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I like the XCOM series, but it doesn't like me. I started with 2, and trying to go back and play Enemy Unknown is pretty rough. The big looming doomsday countdown in 2 is too stressful for me, so I have to disable it with a mod. I get very attached to my soldiers (and I hate waiting for their injuries to heal), so I save scum 24/7. It's because of all of these things that I prefer Chimera Squad. It's a much more laid-back and casual experience. A lot of the complexity is stripped away, and that's perfect for a smooth-brain like myself. I also like each agent's personality, and the concept of humans & aliens trying to get along after the war is really interesting (and sometimes even funny). Quick shoutout to Marvel's Midnight Suns, my favorite Firaxis game. Oh how I wish it got an expansion...

Nice video. The editing and in-game cutscene clips add a lot to the vibe. Ratchet and Clank was one of my favorite games to play Sly 2 takes top spot. In my opinion, the story is unmatched. For your own fun another underappreciated action platformer for the PS2 is Scaler: The Shapeshifting Chameleon, I wouldn't recommend making a video for it though. I found the channel through the XCOM video. Personally, i am waiting for Terra Invicta for more alien fun.

those who are talking about the ending of xcom 2 reminder that. the whole team got sacked and the new new properly going to start from the beginning again with their own spin on it

was laser squad spectrum considered xcom like? and Laser Squad Nemisis a much better version of the email that email game.. enforcer is the only game I've never played

I'm replaying xcom2 after xcom all over again. It was great finding this. Hi from Argentina!

the best part of xcom 2 war of the chosen was it was the first star trek TNG cast return until (ugh) picard

The first game is one of those rare situations where executive meddling paid off - originally it was just the turn-based battles, following on from the previous Rebelstar games. The geoscape side of things was added at the request of management for more depth

sadly xcom 3 is not in development, that sucks

Recently bought the war of the chosen and playing through it and I am very happy with everything... the upscale of difficulty involved is so nice

xcom3 no está en desarrollo. firaxix se a roto y muchos de sus trabajadores despedidos, y otros con el juego de marvel... asi que xcom3 a no ser que lo saque otra empresa... no se creará

I rly liked The Bureau. Played it through like 3 times.

I started with the OG DOS X-COM game. I've played all of them since (except for Chimera Squad, fuck that garbage), and the old DOS versions are still my favorite. I like the first Firaxis XCOM, and I hated what they did with XCOM 2.

Ridiculously underrated. SIX VIEWS?! For this level of content? Honestly unacceptable. I really hope you're able to get more popular than this later on.

Sly 2 and Ratchet & Clank: Up your Arsenal for me. I consider Jak and Daxter one of my childhood OGs too, but I never really got to play til much later.

Absolutely The Jak and Daxter series was definitely my favorite too I even liked Jak X I prefer to act as though Lost Frontier never existed

The Offical Playstation Magazine Demo Discs.

My huge hook up for games were when i watched my older sister playing games and one stood up, it was Klonoa at PS1 At those times i didnt really understand english when i was that little but i was invested to the story what i could just see in front of me I sat near my sister while listening amazing soundtrack what i always remembered all these years When she 100% completed Klonoa, at ending, we just cried, you understand situation that is going on in front of you over 20+ years later, at 2022, Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series was released on steam and I was glad that they didnt go Wii version of the game and kept old voice lines from PS1 era, yea graphics are not as charming like they were 20+ years ago but i remembered all the levels, all songs and end of it all at the end I still cried at the end, I can recommend it but it might not be for everyone but if you are willing to give a underdog platformer a chance, In my opinion, it is worth it

Jak and dexter is such a fun game, I’ve played and finished all of them multiple times, I loved the characters the settings and the game mechanics! And the vehicles, especially their designs really stuck with me.

I own these games on PS2, PS3 and PS4. If they're available on PS5 I'll probably get them again once I have one. I always find myself coming back to the franchise and part of me still wishes that ND would give us one last hurrah, a swan song to close out the franchise in a better way than The Lost Frontier did. I do maintain that if ND had continued working on TLF it would have been better though.

Probaby had to be either Spyro and Lego star wars or Pokemon Emerald for DS lite. They were goated.

Do you have a source for XCOM 3 being in development?

im here thinking of Donkey Kong Country 2, and you think youre old? I had a NES with duck hunt...

I was never a fan of the original spyro or the first jak and daxter. I loved all 3 jaks after the first and all of the legend of spyro games. I also played ratchet and clank. basically as a kid I had the ps2 gaming trifecta.

I agree with the other commenters, that there's an instinct to say your first game, but then might be something more recent. I play so many games it feels hard to genuinely put one above the other. My first ever console game, was Kingdom Hearts, and its hard to pick a game better than that. But in the same boat as that came Pokemon, and Crash Bandicoot, which were all franchises I got into around the same time. If I have to pick one of my favorite games of all time now, it'd be hard not to say one of those. Because I'm not a completionist, it might be Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time. I'm so grateful we got one more Crash game out of the vault after I thought the series would be dead forever. Its the first mainline Crash game to have a legit cohesive story with cutscenes. Incredible level design. And more additional features than ever before. I truly loved it.

