UFO: Aftermath/Aftershock

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:19 pm

I recall some discussion of these games some time back and this weekend I saw them in stores for thirty bucks. So did I waste my money or are these actually good?

P.S. I just now notice one is DVDRom. That means I have to make that piece of shit work.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:20 am

P.S. You guys suck ass at response time.

Blargh · Post by **Blargh** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:22 am

I have yet to play them. Though I probably prefer X-Com.

Now you can berate relevance, too !

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:08 am

Lambast relevancy? Surelly, Blargh, you are the last unsilenced voice of reason, in this heap of corpse dÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â© anim!

baby arm · Post by **baby arm** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:49 am

I recall some discussion of these games some time back and this weekend I saw them in stores for thirty bucks. So did I waste my money or are these actually good?

If you spent $30 each then you did waste your money and should return them if possible. $30 for the pair is more up in the air. I'm playing Aftershock off and on right now and it's OK, but there are a lot of small annoyances. First off, it has Starforce so you need to use a crack. Then there's the RTwP combat instead of turn-based. It won't run in full screen on my Nvidia or ATI cards so I have to disable fullscreen through a command line addition to the shortcut. Some of the missions are frustrating, especially when I have to kill a certain number of aliens and the last one keeps running around and around avoiding my team.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:25 am

Thirty for the pair. No tax. So technically $29.99.

Blargh · Post by **Blargh** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:27 am

St. Toxic wrote:<deleted>

Your wit is as infectious as your namesake. Specifically during the Orange Years. Or is it ? Studies are out, still. Moving along, continue, or be stopped. You know.

Baby arm, that was our dear friend, Fred, whom you so thoroughly eviscerated. Nicely done. And yet, even in this moment of excellence, disappointment looms. Ehue.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 11:02 am

I've been playing Aftermath a bit and it's... buggy. I installed, played a bit, patched, and now I'm playing again and I've had two crazy graphical issues in the middle of a fight that then caused a crash.