I want a shooter, I don't care about quests and thinking where to go, I just want to shoot!! Serious Sam and Postal 2 are my favorite games and I just keep replaying them.
I am old enough to remember when penny arcades were a penny. You had light guns and BB guns to shoot things. One with the light gun was a bear that went back and forth. If you were older you could use actual guns to shoot targets. The thing was to shoot. Then the shooter video games appeared and you shot, but then they got into Action instead where you had to stride thru scenarios before you can shoot. Like Doom, you wander and wander and wander before you can shoot anything. They are okay, but though people think they are the greatest, I wanna shoot stuff. I found Postal 2 on here and boy, it was my ideal, you could kill and kill and kill again without much in the way of wandering. I tried SSam 2nd encounter years ago, but for some reason didn't like it. Then a few years later, got SSam 1st encounter and got into it, shooting tons of things. Got back into SSam 2nd with better skills and now SSam 4 which is the best yet. It is just what I wanted, a fantastic SHOOTER, you go from level to level without a whole lot of wandering about like a lost soul. Now I have to be honest, I'm OLD and I cheat. I don't care, I get to shoot and with the gadgets, I need to cheat less. My reflexes have never been acute and it has gotten worse with age. But I LOVE SSAM 4 a lot. If you like to wander around, don't get this, you will be bored. If you like shoot 'em ups, this is for you!!
I have Postal, Postal2 and Paradise Lost and I love all of them, my favorite games and I keep replaying in higher and higher difficulty levels. There are so many places to explore and the maps are extremely helpful. If you just want a shooter where you can shoot this is the game for you. Most other games are good shooters, but get you lost in a story and nothing happens till you get to the next checkpoint and that to me is boring. Postal is open but will "herd" you to a specific route in many cases so you don't get lost and bungle around for a long time. The variety of weapons is amazing and some can be suicidal. The ones that shoot fire or the gas cans for example. But you can pee on yourself to stop the fire from killing you. Yes, you can pee on people and yourself. A very useful thing is catnip for speeding yourself up in really nasty firefights. Collecting cats is very good thing to do too. I have about 160 hours on the games so far and expect to have a lot more over the winter. One thing though, in Paradise Lost on my laptop, I hit a glitch where I couldn't continue. I don't know what that is about as it works fine on my tower. The laptop is a gaming laptop so it has enough oomph to run a game like Paradise Lost. It is immaterial though. Another nice feature is you can look to see your statistics on kills and the like. My highest body count is 2200+ so far. You don't have to kill people, but at some point they will start trying to kill you. You can pick up medkits for health and food items too that give you increments of health. People drop money when you kill them and in Paradise Lost you can use vending machines for health and weapons. You can also get armor. It does have goals you need to complete along the way. Again, if you want a shooter without a lot of bother, this is it!!!!
I really like the game as I don't want a lot of challenge. I just want to shoot the bad guys. There are two things that drive me crazy though. You can't manual save which means I play till a checkpoint and quit for the day. The other one is stranger, it gives you tips on loading up which display for almost a quarter of a SECOND!! Hey, I can read fast, but not that fast. I am looking forward to a complete game, but will continue to limp along with it as it is till then.
I love this game. It's a simple shooter, no philosophy or strange goals, just killem, killem good. My highest body count has been 2512. I put in about an hour a day slaughtering whatever gets in my way. Does this mean I ready to go bonkers, no I don't even kill flys. It's just a way to let off steam without hurting anyone. I've never played GTA but I assume this is a simpler version of the game as it lets you do what you want. I'm on my 5th or 6th run through of the game and I'm still not bored. If you just want to shoot stuff, this is the way to go.
