5 seconds ago, this was clearly a gif, and now it is a video with commentary. Did you realize we all didn't have a clue, Mr. Spoon?

What? He streamed this live earlier today. The video was just as bad then.

So that's what X-Com would be like if Spoony was the DM.

Now that is a familiar sight. A friend of mine would spend ages on his first turn, neatly positioning all his troops in a half circle around the ship to “cover in all directions”. More often than not a grenade came sailing out of nowhere (or even those annoying remote controlled thingies) and wipe out most or all of his team.

Lesson to be learned for this game: always spread out. There's always some damn alien with a spare grenade just waiting for moments like this. If need be, don't unload all troops in the first turn.

This and Jagged Alliance will always rule my list of turn based tactic games. Even if they can be tough and frustrating and make you reload the same save game a hundred times (useless fact of the day: JA2 saved the pregenerated random numbers in the save game, so you couldn't cheat by reloading and shooting until you hit).

What's this, a stream capture?

…you a have stream?

I love how spoony's laugh mingled with a whimper and then died.

WTF!??!?!?!?! That was like a Dr. Insano Conquer the world laugh… That was maniacally funny…
Fuck. I think that it was epic fail.

Terror from the Deep summed up in one video. Something from Somewhere kills all your dudes in one shot. Please try again.

At least there was no Chryssalids.

Just put “IT'S ALIIIIVE” before the laugh, and picture Dr. Insano xD

Channeling a bit of Insano there? LOL. (Fight it, Spoony! You left the madness behind a long time ago!)

I hate it when computers cheat.

Ah yes, Terror from the Deep, perhaps the most sadistically hard squad-based strategy game ever.

At the beginning of the game, a lowly Sonic Pistol will invariably kill your unarmored soldiers in 1 hit. Once you've discovered Plastic Aqua armor, you'll be able to survive a frontal hit, where the armor is thickest – everything else is very likely to be instant death, and at that point in the game, the aliens are already going to complement their arsenal with Sonic Blasta Rifles or even Sonic Cannons.

But explosives take the cake. Not only can the normal alien Sonic Pulser grenade cover the whole screen with just as much damage as a Sonic Cannon, but near the end of the game, the aliens will be fielding Disruptor Pulse launchers, remote-controlled missiles capable of obliterating the whole screen doing almost twice as much damage, leveling buildings and instantly killing even your most experienced soldiers in your most advanced armor.

try squads of for next time :P

funny that i warned him to spread more… right before that happaned, and i did´t expect that to happen on TURN 1

You know, the first time I was on ship mission, I was doing pretty okay, there were dinosaurs, Tasoth, floating brains and flying squid, plus the odd MC'ing Aquatoid or two. But I managed to clear the deck with minimal losses. Yay, I win? Right? Right? No. I have to clear below decks too, oh joy. And not only that, but once you get down there, you've almost no cover bar a few crates, with the aliens already set up in choice defensive positions.

I've often wondered, if the aliens have on a ship, what amounts to a platoon, wouldn't the more sensible thing to do would be to blow the ship out of the water? I mean…of course, try and rescue the crew, but, make it quick and get out as fast as you can.

Laugh it up, fuzzball!

Seriously, though, that was the most hysterical laughter I've heard in a long, long time. And it made me laugh, too. XD

They all died – BOOM! well, I couldn't tell what just happened, but this has to bee the biggest crack up since Zelda Scott.

Hmm… I never played Terror From The Deep but I sure hate Plasma Grenades in UFO. It's strange how a game which is based so extremely on trial and error can be so much fun.

Right before the grenade blows, we need to cue a Dr. Insano, “This is the precise moment when Spoony's soul snaps like a Twix Bar.” :P

Glad to know I'm not the only one who laughs like crazy when his guys wipe.

X-Com Forever!

- ToKo.

That was great!!

Way back in the day, i was playing X-Com UFO Def and i had a rocket launcher guy step out, get shot by snap fire, freak out, turn around and fire! Whole team wiped out before i could even react!

lmao

Terror from the Deep let's play NAO!

that's what i'm saying :D. i used to be a “cheater” and immediately saved after every succesful move. and loaded my saved game after every not so succesful move :D

God damn sir, that 's a fine Mad Villain laugh you have there!

Can you hear that? Its the sound of a Lets play X-com!

I've always deployed smoke/dye at the breach also, but it only seems to help with direct fire. Trust me, if the aliens get it in their mind to chuck a grenade, a little smoke ain't gonna deter them.

“At least there was no Chryssalids” – aha, at least in UFO Defence you would hover and they wouldn't get you. Tentaculats on the other hand will reach you anywhere AND they look like something Lovecraftian – frak, it's even written in their UFOPaedia description… and the end boss even LOOKS like Cthulhu himself!

Ah, X-Com 2. The early game is so much harder than the original, half your weapons stop working in early terror missions, and the whole aliens invaded the earth billions of years ago but have been hibernating at the bottom of the ocean bit is weird and smacks of the Silurians from Doctor Who. It's all worth it though when you start chasing lobstermen around with giant freaking drills…

… up until you start hitting those freaking ship missions. Seriously that's just too much combat to handle without a break if it isn't the end game.

Squad exits the sub, only to have a sonic grenade gib the entire squad right outside the doors.

Also, the reason I exit the subs 2-3 men at a time.

Oh snap. I think we broke Noah. I guess its been inevitable a while now though

Even nowadays, “impressive” AI means they f***ing cheat! “Why won't the {insert character type here} die!? This is such {Expletive deleted}!”

That is just playing smart… When the original first came out, everyone I knew played like this unless they intentionally set out to play without saves. It was far more common to save after each turn.

Wow. That's…hilarious! =D

I can see the ad now: “Somewhere between safety in numbers and convenient clustering lies… Explosion. The new fragrance by Spoony. It is the smell of fail.”

BTW Am I the only one who can't stand to have even just one guy of my team die unless it's extremely heroic?
You know… the opposite of what just happened in that video?

If you didn't reload after that catastrophe your a true Ironman! lol

Terror From the Deep. I knew exactly what would happen especially in a squad formation like that. That was pretty funny to watch but a pain in the ass to play. I would play it like Ironman style at first, but when I lose so many people, I end up cheating. Not so in the first Xcom game.

There are moments when I play the game when I throw a sonic grenade at an area where I know there's an alien, but ended up killing 5 or 6 aliens bunch up together. That was crazy!

From swat 4 to x-com, you have no luck with grenades.

I used to love this game but it was insanely hard. Anyone know were i can find the rom of it?

You've got the coolest laugh. EVER.

Steam has this one for 5 bucks as well as all the other X-Com titles.

I like how the game gives you “TERRIBLE!” as a rating for the match.

yeah I’ve found that game cheats.

Oh man, we need a lets play of this.

Hell half the reason I watch your stuff is because I like watching other people suffer horribly and xcom:TFTD fits that category :)

fuck, uh I mean because you are a totally hilarious, cool guy and it would be wrong to enjoy your suffering through say…all the highlander sequels again :P