Yesss, go play the original :3
It is a time honored tradition watching a new player lose an entire squad at the foot of the landing ship. If you do play, grab openxcom it’s a fantastic engine replacement and even supports mods.
The new games are more like playing an action movie. The old one is more like balancing a war where soldiers are meat with a dollar value. One of my favorite missions was doing a desperate tech smash and grab to get my research back on track. Over a dozen soldiers dead, more were left behind, many I had hired just for this so they basically showed up and shipped out to die. It was a massacre and a success
The newer ones. Most of my time is in XCOM 2: WOTC. It becomes really tempting to put all your eggs in one basket by leveling an A-team.
Everything like this that I hear about the originals just reinforces that I need to go play them. It sounds brutal.
Yesss, go play the original :3 It is a time honored tradition watching a new player lose an entire squad at the foot of the landing ship. If you do play, grab openxcom it’s a fantastic engine replacement and even supports mods.
The new games are more like playing an action movie. The old one is more like balancing a war where soldiers are meat with a dollar value. One of my favorite missions was doing a desperate tech smash and grab to get my research back on track. Over a dozen soldiers dead, more were left behind, many I had hired just for this so they basically showed up and shipped out to die. It was a massacre and a success
It sounds like exactly my type of game. I just need to get around to it. I love the roster management aspect.