>Alien Breed: Impact
I love me some top-down twin-stick shooters and the Alien [Title] games always seem to pull me in despite being painfully repetitive and boring. The original Alien Breed, second gen Alien Breed that I'm playing through right now, Alien Syndrome on PSP, Shadowgrounds… All play the same, all feel clunky and I can't stop playing them for too long before realizing how painfully bored I am. Alien Shooter is the only exception seemingly because it embraces the arcade-like nature and is pretty short. Alien Shooter 2 has been recommended by the same couple of anons time and time again, so I keep reinstalling it on different computers time and time again. Why can't I transfer saves for fuck's sake? So sick or replaying the first couple of levels.
>PAYDAY 2
Can be pretty counter intuitive and not beginner friendly, but once you get your bearings, it becomes a lot of fun. That is, if run into a good group of people. I try to avoid multiplayer games as much as possible, but this one seems fine if you hang around people your level. Shotguns are almost viable at long range, I've taken out snipers with regular buckshot ammo. Good sound design. I recently hooked up these pre-amped speakers to my computer and playing on high volume I can feel every shot in my hands because of the table vibrating. Highly recommended. the speakers, not the game, it's a slightly more complex l4d clone with gun porn/gore and a lot of DLC jewery
>Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1 & 2
Recently had a hankering for some Spider-Man goodness and just before downloading Web of Shadows I realized I've never given Ultimate Alliance a chance. Always looked very stock and boring to me, like Just Cause 2's menus, if that makes sense. Heard it was OK to good, described as a Diablo like game (or maybe I'm confusing it with X-men Legends), but it's nothing more than a buffed up beat-em up. Yeah, you get gear drops from bosses and fixed items on some maps, but there is no other loot that I know of. I've only made it to second level and it's pretty neat. Seems dead simple at first, but then you find out how different heroes can fulfill different roles (Spider-woman can fly and cast Ass to attract melee enemies that can't do shit to her, while everyone else pummels them) and you can choose different costumes and those costumes give you different sets of stats to increase. For example, Spidey's classic outfit lets you upgrade retaliation damage, web damage and general defense, while Symbiote focuses on overall beefiness with strength and defense bonuses.
But holy fuck was it painful to set up these two games. First of all, the version I downloaded was corrupted and all the text was unreadable. Then I found out that controller support was fucked on both PC ports. PC controls were mapped to WASD for movement and 1234 for attacks. Good luck playing like that, faggot. Since I'm autistic and couldn't be bothered to remap controls, considering I didn't know how the game is played, I tried the PS3 versions. 1 runs at silky smooth 10-25 frames per second. 2 is so dark, I couldn't see the benches and boxes I was running into, gamma settings didn't do shit. So I finally got Xinput and followed a guide on steam forums to fix it.
>S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Just finished it. Good stuff. Final mission glitched out on me, so I had to replay it like 5 times.
