The remakes are solid for sure but they’re pretty different games that don’t quite fully capture the spirit of open ended gameplay you could do in the originals.

For example:

• Grenade relay involving 5 soldiers passing across the map until it lands at the foot of a Muton your out of actions scout ended his turn next to

• Blow a hole in the roof of a landed UFO and drop your soldiers in behind aliens watching the doors expecting a conventional assault

• Drive a tank into a single family home to dig out an alien hiding in a closet

Way of Kings did nothing for you? :o

Oh you mean Holden, Naomi, Amos, Alex, Bobbie, Clarissa, Ghost of Miller, and Avasarala?

You better be talking about DOS X-COM UFO Defense or I’ll send a blaster bomb down your gullet :o

100% agree. SMB3 on NES just had so much more stuff going on compared to SMW on the SNES. Mini games galore, secrets up the wazoo, and the muthafuckin’ SHOE. For reals using that bad boy was like stepping into a goddamn Gundam.

Vtec paintball, sunken defense, and Sal’dun RPG maps were my jams back in the day!