Every piece of xcom is on sale for $20 right now, but the couple rts games that I've tried weren't really all that fun to me. Will these games change my mind, or should I just skip them?
Every piece of xcom is on sale for $20 right now, but the couple rts games that I've tried weren't really all that fun to me.
>rts
wat
Oh no, the guy that has never seen anything about a game got something wrong about it. Answer my question
Anon it's not just a small mistake, nobody knows what the frick you mean by "the couple rts games" because there's no XCOM RTS. Which games are you even referring to? The originals? The reboots? That one third-person shooter spin-off? What?
I wasn't referring to an xcom rts. I had heard from somewhere that it was an rts, and I was referring to Forged alliance forever and starcraft as the rts games that I never got into
>Isn't Xcom and Starcraft the same game?
HA HA HA HA HA
Holy frick you're dense
>Guys, I couldn't get into Super Mario Bros 3, should I skip Tetris because of that?
Probably, yeah. But you might like Galaga, or maybe Myst which is pretty much the same game but newer.
my god you are fricking STUPID
holy SHIT my man
you absolute DUMB ASS
Your opinion of those games will have no bearing on how you feel about xcom because they're entirely different genres
hahaha holy shit. Google a term before you go posting it on the internet.
NTA but ‘the couple rts games that I’ve tried weren’t really all the fun to me’ is completely clear, ‘the’ referring the rts games he’s played, not ‘the’ xcom games, ESL moron
Apocalypse had a real time mode that made the game piss easy (While turn based mode was insanely hard).
Don't play them. Zoomers aren't welcome in Xcom threads.
i have around 500 hours in 2
it can be frustrating, but overall i enjoyed my time
the dlc is worth and adds some really strong classes (and enemies)
as others have pointed out though, its not RTS but turn based
They're Turn Based Strategy games, not Real Time Strategy games.
Don't worry about the spergs. $20 isn't much, try out Xcom 2012 first. if you like it, keep the collection, if not, refund.
frick off and die
Xcom isn't an RTS so you may or may not like it
cool it edgelord
>Xcom
>RTS
Zoomers are so fricking moronic.
>rts
AMERICAN EDUCATION EVERYONE
Skip them. You will just rage at all the games since everything is random. Your character is pointing their weapon at point blank range at an enemy with a 95% chance to hit? MISS! Your colonel just died. Have fun!
it's like a classic table top game moron. all the stats are based on probabilities. -ie dice throws.
that's a damn good deal and they lower the price often for these. i only played the first game and I got filtered by the bullshit difficultly ramp that killed all my dudes.
>XCOM
>rts
>but the couple rts games that I've tried
Were those real times games turn-based or not?
XCOM 3 FRICKING WHEN????
>Ask if a game that I have no knowledge on is worth getting
>Ganker chimps out because I don't know anything about the game
You all are completely fricking unhinged
Ever play turn-based strategy? It plays like those games where positioning on per turn basis is key
>tfw there is no coop xcom-esque game.
Anon, I
Any good?
EXACTLY what a sequel to JA2 should be. The ultimate response to "they don't make them like they used to.". It's got some balance issues, but it's still the best game from the past decade at least.
Thanks anon, i'll probably get for my buddy as well.
I never noticed it had coop.
what the frick is that dialogue kek
that's just GOTY 2023 dialogue being what it is
Okay, xcom is a turn based game. My bad, I got that wrong. You all are the smartest people ever, and I'm the dumbest person ever. Now can anyone please tell me if the game is good and worth getting?
Back to reeeeddit. You don't belong here. Board is stupid enough as it is.
>hyperfixating and reeeeing at a small misconception about a videogame
You're actually right. Being a screeching moron is in fact Ganker culture
>Compares apples to hamburgers and gets his feelings hurt when someone calls him moronic
I'm just completely baffled at why it's such a big deal
You killed a thread in order to add nothing but moronation to the board. Your post has exactly as much value as a wojack thread. Leave.
I'm not sure why its confusing at all. I mean you got legitimate answers in the thread already, but to answer why people are ragging on you its because you're asking a nonsensical question. You're comparing two entirely different things which don't really have much at all related to one another, but are asking if you don't like X will you like Y?
Imagine if someone said if they don't like seaweed if they'd like opera. Its a weird comparison that has no real comparison, which makes people wonder if you're either touched in the head, shitposting, or somehow got wildly misinformed. Basically it becomes more interesting than the actual question.
i already did but you ignored it
i will not be helping you again
frick this guy's question, I got a better one. should I play terraria? I don't really like trading card games but it seems fun
that depends, what's your take on visual novels?
it's very important to your decision.
I love third person shooters, so I'm also fine with VNs
in that case, Quake is right up your alley, so you should check our Terraria.
I'd recommend trying one simply because you don't seem to have a frame of reference at all. As others have mentioned they're not RTS games, so theres no mind to change. You may like them, you may not. Personally I love the series, though it can be fustraiting at times. The older games, before firaxis, were a bit different. I'd start with the newer ones since they're more friendly to new players.
Chimera Squad was the worst game I have ever played.
>xcom
>rts
insane how genre tags have completely lost all meaning at this point, like what the FRICK. Who on earth planted the idea in OPs brain
that being said $20 is a damn good deal
I played the original xcom as a kid quite a bit, Enemy Unknown when it came out for about 6 hours and somehow lost interest. I've been feeling like going back and trying it again though. Should I play EU or do I just go straight into 2? Is 2 a significant improvement? I've heard good things about it but don't remember what.
