X-com Humour --- X-COM Theme Parks &
chatlines! >Can you see it now - the
Special Forces ride at Alton Towers!? <g> "Experience the alien
containment experience! Feel yourself doused in paralysing gases, dumped into a cryogenic
stasis vat, and finally operated Our telepaths are waiting for
your thoughts - Think X-COM 0800. --- In the thread where we were discussing
snipers, I felt compelled to write this: Head shots! I can see it now! Spotter: There you go, sarge. Humanoid
bug over yonder. FIN --- So why can't the bugs destroy
X-Com bases by bombarding them, eh? Someone claimed that this was because they were
underground. Well... They have the technology to
travel between the stars. ...and you're telling me they
can't blow through a few hundred metres of dirt? --- Someone responded to that in
kind... All right, all right, how
much fun would it be if the Aliens simply used their advanced technology to find X-com
bases the instant they were built, and blasted them to a pock mark in the ground... I can
see it now: Budding X-com'er:
"hhmmm... "beginner" <click> "name eh?" <typing> 'X C
O M U S A' <click> "so wahs-this butto..." *boom* end-game,
you lose <credits roll> ;) So I said... Whereas a vet would know that
you should name it 'Alien Supply Depot 02', because then they avoid it. ;-) --- The Day A MegaSpawn Fell On My
Head Not really humour; a real-life
Apocalypse occurence. <grin> Well, it's a short story really.
One of the more advanced types of UFOs... the smallest which has MegaSpawn,
in fact. My six agents were seated happily outside, mowing down any skeletoids which
dared show their heads when, all of a sudden (this was in RT, BTW): "ROAR" Where the THUD! was a MegaSpawn
landing behind my rearmost (and very surprised) agent. Apparently that thirty-ton
alien behemoth had plummeted through the solid floor of the UFO. How, I shall never
know, but it deserves its place in the 'Oh s@*t Moments' gallery.
from the alt.games.x-com Newsgroup (compiled by Shaun Green)
on - JUST LIKE THE REAL THING!"
Sniper: Got it. Come here, bug... <fires>
Sniper: Head shot! Yes!
Spotter: Uh... sarge... it's not going down...
Sniper: What? But I took it's whole bloody head off?
Spotter: Well, it just got back up and it's got a grena- oh shit...
They created our species.
They possess fleets of impossibly awesome spacecraft and battleships.
They have legions of unstoppable alien soldiers.
They have existed for millions of years.
<crunch>
"ROAR"
Wheeeeeeee---THUD!