Cpl. Facehugger Posted April 11, 2004 Report Share Posted April 11, 2004 (edited) You know you've been playing too much Xcom when1. When you wish you had a suit of stylish personal armor instead of your t-shirt2. When you think that soldiers are expendable3. When you think that anything flying is either: A skyranger transport or B: a ufo or C: a floater4. When you go to the nearest university and ask for a laser rifle5. When you think that aliens are actually invading6. When you name your dog "Reaper"7. And your child "Sectoid"8. When you see a picture of a starving person, you assume that they are an Etherial9. When you start throwing light bulbs around when it's dark, hoping to illuminate the area10. When you go to a gun shop and ask for a heavy plasma11. When you call your car an HWP12. When you expect your car to drive itself13. When you get tired, you say "Damn! I'm out of time units!"14. When start to fantasize about your girl/boy friend wearing personal armor15. When you dissect a cow to extract its organs16. When you think the chryssalids are after you17. When you watch a zombie movie and say "If those were chryssalids, they'd be dead right now!"18. When you convert your vaccum cleaner into a hovertank19. When you start breeding snakes and taping arms onto them20. When you make a "You know you've been playing too much Xcom when..." list21. When you shoot people in spandex, assuming that they are Mutons22. When you shoot people in cloaks and robes believing them to be Etherials23. When you wonder what happens to the aliens in alien containment24. When you start to see life from an isometric point of view25. When you want to use the alien examination tools on someone...26. When you start to wonder why the guy in the examination room ufopedia entry is naked27. When you wonder where the Men In Black are in Xcom (and why they were cut)28. When you form your own Xcom website29. When you try to make your own Xcom remake30. When you make a heavy plasma out of tin cans, old PVC pipe, hairspray, and bubble gum. Edited April 12, 2004 by Cpl. Facehugger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamutas Posted April 12, 2004 Report Share Posted April 12, 2004 I am on the list: #29. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red knight Posted April 12, 2004 Report Share Posted April 12, 2004 I am on that list too ... Count me in for the "remake" GreetingsRed Knight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordT Posted April 12, 2004 Report Share Posted April 12, 2004 24. When you start to see life from an isometric point of view Like an out of body experience? Then you've probably played x-com for the last time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest drewid Posted April 12, 2004 Report Share Posted April 12, 2004 anyone here ever dreamed of a game? I had it with doom, tetris as well as x-com. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl. Facehugger Posted April 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2004 anyone here ever dreamed of a game? I had it with doom, tetris as well as x-com.I've had it with doom, halo, Xcom (chryssalid nightmares), Mechwarrior, and Fallout In doom, I dreamed that I was a cacodemon eating pitiful space marines for breakfast In halo, I dreamed that I was a covenant elite In Xcom, I dreamed that the chryssalids were chasing me In Mechwarrior, I dreamed that I was driving a mech, annhilating everything in my path And lastly, I dreamed that I was riding a nuclear bomb, just like the pipboy in fallout. Strange dreams, no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red knight Posted April 13, 2004 Report Share Posted April 13, 2004 Guys you are just wasted ... I have strange dreams once in a while but being chased by chrissalids is way to much ... GreetingsRed Knight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Extralucas Posted April 13, 2004 Report Share Posted April 13, 2004 Nope, no Chryssalid chases so far. Although one of my friends had a dream about mutons making him their commander. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[stewart] Posted April 13, 2004 Report Share Posted April 13, 2004 I'm sort of #29 but more of an inspired by thing rather than remake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupSuper Posted April 13, 2004 Report Share Posted April 13, 2004 #31. When all of the buildings start to look the same.#32. When you have fun blowing up fuel barrels and gas stations.#33. When you live in a tile-based world.#34. When you have an x-com soldier in your avatar.#35. When you keep telling NASA that there's a hidden alien base in Mars! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikker Posted April 14, 2004 Report Share Posted April 14, 2004 #36. When you've done something stupid you think you can simply reload. #37. When you barracade your doors and windows as they are possible entrence-points to your house. #38. When you want to isolate doors and windows from the rest of your house. #39. When you think fireworks pointing out of your window counts as 'missle defences' #40. When you are borred you simply make time go faster by pressing the "1 hour" button. #41. When you see an odd red square in the bottom of your view every time you see someone you don't like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[dipstick] Posted April 17, 2004 Report Share Posted April 17, 2004 #42 When you play Deus Ex 2 and see transgenics, and think 'Sectoids', so you shoot them even though they are supposed to be your allies. Then they fire this green stuff at you - HEAVY PLASMA, take cover. Theeeen, you take your heavy plasma (aka mag rail) out, and pulverise them. They even have LEADERS for god's sake!