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Cake day: November 19th, 2024
  • Everyone who got Rick rolled will click on it. The view number will double from 1.5 billion currently to +3 billion views and YouTube will crash. All will celebrate the annual rick roll day henceforth, causing Never gonna give you up to become the most played song of all time ever with hundreds of billions of views in the year 2100. Trust me, never gonna lie.

  • Eh, the original from the 90s is a more solid game. The game is good is some ways, but flawed in many. First of all the dumbing down. In 90s version you recruit soldiers for money, then check their stats and make them snipers, grenadiers, shock troops or even suicide bombers depending on their skills. 2012 version, you get a bunch of gamified units that have set upgrade paths.

    90s version you build and attack multiple bases, administrate a world wide war with great wins and painful losses. In 2012, you pretty much have to win each scenario or the game becomes unwinnable.

    Old version, more units, lose one or two, the fight goes on. New version, two dead soldiers will make many fights unwinnable. Old, all aliens are on map at start. New, aliens spawn suddenly in illogical positions and often put your troops in impossible situations that you would never have wandered into if the enemy was on the field and not suddenly appeared out of thin air.

    Old, no limits to equipment, give every man 2 grenades and 2 smoke grenades, no worries. New, only Carl can carry smoke grenades, because the game wants to force strategic choices.

    I could go on, but long story short, yes new xcom was good, but it really was a dumber version of the original, which had small flaws, but is still an amazing game. New xcom I would just not want to play again.

  • -Free Stars on steam, used to be called Star Control 2. Old school space adventure. And it is literally free as well.

    -Imperialism 2 on GOG, 4x game set in the age of exploration and industrialization.

    -Civilization 4, the best of the series in my opinion, I’ve played them since the 90s.

    -Beyond Good and Evil, comes to mind, don’t remember much about it, except that it’s good.

    -To the Moon, indie adventure / puzzle game. Has great reviews by the developers aunt, among other things.

    -Banner Saga 1-3, holy Nordic inspired epic tactical strategy, batman.

    -Jagged Alliance 2, another tactical combat game, modern time, funny, realistic and really difficult.

    Eh, realized that only the first one is free to play. But the other ones are old (or very old), so you can snatch them on sale on steam, GOG or Epic for less than a chocolate bar and get dozens of hours of enjoyment from them.