Here's is a portion of the "magic" of X-COM, at least for me. Maybe this will convince someone else teetering on the bridge to play it:
The game generates a bunch of new soldiers for you when you buy them. You can immediately dismiss them... but you'd have to be insane to do so! They cost money.
I had one such guy show up a few years into the game. He had some Japanese name I couldn't pronounce. I thought, "boy, wouldn't it be nifty if the alien invasion spawned a superhero." I immediately forgot his name and put in "Dark Avenger" or some such nonsense. I gave him one of those flying battle suits in one of the game's equipment distribution menus. I then took him into combat.
Now...
The thing is, you can see what your guys and girls look like when you are fitting them out before a battle with equipment. Since this would-be superhero guy had his flight suit on 100% of the time, I never knew what he looked like. Ever!! It's a mystery. All I know is that the Dark Avenger guy hates aliens, loves to fly, and shoots them from five stories in the air.
(For what it's worth, the first Dark Avenger did get blown away by some aliens on his second mission. Fried right out of the sky and dropped to the earth with a satisfying squish. Ha ha ha! So I did the same process but told NO ONE. I don't even know why I am mentioning it now, maybe because I am mad. But a new soldier took over 'the armor' and has fought quite well since.)
[quote]I'm not going to try to talk the game down on you, because I simply haven't played it enough to say more than "I could never get into it". But, ultimately, a series of set-piece tactical encounters is a series of set-piece tactical encounters. The destructable environments are kind of fun, but the generic soldier dudes and UFO Invasion window dressing just don't get my dick hard enough to suffer through the slow parts.[/quote]
Yeah. I made the soldiers less generic. Did I tell you there are robots in X-COM 3? That was one of the few bright spots of that game. Slumming around town with Subcommandante Dickride and Mr. Chmod (robots don't get rank in This Man's Army).
[quote]On the other hand, if you're a fan of, or at least on tolerable terms with, the idea of entertainment software as experience rather than challenge, then really it's the best thing out there.[/quote]
I am!
[quote]I should warn you, however, that you're stuck with the characters the game provides and can't sub-out in favor of additional player-defined characters. I know this has traditionally been a deal-breaker for you. The sundry NPCs are all for the most part cool enough both in terms of character and in-game abilities that I couldn't imagine wanting [i]not[/i] to use them, but, well... there you go.[/quote]
Yeah, that used to bug me. Then Baldur's Gate II came along. Nobody will ever do it better than that one. At least we have ONE decent squad-based RPG. We used to not have any. (Devil Whiskey giving freedom was also great.)
So yeah, normally I think it's a terrible decision, but I'd be all for it in this case. Lately the thing that really shocked me was the Neverwinter Nights game. What a fuck up. It actually made me hate video games when I saw some people who helped make that game get all indignant on the forums over at www.quartertothree.com about how it "Was [i]not!!![/i] Baldur's Gate!!" I have a great idea for a game, personally. I'm going to make a first person shooter and then eliminate shooting. It is [i]not!!![/i] Doom! Who wouldn't like a game designed to specifically not-include kick-ass portions of the genre? What a bunch of losers. That game can't fall flat enough for my purposes.
Uh, anyway. I do have a friend's copy of Torment around here. I'll queue it up! I don't know what I would do if I actually played a decent PC game again. Probably freak out and start putting egg yolks in the lightbulbs.