Best game ever?

[Cendir]

So, is xcom2 the best game ever? That includes WOTC, because the expansion almost makes it xcom3 by how different and hard it makes it, and i love all of it . Ive beaten it 5 times, once with Wotc, once with Game breaking mods, 2ice pure, and 1 with small cosmetic mods . I love this game i do. I dont want to start it right now cause have exams, but daanm is it addicting, It makes me feel like am in Battlestar a bit XD.

Any thoughts on the excellence that is xcom 2 and its expansions and mods? Sorry if am just ranting, i do it out of love, not just to troll.

Ps:I am fully aware theres no such thing as Best game ever and that it is mere enthusiasim and opinion.

[airmikee99]

XCOM2 is a great game, but my "Best Game Ever" is still Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. Best strategy game with the best customization options with the best story.

[red255]

Gods... Civ alpha centauri. I recall starting as the science dude, pulling artifacts out of the goody huts and attaching them into the free science nodes he got in every city.

he tech'd so fast.

then I'd make the biggest units with drop pods and clean so no upkeep and just drop them on my enemies en masse.

thats All i really recall about alpha centauri.

[wckowalski]

No, the best game ever is Cookie Clicker.

[red255]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_considered_the_best

they went with UFO:enemy unknown from 1994.

and who can argue with wikipedia.

[Aku]

Originally posted by airmikee99:

XCOM2 is a great game, but my "Best Game Ever" is still Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. Best strategy game with the best customization options with the best story.

Great callback. Man I loved that game, it was almost like a piece of art. Those secret project movies were great. Loved that you could rename and update the bios of the faction leaders. If ever there was a game I wish they would remake, it's this one. And I'm not talking Beyond Earth.

[ErikVeland]

With 1500+ hours under my belt I can certainly say it’s the game I’ve played the most.

[airmikee99]

Originally posted by red255:

Gods... Civ alpha centauri. I recall starting as the science dude, pulling artifacts out of the goody huts and attaching them into the free science nodes he got in every city.

he tech'd so fast.

then I'd make the biggest units with drop pods and clean so no upkeep and just drop them on my enemies en masse.

thats All i really recall about alpha centauri.

Originally posted by Dobian:

Originally posted by airmikee99:

XCOM2 is a great game, but my "Best Game Ever" is still Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. Best strategy game with the best customization options with the best story.

Great callback. Man I loved that game, it was almost like a piece of art. Those secret project movies were great. Loved that you could rename and update the bios of the faction leaders. If ever there was a game I wish they would remake, it's this one. And I'm not talking Beyond Earth.

Yep, that's SMAC. I've still got it on disc, but I picked it up on GOG just because. Civilization:Beyond Earth came close to it, especially after the expansion, but I don't think anything can ever truly replace SMAC.

[Klutch]

Originally posted by Cendir:

So, is xcom2 the best game ever? That includes WOTC, because the expansion almost makes it xcom3 by how different and hard it makes it, and i love all of it . Ive beaten it 5 times, once with Wotc, once with Game breaking mods, 2ice pure, and 1 with small cosmetic mods . I love this game i do. I dont want to start it right now cause have exams, but daanm is it addicting, It makes me feel like am in Battlestar a bit XD.

Any thoughts on the excellence that is xcom 2 and its expansions and mods? Sorry if am just ranting, i do it out of love, not just to troll.

Ps:I am fully aware theres no such thing as Best game ever and that it is mere enthusiasim and opinion.

I love reading this! I'm about to start XCOM2

[Captain Super Credit]

There is enough in XCOM EU/EW / XCOM 2, to make XCOM 3 TFTD / XCOM 4 APOCALYPSE Truely epic.

Although I would advise renaming Apocalypse.. obviously naming Coporate Societies / MIC as apocalyptic isnt something that has worked out so well for anyone doing it.. so a name change would be good.

(BTW MIC is exactly what xcom IS.. bring back holostimulators for research/discovery/manufcture/sale to increase revenue and XCOM public perception? Maybe make several *fun toys* to be researched/manufactured/sold for profit/increase public accecptance... and maybe each teir has diminishing returns.. ie sales slow as the game moves on)

[Aku]

Originally posted by Brock_Steel:

I love reading this! I'm about to start XCOM2

I'm playing XCOM 2 for the first time after having played XCOM EU/EW and I'm loving it.

[Abrakadabra]

Game really is addicting.
I can only recommend playing ironman. It gets very emotional and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tense that way. Youre missing out if you dont go ironman. Havent beaten it on lgendary yet but i reached gauss weapons and everything looks good so far. I tried playing without Ironman but its not the same. I would understand though if ppl played with save games but treated it as an ironman game. But if theres some weird glitch they can use a save file before that mission or something like that. Apart from that....go ironman. I think thats how they wanted it to be played. So that you grow so stupidly attached to your tough hombres gangster gang having killed ♥♥♥♥ loads of monsters.

[Cendir]

Originally posted by iluvpumpum:

Game really is addicting.
I can only recommend playing ironman. It gets very emotional and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tense that way. Youre missing out if you dont go ironman. Havent beaten it on lgendary yet but i reached gauss weapons and everything looks good so far. I tried playing without Ironman but its not the same. I would understand though if ppl played with save games but treated it as an ironman game. But if theres some weird glitch they can use a save file before that mission or something like that. Apart from that....go ironman. I think thats how they wanted it to be played. So that you grow so stupidly attached to your tough hombres gangster gang having killed ♥♥♥♥ loads of monsters.

You know, ive never had the balls to go ironman, and am strongly considering it now, just for the tension , to reaaaaaly feel the dread of every loss. Am gonna do one, just considering when

[TheSuit]

If you are doing iron just start on somtehing easy like Veteran or Rookie
Then you can slowly try harder difficulties.

[Fringehunter7719]

It's one of my favourites, it has incredibly solid gameplay in the easy to learn and difficult to master category. But it lacks the story depth and writing of something like Dragon Age:Origins, or the genuine breadth of strategy of something like Europa Universalis III.

[Aku]

Originally posted by Fringehunter7719:

It's one of my favourites, it has incredibly solid gameplay in the easy to learn and difficult to master category. But it lacks the story depth and writing of something like Dragon Age:Origins, or the genuine breadth of strategy of something like Europa Universalis III.

I think it's pretty impossible for any strategy game to match the depth of storytelling of an rpg. rpg's are built entirely around telling a story, every quest is a story, dialogue and relationships between characters is part of the gameplay. In strategy games the story is mostly relegated to cut scenes. The gameplay itself is about beating missions, even the story missions. If you started inserting dialogue trees and character romances into a strategy game it would be awful. I thought XCOM 2 did a really good job of bringing the story into the gameplay with the postmortems after missions and all the readable content, it was an improvement over XCOM 1.