But it brought me to an important and overdue conclusion: straightforward strategies will not cut it. And so I proceeded to try- and to die- yet again. But about a month ago I decided it was time to finally get that ultimate badge of pride, that beautiful achievement on my Steam account: ‘No Looking Back’. My heart wasn’t really in it that time though, so that was over quickly. I let it rest for while (after a few more failures), but then XCOM 2 was announced, so I gave it another go. But true to the premise of XCOM’s sequel, they steamrolled me. Later, Enemy Within was announced- I was ecstatic! Once it came out, I beat it on Normal Ironman, but I wanted a bigger challenge. So I beat it on Normal, and XCOM quickly became my very favorite game. But that was on the Easy setting- I wanted more of a challenge. It didn’t take me long to beat XCOM: Enemy Unknown the first time I played it, shortly after it came out in 2012. I first published this post on the Steam community this past February where currently has nearly 4,000 views, so I thought it is worth re-posting.
Two of my favorite games, if not my very favorite video games.
