▲ 0 ▼ Love me some Xcom2 (hexbear.net) submitted 5 years ago by Lil_Revolitionary@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net 5 comments fedilink hide all child comments You play as a multiethnic resistance group that performs guerrilla warfare against an overwhelmingly powerful oppressor. Feels like a leftist dogwhistle, even if realistically its normal #resistance
[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 0 points 5 years ago (1 child) LW>WOTC permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Rodentsteak@hexbear.net 0 points 5 years ago (2 children) Wrong. LW is literally just "What if we made the game worse, but also longer, less engaging, and more tedious". It's literally just a list of bad design decisions. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 1 point 5 years ago* (last edited 5 years ago) I basically agree with that, but sometimes I actually want that. It's like that one time a year you want to play Risk even though you have loads of better wargames. I guess sometimes you just feel :party-sicko: permalink fedilink source parent [–] NotARobot@hexbear.net 1 point 5 years ago Sometimes being annoyed and stressed out is the ideal XCOM experience, and LW/LW2 do that very well imo. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Rodentsteak@hexbear.net 0 points 5 years ago (2 children) Wrong. LW is literally just "What if we made the game worse, but also longer, less engaging, and more tedious". It's literally just a list of bad design decisions. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 1 point 5 years ago* (last edited 5 years ago) I basically agree with that, but sometimes I actually want that. It's like that one time a year you want to play Risk even though you have loads of better wargames. I guess sometimes you just feel :party-sicko: permalink fedilink source parent [–] NotARobot@hexbear.net 1 point 5 years ago Sometimes being annoyed and stressed out is the ideal XCOM experience, and LW/LW2 do that very well imo. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 1 point 5 years ago* (last edited 5 years ago) I basically agree with that, but sometimes I actually want that. It's like that one time a year you want to play Risk even though you have loads of better wargames. I guess sometimes you just feel :party-sicko: permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NotARobot@hexbear.net 1 point 5 years ago Sometimes being annoyed and stressed out is the ideal XCOM experience, and LW/LW2 do that very well imo. permalink fedilink source parent