![]() ![]() And unlike its main competitors in that category (Rimworld, Dwarf Fortress), FTL is very easy to get to grips with, so you can quickly get to the really juicy bits about killer spiders and pirate boarding parties, mind control abilities, and what I like to call "deoxygenation shenanigans".įTL is still one of the best games you can play today in 2023. It's an extremely challenging game, and one of the best story generators in my Steam Library. It's a lightweight roguelite spaceship captain simulator where you need to jump between various sectors, fending off enemy ships, building your crew, and upgrading your ship in an epic race back to the Federation homeworld to save it from the evil(?) Rebel fleet. Imagine the relief when I saw FTL.įTL: Faster Than Light is one of an extremely small number of absolutely perfect games. Ollie: Whenever Katharine tells us that it's time for another Time Capsule and gives us the year, there's always this moment of fear where we all jump onto Metacritic to find out what PC games came out there, and whether there's a single good game among them. It's a stonkingly good game, and into the Time Capsule it goes.įTL: Faster Than Light Developer: Subset Games ![]() XCOM: Enemy Unknown is as much about the bonds you form with the boots on the ground as it is the mental gymnastics you perform trying to keep them all alive. ![]() More than that, though, it's the stories of those soldiers that stick with you well past the point you stop playing - the heroic victories, the impossible shots, the utter disbelief of missing a honking great shotgun blast when you're standing 5cm away from a punk-ass sectoid. Death hurts in XCOM, and it's why missions can stretch well past the hour mark as you carefully weigh up each and every move. It's a remarkable achievement, and absolutely deserves its place alongside its even better sequel as a masterclass in tactical brilliance.Īs you work to defend Earth from an alien invasion, you'll need to make tough decisions on not just where to deploy your limited troops and resources, but also make sure they don't all absolutely biff it in the process, because man alive, when one of your soldiers dies in XCOM, it's like your own limbs have been severed from your husk of a body. Not only was it a phenomenal reboot of the classic strategy game series, but its effects on the genre are still being felt today, with several game developers citing it as a key influence on games being made right now. Katharine: I'm inevitably going to end up breaking my own rules when we eventually get to 2016 and XCOM 2 comes around, but gosh darn it, XCOM: Enemy Unknown is just too good, and too important, to not be Capsuled. XCOM: Enemy Unknown Developer: Firaxis Games Some years have been real sparse, lately.īut! As with all great lists, there are bound to be a lot of good games here that we've missed, so why not tell us about the one game from 2012 you'd save from the eternal hellfires of an exploded Earth in the comments below? We have, admittedly, been a bit lax about this particular rule in recent capsules, but please don't hold that against us. We're including games based on the year they came out on PC, and ideally, it's this particular version of the game we're recommending (even if you technically can't physically buy that in any actual storefront anymore). Rather, they're the games we hold dear to our hearts, and those that (hopefully) hold some important lesson that's worth preserving for the game developers of the future. Or if you want to know about the consequences of the Cage/Bird choice, we've got a page on that too.As with previous Time Capsules, these aren't necessarily the definitive best games of the year we've picked. If you want to know how to solve all the Ciphers and Codes in Bioshock Infinite, just follow this link here. Still, there's other things you can do in Bioshock to take your minds off your inescapable wealth. | Joel Franey/USgamer, Irrational Games/2K Can't get rid of your gold? #FirstWorldProblems. We'll be sure to update this page if a solution or patch is issued, but we wouldn't hold out for it happening: the Bioshock Collection is four years old at time of writing and Bioshock infinite is nearly twice that. You can't even drop them and pick up a different machine gun or pistol the dull metal plating turns to gold the moment Booker touches it. Manage cookie settings How to Disable the Golden Gun Skinsīad news: there is currently no way to disable the golden skins or the damage upgrade on either the machine gun or the pistol, so if you don't like them, you'll have to pick up different kinds of guns you don't have the gold skins for. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. ![]()
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