25 Years Of UFO: Enemy Unknown And I Still Hate Chryssalids [X-COM: Enemy Unknown]

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- I was doing this game just because I felt like it, then I realised it’s been 25 years since UFO: Enemy Unknown (X-COM: UFO Defense/X-COM: Enemy Unknown) came out. Well, thanks for ruining another day, time.
This is one of the best games ever made, one of my absolute favourites, and just a legend. So please do indulge me while I wax lyrical for… well, however long this video goes on for.
Please do like, share and subscribe if you enjoy. Don’t if you don’t, it’s all good.
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Music: From the PlayStation version of UFO. X-COM, I guess you have to call it.

[@jaredjones1752]

I remember the first time I saw Chryssalids. In 1996 my friend and I were playing Xcom on the PS while his Vietnam Vet dad was watching and giving us tactical advice. We threw a high explosive at the feet of a Chryssalid that spawned in front of the ship on the first turn of a terror site. It detonated...and the Chryssalid was still standing. My friend and I were shocked! Unlike the other aliens, though, this one didn't shoot at us. It calmly walked up the ramp and onto our Skyranger, only to stop and do nothing. When the alien's turn ended, my friend's dad said "OK this is a pretty powerful alien we're dealing with, so we're gonna go ahead and abort the mission." This was a guy who NEVER wanted us to abort missions, but on his orders we were doing it on turn 2! I still think of that every time I see Chryssalids in OpenXcom. Good memories.

[@GoldenGateNum9]

*No wonder you guys lost Vietnam!*

[@ironraccoon3536]

@@GoldenGateNum9 stupid zombie-producing explosive-proof NVA

[@SeekerLancer]

@@GoldenGateNum9 To be fair we had no idea the North Vietnamese had Chryssalids.

[@ianirizarry30]

They are weak vs laser

[@safe-keeper1042]

So the Chryssalid got a nice Skyranger ride home. Nice.

[@BreakDanceFight]

Heard someone say once that the old xCom games were like a real military. Your people will die, you will lose battles, you will have to run away. That doesn't mean it's over just that you lost a battle. The newer ones are more like a group of super heros. If those soldiers start to fall it's too late to recover.

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

The 1994 one is much preferable.

[@KopperNeoman]

@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 One's a military strategy simulator with tactical battles and RPG elements, the other's a military strategy tactical RPG.

[@systemchris]

Even xcom EU and EW are reasonable in the sense that as long as you play well, yeh people will die, but you should have depth in squad

[@SirChristian100]

Its 30 years, my friend ^^ And yes, we love Ufo too! Such a great game, always great to come back!

[@George-nn8ui]

The trick is to research laser rifle before the saucer terror mission., keep recruits only above 50 bravery.., can afford it by making stuff and selling at first., hide behind the tank.

[@Charles-yz4lw]

My God... 25 years? I'm too old man. The best game ever.

[@jmkhenka]

Oh i have such fond memories of this game. I bought terror from the deep and played it alot to. As it came out in the age before internet, terror from the deep was a superious version with alot of fixes and was HARD.. now i know why - the original release was bugged and reverted to easiest difficulty after the first mission.

[@Zeithri]

The best game ever? Uuuehhh... No.. But, a fantastic game? Oh yeah. This and it's tileset-graphics change sequel Terror from the deep.

[@stuartburns8657]

Got this when it first came out lol. Game had a bug, and I had to call the publisher, and they sent a patch on a floppy disk in the post.

[@johndough7710]

me and my buddy used to play this on his old 486. we'd c4 a house and level it. but the sectoid would still be a-ok. good times

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

Im 22 and this is one of my childhood games.

[@MidnightSt]

You've just invented maybe the best hardcore quote for any (suitable) game ever: (In Fallout narrator voice) "Running away... ...it's not what heroes do... ...but it's what survivors do. ...and as long as you survive, there's a chance you can win." like... that's so amazing I can't even (think of what game it would suit. But there's some out there, made or yet unmade, for which that's the best intro quote they could ever hope for).

[@Fastbikkel]

Started a new campaign yesterday again, i love it. Second mission was a terror attack on some russian town. It went quite well actually with my 12 men team. I took out most of the floaters and terror units. But then one enemy turn all hell broke loose. I saw a grenade "whoosh" in my direction. When the turn ended, 8 of my men were dead and the rest were running around in panick. Two turns later the remaining 4 seemed to get a grip of the situation again, only to be picked off by 2 remaining floaters. Entire squad dead, ship lost, just another day in the office. I started laughing hysterically, numbed by all the deaths.

