Mine was a main plot mission(can't remember which one) i had the best of all my classes. Every thing went well until i entered a room. 4 mechs with 2 drones each. Half a dozen beserkers and muttons. 5 cyber disk. Within one single turn my entire team save for my sniper was killed. My sniper was on higher ground and managed to somehow oneshot a mech. The beserkers rushed me. Forcing me to have her fall back
So i had her fall back. The berserkers lost her. I the. Proceeded to spend almost 2 hours moving like a snail at the edge of the fog of war . after nearly 3 hours i managed to kill all of them
That's because the cannon story is the impossible ironman mode. And NO, it is NOT easy. You can even see the stats and only a few actualy beat the game on such difficulty.
Picking up weapon is actually explained, the Aliens' weapons self destruct when the operator dies. However if you capture the Alien instead of killing them you get their weapons. I actually like that decision since otherwise you are going to have way too much plasma weapons that you would never have to build any other than for sniper and heavy. However I entirely agree on the extra equipment slots.
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Maybe it's good for the next game But seeing the kind of shit games we have where no tactical thinking is needed at all it had to be dumbed down (just beat the game on Ironman Impossible, Second wave everything enabled)
***** ...I think you're still allowed to do that. Try stunning a bad guy, then picking up his gun. I believe the research page for the Plasma weapons mention that you can pick up the guns somehow.
...Hmm. Don't EXALT carry weapons that don't self destruct? And those are MADE for your use, in fact, you can use them with no modification. It's a small thing, though, seeing as I never found myself saying "Gee, I wish I could pick up this guy's gun."
@@victuz ...Yes. Yes they do. As you can tell from my first comment having a broken mention, half the previous conversation up and left in the past SEVEN YEARS since I had it, so you're missing context.
My favorite story from my XCOM 1 playthrough was when I was going through an enemy base and all of my soldiers were being wrecked by chrisalids. It was down to my last sniper whom had 3 chrisalids next to him in point blank range and two within one turn attacking distance. This sniper had just earned the perk which grants another action when you kill something, and this lone sniper in the face of seeing all of his comrades die, and in the face of these giant spider creatures encroaching upon him, lifted his rifle and mowed them down, one by one until the only living thing left was him. He proceeded to push through, clear the base, and be the lone survivor of the mission. I will always remember you 'Zero'. You were the hero.
+Samuel James Dude, listen to this. I had a 95% chance to hit...missed. I used my next soldier to Run and Gun up to within 2 tiles of the same enemy...90% chance to hit. Miss. I'm sure you know what happened next.
TheGreatRakatan XCOM 2 and fallout 4 coming out in the same month, I might as well break up with my girlfriend and tell all my fiends to fuck off right now.
We only really see them for the biggest games now but 2010-2015 was a good year for AJS reviews with Rome 2, Bioshock, Civ V, Destiny, Witcher 3, No mans sky, GTA V, ESO, EA battlefront, Aliens colonial marines, Destiny 2, Skyrim... that's not even half of them but so many entertaining videos worth revisiting if it's been long enough since you last watched if you ever did.
One thing that always bugged me when starting a new game is that the soldiers.....the fucking soldiers.... WHEN ALL OF THE WORLD HAVE PUT ASIDE THERE DIFFERENCES TO CREATE THE XCOM PORJECT YA THINK THEY WILL AT LEAST GIVE YOU LIKE ONE CAPTAIN RIGHT? Nope THEY GIVE THESE DUMB ASS ROOKIES WHO CAN'T SHOOT STRAIGHT. I had a sniper with 99% hit chance miss...............
Once, I had a heavy (who was ranked a major) shoot at a Chryssalid that was out in the open THREE FEET IN FRONT OF HIM and miss. How do you miss a giant insect at Point-blank range when it's just sitting there in the open?
they ARE the best of the best,by world standards.But are untested against threats from outside the world,hence sometimes perform oddly in combat.With that said,compared to the"outgunned"conventional military of the world, XCOM's specialized units(They were mentioned as Special Forces soldier in the trailer,who have probably underwent the best training by conventional standards),even the "rookies"have a better chance of actually engaging the aliens effectively as opposed to conventional military forces.BUT i do get PISSED OF when my guy/girl misses on a 99% pointblank range or a shot at a target on the open.
Easily one of the best games in a decade. Easily, especially considering Enemy Within. Polished as FUCK, production and replay value are out of this world. Music and ambience sounds 9/10. It can be brutally hard and unforgiving, but it is addictive as hell. Simply a stunning title.
Eduardo Freitas oh god; a virgin. Look up xcom: war within by beaglerush. But to sum up. Thank of the hardest difficulty of xcom...multiply it by 10. This is the *easiest* difficulty on long war. Any higher diffuculties just add 5. Impossible is assrape. Ironman impossible is assrape after you done dropped the soap and everyone in the shower is fucking every one of your holes. Long war is attrition; _be prepared._
Eduardo Freitas it a free mod for xcom that basically a free expansion pack and the mod is good thatthe point were the people who created the game let the moders create a long war 2 on xcom 2. Also just know that this game will show how merciless r and g be
Only Impossible is hard due to the extra HP early game, but Classic are quite easy if making proper tactical decisions. I think only first month of Impossible Ironman is off balance in this game, since there is a lot of luck involved on I/I that no sound tactical decision can make up for, and of course once you get to 2nd or 3rd month on I/I, the difficulty takes a plunge.
Try The Long War mod for X Com. Awesome. Freaking awesome. So awesome X Coms creator said the normal X COm is just a 20 hour tutorial for Long War, and it probably influenced a lot of stuff in the new X Com 2, including mod availability
Wait, xcom is a 20 hour game? I'm ten hours in and I swear I'm not even that far yet. Must be because I replay missions that go fubar. I'm a bad sport.
Patrick Murphy Haha it took me longer too, but i guess its an average length. Im too a bit of a perfectionist and cant handle loosing some important guy in a mission, so i was reloading missions too like a lil bitch
I know this is an old video, but Joe do you know now you have more viewers and fans than almost every single TV show that airs here in the UK?. Every show has a base of 4 million average lol. You are more famous than most TV presenters in Europe. That's crazy.
I was a heavy, my brother was a sniper, and my best friend was a support. I managed to beat the game with all three of us alive. Its still my greatest achievement as a gamer.
I had never played XCOM prior to this game, and I can tell you this game is absolutely fantastic. This game is so deep and engaging and I say that as someone who isn't often interested in turn-based squad-based strategy games. I really recommend it. 46/10 would let earth be glassed again
Well, I might add though... - Pure Enemy Unknown is relatively good. - Enemy Within is really good. - Enemy Within with Long War Mod, *_THAT is the thing I freakin' LOVE._*
Nick Thompson I love this game, but god fucking damn it, why is it possible to shoot through walls?! I hate that, and its not like I'm shooting through cardboard boxes, nooo, I'm shooting with rifles through thick alien spaceship walls, like 5 meters thick, with angulation and all, why didn't they fix this?