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted April 28, 2004 Report Share Posted April 28, 2004 Im no. 35. NASA just gave me some money and said to be quiet and stay away from the media and the C.I.A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsereve Posted June 19, 2004 Report Share Posted June 19, 2004 Once, i had a dream that the aliens were invading my house, so i pulled out my hev plasma, ran out the door, and then used the gun to utterly disentigrate the house. . .it was fun. i should try that in a game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupSuper Posted June 19, 2004 Report Share Posted June 19, 2004 #43: When you find out that some X-Com sounds are used on all sorts of movies, games, cartoons, etc. Truly, I keep finding them everywhere! Usually they are door sounds, alien screams or UI sounds (button press, screen popup). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j'ordos Posted June 19, 2004 Report Share Posted June 19, 2004 The human death screams seem pretty common too, imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floater medic Posted June 19, 2004 Report Share Posted June 19, 2004 my wierdest computer game related dream was that i dreamed i was a chrysaliss and i implanted a load of people in an oddly designed town...........one of those guys i implanted was FIT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puasonen Posted June 20, 2004 Report Share Posted June 20, 2004 #44 When you notice all your time goes in reading xcomufo forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[dipstick] Posted June 20, 2004 Report Share Posted June 20, 2004 #44b when you realise you should really start paying rent for being on xcomufo#45 When you notice your internet time is solely based on xcomufo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floater medic Posted June 20, 2004 Report Share Posted June 20, 2004 #46when u start making things like this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puasonen Posted June 20, 2004 Report Share Posted June 20, 2004 floater, that's funny :: It should be on x-com art section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[dipstick] Posted June 20, 2004 Report Share Posted June 20, 2004 What about the rest of the Snakeman team? It needs some friends Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aleksander Storm Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 #35. When you keep telling NASA that there's a hidden alien base in Mars!You don't have to tell them.. all them nutty UFO watchers have already pestered them about Cydonia far too much by now, due to all those initial shots of the Cydonian region way back when that made people think there were pyramids and 'the face' built in the region by sentient life.. Probably why they just gave Raven the lump of cash and told him to be quiet.. Most likely turned into standard procedure as a way to keep people from bugging them."Here, take some money.. Just shut up!"18. When you convert your vaccum cleaner into a hovertankI have got to try that one of these days..23. When you wonder what happens to the aliens in alien containmentWhat DOES happen to those aliens?27. When you wonder where the Men In Black are in Xcom (and why they were cut)X-COM agents should get Series 4 DeAtomizers as standard equipment..30. When you make a heavy plasma out of tin cans, old PVC pipe, hairspray, and bubble gum.But you use bubble gum in the construction of the Psi-Amp! (well, pink bubble gum at least) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floater medic Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 (edited) where is the place i should put that pic? i had a little look but i didnt find it i have a few more i may put there.............. the snake men are all dead exept that one cos all my weapons were bb launchers and psi amps even the UFO was detryed totaly Edited June 24, 2004 by floater medic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Blehm 98] Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 I live in a tile based world....wonder what aliens do in alien containment(made up myself a few cenarios)28. When you form your own Xcom website do forums count? disecting cows sounds like fun.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aleksander Storm Posted June 26, 2004 Report Share Posted June 26, 2004 the snake men are all dead exept that one cos all my weapons were bb launchers and psi amps even the UFO was detryed totalyHoly Celatid-on-a-stick.. The whole thing?.. Ya know, I've always wanted to demolish a UFO.. I've blown holes in them, like in the top so as to get the drop on the command crew, but never utterly annihilated the thing.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mustang Posted July 3, 2004 Report Share Posted July 3, 2004 I LOVE this one:#47 You sleep in the "dead" T-shirt armor wearing human and when you wake up you go ask the first person you see "Were you the one with the med-kit?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paladin Posted July 21, 2004 Report Share Posted July 21, 2004 I'm REALLY #44 right now... #48 You begin to uncounsciously allocate TU, get to high ground, and you imagine 3D red boxes around people... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Maniac Posted July 21, 2004 Report Share Posted July 21, 2004 I'd post a reply, but I'm regrettably out of Time Units. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Blehm 98] Posted July 21, 2004 Report Share Posted July 21, 2004 I'm not that bad. But i do like to step in a box-like world(2 steps per square, i always try to take the same steps, etc.