[@randallwong7196]

A grenade, or blaster bomb?

[@Fastbikkel]

@@randallwong7196 Alien grenade.

[@adavis5926]

I still remember I and a friend of mine firing up this game and playing it in the dark twenty-five years ago. First time an alien fired at one of our X-COM men in a corn field, we both jumped out of our seats. Ah, thanks for the memories!

[@endersblade]

Tentaculats in TFTD were FAR worse than Chryssalids, because they could 'fly'. Chryssalids once you get Flying Armor are sort of trivial unless they catch you in an area in which you can't fly, because they can't attack UP.

[@automatescellulaires8543]

they are the reason why engame flying armors were so strong.

[@KimFareseed]

"They fly now?!" Somebodys first reaction to having their soldier cought.

[@DragDenDFO]

Yeah... Tentaculats are also more terrifying because you can't cheese alien bases like in UFO Defense

[@KopperNeoman]

Tentaculats aren't "far" worse, because they don't have nearly as many TUs. They're really just rebalanced Chryssalids. They can't be cheesed by flying (or rather, swimming) but are easier to zone out.

[@CascaDEER]

Also the Tentaculats never spawn with civilians present and you dont have to deal with that number of zombies turning into healthy Chryssalids

[@GrundkursBouldern]

I got the original game with my first PC in 1996. I started it, clicked around a bit, but did not understand at all what to do. So went on to read the whole manual with it's 100+ pages and came back two days later and was hooked for months. Games like this don't exist anymore. Calling it unfriendly for beginners is an understatement, but once you got the hang of it, you got out so much of this game. I still play it from time to time and just recently installed Terror from the Deep on a six year old Android gaming handheld via DOSBox.

[@pwnmeisterage]

You'll quickly recognize all the familiar buildings and weapons and techs and aliens wearing new names and underwater-themed trappings. But TFTD is more than just a re-skin of the first game, it's made more difficult in many subtle ways. None of these nuances are insurmountable in themselves, but they collectively make the entire game substantially more difficult. I thought I was boss after defeating UFO a few times on veteran and superhuman difficulties, I knew everything about the game, I was totally ready for TFTD. I was cocky and complacent (or perhaps deliberately fooled into complacency?) because of the obvious similarities in the second game. Lost my first mission vs a terror zone in the second week of the game. I'd equipped my troops with the weapons with the best stats available - but the moment I tried to take my first shot I learned the hard way that there's a big difference between _surface_ and _underwater_ combats. I did get my people out alive, but my noob mistake made the mission a total fail. Lost my second mission vs a terror zone a just a week later. It was onboard a ship, a really big ship with blind corridors and corners and cabins and closets everywhere, aliens hiding in all sorts of threatening places. I'd brought extra clips for each of my (new) weapons but they weren't enough - it was a two-part mission (like Cydonia), and those lobsters took a _lot_ of shots to bring down. So I ran really low on ammo, half my people had empty guns, I was salvaging ammo off the dead. But the tentaculats (chrysallids ver 2.0) and relentless -psionic- molecular control attacks made things ugly. I did not get my people out alive. My third and subsequent missions weren't failures. But they taught me that almost all underwater combats are effectively "night" missions, that the maps are designed to be generally harder and tighter, that the alien AIs are greatly improved (and very aggressive), that aliens were tougher and weapons were weaker than before, that all of my equipment-based tactics (based on flares, smokes, proximities, rockets, lasers, etc) had to revised or discarded. So I think calling TFTD "unfriendly for beginners" and perhaps "unfriendly for experienced players" is no understatement. Times have changed, we're more sophisticated and jaded by games now, we have different expectations. But I still don't think you'll find your first TFTD game an easy walkthrough, the game is "simple" but it is not at all "easy".

[@johnran6015]

I started playing this game around 2016 but I've only been picking up here and there with a year or two between playing. I started playing again more seriously and I'm finally learning to just let yourself get defeated, I kept trying to save every soldier with saves and I would just hang around the first few encounters of each game indefinitely. Now I'm letting myself get game overs, I'm finally starting to really "get it".

[@TipsyAdonis]

Funnily enough, nowadays Rotherham Town Centre looks a lot like most of the levels in XCOM. Great video!

