2k hours of my life were sunk into this game, Long War makes this game the best time sink! Recently got a Vita, and been having a blast playing XCOM on my rides to University. Definently one of my most favourite games of all time.
I am about to dive in X-Com EU and i am a lot about the modding community, but i will give it a raw go first i think. I like time sinks, i like tactics, somehow i tried the pirate versions of the game and it didn't clicked. Going to try again now.
To explain it as best I can. The day changes too much, the year changes to little. When filing stuff, the month and the year are the most important things. Think of it like a library system, where you have an alphabetical system. Only this time there are 12 letters. You put the year last, because grouping by year is a thing, and you need to be able to see it easily. The year is important but it also barely ever changes. So then month is first, so you can easily segment the year into 12 groups. Then you put the day, so you can fine tune your month documents order. Basically, when you're looking at files, the first thing you do, is look at the month. If it's not the number you're looking for, you can immediately stop looking at it. It let's you eliminate 11 of the 12 options right away. Then you can move on to the date, and odds are the year will probably be what you expect it to be.
Great review you manged to convince me to give this game a shot once I see it go on sale again! I've also been skimming through your channel after I saw your Dragon Age 2 review which was amazing and hope to see Inquisition review at some point.
Enemy Unknown introduced the LARGEST GOLDMINE game genre for ALL potential franchises in the history of gaming! Then they killed X-Com with Chimera Squad so bad, they don't even deserve to come back! EVER! Now it's time for other franchises to take up the Enemy Unknown and Bureau Declassified formulas to make games! Aliens: Dark Descent is a promising upcoming candidate!
Excellent game. Missed two 99% shots in a row. Never touched it again. Great video. I`m seeing a lot of improvement here, especially on the comedic timing.
That's X-Com Baby! But you guys are spoiled, in original X-Com that shot would miss the alien, fly halfway across the map, through two windows, and headshot your Colonel. There were reasons sometimes all you handed a rookie were a pistol and a stun rod...😅
2:44 and so in response to these issues, they made the graphics in the sequel as high end as currently possible making it near impossible to run on most things.
I think you can start with Enemy Within, as it has everything in the base game with all the expansion improvements. You won't miss anything really by skipping Enemy Unknown.
Did exalt exist as a faction in older games? Makes me wonder if one of the narrative designers didn’t read the OG “Three Body Problem” as they’re basically the ETO.
I played it once, beated it losing only 1 guy, tried the hardest difficulty in ironman, and lost the save due to corruption :') at the end, I still would rather play the original over this one
Hi, If you want to see more reviews I've done, here's a playlist th-cam.com/play/PLtiuHW2Sjl_7-g6kcP64unhSdqBSYDtya.html
97% chance to hit = 3% chance to lose a soldier
Normal FE experience
2k hours of my life were sunk into this game, Long War makes this game the best time sink! Recently got a Vita, and been having a blast playing XCOM on my rides to University. Definently one of my most favourite games of all time.
I am about to dive in X-Com EU and i am a lot about the modding community, but i will give it a raw go first i think. I like time sinks, i like tactics, somehow i tried the pirate versions of the game and it didn't clicked. Going to try again now.
To explain it as best I can. The day changes too much, the year changes to little.
When filing stuff, the month and the year are the most important things. Think of it like a library system, where you have an alphabetical system. Only this time there are 12 letters.
You put the year last, because grouping by year is a thing, and you need to be able to see it easily. The year is important but it also barely ever changes.
So then month is first, so you can easily segment the year into 12 groups. Then you put the day, so you can fine tune your month documents order.
Basically, when you're looking at files, the first thing you do, is look at the month. If it's not the number you're looking for, you can immediately stop looking at it. It let's you eliminate 11 of the 12 options right away. Then you can move on to the date, and odds are the year will probably be what you expect it to be.
Minor spelling mistake
Great review you manged to convince me to give this game a shot once I see it go on sale again! I've also been skimming through your channel after I saw your Dragon Age 2 review which was amazing and hope to see Inquisition review at some point.
Thanks :) I'm eventually going to get to Inquisition.
I have spent a very unhealthy amount of hours playing this game
Damn, I was remembering Deus Ex while listening to the music too. That explains it.
Enemy Unknown introduced the LARGEST GOLDMINE game genre for ALL potential franchises in the history of gaming!
Then they killed X-Com with Chimera Squad so bad, they don't even deserve to come back! EVER!
Now it's time for other franchises to take up the Enemy Unknown and Bureau Declassified formulas to make games! Aliens: Dark Descent is a promising upcoming candidate!
just beat a game on long war rebalance on easy and that shit was harder than college
Man!!!! I love this game. I played it on PS3, PS4, PC and even Android OS on my phone. Brilliant video. Cheers
I love this game. The mood and gameplay is just a killer mix. Such a gem ❤
I really don't know why you're not on 1000 likes/video by now tbh
Excellent game. Missed two 99% shots in a row. Never touched it again.
Great video. I`m seeing a lot of improvement here, especially on the comedic timing.
That's X-Com Baby! But you guys are spoiled, in original X-Com that shot would miss the alien, fly halfway across the map, through two windows, and headshot your Colonel. There were reasons sometimes all you handed a rookie were a pistol and a stun rod...😅
@@nikaszekeval6850 You were lucky, all my rookies got was a glass bottle. Tell that to kids today and they wouldn't believe you.
Long war. Long war makes it so good. There, saved you 20 min.
Though at times the devs seem just straight up sadistic.
Long war rebalanced*
2:44 and so in response to these issues, they made the graphics in the sequel as high end as currently possible making it near impossible to run on most things.
HUH HAH
absolutely nothing!
say it again
Funny that you mentioned Gears of War because they did make a Gears of War style Xcom game called Gears Tactics
I'll add it to my list.
Absolute stellar review, though im surprised that you havent got that many views.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. I'll get there one day maybe with the views lol.
Great review. And you only have 1,140 subs. Crazy.
12:28 we all have one of those lol
would be great if they ported this onto the switch too :(
01:48 Professional Russian sighting.
Great review, just got a question wich game to play first E.w. or E.u.?
I think you can start with Enemy Within, as it has everything in the base game with all the expansion improvements. You won't miss anything really by skipping Enemy Unknown.
@@InfoGuyGaming its such a strange way to do DLC imo, i was soo confused on where to start.
Good review
nice video of a micro management simulator i HATED! X D i subbed
Yeah, it's not for everyone but glad you found the vid entertaining. :)
Do you live in South Africa?
Yes
Did exalt exist as a faction in older games?
Makes me wonder if one of the narrative designers didn’t read the OG “Three Body Problem” as they’re basically the ETO.
I played it once, beated it losing only 1 guy, tried the hardest difficulty in ironman, and lost the save due to corruption :') at the end, I still would rather play the original over this one
2:21 what’s this video?
Firaxis doing the Harlem Shake
hold up what dlcs do you have lol i dont remeber making my characters look like power rangers
Think it's the elite solder pack DLC that has the extra bit of customization.
@@InfoGuyGaming what dlc is the genetic mods and new enemies? I think I just have second wave
@@NotDuckRBLXEnemy Within DLC
@@InfoGuyGaming ty
Are you going to do a review on XCOM 2?
Eventually going to get to XCOM 2. :)
Geoscape in XCOM EW is way better than in XCOM 2
And now the game plays great on modern phones.
Only complaint is that I haven’t figured out how to aim explosives in the air
15:50 and it’s cool that the base you built turns into a battle map
Its not, lol. Its literally a worse version of the original, which is saying something.