"XCOM is a long game"
Ah hah hah hah hah: try the <i>Long War</i> mod! The guys who made it (who eventually got MAD props from Firaxis, and got invited to have input (and tune the mod system) for XCOM2), and players like me who've done multiple campaigns: we did it because
Personally, I could only ever play XCom 1 modded via OpenXCom myself. The base techtree seemed to focus too much on slogging, which ate up time, and the utter ridiculous accuracy and the fact that training could only be done by doing didn't help matters. Don't fix everything, but hey, sniper rifles!
@Jo Pereira: Well, I value not only the comedy aspect of the strip, but the whole packet: for example, the one with Angie reuniting with the other girls was tear-jerking, thus, one of my favorite.