[@KopperNeoman]

The Chryssalids are less invasive of personal space than the terrestrial invaders, mind.

[@TipsyAdonis]

Not sure what you mean by terrestrial invaders. I was touching on the complete lack of investment for the local council and the comparably high rates of rent landlords are charging on units making non-viable for small business to open and remain open for more than a couple of months, making the place a ghost town. Comment wasn't an observation on the type of people that visit, arseholes exist in all walks of life, whether it be in Rotherham or Mayfair.

[@user-10.10.]

​@@TipsyAdonislmao come on dude you know exactly what he means. I don't even live in England but everyone knows what went on in Rotherham.

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

@@user-10.10. And yet their government does nothing! Where I the king I would do all I can to defend my people even if that means risking my crown!

[@liukang85]

​@@TipsyAdonisI also know what he means lol and I have an immigration background

[@MasterKerfuffle]

This game perfectly describes why the original X-COM (actually, TFTD) is my favourite game of all time. I'm one of those younger viewers, and I love it. Just brilliant.

[@endersblade]

Yep, TFTD is my favorite also :-) I've just always been a fan of subs and underwater stuff, it's one of the reasons I enlisted in the Navy! I started with the OG X-COM, but TFTD was my jam. I'm sure I've logged 10,000+ hours in that game at this point. And now with OpenXCOM, I am doing it again, but now I can mod it!

[@davoid1792]

@@endersblade I only this year bought those games, and man are they the most addictive and engrossing games I have ever played, I just cannot believe it to be fully honest, its too good.

[@davoid1792]

@Derp Inshmurtz Oh many I binged the game hard, Lost several times but my current run through I am at power armor and plasma guns, as well as alien tech ships! Very fun about to do the final mission as well! I am so excited!

[@---ih8wh]

That is true: Terror from the Deep is the best in whole series of x-com, phoenix point, x--com new and xenonauts (which is the closest friend to TFTD)

[@meepistired]

Bran: *plays first Xcom game* Me: *stares at Dad dominating Xcom: Enemy Within* Me years later: *incoherent panicked screaming as troops are tag teamed by Berserker Queen, Avatar, and Chrysalids in Xcom 2.* I have never played any game series in order. But I might do a Star Wars and play Xcom in reverse cause I love this type of game... Even if all my troops die on the first mission EVERY SINGLE TIME

[@irony13black]

1996, I came home from my final GCSE exam and started a fresh save of xcom on my A1200 on alien difficulty. My adult life was stretching out in front of me and I just shot down a rare 1 man tiny tiny UFO ideal to kick off the research tree. Life was good.

[@DanielPembrink]

I bought and started to play this game back in 2012 since I could not afford xcom enemy unkown reboot. the best purchase of my life. I got instantly hooked and with openxcom extended and mods the game is just perfect.

[@caellanmurphy4751]

as a person who has beaten superhuman open-xcom i highly endorse this video(though i do think its better than the reboot tbh)

[@NiceMicroTV]

OpenXCom is a godsend, especially with all the fun mods that the dedicated developer community created.

[@PaintballMagazine]

I refuse to believe its been 25 years...

[@SeekerLancer]

For Doom and many other games as well.

[@cameltrophy3]

30 Years. Still awesome.

[@kayr0112]

I won my first game by my guy panicking - going upstairs to alien console. Throwing a grenade which blew up triggering a win for me. If not for that panick I would've lost that mission

[@Pappy55]

Loved X-Com since the Amiga 1200. It's a game I always go back to. I have even met its creator Jullian Gallop

[@Monduras]

My most traumatic memory of all time is when I was assaulting a battleship with my crack squad of soldiers, laid down smoke for cover, push turn over and bam three chrysalids come charging through the smoke into my terrified psyche… and squad… I literally jumped out of my seat. Fond memories…

[@natrzezwoniewarto8678]

It's one of my 10/10 games. I love every aspect of it

[@catandfishfc]

Modern mods to this game really take it to another level

[@NiceMicroTV]

OpenXCom is love.

[@Oculas2003]

I think what made this game so great (and the only thing the remake kind of missed out on) was how you invented your own stories with it as you went under the umbrella of the main plot.

