Remakes are theft developers making other people's work it's more than just replacement it's bad. Lazy devs and it's wrong for any of them to be a thing, new IP should be made it's time to stop remakes.

Remakes are dangerous and buying them is killing off original Art.

thanks! Yeah this format seems to be doing well for me. The big challenge for the backlog thing has been trying to come up with something interesting to say about games i'm less enthusiastic about, but that's all part of the thrill of making these things, I guess

@@segadriven I see the connection! I need to check eldrich out some time it sounds interesting

@@DrRESHES funnily enough this is kind of the subject of my next video, although not about XCOM itself. I'm a big Enemy Within fan, but I feel that the sequel mistakes business for depth somewhat. There's a balance that has to be made, that 'easy to pick up difficult to master' thing that makes depth a matter of alchemy rather than just loads and loads of systems (see also: Slay the Spire/Balatro)

​@@Buliaros18-Static-Canvas Yes, Balance between the gameplay and systems that can mesh and react to each other to make a granular and organic soup. I am also one of those people that believe in that, something that we lost many years ago. I have a game for you to research for this topic. Jagged Alliance 2 (1999), a game that was made in a family business indie company that also made Wizardry, which means they did what ever they wanted not to appeal to any investors or producers, The Director was the Producer and Designer and the original creator of the game, even delayed the game to meet fans expectations. what came out was a game that is still talked today and being "improved" because they gave the source code accessible to anyone. JA2 was a game i played for fun, but later I realized that this game was ocean deep, even with my deep knowledge and resurgent interest in 2010s, I still haven't experienced everything, and I know this will help you on this topic, because it's an important game. (if you need side literature on Jagged Alliance 2, there's only 1 book, by Boss Fight Books - book No.5, this is not a sponsor, I'm dead serious). Good luck on your next video. I'll keep a close eye on it.

@@Buliaros18-Static-Canvas Also If you going to get it, I heard that the GOG version is much more optimized than the Steam version. I can't be sure because I still play the 1.02 ver. the first ver. that came in 1999, and it still run perfectly on Win 10. but the later and last 1.12 is also great.

Here's a vertical slice of a mundane thing: the Door. Usually in TBT the door's function is to obstruct the vision and can be accessed easily primarily and mostly by the player. In Jagged Alliance the Door can be opened if it's unlocked, easy. But if it's locked you have 10 options, 8 given in a small box of options when one of your Merc is interacting with it. - you can still try use the handle, maybe it's left there so you can draw noise, and your Merc will have a bark line to say, fitting to his/her personality. - You can check for traps, a Merc with a Mechanic skill will detect that instantly and leave a unique bark. - You can try disarm it, depends on your Merc Mechanic skill and Dexterity (maybe even Explosions skill). * a Merc with low Mechanic skill won't notice it's trapped and if he try to interact with the Door, he will be injured, and injury is a whole other topic. - You Kick the door, if you have good Strength, if not a unique bark will happen that he can't Do It, but you can keep going for laughs, and maybe it'll budge, It makes a lot of sound. * on the topic of Sounds, usually the game is RTS mode when the sector is liberated, but also the games goes Real Time, when you don't see an enemy, and they don't see you and this is cat and mouse game of who will catch the other, and interrupt their turn based on their Experience, and if you have AP (Injury system also one of the aspects of dictates the number of AP). - You can use a detonator, if you don't have it but have a TNT, you can RMC (Right Mouse Click) on it and take it out of the TNT, but low Explosion skill can damage the detonator, and it will be a dud. - You can Lockpick, easy, if you have the Lockpick tool kit, which most high Mechanic Mercs have. *high security Doors can be opened if the Merc have the Electronics Perk, *Perks usually come with the Mercs because the game is "Fun Simulator" and takes it's characters seriously which means you can read each Merc's CV before hiring them, but it's not that important because, Next is - - You can find a Key and use it. most of the time it's in an area where there are important facilities. - you can use a crowbar to pry open the lock, based on Strength of the Merc. and there are 2 other ways that aren't told to you nor hinted and you have no idea about but they make sense. - You choose a Merc from a line of portraits down on your screen when you're in the Tactical view (there's a map view, a laptop view for Internet stuff, and Tactical View), each portrait have visible two slots, the upper one is what tool they will be using, and the lower is secondary, you don't need to put there anything when lockpicking, it detects it by itself, but what ever is in the slot can be used directly, just pick the Merc and press RMC and you can use that thing, like a Medkit or TNT, but if you have a gun, you can aim at anything at anytime, even if you don't see an enemy but you heard something like South-West from you and shoot there, Every Bullet isn't laser based Algorithm, every bullet has a hit box, so you can spray and pray and maybe you'll hit someone. like a civilian. but what you don't know is that you can Aim at the Door in Real Time and shoot at it, and you shoot some more, until it says the lock is damaged, you shoot some more until the same message repeats 3 times, and automatically say The lock is destroyed. - or just put some explosion near the door or a wall and blow it away. the problem is that it makes noise and it can become very tense if the sector isn't liberated and you making too much noise so the enemy has a chance to plan their ambush. On hard difficulty they are cunning, they don't become spunges, because everyone is working on the same system, the only thing that matters is what armor and what type of bullets all the parties have. but you also can use noise to your advantage to draw them with noise to your ambush. and this is what it takes to explain One Mechanic, and holding my composure Not to sidetrack to other mechanics.

Oh forgot to mention that Interruption is also affected by the moral of individual Merc, So It's Experience and High Moral, and maybe even Agility and Dexterity, but I never checked the game wiki for that, because I value each experience with this game, by always being blind to the mechanics, and hidden mechanics that makes this game so fun to replay. Oh and some guns can have suppressors attached to them, Among other things. This amount of granularity is in only this game, but it also have so much balance between the gameplay and RPG stuff that makes this the best game ever made, and if Jagged Alliance 2 was a bit more popular and if JA1 wouldn't been released 9 months after XCOM the OG, the history of the genre could've been very different.

@@Fachewachewa that sounds sick, I need to get into VR

@@Crispyyy7 haha I get the comparison, thank you that's very flattering

Lmao sorry for the mispronunciation!

I'd never thought about it before but 'Begs the question' is one of those etymologically weird phrases that's meaning has warped over time, you're absolutely right though I am technically using it wrong haha. Thanks for your comments, lots to think about!

2000 is still quite a lot! The algorithm isn't kind to the kind of work I do so I appreciate what success I have had in spite of that