I just didn't like the combat in this at all. xcom doesn't translate well to an an action shooter. i originally played it on second hardest difficulty, but my lack of wanting to 'git gud' at the shitty cover mechanics and pausing to give commands was just tedious and boring, so i bumped it down to second easiest. i rushed through it as fast as possible, the story was pretty shitty so i skipped all cutscenes and dialogue. it luckily only took me a few hours but the game just felt very tedious. the upgrade system is convoluted and pointless, infact this entire game just felt pointless. very unsatisfying gameplay.
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I liked this a lot more than I expected to, and certainly more than most other people have, but there's no explaining why without spoilers.
The gameplay is not great, neither is a fair bit of the writing admittedly, but I am legitimately impressed by their ambition with the narrative and what they tried to do, even if they didn't fully pull it off.
Here's an interesting nugget: following massive layoffs at 2K Marin after this game did poorly, some of the people who worked on this joined Arkane and worked on Prey, which I think is why I found a lot of curious similarities.
The gameplay is not great, neither is a fair bit of the writing admittedly, but I am legitimately impressed by their ambition with the narrative and what they tried to do, even if they didn't fully pull it off.
Here's an interesting nugget: following massive layoffs at 2K Marin after this game did poorly, some of the people who worked on this joined Arkane and worked on Prey, which I think is why I found a lot of curious similarities.