[@burtopia]

Brilliant. Love that you posted this video. I wish they would remake it exactly the same, just with new graphics and maybe POV mode

[@finegamingconnoisseur]

In the earlier stages of the game, Chryssalids were absolutely terrifying, especially at night in urban terror missions. It was nigh impossible to see where they were coming from. They had crazy amounts of time units, high resistance to your early weapons and could basically cross the map to bite your soldiers in the arse. I remember putting my soldiers in defensive formations that covered each other in different directions. A Chryssalid would come along and kill nearly all of them anyway, if not outright in one turn then the zombies would 'hatch' and then the rest of my soldiers were doomed. But later when my soldiers had flying suits, the Chryssalids were a joke. They could only watch as I flew one level above them, drop a few grenades, and then fly away. 😁

[@Lord_of_Dread]

Your troop movement speed is insane, I don't know how you can play like that! The 2 biggest crimes of the reboot series are the lack of business sim elements and of horror.

[@Bransfiiiield]

Hah, play it for a quarter of a century and you just _know_ how things are going to work out, so don't need to see the full waddling animation at regular speed.

[@99redpontoons]

The line of sight/fire system in xcom seems a bit wonky because it's actually quite interesting in how it works. When firing a weapon, the game treats each object, structure, person etc in the line of fire as a 3d object, calculating a path from the soldier's gun barrel to see if they can line it up with their target beyond each object or piece of a structure in the way, and then applying some spread. CTH actually indicates how much that soldier's shots will spread over distance, not raw chance to hit. This is why hits are more frequent at close ranges - the projectiles simply haven't had a chance to spread much yet, it's not a straight hit-or-miss roll. 100% = no spread, 10% = massive spread. Hitting or not is based on whether the projectile's path lines up with the target after spread is applied. A similar mechanic is used to determine whether a soldier can see an alien, and vice versa, but calculated from the unit's eyes instead of their gun barrel. If a straight line can be drawn from the eyes of the unit to any part of another, it will be treated as within line of sight, even if not enough of the other unit is exposed to the gun to shoot at. The path of the shot to actually hit that target after being spotted is calculated from the gun, not from the unit's eye level, which is why line of fire can seem weird, especially with aliens on roofs, at wide angles behind doorways, or below a soldier shooting from a window. The soldier might be able to peek a little bit of that alien's body to know he's there, but that's nowhere near enough to get a clear shot. If too little of the target is exposed from the gun's "perspective" or on angle that doesn't line up well, the game will simply not allow the player to shoot without force shooting with ctrl, because the target will be near impossible to hit. This is all calculated internally and not displayed to the player, as actually rendering this would be well beyond the limitations of the hardware most commonly used at launch, but you can get a look at how it works in openxcom with some tools from the forums such as loft viewer. This is also why despite the graphical simplicity of the game, it chugs like a motherfucker on older home systems of the time such as the various models of amiga. The calculations for LOS/LOF are a bit heavy on their processors.

[@jezus22]

well, I start in 1995 and still playing. last time I finished it again was about 2 weeks ago.

[@davidking7222]

I'm still rocking this game on the ps1 . Got to have a weekly fix of it . To put up with the grind .

[@Quartermoon193]

Picked it up again after all this time, still difficult, frustrating, tense and wonderful.

[@ghostghost8510]

Check Open xcom with final mod pack. It is the original game with a massive mod which adds a bunch of new weapons,crafts,alien races,different terrains,A LOT of new research/manufacture options/quality of life improvements and a lot more... And it was made with intention of not breaking the original feel of the game .It feels like a huge expansion for the original game. As a huge fan of the original game i was blown away on how good this mod is.

[@romanlinnik7441]

Dang, just playing it 25/8 now on my phone. Amazed how big it is. And I can play it whenever I can! Truly amazing game with an amazing mod.

[@ghostghost8510]

@@romanlinnik7441 Yeah it is awesome and it made the game feel fresh again cause at this point i can beat the original game with my closed eyes probably :p

[@endersblade]

I second this! OpenXCom + Final Mod Pack is absolutely amazing! I love all of the added weapons and new enemies to fight!

[@trashandchaos]

Surprised the mods for OpenXcom didn't come up honestly. That, The X-Com Files, The World of Terrifying Silence, and X-Pirates are pretty well regarded.

[@NiceMicroTV]

@@trashandchaos I love Area 51!!

