User talk:NightChime
Why does X-COM warrant such a use of our time on this wiki?
Some pessimism- really. Why? It is just a game, after all, right? Is our time worth that little?
Before I get too carried away...
Some optimism- Hey, it's a fun game! It's fairly popular, if just in nerd circles that I'm around. I'd have to say it's the most common game that isn't browser-based I see played on laptops, anywhere, not that I see people playing games on laptops much. Anyway, more importantly is that it's such an old game that, coupled with (here I'm not sure, I'm guessing) a lack of in-depth information, strategy guides, etc. from the very start of the game, in its hay-day, combined with the erosion of such information over time; people losing or plum not saving their instruction books or guides, or the increasing percentage of people playing the game "illegally", thus not getting an instruction book in the first place (me being somewhere between, having gotten the game from a friend on an original CD, sans book or box).
And so a random, very negative thought I had gets turned on its head! Smiles, et cetera, NightChime 02:15, 23 October 2008 (CDT)