#x-com

[msvblight]

Okay, might be a little fanfiction-brained of me but I think that in Xcom it would be so thematically fitting for Bradford to marry a Hybrid.

A way of showing him coming to terms with life after ADVENT. Setting aside his hatred of aliens to find love in the new world.

[swedebeast]

X-COM turns 30 years old

It was released in 1994. Look at all those pixels. The current generation might find it cute, but the older generations are just happy there's no Chrysalis in this image.

Because then the cold sweats would start pouring.

[autodiscothings]

An X-COMmission (hehe) for @white-aster, featuring their OCs patrolling the city.

[blendwerk]

Elon Musk x Ti West: Dying to show you a good time

[thecountofs]

XCOM: We Were Never Alone (Comic)

'Interception'

[doolallymagpie]

rejoice! old school xcom terror mission briefing music be upon you!

[superspunkus]

messy sketches of an xcom skirmisher lass

[jolikmc-thoughts]

Did You Know?™

It's physically impossible to find any relevant search results for (the website formerly known as) Twitter on YouTube since its rebranding.

Searching for its current domain results, understandably, in gameplay videos and things related to the UFO: Enemy Unknown series – otherwise known as "X-COM".

Thanks, Elon!™

[florareed]

IMPORTANT QUESTION

Double brownie points for anyone who knows what I'm talking about.

[devileaterjaek]

[tagnoob]

A Tweet by Any Other Name... Might Stink Even Worse

Every times I think that, just maybe Elon Must has hit rock bottom on the dumpster fire that has become Twitter, every time I think, “this must be it, he’ll realize that he can’t just follow his impulse on everything,” he says “Hold my skull bong!” and proceeds to prove he isn’t done being the internet town fool.  And this past weekend was no different. To cut to the chase, Elon has been tweeting…

[therealfelicia]

Got bitten by the miniature-gaming bug, so I'm building myself a campaign of Pulp Alley on Tabletop Simulator.

Being in a sci-fi mood, I started by looking through the mods in search of alien miniatures, specially non-Warhammer ones for variety's sake, and I found some good Xcom stuff for my games (mods listed bellow). I took the character models from those mods and made miniatures out of them (adjusting size and adding bases).

This is my first crew, a squadron of alien invaders led by an Ethereal (who is more hands-on-deck in my games than canon Ethereals, leading forces from the front instead of waiting on his base until the final mision). Most of the aliens were easy to make, except for the Sectoids since there weren't mind control abilities available for them, so I improvised by giving them horror rules to represent their psychic powers. The Faceless starts as a harmless little girl who no-one would should (besides Agent J), before transforming into the goo monster we all know and hate.

Models' Source:

Xcom Alien/Advent Models by Garr

Forces of Advent by Wahacz Rozruchowy*

*(the models from this mod are quite large and don't work well with the scale up/down button, so I suggest changing their size with the proper scale tool if you plan to use them for your games).

[swedebeast]

[pixiepretzel]

Alien Invasion Video Games

A short list of classic video games with an Alien Invasion theme:

"Space Invaders" - This classic arcade game from 1978 is one of the earliest examples of an Alien Invasion-themed game. Players control a spaceship as they battle against a horde of descending alien ships.

"Galaga" - Another classic arcade game from the early days of gaming, Galaga has players controlling a ship as they fend off waves of alien attackers.

"X-COM: UFO Defense" - In this turn-based strategy game, players control a team of soldiers fighting against an alien invasion of Earth.

"Half-Life" - This first-person shooter game has players taking on the role of Gordon Freeman as he battles against an alien invasion of Earth.

"Halo" - While not strictly an Alien Invasion game, the Halo series has players fighting against the alien race known as the Covenant, who are trying to wipe out humanity.

"Mass Effect" - In this sci-fi RPG, players take on the role of Commander Shepard as they fight against the Reapers, a race of sentient machines that are trying to wipe out all advanced organic life in the galaxy.

"Destroy All Humans!" - In this action-adventure game, players control an alien named Crypto as he invades Earth in the 1950s and wreaks havoc on human civilization.

[8bitsupervillain]

End of the Year 2022! Honorable video game mentions

Here is the honorable mentions for the video games of 2022. I’m separating them somewhat in the list, but you’ll find both the pre-2022 and the 2022 lists here. They’re all generally fine games, just I quit playing them for various reasons.

Pre-2022

HM: Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance

A fun little Action RPG, but also ball grindingly hard. Perhaps it's because I went with the Wizard character but this is astonishingly difficult. I'll probably go back and finish it.