Different enough that they're both worth playing. 2 most certainly doesn't make 1 obsolete. I prefer 1 still.
Thanks, guess I'll play 1 again.
Wow there’s a lot of childish spergs in this thread.
Holy frick there are some huge autists here even for Ganker standards
Even if he got the genre wrong, RTS and turn based strategy games are both subgenres in the overall strategy genre, it’s totally valid for someone who’s not into strategy games to ask if he’d like a turn based game even if he didn’t like other subgenres.
maybe you do like them and you dont even know because you cant even get the terminology right. So whether you like them or not is largely irrelevant because you lack even basic knowledge of whatever it is you're talking about anyway.
It’s very obvious from my post I’m not the OP
Yeah sure but that’s unrelated to what I’m talking about, after everyone told him he got the genre wrong he still asked if people would recommend it to him despite not liking RTS, and everyone just sperged out about them being completely different, when in reality they’re both part of the same overarching genre
More of a reason why thread ids should be universal.
>Apples and durian are both fruits
>Therefore everyone that likes apples probably likes durians
>food analogies
But yeah, if someone came up to me and said ‘I don’t like apples is it still worth trying a durian?’ That would be a totally valid question
Not really, it doesn't give the listener any useful information with which to deduce whether the person asking the question might like durians or not. What is it about apples that you do or don't like? If you like smelly foods and apples are too vanilla for you then hey maybe durians are a good thing to try.
Yes it absolutely does, it’s not even a question you need information for. ‘I like fruit so should I try this one?’ is a completely worthless question, you like other fruit so it’s likely you’ll also like this one, there’s no point even bothering asking.
‘I don’t like other fruit that I’ve tried, do you think I’d like this one?’ is reasonable, they don’t want to waste their time, and you can either tell them they’re similar enough that you wouldn’t like them, or that they have enough differences that it’s worth an attempt despite not liking the previous one.
If I had only ever played JRPG’s and disliked them, it is much more worth my time asking someone if there’s a chance I would like something like fallout or baldurs gate than either committing purchasing them or dismissing them entirely.
OP is clearly a zoomer. Zoomers should be gatekept at all times, especially when they've already demonstrated stupidity.
Stupidity or laziness, either way it's really kind of insane how they took the time to screenshot the sale but not click even one of the games to check out the steam page, look at one or two trailers and read a paragraph about the game before asking such an uninformed question.
Which is exactly why they should be gatekept.
>Don't ask any questions about videogames on my videogame board
>Ask the math professor if it's true that 2+2=5
Not him, but that's a terrible analogy.
There's nothing wrong with younger generations getting into videogames you cherished growing up. I been showing lot of games from Gen 4-5 to my nephew who's 8 years old lately.
Sure but that anon was talking about zoomers like op who was too stupid and lazy to know the difference between turn-based and RTS.
He clearly knows the difference he just assumed Xcom was an RTS and didn’t look into it at all
It's a shame that asking if you'd like Xcom when you don't like Starcraft is a moronic question. Maybe OP should try not being moronic.
RTS is different enough from turn based that you should be able to just look at a single screenshot of xcom and be able to tell that it isn't an RTS
If you don't like it you can leave
But thats wrong in terms of thinking as well. Someone who likes 4X might not like RTS but like TBS. And even when it comes to TBS games, theres different types within it. RTS has more in common with games like League Legends than it does with something like Xcom.
Yawn
I held off for a while on xcom 2 because some idiots on Ganker convinced me to
once I finally played it the only "bad" aspect was the silly DLC hero classes being utterly broken. Which is easily remedied by just ignoring them. Fricking Ganker
the only good thing about this game is the snakeussy fanfiction
Which one of these is your favorite?
How is original Xcom and Terror from the Deep?
I love these games. I've beaten both on impossible long war. Base game is fine for newbies. But gets way too easy too quickly. You steamroll hard.
Long war is fun but long.
Overall I'd say try a base game( plus dlc) Ironman classic difficulty campaign for both.
No save scumming.
Torrent it and never buy it
>Steam
>not pirating
moron.
objectively correct post.
ALWAYS pirate steam games. do not support that fat israelite frick
Honestly theyre fun but the core mechanics are fricking awful and not properly implemented
Is Xenonauts 2 any good? My buddy has been raving about the first one.
>Early access
>For a game that's been in development for 8 years
Doesn't matter if it's good, if you support it you're a homosexual. Stop giving devs money for unfinished games. It's not the customers responsibility to take on development risk.
Just play Xenonauts
How has nothing ever came close to XCOM? I don't fricking get it, I try many alternatives with the same gameplay but NOTHING compares to XCOM. And we'll never get XCOM 3 because pic related killed it and 2K fired the guy who rebooted XCOM and the CEO of Firaxis.
Because XCOM isn't "snowflake characters with snowflake powers going from one mission to another", it's the tight combination of management strategic layer that affects the combat layer, where your soldiers are just random fellas from across the globe, to which you get naturally attached since they survive long enough for you to remember them. At least that's what I miss from all of those proclaimed "clones".
I didn't like Mario VS Rabbids or Fire Emblem.
Would I like Xcom?
No, not for tranime fans.
It depends, it is a more complex and unforgiving game than those two and the second xcom most mission have a time limit which can be grueling in higher difficulties.
I think XCOM and TBS games in general are overrated, but I would say the first XCOM justifies the price tag by itself.
(OP)
>XCOM
>rts