reckoner Posted March 26, 2007 Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 Some of many reasons why I love this game, over a decade since its release: - Capturing a live deep one with a thermal tazer is extremely satisfying - Unexpected catastrophic failure. Just when I think a mission is too easy, an alien fires a DPL at my men! - Tentaculats - seeing one of those brainy things on my screen is always an "oh crap" moment. - Turning the tide of the war, after having so many rookies die - finally getting a bunch of veterans will full mag. ion armor and sonic cannons/DPLs kicking the crap out of everything - That feeling you get when you loot a Fleet Supply Cruiser and sell off all the stuff - The first time I fire a disrupter pulse launcher and see it rip open a building - Guessing alien hideouts correctly with grenades - Getting sonic oscillators - Getting enough Zrbite for a fleet of Mantas, and taking down dreadnaughts with coordinated attacks - Completing a colony/synnonium site mission - immense amounts of relief - Getting the displacer sonic SWS with 100 TUs and 100 shots - Getting MC - gets boring after a while but after a long hard campaign it feels soo good to let the aliens blow each other up - Being able to skip some of the later terror missions because you've worked up enough points that month - Remembering how impossible you thought this game was when you first got it, just as you're about to finish the final mission Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aiki-Knight Posted March 26, 2007 Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 Weekend? God! XCOM 1, 2 and 3 has devoured months of my life! Sadly, I have never finished XCOM2. So much harder than X1 or X3. I'll have to get around to finishing it. I hear the final mission is just brutal. Is that true? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[NKF] Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 (edited) The first part might be, as the aquatoids are almost all armed with DPLs. The next level's so-so (and has some rare underwater Deep-Ones), the very last part is rather poorly done and you are railroaded to the final chamber. A bit of a let-down for the final mission, unless it's your first time. A bit more exciting than UFO's final mission, but not as gratifying as your standard 2-parter mission like the shipping lane terror site and the colonies. - NKF Edited March 27, 2007 by NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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