Prospero
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http://www.alienswarm.com/It's apparently a mod team they hijacked awhile ago. Looks like a decent co-op top down shmup. Free doesn't suck either.
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K9
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Looks like fun
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Malakili
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Free! Thats exactly what I wanted to pay for this, count me in for trying it.
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Paelos
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BAH! I can't play it this weekend. Damn you for tempting me with things that aren't released!  |
CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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Nightblade
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Nice, it comes with the dev kit too; which is more than what you get for 60 dollars these days.
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koro
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I played a lot of Alien Swarm back when it first came out for UT2k4. It was incredibly, incredibly awesome and a ton of fun, but it never caught on and the community dwindled away, even though it got pretty far along in the Make Something Unreal contest.
I'll be nabbing this as soon as it hits.
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Alien Swarm is top-down, right? (High overhead viewpoint, instead of from character's POV). Why do developers still make these? |
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Paelos
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Alien Swarm is top-down, right? (High overhead viewpoint, instead of from character's POV). Why do developers still make these? Now now.  |
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« Last Edit: July 16, 2010, 08:55:47 PM by Paelos »
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CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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Malakili
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Alien Swarm is top-down, right? (High overhead viewpoint, instead of from character's POV). Why do developers still make these? Yeah, I used to play pong, now I don't. I used to play side scrollers, then I didn't. Then I played a first person shooter, and it occurred to me that no game ever made should ever not use this point of view ever again, except for maybe RTS. |
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Fabricated
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I didn't know the Blackcat games people got picked up by Valve. Thank god, I was so annoyed they lost to the INCREDIBLY mediocre Red Orchestra in the Make Something Unreal contest.
Alien Breed: Impact is a pretty decent single-player/coop knock off of this mod and it's on steam too.
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Yeah, I used to play pong, now I don't.
I used to play side scrollers, then I didn't.
Then I played a first person shooter, and it occurred to me that no game ever made should ever not use this point of view ever again, except for maybe RTS.
Good to see that someone here shares my sensible point of view. |
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Simond
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Alien Breed: Impact is a pretty decent single-player/coop knock off of this mod and it's on steam too. Yes, Team 17 stole the idea from this and then travelled back in time to 1991 to release Alien Breed on the Amiga.  |
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Malakili
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Alien Breed: Impact is a pretty decent single-player/coop knock off of this mod and it's on steam too. Yes, Team 17 stole the idea from this and then travelled back in time to 1991 to release Alien Breed on the Amiga. I like your theory sir, I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter. |
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Fabricated
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Alien Breed: Impact is a pretty decent single-player/coop knock off of this mod and it's on steam too. Yes, Team 17 stole the idea from this and then travelled back in time to 1991 to release Alien Breed on the Amiga. I literally don't care. :) |
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Thrawn
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The price is right and anything with co-op always interests me.
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Teleku
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This thread has DEEPLY confused me. The game looks pretty cool though!  |
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eldaec
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I can't find a button to start preloading.
This displeases me.
I am displeased.
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eldaec
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Alien Breed: Impact is a pretty decent single-player/coop knock off of this mod and it's on steam too. Yes, Team 17 stole the idea from this and then travelled back in time to 1991 to release Alien Breed on the Amiga. You people really should have done this routine re: Robotron. Nobody round here is impressed by gaming references that are merely fifteen years old. |
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waffel
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Alien Swarm is top-down, right? (High overhead viewpoint, instead of from character's POV). Why do developers still make these? Guessing this was supposed to be typed in green? I read it as "DURR I only play FPS games" |
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Kail
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I read it as "DURR I only play FPS games"
I dunno, in this case, I kind of feel the same way. Not that all games should be first person, but there are reasons to use different cameras. Top down works in something like Zelda, because I'm not that worried about enemies who are very far away. It works in something like Starcraft because I'm controlling fifty guys and I need to be elevated to see over them. But this game looks like it's a straight up shooter, and I've rarely seen shooters where an overhead camera worked well. I suppose I'll know one way or another by tomorrow, though. |
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Kageru
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Overhead view sounds fine if you are in very close quarters and trying to co-ordinate your actions as part of a team. Say, perhaps, in a spaceship corridor with an alien swarm coming in from all directions and lots of powerful but short range weaponry. Strangely enough a situation depicted in all the screen shots for this game.
I remember playing the Amiga games and loving them. There's not enough good co-op games for the PC... especially at this price.
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Azazel
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Alien Swarm is top-down, right? (High overhead viewpoint, instead of from character's POV). Why do developers still make these? Guessing this was supposed to be typed in green? I read it as "DURR I only play FPS games" See if you can spot the posts that appear in both threads. I grew up with an Amiga and games like Alien Breed, Chaos Engine, etc, and I love co-op stuff. I'm so downloading this, but I just realised that you guys (and your Monday) are half a day behind me.  edit - feck. 12 hours. |
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jakonovski
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It seems to me there's an overload of identical top down Aliens ripoff shooters. Alien Breed, Shadowgrounds and now this. I'm sure there are more but they all blur into an amorphous blob in my mind.
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Mrbloodworth
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Fancy, looks like a hoot. As long as the controls are good. I have played to many games like this that the controls kill it for me. (Like that dungeon siege space game that i have wiped from memory)
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Der Helm
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1 hour!
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NiX
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It seems to me there's an overload of identical top down Aliens ripoff shooters. Alien Breed, Shadowgrounds and now this. I'm sure there are more but they all blur into an amorphous blob in my mind.
Really? Really? This is the type of game that blurs into an amorphous blob in your mind? None others? Really? |
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Malakili
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I'm going to be downloading this as soon as it goes live, look for SnuggleZhenya on the f13 steam group list I'll try to get a game up for f13 folks.
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jakonovski
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It seems to me there's an overload of identical top down Aliens ripoff shooters. Alien Breed, Shadowgrounds and now this. I'm sure there are more but they all blur into an amorphous blob in my mind.
Really? Really? This is the type of game that blurs into an amorphous blob in your mind? None others? Really? To be honest it's not very common for a subgenre to be directly based on one movie. |
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Malakili
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Rawr! "2 hours til release" Valve never fails to disappoint in this regard.  |
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K9
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waffel
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I just had to change my download location from Chicago to Detroit and it started downloading. You can change it in Settings under the Download + Cloud tab.
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K9
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Thanks, downloading now!
Seems that at least one of the achievements awards a hat for TF2
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Malakili
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Downloading.
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Ard
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Thanks, downloading now!
Seems that at least one of the achievements awards a hat for TF2
So help me god if it's a facehugger... |
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Malakili
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There is a bit more involved in this than I thought, looks pretty decent actually. I hope the missions don't get stale.
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