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A month or two ago I tried X-COM for the first time, after having heard people gush over it for years and years. I knew almost nothing about it, and it made me mad almost from the start with its goddamned clunky old-game controls, and its presumption that I wanted to micromanage every stupid little thing. Then I played it some more and found out that the features that aggravated me belonged to the game's genre (turn-based "tactical" combat or whatever) and not really to the game itself, whose UI started to seem pretty clean and usable once I got used to the combat style. And after that my experience with X-COM only became better and better and I ended up loving it, notwithstanding that the version I played apparently has some ridiculous bug that prevents it from being played on any difficulty level other than the easiest one.
Anyway I just tried Alien Assault and it felt the way X-COM felt to me during the short period when I hated it. Except it seems that this time, it is the UI's fault. And also, the graphics and the engine's performance are much worse than X-COM's were! How does one produce a framerate this low on a modern computer, with just a few dozen tiny sprites to draw? It's impressive!
I can't come up with any positive note on which to end this quasi-review of Alien Assault, so instead I'll just say, go play X-COM if you haven't! |
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Mischief Maker's Indie Roundup: The Reboot by Mischief Maker 10/01/2009, 7:08pm PDT 
Re: Mischief Maker's Indie Roundup: The Reboot by FABIO 10/01/2009, 9:48pm PDT
Bummer. by Mischief Maker 10/02/2009, 9:54am PDT
huh by FABIO 10/02/2009, 6:01pm PDT
frontpage plz NT by Zsenitan 10/02/2009, 9:55am PDT
Grat Space Battles by FABIO 10/06/2009, 10:56pm PDT
Tenative thumbs down (unless I'm missing something?) by FABIO 10/08/2009, 11:39pm PDT
Unfortunately you're not by Mischief Maker 10/09/2009, 8:06am PDT
Ender's Game spoilers in MM's post!!!! And mine. by Arbit 10/09/2009, 9:38am PDT
Well ... that's just sci-fi, right? by Worm 10/09/2009, 10:53am PDT
Re: Well ... that's just sci-fi, right? by Zsenitan 10/10/2009, 4:52am PDT
ACTUALLY LET'S HAVE AN EXCERPT by Zsenitan 10/10/2009, 7:01am PDT
Re: Ender's Game spoilers in MM's post!!!! And mine. by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/09/2009, 12:01pm PDT
on sentient humans by Fullofkittens 10/09/2009, 12:18pm PDT
Re: on sentient humans by Arbit 10/09/2009, 1:48pm PDT
I don't fuckin' know man, I'm telling you what it says in the book. NT by Fullofkittens 10/09/2009, 5:04pm PDT
Ender forward by FABIO 10/09/2009, 1:18pm PDT
Re: Ender's Game spoilers in MM's post!!!! And mine. by Zsenitan 10/10/2009, 4:38am PDT
The only thing worse than Ender's Game by FABIO 10/09/2009, 1:12pm PDT
Ender's Game fans also tend to love Atlas Shrugged by FABIO 10/09/2009, 1:14pm PDT
Also... by Chairman Mao 10/09/2009, 1:39pm PDT
Speaker For The Dead was totally awesome compared to Xenocide. by Fullofkittens 10/09/2009, 1:42pm PDT
Children of the Mind was actually my favorite by Chairman Mao 10/09/2009, 1:48pm PDT
Oh yeah, and... by Chairman Mao 10/09/2009, 1:50pm PDT
Don't whiz on the electric fence NT by Entropy Stew 10/09/2009, 2:15pm PDT
Card's women are always horrible creatures by FABIO 10/09/2009, 3:36pm PDT
Re: The only thing worse than Ender's Game by Arbit 10/09/2009, 2:15pm PDT
Re: The only thing worse than Ender's Game by FABIO 10/09/2009, 2:26pm PDT
Oh my god, a good Fabio post. Hard on the heels of the adorable Korean Pizza eve NT by Zsenitan 10/09/2009, 3:45pm PDT
Will your friends vote me into top 3 caltrops posters now? NT by FABIO 10/09/2009, 3:52pm PDT
I will ask ^___________________________________________________________________^ NT by Zsenitan 10/09/2009, 3:55pm PDT
ender's game won a hugo and nebula award for great science fiction, HAVE YOU? NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/17/2009, 3:57pm PDT
I remember why I hated Speaker of the Dead so much by fabio 05/12/2015, 9:54am PDT
the enemies actually shoot back? that's not a tower defense game then NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/09/2009, 2:19pm PDT
Re: Mischief Maker's Indie Roundup: The Reboot by Bananadine 10/21/2009, 2:25pm PDT
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