Christ, they upped the price after it had already been posted? I'm still on the fence about Lode Runner. The demo was pretty fun and it seems like a fairly good-sized game, but I just hate this trend of $15 being the new typical price point. I would've bought it right away for 800 points, but unless a few other people here get it for co-op I don't think I'll dish out 1200 points.

EDIT: I was flipping through the comments on Nelson's blog about Lode Runner and somebody pointed out that Flock is only $10 on Amazon today. I think I might pick that up since that was another one where the demo was fun, but not worth 1200.

Because you need another game, yes? :p

Also, I agree, the slow shift to 1200 being the standard price point for 'big titles' is pissing me off now. When the games seemed truly worth an increase in price, when they were more full indie games, then I could swing with it, but now it's just become more of the go-to price and that's unfortunate because there's so many things I would have bought on the Xbox Marketplace if they'd been pitched at a lower price point.

You know what else is 10 dollars, you dirty sack of dog shit?
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Amazon has been having XBLA sales every couple of days, it seems. If this keeps up, and they reduce prices on games like Flock that have only been out a few weeks, that may be the best way to combat the price point increase. That said, the Flock demo didn't do much for me.

Don't worry. I already know that I can't buy anything else on XBLA unless I get Outrun with it, or I'll never hear the end of it.

Virtual On finally has a date, and it's in 4 days:

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So, alongside Banjo?

Well, damn.

Yes! Finally something I can play on Live where I won't have to wait an hour to find an opponent. Hopefully.

Maybe.

Hopefully, I dunno.

Netcode seems spotty. Could be the people I was (attempting to) play against, could be the game. Unfortunately I was having a significant amount of trouble connecting to other players, so I only can speak of the one match. It went kinda iffy, and the other 8 I tried to join got connection refused.

Hopefully this will improve and it was just a bunch of bad luck. We'll see tomorrow, when I'll give it another shot.

Well it plays perfectly on Player Match, no lag or latency at all. I got to play on two ranked matches and one was ok but the other one was completely unplayable, I could see stuff hitting my opponent but it wouldn't do any damage and his shots would come out of nowhere. I'm satisfied with the experience though, played it for about 4 hours against a friend right when I got it. Now all I need is Garou and I'll be happy.

The actual interface for joining games online is a ridiculous mess, though. Pick character first? Then this communal lobby thing? What the fuck were they thinking? It's a bit of a disaster.

I'm glad you found some matches that weren't laggy. I've played about ten online and even playing against people on this continent, I found it to be a bit of a crapshoot.

What is your gamertag? I'm absolutely horrific and out of practice, but perhaps playing a game against someone from 'round here will improve my experience with the online, as of right now it's pretty much the definition of :mad:

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WHAT

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I mean have people seen these? Apparently it's a work in progress of TURTLES IN TIME REMAKE for XBLA (possibly other systems as well). I'm still not sure, maybe it's f-

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OH DEAR LORD STILL NOT SURE IF WANT AND UTTERLY CONFUSED IF EVEN REAL

IT SOUNDS AWFULLY TEMPTING, BUT THEY SHOULD DEFINITELY PACKAGE THE ORIGINAL GAME WITH IT AS WELL.

I ALSO HOPE THIS IS THE 4-PLAYER ARCADE VERSION AS WELL.

I agree, and you can't switch characters once you go into battle so if your opponent asks to play again it'll be with the same characters. I'm not that good at the game either, I just get lucky sometimes. My gamertag is Kyetris, hope you like seeing Apharmd C and Bal-Bados.


THIS. A remake is fine and all but I'd rather get the original. I hope it's based on the SNES version, though, you can't throw people at Shredder on the arcade version.

Well, judging by the size of the life/score box, I'd say there's enough room for 3 more, which could mean 4 players.

Detect, hate to ruin hopes, but usually, if there's an arcade version of a game on consoles, they go with the arcade version, especially in the case of beat-em-ups.

Plus, I don't see the Konami logo on the title screen anywhere, so I'm fairly sure they don't have much of a hand in re-releasing this one.

Frankly, from what I see, I'd say let's just wait a little while longer to see what else happens with this title, because I have eagerly been waiting for this game since 3 months after the first one came out (when I FINALLY managed to break away from it).

I read about this on Wired yesterday. The original graphics will be included and it's based on the arcade version with things from the SNES version included. Which likely means throwing enemies at Shredder.

Here is the article.

Then that just makes things ten times better! I'm fucking sold already!

This Wednesday's a threefer, including two that I've been waiting for for a while now. Space Invaders Extreme and Arkanoid Live? Curse being next to broke and having finals this week! :mad:

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I remember hearing the DS version of the recent Arkanoid was pretty meh, so unless they've made some big changes it probably isn't worth buying. People got the DS version mostly for the paddle accessory. Space Invaders Extreme, on the other hand, is freakin' awesome and anyone who doesn't already have it on the DS or PSP should at least try the demo. I'm not even a big fan of SI, but I loved the DS game.

Zombie Wranglers sounds intriguing enough to warrant a demo trial at least.

Yup.

The whole reason they got it was for an accessory that was only sold in Japan. What the fuck were people thinking releasing it over here without that. No wonder it's so fucking garbage, eh Tritoch? Jesus shit.

Fine fine, that was pretty broad phrasing. As far as I know it didn't do very well over here, because it wasn't that great and they didn't bother giving us the accessory. The only positive reviews of it that I saw came from people who imported it with the paddle.

The real point is that Space Invaders Extreme is great.

I'm never hoping anything again.

Fuck this man with an axe.

The Secret of Monkey Island Coming to Xbox Live Arcade? - Xbox

This is great news. Seems true.