>boomers suck this game off like it's a masterpiece that's somehow better than 2012 XCOM
>literally has a bug in every version of the game that makes all five difficulties completely identical and they all play like beginner difficulty (the easiest setting)
Just shows that no one even actually played this shitty game to never notice all five difficulties make ZERO fricking difference.
It's just boring sim autism with the combat and customization being an afterthought. Frick you disingenuous morons acting like you enjoyed this shit.
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Nobody plays the vanilla version anymore when OpenXcom exists.
>b-b-buh just play it with this mod that changes everything!!!
always the same argument. how the frick can you claim these games are actually good but then act they are unplayable without these overhaul mods that change nearly every aspect of the game?
They don't change every aspect of the game they just make it open source and fix the bugs.
and these are just the changes actually documented. who knows what else they changed.
That's just minor shit only an autist would care about. Objectively speaking its just XCOM but with proper widescreen support and the ability to actually play the harder difficulties
If you're a diehard purist dosgay then you COULD play the ordinal but everyone. Even boomers who grew up with it will just stick with open xcom
>mouse wheel support
>screenshot capability
Truly, we live in evil times when classics are vandalized at this level. Is nothing sacred?
Even Dosbox lets you takes screenshots and that's older than Open Xcom
>overhaul mods that change nearly every aspect of the game
please explain what aspects of the game are changed and how they differ from the original release
I've made many playthroughs of the original xcom on vanilla and this is the first time I've heard about this, from what I remember the differences from the difficulties are pretty clear. Even sectoids will take multiple shots and the enemies per map are increased.
The most relevant change is increasing the resolution so you can see a larger amount of the map at any given time and making it so smoke doesn't kill the frame rate. Everything else is pretty easy to ignore or don't have to use.
Case in point most of these really don't matter for 90% of how a person is gonna play the game. Mostly just cutting some annoying bits during the overworld
why do you talk like such a soi boy homosexual?
you don't need to make bait threads to talk about a game fren. i'll talk about xcom with you. it is the best one in the series after all and has aged like fine wine
No asspussy boy Black person and butterflied hotdogs no buy
Original X-COM has kino presentation but at the end of the day it's a glorified Excel spreadsheet with occasional tactical combat inbetween.
Newsflash. All XCOM games are bugged to shit and back. Including your precious nu X-COM
This. 2 is too janky for a strategy game and it performs like shit
So the reason you think it sucks is because it has a bug where the difficulty settings don't actually affect anything? The reason nobody noticed is that XCOM is already a really difficult game for most people and so a bug like that might go unnoticed or people just might not realize what actually changed and just assumed enemies were more aggressive or something. Not all difficulty modes are drastically different in every game, especially back then.
Master of Orion is also full of bugs that make it not play as intended but I'd still argue it's a certified 4X golden classic. Due to a data overflow bug, several races display the wrong behavior in the game and people didn't notice for several decades(like the Psilon being unusually distrustful and hostile, because the bug results in them having the Darlok race's behaviors rather than their own passive one)
The original Final Fantasy is full of bugs too where like half the spells don't even do anything. Bugs don't make a game bad.
>bro the game is so hard that nobody noticed that FIVE FRICKING LEVELS OF DIFFICULTIES HAVE NO DIFFERENCE!!!
shut the frick up moron. It took over a decade and a half until the game was even playable on higher difficulties for most people.
And Beginner is still hard as balls, shut the frick up
>The reason nobody noticed is that XCOM is already a really difficult game for most people
Funny you should say that. The devs had feedback from players saying the game was too easy on the hardest so the devs made TftD even harder not realising everyone was playing on easiest.
At least, that's what I heard, no source to back it.
i owned terror from the deep. and it became hard once the aliens got the big bugs. then you basically need everyone to carry a rocket launcher
TftD didn't feel too different difficulty wise to me until I hit these frickers. Some prime wiener n ball torture right here.
Eeh, you mostly just spam stun launchers
Once you understand the principles of OG X-Com the actual gameplay is horribly boring exploits of the AI's inability to attack or hurt you in any way other than waiting around corners to kill people with reaction fire. It's one of those games that was just massively more entertaining the less you understand what's going on.
*for an example of the stupid shit you end up doing when you understand X-Com: dropping everyone's weapon at the end of their turn so they'll be harmless if mind controlled
You don't need to drop everyones weapons, you only need to disarm the soldier with the lowest psionic defence as the AI will exclusively target them with psionics
>customization being an afterthought
>RRREEEEE I CAN'T PLAY BARBIE DRESS UP WITH MY SUPERHEROES
>GAME BAD >:(
I'm sorry you fried your brain on gatcha shit "games" before playing something like xcom that made you use brain cells
Protip to the Chad's that have beaten xcom already: check out the xpiratez mod, it's an incredible amount of content
Just play with OpenXCom you moronic zoomer
openxcom came out over 15 years later you moron zoomer
And? There is no reason to play the original release when OpenXcom exists, the original was already the best strategy game ever made regardless.
>the original was already the best strategy game ever made regardless.
the fact that you say this when you couldn't even play above beginner (the easiest difficulty of five) just makes this hilarious. trying way too hard to fit in there zoomie moron.
Literal newbie parasites spazzing out *oom shit
Unknown was incredible, Within was good, 2 is fricking godawful moronic unplayable dogshit. Never played any other XCom games.
>Admitting that you're a secondary
not him, but 95% of the ""fans"" of the original XCOM have barely even played the game, if at all. Best case, they played openxcom, which came nearly two decades later.
>it's a masterpiece that's somehow better than 2012 XCOM
Yes
you can't really understand xcom from today's perspective
if i told you we spent like 3 months researching how to basically survive in the game and just failing over and over you'd probably consider it insane...but gaming was a totally different landscape back then and it was exciting because we had to do math
it's not really explicable to someone who wasn't around. I mean, it is, but you would not have been the target market back then. You'd have been out riding your bike.
if we ever get nu-xcom 3 they need to ditch the pod mechanic and go back to individual aliens, and ditch the combat mode shit too, you should be able to be shot from fog of war and have to hunt down the aliens. and you should have a squad of 10+ guys and the game should be balanced so that you always lose soldiers and they are cheap to replace. the super squad of power rangers shit was lame. the original got everything right. even the awesome ballistics system where you could miss a shot, and have the errant shot hit a second alien in the fog of war that you didn't even know was there.