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Maniac Posted July 21, 2004 Report Share Posted July 21, 2004 (edited) Well, let's just hope your pathfinding isn't as bad as the X-Com soldiers'. That would make going up and down stairs a serious threat to health... Edited July 21, 2004 by The Master Maniac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex the greater Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 (edited) 49. you sneak into the aircraft countrol tower in your loacal airport to look for ufos50. you find a small ufo heading east (small plane signling a destress call)51. you scrambel an interseptor (privite jet)52. when the "ufo" gets shot down (jet colides whith plane) you scramble a skyranger (fully loaded 747) to salvige the wreak53. when the "crew" dies you get fustrated and try to reload but you cant (causethis is real life)54. the aliens invade you base (the cops break into the tower and aresst you) Edited August 3, 2004 by alex the greater Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris StarShade Posted August 19, 2004 Report Share Posted August 19, 2004 #18, I saw an ad for something that WILL turn your vaccuum cleaner into a hovercraft. Too bad it requires an extension cord. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exo2000 Posted August 31, 2004 Report Share Posted August 31, 2004 (edited) 55. You try to "save" before you go in a building or do something you might regret.56. You make contributions to this list. Edited September 1, 2004 by Exo2000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admiral Harkov Posted September 6, 2004 Report Share Posted September 6, 2004 (edited) I'm 24 and 41. Once I dream a couple of medium scouts hanged on the sky, near my home, and going to church I watched three of them coming back from negotiations about Earth surrendering. Our president Zapatero told them that not only Spain would help them, but also he offered his balls (I'm sorry, but that was the dream) because he always wanted to be like them and MC all the party. But Bush, Blair, Chirac and Schröder said no. So it was the start of the war, and knowing that I went back home searching for a laser rifle or at least one heavy cannon and beat thos bastards's asses.57. When you see lights that dazzle you in the horizon, due to sun reflection in big metal surfaces, you see. There is a UFO-port!!!!!58. When someone tells you he saw something, like an insect, dark and with antennae you run until you are in Australia.59. You plan a perfect crime, it's a murder and the plans are these:You buy X-COM: UFO Defense, you give it to your hated enemy and make him play. You wait a couple of week until he has meet Chryssalids. Then you dress the prefect chryssalid disguise and knock in his door a dark night.Or thisYou begin like previous plan, but this time you get a friend from the army (or the police, somebody with weapons), you give him the game. When he knows Chryssalids you convince your enemy to knock his door with the perfect chryssalid disguise Edited September 7, 2004 by Admiral Harkov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted September 8, 2004 Report Share Posted September 8, 2004 NASA didnt give me enough cash. and the new Australian special task force ASEO or summin like that has been watchin my house for a while now. i need a place to lie low for a while anyone from Australia preferably NSW? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admiral Harkov Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 I've really played it too much. Yesterday I dreamed my home was invaded by thirty cocoraches (they cam in a battleship. This is a joke). (But this is not) so I set highest degree of alert at home and all the family took heavy plasmas to kill them. And we opened wardrobe doors with a live grenade in our hands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floater medic Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 well im under the firm impression that my biology teacher is a sectoid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambegen Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 60. You try to persuade world leaders that they schould create secret organization to fight against aliens, make you commander and fund you first base plus add a few million dollars. You are very disapointed when they decline.61. You try to fight aliens on your own. You just need personal armour and laser rifle. sadly you cannot find them anywhere so you think they are still unresearched. 62. So you keep going to universitety everyday and ask how going laser weapon research, after two weeks you are very disapointed - no progress. But that's really because even only 10 scientists schould research that in one week. You could do research by yourself but you aren't scientist and don't have laboratory.63. You try to find/buy some alien alloys because they are needed for your personal armour. So far no luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hailfire22 Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 Not to mention you don't have any way of shooting down or getting to those pesky UFOs..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exo2000 Posted September 23, 2004 Report Share Posted September 23, 2004 64. You make utterly pointless contributions that nobody is gonna give a damn about. Then you make a really clever one and it gets ignored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted October 4, 2004 Report Share Posted October 4, 2004 Not to mention you don't have any way of shooting down or getting to those pesky UFOs.....