@Tomcat2007: its a learning lesson. or gear check. an obvious example is: did you properly prioritize your economy and research before the first terror mission.... no? well what could you have done to improve your overall strength to better prepare yourself for this if you could do it all over again... like don't waste all your early cash on excavations and elevators, save it for crucial purchases like laser weapons or carapace armor asap...
@omotih: did you play the longwar mod for xcom enemy within?
also, did you know the longwar mod team is now a 40 man dev team working on their own alien defense strategy game, terra invicta? website is longwarstudios.
i feel Long War has spoiled me. i have no doubt that xcom 2 is an improvement over eu/ew, but it will fall short of improving upon Long War, and i feel that will undoubtedly hurt my appreciation for the sequel.
@MrFreehuggs: when your product has to resort to bells and whistles, it's a fair bet that the core product is just a turd getting a thorough polishing.
business is good though. because there are plenty of people out there who have a hobby of collecting polished turds.
minecraft does that any time i am building on a skyblock and i am placing blocks, extending the edge of my platform staring an nothing but deep blue below.
@Spartan_418: yeah, i'm clearly some kinda jerkface, because i actually value a mouse and keyboard's precision when playing a genre that was invented with such controls... no aim assist, no dumbed down shallow gameplay. that was before big publishers went out and bought all the good intellectual property and started marketing it to the masses who are too poor to buy a video card. (but apparently not too poor to pay $110 a year for a single game) ...enjoy your expensive console games. i have about 350 games in my steam library. enjoy that lack of backwards compatibility on consoles. the xbone tries to act like they have such a feature which makes it better than sony, but only a fool would believe something so ridiculous.
@Spartan_418: is that all you took away from my post? really?
actually, Hardline was DOA. nobody bought it. if you bought it, great. doesn't change the facts. it was a flop. so were other EA frostbite games, like medal of honor, titanfall, etc of course i'm talking on pc. and that's maybe why i have a better BS detection that your standard console player... plainly put, this talk from EA is just marketing, insincere at that.
EA would rather you buy star wars battlefront instead of never buy another game for 10 years and just play bf4 for 10 years or any other game. give them your money! annually. these words "long tail" is complete nonsense.
um, seriously. these guys are all talk. just think before you write an article and give these idiots freedom to brainwash the innocent...
why is gamespot quoting bs as if it is harmless? "star wars battlefront will have an incredibly long tail" and they say just look at bf4... after 2 years... i'm sorry but i call bs. bf4 killed off the bf3 community. bf5 will kill off the previous and so on. and the next star wars game will kill off whatever community there is for this shallow shooter.... there is no "long tail"... this is the business model ever since consoles got an internet connection and ruined online games for the pc gamers.
a long tail would be 10 years. and we all know EA doesn't want you playing their games more than a month after the last DLC ships. they want you to move on to the next game that costs $110 a year.
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