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banananor 03/24/19 11:18:23 PM #30:	#56: XCOM: Enemy Unknown Grid turn-based strategy games suck. I'd rather write a program to play these games for me. They're tedious. I know it can be satisfying to have your strategies be proven effective, but why go through all the rigimarole of clicking 500 times to see if they are? Anyway, now that I have that out of my system, XCOM: Enemy Unknown doesn't even have characters. Don't give me any of that garbage about 'writing your own story' with mute chess pieces. The actual story of this game is that aliens are attacking earth, and you scramble to form a defense using small squads of soldiers. You build a bunch of defense structures as instructed and lose the game. Then you start over, build zero defense structures, and instead build all of the economy satellites. Then your soldiers develop psychic powers and shoot all of the aliens in the head. The end. Back to strategies, the strategy is to stay behind cover, focus fire and abuse the best perks of your classes. I'll admit, it's kind of fun to have your sniper get 6 kills in one turn, or for a pair of your shotgunners to run up and multiblast a massive alien in the face, or to land a sweet grenade, or to get the jump on a flying psychic asshole. So that's where the joy is. But I'm cynical about it- that's just how turn-based games are. Turn-based games are fun to win. My friend plays this and the sequels on ironman/hardcore/whatever it is called, so I guess not everybody save-scums, but I absolutely do not approve of games that will throw out 20 hours of progress if you are imperfect and refuse to save scum. Letting a new player limp along in a doomed journey is somehow worse than flashing the game over screen to me. Production values are good, I'm just biased against the genre and do not like the story. We're slowly crawling out of the boring titles and into the ones that are worth getting frustrated over. --- You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured. <cite>banananor posted [p:919469848] in banananor ... [t:77570109]...</cite> <quote>#56: XCOM: Enemy Unknown Grid turn-based strategy games suck. I'd rather write a program to play these games for me. They're tedious. I know it can be satisfying to have your strategies be proven effective, but why go through all the rigimarole of clicking 500 times to see if they are? Anyway, now that I have that out of my system, XCOM: Enemy Unknown doesn't even have characters. Don't give me any of that garbage about 'writing your own story' with mute chess pieces. The actual story of this game is that aliens are attacking earth, and you scramble to form a defense using small squads of soldiers. You build a bunch of defense structures as instructed and lose the game. Then you start over, build zero defense structures, and instead build all of the economy satellites. Then your soldiers develop psychic powers and shoot all of the aliens in the head. The end. Back to strategies, the strategy is to stay behind cover, focus fire and abuse the best perks of your classes. I'll admit, it's kind of fun to have your sniper get 6 kills in one turn, or for a pair of your shotgunners to run up and multiblast a massive alien in the face, or to land a sweet grenade, or to get the jump on a flying psychic asshole. So that's where the joy is. But I'm cynical about it- that's just how turn-based games are. Turn-based games are fun to win. My friend plays this and the sequels on ironman/hardcore/whatever it is called, so I guess not everybody save-scums, but I absolutely do not approve of games that will throw out 20 hours of progress if you are imperfect and refuse to save scum. Letting a new player limp along in a doomed journey is somehow worse than flashing the game over screen to me. Production values are good, I'm just biased against the genre and do not like the story. We're slowly crawling out of the boring titles and into the ones that are worth getting frustrated over. --- You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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