I’m gonna take this opportunity to plug Phoenix Point, an XCOM clone by the original creators of XCOM. It’s definitely not as polished as XCOM EU and XCOM 2, but its targeting system feels a lot less bullshit: you get to manually aim with two concentric circular reticles. There’s a 100% chance that all projectiles fired will land within the outer reticle, and a 50% chance of any projectile fired to land within the inner one. Though this does mean that you’ll never miss a properly aimed point blank shot from one tile away.
Besides that, there’s also a lot more to do in the geoscape section of the game than in XCOM 2.
Brass cleaner, a microfiber cloth, and some elbow grease can fix any scratched disc. Apply liberally, rub in a circular, outward motion (against the “grain”, i.e. against the pits where the data stream is stored). Repeat until disc works again.
I had a friend who didn’t take very good care of his games. When the game would stop loading, he’d let me keep it. They always came back to life using the Brasso technique. Got to enjoy a lot of free Xbox games thanks to him. Halo 2 was an especially memorable experience. My brother and I got many years of entertainment out of that one.
Elden Ring and souls-like games really take a certain mindset to enjoy, and if you get stressed too much from failures, you’re probably not going to have fun.
Alternatively, if you’re someone who craves the challenge and can laugh off losing, it’s the best thing ever.
This reminds me of a semi-friend I knew in highschool, dude really thought he was a cool guy and everyone was always up his ass even though he was a huge jerk all of the time (like a wannabe Tosh.O kinda style). For some reason I let him borrow my WC2 Battle chest and after a few months I asked for it back and got only one disc that was so thoroughly scratched it never even registered.
Started hanging out with him like a decade later when he moved next to my bestfriend, got to tell him I thought he was a piece of shit in school because of how he treated my stuff but doubt he actually cared or really remembered.
Interestingly, had a meth head who was visiting my roommate for some drugs (had taken shit from our place in the past) who borrowed one of my vhs sets while I was at work (was thoroughly pissed thinking it was gone forever), he brought it back the next day and had even wiped down and fixed the broken flap on the box. I try not to judge people borrowing stuff because of that and only let people borrow items I’m ok with losing and wouldn’t sour a relationship over.
I modded my Wii and loaded the sucker w/ n64 emu, ds emu, gc emu & practically the whole catalogue of games to follow suit. 3 years later and I’ve only ever played Animal Crossing and Bionicle Heroes…
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