Dan 123 We can worry about wall shooting when they fix the bugs. I had a crew of colonels and then a council request came in the same time as a new gene mod, and now, I am back to square one.
Ok so I just made a long ass comment below replying to someone, but this game is just so good and I want people to have a chance to enjoy it in Classic at least so I'll just give a few pointers that might help you out. These are for Classic difficulty: 1. The fastest way to LOSE at XCOM:EU and EW is to follow the stupid fucking tutorial. You should never, EVER, move your soldier carelessly to the front without making sure that you are able to cover that soldier. i.e: NEVER RUSH a soldier to a position where it can no longer move when there is no other soldier with available turns. Dashing is not bad, but it is an incredibly risky movement because it can leave your soldier(s) immediately flanked and fucked. It's best to constantly be in Overwatch. Use at your own discretion. 2. The first mission can be replayed regardless of Ironman setting (just dont enable tutorial...) So ALWAYS make sure you complete the first mission with all soldiers alive. Preferably make a kill with all of them so they all earn a rank. You will most probably get all 4 classes after that. 3. CHECK your base layout as soon as you are able! You are going to want free space in the two rows where you first satellite uplink is already built. Why? Because this will maximize the output of all of them for you to have enough to cover for the entire world. If there is a steam in ANY space of those two rows then you are fucked. Restart and repeat. 4. PRIORITY SCHMIORITY! Ignore everything that has to do with the main storyline like the Alien Capture and containment. FUCK IT! Your efforts for the first 2 1/2 months will be to get as many engineers as you can. Don't save on anything! spend your entire budget! Sell bodies! materials! Don't be afraid to be without cash! Spend it on getting engineers by doing missions AND by building workshops! Which will require power, so build build build! Of course you will be juggling with world panic and such, so you won't be able to get engineers during every mission. But if you play your cards right and carefully then by the end of the third month you will have 90% of the world with satellite coverage! :D 5, Unless you start in South America, my recommendation for first research is always Weapon Fragments to get Beam Weapons quickly! This is because the first terror mission arrives around the end of the second or halfway the third month and it can be a real pain in the ass if you are not doing increased damage by this point. You could also go for the armor first but Cryssalids will still rape you... soooo... yeah. In SouthAmerica it's best to go for Xenobiology, since autopsies and interrogation grant research bonuses that can be exploited on the go if played right. Lastly 6. Survive your missions! Never let yourself be flanked or near flanked. Cover always for your soldiers and never leave one far behind or move one far up front. Be mindful and always have a fall-back line if your find yourself in a difficult position (one time I had to face against 4 Sectopods and 8 drones AT ONCE) If you lose a mission it will be hard to recover, specially if you lose high ranking soldiers! So if that happens consider that you may lost a country or two. Have fun people.
11:30 Angry Joe.... *Looks over carnage at the base defense in Xcom Enemy Within.* You...*Gets on knees.* got..... your....*Falls to the ground.* wish.......
And that's why we research armor and lasers first, and everything else second. One of my early games, I got Titan Armor early on by getting an insane amount of scientists, and then I got laser guns. Nothing could touch me. I had a heavy who downed 3 Cyberdiscs alone, and an assault who thrashed a Mechtoid in one turn.
Talk about getting to the party late...just now discovered Xcom in 8/12/2021...played for 72 hours straight no sleep ,matter of fact , took a break just to check out this video :)
me and a bunch of other buddies watched another friend play this game and all of the characters after each other and other friends. RIP Black Justice, 10 kills and 2 missions in. We always saved throughout the game so that if any of the characters died we would go back to that save point. My friend Lindsey was an exception though. He would always get the shittiest armor and weapon and be sent out front. His death mattered not. Surprisingly though, we only made it to Lindsey the 5th by the end of the game.
If you liked playing this game, try the EXELLENT mod for it called Xcom The Long War. As the name implies, this is a looooong fight. Starting squadsize is 6, you got tonnes of gear options (smoke grenade, flashbang, laser sight, anti-pers grenade, medkit, battle scanner, ceramic plate (nanofiber-vest equivalent), extra ammo mags and alien trophy (immunity to panic) are all avaleble in infinite supply right at the start. Weapon types now include pistols, machine pistols, sawed of shotgun, SMGs, carbines, assault rifels, battle rifles, sniper rifles, marksnam rifles (lighter sniper rifle that can shoot after moving), shotguns, LMGs (have 9 ammo and can't shoot after a move), SAWs (Lighter LMG), and upgradable rocket launchers. Loads of more research projects, tonnes of more foundry projects, officer promotion system, completely re-worked psionic ability system, completely reworked class system (now 8 classes and they have 3 skills to pick from on every level exept the first), 8 MEC-trooper classes (1 for each base class), massively improved SHIVS (lot motre versatile nbow and can equip gear). The airgame is VASTLY improved, and significantly harder. Even the first scout can seriously dent your aircraft (and you can just forget about engaging large UFOs untill WAY leter). Now every alien mission is an UFO flying to somewhear and doing it's thing, the airgame has now become "fuck up the alines plans" rather then only being for defending your sattelites (they still hunt your sats though). You need sats to detect UFOs on missions, but you will ofc always see their attacks on humans once it has begun (though you CAN shoot down the UFO or force it to retrteat and stop the terror attack that way). Alines now do resourse collection and research of their own. Stats on enemies are no longer static. This means that it is possible to encounter 12 hp squadsight thin men, berserkers with jumpy legs gene mods, mectoids with 30+ hp, 5 damage reduction and self repair, floaters with covering fire etc. There is a LOT more they changed (like the base defence), to much for me to write here. go check out the Long War on ufopedia yourselves :)
Also, I forgot to mention that weapons now come in 5 tiers. Basic ballistics, beam lasers, gauss (mini,railgun tech with alloy ammo), pulse lasers and plasma. Also, every plasma weapon now requires a captured aline weapon to construct (plus 1 or more alien weapons to do the research). You can also get council requests for living aline captives after you have interrogated that spiecis (and interrogations now require the autopsy to be made first, but also gives more)
My laptop is not a gaming laptop so even the normal version of XCOM (best game ever) is slow and awkward for me. I'd love to download the mod but I'm not sure my laptop can handle it.
They should make a second one about after the aliens invade, and we have the technology to go into space, but they are about to invade again. Kind of like Ender's Game.
blusgaming picks Yea, they did that in the old games.. i wonder if they will remake the naval variant and space variant games again :D I recently played terror of the deep.. and protected Antarctica.. haha..
