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I started out on Veteran because, hey, I played the original a lot, right? I'm playing on Normal and it's still a struggle. I think most should play on Easy.

The thing is, nothing is free anymore. You don't have any broken strategy or weapon to cruise through the game and the AI will give you a hard time instead of running out of their UFOs 20 turns lafter the mission started.

It makes the game more tense but geez :lol:


By the way, I hate the naming convention of this series.
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I feel like Xenonauts lacks the personality that the latest XCOM had.
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MrPopo wrote:I feel like Xenonauts lacks the personality that the latest XCOM had.
I haven't played the new XCOM but it seems likely. While the mechanics are great and some of the pictures and lore and very interesting, the presentation is hopelessly bland.
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You havent played XCOM? Wtf? I posted it was free last week!
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noiseredux wrote:You havent played XCOM? Wtf? I posted it was free last week!
Free? Where?
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BTW guys, I got XCOM on PS3...(my PSN is Green-Whiskey)

Just finished Heavy Rain. Holy shit I didn't expect that. Makes a lot of sense, but damn.

It'll take a while to platinum though if I have to get all the endings...
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They have announced a Myst TV series! I look foward to it :)
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I wish I had started playing Pinball regularly earlier in my life, I might have actually done better in Geometry and Physics.
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Erik_Twice wrote:They have announced a Myst TV series! I look foward to it :)
Same here. There have been talks about making The Book of Ti'ana into a film, which has been in limbo for a year or so. I am glad there is something coming from it as the world needs to continue.
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Just finished Heavy Rain. Holy shit I didn't expect that. Makes a lot of sense, but damn.

It'll take a while to platinum though if I have to get all the endings...
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Actually, after do a bit of reading, I actually did quite well in the game. I made a few mistakes, but nothing to bad honestly. I messed up with Ethan, and lost a certain NPC, but other than that I did pretty much everything right.

Although, getting the "Perfect Crime" trophy is going to be fun...
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