Alien Hominid.

Post by **Gamerforlife** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 9:54 pm

nateup2 wrote:That is really interesting. I just started playing this yesterday and was going to post on it.

I love the game and was surprised that I had missed it this far. I suck at it too.

We need more modern, high res 2d games like this.
I wish there was a PC version.

What bugs me about Alien Hominid is that most of my deaths aren't from bosses or the various creatures you encounter. It's those damn FBI agents. As the most common enemy type in the game they SHOULD be the easiest ones to kill. However, their completely random behavior will lead to a lot of cheap kills. You can't really properly prepare for them. They may stand there waiting for you to kill them or one might aggressively attack you without warning or you'll have one fire a shot at you then immediately jump and fire another shot to nail you as you try to jump and avoid the first shot. I hate that random AI. They bounce back and forth from stupid to smart and it's annoying. Most of the harder boss fights in the game are only hard because of their presence as well. I hate those bastards.

You'll encounter screen sized mutant freaks, huge robots and other crazy shit, but it'll always be those damn FBI agents that kill you

Still a cool game though, but those agents are so damn annoying.

Post by **nateup2** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 9:58 pm

Damn, so Im not going to start seeing fewer of them.

Ill just take it how it is, I guess.

Post by **Gamerforlife** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:19 pm

nateup2 wrote:Damn, so Im not going to start seeing fewer of them.

Ill just take it how it is, I guess.

There's another type of soldier in the second set of stages, but they fight the same way. So I call all of them those FBI bastards

Post by **nocturnalnerd** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 12:03 am

Yeah in the second lever 2-1 thru 2-5 they are communists.

Post by **Gamerforlife** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 12:22 pm

Holy crap, I actually beat the wood chipper level without dying. Woohoo! Was on easy though

Post by **nocturnalnerd** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 12:23 pm

Damn I didn't know there were options. Might have to see what hard is like.

Post by **Gamerforlife** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:46 pm

Stupid...cheap...annoying, final boss. LOL

I'm one achievement away from having the full 200 points. I just need to beat that bastard without continuing. I'm trying to doing it the legit(a.k.a. hard)way. I know there's a trick with two players, but I don't have another controller and that's just cheating away.

He's driving me nuts though. Really hard.

Post by **Gamerforlife** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 4:28 pm

Did it, beat the bastard with no continues. This is the first Xbox Live Arcade game I have gotten 200/200 on. Of course, that's mostly due to it not having any stupid multi-player achievements. Guess, I'll spend my time with the PDA games, which is the best part of the game anyway. I can't believe there were no PDA achievements. That's lame

Anyway, guess this topic is dead.

Post by **RadarScope1** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 7:54 pm

I'm going to get this for XBLA eventually. I've played the first level dozens of times on the demo. I just have too big a backlog right now!!

Post by **Gamerforlife** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:49 pm

RadarScope1 wrote:I'm going to get this for XBLA eventually. I've played the first level dozens of times on the demo. I just have too big a backlog right now!!

I have a ton of unplayed games across a variety of systems, but I'm trying to at least finish every 360 game I play, achievements included. So I can have a "complete" gamer profile. That's one of the things I love about the Xbox Live Arcade games. It doesn't take eons to complete them. So I've been downloading a lot