It was this game, and this review that brought me to this channel many years back. It’s one of the first gaming channels I subscribed too. I like to come back to it now and again. It’s like a warm hug that I can fall asleep in. I love how all these years later, these vids are different but the same. Never change Joe you glorious bastard.
I just got this game on PC 3 days ago. What can I say? I just finished playing. And ive come here to say 'Sorry, I didn't buy this game when I actually saw this review last year.'
Had such a good time with this one. Ported over a habit from original XCOM: I liked to give my guys callsigns based on stuff they did or things I said to myself while playing. Rookie alone in a room with two aliens, "Uh-oh, I'm behind the eight ball now...." but he lived, and Eight-Ball joined Gargoyle, Bozo, Law-Dog, Knock-Knock, Ruckus, Bigfoot, Shakespeare, and a long cast of others. Losing a soldier had a surprising amount of meaning, beyond having to replace an experienced operative.
Rain Maker Question, I got the game a week ago and I have one question, is it all right to lose countries? I lost argentina and Brazil a day ago and I don't what the consequences are for it and how to prevent me from losing more countries because I usually can only choose one countries out of three to save.
Bought this game from the Steam summer sale for like 5€ if i remember correctly, probably the best purchase i have ever done. Played the game like 2 days at row almost. Started with normal mode, was too difficult. So restarted on easy mode, and it was still difficult, in the beginning, later it got better. I totaly underestimated the Overwatch ability...didn't use it in the beginning at all lol. Oh, and one more thing, i hate those "¤%#%#¤ spider aliens! :D
this is my all-time favourite review by Joe, not just because of the top-notch production like costumes and hilarious scenarios present in the review, but also this is one of the few times where joe outright motivated me to buy the game and subsequently to introduced me to what is now my favorite gaming franchise in the strategy genre.
I remember when i named my best friend as my heavy and I had him shoot a rocket, except that the trajectory was awkward, and without any warning of friendly fire, he ended killing the soldier named after me
i cried when miss strapon died cause she used to hand out the D so well she was my first captain and will forever be on my hall of fame she ones fought a war so bad with 2 rooks and a mid level warrior against a big barrage of aliens the rooks died quick and painless the warrior got injured panicked died in the 9 turn 4 after the rooks miss strapon was all alone on a important mission that i needed or else suffer big losses like my 3rd best country and the high level soldier i got with it against a army she stayed shot flanked for 20 turns she fought until she got lucky and the alien decided to snuggle next to each other then the grenade of god was unleashed and it got a triple kill she knew it was all sunshine from there as she reloaded her gun equipped run and gun and dashed towards the enemy she finally won . . .the memories THE FEELS are real oh so real she will be missed rip miss strapon (19-04-13/02-05-13) you served your planet well just felt like sharing my war story of miss strapon
I would like to point out that the Enemy Within expansion makes this game ten times better. You use this substance called Meld to turn your soldiers into MEC's or give them genetic modifications to counter the advancements of the aliens. You also have the threat of a counter-organization called EXALT as well as an all-out assault on your base! It is one of the best games EVER! :)
i played this on relese on xbox i was number 1 ranked pvp and then the y nurfed me by raising level of ghost and pladma shotgun and ghost armor awesome game but im mad they stopped my rape fest but as far as pve this game is wwwaaayy esier then the og
Impossible, ironman Multiple times. It's brutal in the beginning, But when you research plasma weapons it becomes a slight challenge only. That is... If you actually make it to that point.
Impossible is a great challenge in the first half, but it gets a little easy once you have six colonels and plasma weapons. The key is thinking more flexibly in your tactics. Draw them out, send soldiers far to the sides to flank them without getting shot, actually use the fog to your advantage, and use grenades to create flanking positions, think outside the box. If you're not in a position where flanking is viable, move the battle somewhere else.
This is one of those games where is has a massive mountain of problems, but you notice none of them because it's so beyond awesome that it over-shadows it.
Got this game after watching your review. I'm not usually the type into strategy games but I REALLY LOVED playing it and its expansion. Thank you so much!
I'm strongly willing to bet I know a lot more geography than you do. I'm also guaranteeing that even people outside of America know very little geography. Lastly, I find it extremely funny that you would waste your time attacking America. I promise you most Americans don't care about any countries outside the U.S. regardless if we know of them. Be as jealous as you want that we can do whatever we want, but really we don't care about your crying.
Joe, you are so right! Having a co-op campaign mode would be kick-ass! Like, your allies could be stationed at different countries, you could trade tech and soldiers, you could have multiple Skyrangers and do more missions or you could combine your power for one mission. There are so many possibilities!
Ah I remember one of my first times playing Xcom. I was halfway through the game when I see one of those aliens in the mech. I lost some good soldiers that day. R.I.P Pixie.T-T
Joe you should definetly give xenonauts a look. It's really good, keeping the complexity of the original while improving what needed improvement. Its even got good airiel warfare, something none of the xcom games pulled of.
Xenonauts is brilliant in its own way. I'd still put XCOM: Enemy Unknown (and its expansion) a notch above Xenonauts, but it is a very good game nontheless.
Damn this is the hardest game i'v played recently and man do i love it. What a breath of fresh air. The amount of times i'v failed and started over is insane.
If you take this game's ending and make it canon towards XCOM 2, it could have been like this: "Wheee, we destroyed a terrifying alien fleet!! Now we're free forever!" -Winning Player "ORLY? You don't think there's more?" -Alien Bastard. *Thousands of alien fleets massacre the XCOM project* "Well, shit." - Player with dreams crushed.
You forgot one thing, Col. Joe: - Alloy Cannon, target on 5 health - Colonel, Assault class, every close quarters skill available - Point blank range, flanked - hit chance says 99% . ... ..... ... . "Adjusting sights!!!"
One of my favorite stories from my playthrough is this one mission where we intercepted a UFO and my squad of rookies went in to clear it, it was a hairy mission from the start. As they got sight of the UFO enemies flooded out of every corner, including some mutons and chrysallids. The soldiers get cut down one by one until its left to one guy and I pushed into the ship to get some cover, only for the one soldier who was killed by a chrysallid to come over. As the last soldier retreated for cover and took a shot, the zombie fell over and another white chrysallid burst out of his body, ran over to the last soldier and murdered him. It was literally like out of a horror movie and it was awesome!