<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Just because u know your gonna miss doesnt mean u cant try. My family has gone to Sydney for two weeks and im starting the second week of freedom now. i havent seen the sun in two days thanks to my new copy of X-Com that actually works!. of cause now i keep thinking that ufos r flying past and that sectoids are camping in the scrub behind my house. I think its time to get some sunlight. of couse its is like 11pm so maybe il wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hailfire22 Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 Not to mention you don't have any way of shooting down or getting to those pesky UFOs.....Just because u know your gonna miss doesnt mean u cant try. .....of cause now i keep thinking that ufos r flying past and that sectoids are camping in the scrub behind my house. I think its time to get some sunlight. of couse its is like 11pm so maybe il wait. I bet the sectoids will give you some "light" if you ask politely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambegen Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 Not to mention you don't have any way of shooting down or getting to those pesky UFOs.....<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Just because u know your gonna miss doesnt mean u cant try. My family has gone to Sydney for two weeks and im starting the second week of freedom now. i havent seen the sun in two days thanks to my new copy of X-Com that actually works!. of cause now i keep thinking that ufos r flying past and that sectoids are camping in the scrub behind my house. I think its time to get some sunlight. of couse its is like 11pm so maybe il wait.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>just don't panic, it's normal terror site, try stay in house and wait for x-com squad ( just pray that they will fight instead of taking off immedietly :: ). And look out for that damn cyberdisk, they will explode if killled you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floater medic Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 and if it looks like x-com are trying to figure out about how psing cyber disks work................run Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsereve Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 . . .and if someone gets into your head and starts telling you what to do, and you find yourself unable to disobey, don't panic, it's just your mom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurluas2000 Posted December 16, 2004 Report Share Posted December 16, 2004 i once dreamed of begin in a big grass plane all quiet when suddenly protoss scouts and carriers comes thru the skies. and then chrysallids came out of the woods then protoss zealots appeared out of nowhere i was completely surrounded...at that time i knew that i was dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupSuper Posted December 16, 2004 Report Share Posted December 16, 2004 i once dreamed of begin in a big grass plane all quiet when suddenly protoss scouts and carriers comes thru the skies. and then chrysallids came out of the woods then protoss zealots appeared out of nowhere i was completely surrounded...at that time i knew that i was dead.more approriate would be "at that time i knew i'd been playing too much Starcraft and X-Com" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanfrz Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 (edited) one time, I was about to take apart my phone to try and fix it, and right before I popped it open I actually tried to save. Well, I really just looked up and to the left (for the file menu) before I relized that it was real life. Edited December 21, 2004 by deanfrz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick-To-Face Posted July 15, 2006 Report Share Posted July 15, 2006 Defineately agree with #36!!! As for dreams, once I walked out of some building and saw a battleship slowly rotating over the UN. Said "shuckeroonies" and woke up. Never really had a chryssalid nightmare, except one time I felt someting really close to me and had that "I'm screwed and about to die because there's a chryssalid behind me" feeling right before you wake up. When I opened my eyes the cat was right next to my head. #65. You open the door from aside, and hold it for other people. Then laugh at them in your head when they thank you. "Yeah, you think I'm being nice, but someday you'll be the dead one. He he he." #66. When you see a green glowstick you get nervous for a second, thinking, "Plasma clip? ... Nope." #67. You're about to step off a platform on th 8th floor thinking you will slowly descend until there is something under your feet, then someone grabs your shirt. #68. When the neighbor upstairs stomps because you're too loud, you start looking around for a grenade to chuck at the ceiling. #69. When you notice that the concrete sidewalk is divided into squares you think "4 TUs each, 6 diagonally" #70. When your job is sucking you think about manufacturing Laser Cannons at home instead. #71. When you enter an elevator you wave your arms upwards. #72. You get a line of sight that involves multiple mirrors on someone you hate right before realizing you don't have a laser weapon on you. #73. You forget that you can climb over things, instead of shooting them or walking around. #74. You're terrible at apintball, you just sit there waiting for reaction shots. When you feel scared you put the gun down in case you go berzerk. #75. You're confident you can put out fires with smoke, because they can't coexhist in the same tile. #76. You're confident you can walk through fire aslong as you don't stop in the middle. #77. When you catch fire you carry on for 5 more turns before realizing it will not go out on its own. #78. You wonder how far bodybuilders could chuck a HE. #79. It's dark, and you didn't bring flares, crap! #80. You are unimpressed by UFO documentaries, they all look like firestorms! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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