#XCOM 2

[lowpolyanimals]

Pigeon from XCOM 2

[frogblast-the-ventcore]

art by EthrkArt

[forsaire]

I don't know if I posted this already, and if I did, Tumblr is hiding it from me, but my delusions for those military war criminals are so strong it transcends games

Here are my xcom 2 characters just for the fun of it. Very "we have modern warfare at home" vibes.

Ghost

Fuck I didn't notice he blinked! Why did you blink?! bRO. He stunning brown eyes were just too powerful.

Soap

Like a little brownie on his head 😌

Price

Honestly? The closest of all the characters.

Gaz

My pretty boy... where has he gone... 😔

Laswell

She's taking no shit in whatever games she's in.

Alejandro

I completely forgot I had made his suit hot pink. Slay.

Rudy

This feels disrespectful to my boy. Justice for Rudy. Still not an operator???

Farah

Thank you for your service.

Valeria

Step on me.

Konig

Probably the funniest because of how absolutely cursed it looks.

And yes, I did take into account their classes and who I can special mate them to. And yes, I will be creating them again every time I play. They've saved the world twice now. Looking forward to a third.

[ionjuno]

some old (and new) sketches of my commander

[protemporescitor]

Peak Gaming - XCOM 2 x Mass Effect

[biggestart]

Last year, I tried making an XCOM 2 screenshot Let's Play similar in nature to Guavamoment's old X-COM: UFO Defense Let's Play, but abandoned it quickly due to the difficulty involved, as well as the strain it put on my computer.

Nonetheless, I did manage to make a "Commandersona". Because of the way everyone in the game hypes up the importance of The Commander, I thought it would be cute and funny to make him an unassuming older guy. Plus it made it more fun to ship him with the haggard middle-aged XCOM 2 version of Bradford.

Maybe I'll try it again someday.

[msvblight]

Vomiting blood and a corrosive black paste onto every available surface at work because I want to go gome and play more xcom 2

[facelesscharactersoftheday]

The faceless characters of today is Spectre from XCOM

[sleepdeprivedartboi]

Never change Xcom. Never change.

[sh1ny-mew]

i like when characters mouths just

why your mouth so big

[rose-morose]

every time someone calls Caitlyn "commander" I just hear the council spokesman from XCOM saying "hello commander"

hello commander

[soup-mother]

holy fucking shit no way

explaining alien propaganda to an american: imagine ADVENT burger

[frogblast-the-ventcore]

The Harkness Vahlen Test, mandatory review material for all XCOM recruits in the post-ADVENT era.

Original meme source: unknown

[ask-manda-of-the-6]

Using my powers of artistry *only* for evil. >:3

[minathered]

It Gets Good X Hours In...

Is there any worse defence for a game? I say this as a Final Fantasy XIV player. The weakest part of the game is the gap between ARR and Heavensward. It shouldn't take as long as it does for FFXIV to really come together. Do I still love it? Absolutely but man can it be a drag early on.

A game shouldn't take 20 hours to be worth your time. I've seen people say "Oh just play through Veilguard for the first 20 hours and it gets really good" and like, shouldn't it be good from the start?

And this isn't me being against a slow pace in games. I love Okami and that game has a leisurely pace at best, but its interesting from the jump. The game isn't an awkward slog until you beat Orochi. Its a fine line to walk but it can be done.

Or, just make your opening so compelling you NEED to keep going. New Vegas does this perfectly imo. Especially as it also had the task of bringing fans up to speed with everything that happened between Fallout 2 and it.

Mass Effect 1 does this really well too. Sure the game only really opens up once you leave the citadel, but its all so rich and interesting leading up to that, that it doesn't really matter.

Again, I'm not against slow paced games (XCOM My Beloved) But there needs to be more than just "Content" to work through in those early hours.