Hope you're healing up okay corey - and glad XCOM is helping you pass the time. I did a couple of guides on the game in case they're any use (I know there's already a ton out there!) I put them in an XCOM playlist on the channel.

@@napyet I loved the guides! Do you have any other turned based games you would recommend??

@@coreyjasper8329 I played Hard West after XCOM and its pretty good. Very similar in a lot of ways but a completely different setting and tone. My fave turn based game of all time is Final Fantasy Tactics if you like retro stuff!

There's Phoenix Point, Warhammer 40K Chaos Gate, Gears Tactics, Mutant Year Zero, Wasteland 2-3, and of course, Xcom Chameleon squad.

Thank you for your suggestions I’m gonna check them out keep up the great content 😊😊

Each t othei rown I guess but personally I lik eMidnight Suns I liked Xcom as wel s oi tdoesn' tbother me tha tmuch sa I enjoyed both. Stil play them.

Money talks

Never got another deus ex for same reason

I dont like marvel either but the game is really fun ngl, it has a lot of content so im not even mad tbh

@@afonsoalmeida4975 I like Marvel more than DC as I find thei rcharactres moer interestin but I can understand.

Let's be honest, it's the investors and the absolutely clueless people to the gaming franchise, that see nothing but money in their eyes. Hen e liveservice and other ns measures. For some big companies, gone are the days to make the greatest game and in with the day to make the greatest way to milk money, a good game is an afterthought.

Yes, it was fun, but I think it could have been expanded more. About mid-game I realized I already have basically every card that is available and the rest was... a bit boring.

Yeah But No one from xcom2 are left. Will it acually be xcom 3 If everyone worked on it are gone

I'm not a big fan of card games either so that was a bit of a turn off for me. I wonder if card-games do better on mobile? They're huge on that platform.

@@napyet Most gamers when they hear that there are cards in a game they dont get a good feeling. A long time ago it wasent as bad but if u release something like that today especially in combination with established heroes everyone immediately thinks they are 100% trying to cram in a way for u to buy card packs and that isent a good thing for any game that isent a pure card game like Yu-Gi-Oh, Magic or Hearthstone.

@@Shiftry87 imagine if midnight suns lets you deploy shield soldiers that you could customize like XCOM troops, and heroes are treated as elites that you can only deploy 1 or 2 in a normal missions (more in special avenger missions). Kinda like the psi op elites and the commander avatar in xcom 2. It doesn't feel tactical if all you get are random card drafts, and the movements are very limited too it makes the mission feel linear

​@@InnerFire6213 It sounds like a cool ide when u first read it which is why almost that same system u describe was the core gameplay design of Battlefront 2 when it released and look what they did with it. If there are cards that gives u a hero unit or influence the power of units its only a matter of time before they start to sell them.

if your serious about the old games look into the rosigma mod for defender its amazing

No.

Sadly EA has that IP. Rip.

Not yet - I need to get around to playing it

Yeah I actuall yreall yenjoy playing Midnight Suns if anything I enjo yit moer than Xcom but I do enjoy both

​@@napyetild be interested in your opinion, I don't like marvel, but if the mechanics are good I could hold my nose

idk the plot/dialog and the character sim part was really mediocre. the combat was pretty fun tho. wish there was more of that in the game.

@@RauschenPauli I personally liked i tbut everyone has thei rown opinion.

Ditto for me too I think. You kind of know who everyone is and how they're going to behave already. What the devs can do with established characters is limited.

@@napyet I'm keen to check it out at some point, but when I'm not sure~

@@That_Ifrit_Guy apparently like 60% of the game is great eg combat ect but the other 40% is almost like dating sim haha which is rubbish

@@gregbackas987 Dating sims can be fun~

Thanks for watching - and hope you have fun with Midnight Suns!

I think the issue is tied to the medium... We like our superheroes to overcome adversity, solve situations, or fail to do so and have to live with the consequences. That makes good stories and/or good characters that we enjoy witnessing. In games however, the player is in control. You can't take too much agency from them to tell your story, or they will call BS and loose their supsence of disbelief, and likely their investment in the story. Also, playing is supposed to be fun, you need challenges to overcome, but neither a difficulty wall, nor a permanent power trip... Thus, the characters we've come to love and know what they're supposed to be capable of end up severely underpowered, or unable to perform game breaking feats that are part of their basic kit... Thus, the very same gameplay that would be a blast to experience on its own, become a magnets of lore inconsistencies, frustration and so on once you attach it to a recognisable character it doesn't fit ! For instance : the Arkham series is great, Batman is all about infiltration and beating up vilains; the Gotham Impostors game was an absolute flop because no one wants to play an FPS in that setting !

@@pierre-mariecaulliez6285 You make a good point.

I would like them to look at how fighting close-quarters combat works. Less misses when your gun barrel is literally in the enemy's face!

by playing the mods Long War 2 and Long War of the Chosen 😉 Incredible mod packs that greatly extend the playtime of the games.

i think it comes down to trying to take what was in the game at its core and improve it. This is what 2 did over EU well. We all love WoTC, but 2 without it was a very solid game. And it was because they worked on things like -destructible cover being improved and extended to floors, and better rendered -movement being easier to plan out with markers -a concealment mechanic -making weapon upgrades go from buying one of each to squad based upgrades, thus removing some almost busy work (this one can be argued) Part of why i ultimately never went back to unknown/within despite personally preferring its setting and story is because all the little conveniences, ui upgrades, and just in general experience bits of the game made it that much better. You could reset the story for 3, back to defending to pre-invasion, and bring so much QoL from 2 to it, while adding new QoL features and consistency (Line of Sight working better, animation delays etc) that it would be worth getting and playing.

