Recent content by GARforGunman

Okay, I haven't been too keen on XCOM 2's DLC so. The game was promoted as a desperate guerrilla resistance, but all the customization options Anarchy's Children and Alien Hunters gave us have kinda betrayed that image. It's hard to take the game's setting and stakes seriously when my troopers...

See, this was one of my biggest gripes with the game at first. Not the pseudo-stealth mechanics that hampered some of the strategy planning or diminished fear and tension in the atmosphere of this alien-controlled version of Earth. It was the initial plot points that seemed to be taking too many...

Oh, sorry. I thought you guys got the memo. Turns out XCOM was defeated by the aliens / lore / meta-game developer B.S. Now they're hiding in the shadows with their worn-out gear and red-shirt wearing rookies. They're still fighting our alien oppressors, but its the equivalent of a kid throwing...

As someone who's read the novel, let me save you some time. XCOM 2 : Resurrection is pretty bad, not just as a tie-in novel meant to flesh out the world, but as a piece of literature in general. 90% of the book is spent following a group of underdeveloped characters that received the bare...

Well, consider this; the Ethereals' main objective with the invasion wasn't about conquering mankind, but testing them. They were searching for the perfect host species who could not only adapt to their technology and psionic powers, but grow stronger from them. All the other races they...

Like I've said before, I don't have a problem with XCOM 2 starting from the game over scenario. I take issue with how its being implemented. You're expected to lose in XCOM (quite often if you want to achieve and Ironman/Impossible victory) and its from those failures that you learn and grow...

I'd say the prospect of failure in XCOM isn't what he was complaining about. In fact, I'd say failure (be it squad wipes, falling behind on research) is a core feature of the series. No matter what you do, you will fail at some point, and sometimes this leads to the "game over" scenario. But...

I still miss the days when Bioware truly listened to their fans' feedback. I'm not talking about the sycophantic neckbeards that now make up the vast majority of their forums. I'm talking about fans of good narrative that flows naturally, well-crafted world building that gives the story greater...

I tried taking Homefront seriously but the only thing that came to mind was CollegeHumor's animated series "The Adventures of Kim Jong Un." A dictatorial man-child's warped monument to his own ego he forces down his subjects' throats. The main difference is that those animated shorts are...

40 different endings? No DLC characters? Improved gameplay? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm_GPkOfVKI Oh, Bioware, didn't you get the memo? It's statistically impossible to for you to come back after the triumvirate of disasters that were TOR, DA2 and ME3. You can kick your marketing...

I remember one of my favorite ME3 analysis video series coming to the conclusion that, since the narrative, characters and thematic cohesion essentially imploded in the last 10 minutes (especially with the Extended Cut. THE NORMANDY IS LITERALLY WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE OF THE ONE OBSTACLE TO THE...

I get the frustration with Evangelion, both the original and Rebuild series. For me, it's original intent was to be a harsh deconstruction and criticism of not only the mecha genre and anime industry but of the Japanese culture and mindset post-WWII. When the established world has been so...