Joe, you were so correct about this then...an in hindsight, you called it absolutely perfect. I'm just about to do my 5th or 6th playthrough of Enemy Within Long War - such a great game, and great review
This brings back memories. I'd have to disagree with anyone complaining about the "unlimited reloads." In the original, the main weapons you used were laser rifles and heavy plasma. The lasers had unlimited shots and never needed to be reloaded. The heavy plasmas had 35 shots and basically never needed to be reloaded. I mostly used plasma rifles in OpenXcom and even with 28 shots, I never really needed to reload. And of course the aliens dropped ammo for the guns like candy, as well as the guns themselves. I liked that EU made you "earn" the plasma weapons, either by capturing aliens or buying them yourself. The original two XCOMs did do two things better. One is stat progression. Health, TU, stamina, firing accuracy, throwing accuracy, bravery all gained from doing different things. Stats were completely independent of rank, and it kept growing the more you did those certain things. You could even brings the stats past 100. In EU, stat progression is so linear. Each colonel of the same class would have the exact same aim and it could never grow past that point. I liked the Second Wave option that let the leveling up give you randomized stats. Sure it made one of my snipers "Omega" have mediocre aim until colonel rank. Sure it made one of my assaults aim better than a lot of my snipers. Sure it turned one of my heavies "Lights Out" into Charles Xavier with his psychic powers. But that was the point. It made things interesting. I also didn't like how UFO missions became secondary to abductions. In the original, raiding UFOs was 80 percent of the game. Here, it's 3 or 4 abductions missions for each UFO mission. There's no radar detection mechanic, and the UFOs aren't really doing any missions, save for "Scout" and "Destroy Satellite." Fortunately, Long War changed all this.
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Xcom:enemy unknown
Xcom 2:enemy probably known
Xcom 3:enemy definitely known
commenter You should watch joe's interview of xcom 2. He said that xcom 3: enemy territory and where gonna eff their shit up.
i did
Subsribed to youtubers xcom4:enemy mother known and fucked
I would just like to say that i am not making fun of this game because i cant wait for xcom 2.
my only complaint is that you couldnt send multiple squads out at the same time
My best moment in Xcom was when my whole squad except for my sniper died in a large ufo mission, but my sniper took out 13 enemies and won the mission
Trigger Finger no scope 360
Trigger Finger me too but with the base defense mission
Mine was a main plot mission(can't remember which one) i had the best of all my classes. Every thing went well until i entered a room. 4 mechs with 2 drones each. Half a dozen beserkers and muttons. 5 cyber disk. Within one single turn my entire team save for my sniper was killed. My sniper was on higher ground and managed to somehow oneshot a mech. The beserkers rushed me. Forcing me to have her fall back
So i had her fall back. The berserkers lost her. I the. Proceeded to spend almost 2 hours moving like a snail at the edge of the fog of war . after nearly 3 hours i managed to kill all of them
epic
This game is easy af if you want the canon ending...... Where XCOM loses and is shut down......
LMAO , it's true, in XCOM 2 they show that XCOM:EU did lose
karankenZ does that mean I beat the game?
That's because the cannon story is the impossible ironman mode. And NO, it is NOT easy. You can even see the stats and only a few actualy beat the game on such difficulty.
Santiago The canon ending is where you lose... which means it's easy to lose and get the story ending...
Exactly, now play ironman impossible and try to win :)
12:44 - This guy was killed so hard he lost his hair.
+qwerty asdf this is the killdest guy
+qwerty asdf Maybe if he would have taken a prone instead of crouch postion he would have survived.
+qwerty asdf 4:17 ROFL haha that too
give him some milk, he'll be fine.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD GET ME OUTTA HERE
Picking up weapon is actually explained, the Aliens' weapons self destruct when the operator dies. However if you capture the Alien instead of killing them you get their weapons. I actually like that decision since otherwise you are going to have way too much plasma weapons that you would never have to build any other than for sniper and heavy.
However I entirely agree on the extra equipment slots.
Maybe it's good for the next game
But seeing the kind of shit games we have where no tactical thinking is needed at all it had to be dumbed down
(just beat the game on Ironman Impossible, Second wave everything enabled)
***** ...I think you're still allowed to do that. Try stunning a bad guy, then picking up his gun. I believe the research page for the Plasma weapons mention that you can pick up the guns somehow.
...Hmm. Don't EXALT carry weapons that don't self destruct? And those are MADE for your use, in fact, you can use them with no modification. It's a small thing, though, seeing as I never found myself saying "Gee, I wish I could pick up this guy's gun."
@@s.agentgadriel7369 EXALT use human weapons.
@@victuz ...Yes. Yes they do. As you can tell from my first comment having a broken mention, half the previous conversation up and left in the past SEVEN YEARS since I had it, so you're missing context.
My favorite story from my XCOM 1 playthrough was when I was going through an enemy base and all of my soldiers were being wrecked by chrisalids. It was down to my last sniper whom had 3 chrisalids next to him in point blank range and two within one turn attacking distance. This sniper had just earned the perk which grants another action when you kill something, and this lone sniper in the face of seeing all of his comrades die, and in the face of these giant spider creatures encroaching upon him, lifted his rifle and mowed them down, one by one until the only living thing left was him. He proceeded to push through, clear the base, and be the lone survivor of the mission. I will always remember you 'Zero'. You were the hero.
Chrisalids aren't spiders.
Very cool
Enemy is out in the open. Has a 99% chance to hit
Missed
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+Samuel James Dude, listen to this. I had a 95% chance to hit...missed. I used my next soldier to Run and Gun up to within 2 tiles of the same enemy...90% chance to hit. Miss. I'm sure you know what happened next.
+NeuroticLobster ll pray for u,pray it doesn't happen to me in xcom 2 XD
+Samuel James broke my keyboard cuz of this like week ago
***** oh shut the fuck up with that tired ass meme already
welcome to XCOM
Here after the announcement of XCOM 2.
TheGreatRakatan yay, I so want to kill some sexy Nazi lizard aliens. mwahahahahahahahah
TheGreatRakatan XCOM 2 and fallout 4 coming out in the same month, I might as well break up with my girlfriend and tell all my fiends to fuck off right now.
+Vox Nihili If you have "fiends" I would advise killing them not telling them to fuck off.
+TheGreatRakatan same
+Vox Nihili same month you say? Not anymore. :)
Joe looks so much younger here then in his Xcom 2 review. Damn, life happened.
+General Naruto Yes, he has a beard/stubble now and that is what makes him so old. He should just shave to lose those gained years.
+John Snake too true man. Everyone knows only old people have 5 o'clock shadow. What a long long long 3 years it's been.
+John Snake lol i like the sarcasm.
TIME* happened.
well he gained some weight too
8 years later and I still like the old reviews than some of the newer ones. Looking forward to more like this
We only really see them for the biggest games now but 2010-2015 was a good year for AJS reviews with Rome 2, Bioshock, Civ V, Destiny, Witcher 3, No mans sky, GTA V, ESO, EA battlefront, Aliens colonial marines, Destiny 2, Skyrim... that's not even half of them but so many entertaining videos worth revisiting if it's been long enough since you last watched if you ever did.
@@judechauhan6715so true
NOOOOOOO not in the butt please aliens!!!
