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2019-10-19, 08:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Looking for a computer game; Starship Troopers-like
Heya,
I am a tiny bit in a bummer moment, and I'd like some mindless sci-fi fun to take my mind of off things. I'm looking for suggestion at a game that's about shooting aliens. It could be a cool squad strategy, or maybe a third- or first-person shooter, but I want just the pleasure of blasting aliens.
Something like Space Marines, or maybe some of the X-Com game. I also played a board game named XenoShyft that, in my opinion, got the feeling across.
The game would be for PC. Are the recent Space Hulk FPS games good?
Thanks for the help.
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2019-10-19, 11:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2005
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Re: Looking for a computer game; Starship Troopers-like
Have you tried DOOM 2016? It's pretty much nonstop frenetic
aliendemon blasting action.NOW COMPLETE: Let's Play Starcraft II Trilogy:
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2019-10-20, 02:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2014
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Re: Looking for a computer game; Starship Troopers-like
If you don't mind older games, with all that entails, the Serious Sam series has a lot of Aliens to shoot.
Fair warning though: it's not actually very serious.The Hindsight Awards, results: See the best movies of 1999!
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2019-10-20, 12:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-10-20, 11:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2014
Re: Looking for a computer game; Starship Troopers-like
Have you played XCom 2? Cause if not, I highly recommend. I also recommend Xenonauts, but it's definitely more brain intensive.
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2019-10-21, 04:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Looking for a computer game; Starship Troopers-like
Helldivers is a really fun twin-stick shooter very much in the vein of starship troopers. Probably best if you can get a friend to jump on with you, as the online community is fairly quiet now.
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2019-10-21, 06:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Looking for a computer game; Starship Troopers-like
First- or Third-Person shooter where you kill aliens? Let's see...
Dead Space, as well as 2 and 3? Starts out more horror with survival elements, by 3 it's a more straight forward shooter.
Gears of War? I'm told that 3 is the best of the recent ones, though 4 has it's merits. 5 is supposed to be a bit of a let-down in terms of plot, but for mindless blasting it seems okay.
Warframe? You play as a robot-space-ninja, lots of manoeuvrability as you bounce around the scenery and mow down scores of cloned humans, robots and infested lien creatures.
Duke Nukem Forever? Despite the reviews it had, I found that if you can skip the mini-games as fast as possible then the actual gameplay loop is quite satisfying, in a "juvenile humour" kind of way.
Space Hulk: Deathwing? You mentioned Space Marine, there's now a co-op/squad-based FPS shooter set in the same universe where you purge the xenos filth from an abandoned space station, very atmospheric.Last edited by Wraith; 2019-10-21 at 06:49 AM.
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2019-10-21, 09:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-10-21, 11:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Looking for a computer game; Starship Troopers-like
There's also the Halo series. A couple of them have even been released on PC.
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2019-10-21, 01:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Looking for a computer game; Starship Troopers-like
Thanks a lot guys!
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2019-11-26, 09:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Looking for a computer game; Starship Troopers-like
It might be a little funny, but I haven't thought of a game that comes to your mind other than chicken invaders
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2019-11-27, 02:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Looking for a computer game; Starship Troopers-like
I've always liked Alien Swarm for something Starship Trooper-esque. It does kind of require a team though. But other than that it's quite brilliant. I also seem to recall it's free?!
Maybe it's free. Or I'm deluded. Or possibly both, it's not like the two are mutually exclusive.
Edit: I checked. Yes, it's free. And it now has a single player option.Last edited by Kaptin Keen; 2019-11-27 at 02:02 AM.
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2019-11-27, 05:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Looking for a computer game; Starship Troopers-like
Crimsonland is perfect for this. Other games contain useless vestigial appendages like 'plot' or 'dialog' or even 'context.' Crimsonland however has removed these unfortunate distractions and in so doing become 100% pure violence. There's just you, a very large to endless number of aliens to shoot, and a variety of things to shoot them with. It's total and complete engagement for your lizard brain; which is sort of ironic because of all the lizards you shoot in the head.
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2019-11-27, 07:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Looking for a computer game; Starship Troopers-like
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2019-12-06, 02:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Looking for a computer game; Starship Troopers-like
The Earth Defense Force games are weirdly fun.
3rd-person-shooter, RPG elements, different classes with different playstyles/goals, weapons have different mechanics. Shoot bugs the size of houses off of other houses.
It's kinda campy, but in a good way. Like, you don't play it for the intense graphics, you play it because you want to kill apocalyptic-sized ants and spiders with a mech or howitzer laser cannon.Last edited by Man_Over_Game; 2019-12-06 at 02:23 PM.
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2019-12-09, 09:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Looking for a computer game; Starship Troopers-like