So I played about 15 minutes or so before I began working on my strip this morning. Saw that there is a new patch. They changed the colors of health pot lettering from white to blue. Suddenly, I find myself picking them up again. I guess colors play a pretty big roll in our initial perception of a loot drop. I’m thinking if they really wanted to eff with us, they would change the lettering of trash drops from white to orange.
And I am totally stoked about the remake of X-Com.
I played X-Com: UFO defense back when I was a kid. I remember it to be totally awesome. Hopefully the remake will be even better. One thing I might not look forward to, is the perma-deaths. It’s a turn based game, so I pretty much saved every turn (yea, I know, pussy.) And naturally, I formed attachments to particular soldiers. I named one Kristi Yamaguchi cause I had a big crush on her after the 92 olympics. lol! (yea, I found figure skating to be pretty fabulous back then.) But yea, if she happened to get shot up during a mission, I would pretend that never happened and reloaded the mission so that she wouldn’t die. I’d also have her shoot every alien on site so her stats would be super buffed. She became Kristi Yamaguchi, hardcore olympic gold medalist alien terminator. But yea, if she were to get sniped by a Sectoid (class of alien in the game), and perma-died, I think I would’ve shat myself and cried. Anyways, looking forward to that game since raising my kid has pretty much eliminated multi-player games for me, until he’s able to play at least.
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Hey. I like your comic, and due to your X-COM comment I have to finally respond. You have provided me months worth of entertainment that I find so amusing that I have to at least attempt to return the favor.
I’m a “Let’s Play”er. I record myself playing video games and give commentary either during or after recording. Of my recordings, my most notable series is my X-COM: UFO Defense Superhuman Antarctica Challenge series. One base, in Antarctica, on Superhuman difficulty. I am not the first person to attempt it, but I am the first English-speaking person to not only challenge it, but record it and prove that I am capable of defeating it despite clearly overwhelming odds. I hope you find my method of entertainment as enjoyable as I have found yours.
In the chance that you find this creepy or suspect, feel free to create a comic where you use me as the butt of the joke.
- Lord Finisher
Sweet, I checked out your X-Com videos. Sure brought back a lot of fond memories. I’m liking how you named your women soldiers Private Frank as well. That’s a good idea actually, name them after someone you can’t stand, then send them off to die. I named guys after people I liked, and I feared for their lives every turn. Got a laugh out of the hyperspeed episode. Good stuff LF.
Thank you very much, Chur! I appreciate you taking your time to respond and I’m thankful you enjoy my videos!
The Private Frank bit is actually more of an in-joke than someone I dislike. In all seriousness, I named them all that because ultimately, even my best and most well-decorated soldier is expendable until I get about 10 soldiers with high psionic strength. You can see what I can do with them in the last six episodes. It’s a massacre.
Oh ok, lol, I guess my own plans for private Frank took over my writing. If I were to name my next batch of xcom squaddies, its going to be “private the guy who cut me off in traffic”, “private the lady who only filled my fries halfway at Mcdonald’s”, “private the jerk who just had to fart in a filled to capacity elevator”, and so forth. And yea, the game goes from fun to ridiculously awesome with the psionic weps. All that hard work, finally rewarded.
To be fair, if you have your own plans for Private Frank, I don’t blame you and welcome you to enjoy his failure. If anything he’s a weird combination of sci-fi and horror tropes all mashed into one.
Oddly enough, I have a viewer who says that whenever he names someone Private Frank, they become the single most awesome character they’ve ever gotten.
I had never played the original Xcom but after playing the remake, I feel I really need to; great game!