Re: Hate Thread
Now, before I go into my post, I'd like to elaborate that I do pirate games, and for anybody living in South Africa I would advocate pirating games because of how bad of a deal we get from certain developers and ideals within the anti-piracy division of gaming as a whole. AKA always-online security clarification and DRMs etc etc... This applies in particular to steam games, who even without DRMs, can be fucking annoying to get installed and working when I should have only had to have paid for it.
I have been trying to get Xcom: Enemy Unknown working for ages, and recently I managed to succeed, even applying an update patch and getting it up to date. And, in a way, I am not disappointed at all, it's an awesome game. Addictive, and in a way the less respectable and buggy parts of the game are funny as hell. And not just that, intended game mechanisms are also funny at times as well.
For example, immediately after shooting a Muton in face at point blank range with a scatterlaser, the muton uses his intimidation ability on my squaddie, causing him to panic, and immediately shoot him in the face again. GREAT IDEA!
But that brings me to the Hate part, the game rigs percentages and falsely represents your odds during battle, meaning that 50% is more like 40% and 60% is more like 70% at times. What!? I know this might sound farfetched, and false, but I've missed when the shot was supposed to be at 100% accuracy. It might be a bug, but that implies something about the game mechanics.
That, and the difficulty scale can be a tad unfair at times. I understand that sometimes I'll miss a 70% shot, sure. But does it really have to be three times in a row, when you've just had 6 chryssalids and 3 mutons come out of buttfuck nowhere? And why is it, when I get the jump on a chryssalid on my last unit's turn, can it run halfway across the universe into the middle of my squadron, and then immediately begin it's turn? I love Enemy Unknown, but it doesn't play fair, and the enemies follow different rules than I do, making it seem even more unfair at times. I hate that.
