Quote Originally Posted by Saph View Post
I've been playing Phoenix Point, the XCOM-like game from the original designer of XCOM. It's pretty good – started out very buggy when it was released in December, but since then the devs have been very active with patches and fixes. It almost feels like they're treating the Epic release as an alpha in preparation for the Steam launch this winter – they've done tons of rebalancing and have completely reworked things like the base and exploration system.
Advantage of Epic Eclusives I really, really, don't have to care until it comes out proper-like, especially since I usually wait until a year after release to play most stuff nowadays anyway...

By the time that and MW5 come out elsewhere, they'll be better expereinces.



(I passed on Troy as well; not even going to make an Epic account for a free game, lads, sorry. Call me, Epic, when you at least have managed a basic shopping cart and then MAYBE I'll consider looking in your direction, ever... Yes, Steam's bad, but I don't propose the solution is to be as bad or worse...)



Quote Originally Posted by Saph
The game's pretty fun, but man, the campaign is LONG. I've been playing the same campaign for more than two weeks now and I'm only finally getting close to the end. Getting coverage of the whole globe means you have to do a ton of missions defending settlements from alien attacks, and you need multiple teams spread across different continents.
I mean, I should hope it would take a good few tens of hours to play; my last X-Com 2 game was a good 120+ hours (and I wasn't writing it up this time)...

Don't suppose there's anything like the X-Com 2 photobooth is there? that's a feature that could do with becoming standard across all these sorts of games if there ever was one.