[@Elkanthar]

Sir, im Born 1984 und turn 40 Next year. I loved this game so much back in the day and still do! Your video encouraged me to play it again and again because this Game in particular defined the DOS-Era for me. I’m not writing much in the comment section of any video on KZbin but here I got the feeling I just had to! Much love from Germany…and Chryssalids still suck!

[@caseygoddard]

I never knew there were so many versions of the original XCOM.

[@9ElevenGamer]

The manual was massive, I miss those days.

[@Otto_Von_Beansmarck]

My first chryssalid encounter was a terror site I tried to play the game as I would normally but then after my entire squad got wiped 5 turns in I reloaded a save and then flattened the city to the ground and destroyed any cover they could possibly use before eventually wiping them out

[@AudieHolland]

Another 'UFO: Enemy Unknown' veteran here. Always toss a smoke grenade out before disembarking. Saves you one useless death. When confronting Chryssalids and having largely rookie soldiers: strap a live heavy explosive to the back of each so whenever they get impregnated, they also drop everything so both them and the Chryssalid at least suffer some damage. Develop rocket firing tank asap and lay waste to your surroundings, none of that fancy high percentage shooting stuff. Best of all: start producing limitless armour and laser guns for the black market and you'll never need official funding anymore. Also: when in a losing battle, during a terror mission, with the Chryssalids becoming unstoppable, kill all civilians as that will limit the Chryssalids reproducing...

[@richardbell7678]

What compelled me to play X-COM: Enemy Unknown from the moment that I became aware of it was how it dredged up memories of watching Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's "UFO". I became Ed Bishop and led what was SHADO (in all but name) to defeat the alien invaders. X-COM lacked a moon base, SID the early warning satellite, and ground based mobile unit vehicles, but it had everything else.

[@geoff6203]

Best game that ever graced the whole of the gaming industry. Shit I'm 37 and I'm still bloody playing it!!!!!😮

[@Fastbikkel]

I cannot get enough of this game. Back in the day i didn't have the patience to fully enjoy it. In 2016 or so i finally finished it. There is quite a lot of letsplay videos and noticed everyone has their own style, with or without common tactics. I play the game hardcore, i do save but never reload when i lose soldiers. SOmetimes i lose entire teams. Oh, i also never give up or retreat :-)

[@williamoverton7775]

the point of armor is that you can carry heavy weapons with no penalty, the standard armor is pretty useless but I have noticed that if a soldier survives a shot they are easier to heal using medikits

[@lorddaveed]

I started my first ever lets play with Xcom Ufo Defense, its ametuer hour but its just an amazing game that i think others deserve to know too ^_^

[@geoff6203]

Great video by the way. Perfect commentary. The struggle is real!!!!!

[@marcin4xm]

30 Years and still kicking

[@spikedart9323]

I think that was one of favourite games of my teenage years. It had such a impact on me that I still remember my first mission with alien appearing suddenly in a wheat field. By the way I was sure I'm master of this game, but I recently met a guy who would track trajectories of alien spaceships with a liner and look for the base where the lines intersected. But that guy also went through Centurion on max difficulty with a goal of not loosing a single battle. ;)

[@99redpontoons]

Also your base comp needs some work. Hangars up top, everything else below the access lift. Gives you a single choke point to funnel aliens through during base attacks. Might leave you with less space for structures and take a while to move things over into place, but it's worthwhile to make early game base attacks less of a hair-ripping experience. It's a great way to set up your second base, too, and then you can just move everything over from the first one as you build up the second, and turn the first base into an airbase or production base with a garrison while your second becomes your main. This option saves a bit of time and money compared to overhauling your starting base, because you're going to build that second one by mid February anyway.

[@zeusapollo6504]

Terror from the Deep was more special, even when outsourced by microprose and the actual original dev team made Apocalypse. Terror from the Deep cannot be replaced either, by any of the many successors, because its settting is way too unique and well executed.(difficult lol) But to be honest, you can also say, TfTD was just a skinmod of UFO Defense - but then again the best skinmod i have seen up to date in gaming. :)

[@LaceyFilm]

Thanks for the video. It convinced me to finally play the copy of PS3 X-COM that's been sitting on my shelf since buying it years ago. It's great!

[@schwarzerritter5724]

At least Chryssalids can't fly like in the sequel.

[@alenpiljak]

My first terror mission ever had chrysalids. After that, I ignored all the terror missions in my playthrough xD

[@inspectorlunge3887]

I'm gonna install this on a laptop I have that was made in 1996. Just played enemy within, and that got me into it. I'm only 24, so now you know that at least one millennial likes this stuff.