Well be realistic.... then where?
being honest, i'm against any location being probed.
just a personal preference, not hating anyone else's um........... interests.......
best comment
Damn I didn't know that was ea
One thing that always bugged me when starting a new game is that the soldiers.....the fucking soldiers.... WHEN ALL OF THE WORLD HAVE PUT ASIDE THERE DIFFERENCES TO CREATE THE XCOM PORJECT YA THINK THEY WILL AT LEAST GIVE YOU LIKE ONE CAPTAIN RIGHT? Nope THEY GIVE THESE DUMB ASS ROOKIES WHO CAN'T SHOOT STRAIGHT. I had a sniper with 99% hit chance miss...............
You know whats sad these are soposed to be the best soldiers in the nations
too true
Once, I had a heavy (who was ranked a major) shoot at a Chryssalid that was out in the open THREE FEET IN FRONT OF HIM and miss. How do you miss a giant insect at Point-blank range when it's just sitting there in the open?
Sam Geuvenen Don't think too hard about it, it will break your morale.
they ARE the best of the best,by world standards.But are untested against threats from outside the world,hence sometimes perform oddly in combat.With that said,compared to the"outgunned"conventional military of the world, XCOM's specialized units(They were mentioned as Special Forces soldier in the trailer,who have probably underwent the best training by conventional standards),even the "rookies"have a better chance of actually engaging the aliens effectively as opposed to conventional military forces.BUT i do get PISSED OF when my guy/girl misses on a 99% pointblank range or a shot at a target on the open.
3:22 accurate representation of what the aliens do in this game
David Tarnawski 95% hit chance, misses
Try missing A 100% shot
Patrik Nilsen i did
Cole Pratt You can
@Cole Pratt you would think you cant. but tell that to the aliens
Easily one of the best games in a decade. Easily, especially considering Enemy Within. Polished as FUCK, production and replay value are out of this world. Music and ambience sounds 9/10. It can be brutally hard and unforgiving, but it is addictive as hell. Simply a stunning title.
The vanilla game is a good tutorial for Long War.
that's true...Long War is The true X-COM ;-)
What is Long war?
Eduardo Freitas oh god; a virgin. Look up xcom: war within by beaglerush.
But to sum up.
Thank of the hardest difficulty of xcom...multiply it by 10. This is the *easiest* difficulty on long war. Any higher diffuculties just add 5. Impossible is assrape. Ironman impossible is assrape after you done dropped the soap and everyone in the shower is fucking every one of your holes.
Long war is attrition; _be prepared._
Eduardo Freitas it a free mod for xcom that basically a free expansion pack and the mod is good thatthe point were the people who created the game let the moders create a long war 2 on xcom 2. Also just know that this game will show how merciless r and g be
awesome
funny how 15:00-16:00 is the entire plot of xcom 2 :)
lol
+Davy Boy Really?
nope, its when they invaded the xcom secret base when they were doing good progress just before the last mission
i will never touch classic or impossible mode
I can see impossible but whats the point of non classic...,
Classic is the best compromise, not easy, but not too difficult.
Funny thing is that I choose classic ironman difficulty as my first playthrough XD..
*I hated! but I loved it!*
Only Impossible is hard due to the extra HP early game, but Classic are quite easy if making proper tactical decisions.
I think only first month of Impossible Ironman is off balance in this game, since there is a lot of luck involved on I/I that no sound tactical decision can make up for, and of course once you get to 2nd or 3rd month on I/I, the difficulty takes a plunge.
01animeking i played and beat impossible after *five playthroughs*
Try The Long War mod for X Com. Awesome. Freaking awesome. So awesome X Coms creator said the normal X COm is just a 20 hour tutorial for Long War, and it probably influenced a lot of stuff in the new X Com 2, including mod availability
Wait, xcom is a 20 hour game? I'm ten hours in and I swear I'm not even that far yet.
Must be because I replay missions that go fubar.
I'm a bad sport.
Patrick Murphy
Haha it took me longer too, but i guess its an average length. Im too a bit of a perfectionist and cant handle loosing some important guy in a mission, so i was reloading missions too like a lil bitch
+Patrick Murphy took me 28 hours to beat the first time. took one of my friends more than 60.
Simón Salgueiro he was playing Long War at several times in the video
I know this is an old video, but Joe do you know now you have more viewers and fans than almost every single TV show that airs here in the UK?. Every show has a base of 4 million average lol. You are more famous than most TV presenters in Europe. That's crazy.
He's more than and average joe he's the angry joe :D
ANGRY JOE'S ARMY!
*ENLIST TO DIE NOW!*
I still find it funny that some developers don't know who he is at Game Conventions.
I love Joe, but where do you see that he has over 4 million fans? On here he has just under 2 mill subscribers.
Its actually just the same kid with an addiction to mountain dew who runs through his playlist all hours of the day every day.
I was a heavy, my brother was a sniper, and my best friend was a support. I managed to beat the game with all three of us alive. Its still my greatest achievement as a gamer.
Joe XCOM 2 is being released in November!!!!!!!!!!!
Godzilla Gaming We need to up this!
bloodfith1 We need to put up comments on all of AngryJoe's videos about XCOM 2 so he can find out and we could get him to freak out about it.
Godzilla Gaming Angry Joe knows this already....and if he doesnt its hard to miss out
+Godzilla Gaming now it's February 5th
GOD DAMMIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had never played XCOM prior to this game, and I can tell you this game is absolutely fantastic. This game is so deep and engaging and I say that as someone who isn't often interested in turn-based squad-based strategy games. I really recommend it. 46/10 would let earth be glassed again
I have a friend who fucking hates this game (he loves the original though).
... I don't understand him. I LOVE this game.
Well, I might add though...
- Pure Enemy Unknown is relatively good.
- Enemy Within is really good.
- Enemy Within with Long War Mod, *_THAT is the thing I freakin' LOVE._*
+Ani Ga Enemy within just seems too easy.
Ibney00 Well... without Long War, EU and EW really *_are_* quite easy.
Eh I guess. Impossible is somewhat hard I hear for veterans, however long wars a whole new animal.
+Ani Ga He can go suck on Xenoaughts
Joe should review x Com enemy within
Nick Thompson I love this game, but god fucking damn it, why is it possible to shoot through walls?! I hate that, and its not like I'm shooting through cardboard boxes, nooo, I'm shooting with rifles through thick alien spaceship walls, like 5 meters thick, with angulation and all, why didn't they fix this?
Enemy within is the DLC for it, it was added into his gameplay
Dan 123 It's not fixed after all this time?
Dan 123 We can worry about wall shooting when they fix the bugs. I had a crew of colonels and then a council request came in the same time as a new gene mod, and now, I am back to square one.
