I finished X-COM tonight

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:15 pm

Very good game, of course. If I may understate it.

Very disappointing that there hasn't been anything like it since. I did read that the original team went on to X-COM: Apocalypse and another team was brought in for the (horrible) Terror From the Deep (the first sequel). That led to my desire to finish up Apocalypse. It's another game that doesn't really work in Windows XP, however.

Sure, there are guides that tell you how to do it, but they didn't work on my PC. A while back, before he left forever!!!, Walrustitty mentioned that a possible way to handle this would be to boot from a flash disk. I see now that my laptop allows me to boot from a flash disk, so that's one way to go. Certainly, the laptop should be fast enough to play it. I need to check to see what to do about sound. I'd really like to have sound.

There always exists the possibility of a DOS box or.. hey, isn't this what VMWare is supposed to do? I suppose that's worth checking.

At any rate. I'm finished with X-COM and the last mission wasn't all that hard. It took me the longest time to build the last craft. I had more than enough good soldiers to get through the final part.

Miles O'Brien shot the final alien blob for me, flanked by James Kirk, William Vest and Bjorrno Nomme. Good job, fellas.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 2:19 am

The frigging Underdogs version works. Can you believe that. From now on, every time I buy a game I am downloading the warez version so I can run it years later.

Couldn't load my save game but I don't care -- I've now years of fresh scifi to rip off character names from. Shuji Okamoto (X-COM name!) can now become Jayne Cobb or Gnatt Ganchoo and it's all good.

Draal · Post by **Draal** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 2:37 am

The turn based portions of X-com suck.

Okay, the gameplay is great (managed to create a decent mouse only interface in... 1997!?) except I have to twidle through twenty soldiers, picking and choosing the best to take with me. Then I hit the "save, die, reload, save, die, reload" portion and...

And its quite annoying.

Its punishment for trying to not be completely decimated in every mission.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:10 pm

Draal wrote:The turn based portions of X-com suck.

Okay, the gameplay is great (managed to create a decent mouse only interface in... 1997!?) except I have to twidle through twenty soldiers, picking and choosing the best to take with me. Then I hit the "save, die, reload, save, die, reload" portion and...

And its quite annoying.

Its punishment for trying to not be completely decimated in every mission.

Well, if you use tactics you do a little less dying and reloading. It really does reward you for being careful.

But sure, you're eventually going to get to a point where a guy you invested plenty of time and effort into gets killed in a single shot. Some people even play the game that way intentionally ("Iron Man" mode, I guess it's called). Seeing how it took me 10 long years to finish it, I just couldn't play it that way and still finish it before my own forthcoming death in 2076 (I accidentally pick up a bottle of 999 Bananas instead of 99 Bananas and chug the whole thing. I go blind and kill myself because, shit, blindness, right?).

Concerned Parent · Post by **Concerned Parent** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 3:40 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I go blind and kill myself because, shit, blindness, right?

Blindness isn't an affliction worth taking your life.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 3:53 pm

Concerned Parent wrote:
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I go blind and kill myself because, shit, blindness, right?
Blindness isn't an affliction worth taking your life.

It's an affliction worthy taking my life for. What progress is being done in the field of ARTIFICIAL EYES? I'd live with myself if any one of a number of shitty, horrible and unfortunate things happened to me: deafness, amputation, having a credit on Myth III: The Wolf Age. But blindness? I just don't see a lot of progress there.