“Yeah, it’s definitely challenging,” he said. Overall, it worked mostly fine on the Lenovo Ideapad Y700 entertainment laptop that I played it on. If I didn’t run into the difficulty wall, I would have rated it much higher myself. That’s about where I would rate it, given my troubles. But it’s noteworthy that players only rated the game at 6.9 out of 10. After all, the critics gave this game an 88 out of 100 on Metacritic, the review aggregator.
In XCOM 2, I hit a wall.Ĭertainly, this made me feel inadequate. I loved it in Total War: Attila, which was really difficult. I’m not sure I like this trend all of the time. And I’ve been playing for the better part of a month. I’ve tried to beat some of the harder missions against the alien facilities in the title more than a dozen times. The completionist in me wants to keep going, but I’m giving voice to my shame. Those games can make you feel like you’ve climbed a mountain when you beat them, but they have a pretty big downside. We’re seeing a new obsession with “permadeath” and high difficulty in games such as Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Necropolis. I’m here to testify that it is possible to make a game too difficult. If a game is too hard, a lot of more casual gamers like me are just going to give up. This raises a question about the wisdom behind the game industry’s spiraling quest to make games more engaging by making them harder to play for a smaller group of hardcore gamers. But I started playing this game on the “normal” setting and had to ratchet it down to “rookie” in order to continue with the game. I’m going to get a lot of flak for this from hardcore gamers who want their games to be difficult. The game is too hard, and I’m in so deep that I can’t make more progress unless I start over. I have tried to turn back the alien conquest of Earth in a last-ditch guerrilla war by humanity. I have put dozens of hours into playing a single game of XCOM 2, the turn-based tactical strategy game from Take-Two Interactive’s 2K Games label. Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23.
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