Prowling around on Steam because of this little gem
I happened upon another interesting offering:
I loved the original and Terror From the Deep, though they weren’t perfect games. Apocalypse didn’t work nearly as well for me, mostly because of the changes in the overland management layer. Still, those three are worth digging into for archival reasons, if nothing else. Each sells for $4.99, so getting the pack means picking up two extra games. Not a bad deal at all. (Though I’m not sure if those other two are any good… so I can’t speak to that.)
With my mind of late turning more to strategic and tactical gaming, perhaps these are natural fits. I’d still like to see more tactical and strategic layers to MMO design, but for now, I’ll stick with these and that shiny old Tactics Ogre coming in the mail. Yummy handheld gaming for this overscheduled daddy.
I would like a remake of the first game. Nostalgia aside, it had some serious flaws, it was still great enough to be loved and remembered.
A czech team tried to copy the success, but UFO: Aftermath/Aftershock/Afterlight somehow never did it for me.
Aye, the first was perhaps the best in the series. (Though I liked TFTD just as much.) Still, each game is $5, non-sale priced, so even just picking up the first one could be a great idea.
A remake would be great, if handled well.
I loved X-Com, spent way too much time playing it when I was younger. So how well do they run on new computers? I always had trouble getting them to run when I rebought them years later and tried to run them on my XP machine.
Destral, that’s one reason that I’m excited to see it on Steam. I’ve not tried this in particular (since I still have it on CD), but I’d hope that they have retooled it to work on new PCs. I’ve used DOSBox to make old games work, and the results have been mixed.
Good Old Games also makes sure that the games run on newer PCs. I really like what they do, but for the moment, only Steam of the two has XCom.
http://www.gog.com/en/frontpage/
Thanks for the link, I’ll be sure to check it out.