I avoided it for the same reason, plus I suspected it would have free to play monetisation

For me it was a big yes give i tto me as ther reall yisn' tmany singleplayer superhero RPG's Avengers an dSuicide Squad were bot hcompletel yonline which was fo rme why I'm glad Midnight Suns exists. Being disabled and only with one hand on the controls I'm not great a taction games I can play som ewit heasy AI but I prefer games wit hmoe rtactics and strategy s oMidnigh tSuns kind of fits and scratches that itch perfectly.

That’s one I couldn’t get into , start of mission felt like I had to run for like ten turns before I found any enemies , idk if they ever changed it but maps felt gigantic , I loved gears tactics and othercide tho . They were fun but no word of sequels on them :/

Instead of blaming people you don't know for being "lazy" why not back up your statement with some facts. Using "they're" is the height of a lazy argument.

Always felt the same. Just never found superhero games interesting. Tv shows, movies, and a few comics here and there sure. But games? Never. Odd really. I wonder what causes that.

Perhaps...the messaging regarding what the "Midnight Suns" actually were seemed unclear to me. Like a sort of magical super-team that live in a castle. I was never really sure.

Most people who play BG3 don't even realise or care it's turn based. The animations and flow of combat works well to it's advantage with action players. Also some people who played BG1/2 as a real time game probably still think BG3 is the same.

I never played Apocalypse - I'm intrigued to try it to see what they were trying to do with that faster style of gameplay. But XCOM for me should always been about careful decision making. Life and death choices!

@@napyet Recalling how I felt when I first played it, I have to say I feel really rushed and I'm constantly getting prompted to head into battle. Imagine you just come back from a 30~45 min battle, your team's exhausted and injured, and the game is prompting you the next fight is already beginning. Snowball that into unstopping waves of fight with no breaks, eventually all your team members are gonna be exhausted, injured, and your sponsors start to complain and retract funding because you're not protecting their interest.

@@dcfavorite Sounds to me like they were trying to take out the strategic layer and just have it be a string of battles. Kind of misses the big picture of why the games work

@@napyet lol don't take my words for it, it's been many years, try it, and let me know if you feel the same.

That wasn't a 3rd one really, it was same game engine, with slightly different style and scope, they was no grand side to it, and the hero's was fixed not expendable

@@blackraven3720 Correct and if you would read with understanding my coment said spin off, and it was clearly 3rd instalment in franchise. Can agree smaller in scope, but still both developer complaining that he had to make MMS ( nice game in my opinion ) and firaxis clearly try yo make us forget they made that abomination.

@@andrzejkulczyk4378 midnight suns is fantastic. and from a technical pov, the third xcom game is probably the best one. But it lacked the strategic element that a lot of xcom fans enjoy.

Chimera squad it's not that bad, i actually liked it.

Chimera Squad is a decent game, but the mechanics got repetitive with the small levels, and most of the story and dialogue was very mediocre.

not related in any way.

I would like to see some risks being taken also. The two-move system of Enemy Unknown was such a game changer in 2012 it basically became the norm.

@@napyet Yeah, it was equally good and bad for the games we played since then. Xcom formula is fun, but seeing it adapted for 15th time just doesn´t do it for me. Not even older franchises were spared (JA3).

I haven't heard very good things about Phoenix Point sadly. A few positives here and there but mostly negativity.

Phoenix point is nothing like new XCOMs. It is more like the old ones. If you like that that is fine, but i don't. Also it has kind a "cheap" filling to it.

Honestly it kinda does different things but along the same lines. Think the main reason it's so hated was broken kickstarter promises because they took an Epic exclusivity deal, lot of hardcore fans were really upset about it.

My reasoning is that Chameleon Squad was to show Marvel that they could release a story/buddy focus game. But since Midnight Sun didn't at all perform sales wise Jake quit and we'll never get an XCOM 3.

Chimera Squad is not cannon to the XCOM storyline stated by the produces of Chimera Squad. It was created to play around and try out new game mechanics. The story to Chimera is more like fan fic.

@@edhart8583 Which interview are you talking about? The Polygon interview of Mark Nauta made it clear that Enemy Unknown's "Game Over" ending, War of the Chosen's good ending and Chimera Squad are the current canon.

​@@aquapendulum Chimera Squad wiki. Development, second paragraph. And if you think I'm wrong then the decision for this direction of the story is poor because you need to consider future games to continue the story. XCOM is about Earth vs Alians, not everyone is friends now and we now fighting other humans who don't agree we can live peacefully together. Completely miss the mark if Chimera is cannon. But I do like the idea of Jane Kelly being Central for XCOM 3 and Bradford playing a more Senior General role like faceless bald man in XCOM 2.

@@edhart8583 Your source didn't say Chimera Squad isn't canon. The full quote from the Firaxis spokesman was "It’s neither a sequel or expansion to XCOM 2, though its story is set after the events of the past games". Oh, okay... You mean to tell me it's a spinoff game, that's it? He didn't contradict Nauta in the Polygon interview whatsoever. The company messaging is still consistent: Chimera Squad is canon.

I'm always intrigued thinking about where they might set it. I get that everyone wants it under water like Terror from the Deep but I never much cared for that setting.