I played the demo of this game a long while ago. It plays like a less polished version of Doom 3. Not a great game by any means, but you can't go wrong with $1.25. I still have so many other games to go through at the moment, but I'll buy it now at that price and shelve it until I get an urge to play a mindless mediocre shooter.
http://www.direct2drive.com/2/5559/product/Buy-Alpha-Prime-Download

Mediocre shooter, you say? Sounds like my kind of fun. I love playing terrible to merely OK games just for the hilarity of it.

Well, the game actually has some interesting ideas, like 'hacking', but I hate how your enemies are accurate - that's the biggest flaw this game has, IMO. You go into a room, you shoot one bullet and everybody else suddenly turns to your exact location and starts to shoot with perfect accuracy

Sounds like why I keep being tempted to buy Project Aftermath.

I once played Iron Man for the 360 for a hundred bucks.

Cool, I haven't downloaded it from D2D yet because my roommate was playing online last night, now I'll just add my key to Steam.
As for mediocre games, I just like to play all games as long as they're not terrible. The way I see it, developers don't set out to make horrible experiences, sometimes it just doesn't turn out the way they envisioned it. As a prospective developer in the industry I play all games to see what works and what doesn't. Also playing average games just makes you appreciate the great games even more.

There is a thread on cheapassgamer.com about this deal. And it was confirmed that the D2D version won't register with Steam. The serial key is in a different format.

How is the DRM in the D2D version of this game? It doesn't say DRM-Free so should I assume that is uses Securom by default?

It's $1.25. Who gives a fuck if there's DRM?

It's not for the monetary value. I don't want to install the securom driver on my PC ever and the previous poster said that I can't register it on Steam so I want to know.

I'd be inclined to agree with you if I hadn't played games that seem to actively have it out for the player by sheer design. The biggest example of this (for me) has been the original Trauma Center. When a game's difficulty starts out slowly climbing then suddenly becomes a cliff at a 90* angle, that says that either the developers were extremely careless, or they were intentionally setting you up for aggrivation and frustration. It didn't help that they would later give you access to harder versions of operations that were ridiculous enough the first time, damn near impossible the second time, let alone the hidden "hard" versions. Oh, and timers on already timed missions are laughable. A patient shouldn't die because "time ran out" while you were sowing them up. :/
However, I do try to give games the benefit of the doubt, so long as my Spidey Senses don't go off after seeing the game in action (or in some cases, simply seeing the fans or material). I mean, I gave Elite Beat Agents a spin because I heard great things about it. I just wish someone had told me that the game plays like DDR on crack and you have to use a single hand and have a good memory. But the songs were nice.

Yeah just realized. No matter. The game still plays the same.
Well, I meant for most average games. Not the horribly misguided attempts at "game design" that don't seem to comprehend what people want to experience while playing a game.
And since we're on the topic of sadistic games designed to torment rather than entertain, here's an NES classic:
Takeshi no Chōsenjō

Good gods, that game sounds like it musta been a nightmare to finish. I'm surprised people actually managed to beat it.. then again, I'm amazed people can beat Battletoads without ever losing a life.
At first I was confused about the nomination it recieved, then I saw the picture of the game itself, and I realized that graphics and contextually, it was probably well made.

Holy shit, it's on the Virtual Console? I want a Wii now.