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• aliens and stuff : sanchez
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  atmosphere and cohesion : sanewave
  • ^^^^^ : Godhatesfatpeople
  • Basically this. The sum is greater than its parts. : SatansFist
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  I enjoy researching and building up from a Podunk base in <wherever> to a network of bases that covers th... : quartic0
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    Until they get mind-controlled and blow away everyone on your squad by shooting them in the back. : FlatlineDixay
    • lol yeah =\ : bolneze
    • You just give them all pistols and let them harmlessly plink dinky bullets off their flying suits. : losder5000
  • i always just used one base cuz it was a PITA managing more than 1 : bolneze
• The balance between the base building and squad based tactical gameplay, the atmosphere, the progression ... : roushimsx
• tension and control : radula
• creepy atmosphere varied gameplay (tactical + geoscape parts) pop culture alien tie in novelty blaste... : sergeon
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  Eventually, you would always lose. It reminds me of Dwarf Fortress in that regard. : AgentPothead
  • What? I never lost in that game... Maybe the first time around, but never again. Superhuman difficulty se... : Kub666
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  Clever, Highly systemic gameplay with a cool but unobtrusive fiction to back it up. : SpaecKow
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    I am going to be lazy and just say "I agree with SpaecKow" and then link to http://www.shacknews.com/lary... : Johnny Law
    • That is a great writeup. Thanks! : quartic0
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  EVERYTHING. Also, the feeling of facing the unknown. : Kub666
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    X-COM taught me that two simple words can make one's asshole pucker. HIDDEN MOVEMENT : SigmaDraconis
    • ...with sound : Omaha
    • True, playing the demo of TFTD and seeing that when I was young always made me fear the incoming rape :( : sanchez
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      and NOT ENOUGH TIME UNITS : bolneze
      • In combination with a a digit with flashing red background. : Skrynkelberg
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  Praying to god that plasma shot through two windows, a gas station, and 2 civilians hits home or you lose : Lunatic Angelic
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    yeah, that player-created narrative is what I love the most about it. I don't think I've ever been more a... : blender81
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      I always changed the names of the soldiers, so that this emotional attachment would be even stronger... I... : Kub666
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        I once named the commander character after myself. Then on the 2nd to last mission he died to the aliens.... : Chod
        • I liked to name them after porn stars. RIP Kay Parker. : mattavius
  • i love games that make me care about losing people, both by merit of emotional attachment, gameplay usefu... : vitek r
• allows creative play style and unpredictable ai. The mood with the music and constant death is key too. : threeup
• Fights were super hard, which led to actual tension, fear : FiReaNG3L
• Persistent death : Grumbeld
• Stockholm Syndrome : ryuuseki
• Terror. : Rice-Rocketeer
• Unique and uncommonly smooth mixture of genres. Control-freak-friendly combat. Genuinely tense. Treats in... : Happy Doodle Muffin
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  You know, I always wanted it to be less cartoony, more photorealistic. : Lone Swordsman
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    It was pretty real looking for its time, but I've always liked the style. : kelerian
    • I prefer TFTD's style, even if the fiction is an awkward fit. : Happy Doodle Muffin
• The Force : shirif
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  Middichlorians : shirif
  • wut happened? : shirif
• Awesome and unique gameplay. : Haku-Jin
• The dinosaurs and the cover system. : Crabs Jarrard
• The atmosphere, fear the of the unknown, destructible random environments, actual UFO lore and mythology ... : mastermike569
• The developers. : Ebu
• i herd it had guns and yo ucould shoot guys from space in them and you made space ships like star trak bu... : vitek r
• The right balance of difficulty, great design, palpable tension, just about everything was almost perfect... : Fred Garvin
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  The shooting of blobs, and the taking pictures of said blobs. : Haxim
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    You sonofabeeeeech. : Moonbase Commander
    • Wait, no. That's XCOM not X-COM. I get those two mixed up sometimes. : Haxim
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      did that game actually come out? : radula
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        Think it's supposed to come out next year.

        Nov 22, 2010 7:47pm PST
        Think it's supposed to come out next year. : Moonbase Commander
  • I lol'd. : Wikus Van De Merwe
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  Jagged Alliance 2 deserves way more love from x-com fans. Best turn-based combat game ever. : Poor Yurik
  • Most X-Com fans hate anything that's not the very first X-Com game. Some of them like Terror From the ... : roushimsx
  • JA2 is like a different flavor of X-Com. It's a tongue-in-cheek parody of an 80s action flick, where X-Co... : Loxodrome
  • It's still being developed, too! http://www.ja-galaxy-forum.com/board/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number... : Goncyn
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  X-COM did a lot of things right, but the thing I miss the most is managing a roster of soldiers with indi... : Captain Loco
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    I also really liked this aspect of the game. Something about recruiting the soldiers, figuring out what y... : quartic0
    • To me, this is one of the biggest things that set it apart from most other strategy games. You units wer... : briktal
• Going from a peon noob to a Fusion Blaster GOOOODDDD raining hell upon the xenos Uber tatical, micro man... : loke662
• setting a whole building on fire and killing the aliens as they come running out in real time : mista mista
• Oh yeah, and one bad move screws your entire team over. : loke662
• Night time terror missions where alien grenades get tossed into your plane on the aliens first turn. : Smirks D
• It wasn't a game, it was an experience. : Sailor of Fortune
• tension : CecilPhilpot
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  Tense tactical turn-based combat set in completely destructible environments. Unseen horrors lurking thr... : d3pr1ved
  • destructible environments really were ahead of its time - we still dont really have that : bolneze
• Menus! Seriously, the managing you have to do to recruit, screen, and train all your psi troopers for the... : Loxodrome
• what made the original X-Com so great was the way it effortlessly and intrinsically weaved the gamer's im... : panbient
• the fact that no other game is in its league makes xcom legendary : milgram976
• The game was a series of building blocks and the narrative/player course was emergent. Closest thing to ... : losder5000
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  The same thing as any other great game: developers with integrity. : Marrbe
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    You are the weirdest guy. : losder5000
    • lol : bolneze
    • I figured all the posts above already mentioned the concretes of why the game is great, so I thought I'd ... : Marrbe
• Oh randomly generated missions (sorta) : bolneze
• It's unique gameplay was what was so fun about it. Nothing else. That is why I am not happy about the new... : razlebol
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  Without being rude, if you have to ask then this (and an entire) genre of gaming past you by. This game w... : rtricoche
  • I beg to differ on the only older X-COM fans will want this new XCOM game, quite frankly I think its an ... : mastermike569
• Me and my friend played it for YEARS on the Playstation 1. The music was CD quality and we were floored... : mystifier