Originally Posted by
Fox
I don't generally pre-order games, but having seen so many early impressions from people I trust AND a really good deal on GMG, I went for it. Pretty excited for this one! XCOM is great for the emergent stories.
In fact I'm going to share one. The game? XCOM Enemy Within. The mission? Base defense. I had never watched this far in a Let's Play, and I had never made it this far in my games, so I was completely unprepared for this mission to hit. Imagine my horror, as the level loads in and I assess my squad, that I had rotated my best sniper out for the last mission - she was equipped with default gear. Cue multiple Chrysallids, Mechtoids and Cyberdiscs. This was the end of Elizabeth 'Low Rider' Petit, and probably a lot of other very important units as well.
Or at least it would have been, if of around 48 enemies killed during the course of the mission, 'Low Rider' hadn't got 30 of them. With about a 90% Critical Hit rate. Casulties? 2 Rookies.
I remember the medal I unlocked at the end of the mission gave my sniper no stat benefit whatsoever but I didn't care. She smurfing deserved it. I gave her a new nickname, 'Critter' (I suck at nicknames btw) and began writing fanfiction about her and her lesbian lover 'Colonel Twitch' who was my best assault.
I need another game that can create these kinds of scenarios. I need XCOM 2 in my life!