I fucking LOVE Jak and Daxter

Ratchet and clank 3 was my favourite game and i still think its excellent

toy story 2 on ps1 its still a solid platformer. christmas of 99, my journey into gaming began at 5, was the first game i actually took seriously and beat.

Donkey Kong 64 is my first game that I’d play all day

While Ratchet is my favorite platformer from that era, I loved the Jak games as well. I'm still debating on whether or not Jak 2 is my favorite of series. Cons: Punishing checkpoints (fuck that turret mission on hero mode), 50% of the time is driving from mission to mission and boy is dark Jak useless lol. Pros: unlike Ratchet, Jak's guns work well with his moveset and is surprisingly fine without strafing, I like the unexpected direction Jak 2 took which in turn made me more interested in the new world, new characters and the story (I can see how The Last of Us came from taking risks like these) and Jetboard, nuff said.

Really good video and really shines a light in how one thinks of their favorite game. I too, have the Mega Man Battle Network series pop in my head every time that question comes up, before I think more about "how actually good" games I played are, and my answer ends up being Terraria, more likely than not. Both are games I also yearn to share with others due to the sheer enjoyment they've given me over the years and wanting to experience that with someone else, but for very different reasons. I feel as though Terraria for me is a game with near infinite replayability, but the game I can see myself playing forever, and always come back to at some point, is Mega Man Battle Network 6 (my first of the series, before playing backwards).

The early 2000s have a ton of great games.

Hard to pick just one. Halo? Super Smash? Ocarina of Time? 😭

Great video

Emm.. i sees no likes and comments so.. here have one.

I wish you'd brought up how the fan community is keeping the original '94 X-COM alive via the OpenXcom system. Basically it's a loader that you need the files from the original game for (thus you need to buy it from Steam or GOG), but runs on modern systems at higher resolutions. It includes a lot of QoL improvements (like showing you how much TU your units will have after a move, showing odds of hits when you hover over enemies, and such), and the ability to use community-created mod packs that change the game, sometimes in very surprising ways. It's a really neat way that a 30 year old game has remained relevant and still challenging to this day, along with including things that Julian Gollop couldn't even have thought of back in the crunch to get the original game out the door.

i hate killing aliens they are just like humans in many ways they feel pain and have feelings

Xcom is great and for now after replaying x2 I went to Phoenix Point for some more of the vibes. (And funny enough it's fitting that it is about fighting abominations from underwater :P )

Just started xcom 2 and the Ender's Game vibes are strong. I understand this is supposed to be explaining the retcon about the aliens winning but once you introduce simulation theory to your story you can never be sure you're out of the simulation. If they do xcom 3 they should lean into this. The big bad for xcom that the aliens are trying to prepare the humans for is the arrival of artificial intelligence. Ironically, this artificial intelligence would be a byproduct of the aliens and xcom plugging everyone into a network.

I hope the new one is more like Xcom Enemy Unknown and Xcom 2 I think Chimera was a tuber. It was obviously a one off to keep people off them. Like the video says, the addition of converted aliens is a good touch but the deployment and resource management is not as good. It would be cool to see one more like the one they pitched for Alien Unknown. (AND PLEASE NO SWEET BABY INC) th-cam.com/video/h1QnIfsSKYA/w-d-xo.html

12:06 why is that timer in minutes and not turns?

1:18 it’s always been 1999? Really?

XCOM is one of the best games i ever played! i love it so much that every 9-12 months i play it again. XCOM 2 graphics and gameplay are better than the original (obviously because its a sequel) but the atmosphere in Enemy unknown is so much better. give me the XCOM Enemy Within but with gameplay of XCOM 2 and graphics from 2024

I played xcom1/2 on PC in 1994 back then. Now I fixed weird accuracy mechanics in OpenXCom and made the ultimate game of my dreams. I can't tolerate shitty accuracy algorithm from original game anymore. My mod is called "Realistic Accuracy" and distributed with Brutal AI version of the game. If someone interested - you could search youtube for "openxcom realistic accuracy"

There's no Xcom 3 in development... what are you talking about?

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openxcom with mods like "the Xcom files" and "The World of (Terrifying) Silence" are MUCH superior tactical-strategy games. new xcoms are rock-paper-scissor type games with stupid trigger mechanisms. it's super dumbed down gameplay. bring back action points/time units. IMHO ufo afterlight, and aftershock are great too and in spirit of original xcoms. OG xcom3 (apocalypse) was great too, especially with gangs and city diplomacy mechanics; also that futuristic art deco style was something!

The franchise lost its character with each sequel. It became XCOM - Power Rangers edition with Fortnite graphics. No sense of realism or sci-fi horror whatsoever with graphics aimed at 12 yr olds. XCOM missed the whole point of why UFO: Enemy Unknown was so good.

I startet with UFO and TFTD, but stopped at Apocalypse. I agree that Xcom Enemy unknown is a great sucessor to UFO and XCom 2 is great, too. I think Xcom 3 will be most likely a new version of TFTD if you consider the ending of 2.

I played original X-COM on Amiga. Today I'm still happily burning hundreds of hours playing those massive mods for Open X-COM Extended engine.

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