Oh, please. By the hundreth time you face the aliens, there is no tension at all. Even at the beginning, you can just hire more soldiers if you lose some.
And, of course, you can't ridicule X-COM's starting gear enough.
Oh, hey, do we get night vision? No, we're too elite for night vision!
XCOM is back. As an FPS.
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Re: XCOM is back. As an FPS.
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
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Re: XCOM is back. As an FPS.
That's why standard X-Com operating procedure is to flatten the alley, the buildings, and any aliens they may contain with as much high explosives as could be packed into the skyranger.Gramzamber wrote: Also I really hate it when they go on about "immersion" and "tension" and that only a first person view can provide that.
Let me tell you something, few things were more immersive and downright tense than the original XCom games. Sending that soldier down a dark alley, not knowing if there was a Snakeman there ready to fill them full of holes, or going through an alien base knowing there's a bunch of Chrysalids waiting to zombify and turn you into one of them.