[@yonderboygames]

30 years later. Still the best game of all time.

[@KieronHoward]

The best version of Enemy Unknown is OpenXcom Android. It's fast, the controls work great and the subtle mods fix most of the niggles. Plus you can play it wherever you are. I bought XCOM: Enemy Within and whilst it has it's good points, it's far too stripped back. They've removed much of the freedom to play the game how you want. My favourite early game tactic was to equip everyone with rocket launchers and just flatten the landing site, simply not possible in Enemy Within.

[@IVI00101]

How do you force fire on Android without physical keyboard (it requires holding "Ctrl")?

[@Fiilis1]

Wish this game would just get some kind of overhaul and the bug fixes. I'd play the hell out of it.

[@Bransfiiiield]

have a look at Open Xcom - does all that and more

[@Fiilis1]

Oh, gotta check it out

[@doingtime20]

My favorite game of all time. Personally I do think the newer versions didn't surpass this one, still they are good though.

[@johnnyerdoel]

I was today years old when I learned about the base name cheat in TFTD. Bummer.

[@sarahnachtrose]

3 years later (sorry, you can complain to the YouToube algorithm 😋). From what you said in the video, have you heard of the OpenXcom project? It brings the old game up to current technical standards, such as monitor resolutions. And for OpenXcom there is a UFO mod called XPiratez. It expands the 12MB of the original to 700MB. New races new researches (over 1000) new UFOs new factions(and there is an update every few months. I've been playing for 8 months now. A bit almost every day. And after the last update my research level went down from 58% to 52%. 6% more research after an update). That's what it's all about: 800 years later. Humanity had lost. The aliens took what they wanted, turned the whole planet inside out and Earth is now just a distant outpost of the Galactic Empire. The game begins with 6 Gals, mutants who have escaped from a research lab and accidentally stumble upon an old XCom base on their escape. (It wasn't that random, but you only find out about that in-game years later) The first research revolves around exploring the vicinity of the XCom Bunker and making contact with the local communities. You start with spears and flintlock pistols. Try to find out what kind of world you ended up in and how to survive in it.

[@MajorSvenGaming]

30 Years now....

[@ironmanTetsuoTV]

The PS1 version was the first version I played and it's been my favourite game ever since. Really looking forward to Phoenix Point.

[@renekober9197]

Loving it.Same counts for your statement for the game.

[@AlexAnder-yj1qs]

I read the comments here, and i realize I have found my people.

[@pj3679]

I am one of those guys that played it when it first came out and loved it from the start. I was torn at the time between buying the Amiga 500 version or the PC version, I went with the PC version because I was transitioning to the PC, so that is the one I am used to playing. I still play the game now and then and have just finished the game through STEAM yesterday. I remember playing Terror From The Deep when it came out as well, but have not stuck with that one as much, I just like this one more. I do however remember being creeped out by it thinking that CTHULU was going to rise up since there was so many images of it on the underground buildings and scenery, especially at the end with his images being all over the place.

[@garrethboland]

Excellent video

[@ParallelSyntax]

30 Yesrs this year. Holy cow.

[@Bransfiiiield]

oh god

[@Drachenhannes]

Yeah i used to hate chryssalids as well. Until i ploayed terror from the deep and in one mission was like "Ew that wobbly brain thingie looks gross! Cool let's send a disposable guy in and see what it does!" One round later i knew exactly what they do. "They fly now."

[@MrNimmy77]

A reboot of the original game with modern Technology would be a dream come true. Rotating battlefields, zoom function, the possibility to switch to 1st Person view, etc.

[@IVI00101]

"Phoenix Point" is a spiritual successor, made by creator of original "X-Com". In it you can aim from 1st person perspective and hitting different body parts produces different results.

