[360] Official XBLA thread. Complain about the new price points but buy the garbage anyway!

Originally Posted by OmagnusPrime

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

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

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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.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Blue Falcon

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

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.

Originally Posted by Luxray

THEY SHOULD DEFINITELY PACKAGE THE ORIGINAL GAME WITH IT AS WELL.

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.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Colonel Skills

I've heard some nasty, nasty things about Garou's netcode, if anyone's bit, care to offer up your experiences?

I haven't played any ranked matches yet but I played for about three hours against a friend and it was great. Even with 100+ latency it felt pretty nice, unlike Kaillera. It did disconnect for no reason during one match but it was just that once. That was pretty much the only bad thing that happened during my playtime but as I said I haven't played any ranked matches yet.

Now about that dpad on the 360's controller..

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

All this playing is making me get used to the dpad, now I can pull off moves at the same rate as with the analog stick. It's still costing me a few matches but it'll have to do until I get a real controller.

So I asked my friend to do some ranked matches with me to get those achievements over with and holy shit, it was absolutely terrible. The latency had to be worse than what was getting calculated and the game even skipped frames occasionally. After two ranked matches I asked him to do Player Match again and everything went back to normal, no latency problems or frame skips. I don't know what the problem is but Ranked Matches are fucking unplayable.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Tritoch

On the plus side, Worms 2: Armageddon seems to play just fine. I tried one match online and although I couldn't find anyone in a search, someone joined my fort game pretty fast and there weren't any lag issues.

Really? I made two public games and when people joined I couldn't even see what my opponents were doing, just the aftermath, and one of the matches didn't even finish, it got stuck on the "Waiting for other players..." message. I'm gonna try some more today before I judge since playing against my friend turned out fine. Loving the game, though. Do I have to unlock the vertical maps? I remember it being one of the new features.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Terminus

As fun as the demo is, 1200 is pretty costly.

I definitely wouldn't recommend it to anyone at 1200 MS points. I bought it and yes the game is fun but there's barely anyone playing it online, plus there's not much variety in the stages. There's only 3 different cities and six normal stages per city where you kill the same big enemies and one boss fight stage. I haven't tried those other two multiplayer modes, though. The game has potential, maybe they can improve it when some DLC comes out.

FELIPE NO

And it'll be only 800 MS points! Now where's that Raystorm HD..

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?