HM: Divinity: Dragon Commander

I like this game even though I'm not particularly great at strategy games. I enjoy the story quite a bit, but I'm undecided if I'll go back to it.

HM: Undernauts

A good dungeon RPG but I sort of just fell off of it. I played it for twelve hours or so, but I just kind of moved on to other games. I love the art style.

HM: Shining Song Starnova

I got a few hours into the game when my computer decided I didn't make any progress into the story and deleted my save. Idol Manager made me think about giving this game a go.

HM: Daggerfall: Unity

I am trying desperately to figure out why people like the Elder Scrolls games so much. This one is pretty good, but I didn't play it for any great length of time.

HM: Elder Scrolls Battlespire

I decided I wanted to try an Elder Scrolls that is a more straight forward game compared to the more open world options. I didn't get far in it, but I do intend on giving it a more fair shake.

HM: Titan Quest

I wanted to play an Action RPG, and I was drawn to the more Greek inspired look than the typical dark fantasy games in the genre. Really I just want to play the expansion set in China.  

HM: Torment: Tides of Numenera

I watched the opening movie and I thought it was pretty cool. Sadly I didn't play beyond the opening because I decided to play Pillars of Eternity and Tyranny instead.

HM: Open X-COM

I finally decided to take a real shot at trying to play "classic" X-COM, every other time I just sort of bounced off it. This time however I seemed to actually get a nice handle on how the game actually plays, so who knows maybe in the future I'll actually go through the entirety of original X-COM.

2022 Propa

HM: Evil West

Started this one just a smidge too late for it to be eligible for proper best of the year consideration. A fun hack and slash to be sure, kind of a cowboy pastiche of a Devil May Cry. It's a hoot.

HM: Steelrising

A soulsborne-esque yarn where you play as the robot bodyguard of Marie Antoinette during the robo-French Revolution. Sadly I didn't get particularly far before my attentions were drawn elsewhere.

HM: Conan Chop Chop

Decent little roguelite game.

HM: Card Shark

An interesting game with a unique selling point, being a game set in France's past and with the main gimmick being you're not trying to win the card games legitimately but by cheating better than your opponents. I should finish it some day.

HM: Pentiment

I love a good murder mystery. Sadly I had to let this one slide unplayed.

HM: Lunacid

You're spoiled for choice these days with Dark Souls derivatives, so it's nice to see someone go back and make a King's Field-like.

HM: River City Saga: Three Kingdoms

I enjoy beat-em ups and I thought a Kunio game set in the historical period of the Three Kingdoms sounds like a fun idea. I'm not sure I've played it enough to really pass judgment on it.

HM: Moonscars

One of approximately a hundred Soulsy Metroidvania dark fantasy games that came out this year. I liked what I played though.

HM: Tarnishing of Juxtia

See above, also it reminds me a lot of Blasphemous more than any other game.

HM: Souldiers

Unfortunately all these Metroidvania games came out too close in my mind so I kind of had to let some of them fall to the wayside.

HM: Weird West

Yeehaw.

HM: Salt and Sacrifice

I don't care for the character art, but the gameplay is generally solid. I don't know if I'd recommend it over any other of these Metroidvania types, but I thought it was pretty good from what I've played.

HM: Soulash

A fun pixel-graphics roguelike that I wish I spent more time with.

HM: The Last Hero of Nostalgaia

Allegedly a satire of Dark Souls and all those types, but I found it to just be a generally fun game to play. Maybe it really goes down hill, but from the demo I played it seemed pretty decent.

HM: Undecember

It's like if Diablo Immortal was a slightly better roguelite phone game. That sounds mean, but I actually quite like this.

HM: Thymesia

Bloodborne inspired game this time. Unfortunately I didn't play much of it because of all the other games vying for my attention.

HM: SD Gundam Battle Alliance

2022 was just positively cram packed with games that were generally pretty good and did what they set out to do quite well. This is a decent little Action RPG, and one day I hope to finish it.

HM: Valkyrie Elysium

One of the dozen or so games Square Enix released with practically no advertisement. I like what I’ve played so far, it just fell onto the back burner and out of my priorities list.

[doolallymagpie]

my psionics tables for XCOM-in-7TV carry an extremely slight chance of, on failing to use a psionic power, exploding

entirely because it’s the kind of thing that’d happen in the 90s XCOM wargame that doesn’t exist