[@carolingio1152]

Xenonauts it's a remake/spiritual successor, 2 came out in early access and looks promising

[@MrNimmy77]

@@carolingio1152 I have played "Phoenix Point" (which turned out to be mediocre at best) and of course "Xenonauts". I liked the latter very much but it's not the same feeling. My hopes were with Firaxis for a reboot of the original game in the style of, let's say, "Jagged Alliance 3". But since Jake Solomon has left the company the series is most likely dead.. ☹

[@tierfuehrer2]

Nice video. A friend and I, we played this for the first time in like 1996. And we won. We had to load a savegame, because it wasnt working out for 1 or 2 months. I finally decided to not play this game any more. After more then 5+ playthroughs, I noticed the ammount of time it took. Also I had a bug in TFTD. Where I could not finish the game. But...the mods now and OpenXCOM makes it very appealing again. BTW you had nice clips in the vid. But no friendly fire. ;-) And no one died with a life grenade which then.....friendly fire again. EDIT: Every grunt needs 2 grenades, 1 smoke, 1 flare, a rifle and a medkit ASAP. I dont know what the guys on YT do when they do their messy X-COM thingies but you have to have 2 grenades per dude every mission. Just to switch them out later for the alien grenades.

[@ngtony2969]

only few games with seemingly infinitely replayability, this is definitely one of them Then there's baldur's gate2, Electronic Popples, Jungle(dos rare game), some of Koei's Romance of the 3 Kingdoms series, god of thunder, One Must Fall, and most of blizzard games before blizzard went to shit, Skyrim, Red Dead Redemption 2, some of EA's best before EA became EA, Syndicate, the one star wars title i forgot the name, doom(s), dawn of WAR1. Cyberpunk ... might just enter this list, but knowing the story and endings already ... is kind of hard to be surprised again.

[@retronemesis7064]

I got my longbox copy in the discount bin at EB.

[@guyg.5013]

I personally think the snake-men and Ethereals are way worse. especially Ethereals that can mind-control troops from the other side of the map and have the highest accuracy in the game. Chryssalids are comparably easy to kill and you can see them coming. but it might be just me.

[@Andriej69]

Yeah, I've tried this game and bounced right off of it after one mission. Loved the modern renditions, though. Really need to try the original again sometime, from what I've seen it has much more gritty, opressive atmosphere

[@jacobely6826]

if you're having issues with the unfrendliness that UFO defense affords due to its age i'd give xenonauts a go if you want the ufo defense experience with the polish of a modern game, its not quite as brutal and is a little more streamlined but its still a pretty authentic UFO defense esque experience, with the game being as close to a remake as you can get without being sued lmao

[@Andriej69]

@@jacobely6826 Yeah, I've watched some review of it, although I'm not sure I dig the cold war aesthetic and sterile art style. Still wanna try it after going back to og UFO

[@phild9659]

I found this game on PC just as Dos was starting to be outdated. But, I know i did find a bunch of Mods for the original 1994 european version, however, nope cant find anything now, all openxcom. I would really love to keep the old games but would be so grateful if anyone could point me in the right direction of some mods! Nice video I have to say. It's made me dig out the old copy of it! I'm HOOKED AGAIN! Ahhhh..... So how many days have passed since I started playing now! haha

[@KaiGaming84]

This game is the hardest game on the planet. Harder than Syndicate.

[@100chuckjones]

also started playing this on PS1 then on PC. now im using it on PC again 25 years later, Tried the Final mod pack yet ? It's a whole game bro. enjoy it.

[@M4A1BestGirl]

It surprises me that this game was rated E for Everyone with how creepy it was

[@ngtony2969]

not just creepy, imagine a child seeing cow mutilations and then the floater doing very 18+ things on humans

[@M4A1BestGirl]

@@ngtony2969 And the intro with innocent civilians getting massacred by the aliens. Makes killing them that much more satisfying.

[@cyllananassan9159]

30-----30 years

[@TonySpike]

Oddly enough im in same boat as you, i first played it on an amiga 1200 version i got from Donny market lol Didnt play the pc version till 2004, and i still think the amiga music is the best to the point i modded it in lol

[@gametheory7335]

One of the best games ever!

[@Choself]

Played X-Com: UFO Defense on the Original Playstation when it was first released. Am playing Phoenix Point, which was designed by the original X-Com developer. It's ok. To this day, through all the iterations, and knock offs. of This Game, none have surpassed it in pure awesomeness. I wish they would release it on PS4/5. Hard copy, please, but I'd buy digital too.