Axel Kusanagi Its like the devs simply stopped fixing it, take the money and run!
Ok so I just made a long ass comment below replying to someone, but this game is just so good and I want people to have a chance to enjoy it in Classic at least so I'll just give a few pointers that might help you out.
These are for Classic difficulty:
1. The fastest way to LOSE at XCOM:EU and EW is to follow the stupid fucking tutorial. You should never, EVER, move your soldier carelessly to the front without making sure that you are able to cover that soldier. i.e: NEVER RUSH a soldier to a position where it can no longer move when there is no other soldier with available turns. Dashing is not bad, but it is an incredibly risky movement because it can leave your soldier(s) immediately flanked and fucked. It's best to constantly be in Overwatch. Use at your own discretion.
2. The first mission can be replayed regardless of Ironman setting (just dont enable tutorial...) So ALWAYS make sure you complete the first mission with all soldiers alive. Preferably make a kill with all of them so they all earn a rank. You will most probably get all 4 classes after that.
3. CHECK your base layout as soon as you are able! You are going to want free space in the two rows where you first satellite uplink is already built. Why? Because this will maximize the output of all of them for you to have enough to cover for the entire world. If there is a steam in ANY space of those two rows then you are fucked. Restart and repeat.
4. PRIORITY SCHMIORITY! Ignore everything that has to do with the main storyline like the Alien Capture and containment. FUCK IT! Your efforts for the first 2 1/2 months will be to get as many engineers as you can. Don't save on anything! spend your entire budget! Sell bodies! materials! Don't be afraid to be without cash! Spend it on getting engineers by doing missions AND by building workshops! Which will require power, so build build build! Of course you will be juggling with world panic and such, so you won't be able to get engineers during every mission. But if you play your cards right and carefully then by the end of the third month you will have 90% of the world with satellite coverage! :D
5, Unless you start in South America, my recommendation for first research is always Weapon Fragments to get Beam Weapons quickly! This is because the first terror mission arrives around the end of the second or halfway the third month and it can be a real pain in the ass if you are not doing increased damage by this point. You could also go for the armor first but Cryssalids will still rape you... soooo... yeah. In SouthAmerica it's best to go for Xenobiology, since autopsies and interrogation grant research bonuses that can be exploited on the go if played right.
Lastly
6. Survive your missions! Never let yourself be flanked or near flanked. Cover always for your soldiers and never leave one far behind or move one far up front. Be mindful and always have a fall-back line if your find yourself in a difficult position (one time I had to face against 4 Sectopods and 8 drones AT ONCE) If you lose a mission it will be hard to recover, specially if you lose high ranking soldiers! So if that happens consider that you may lost a country or two.
Have fun people.
Thanks
Free from Green Man Gaming 10/10
11:30 Angry Joe.... *Looks over carnage at the base defense in Xcom Enemy Within.* You...*Gets on knees.* got..... your....*Falls to the ground.* wish.......
And that's why we research armor and lasers first, and everything else second. One of my early games, I got Titan Armor early on by getting an insane amount of scientists, and then I got laser guns. Nothing could touch me. I had a heavy who downed 3 Cyberdiscs alone, and an assault who thrashed a Mechtoid in one turn.
Talk about getting to the party late...just now discovered Xcom in 8/12/2021...played for 72 hours straight no sleep ,matter of fact , took a break just to check out this video :)
me and a bunch of other buddies watched another friend play this game and all of the characters after each other and other friends.
RIP Black Justice, 10 kills and 2 missions in.
We always saved throughout the game so that if any of the characters died we would go back to that save point. My friend Lindsey was an exception though. He would always get the shittiest armor and weapon and be sent out front. His death mattered not. Surprisingly though, we only made it to Lindsey the 5th by the end of the game.
You have a male friend named Lindsey? :P
Well it's his last name. His first is Brandon but we all go to a military college so we call each other by our last names.
Oros Abaddon Oh, that makes more sense. Was a bit confused for a minute lol.
Haha.
I was gonna say, maby it's cuz his name is Lindsay :)
If you liked playing this game, try the EXELLENT mod for it called Xcom The Long War.
As the name implies, this is a looooong fight.
Starting squadsize is 6, you got tonnes of gear options (smoke grenade, flashbang, laser sight, anti-pers grenade, medkit, battle scanner, ceramic plate (nanofiber-vest equivalent), extra ammo mags and alien trophy (immunity to panic) are all avaleble in infinite supply right at the start.
Weapon types now include pistols, machine pistols, sawed of shotgun, SMGs, carbines, assault rifels, battle rifles, sniper rifles, marksnam rifles (lighter sniper rifle that can shoot after moving), shotguns, LMGs (have 9 ammo and can't shoot after a move), SAWs (Lighter LMG), and upgradable rocket launchers.
Loads of more research projects, tonnes of more foundry projects, officer promotion system, completely re-worked psionic ability system, completely reworked class system (now 8 classes and they have 3 skills to pick from on every level exept the first), 8 MEC-trooper classes (1 for each base class), massively improved SHIVS (lot motre versatile nbow and can equip gear).
The airgame is VASTLY improved, and significantly harder. Even the first scout can seriously dent your aircraft (and you can just forget about engaging large UFOs untill WAY leter).
Now every alien mission is an UFO flying to somewhear and doing it's thing, the airgame has now become "fuck up the alines plans" rather then only being for defending your sattelites (they still hunt your sats though).
You need sats to detect UFOs on missions, but you will ofc always see their attacks on humans once it has begun (though you CAN shoot down the UFO or force it to retrteat and stop the terror attack that way).
Alines now do resourse collection and research of their own. Stats on enemies are no longer static.
This means that it is possible to encounter 12 hp squadsight thin men, berserkers with jumpy legs gene mods, mectoids with 30+ hp, 5 damage reduction and self repair, floaters with covering fire etc.
There is a LOT more they changed (like the base defence), to much for me to write here. go check out the Long War on ufopedia yourselves :)
Also, I forgot to mention that weapons now come in 5 tiers.
Basic ballistics, beam lasers, gauss (mini,railgun tech with alloy ammo), pulse lasers and plasma.
Also, every plasma weapon now requires a captured aline weapon to construct (plus 1 or more alien weapons to do the research).
You can also get council requests for living aline captives after you have interrogated that spiecis (and interrogations now require the autopsy to be made first, but also gives more)
I cannot agree more. I just installed it and played a few missions. It is a joy to play (and to get your ass kicked) !
My laptop is not a gaming laptop so even the normal version of XCOM (best game ever) is slow and awkward for me. I'd love to download the mod but I'm not sure my laptop can handle it.
It isn't excellent, it is terrible. It was made by people who don't understand why the game was the way it was and had a really stupid vision.
9/10. That's Xcom, baby! (inversion). Road to Xcom 2 :)
XCOM 2
still no pocket pockets.
