Started playing the much lauded turn based tactical squad based series Xcom Enemy Unknown. I could buy the game and get the upgrade Enemy Within on a Steam sale now, but figure why bother when I have the base game on my 360 and it is is widely considered darn near perfect as is, with the expansion merely adding "more".
Fun game, you split your time at a base building up alien interrogation facilities, labs to study artifacts and corpses and such to build weapons and armor and devices, monitor alien activity and send jets to shoot them down, and the other half is sending squads of disposable soldiers out to collect stuff and stop invaders. The squad members get more abilities from "promotions", like maybe one guy gets to shoot and move where everyone else uses up their two action points the moment they fire a weapon (This means you can normally move on an enemy and shoot, and if you miss you're a sitting duck, but the "run and gun" ability lets you fire, miss, and move somewhere else).
The game is fun but I am complete shite at tactics. I'll get my four guys separated, or put them in half cover leaving them exposed to counter attacks, or throw a grenade and hit my own guys. I'm also far more absorbed compared to games I'm better at, I guess being bad at something is good because you get to learn something new.
Originally posted by cdtm
Read some of the manga it was allegedly based on. Wouldn't recommend it, main character is no Bride, and is littered with Mangaka perversions (Pornographic references, paedo-bear crap you name it)
Completely different culture innit, can't judge a Japanese based story using Western standards.
Gotta really do your homework first, I went to the Jersey Wrestlemania, knew as soon as I saw a tractor trailer taking up like 25 spaces on a diagonal that we were in for a bad time.
Try no running water in the bathroom, goodbye shower. Sounds of dealing or prostitution or who knows what going on all night long.
Originally posted by Nuke Nixon
Completely different culture innit, can't judge a Japanese based story using Western standards.
True, just saying. Lady Snowblood is the name of the manga, and about all it has going for it is edgy for the sake of edge. Sex and violence and not much else.
Basically stuff that impresses teens but you get either desensitized to, or grossed out by later.
Now something like Blade of the Immortal is a lot worse in the edgy stuff, we're talking a guy sharpening his own bones into blades here, but it also has good characters and a good story. Put another way the excess serves the story, and isn't there just to be there.