[@Glace1221]

How this game actually makes aliens scary is baffling

[@ME10920]

I've just started playing this again forgot how hard it was

[@AdamTheVox]

Not many people will see this, but if you like original XCOM try Xenonauts which is modernized XCOM

[@peekdeep596]

This game is very good

[@OSH0891]

I fully agree: A500 version has a much better OST than AGA version. During last 15 years I'was desperately looking for a way to combine graphics from A1200 version with music from A500 version, but music in A1200 version was in weird format. Finally, thanks openXcom, I did it. Now I can play in 256 colors and all animations and hear this beautifully „Geoscape” module from A500 (nad form other versions too!).

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

At age 22 I am younger than you, and this game rules. X com enemy unknown 2012 is much worse than the original x com ufo defence 1994. (And I hate reboots which make it so you need to add years of release to not confuse anyone)

[@AdurianJ]

The only problem i had with the UFO tech tree was that the new aircraft came right after one another and the Avenger was just better at everything.

[@Bransfiiiield]

I actually would agree with that - you have no time with the Firestorm etc if you're focused on the research, because Avenger pops up really soon after. Ah well.

[@salt_factory7566]

I will note that sacking troops with low aim is a horrible waste of cash, rookie troops are worth no more than their 40k spacebuck price tag. But you can still employ them just fine to scout throw grenades and of course dump enough auto shots into an alien until you hit it.

[@emacantsaoir]

Operation "get behind the rookies" ftw

[@salt_factory7566]

@@emacantsaoir Have you ever read the emancipation proclamation?

[@niallreid7664]

​@@salt_factory7566I'm sorry I dont speak hip hop.

[@salt_factory7566]

@@niallreid7664 Rookie Chef has gone Berserk

[@lucasbastosrodrigues3111]

Yeah!

[@aarongorton1984]

firs ttime i played this game as kid THE BIGGEST HIGHLIGHT FOR ME WHAT A PEDESTRIAN GOING TO GE THIS PAPER AND WAS HUNTED AND SHOT DOWN IN BROADDAY LIGHT LMAO

[@michel5728]

I´ve never been addicted to any recent videogame because Xcom set the standard for being addicted to something. No lol, wow, or starcraft has been able to even get near to be as addictive to me as this one. If I had to pick only one game to take to an island this will be a perfect pick. Never get tired of it. As fact I stopped playing it and set aside because I find too easy stop playing anything for long periods. The same Stellaris or Civilization guarantees dissapearing from the world for days straight XD

[@njones420]

I managed to port over my saved game from the amiga in the mid 90s...been playing the same game for 25 years :) (a1200 version works great with an accelerated amiga)

[@BackyardEpicMovies]

This video sums up about how many hours I spent during the 90's. Now do a 'Terror from the Deep' video.

[@naviamiga]

Same here. Every time. Kill my favourite trooper and give me another enemy to deal with....

[@Eunos_FD3S]

Still an amazing game..

[@ObjectiveComplete]

been replaying it and on this playthrough I got the avenger but... I cant keep it fueled!!!! so its grounded until I get down some of the bigger UFO's with the interceptor rigged with Plasma canons its gonna be tricky not to get one shotted. I got flying suits and heavy plasmas so im kicking ass on the ground.

[@mrolley8082]

You may have figured this out by now, but follow (don’t engage) ufos with your sky ranger loaded with troops. Let the ufo land, then land your sky ranger on it and attack. You will capture the power sources (which are very valuable) intact and gather all the elerium. Battleships are very tough, but gives you 4 power sources and a ton of elerium. Hope this helps!!

[@rokinz3270]

Remember seeing my first one back in 1999 when I got the full version of the game on a PC gamer CD. I was like what the fuck is that supposes to be. Now its like oh fuck its a chryssalid. Pity they go ruined in X-Com 2 as they are no longer scary

[@endersblade]

Every X-COM game, every clone, I only ever really finish once or twice...not because it's hard, but because there's no fun in the end. Like you said in the video, it's the progress that is enjoyable. The game just gets progressively easier as you go on, and as it gets easier, it gets kinda boring. When your entire squad is full of unkillable snipers then missions start to feel more like work than actual play.

[@RanFuRe]

You should make a tutorial for UFO Enemy Unknown. I've been playing it once or twice every few years since it came out (when I had a shareware version). I never got that far, though, because of the brutal difficulty. Yet, I keep coming back to it, because what ever fascinated me so much when I first played it as a kid, still got its hooks in me ^^

[@jonathanplooij3666]

thanks for the video

[@PerfectAlibi1]

The original is and always will be better than any of the sequels. Especially with OpenXcom and the discontinued UFO:TTS.