I am disappoint.
You looked so pleased with yourself while you said "Activate the X-Com project!" xD
They should make a second one about after the aliens invade, and we have the technology to go into space, but they are about to invade again. Kind of like Ender's Game.
or do terror from the deep and add more features(and carrying over what we got from enemy within)
blusgaming picks Yea, they did that in the old games.. i wonder if they will remake the naval variant and space variant games again :D I recently played terror of the deep.. and protected Antarctica.. haha..
Pretty sure that would be enemy within?
vengeance450 no, enemy within gave us the same story with human terrorists(exalt) to fight as well
no they should make is so that we invade them like xcom humanem uknown
It was this game, and this review that brought me to this channel many years back. It’s one of the first gaming channels I subscribed too.
I like to come back to it now and again. It’s like a warm hug that I can fall asleep in. I love how all these years later, these vids are different but the same.
Never change Joe you glorious bastard.
Olg gang of joe is awesome, miss those times. Awesome review and cheers to when we were younger!
Seriously, that theme in the background.
Ugh.
So rad.
I just got this game on PC 3 days ago. What can I say? I just finished playing. And ive come here to say 'Sorry, I didn't buy this game when I actually saw this review last year.'
Spoony, you were robbed by John Travolta.
Had such a good time with this one.
Ported over a habit from original XCOM: I liked to give my guys callsigns based on stuff they did or things I said to myself while playing. Rookie alone in a room with two aliens, "Uh-oh, I'm behind the eight ball now...." but he lived, and Eight-Ball joined Gargoyle, Bozo, Law-Dog, Knock-Knock, Ruckus, Bigfoot, Shakespeare, and a long cast of others. Losing a soldier had a surprising amount of meaning, beyond having to replace an experienced operative.
I just got this game, I hope to play it tomorrow. Wish me luck everyone
Rain Maker I'm gonna name one of my guys big green
Just turn on the tutorial, start on Normal difficulty, and RESPECT your enemies; even the little waterheads, and you'll be fine. ;)
Rain Maker Question, I got the game a week ago and I have one question, is it all right to lose countries? I lost argentina and Brazil a day ago and I don't what the consequences are for it and how to prevent me from losing more countries because I usually can only choose one countries out of three to save.
Spooney is an awesome Turl!
And I play on easy because the hit and miss chances are stupidly unrealistic and just get worse on the other settings.
Well, what's the fun if you're destinied to win?
I love this review. Just the amount of time Joe spends smiling from ear to ear, you can really tell how happy he was about this game. And so was I! :D
This is the one game I wish they would remaster for next gen
people play this game on console?
haha idk but I do
Stevemcstupid Yeah if you dont want to spend a couple hundred dollars just to play something with a keyboard thats only slightly different.
Backseatsman1
"Slightly"
Why remaster when we are gonna have a sequel :D same game with more content new enemies and more classrs
Man joe puts games on the radar, a lot of people would never have heard of this without him
Bought this game from the Steam summer sale for like 5€ if i remember correctly, probably the best purchase i have ever done. Played the game like 2 days at row almost. Started with normal mode, was too difficult. So restarted on easy mode, and it was still difficult, in the beginning, later it got better. I totaly underestimated the Overwatch ability...didn't use it in the beginning at all lol. Oh, and one more thing, i hate those "¤%#%#¤ spider aliens! :D
15:40. This ending is actually canon now!!!!
this is my all-time favourite review by Joe, not just because of the top-notch production like costumes and hilarious scenarios present in the review, but also this is one of the few times where joe outright motivated me to buy the game and subsequently to introduced me to what is now my favorite gaming franchise in the strategy genre.
I remember when i named my best friend as my heavy and I had him shoot a rocket, except that the trajectory was awkward, and without any warning of friendly fire, he ended killing the soldier named after me
Man I got hooked on Xcom 2 this year and is now one of my all time favourite games. Am downloading this now!
This vid feels like it was created in 2019.
the kind of games where you still enjoy when you are losing.
i cried when miss strapon died cause she used to hand out the D so well she was my first captain and will forever be on my hall of fame she ones fought a war so bad with 2 rooks and a mid level warrior against a big barrage of aliens the rooks died quick and painless the warrior got injured panicked died in the 9 turn 4 after the rooks miss strapon was all alone on a important mission that i needed or else suffer big losses like my 3rd best country and the high level soldier i got with it against a army she stayed shot flanked for 20 turns she fought until she got lucky and the alien decided to snuggle next to each other then the grenade of god was unleashed and it got a triple kill she knew it was all sunshine from there as she reloaded her gun equipped run and gun and dashed towards the enemy she finally won . . .the memories THE FEELS are real oh so real she will be missed rip miss strapon (19-04-13/02-05-13) you served your planet well
just felt like sharing my war story of miss strapon
Xcom 2 In one month and a day exactly. Pre orders digital deluxe edition! HYPE!
+Trigger Finger what does the pre orders give you?
+Alejandro Tejeda just the season pass.
Gibbers1495 that sucks hate stuff like that. ill just buy it all in a year for like a buck ;P
+Trigger Finger 6 days left man 6 days.....
+robosoldier11 2 days!!!
"Even when you were learning how to SPEAAL your name, I was trained TO CONQUER GALAXIES!"
"Ah common Prometheus!! Not cool"
*Middle Finger*
I loled too hard
You know what, I need to try out this game, cause many years, my games are mostly shooters and i need some tactical games.
My favourite xcom game. The soundtrack is epic.
This game and review still hold up years later.
I would like to point out that the Enemy Within expansion makes this game ten times better. You use this substance called Meld to turn your soldiers into MEC's or give them genetic modifications to counter the advancements of the aliens. You also have the threat of a counter-organization called EXALT as well as an all-out assault on your base! It is one of the best games EVER! :)
Wanna see a XCOM: Enemy within review from you man, great job, cheers.
Has anyone ever beaten XCom Enemy Unknown in Impossible?
Ofcourse... For PS Users:
psnprofiles.com/trophy/1649-XCOM-Enemy-Unknown/7-Our-Finest-Hour
i played this on relese on xbox i was number 1 ranked pvp and then the y nurfed me by raising level of ghost and pladma shotgun and ghost armor awesome game but im mad they stopped my rape fest but as far as pve this game is wwwaaayy esier then the og
That's crazy. O.o
***** www.pcgamer.com/2014/01/31/worlds-best-xcom-player-how-zemalf-beat-enemy-within-on-impossible-ironman-with-zero-deaths/
Impossible, ironman Multiple times.
It's brutal in the beginning, But when you research plasma weapons it becomes a slight challenge only.
That is... If you actually make it to that point.
This game is in a genre that you really just don't see anymore. It was really nice to finally play a turn based tactical game.
