Booted up X-COM: Enemy Unknown again. Great game, but my fuck, some of the difficulty spikes are ridiculous and just plain unfair. I'm sailing through the game with perfectly fair difficulty(classic). Losing some decent guys here and there, but it's all still managable. Even on the "very difficult" maps. Then I get to the mission where you have to storm the alien base, and nothing but absolute bullshit follows. Every enemy all of a sudden has 100% accuracy from any position on the map, and I can't hit shit. I missed a 94% shot, along with nearly every other shot I took. My snipers who have racked up 100+ kills each are now getting "panicked" and couldn't hit water if they fell out of a fucking boat.
I re-loaded the mission four times before the game just randomly decided to play fair. This game gets a lot of praise for being "tough but fair", but fuck that. It is most of the time, but it also decides when it's just going to fuck you in the ass with cheap AI nonsense. I beat that mission and felt absolutely nothing, because I knew they just randomly let me win. I haven't raged out that hard on a game in years. Fuck.
