5/2/2020 Xcom Tbg App
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In XCOM: The Board Game, you and up to three friends assume the roles of the leaders of the elite, international organization known as XCOM. It is your job to defend humanity, quell the rising panic, and turn back the escalating alien invasion coordinated by the games innovative, free digital companion app.Content rating: Everyone.
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Comments with spoilers must hide the comment using spoiler tags: !Spoiler here! I love XCOM games, and had read many good reviews about how exciting and tense XCOM TBG was, using what it looked like an interesting app.Bought the game, played 3 times. Biggest flop our group had played.
I was so disappointed. Only has to take orders from the app, no big decisions, not many strategies (if any). Just read the app, locate units, roll dice and repeat until your luck decides you won or not.It was the first game I decided to sell.I think I am writing this because I can't believe how much XCOM disappointed me yet:(. I love XCOM, but the boardgame isn't really that great of a implementation of the franchise. With that said I enjoy it. It's main mechanism is that it is a game of making decisions under pressure.
I'm going to be honest and say that you probably played the game wrong(FFG rulebooks assure this), but even if you played it right it would not be that different. I don't think it is boring, but I would not expect someone that was looking for an XCOM experience to be satisfied.You might want to look at Galaxy Defenders or Level 7: Omega Protocol to get more of an XCOM feeling game in your collection. I love it actually. It isn't a game that gets played that often but, well, the conversation normally goes like this:'What do you want to play?' 'I'm not sure.'
We haven't played XCOM in like forever.' 'Oh shit, we totally need to play it!' We play it, we love it. And then it goes back in closet for another 3 months.I agree with you that the game isn't strategic. It's very reactive and experiential.
It's much more about managing moment-to-moment chaos. Not all games have to be about silently stroking your chin pondering your next move. Some can be about freaking out and yelling at people. I pull out XCOM when I want to yell at people.I find it to be a rather unique coop that provides something quite different than the rest of my collection and I'm glad I own it.Also, I've found the type of person playing Central, interacting with the app, narrating the game for the other players, can make or break the game.
If they drone through the whole thing in quiet monotone - you're going to have a bad time. You want someone excitable and engaging in that role. It is interesting to read all these bad opinions of it!My housemates and friends really love it. We played it a lot when it came out, and have recently started playing it again.I think I' played about 5 games of it last weekend and 5 this weekend, and loved every game.I think there is a lot of depth to the decision making because the game is so interconnected with competing interests.
The thing here is that I'm also a video gamer. And I play a lot of board games. Requiring an app for a board game just doesn't appeal to me at all. If I want to play against a computer I'll flip on my PC.
Or load up any of the dozen 'digital board games' I have on different devices. My two biggest problem with apps is that first (and ESPECIALLY) my game will be completely useless some day.
Because there's no way an app will migrate along with technology. Case in point: I own a complete 2nd edition of Talisman from the 80's. I still bust it out on occasion to play it with my college friends. If it required a piece of 80's tech to play it I don't think it would be doing much more than gathering dust 30 plus years later.My second issue with apps is it just feels like a crutch for innovative game design. 'We need to really think outside the box to streamline and refine these mechanics so the game will be fun'. 'Or we can just use an app'. I won't say I'd never play a game that uses an app but I'd rather spend my money on games I can pass on to my kids and grandkids some day without needing to show them that old 'Smart phone' grandpa has kept for the last 40 years so he can play Xcom.
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I don't think this is an unreasonable stance to take.
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