Impossible is a great challenge in the first half, but it gets a little easy once you have six colonels and plasma weapons. The key is thinking more flexibly in your tactics. Draw them out, send soldiers far to the sides to flank them without getting shot, actually use the fog to your advantage, and use grenades to create flanking positions, think outside the box. If you're not in a position where flanking is viable, move the battle somewhere else.
I miss this real enthusiasm in his reviews
Congrats to anyone who could actually beat this game and the expansion. BRAVO!!!
I completely forgot Spoony was in this video so watching it again almost ten years later was extra delightful
I just started playing this game after playing the intro 2 years ago and just having it sit in my Steam account for 2 years.
This is one of those games where is has a massive mountain of problems, but you notice none of them because it's so beyond awesome that it over-shadows it.
WHAT THE FUCK, PROMETHEUS?!?
ahhh good old days
Took me 5 years and only now do I realise the opening is a reference to nostalgia critic
11:22 there is a base defense mission now with DLC
ill be honest, it always makes me happy to see joe happy about a game
just finished this one and im gonna go buy enemy within :v
Got this game after watching your review. I'm not usually the type into strategy games but I REALLY LOVED playing it and its expansion. Thank you so much!
We are being overrun... are forces are not holding... assemble the council... activate the XCOM initiative... Heaven have mercy on us all.
just bought this game and the x-pack, really excited.
How comes americans never know where other countries are ?
It's called a joke....
I don't think sooo...
plpant Do you ignorant fucks not understand satire?
Don't put me in the same bag as this one, he goes too far... Still, americans have difficulties with geography.
I'm strongly willing to bet I know a lot more geography than you do.
I'm also guaranteeing that even people outside of America know very little geography.
Lastly, I find it extremely funny that you would waste your time attacking America. I promise you most Americans don't care about any countries outside the U.S. regardless if we know of them. Be as jealous as you want that we can do whatever we want, but really we don't care about your crying.
Just picked this game up for $3 at my local game store. I'm so in love with it right now. Thanks, Joe!
Joe, you are so right! Having a co-op campaign mode would be kick-ass! Like, your allies could be stationed at different countries, you could trade tech and soldiers, you could have multiple Skyrangers and do more missions or you could combine your power for one mission. There are so many possibilities!
Grab keys while you can, golden joysticks awards in co-op with green man gaming are giving you xcom: enemy unknown if you vote ! :)
Only reason I voted tbh. xD
Fuck , missed it :(
I got one spare, add me on steam.
Flatbaby
Flatbaby I want one too! :C
I thought priority missions meant they had to be done first, And didn't effect the story. I'm gonna die aren't I?... Damn.
not my type of game but I can see the respect and nostalgia behind it great review
Ah I remember one of my first times playing Xcom. I was halfway through the game when I see one of those aliens in the mech. I lost some good soldiers that day. R.I.P Pixie.T-T
Joe you should definetly give xenonauts a look. It's really good, keeping the complexity of the original while improving what needed improvement. Its even got good airiel warfare, something none of the xcom games pulled of.
That game looks amazing!
Yeah, XCOM2012 should license the air combat from Xenonauts.
So true.
Xenonauts is brilliant in its own way. I'd still put XCOM: Enemy Unknown (and its expansion) a notch above Xenonauts, but it is a very good game nontheless.
Damn this is the hardest game i'v played recently and man do i love it. What a breath of fresh air. The amount of times i'v failed and started over is insane.
If you take this game's ending and make it canon towards XCOM 2, it could have been like this:
"Wheee, we destroyed a terrifying alien fleet!! Now we're free forever!" -Winning Player
"ORLY? You don't think there's more?" -Alien Bastard.
*Thousands of alien fleets massacre the XCOM project*
"Well, shit." - Player with dreams crushed.
I was never into strategy games before this but you've convinced me to try this game out Joe
I never would have considered buying this game without this review.
Resurgence Of The Shadow Dragons I never know about xcom until I found this channel
One minute into this video, I wasl like "I can't way for the 'Spell your own name!' line."
That satisfaction came quick.
...So did I.
Playing X-Com on dad's old 486? Same here! Memories...
I think Joe should have missed that alien at the end.
SPOONY! Fucking classic youtuber right there!
He is just saying "help". !!!
You forgot one thing, Col. Joe:
- Alloy Cannon, target on 5 health
- Colonel, Assault class, every close quarters skill available
- Point blank range, flanked
- hit chance says 99%
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"Adjusting sights!!!"
One of my favorite stories from my playthrough is this one mission where we intercepted a UFO and my squad of rookies went in to clear it, it was a hairy mission from the start. As they got sight of the UFO enemies flooded out of every corner, including some mutons and chrysallids. The soldiers get cut down one by one until its left to one guy and I pushed into the ship to get some cover, only for the one soldier who was killed by a chrysallid to come over. As the last soldier retreated for cover and took a shot, the zombie fell over and another white chrysallid burst out of his body, ran over to the last soldier and murdered him. It was literally like out of a horror movie and it was awesome!
So X-Com Enemy Within Angry review now?
1:23 me in geography class xD
Joe, you were so correct about this then...an in hindsight, you called it absolutely perfect. I'm just about to do my 5th or 6th playthrough of Enemy Within Long War - such a great game, and great review
This brings back memories.
I'd have to disagree with anyone complaining about the "unlimited reloads." In the original, the main weapons you used were laser rifles and heavy plasma. The lasers had unlimited shots and never needed to be reloaded. The heavy plasmas had 35 shots and basically never needed to be reloaded.
I mostly used plasma rifles in OpenXcom and even with 28 shots, I never really needed to reload. And of course the aliens dropped ammo for the guns like candy, as well as the guns themselves.
I liked that EU made you "earn" the plasma weapons, either by capturing aliens or buying them yourself.
The original two XCOMs did do two things better. One is stat progression. Health, TU, stamina, firing accuracy, throwing accuracy, bravery all gained from doing different things. Stats were completely independent of rank, and it kept growing the more you did those certain things. You could even brings the stats past 100.
In EU, stat progression is so linear. Each colonel of the same class would have the exact same aim and it could never grow past that point. I liked the Second Wave option that let the leveling up give you randomized stats. Sure it made one of my snipers "Omega" have mediocre aim until colonel rank. Sure it made one of my assaults aim better than a lot of my snipers. Sure it turned one of my heavies "Lights Out" into Charles Xavier with his psychic powers. But that was the point. It made things interesting.
I also didn't like how UFO missions became secondary to abductions. In the original, raiding UFOs was 80 percent of the game. Here, it's 3 or 4 abductions missions for each UFO mission. There's no radar detection mechanic, and the UFOs aren't really doing any missions, save for "Scout" and "Destroy Satellite." Fortunately, Long War changed all this.