03-16-2004, 04:37 PM
I was addicted to X-Com: UFO Defense and then after that X-Com: Terror From The Deep. Finished both of those. TFTD was a bit drawn out... but the original rocked.
Felix and I used to play it together way back in the day when we were in college together.
We still have fun remembering the story of Mikael Awesome. We used to name our guys in relation to what skills they were really good at. Sonya Greatthrow for example had awesome grenade throwin skills. Good range and accuracy, etc. So Mikael Awesome was by far the best guy in our crew... was great at everything.
So we are in the middle of this Terror Mission where the aliens attack a town. One of the harder types of missions in X-Com 1. We were doing ok... finally cleared most of the aliens out of the town... but there was this one alien left... we couldn't find the bastard. Somehow it manages to incapacitate 2 more of our guys... and we are thinking 'oh shit, how many more are out there?'
Finally we catch a glimpse of this guy. Turns out he is on the third floor of this aparment building taking pot shots at people. And of course, its Mikael Awesome who sees him. One problem. we are 2 buildings over on the first floor. Somehow he sees the alien though and has a shot on him. Felix and I say what the hell and take the shot... even though we think that its a snowball's chance in hell we are going to hit.
Up three floors, through four windows... headshot = dead alien.
Turnip/Felix 1 | Aliens 0
It was a glorious day in gaming!
Felix and I used to play it together way back in the day when we were in college together.
We still have fun remembering the story of Mikael Awesome. We used to name our guys in relation to what skills they were really good at. Sonya Greatthrow for example had awesome grenade throwin skills. Good range and accuracy, etc. So Mikael Awesome was by far the best guy in our crew... was great at everything.
So we are in the middle of this Terror Mission where the aliens attack a town. One of the harder types of missions in X-Com 1. We were doing ok... finally cleared most of the aliens out of the town... but there was this one alien left... we couldn't find the bastard. Somehow it manages to incapacitate 2 more of our guys... and we are thinking 'oh shit, how many more are out there?'
Finally we catch a glimpse of this guy. Turns out he is on the third floor of this aparment building taking pot shots at people. And of course, its Mikael Awesome who sees him. One problem. we are 2 buildings over on the first floor. Somehow he sees the alien though and has a shot on him. Felix and I say what the hell and take the shot... even though we think that its a snowball's chance in hell we are going to hit.
Up three floors, through four windows... headshot = dead alien.
Turnip/Felix 1 | Aliens 0
It was a glorious day in gaming!