I Am a Gamer

Lately I've gotten really into XCOM - Enemy Within, Longwar Mod, Ironman Mode. It's designed to make the game as hard as possible without being stupid-hard. It also makes it so that I can't undo anything by reloading an old save (if my people die, they're dead).

I love how games like this give me a deep bag of tricks and then force me to dig to the bottom again and again in order to survive. I love how it HURTS whenever a long time, high ranking soldier gets killed because I took a stupid chance and put them in a position to get flanked. I restarted a bunch of times when I was still learning things, but my current game is going really well. I think I'm finally at the point where I *might* be able to make a real run at finally beating the thing.

But yeah, I love games that try to murder me, and force me to be a total badass in order to survive.

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Pretzellogic

"Xcom" is a great franchise.

BlueDiver · 36-40, M

Agreed. I never got into it until Enemy Unknown, but I had a friend who adored the older ones.

Pretzellogic

"Unknown" and "Enemy Within" are both really well made. Very fun on tablets as well, was surprised.

BlueDiver · 36-40, M

Really? I guess it makes sense that turn based tactical strategy games would work better than most on a tablet. Still, I wouldn't want to play Longwar mod on Ironman mode on a tablet - the lack of total concentration would probably get my squad murdered on anything but low panic abduction missions. And even those would be dicey on smaller maps where it's way too easy to aggro multiple groups of xrays at the same time.

Pretzellogic

Totally agree, was just referring to "Xcom".