As a result, your squad isn’t just enforcing the law, putting down rebellions, or dealing with renegade factions. It’s hard to take out the complexity of a system and have the guts and fun still there, but they managed it.Ĭhimaera Squad also raises an interesting question and one I’d like to explore more: what happens after the rebellion when everyone has to live with each other? This is the story of the various alien races and hybrids and humanity all learning to live with each other. Not as a replacement, but as another avenue to explore when you don’t have time for a 200 hour grind through The Long War. Chimaera Squad takes the solid turn-based action and squad building and makes it a little easier to deal with. XCOM is a great series, but it can be a little overwhelming. Nothing like two guys with enormous beards staring each other down across an intricately detailed map of Richmond Virginia to get the blood pumping!īest Moment: Me taking you on an educational family vacation. You never have quite enough stuff to do everything you want to do, so it becomes a head game of trying to guess what the other guy wants to do so you can stop him, then throw a wrench in his plans. The real secret is: it’s all about logistics. You’ve got terrain, generals, unit strength and quality, location, expanding RAILWAY CAPACITY, all the things the kids like in their video games. The game handles all the complicated stuff–math! Ew!–leaving you to plot your own march through the south. Combine it with the not-at-all-controversial American Civil War and you have a game that’s fun for the whole family.īut seriously if all that sounds exciting–and I know it does–this is a really fun take on the Civil War with interesting combat that’s surprisingly simple to learn, but takes some generalship to win.
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Victory and Glory: The American Civil WarĮveryone loves a video game that’s actually a port of one of those complicated board games that has 100 sheets of counters to punch out and a bunch of cards to draw and look can we just play Ticket to Ride instead, everyone knows how to play that. The rage this caused was outstanding and why Fall Guys had the best multiplayer of the year.īest Moment: Literally anytime you could stop someone else from winning even if it meant you would lose.Ĩ. JUST LIKE REAL LIFE.īut sometimes, just sometimes, you could set up on the finish line and block OTHER people from winning before going on to win yourself. But you can also wear a ridiculous costume. All you have to do is get to the finish line and literally everyone and everything is trying to stop you. It takes a certain alchemy to get “this game is easy and fun, but it’s also hard and infuriating” and balance it just right, but Fall Guys manages it. It was infuriating: Other people would screw up for you, sometimes there were bugs, Japanese gameshows are torture simulators in candy colors.
It was intuitive: Run forward, jump, try not to screw up. It’s my Titanfall Memorial “Hey You Assholes Were All About This Game What Happened?!” Award Winner for 2020.īut for that month, Fall Guys was ridiculously fun. I’m the Director now.įor about a month, everyone was playing Fall Guys and then everyone stopped. WAIT THAT MIGHT BE WORSE OH SHIT!Īnyway, play Control if you want to spend an entire game going “What the fucccck? What the fucccck? ”.īest Moment: Look at me. Is that a monster? Ha ha, no, it’s just the janitor. A boring building is pretty spooky in half-lighting with bodies floating in the air, lights flickering, and weird hissing in the background.
Insane, isn’t it? And that part can actually be more terrifying than the game. Imagine, a game where reading the collectibles and lore is actually a good idea. Also it ripped off Kingdom Hearts’ “enemies drop little orb thingies of health” so you just kill some more dudes when you get low on health.
Sure, sometimes the boss fights are predictable and you mow down a lot of goons but this is the kind of game that wouldn’t have been made without combat (when it would be amazing without combat). It’s spooky and weird and the combat is fun without being ridiculous. How did I miss it? I dunno! Shit comes up, man! But I finally got around to playing it in the waning days of 2020 and it’s real good, man. Or Best Game That Came Out Last Year That I Only Just Got Around To: ControlĬontrol is spooky, weird, and very SCP Project, which should make it extremely my shit. To quote poet Fred Durst, everything is fucked. There were a lot of good games out this year and all of that was overshadowed by the fact that we were in the grips of a worldwide pandemic and a, frankly, incredibly bizarre American election that was incredibly stupid even by our stupid standards.
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