![]() ![]() It stuck though, and every time he did something great or terrible on the screen, we made references to that character, back and forth, laughing the whole time. I forget who mentioned it first, mentioning with the hat and the jawline, he could also be Duffman, from The Simpsons. He was my first grenadier, and the look was too perfect. My friend Jack and I loved the original, and so when it came out, he swung by the house, and we played through some of the content of XCOM 2 together. ![]() Perhaps most importantly, you can give them biographies, and when they die, you can give them epitaphs. Here, the options for customization have doubled, to where you can choose the nationality and the gender. ![]() In the original, you could name them and change some small cosmetics. It's in the characters: not the named heads of engineering and science that are helping me fight, but the nameless soldiers that live and die by the luck of every mission. but I know the real reason why I'm going to stay addicted. XCOM 2 just came out this last week, and I know I'm going to sink in more hours into this one than I did the original there's many reasons for this, from the missions being more exciting, to better graphics, to there being more challenges and procedural maps. X-COM: Enemy Unknown was an amazing game that I sank many, many hours into. By the end of the experiment, I had over 80 comments on that thread, and a single player game had become a multi-player experience. My friends, some not huge into video games, still followed and commented, cheering and jeering as things happened and I posted screenshots, suggesting or betting when the next one of them was going to die. One of the best things I did when the game came out is invite about twenty or thirty friends to a message post on facebook, where I put down play by plays of who died and who acted heroically. I can recall specific moments and turns where my Ironman attempts fell to pieces as an example, I remember with clarity when I watched my favorite sniper, a friend from college, was turned into a Crysalid drone and promptly started murdering their girlfriend on screen. I still remember X-COM: Enemy Unknown very fondly. ![]()
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