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Great article, and a very fair review of a wonderful game with very sharp edges. I will say, the best part of the Firaxis reboot of X-Com is that it perfectly
by burlesona 6y ago
Great article, and a very fair review of a wonderful game with very sharp edges.
I will say, the best part of the Firaxis reboot of X-Com is that it perfectly captured the fun that I _remembered_ from the original game. It captured this so well that I remember thinking it was literally the same game with new graphics.
Then I went back and replayed the original... and remembered how hard and clunky it actually was :)
But still one of my all time favorites, along with another Microprose title of the same era, Master of Orion.
- jraedisch 6y agoI did not play the original Master of Orion, but absolutely loved the second part. I started focussing on science (namely Psilons) and only later developed a taste for trying out other strategies/races. I often played multiplayer with friends too, and really liked the laid back atmosphere enabled by turn based strategy.
- eru 6y agoPlease go ahead and play the first Master of Orion. It's by far my favourite of the pair. (Make sure you get the latest community patches.) The genius of the first MoO was that it really paired down the tedious busy work. And the tech system works a charm, it's cleverly randomised in a way that's not really possible with the more prevalent DAG based tech trees.
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y agoI once played a multiplayer game in MOO2 with a couple of friends. I went for industry, my one friend went for science, and another wiped the floor with us with his low-tech rock eating silicoids who mated at an insane speeds and colonized every shitty planet and had a huge output everywhere.